My father is Jiajing

Chapter 385: The Compassionate Prince Yu
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These days I've been in a mess because of a cold, and the content I wrote is not satisfactory. I would like to apologize to everyone here.

In the evening, I will send a small red envelope to the book friends group as an apology gift, and I hope that the emperors can forgive me. . .

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Prince Yu's Mansion.

The New Year was approaching, but there was no sign of festivity either in the capital or in Zhu Zaigui's palace.

Zhu Zaigui, wearing a newly made woolen coat from Xuanda Woolen Farm, stood in his yard, looking in the direction of Huazhou, which he could not see.

This woolen cloth is a newly made woolen cloth, the raw materials of which are mainly wool from Tatar. However, since this cloth has only appeared for a short time, most people still think that this cloth is a kind of "smell" cheap cloth, and not many people are willing to wear it.

Therefore, in order to revitalize Xuanda's new industry that had been built up with great difficulty, Zhu Zaigui set an example by purchasing a lot of this woolen cloth for himself and the women in the palace.

Moreover, under the guidance of Zhu Zaigui, the tailors of the palace made certain improvements in accordance with the windbreakers that became popular in later generations.

It has become a slim-fitting style that is more formal and can make the figure appear taller. It looks a bit like a cloak, but it is different from a cloak and is more like a coat.

Meng Chong also stood beside Zhu Zaigui and waited on him, "Your Highness, please come into the house and warm up. You have been standing here for almost an hour. What if you get frozen?"

Meng Chong's little face was already red from the cold, and ice was forming on the tip of his nose. He called out to Zhu Zaigui in a trembling voice.

But Zhu Zaigui just sighed and responded: "I don't know how the people of Huazhou are doing now? I don't know if the relief supplies from the court are enough for them."

When Meng Chong heard that Zhu Zaigui was still concerned about the Huazhou earthquake, he also said, "Your Highness, it has been almost half a month since the Huazhou earthquake, and the court has sent several groups of imperial envoys. It should be fine now."

Zhu Zaigui shook his head slightly. He was very clear about how destructive the earthquake was.

Zhu Zaigui remembered his experience before he traveled through time. Zhu Zaigui clearly remembered that when he was a teenager, on a drowsy afternoon, he was lying on the sofa at home watching TV. Suddenly, the light tube shook, his head felt dizzy, and everything in the house shook slightly.

At that time he didn't know it was an earthquake, but as time went by, information began to spread quickly, and Zhu Zaigui learned that a magnitude 8 earthquake had occurred thousands of miles away from him.

Through the live broadcast on TV, Zhu Zaigui felt the power of the earthquake for the first time. One county, town and village after another was shattered, and countless lives were ended in just a few minutes.

Countless disaster relief forces across the country have been continuously invested in earthquake relief, but in the face of such a serious disaster, no matter how many disaster relief forces are there, they are like a drop in the bucket and are simply unable to support the mountains and rivers shattered by the earthquake.

I can only watch time pass by minute by minute.

Now, an equally terrible earthquake has occurred in the era in which Zhu Zaigui lives. He feels very depressed and uncomfortable.

Because Zhu Zaigui knew very well what kind of era the Ming Dynasty was in. The disaster relief capabilities of this era were simply incomparable to those of the era he had lived in before.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui did not dare to imagine the dire straits and devastation that the people of Huazhou were living in now, with no hope in sight.

Zhu Zaigui asked in a slightly hoarse voice: "Where is our disaster relief team now?"

After Zhu Zaigui confirmed that it was a major earthquake in Huazhou, he immediately asked the Shunyi Industrial Park to organize a rescue team to rush to Huazhou, and also dispatched many doctors from the Medical College to join the team.

Meng Chong replied, "I received a reply letter yesterday. Doctor Li and his team are almost in Huazhou. They have been saving many people along the way and have distributed a lot of winter supplies to them. Moreover, early this morning, we sent over a hundred truckloads of relief supplies and winter clothes. Your Highness, we have done our best." After hearing what Meng Chong said, Zhu Zaigui sighed and said, "These more than a hundred truckloads of relief supplies and winter clothes are still a drop in the bucket. They are not enough for the people in the disaster area to deal with. You continue to urge Li Fang to continue to raise supplies and send them to Huazhou. You must spare no expense to help the people in the disaster area survive this winter."

Meng Chong listened to what Zhu Zaigui said and he didn't know whether he should continue speaking.

During this period, Shunyi Industrial Park has allocated materials worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which are much more than those allocated by the Ministry of Industry.

But disaster relief is like a bottomless pit; no matter how much you throw in, it may not be enough.

If this continues, the assets of Shunyi Industrial Park may be emptied.

You should know that the number of people that Shunyi Industrial Park needs to support and feed now totals more than 100,000.

These hundreds of thousands of people have put in a lot of hard work and effort for the Shunyi Industrial Park over the years, and they also want to live a good life by relying on the support of the park.

However, if the vitality of Shunyi Industrial Park is damaged due to disaster relief at all costs, and the livelihoods of more than 100,000 people are affected, this will also be a serious problem.

So Meng Chong couldn't help but persuade him, "Your Highness, we can't go on like this. Li Fang has done his best, and we have already sent out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver worth of supplies. These things were originally meant for the workers in the industrial park, Xishan, and the special zone to celebrate the New Year. But if we continue to send them to Huazhou without limit, how will these workers celebrate the New Year?"

After hearing what Meng Chong said, Zhu Zaigui couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, but he knew in his heart that Meng Chong was right.

The current Shunyi Industrial Park is no longer Zhu Zaigui’s property alone, but the hope of hundreds of thousands of people living near the capital. It is impossible for Zhu Zaigui to ignore the livelihoods of these people and indulge in his kindness endlessly.

After all, these people also have to live and make a living.

Zhu Zaigui has done his best to purchase and raise all the food and other supplies needed for the winter in the capital that can be bought with silver.

If he continues to buy and raise funds like this, prices in the capital will skyrocket, and the livelihoods of most ordinary people will be affected.

After all, sometimes in some aspects, money is not omnipotent.

Therefore, even if Zhu Zaigui tried his best, he could only buy daily necessities worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Therefore, at this time, Zhu Zaigui could only sigh and say: "If that's the case, let's do it this way for now. When the next batch of grain and other supplies from the south arrives in the capital, we will buy them."

"Let's distribute the food and New Year's goods we can buy to the workers in the industrial park and Xishan. We want them to have a good New Year. We don't want them to suffer after working hard for a year."

After hearing what Zhu Zaigui said, Meng Chong couldn't help but feel relieved.

In fact, these words were not thought out by Meng Chong, but were taught to him by Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.

During this period, because Zhu Zaigui was determined to provide disaster relief, he purchased a large amount of grain and other winter supplies in the capital, which caused large fluctuations in prices in the capital.

If it is not stopped, there will definitely be a big mess.

So at this critical juncture, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng could only find Meng Chong and ask Meng Chong to persuade Zhu Zaigui not to buy supplies from the capital and send them to Huazhou anymore, which led to the scene just now.

(End of this chapter)