Zhu Youjian had already sat back on the dragon throne, and his anger just now gradually calmed down. But when he thought of what Wang Zhian mentioned in his document, he was still in a very bad mood when he found the corpses of more than a thousand people of all sizes in the desert of Xinyang City.

In Zhu Youjian's view, whether it is Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, or Jianzhou Jurchens, they are cruel bandits by nature and regard any life as if they are grass, so they arbitrarily deprive innocent people of their lives by cruel means and force. Strictly speaking, killing and setting fires are the profession of bandits. For more than ten years, the people who died directly or indirectly at the hands of bandits have been unable to count. Zhu Youjian once believed that as long as the bandits were destroyed, with the court's effective measures, there would never be a large-scale civilian casualties.

But Zhu Youjian still overestimated the moral integrity of some animals in clothing. Some officials or literati, on the surface, were full of benevolence and righteousness, but behind their backs, they were full of thieves and prostitutes.

These scums in Xinyang Prefecture governments are usually claimed to be in charge of the way of heaven and to comfort the people. Who would have thought that they would openly ignore the lives and deaths of the people under their rule for their own selfish interests? This kind of despises the lives of civilians even more hated than a thief.

"Let me get up! Nowadays, the northern provinces have severe droughts, and countless elderly, weak, women and children need to rely on the government to save their lives! In the face of natural disasters, only the court and local governments have the ability to make many victims survive! I only hope that Xinyang incidents will only happen occasionally, otherwise how can I believe in the conscience of officials? How can I have the confidence to achieve great governance in the world?"

Zhu Youjian's tone was filled with a strong sense of bleakness.

After traveling through time, he has been exhausted to change some of the old customs and habits in the present world and strive to improve the lives of more people. Although it has achieved initial results in many aspects, it is not as good as the spiritual blows of Xinyang incident on him. Will the victims have extremely resentful curses against him, the king, before they die?

He is now full of doubts about whether he can change the Ming Dynasty and becomes unconfident.

He knew that most of the lazy officials in the Ming Dynasty were so hard to change this situation from a system perspective, but he never expected that there would be officials like Xu Yunsheng, who were rich in the people. It seems that the strict supervision system must be implemented as soon as possible, so that such tragedy will be prevented from happening again to the greatest extent.

Everyone in the hall stood up one after another, Wen Tiren replied: "The facts of Xinyang are a tragedy in the world. Xu and others deserve to die! Although the King of the Jinyi Hundred Houses dealt with this matter, he was urgently following the power. He was also determined by public intention. Otherwise, the heartbreaking things would continue to occur! The old minister thought that he was innocent and had made merits! Please make the emperor decide as soon as possible for the herdsmen in the world to take it as a warning! The old minister also begs the emperor to cheer up and not to be depressed by this small setback. The emperor will do his best to help the holy king restore the glory of the past in the Ming Dynasty!"

"I and others applaud the Chief Supervisor's words!"

"I beg the emperor not to worry too much, and put the dragon body first!"

Everyone in the hall noticed the emperor's depression, and they spoke sincerely or falsely to persuade and comfort Zhu Youjian, which greatly relieved his inner depression.

I subconsciously still treat others with the idea of ​​being an equal attitude in my later generations. I often forget that I am now the lord of the world, and forgetting my pessimism will make the ministers feel panic.

It seems that I am not a qualified monarch, and I lack the cold-blooded trait of treating all the people in the world as ants.

However, although he realized this, Zhu Youjian also knew it was difficult to change. He only hoped that his spiritual willpower would become stronger, that he would remain rational and restrained when facing anything, and that he could make correct judgments and decisions with a calm mind.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian finally calmed down completely. He said in a deep voice: "The nature of the Xinyangzhou incident is extremely bad! The officials and others in the offenders must be severely punished! The governor Xu and his subordinates were beheaded and abandoned in the local downtown area! All his property was confiscated! The family was 3,000 miles away, and they will be a lowly person forever. They will not be pardoned! The cabinet will issue the decree to the world!"

Wen Tiren came out to pay tribute to the order.

Originally, Zhu Youjian wanted to issue an order to punish the criminals in half, but considering that the beheading was too cruel, he thought about it and turned to beheading.

Zhu Youjian took the tea served by Wang Chengen and drank it all. The sweet new tea that he savored the last trace of irritability in his heart was washed away, and his high fighting spirit rekindled.

He continued: "The left and right censors of the Inspectorate and the deputy envoy led teams to Henan and inspected the severely affected areas in Shandong. Once someone in the local government is found to have done something that is sluggish and lazy, no matter the size of the official position, all will be revoked! Those who dare to ask for entrusting their love for the same crime! If someone finds someone greedy for disaster relief money and food, behead them immediately! Li Qing and Shi Qing, I hope that the two families of the Qing family will not care about their personal reputation and gains and losses. All the interests of the court and the people will be first, so that most of the affected people can safely overcome the current difficulties!"

Li Banghua and Shi Bangyao both knelt down on the ground with solemn expressions and received the order.

Zhu Youjian knew that digging wells and canals requires time and money and food, and professional talents also need to guide construction. Some areas with extremely poor water resources need to dig deep wells of more than ten or even dozens of feet. Such projects require a lot of human, financial and material resources, and the effect is not significant.

However, the drought in several northern provinces will continue for several years. In this generation of underdeveloped science and technology, the shortcomings of excessively long construction cycles of water conservancy projects have been exposed.

This means that for a long time, the court had to take out astronomical grain to feed these hungry people so that the fields could be produced after the wells and canals were dug and repaired. This was a very unrealistic thing. If it did so, it would completely drag down the Ming Dynasty's finances, but the result would be more than worth the money.

Although the Zheng family's fleet is constantly buying rice from Siam, Jiaozhi and other places and transporting it to the capital, it takes a long time to go back and forth. You can't ask the Zheng family to stop the business and not do it, and specifically serve as a transport fleet for you, right? That would be like paying money directly from the Zheng family's pocket. How can a great country be so unconventional? Besides, Zheng Zhilong may not agree.

After Li Banghua and Shi Bangyao were listed, Zhu Youjian continued to speak: "According to what I know, Shaanxi's measures are the most appropriate and implemented in the prefectures and counties that are affected by drought are the least affected. All of this is due to Sun Qing's good governance, local officials work hard and putting people first. In addition, Shaanxi has experienced years of turmoil and the population has dropped sharply, so Shaanxi has begun to show its own self-protection. Judging from this situation, a situation of stability will begin to appear in Shaanxi in a few years. This is actually a big hidden worry for the court, and Sun Qing has made an indelible contribution!"

Regarding Sun Chuanting, who is extremely capable and loyal and fearless, Zhu Youjian would occasionally praise him in front of the ministers, with the purpose of warning him that this is the one I want, so don’t ask for trouble and give him eye drops.

Seeing that most of the ministers nodded and agreed, Zhu Youjian continued: "I have issued an order to order the officials of the affected prefectures and counties in Shandong to migrate the victims in the territory to the two sides of the canal and the Weishan, Zhaoyang, Nanyang, Dushan and other lakes in Jining Prefecture. Because the above-mentioned places are densely packed with rivers and lakes, fertile ground, it is very convenient to irrigate the water of the lake and rivers, and it consumes much less money and grain than dry places. If it continues to operate for a long time, it is not a luxury to become a land of fish and rice. The Ministry of Works has sent officials of the Dushui Department to plan and arrange it, and choose a place where the flood will not be flooded during the rainy season to build villages and open up wastelands and farmlands. As long as the measures are effective and the local government commands are in proper order, the victims of Shandong can also get a good place for a few years."

Fan Jingwen, Minister of Works, reported: "According to Ma, the doctor of the Dushui Department, after personal investigation by officials and people sent by the Dushui Department and reviewing the local county annals, we learned that there were hundreds of thousands of hectares of wasteland around the Nansi Lakes of Jining Prefecture alone. After several years of reclaiming the land, most of them can be used as land, and their output can be sufficient to feed millions of people. Local farmers also have the harvest of fishing and shrimp raising during the slack farming period, and they can sell it to others or eat it at home, which is a considerable amount of foreign money."

Zhu Youjian nodded and said, "What the Ministry of Works does is very suitable for me. Fan Qing should discover more available materials from the Ministry. As long as he has real knowledge, the court will promote it. This will make people full of their talents and make Fan Qing a reputation as a Bole. Fan Qing remembers it!"

Fan Jingwen happily delivered the order. The Ministry of Works is like a chamber pot. Whether it is an emperor, cabinet, court, or important officials, he will take it for use whenever he has something to do, throw it into a corner after using it, and someone will take responsibility for anything if something happens. A typical grandma doesn't love his uncle and doesn't love him.

In addition to the Minister of State and the Minister of the Right and Right Minister, the middle-level officials of each department, such as the doctors, the heads of the department, etc., are basically very professional figures, and many officials are also among the top in the industry. However, because the Ming Dynasty basically did not pay attention to the promotion and use of professional talents, the promotion of officials of the Ministry of Works was extremely slow, and those middle-level officials were also very resentful in private.
Chapter completed!