According to Lin Jingchun's understanding, Su Yonglin designed a set of very detailed, reliable and effective plans to deal with natural disasters.
For example, when a flood or drought occurs in a certain place, the local water conservancy project is the first safety valve. Through the regulation of water release and storage, it can wash away part of the impact of the disaster.
When the local water conservancy system is unable to adjust the impact of a disaster, it means that the scale of the disaster is huge and cannot be easily dealt with, requiring the intervention of external forces.
At this time, the developed transportation infrastructure can provide convenience for the transportation of grain.
Sufficient amounts of food entered the disaster-stricken areas from areas that were not affected by the disaster, and the food prices in the disaster-stricken areas were smoothly stabilized. With food in hand, there was no need to panic. Developed grassroots organizations with large amounts of food in hand could stabilize the place.
Therefore, a natural disaster that could cause cannibalism in feudal society often did not cause any social unrest in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course there are losses, but the extent of such losses is far from requiring central intervention. Local governments can handle these matters through coordination in accordance with the imperial court's "Emergency Disaster Response and Management Law."
In responding to this kind of thing, local revival organizations often play the mainstay role.
The excellent grassroots organizations of the Ming Dynasty were always able to respond quickly to disasters, thereby controlling the disasters to a smaller scale without affecting the overall situation. Therefore, there were never large-scale disasters or secondary disasters that affected the internal stability of the Ming Dynasty.
In ancient times, a regional-scale disaster often led to a social crisis in a larger region, which in turn led to a comprehensive social unrest, which had a profound impact on the country and even required the central government to dispatch troops to quell the rebellion.
Sometimes, when encountering a larger-scale disaster, a powerful peasant uprising army will appear, which will go down in history books.
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Judging from the excellent response results of Ming Dynasty, it may be possible to get a clear answer as to how much of the fault is a natural disaster and how much is a man-made disaster.
Excellent governance levels can minimize the impact of natural disasters, thereby reducing financial consumption on a large scale. Su Yonglin has kept disaster response expenditures at a low level by continuously optimizing governance levels.
What does it mean that those who are good at fighting have no great achievements?
He never gives you a chance to have an attack or the possibility of turning the tide. He always does his job well before it happens. If it happens even a little bit, he will strangle you to death. Of course, he will not become "famous". Move the world".
After deeply understanding where Su Yonglin dared to launch a large-scale war, Lin Jingchun never opposed Su Yonglin's launching of war as seriously as he did in the second and third years of Hongwu. He only mentioned it out of his own habits and stingy nature. .
Today's battle to recapture the Western Region also requires the Ming Dynasty's treasury and local storage systems to spend huge amounts of materials and money. It also requires local grassroots organizations to mobilize a large number of civilians, livestock, and vehicles to participate in logistics and transportation work.
It's all money, all spending money.
Including restoring local production and investment and construction after the war also requires a lot of expenditures. It is a bottomless pit with no edges visible at a glance.
But for some reason, in the face of Su Yonglin's strength, Lin Jingchun couldn't help but be willing to believe that behind the large-scale expenditures, there really were astronomical hidden benefits that could not be seen, as Su Yonglin said.
The war to recapture the Western Regions was brewing a year ago. During this period, the theater troupe and the Shuren Publishing House system had an influence on the cultural export to the people, and the people were also well prepared for the launch of the war.
In Hexi Province and Guanzhong Province, which are the key areas of this operation, this type of preparation is also quite complete.
The military was well prepared for the war through intensive education and the study of "Records of the Western Regions of the Central Plains", while the Fuxinghui system frequently dispatched propaganda forces to publicize the campaign to recover the Western Regions among the people.
In terms of logistics, the Ministry of Finance formulated a series of logistics expenditure regulations in advance, as well as a compensation policy for civilian husbands. After receiving Su Yonglin's approval, Lin Jingchun left Zhongdu at light speed and went to Chang'an and Xingqing Prefectures.
The allocation of the entire logistics supply fell under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. However, the logistics capacity required for the 150,000-strong army to attack Western Liao was not enough to rely solely on military auxiliaries for logistics transportation. It required the recruitment of civilians to assist, and this involved local mobilization.
Matters involving local mobilization require help from local governments and revival organizations.
The local government was responsible for counting people, distributing rations, recording merit and post-war compensation, while the grassroots rural organizations of the Renaissance were responsible for organizational work.
He held a meeting with Zhao Changlin, Shangshu Cheng of Guanzhong Province, and Zhou Chiming, director of the Guanzhong Province branch of the Fuxing Hui, to agree on the number of civilians that Guanzhong Province needed to mobilize this time.
After that, he rushed to Xingqing Mansion without stopping, and talked with Zhou Lin, the Minister of Hexi Province, and Bu Liang, the director of the Hexi Province branch of the Fuxinghui, and agreed on the number of civilians dispatched by Hexi Province.
Lin Jingchun led the logistics working group on a business trip to the western frontier to handle matters. When a series of logistics work was implemented, in September of the golden autumn, the Ming Dynasty was ready to attack Xiliao.
At this time, the Khwarezm Kingdom had already sent three requests for help to the Ming Dynasty through Tianwang Army spies, and even promised to bear half of the Ming Dynasty's military expenses, as long as the Ming Dynasty sent troops as soon as possible.
Seeing the good relationship, Su Yonglin officially issued an order to march on September 15, the 10th year of Hongwu.
In this Western Expedition, Su Haisheng, commander of the Second Corps, is the commander-in-chief of the Western Expedition, Jiang Liangping, commander of the Sixth Corps, is the deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Expedition, and Han Wei, secretary of the Second Corps, is the marching secretary of the Western Expedition. , with Zhang Qiaonian, secretary of the Sixth Corps, as deputy marching secretary.
In this battle, two regiments directly under the cavalry of the Second Corps and the Sixth Corps were dispatched, plus 30,000 cavalry from the Second Corps of the Zhongdu Huben Guards, plus the Fourth Corps of the Second Corps, and the Sixteenth Corps of the Sixth Corps. , the 17th Army, and the 10,000-person firearms unit of the First and Second Battalions of Shenji.
The total number of people is 150,000, all of whom are the elite of the Ming army.
In other words, the army is all elite. The only difference is that some are elite and some are the elite among the elite.
On September 20, the 10th year of Hongwu, the order to march was conveyed to Xingqing Mansion, where the Western Expedition Army was assembled.
They will start from here, first heading to Shazhou, and then split into two groups from Shazhou, along the north and south roads of the Silk Road that people have been familiar with for thousands of years, and launch an attack on the Western Liao Empire that they can never imagine. A determined attack.
After receiving the order to dispatch troops, Su Haisheng was very excited.
"I am determined to be transferred back from Sichuan and Sichuan. This is the day I have been waiting for! I will definitely fight this big and tough battle in the Western Regions!"
Jiang Liangping stood aside and looked at him with a smile.
"The Sixth Corps was formed just for this big battle. How many years has it been? It must have been five years, right? We have been waiting for this day."
"Yeah... But then again, when you formed the Sixth Corps, you took away a lot of senior officers from me, right?"
Su Haisheng smiled and patted Jiang Liangping's shoulder, with a very kind look in his eyes: "This time I am the commander-in-chief, do you have any objections? You will completely obey the commander-in-chief's orders, right? Xiao Yu'er?"
Jiang Liangping hadn't heard anyone call him Xiaoyu'er for a long time.
After all, he was the commander of a corps. He held a high position. His subordinates all called him "Commander Jiang" when they saw him. His old partner Zhang Qiaonian only called him "Lao Jiang". Even the army knew that his original name was "Jiang Xiaoyu". There are not many people with that name.
However, the person in front of him not only shouted out, he was also qualified to do so, and Jiang Liangping had no temper at all.
