Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

Big stick plus sweet dates, big stick is enough, sweet dates are obviously necessary.

Everything is too much, and the same is true for the gentry.

Thoughts circulated, and after a long time, the emperor slowly put down the file in his hand, frowning tightly, unable to hide his worry.

Adding sweet dates to a big stick seems simple, but it is really not easy to do it.

Although it has been ten years since Daheng established the country, the Son of Heaven can affirm that, regardless of the north and the south, the scholars are still hostile to Daheng and Emperor Zhaowu.

Daheng land reform, education reform, material selection reform, lijia reform...

Without exception, what is violated is the interests of those who are common in farming and studying.

As the old saying goes, the king chooses his ministers, and the ministers also choose his king.

If the king treats his ministers like brothers and feet, then the ministers will regard the emperor as his heart;

But at the moment, Daheng, under the control of the emperor, knocked them from the clouds to hell, deprived them of their property, and plundered their wealth.

So, how could they be expected to be grateful to Dade.

Especially, it is only a few years since the Ming Dynasty.

The government of the Son of Heaven cannot be changed.

The only ones to change are them.

If they don't change, how can the emperor treat them graciously?

Moreover, in the past few years since Jiangnan was pacified and Daheng changed from conquering the world to ruling the world, the emperor has treated civil servants and gentry a lot.

Before they complete the change, if they give more favors, it is tantamount to breeding tigers!

Last year's Bailian Rebellion clearly proved this point.

The powerlessness and connivance of the local government directly led to the chaos of Bailian, which spread to the three provinces.

Even if such a group cannot be killed with one shot, even if only a small number of people have ulterior motives, it is enough to cause endless disasters!

Emperor Jingwu is still there, countless old ministers of the former Ming Dynasty are still in Daheng's ruling system, and countless gentry and landlords who enjoyed the wanton carefreeness of the former Ming Dynasty still exist in Daheng today.

Up to the present, the Mausoleum of Chongzhen has an endless stream of people offering sacrifices to the sun every year.

An Emperor Jingwu under house arrest, and a pre-Ming dynasty that perished can make many high-ranking courtiers open the door for them, secretly pass the music...

The disaster still exists, how can we talk about kindness?How to be kind?

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The emperor let out a long breath, also suppressing the worries in his heart.

Obviously, at the moment, the harshness of Daheng must still be maintained.

In other words, that is... class struggle, not to be lenient, nor to waste a century-old plan because of a short-term disadvantage.

Worries were put aside, but the thoughts of the emperor never rested, and the notebooks on the table seemed to never decrease.

There is an endless stream of couriers who come and go, the messengers on the emperor's inspection tour come and go every day, but the memorials on the emperor's table are always piled up like a mountain.

However, the emperor's driver is still driving on this unimpeded concrete official road.

Departing from North Korea, passing through the Liaodong Corridor, a once dangerous place, passing through Shanhaiguan Pass, and finally arriving in Shaanxi, this once, and even now, has involved countless sufferings of the emperor.

The organizational system of Shaanxi has not changed since the Ming Dynasty to Daheng today.

Compared with Shaanxi in later generations, although Shaanxi today is a province, the area it covers is obviously much wider than Shaanxi in later generations.

The provinces of Ningxia, Gansu, and Shaanxi in later generations, and most of the regions, are combined together to form the province of Shaanxi today.

Such a vast province can almost be called half of the world in the north.

This is also the biggest reason why the natural disasters and civil unrest in Shaanxi, from the Ming Dynasty to the present, have been the biggest reason why the emperor has been devastated.

The migrating people of the imperial court's migration policy all reside in Shaanxi, and the fundamental reason lies in this.

The Guanzhong Plain, which was once the foundation of the king and hegemony, is now a thousand miles of dry land.

Under the policy of migration that has lasted for many years, millions of people in Shaanxi have been relocated to various places, which has led to sparsely populated thousands of miles of dry land.

However, the imperial court's relocation policy is still continuing. It is obvious that even if millions of people in Shaanxi have been relocated, it is still difficult to afford the responsibility of supporting the local people in Shaanxi in this dry land for thousands of miles.

Up to now, under the circumstances that many policies such as disaster relief projects, migration strategies, land reform, and drought-tolerant crops have been implemented for a long time, the imperial court has to allocate millions of shi of grain to Shaanxi every year for disaster relief. need.

It is foreseeable that this kind of disaster relief will continue for a long time, until the end of this continuous natural disaster.

After all, no matter how serious the disaster in Shaanxi is, the emperor will not be able to relocate all the people in Shaanxi. Even in today's migration policy, the number of people who migrate each time is calculated in detail.

Liao Province is an important place, Hetao is an important place, and Shaanxi is even more important!

Adjacent to Northwest Tibet, directly facing the grasslands of northern Xinjiang.

Shaanxi is unstable, and there are not many Han people in Shaanxi, so Daheng can't talk about plotting the northwest and grasslands.

Under such circumstances, it is obvious that no matter how serious the disaster in Shaanxi is, Daheng has to carry it hard to ensure that the number of people in Shaanxi is in a safe range. Migration is only to relieve the pressure, not completely solve the pressure.

No one can really solve the huge burden of Shaanxi.

God's will is hard to disobey, natural disasters, likewise, no one can solve natural disasters...

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Chapter 729

The official roads are still unimpeded. In the ten years of Zhaowu today, after several years of large-scale construction, uniform cement official roads are already extremely common in Shaanxi.

Its popularity is even much stronger than other wealthy provinces in Daheng.

The natural disasters that have lasted for more than ten years, under the long-term request of the emperor, have created an order that is as disaster-like as military situation.

According to the Daheng system, any disaster situation, like the military situation, must be reported immediately on the day when the incident occurs, no matter when.

With the current smooth flow of official roads, the time for the communication between the localities and the center has long been clear.

Those who exceed the time limit will be held accountable to individuals!

The same is true for disaster relief.

As early as the early years of Zhaowu, the emperor tried to establish a Daheng granary reserve plan.

In the ten years since the founding of the country, as the financial constraints have gradually eased, at present, every province in the world has a reserve granary, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the central government.

All prefectures and counties in the world are also stored from the retained official grain to meet urgent needs.

Among them, the largest place to store grain is naturally the capital city, which is the central place for coordinating the price of grain in the world, collecting the grain in the world, or dumping the grain in the world.

In addition to stabilizing the price of grain every year, as well as the grain stored in the reserve granaries and county government warehouses, the rest are all transported to the capital reserve warehouse for storage.

The reason why it is so cumbersome is that the fundamental reason is naturally the continuous natural disasters that have caused the emperor, as well as the civil and military officials, to almost have a psychological shadow.

It seems that no matter how much food is stored, there is always not enough food.

The more food you have, the more at ease you will feel in your heart.

This unimpeded and almost universal cement official road seems to be the best embodiment of the centralized big government system.

The center needs to know the love of the place as soon as possible, and the will of the center also needs to go to the place as soon as possible.

From top to bottom, the basic governance information transmission of the ruling system lies in the official roads that criss-cross the Daheng world like the lifeblood.

It's just that, compared to the hustle and bustle of the various places in Daheng that the emperor has visited, even this official road, entering Shaanxi, seems to be weakened.

The neat and straight official road represents the breath of civilization, but the roads on both sides are like wilderness, lonely and desolate!

There seems to be an extremely sharp contrast between the two.

If you are not in this era, it is really difficult to realize the powerlessness under this natural disaster.

The Son of Heaven remembers clearly that in later generations, when he looked through the history, he wrote down the disasters and famines of the previous dynasties with a few strokes, which is really not worth mentioning.

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And when you come to this world from alone, you are in the wilderness, struggling for a bite to eat, struggling for what to do.

At that time, it was a personal experience.

Then step by step to gain power, and see this era little by little, this kind of experience is undoubtedly even more profound.

The natural disasters in this era are not common, such as droughts and floods in a certain county and a certain prefecture, which are limited to one place.

but universality.

Looking at the world, the north and the south, from the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty to the current Daheng, one capital and seventeen provinces.

It can almost be said that in the past ten years, there is no province that has not been swept by natural disasters.

The only difference is whether the disaster is serious or not.

It's just like on the tables of today's world, the most common ones, such as a famine in one county and one government, often involve tens of thousands of people.

Such a disaster, if it is put in the past dynasties, it must be a shock to the whole country.

Today, however, this is almost routine.

When the famine was reported, the courtiers did not even need to discuss it. After the emperor reviewed it, the matter was directly transferred to the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, the allocation of money and food, and the dispatch of officials. A set of procedures, in the current Daheng, is already completely procedural.

When a country deals with natural disasters, it has already become a procedural matter, which is not a kind of sadness.

The role of procedures lies in standardization and effective communication.

And for the disaster...

If it is possible, no one wants peace in the world, even if the officials in the world are at a loss for how to deal with the disaster, the emperor is also happy.

In this case, at least it proves that the world is stable and healthy!

Staring at the desolate scene outside the car window, the Son of Heaven seemed a little dazed.

Daheng has two major tax-free provinces, one of which is naturally Liao Province. The reason for its large tax-free population is because of the resettlement policy for migrants.

The other one is Shaanxi.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor pacified Shaanxi, and now in the tenth year of Zhaowu, the people of Shaanxi province are exempted from agricultural taxes and do not need to pay any grain.

A province in one province has been exempted from taxes for more than ten years. Such a government is rare in history.

It is foreseeable that the tax exemption policy for Shaanxi will continue.

The reason is naturally the horror of natural disasters in Shaanxi.

In the past 20 years, from the beginning of the new year tomorrow to the present, the natural disasters in Shaanxi have gradually spread from one county to one prefecture to the whole of Shaanxi, just like the source of natural disasters, spreading to most of the world step by step.

If we talk about other provinces, natural disasters are continuous, and there are always repeated times. For some years, it is still normal, basically there is no constant disaster for many years.

Only this Shaanxi has hardly stopped for many years.

Drought, locust plague, rat plague, earthquake...

Shaanxi has experienced all these.

Such a place, to Daheng, is like a black hole, devouring Daheng's flesh and blood all the time.

It is impossible for the emperor to give up Shaanxi, and it is impossible for Daheng to give up Shaanxi, so he can only bite the bullet and let this black hole swallow him, or even send him to his door to be swallowed by this black hole.

This seems to be the consequence of the emperor's disobedience to the general trend.

Natural disasters continue, man-made disasters are rampant, and foreign enemies are tyrannical. This is the general trend of the world in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

This should have been the bone-depleted stage at the end of the dynasty. In history, this bone-depleted stage seemed to last for decades.

The continuous natural disasters and man-made disasters did not know how many lives were killed or injured.

The elimination of population and the release of living resources in the historical cycle are forced to be reversed by the emperor's suppression.

That stage was almost completely avoided, and the transition from Qianming to Daheng was seamless.

Even though the confrontation between the North and the South that year lasted only a few years, it was suppressed by the emperor with a thunderous moment.

The world has also changed from great chaos to great order.

Even the word "chaotic" in this chaos is not quite sure yet.

Strictly speaking, from the former Ming Dynasty to Daheng, there has never been a complete loss of control like the collapse of order in the last years of the dynasty.

Even if Daheng was first established back then, the world would be enemies.

However, under the "Fanzhen" system of the guards at that time, most of the lands ruled by Daheng still maintained basic order and basic stability.

The price of the current world's well-being is the heavy burden of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, which Daheng stiffly carried on his back.