Chapter 219: Fence the lake and build fields

"Very good, very good, Master Xu, this arrangement is well connected, so that it will not delay things..." Yang Jing praised, saying that Yang Jing broke out in a cold sweat, and remembered that the ancient transportation and communication were a piece of shit, far from being able to make phone calls, transfer trains, and use planes in the 21st century. It would take a small month for Beijing's disaster relief imperial edict to go to the south. It would take another month for the south to raise grain. It would take another month for the grain to be transported to Shaanxi. These three months have passed. If you want to let the people of Shaanxi go to the south.

He would not rebel after eating relief grain... at least he would have to issue an imperial edict in advance in April. At that time, although Yang Jie knew that Shaanxi would be drought and that Shaanxi would need disaster relief, he never expected that he would have to go to disaster relief two or three months in advance. Yang Jie originally thought that even if disaster relief was started again in June, it would be too late. He thought that the ancient transportation was too bad. If disaster relief began in June, then the people in Shaanxi would not be able to eat relief grain until at least the ** month. At that time, they were afraid that they would have rebelled.

What made Yang Jing even more furious was that Yang Jing himself regarded the lunar calendar as the Gregorian calendar, and was used to the time of the Gregorian calendar, and was still using the time and month of the Gregorian calendar to calculate the grain production cycle of the lunar calendar. Yang Jing remembered that in ancient times, the lunar calendar was recorded, that is, in May, the Dragon Boat Festival just passed, if the 21st century Gregorian calendar was calculated, it was already mid-June. According to Yang Jing's understanding, this summer vacation is the season for harvesting food, and it should be around July. Only then would those places know about disasters and start disaster relief. If Yang Jing's algorithm used the Gregorian calendar as the lunar calendar, Yang Jing thought that the grain would be harvested in July. In fact, the lunar calendar started harvesting food in June. If the relief was started in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it would be obvious that the time for disaster relief was delayed by one month. At that time, disaster relief would be delayed.

Yang Jing was very regretful. He talked about disaster relief every day and found ways to provide disaster relief every day, but he didn't expect that the most basic disaster relief time would be confused. If someone hadn't mentioned the advance disaster relief today, he was afraid that he would have done the disaster relief step by step until June and July. If it was not until that time for disaster relief, God knew...

"What's next? What are the measures next?" Yang Jingwei was shocked and sweated. He was really confused about this matter.

"Report to Your Majesty, next, I think that relief and labor-for-relief alone are not enough, and the people of Shaanxi must be moved out. This is the right way." Xu Guangqi continued to talk about his plan.

"Move out? Move out where?" Yang Jing felt curious. It is true that this land in Shaanxi cannot support so many people, and there is no other way to move a lot. But where to move? It won't mean moving to Taiwan? It's a good place, three years of maturity and fertile land. However, Zheng Zhilong hasn't been dealt with yet, how can he move? It must not be possible! People don't give me the face of being an emperor at all!

"Report to Your Majesty, yes, my countermeasures for migration are complementary to the first two. When you transport disaster relief food along the river, you can transport people by boat. This transportation along the river is faster than this land route, saving time and food..." Xu Guangqi did not directly answer where to move, but explained the benefits of this migration.

"Moving along the river? Where to move? Shaanxi wants to move out, I'm afraid there are hundreds of thousands of households, or millions of households! How can there be so many people in that place?" Yang Jing wondered. Taiwan has not been able to handle it at all, and it is impossible to move. He is planning to move the population to Taiwan. However, Zheng Zhilong has just been in contact and is still recruiting Zheng Zhilong to Beijing. There has not been any talk yet. How to resettle it? It's impossible to let those ordinary people go to Jiangnan to farm, right? If that happens, the people in Jiangnan will not fight with the people in Shaanxi.

"Report to Your Majesty, my plan is to surround the lake and build land to provide the living of hundreds of thousands of households." Xu Guangqi has only said his plan now. When he said this, he paused, as if it was to allow the monarch and ministers to have a process of accepting it.

Weihu? Yang Jing wondered where is the lake? "Master Xu, where is the lake? That lake can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people?" The lake in Yang Jing's mind was a little bigger than the courtyard pond. If there were millions of people down, there would probably be no water droplet left in this lake.

Not only Yang Jing was puzzled, but others in the court also wondered that it was relatively simple to transport along the river to Jiangnan. Taking a boat is not a boast of a thousand miles a day. However, where is there a place in Jiangnan for so many people to farm? Those who can farm have already been cultivated, and they are still waiting for you to go over and farm? Everyone is ready to see what Xu Guangqi said.

Xu Guangqi might have felt that his method was too whimsical, so he paused before answering: "Environing Dongting Lake..." After saying that, Xu Guangqi shut up. This method was indeed a bit whimsical. After saying that, he would not talk about it. He was preparing to let the king and his ministers have time to adapt.

Ah!! Yang Jie was stunned and surrounded Dongting Lake? This idea is more whimsical than his time traveler! Is Dongting Lake so easy to surround? How deep is Dongting Lake? Can you surround it?

Not only the emperor was surprised, but the ministers were also shocked! Unexpectedly, Xu Zixian was so brave and courageous. How brave it was to surround Dongting Lake!

"Master Xu, you must be surrounded by Dongting Lake?" Yang Jing asked weakly. Yang Jing was very suspicious whether he had heard it wrong.

"Report to Your Majesty, you are indeed surrounding Dongting Lake." When Xu Guangqi said this, he was calm and composed, as if this matter would definitely be done.

Yang Jie is so dizzy, what's wrong with this? Can this work?

"Master Xu, can this work?" Yang Jingwei was dizzy and could only see how Xu Guangqi explained. Yang Jingwei secretly blamed him for not grasping the time and did not communicate well with Xu Guangqi. Otherwise, he would not have been so passive and puzzled.

"Report to Your Majesty, it is not the first time I have proposed to build fields in the lake today. It has existed since ancient times, not only Dongting Lake, but Taihu Lake, Poyang Lake, etc., are all among the reclamation. Large-scale reclamation can even be extended to the Song Dynasty. In order to resist the Yuan army's southward journey, they built courtyard fields in the north and south of the Jingjiang River and reclaimed nearly 200,000 glutinous land. Therefore, I think there is great potential for this matter of encircling the lake." Xu Guangqi said slightly.

In the court, many people fell into deep thought. After listening to Xu Guangqi's words, many people nodded. The incident of surrounding the lake has indeed existed since ancient times, and many books have recorded it. Some people think that this is indeed a feasible thing.

"Your Majesty, I think what Xu Shaobao said is reasonable. This surround lake has existed in ancient times. If Dongting Lake is vast and vague, there is a saying that Dongting Lake is 800 miles long. If it can surround some of it as a fertile land and accommodate millions of immigrants, it will not be difficult. It is also a great act of good for the benefit of the people! I agree." A minister took the lead in approving Xu Guangqi's plan.

Yang Jie was still sighing at the feat of encircling Dongting Lake. He was still surprised by Xu Guangqi's openness, radiance and stunning thinking!

Xu Guangqi continued: "Your Majesty, there have always been a saying of Dongting Lake for 800 miles. I have consulted many documents and found that some places in Dongting Lake have a water of only a few feet deep, which is only a little more than a meter deep. This can be completely built into a courtyard and transformed into a courtyard field. The courtyard field is not only fertile, but also not lacking water. If you are not afraid of the collapse of the dike, this is completely a land of fish and rice! If you think this immigrant knows that they are moving them to the hometown of fish and rice, you will probably be happy... The 800 miles of Dongting is a place with abundant water and grass and abundant fish and rice. Not to mention moving millions of immigrants, it is probably more than enough..." Xu Guangqi explained his plan.

Yang Jing was almost moved by Xu Guangqi's plan to build a lake. If it was really as Xu Guangqi said, the fields from this lake were fertile fields and were not short of water, which created a land of fish and rice. Immigrants would definitely be easy to accept. The resistance of immigrants would be very low, which would facilitate immigration. It can accommodate millions of immigrants, but there is no problem to immigrate here. There is no need to wait until you get Zheng Zhilong and immigrate to Taiwan. At that time, it will not be able to catch up with it. However, I am also confused. What is Dongting Lake for? Yang Jing still has some impression of it. The middle school textbook said that this is the place where the Yangtze River discharges floods. If this Dongting Lake is surrounded, what should I do if the Yangtze River floods? Environmentalists in the future will not cause trouble for themselves, right?

"Master Xu, this Dongting Lake was caused by flood discharge when the Yangtze River was flooded. This large-scale yard will not affect the Yangtze River flood discharge, right?" Yang Jing was worried about this again. However, before he finished speaking, he felt that he was unnecessary and worried. At the moment, the people were rebelling, and he still couldn't handle it. He was also worried about whether there was no place for the Yangtze River to release floods? The peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty did not happen in the south of the Yangtze River, but in the north. He should deal with the people in the north first.

The emperor's words made Xu Guangqi very puzzled. What does the Yangtze River flood discharge have to do with surrounding a little courtyard? Didn't the predecessors do this? It's not that our Ming Dynasty's first large-scale surrounding lakes.

Yang Jing was helpless and shouldn't have said this. This is unnecessary: ​​"Master Xu, let's pretend that I didn't say this. No matter what kind of flood discharge matters are, let's talk about the lake, how to operate it in detail." Yang Jing made up his mind to surround the lake first. As for the future floods and flood discharge, let's talk about it later. At this moment, immigration is the most important thing to do to prevent the people from rebelling.

Xu Guangqi did not consider the flood discharge matter and said, "Your Majesty, I think that it is not enough for the people in the disaster-stricken areas in Shaanxi to just feed and provide relief. Your Majesty predicts that this natural disaster will last for several years. Therefore, I came up with this method of immigration, taking the waterway, passing through the Yellow River, going to the canal, then turning to the Yangtze River, sending the immigrants to Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake and other places, and then organizing the people to surround the lake, and the land they have obtained can be distributed to the victims. In this way, the natural disaster that lasted for several years in Shaanxi is the right way to solve it." Xu Guangqi briefly said his thoughts.

Yang Jing nodded, this is right. This natural disaster is definitely not a year or two. If you lie in Shaanxi every year waiting for your relief grain, you are afraid that you will not have the ability. Millions and tens of millions of relief grains will be sent to Shaanxi every year, but you don’t have the financial resources. Xu Guangqi is right, sending it to Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake to build fields, and then farm it by himself. This is the right way! Otherwise, after several consecutive natural disasters, I am afraid that I will have tens of millions of property and will give them poverty.

"You guys, what's the point of this? Let's discuss it." Yang Jing thought this method was very good and was going to ask others what they mean.

The chief assistant Shi Fenglai said the first time: "Report to Your Majesty, I think this matter has been a great achievement. I think our dynasty also moved millions of immigrants in Shanxi and other places back then. Now that this move is really a good policy for millions of living people! Your Majesty, this strategy is a great strategy! It is a matter of great merits..." The chief assistant Shi Fenglai thoughtfully defected to the emperor. When he saw the emperor's right-hand man proposed to surround the lake and build fields, he immediately advocated this matter.

"In my dynasty, there was still some migration of millions of immigrants in my early years?" Yang Jing, the novice, immediately showed his shortcomings. He was very curious. There were more than one million immigrants in the Ming Dynasty? Immigration is not simple! It is the most complicated. If this is true, it seems that there are traces to be found when I immigrate now. Inadvertently, I asked.

Fortunately, the ministers didn't care much. The emperor was young and not ashamed to ask, which was nothing. He said that he still had good morals. Although this question was a bit novice.

The chief minister Shi Fenglai said, "Report to Your Majesty, it is indeed true that it happened during the Hongwu period of Taizu of our dynasty. At that time, Hebei, Shandong and other places suffered wars, with vast land and sparse populations, while Shanxi had few land and many people. Therefore, the court ordered those who moved to Shanxi to Shandong, Hebei and other places. It took decades and a population of one million. This is a major population migration in history. Only in our dynasty can we have such measures to love the people..."

Shi Fenglai has some tricks to be the chief minister, so he immediately briefly talked about the immigration matter.

"There is this?" Yang Jingwei was very curious. Immigration in ancient times was not simple! It had to be walked out with two feet, a thousand miles, and then it had to go step by step! The food is even more inconvenient to transport, and the price is probably not expensive. However, this is also a good thing. This is a precedent thing. Now, if you do it yourself, you just need to follow the precedent, and the resistance is much smaller.

"Well, this is indeed a great thing. Now, Master Xu also proposes to immigrate millions, or even millions. Then Shi Aiqing, tell me, what old rules can you follow?" Yang Jing's favor for Shi Fenglai has increased. This prime minister is not useless!

"Report to Your Majesty, some, the policy given by the court at that time was: to find a land of uninhabited farming, to be exempted from taxes and service for three years, and to still give 20 ingots of money to prepare agricultural tools." Shi Fenglai answered the emperor's words in a very brief manner.

Yang Jing couldn't help but look at Shi Fenglai Gao a few times. He could memorize things that had been recorded for such a long time, which was considered a bit of skill. If you want to do it, you would never remember so many things and memorize the data so clearly.

"In this way, nowadays, as Master Xu said, we only need to move the people to the south, Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake and other places, so that the people can surround the lake and cultivate themselves, and each household will give some money. Even if this immigration is done?" Yang Jing was so moved when he heard this, he was very moved. This method is good. If he moved all the people from Shaanxi to Dongting Lake and Taihu Lake in an ideal state, he would be afraid that the uprising in Shaanxi will end! If there is no one, why do you have to revolt? You can free up your hands and put them in the opposite direction with the wild boar skin, so you don't have to worry about the fire at home.

"Your Majesty, things are definitely not so simple. Nowadays, this is the beginning of natural disasters. I don't know how many people are suffering from it, and I don't know how many people need to move. Just give twenty taels of silver per household, I'm afraid it's a lot of expenses. I have to provide relief, food, and garrisons in various places to prevent riots. I have to transport people to the south. The freight is even more expensive. I have to be planted after the lake in the south. It's afraid that the people will have harvests for more than one year. Your Majesty, I think it's not something that can be solved in just a few words! This has to be discussed in a long-term way..." Shi Feng came to see the emperor thinking too simply, so he reminded the emperor that it seems that it's a glorious million immigrants, which is worth showing off. In fact, there are no more troubles in it.

Yang Jie was reminded by Shi Feng and realized that this immigration has never been an easy task.

In the late Ming Dynasty, one million immigrants... Yang Jing felt ashamed! He was shocked by this proposition. I remembered the Three Gorges Immigration back then. Even with the financial, material and manpower of the 21st century, I don’t know how difficult it was. It took more than ten years to come to an end. I often paid great attention to it on CCTV, and there were even corruption in it. It shows how important and difficult this matter is... What’s more, this late Ming Dynasty, where corruption was several times more serious, I wanted to immigrate... It was not that simple! When Yang Jing thought of this, he realized that his wish was good. Unfortunately, reality was always cruel. When Yang Jing thought of countless rats with bloody mouths ready to eat a lot on immigration funds, he felt chill.

What should I do? The migration route, the migration policy, the migration mobilization and organization, who will implement it? How can the migration funds not be embezzled and misappropriated? How to ensure that there is no accident? There are even sanitation problems caused by large-scale migration, which is even more troublesome. Once a large-scale outbreak of epidemics, it will be unimaginable...

The ministers were talking about it below, while the emperor sat on the throne, his thoughts drifted to how to immigrate.
Chapter completed!