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Luoyang Storm Chapter 40, Planning

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    In fact, from the very beginning, Zhu Yousong discovered that Wang Jing was in good health, but walked in vain and obviously did not know martial arts.

    Next, the uninvited Supervisor Wang Jing kept asking Zhu Laiyong, Zhu Laizhi and others. Zhu Yousong guessed that the purpose of his coming here was to find out the situation in the palace.  If it were normal, there would be a traitor sending the message without him coming. However, with Zhu Yousong's help, most of the traitors were immediately eliminated, and those who had not been discovered immediately shrank.  Therefore, some people who cannot get the news cannot sit still.

    It is not easy for ordinary people to enter the palace, so Supervisor Wang became the first choice.

    However, I don¡¯t know whether Wang Jing was too arrogant and looked down on Zhu Yousong or did so on purpose. His first question was too explicit, allowing Zhu Yousong to immediately grasp the meaning behind him.  He even guessed that he must be related to the White Lotus Sect.

    Zhu Yousong discovered some secrets from the dead Holy Son Bai Shi, that is, there was a small white lotus embroidered three inches from the waist on the white undershirt.

    So, in order to verify that Wang Jing was also a member of the White Lotus Cult, Zhu Yousong deliberately poured tea on him.  And stepped forward to dry the tea for him.  With his second-rate upper-level skills, it would be really hard for him to deceive a person who doesn't know martial arts.  However, it also allowed Zhu Yousong to prove that there was a small white lotus embroidered three inches from the waist on Wang Jing's white undershirt. Wang Jing was a member of the White Lotus Sect!

    Seeing Wang Jing leaving in embarrassment, Zhu Yousong's face showed murderous intent: I have never been able to find a good target for robbery. I didn't expect you to hit the muzzle of the gun: "Laifu!"

    Song Laifu, who was outside, immediately trotted up and said, "My dear prince, I don't know what your orders are." After being scolded by Zhu Yousong for a while, Song Laifu finally forgot the word "village master" and abided by the rules.

    Zhu Yousong pondered for a moment and said: "Go. Try to contact Ma Qi and ask him to use all methods to monitor Wang Jing and Wang Jianjun just now, and be sure to know his every move. No matter how big or small the matter is, even if he peed on  I also want to know what's in the waistband of my pants!"

    At the beginning, Zhu Yousong set up some contact information with everyone in the village. Now, he felt it was time to see what the results of Ma Qi, the intelligence leader, were during this period.

    Song Laifu immediately responded.  The power of this fat village leader is growing day by day. Even if his kung fu has improved greatly, he still feels unstoppable in the face of this fat village master.

    Of course, Zhu Yousong felt the look of respect and fear in Song Laifu's eyes, but as a superior, should he still get along with them?  Zhu Yousong had a headache, but he had no time to think about it, because he knew that after this heavy snow winter, there would be a huge threat and disaster coming.

    The distribution of locust plagues in Chinese history has been highest in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, especially in the three provinces of Hebei, Shandong and Henan.

    Henan has always been a frequent and hardest-hit area for locust plagues, especially in the late Ming Dynasty. This is closely related to Henan's geographical location and climate changes in the late Ming Dynasty.  In the late Ming Dynasty, the locust plague in Henan almost covered the whole province, with the most serious one along the Yellow River. More than half of the locust plagues occurred in consecutive years. During the Chongzhen period, there was a major locust plague for five consecutive years. Farmers who were already living in poverty suffered from this disaster.  In urgent need of national relief and assistance from local elites.

    However, from Wanli to Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty's national strength gradually weakened.  Although the Wanli Dynasty paid more attention to the locust plague in Henan and adopted various methods to reduce the burden on the victims, and sometimes appointed officials to distribute food relief to help the victims survive the locust plague, after the outbreak of the peasant uprising, the war became increasingly intensified and military expenditures were huge.  Henan's locust disaster relief capacity has been greatly weakened, and it can only rely on local elites to rescue famines. When the disaster is weak, it can be dealt with, and the victims can survive the crisis and return to normal life.

    But in the Chongzhen Dynasty, faced with four or five consecutive years of locust plagues, everyone, whether central or local, could only be helpless.  National relief aid has decreased, local elites have failed to provide relief, and farmers have taken on debt or migrated in order to survive, and more and more people have died of hunger.

    Poor and helpless peasants have developed into local uprising teams.  Finally, when Li Zicheng entered Henan, he took in the victims and put forward the slogan of "equal land and no grain", which won the hearts of the people.

    The slogan "Welcome King Chuang, but don't pay for food" spread throughout the state capitals far and near, and the victims living on the verge of death "followed them one after another."

    Zheng Lian recorded the grand occasion of Li Zicheng's large-scale relief work for the victims in Henan Province in "The Chronicle of the Yubian": "The hungry people from far and near came with hoes, and those who responded were like running water, day and night, with a call of millions, and the force was like a prairie fire that could not be stopped.  "

    Li Zicheng's strength increased rapidly, from fifty riders to one million in just one year.  The local rabble, the unorganized and chaotic hungry people, soon transformed into an army with strong combat effectiveness after joining the command of Li Zicheng, who had experienced hundreds of battles and had extremely rich military experience. From then on, Li Zicheng's army became a peasant army.  The main force in the Ming Dynasty is facing the Ming Dynasty.The army won every battle.

    This is not the result Zhu Yousong wants to see!

    ?? If integrating refugees is a top priority, then preventing drought and locust plagues is a matter of life and death.

    Zhu Yousong knew that if these disasters were suppressed and the number of refugees reduced, then his plan would be half successful.  At least reduce Li Zicheng's strength to the minimum level.  As for whether Li Zicheng can force Chongzhen into being fooled in the future, it is not among Zhu Yousong's considerations.  If becoming an emperor is based on the lives of millions of people, then this emperor is not the right one.

    Therefore, Zhu Yousong needs to plan.

    First, get through the officials on Henan Road and focus their attention on digging canals to store water.  In fact, it is difficult to say whether this is difficult or not.  Because it is very simple to get through the officials at the top and bottom, because the power of Prince Fu's Mansion has a huge say in Henan.  The difficulty is that the officials agreed, but the external environment did not allow the canal digging to proceed smoothly.  As the saying goes, fishing in troubled waters, the muddier it is, the better.  If farmers had land to cultivate and food to eat, they would still rise up against the government.  Therefore, not only Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, but also the Manchu Qing Dynasty who were far away from the customs would not agree and would definitely come to destroy it.  How to prevent others from damaging it is the key.

    Secondly, that is gold and silver.  Lots of gold and silver!  Once the policy is passed, all that remains is funding.  It's easy to do things if you have money, but who in this world is willing to pay to dig canals and store water?  Not to mention the local officials, even the aloof emperor was probably powerless.  After all, Ming Dynasty has been weak for a long time, and its treasury does not have much silver.  Even if the treasury silver is sufficient, those corrupt officials will not let the treasury silver flow into practical use easily.

    However, Zhu Yousong has already thought that the White Lotus Sect will provide the money.  They have been doing evil for so many years, and it¡¯s time to atone for their sins.

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    I¡¯m going back to my hometown to worship my ancestors and take two days off!

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