What Tian Guizi said is true.
Previously, it was considered that there was still a risk of the Yellow River bursting, so although the Ming army occupied the two Huaihe areas, Su Yonglin also decided to establish a centrally-administered administrative region in the two Huaihe areas, but the construction of the two Huaihe areas was quite limited, and there were no immigration measures. .
Most of them are still engaged in water conservancy projects and small-scale farming. They are afraid that when the Yellow River bursts out of control, the land between the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River will be washed away by the flood again.
This kind of investment is too risky, so it is better not to invest for the time being.
As long as the diversion project is completed and the Yellow River flows eastward from Shandong to the sea along its old route, instead of diverting the Huaihe River into the sea, the land of the two Huaihe Rivers will be safe again, and this prosperous land will surely be able to return to its former glory in a relatively short period of time. Full of life.
The agricultural production income brought by this land will increase the fiscal income of the Ming Dynasty by another level.
In addition, many areas in the Yellow River Flood Region of the Central Plains that dare not carry out large-scale agricultural construction will quickly resume production. The Ming Dynasty has made preparations for immigrants to live and resume production, and is ready to bloom more in the Yellow River Flood Region and go all out for construction. .
In five years at the fastest and ten years at the slowest, the investment in the Yellow River Project can be recovered with interest. The court will make a profit, or a big profit.
So Su Yonglin was also very happy.
"The success lies in the present day, and the foundation lies in the future. Once the Yellow River is successfully diverted, the fate of the Ming Dynasty will be over. After that, the Ming Dynasty will have a vast ocean and fish will leap high into the sky, allowing birds to fly. I want to see who else can stop the Ming Dynasty." It’s taking off! Gezi, you are the biggest contributor!”
Su Yonglin hugged Tian Guizi, making Tian Guizi extremely excited.
"I dare not take credit. The credit belongs to everyone. There are many people who have made greater contributions than me. I will not share the credit with them. I just need to give adequate compensation to those migrant workers, soldiers and civilians. In the past five years, They really paid a lot.”
"That's natural."
Su Yonglin had long ordered the Ministry of Finance to study welfare policies that would provide tax reductions and exemptions for farmers and related hard-working people in the Yellow River diversion project area, as well as related material rewards, so that they would never suffer losses. This was the Ming court's promise to the people.
Su Yonglin keeps his promise and will never break his promise.
In the future, the reconstruction of the Yellow River Flood Area will also have a tax holiday for the first three years and a tax preferential period for the first five years. After five years, production will resume and local people have a small amount of savings, and then normal taxation will be resumed. This tax preferential policy has been in the past dynasties. All.
"This time, I want to wait here. I want to wait for the Yellow River Project to be completely successful. I want to see with my own eyes that our more than five years of hard work have not been in vain. I want to see it with my own eyes!"
This time, Su Yonglin decided to temporarily stop in Kaifeng and handle daily government affairs in Kaifeng until the Yellow River project was completely successful and the Yellow River flowed eastward into the sea.
It would be really difficult for him to go back to Zhongdu and wait for news at this time.
Neither Su Yonglin nor the Ming Dynasty deliberately concealed the news that Su Yonglin stayed in Kaifeng to handle government affairs, so the news quickly spread across the Yangtze River to the former Lin'an and now Hangzhou.
In Hangzhou City, Shen Gai, who was planning to expand his army, was stunned when he heard the news.
"The diversion of the Yellow River is almost completed?"
Shen Gai looked at Zhang Shi who came to report the news to him, and was very shocked and said: "It's really about to be completed? It can't be so fast, right? Didn't we estimate that it would take at least three years before? Why is it about to be completed now?"
Zhang Shi suppressed the joy in his heart and pretended to be worried.
"At the beginning, we did estimate that there would be more than three years, at least three years, but the news we have received so far is that Su Yonglin stopped in Kaifeng and did not return to Zhongdu, which means that he wants to see the Yellow River Project successfully completed with his own eyes.
At this point, it is difficult to say that this is fake news released by the Ming Dynasty. Su Yonglin does not need to stay in Kaifeng for such a long time for such news, so it is very likely that this is true, and the Ming Dynasty is really The Yellow River must be harnessed. "
The pen in Shen Gai's hand fell as Zhang Shi's words fell, and fell on the table. The ink that had just been filled on the pen tip splashed all over the table.
"How can it be so fast? It is obviously such a big project, with so many things to do, manpower and material resources, which of them is not a huge expenditure? This... this only takes five years, right? Can it be completed in five years? They... …How on earth did they do that?”
Zhang Shi had a solemn look on his face and shook his head repeatedly.
"No one knows, this is the strangest place. The construction site of the Ming Dynasty is over there, and there are only so many things to do. Logically speaking, if there is anything strange, they can't hide it at all, but it happened to be calm, and then The news spread directly..."
"This...this...this must be verified! What if it is fake?"
Shen Gai hurriedly said: "Jingfu, please verify this matter with the Ming Dynasty ambassador immediately. The court must be prepared! Whether it is true or false, the court must know!"
"Yes, I understand."
Zhang Shi said that he was going to find the Ming ambassador.
"etc!"
Shen Gai stopped Zhang Shi who was about to leave, looked at Zhang Shi's puzzled face, and whispered: "Jingfu, if the Ming Dynasty really ends the Yellow River Project, what will it do next?"
Zhang Shi looked at Shen Gai and felt that this question was actually quite interesting.
Not long ago, the Hangzhou court of Jiangnan Kingdom learned that the Ming army conquered Sichuan and Shu and overthrew the Shu-Song regime. It also learned that Ma Yongkang, Wu Ting, Wu Gong and others had voluntarily surrendered and served as the guide for the Ming Dynasty.
So much so that the main force of the Ming army controlled the essence of Sichuan and Shu without suffering any losses.
At the beginning, an internal meeting of the Hangzhou court believed that even if the Ming Dynasty could finally succeed, it would lose a large number of troops in northern Sichuan. Therefore, they insisted that the northern Sichuan defense line left by Wu Lin for the Southern Song Dynasty would give the Ming army a good drink.
As long as the Ming Dynasty loses enough in Sichuan and Shu, it can delay the time for the Ming Dynasty to launch another military operation and buy more time for the Jiangnan Kingdom.
Shen Gai planned to use this time to expand the number of troops that the Hangzhou court could control. It used to be 50,000, but now it is expanded. It is not a problem to increase it to 10,000 or 20,000.
The situation of the Hangzhou court has actually improved over the years.
The main reason was the intervention of the Ming Dynasty and the stationing of the Ming army. The Ming army was stationed near Hangzhou City, which was equivalent to giving a platform to the Hangzhou court. The local forces were indeed not afraid of the Hangzhou court, but they were afraid of the Ming army.
Relying on the tactics of pretending to be powerful, the Hangzhou court successfully maintained its rule over the remaining land of Jiangnan Kingdom, barely maintaining the existence of a court.
Although it is very difficult to expand the army now, it is not impossible to tighten the belt.
The main reason is that everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty will go south sooner or later, but the time period for this southward movement is still uncertain.
The biggest decisive factor is the completion time of the Yellow River diversion project.
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has determined that the flooding of the Yellow River will cause great harm to them. Therefore, not long after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it launched a vigorous Yellow River diversion project in an attempt to change the Yellow River back to its old path in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This news was not accepted by the "international" community at the time. Be optimistic.
At that time, Xixia, Goryeo and the Southern Song Dynasty all believed that the Ming Dynasty was making fun of their own country by doing this. This kind of behavior caused public resentment. The Ming Dynasty did not have a strong foundation for rule. If it continued to build a large-scale construction project, the Ming Dynasty might not It's going to perish.
They were just waiting for the Ming Dynasty to perish.
However, the situation did not develop as they hoped.
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