After returning to the county government office, he saw his father in a daze with his hands behind his back and facing the direction of execution. Zhu Biao could hear the screams and the people's voices of wonder and panic when he walked here. It seemed that being cut in half also stimulated them. Quite big.
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly said: "Are there many people watching the excitement?"
Zhu Biao saluted and replied: "There are many, and they are getting more and more. I am afraid, but I want to see the excitement."
"How is Liu Ying?"
Zhu Biao thought for a while and replied: "Liu Ying is also a smart person and has no complaints. I just heard that he went to bed very late last night."
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed leisurely: "Okay, it's good to be smart. The most important thing is to be self-aware. This is good for the Liu family and our Zhu family. It will be better if we can maintain our wealth in the future."
Zhu Biao echoed: "I will definitely be able to fulfill my father's wish."
Standing in the courtyard, Zhu Biao also looked back in that direction, and then followed Zhu Yuanzhang into the house. The noise was much quieter. After Zhu Yuanzhang sat down, he said: "Fengyang Magistrate reported to the court that people were being relocated for farming. I am very enthusiastic about the land reclamation in the mountains and the rice fields around the lake. But now I don’t know whether to encourage or suppress it. I request the court to give a charter. This involves our hometown. The Zhongshu Province does not dare to deal with it casually, so it is sent to us. This is it.”
Zhu Biao raised his eyebrows. He did not expect Fengyang to be saturated so quickly, but it is reasonable. After all, people have been migrating there since the founding of the country, and with the large number of officials who were sentenced to open up wasteland, Fengyang can now cultivate The land is indeed almost fully developed.
But if you think about it carefully, the relocation may not be because the existing land is not cultivated enough. After all, the population is still sparse. It may be because they feel insecure when they first arrive in a foreign land and they just want to farm more in order to settle down in Fengyang.
After all, Zhu Biao personally resettled the Fengyang residents. The land reclamation area he had originally planned was enough to ensure that each household could have enough food and clothing for five or six more children, not to mention that the plan had already been completed beyond expectations.
After receiving the memorial again, Zhu Biao made sure that it was not because of someone's large-scale annexation of the relocated people's land, and then said: "My minister's intention is that the Fengyang government should be restrained. Although land reclamation at any cost can increase a lot of cultivated land in the short term, but Such large-scale reclamation of mountain forests is not a good thing, not to mention that encircling lake rice fields is not good for water conservancy circulation. Once it affects the Huaihe River, it will be a big trouble."
Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect this. He also thought that it was a good thing for the people to work so hard, and he was going to ask the local officials to encourage him. However, he also knew that his son had extraordinary knowledge in this regard, not to mention that Fengyang Imperial Township was a big deal in his heart. It was very important, so I frowned and started thinking again.
Upon seeing this, Zhu Biao persuaded him, saying that protecting the natural environment is a long-established tradition in China. After all, we advocate the unity of nature and man, but after all, it is just a sentiment. For the court, people's farming is more important than anything else.
But the cost of destroying nature is real. Zhu Biao knew that the flower drum poem that would be spread in the future "Speak of Fengyang, say Fengyang. Fengyang is a good place. Since Emperor Zhu came out, ten years ago There is a nine-year drought!"
Although I don’t know if it was sung by the immigrants or the folks from Fengyang, the irony of this ballad towards Zhu Yuanzhang is very clear. Zhu Biao naturally did not want to see this word appear again in this life and hurt his father. Heart.
When he moved people, he had thought carefully about why Fengyang would end up in a situation where there would be nine out of every ten years of drought in the future. First of all, Fengyang was hilly, barren, and prone to famines. To say that it was originally a good place was nonsense. .
And my father really loved his hometown deeply. The first post road to be repaired after the founding of the People's Republic of China was the one directly from Nanjing to Fengyang. It was built for twenty stops. As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build a road. Fengyang now has a highway that can lead directly to the capital. The significance is self-evident.
There was no problem with the subsequent relocation. The people of Fengyang fled in all directions after the troubled times and disasters. Most of them have died outside. It is impossible for the remaining people to rebuild Fengyang alone. The relocated people settled down. Restoring people's livelihood will benefit Fengyang.
Later, the two founding marquises were dispatched to supervise the repair of Fengyang Water Conservancy. Various other measures that were beneficial to people's livelihood were also implemented one by one through the planning of Li Shanchang, Yang Xian and others.
As Zhu Biao saw some time ago when he followed his father back to his hometown to pay homage to the imperial mausoleum, Fengyang was far richer and more prosperous than what he had seen when he paid homage to the prince of King Wu. The originally desolate and inhabited place was now densely populated, and there were also merchants in the prefectures and counties. There are many restaurants like clouds, showing the prosperity of a sect.
At that time, he was curious about how Fengyang became dilapidated, but now he can see some clues. A large number of mountain forests have been reclaimed without plan, and large-scale rivers and lakes have been blocked and rice fields have been blocked. Continuous soil erosion will definitely affect the ecology of the lower reaches of the Huaihe River. As for the environment, it would be fine if these were placed elsewhere. After all, the environment has the ability to heal itself.
It's just that the environment in Fengyang is quite harsh, so it naturally loses its ability to resist famines. Of course, these will not lead to nine famines in ten years, but what if Hongze Lake is added to it?
At this time, Zhu Biao had already turned to the end of the report from Fengyang Magistrate. Fengyang Tongzhi suggested that in order to prevent Hongze Lake from breaking out of its embankments and submerging the imperial ancestral mausoleum in the event of a flood, the embankments of Hongze Lake should be opened for flood discharge in peacetime. .
Where is Hongze Lake? It is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in China in later generations. It is extremely wide and holds a huge amount of water. The Hongze Lake embankment was first built in the fifth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and has been repaired by successive dynasties since then.
Unexpectedly, someone now proposed to open a dike to stop the water supply. Zhu Biao wanted to order the officials who mentioned this to be killed, and judging from Zhu Yuanzhang's intention, he was a little moved. After all, the ancestral mausoleum also represents the dragon vein of the Zhu family's luck. Lao Zhu doesn't believe in any monks or Taoists, but he still believes in this mysterious and mysterious thing.
Zhu Biao had almost guessed why Fengyang had such continuous famines in history. Once Hongze Lake was dug, the river poured down, and the people downstream must have their homes and fields destroyed, and the river must have suffered the sudden erosion of such a flow. to damage, and its subsequent effects are all-round.
Coupled with the barren mountains that have been over-cultivated, and the siltation of lakes and rivers caused by rice paddies around the lakes, the Huaihe River is bound to be flooded frequently. Once it rains heavily, the flat land will naturally become a swampy river country, and the people will cultivate it. Naturally, no acres of land can be retained.
After the flood, because the mountains and forests have been over-cultivated, it is natural that water cannot be retained. Once there is no rainfall in the second year, drought disasters may occur after the flood. This means that Fengyang has nine years of drought in ten years. Probably the reason.
Zhu Biao also had to admit that if Zhu Yuanzhang allowed the report sent by Fengyang Magistrate, then he would indeed be responsible for Fengyang's nine famines in ten years. Think twice before acting.
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