Chapter 458: Priceless Treasure

Zhang Anshi nodded in satisfaction.

This Lu Qian’s chapter is more conservative, not that kind of rushed approach.

This is actually understandable, no one has any special experience in the real water combat. Although at this time there are decades from the water battle at Poyang Lake, and it may not be impossible to find a little bit of water battle method, but that is the freshwater lake combat, and the sea combat is different.

As for the pursuit of water pirates when they first went to the West, it was not without experience.

But obviously, the sailors bear is not the sea road inspection division that only catch the wangyang big thief responsibility, this kind of maintenance of the sea security of the water war, indeed, and the real sea war does not have much to do.

Thus, now the most important thing is to slowly find out a set of methods to, but then how to find out, create a disciplined sailor officers and men is also the most important, after the foundation is firmly established, and then let everyone grasp the good warships, and then slowly go to the development of the war.

In all things, one step at a time.

Zhang Anshi for Lu Qian’s words, not to be denied, but said: “Since my Ming opened the sea trade, this sea trade will be important, with the navy, can consolidate the sea defense, but also can assist the four seas of the various places of the vassal state, and therefore …… the navy is the most important, the future … … its role will not be under the Model Battalion. . its role will not be under the model battalion.”

Lu Qian listened attentively, this sailor up and down the officer school, are from the model battalion or official school academy, not to mention Zhang Anshi this county king’s identity, to Lu Qian, Zhang Anshi also belongs to the sailor up and down the spirit of the chief.

Zhang Anshi chewed his food on one side, raised his chopsticks, but did not fall down easily, then said: ”But everything is difficult at the beginning. Now, the sailor division is prepared to build up, in the future, but also to build the sailor school, and sailor specialized port, and a large number of water fortresses, to provide supplies, to maintain, but also need to sailor specialized medical hall. Of course, this is the Ministry of the sea politics, you have to do, is to first drill a fine soldiers and strong generals out, only to come up with the skills, teach people to see the actual performance, these can be realized.”

Hearing this, Lu Qian busily said, “Yes, I understand, I will definitely die by all means.”

Zhang Anshi said, “You are model battalion out, how to drill, I do not worry. To rule the water division to be strict, this is actually nothing to say, but the most important …… thing for the water division is to let the court see your usefulness.”

“Now this four seas and oceans above, there is no real foreign trouble, the country has no foreign trouble, it will inevitably breed the heart of the Chengping, we will think, since there can be no equal to the enemy with my Daming naval division, why spend so much silver, raising the naval division? These thoughts, now have the king in, of course, can be suppressed, but the days are long, there will be someone to mention, there will be someone to second, there will be someone to follow along with the hue and cry, you don’t underestimate these, don’t think that people are just moving their lips, but a lot of things in the world, bad on this up and down a move of the two lips on the head.”

Lu Qian frowned up, Zhang Anshi’s words, he was convinced, he hesitantly said, “Then what does your highness mean ……”

Zhang Anshi said, “The water division in addition to drills, will come from is to defend against foreign thieves, but sometimes …… also have to come up with a little use, so that this temple on the Gun Gong open eyes well.”

Lu Qian said, “Just …… what does your highness think …… should …… be done.”

Zhang Anshi smiled, the point is intended to be to the point, then said, “Oops, you see this meal is cold, first eat, eat.”

This time, it was Lu Qian’s turn to be jittery.

He doesn’t understand the affairs of the court. But he doesn’t. Your Highness does.

He was His Highness’s own man, and His Highness would never lie to him.

He is the commander of this division, although hard, the system is not small, but after all, spent countless thoughts on the head, which if it is true that people move their lips, directly abolished, it is really all the blood and effort have gone down the drain.

But he also knew very well that such things were not necessarily impossible.

After the initial trip to the West China Sea, the dynasty did not also have a lot of such movements? Only later did His Highness save the day, coupled with the relocation of the kings to move the clan, which put a stop to this trend.

With something hidden in his mind, he uneasily skimmed something that tasted like a meal.

Waiting for the meal, and then someone opened to pour tea, Zhang Anshi sip tea, and asked about the situation of the water fortress.

Lu Qian answered one by one.

When Zhang Anshi stood up, Lu Qian also got up with him, and Zhang Anshi said, “Alright, go back and do a good job.”

“Your Highness ……”

Zhang Anshi said: “How to do, naturally will give you another account, and feel at ease to go is.”

Lu Qian had no choice but to go hard.

He went out of the royal residence, on the way out, but a long history of the House of the book Zuo came, smilingly handed him a letter, the side said, “This is the account of His Highness, this matter …… must not be leaked, the water division can do as it is, the rest of the things, do not ask more questions.”

Lu Qian received the letter without the slightest hesitation and saluted at once.

The entire Zhili, still calm, in response to this disaster in Zhili, the various railroads, carloads of food and Qixia sent to patrol the staff hurried to their destinations.

In addition to this, like a spider’s web like the Jiangnan water network, many grain ships, back and forth.

Zhili has silver, food, and even a large number of jobs, all the affected strong men, collectively receive a share of money and food, direct recruitment, food for work.

The women and children were also resettled and given a smaller sum of money and food, which was less but enough to tide them over for the time being.

On the other hand, Hu Guang, a university scholar of Wen Yuan Ge, set out with an order to arrive in Kaifeng and other provinces to personally inspect the disaster.

The disaster at this time was beyond Hu Guang’s expectations.

Or …… the situation of a thousand miles of bare ground that is happening right now, but it is by no means just a result of a catastrophe.

Nine out of ten rooms are empty, the ground can no longer grow food, the people in rags, occasionally appeared in the roadside, help the old and young, the roadside occasional corpse bones, and wild dogs in packs to come, take away what, but then whistled away.

The dry trees along the roadside have long since become bare poles, and even the bark is no longer left.

Many men, are naked, really no clothes, or pawned for food, or themselves have no clothes to wear, they are thin bones, skin color like old elm skin, clearly is twenty or thirty years of age of the youth, walking is hobbling, like fifty or sixty years of old people, their dark belly, most of the swelling up, while the hands and feet are shriveled like firewood, because not wearing a piece of the tattered, crotch of the weapon, it seems to be like a scale generally fell.

Once you see an official sedan chair, or people on horseback, if in the past, most of the people are avoided.

But at this time, wherever there is human smoke, Hu Guang saw along the way, but many people swarmed, they move slowly, very hobbling, but more close, reaching out, in the void want to grasp a little something.

Mouth slurred, seems to be chanting what the public vassal ten thousand generations, or long life praise words.

So much so that the accompanying guards, fearing for their lives, had to do their utmost to disperse.

Hu Guang realized that this was to beg for food.

When people reach a certain level, they are fearless, but if there is the slightest chance that they might fill their stomachs, even if they are about to lose their heads, they will work hard for it.

Sitting in the sedan chair, Hu Guang was silent.

Looking at the devastation, cracked land everywhere, the blazing sun in the sky, he felt hot, as if this weather, to teach himself to not be able to breathe.

But the thought of such a tragic scene made him sleepless.

To Kaifeng, the local parents of the officials, as well as from the countryside to the city to escape the disaster of the gentry have come to meet.

The gentry came to the capital city or provincial city to hide from the disaster, not because there is no food to eat, but once the disaster, there will inevitably be chaos, so they will often choose some loyal and reliable people, guarding their own granaries and mansions, and they bring their women to live in the city for some days.

Hu Guang is a well-known figure in the world, and is a university scholar, extraordinary, so his arrival seems to make people see the opportunity.

This governor of Kaifeng, saluted and welcomed Hu Guang into the city.

Asked the situation of the disaster, this governor Liu Jin said: “This year’s grain has been extinct, so far, has not yet seen the sweet rain. Now the grain …… in the government treasury has long been gone, Hu Gong …… right now to solve too many things, one is food, the second is the stragglers, the third for the banditry, in addition to …… there are ……”

“What else?”

Liu Jin said, “Let’s say some days ago, the lower head actually had someone come to report that in many bazaars, there were even meat markets.”

When Hu Guang heard this, he instantly understood what was going on, and felt his hairs stand on end as he angrily said, “How could things have gotten so bad? Did the government not do anything?”

“Corporal …… Corporal ……”

“This big a Henan, and that Guanzhong, and that Lake Guang …… I don’t believe, just a little bit of emergency food are not there.”

Liu Jin listened without saying a word.

Hu Guang said with a sullen face, “What’s going on with the banditry?”

“They …… they robbed food!”

“The people are starving to death wherever I pass along the way, where do they grab food from?”

“This …… this …… much is …… these barns …… ”

Hu Guang said, “There is grain in the barn, do we have to teach people to rob it to eat it?”

“Hu Gong rests his anger, in this barn, it is also the people’s grain, it is not up to the government.”

Hu Guang laughed coldly, “So if someone robs grain, the government has to go and watch over their homes?”

Liu Jin could not make a sound.

Hu Guang only feel angry and sad, but he also knows that the most important thing now is to solve the problem, so he said: “the court relief food, grams can reach, think of ways to have food to the family, the first borrow some food, the house up and down, to set up gruel shed, always teach people to live, and so on the arrival of food relief, when the natural return.”

Liu Jin said, “The next official …… has gone to the initiative.”

“How?” Hu Guang said.

“The gentry and the townspeople, all of whom jumped at the chance to do this, said it was a good policy, and that it was the right thing to do at the moment ……”

Hu Guang face eased some, then said: “at this moment, need to help each other, first through the difficult times, the old man along the way, see all sorts of things, is really miserable, if this goes on, I do not know how many people to starve to death. You and I with the official, those who live for the life of the words, there is no need to repeat, single said loyal, which always have to do.”

Liu Jin said, “Hu Gong don’t worry, as long as this disaster relief went down, the people’s days, will be better.”

“Better?” Hu Guang said, “According to my opinion, not really, what I saw, the people have no clothes, is this also caused by the disaster? The huts they live in, they can’t even protect themselves from the wind and rain, is this also due to the disaster? How long has this disaster been going on? Before the end of the year, food has already run out. If the family has a little bit of surplus food, why to such a point? This …… could it be that this great drought today is also the result?”

With a few points of mockery on his face, he then said, “These words, you rest to say, the old man heard, only feel dirty ears! Naturally, now is not the time to care about this, right now …… is to live, people if they can not live, is all things are off, other things, later to discuss!”

Liu Jin’s face turned green and red as he opened his mouth to speak.

Hu Guang said faintly, “What else do you have to say?”

Liu Jin said: “The next official is not to defend himself, just …… three feet of ice, not a day of cold. The next official to Kaifeng, but also only two years, Kaifeng to such a countryside withering situation, but also not a result of the night and day, the next official after the arrival, but also picked the wind. According to many people reported, this is, in the end, or because of the new policy, resulting in a lot of the people’s hearts and minds, the heart of the delusion, many people also refused to step down to farming, and even more unruly people …….”

“Well, well.” If he was in the courtroom, Hu Guang would be willing to talk about these things, but now that he was listening to these clich茅s, he only felt bored.

What’s the point of talking about it at this point?

“Could it be that Zhili, too, is in such a miserable state? Instead of nitpicking about that, why don’t you think about what to do to save the people from the fire?”

Hu Guang did not stay on in Kaifeng, but continued his journey north.

The scope of this disaster was so great that much of what we saw was shocking.

Droughts are often followed by plagues of locusts, which in turn may even breed plagues.

It can be said ……… that this situation, if it is left alone, I do not know until when.

He wrote a letter to the court asking for more food, and also wrote a letter about what he had seen and heard at the moment.

When these reports were sent to the capital, it was already more than half a month later.

Before the report was opened, Yang Rong frowned first.

Jin Youzi, who was sitting on the side, said, “Lord Yang, what?”

Yang Rong sighed and said, “The situation in Henan Prefecture may be far more difficult than we imagined.”

“Hu Gong’s report, have not yet read …… this ……”

Yang Rong pointed to the fire paint on this report said: “This fire paint, is the last month 17 played, can be to the first nine of this month to send, such urgent preaching, urgent delivery store in previous years, up to six or seven days will be fast horseback whip day and night to send, but but it is delayed for more than twenty days.”

“Jin Gong …… this means that …… Henan Buzhengzhi under the Department of the various places under the urgent delivery store and the post, must also be together with the accident, either is the post pawns have escaped, either is along the way must be a large number of thieves, in short, in the end. This all shows that the situation has reached a hundred thousand fire time.”

When Jin Youzi heard this, his expression stared up, and he suddenly looked at the fire paint, which was indeed the same as what Yang Rong had said.

Such a long period of time for delivery is only possible in places like Yunnan and Guizhou, where there is such a delay.

Even many of the facilities of the government are no longer able to move effectively, and the situation is very bad indeed.

Sure enough, and so opened the zhangshi, this look, Yang Rong can not help but sigh for it.

And then did not dare to delay, hastened to take the zhengshi, to go to the audience with Zhu Di.

By the next day, the palace had invented another edict to provide additional money and grain for relief.

There was little disagreement in the court about this.

Java.

Xie Jin, the chief historian of Zhao Wangfu, has always been most concerned about the postal ship’s delivery of the report.

The situation in Java was worse than that in Annam and Luzon, on the one hand, there were not many expatriate Han Chinese living there, and on the other hand, the guards brought by King Zhao as well as the households were limited.

Although every means has been tried to accommodate the Han Chinese, it is still a drop in the bucket.

So in addition to encouraging births, then it is to keep an eye on the movements of Daming, for Zhao, they are a bit more dependent on Daming, any little change could have an impact on Zhao.

“Catastrophe ……” Xie Jin at this time looked at the report, his eyebrows deeply wrinkled.

And after that, he directly pinched the zheng report and rushed to meet Zhu Gao Suo at fire speed.

“Your Highness.”

“Xie Gong …… what is the matter?” Zhu Gaoshuu looked at Xie Jin’s gloomy face in surprise.

“Please, Your Highness, take a look first.”

Zhu Gao Suire read the report, can not help but sigh: “how every three to five always lack of food, the father of the emperor is also confused, more let some Henan, Zhili, Guanzhong people migrate over, not on the food to eat! Hey …… it’s a pity …… good end of the people, so starve to death.”

Zhu Gao Suo revealed a look of regret.

If it was the King of Zhao in the past, he wouldn’t care about this, but after coming to Java, he cherished manpower to the core.

For him, the number of victories in Java is not as good as giving him a little bit of population, after all, there is plenty of land here, and the land is fertile and rainy, not to mention the lack of food.

But what’s missing is people.

Xie Jin, however, said, “Your Highness …… right now is not the time to calculate this ……”

Xie Jin’s expression looked a little anxious.

Zhu Gao Suo then said, “Then what should be counted?”

Xie Jin said, “Such a big famine, according to my opinion …… this may instead lead to the temple hall, there are disputes.”

“Argument?” Zhu Gaoxun looked at him in disbelief.

Xie Jin said: “I’m not good at explaining too much, but with the minister’s many years of experience as an official in the court …… this Zhili and the eighteen provinces respectively disaster relief, there may be some controversy out. And that Wuhu County King His Royal Highness, traditionally saves for a rainy day, not surprisingly, the Taiping Province may want to hoard grain.”

Hearing this, Zhu Gao Suo but laughed: “Good ah, we have grain here, just …… wait a moment when the price of grain rises, so sell some ……”

Xie Jin shook his head and said, “You can’t do this, Your Highness, how much silver can be earned from selling grain? Your highness is the lord of the country, you have to make long-term considerations, but not the immediate gains and losses. Right now, it is the time to reveal your highness’ value.”

The smile on Zhu Gaoshuu’s face was swept away, and then gazed at Xie Jin: “What should we do now?”

Xie Jin paused, then said: “Immediately prepare the grain, stacked in the harbor, if at this time there are grain ships from Taipingfu, immediately loaded on board, do not let the grain ship anchored for too long! As for the price, according to the price of previous years. Your Highness, selling grain is not as good as selling favors, the price of grain is limited, and favors are priceless.”