In Kaifeng, officials at all levels in Kaifeng Prefecture have become a mess.
The governor, chief of staff, Tixue, Tifa, salt, grain, patrol police, Quanye Dao station, and many other officials were not only not busy with disaster relief, but some collected their money and ran away, and some simply wrote a letter in blood. Chosen to hang himself.
His Majesty can't tolerate sand in his eyes. Such a big thing happened this time. Rather than being caught and hurting his family, it would be better to die directly.
In this way, His Majesty will not embarrass his family.
"His Majesty has ordered that all Kaifeng Mansion is under martial law. No one is allowed to enter or leave the disaster area at will without an order.
Your Majesty has ordered that all the medicinal materials of Kaifeng Mansion be purchased by the government. If you dare to hide them at will and deliberately increase the price, you will be punished.
His Majesty has ordered to recruit 10,000 strong men to participate in disaster relief.
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With the arrival of the carrier pigeon, the Kaifeng Guards quickly took action.
Groups of soldiers, according to the previous plan.
The main force escorted a large number of tents, food, coal and other materials to Lankao County, the disaster area.
The remaining soldiers were ordered to go to Xiangfu, Chenliu, Qixian, Tongxu, Taikang, Weishi, Weichuan, Yanling, Fugou, Zhongmou, Yangwu, and other places to mobilize civilians. Collect supplies for disaster relief.
After all, the disaster that occurred this time was, to put it bluntly, a man-made disaster.
Because there was a problem with the dam, it broke. However, because the flow of the Yellow River is not large, and the gap has long been blocked by the local government.
So the damage was not serious.
According to the current news, the affected area is only about half a county, and the affected population is only more than 300,000.
And 50% of them were only slightly affected.
30% of people affected by disasters are relatively average.
Less than 10% of the people were seriously affected, or 30,000 people.
The Ming Dynasty had a complete disaster relief system.
Often, the imperial court exempted taxes and grains according to the extent of the disaster, allocated grain and silver for relief, appeased the people, the emperor and local officials offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, practiced self-enlightenment, and granted amnesty to prisoners. They made efforts on both a spiritual level and practical measures.
After a disaster occurs, the disaster situation must be reported from bottom to top. When the court knows about it, it organizes and sets up a "disaster investigation team" to go to the disaster-stricken area to control the disaster area and population, so as to provide a basis for the distribution of disaster relief materials.
However, due to underdeveloped communication and transportation, it often takes a long time for disasters to occur and be reported. At the beginning of a disaster, most local governments, together with private landlords, carry out spontaneous disaster relief.
According to the past situation, it would be good if these disaster victims can receive disaster relief from the court within 2 months.
This is due to the relatively convenient transportation in the Central Plains region.
If transportation is not convenient, it is normal to have an interval of half a year or ten months.
No matter how unlucky they are, if they are left in the ravines of Sichuan, they can only rely on the people to rescue them during the disaster.
As for the health center.
In those guard posts, the soldiers themselves didn't have enough to eat. It would be nice if they didn't take advantage of the opportunity to plunder. Where would the time, money and food come from to provide disaster relief?
But things are different now. Considering that he is an unlucky emperor, God has not given him face during this period.
In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes one day and being defeated by the people, Zhu Youjian not only restored the combat effectiveness of the guards' soldiers, but also built a large number of warehouses and grain depots at each guard station.
Each guard station has at least 10,000 shi of food stored in it.
In addition, a large amount of salt, tents, coal and other disaster relief materials have been stockpiled.
In order to prevent anyone from thinking about these materials.
All generals responsible for guarding supplies are biochemical soldiers.
In addition to these, the imperial court also sent Jin Yiwei and secret guards to observe the surroundings. Once you find any abnormalities in the surrounding area, report them immediately.
In addition, the imperial court sent people down from time to time to conduct inspections, publicizing that these supplies were used to deal with disasters, and anyone who dared to touch them would be shot to death.
This led to the fact that although many people were thinking about it, no one dared to think wrongly.
After all, the current emperor really dares to kill people.
The reason why the army was dispatched so quickly this time was not only due to Zhu Youjian's order, but also due to the flying pigeon communication system that Zhu Youjian had worked so hard to establish.
Although the Feige communication system is far inferior to later generations of telephones and mobile phones, the signal can travel half the world in one second, but it is much faster than the current 800-mile acceleration.
With the help of the flying pigeon communication system, Ming Dynasty's information transmission efficiency was greatly accelerated.
This allowed Zhu Youjian to understand local changes more quickly and comprehensively.
Zhu Youjian repeatedly made those officials suffer, and Feige made great contributions to the matter.
It can be said that without Fei Ge's message, no matter how strong Zhu Youjian's secret guards and Jin Yiwei were, they would not be able to dig a hole for hundreds of officials.
Because of this disaster. To put it bluntly, the Yellow River burst its banks due to man-made disasters. The disaster was not as serious as imagined.
In addition, it is not winter now, so the government and the people still have some food in hand.
The so-called Kaifeng Guard. There were 2,000 people in the vanguard, and they only carried 500 shi of food and grass for this trip.
More supplies are white lime that acts as a disinfectant.
In addition, in recent years, the imperial court has spent a lot of manpower and material resources to re-build official roads.
Therefore, the army was very fast and it only took one day to reach the disaster area.
After arriving in the disaster area, Kaifeng Guards directly took over the relief work in the disaster area.
After all, many guards in the mainland are unlikely to encounter war all year round. If they are trained together into pure soldiers, the expenditure of the court will be too high.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian regarded these guardsmen as universal soldiers.
In addition to retaining 100-500 real soldiers in these guard posts,
In addition to the usual combat training, the remaining soldiers also need to take care of farming, road construction, bridge building, disaster relief and other training.
Those guards officers usually learn how to provide disaster relief.
It can be said that the Ming army is more familiar with disaster relief than local officials.
Soon under the command of the army, the second batch of local young men who had been prepared to be recruited were in the army. With the help of the yamen servants, we headed towards the white lime, shovels, hoes and other tools.
"Your Majesty has ordered that all victims of the Lankao disaster will be exempted from tax for two years. During the disaster relief period, anyone who dares to flout the king's law will be punished ten times.
All grain stores, oil stores, and salt stores, as long as they have goods, must not deliberately fail to sell them.
The sales price increase shall not exceed 10%. Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished with treason. "
Human nature is a strange thing.
Normally, when a disaster strikes, everyone should work together to get through it. Strive for a speedy recovery.
During this period, some people contributed a lot, so it didn’t matter if they made some money.
But there are always some people who want to take advantage of the country's difficulties to make money. Even for the sake of money, the original 3-point natural disaster was taken away. It became a very man-made disaster.
