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Text 134. Natural and man-made disasters

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    The midsummer of 1680 was a period of mixed joy and sorrow for Emperor Kangxi.  Just read the novel~

    When Kangxi first learned that Wei was pregnant, before he could be overjoyed, he heard that he almost lost the child due to strife among the concubines in the palace.  When Kangxi sat in the south study room and waited for two hours, he finally received the good news that Concubine Cheng had given birth to a healthy little brother for the Qing royal family.  It was happy news to have a new baby and both mother and son were safe. However, before Emperor Kangxi had time to think of a name for the seventh prince, reports came from various mansions in the south of the Yangtze River, reporting that as soon as the river south of the Yangtze River was brought into the Xia Dashui, the flat ground was several feet high.  The fields in the city were all flooded, and the autumn harvest could not be harvested.

    Emperor Kangxi looked at the papers on the imperial case that were falling like snowflakes one after another. His heart suddenly rose and he could not sleep all night.  Originally, it was the custom for local officials to take credit for their wealth and report good news but not bad news. Perhaps the emperor sitting aloft in the Forbidden City could not know in time the suffering of ordinary people thousands of miles away who were flooded. However, it happened to be a coincidence at this time that the emperor sent  Imperial envoy Tang Bin and deputy envoy Nalan Chengde were delayed in Jiangnan Road, urging officials of all sizes to pay their bills.

    The tofu soup held a Huang Ling imperial edict from Beijing, forcing many officials to pawn houses and sell land to raise money.   That¡¯s it for reading the novel~ At this moment, the limelight is on, and it¡¯s really impossible not to pay back. The imperial decree has been issued, and it is clearly written. If you don¡¯t pay back the debt, you will be stripped of your hat, and you will never be able to make money again in your life.  Opportunity.  The most important thing at the moment is to fill the shortfall for the time being. Even if it means moving one wall to cover the other, borrowing usury is still necessary.

    In just three to five days, speculators developed a new financial instrument that looked like short-term lending, with interest rates ranging from 200 to 500 percent. The lending targets were specifically targeted at the prefects, tongzhi, and other officials in Jiangnan Province.  The magistrate, the deputy envoy of the Salt Transportation Department, and the Salt Class Promotion Department promoted many officials. As long as they had property, shops or jewelry as collateral, as long as their official positions were still there, as long as the imperial minister left, the capital would definitely be recovered.

    "Man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. God was so aggrieved that he shed tears and burst into tears."

    Suzhou has floods and epidemics in summer.  It rains in Wu County.

    Heavy rains fell heavily in Jiangyin in June, and the water rose several feet high on the flat ground. Houses and houses were washed away, and countless people died.

    The flood in Wuxi reached the foothills of Huishan Mountain. The fields were flooded, the people's houses were in ruins, the boats did not follow the old route, and the people were hungry and unable to survive.  Just read the novel~

    There is a flood in Changshu, and the flat land is several feet high. When a boat enters the market, the fields and huts float away.

    Wujiang has heavy rains in May and June, continuous rains for dozens of days in July, and heavy rains again in August.

    There was a heavy storm and rain in Kunshan on the night of August 2nd. Water accumulated in the houses and the price of rice was very high. On the 23rd, it rained for five days and nights, and all the crops and seedlings were submerged.

    It has been raining for months in Taicang, and the kapok, corn and beans have all rotted.

    Qingpu suffered floods in May and epidemics in August.

    Huzhou has floods in summer and autumn, and Taihu Lake overflows in August.  Heavy rain overflows in Jiaxing.

    There was a flood in Shanghai during the summer of May, and the river overflowed. On August 3, it rained all night long. The tide rose sharply and destroyed the southern city by several feet, killing seven residents. The water in the city was five feet deep, and boats were sailing in the fields.

    Songjiang and Huating have floods in summer in May, and the tide overflows.

    Dantu, Danyang, Jintan, Wujin, Yixing, Liyang Dashui.

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    In the first few days, Tang Bin and Nalan Chengde murmured that the two rains had finally brought a little bit of coolness and relieved a bit of the depression caused by the bank debt collection. When the heavy rain continued for five days, the rice shop  When the price of rice secretly increased from one to two yuan per stone to one to eight yuan per stone, Tang Bin knew something was wrong and immediately wrote a memorial and reported it to the capital.

    However, ten days later, when the approval document issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs in central Beijing to the counties in the south of the Yangtze River to pay close attention to the fluctuation of rice prices in the south of the Yangtze River arrived at the head of each county, the price of rice had risen to 2, 2, 3, 4 yuan per stone, and there was no market.  The food was so poor that it was hard to find even dry firewood for cooking, let alone rare food items such as oil and salt.

    In the places where the floods were most serious, the thatched houses of poor people had long been washed away, and the sturdy brick and wood pavilions of wealthy landlords were also submerged, leaving only a beam and spire. Even the most luxurious magistrate's office in the area was destroyed.  The floods mercilessly submerged it, leaving at most a plaque hanging high in the mirror in the hall, still reflected in the water  Those with slow legs and feet were all washed away; those who could swim might be able to climb up the hillside and survive; more people had their parents and wives separated and were displaced

    Under such a severe situation, waiting for disaster relief action orders to be issued, it was already too late to deal with the sudden flood in the south of the Yangtze River. Tang Bin and Nalan Chengde, together with Nalan Chengde, escorted the 200,000 taels of salary collected in advance and rushed to the nearest Anhui Province.  , Jiangxi Province and Jiangxi Province purchased rice, flour and salt in large quantities

    Kangxi was sitting in the south study room worried about getting angry, and his mouth was blistering with worry, but he received another memorial from the Anhui prefect to impeach the imperial envoy Tang Bin.  The richest man in the family was imprisoned.  When Lao Tang was buying rice and noodles, he also asked several companies to raise the price of rice.The grain store was closed down.

    At the gate of the local magistrate's office and the magistrate's office, a large number of wealthy grain merchants gathered to complain. The lawsuits written by people with educational backgrounds were well-written and theoretically based, claiming that the imperial envoys were using their power to bully others and bully and dominate the market.  , is an insult to the court's face and goes against the teachings of the saints.

    After Kangxi read the excerpt, he could finally enjoy the hardship for a while.

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    The department will work overtime tomorrow and won¡¯t have time to write.
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