Capital.
It was mid-July, and the scorching sun was still simmering the Daheng Capital City.
Although disasters in all parts of the world are continuous, they obviously cannot affect the prosperity of the capital.
There were traffic on the streets, and there were endless vendors on both sides of the streets, with hawking and shouting.
Businessmen and travelers lined up at the city gate to transport goods from all over the country to this capital, which is the center of the world.
"It seems prosperous, but it is like cooking oil in a fire..."
The emperor walked around the city tower, looked at the prosperous scenery inside and outside the city, and sighed quietly.
The two dukes of Jing and Liao, who were covered with armor beside the emperor, also looked at each other, not understanding what the emperor said.
The emperor did not explain, but the solemnity between his eyebrows increased a little more.
In the past, although the imperial court ruled the world, it was limited to the decaying ruling system of the former Ming Dynasty, and there was no detailed understanding of the specific situations in various places.
That is, just live by the way!
With the end of the second year of Zhaowu, the tax case launched lasted for a whole year, sweeping the whole world, completely destroying the original order, and reforms were carried out. To this day, the reform has been going on for a year, and a new order has basically been established.
Under this new order, the imperial court's dominance over various places naturally rose to a completely new state.
What followed was naturally the specific situation of the entire world and nearly a thousand counties, which were clearly placed in front of him, the emperor.
There is no doubt that even though the tax case at that time caused a huge blow to the economy and people's livelihood of the whole world, with the abolition of business registration by the reform, the policy encouragement of business, and the major projects that were gradually launched in the four years of Zhaowu, the massive wealth that the court invested in the world also brought up the decline of Daheng's business economy from the trough with an unprecedented strength.
The restrictions on cement have long been relaxed, and various powerful companies have entered the market one after another, and private business companies are also taking advantage of the general trend of the times to develop rapidly.
Under the deliberate leadership of his emperor, the commercial banks led by the Nei Court, except for industries involving the national pillars such as grain, iron, salt, and weapons, the rest of the industries were gradually shrinking.
The market left by the contraction of the royal trading companies is naturally slowly swallowed up by private trading companies. With such a multi-pronged approach, the Daheng economy, which is in trouble, is naturally slowly recovering.
In addition, with the continued deepening of education pilot projects and reform strategies, the whole world situation seems to be very good.
But in fact, if you explore in depth, the current Daheng World is already in a state of cooking oil!
The development of commerce is due to the court's policy encouragement for commerce and the huge engineering disaster relief.
With policy assistance and infrastructure, we will drive commercial development, while providing relief to disaster victims, maintaining stability, and maintaining the foundation of the land and increasing the court's commercial tax revenue!
This is like a good thing that can have both fish and bear's paws.
But there is a fatal loophole.
That's the victim!
After nearly a year, the population statistics of Daheng have been completed. Except for most of the Jiangnan occupied by the pseudo-Ming, the population in Daheng is more than 78.95 million.
Nowadays, most of the north are almost under the influence of natural disasters. The only difference is perhaps whether the natural disaster is serious or not.
The people directly or indirectly affected by natural disasters account for nearly half of the total population of Daheng!
The reason why Daheng can still support such a terrifying disaster situation is that it has improved and effectively governed the system and provided disaster relief at all costs!
Of course, there is also the most important reform division!
This is the most important measure to rescue disasters and maintain stability.
However, if the land is divided into households, it is also necessary to plant it. It is better if the disaster is less affected. With the people having fields and hope, even a small-scale project relief strategy can barely maintain a stable place.
However, if the land was divided into severely affected areas, it was difficult to plant under years of drought. This was equivalent to the responsibility lying on the court.
Until now, according to statistics from the Ministry of Works, there are more than 3.5 million young and strong people participating in projects in various places!
Nearly one million young people are in extremely severely affected areas, such as Shaanxi, which has been drought for years and is difficult to plant most of the fields.
According to the disaster relief strategies currently formulated by the court, first of all, it is naturally engineering disaster relief, and temporary stability is maintained.
Second, it is to promote drought-tolerant crops such as corn and sweet potatoes on a large scale.
Even if these drought-tolerant crops can withstand limited drought, it is obvious that it can alleviate disasters in a place and at least ensure the stability of the people in a place.
As for places that cannot be alleviated, they have to rely on the court to continuously provide disaster relief, or to relocate the people in an orderly manner.
With such a strategy, you can imagine how great the pressure of disaster relief is!
Behind the more than 3.5 million young and strong people who participated in the project, there are at least three million affected families in need of relief, involving at least nearly ten million people!
According to the court's strategy of disaster relief and stability maintenance, projects in various places not only cannot exploit people's strength, but also need to treat well and even give preferential treatment to the young and strong people involved in the project!
In this way, the ultimate goal of maintaining stability can be achieved!
More than 3.5 million young and strong people involved. According to the current project disaster relief strategy of the imperial court, it is not only necessary to ensure that young and strong people participating in the project can eat enough, but also to keep surplus grains, which can maintain the stability of millions of families behind them, leaving time for the imperial court to promote drought-resistant crops on a large scale, or to relocate the people in the disaster area.
It is conceivable how terrifying the amount of money and food that such efforts will cost to provide disaster relief!
According to rough statistics from the Ministry of Revenue, if we want to continue to maintain this huge project disaster relief strategy, we will need to invest 10 million stones of grain in just the fourth year of Zhaowu! 8 million taels of silver!
Of course, according to the calculations of the Ministry of Revenue, as long as the autumn harvest is maintained, the autumn harvests can be harvested one after another in various places that can plant drought-resistant crops, and the people have fields and food, so the pressure will naturally be reduced a lot.
The money and food consumed will also be reduced a lot.
But no matter what, the emperor knew that this little ice age was far from over and the disaster had not stopped. In other words, Daheng would need to maintain high-consuming investment in disaster relief for many years to come!
Only in this era of these natural disasters can we maintain national stability!
It is obvious that under such natural disasters, the people affected are always the people at the bottom.
The upper and middle levels enjoy the commercial dividends brought by the times and eat a lot, but the lower levels are still struggling to eat in one bite in the midst of natural disasters!
And if this continues, resources and channels will naturally be monopolized by the middle and upper classes.
After all, even if so many ordinary people survive, they have to rely on the court to help them, so what else can they do?
Reading? Practicing martial arts?
Which one does not need money and food support?
And the upper-class powerful people will be affected by the disaster? Even if the middle-class landlords and gentry do not stare at the ground and dig up food, they can still catch the assets at home and find another way.
And the people...
According to the emperor's expectations, if the people have distributed land and the agricultural tax is not high, they will naturally become rich slowly. In addition, with the education system he is preparing to lay out, the people at the bottom will naturally have a way out.
But now, nearly half of the people in Daheng are affected by disasters. According to the natural disaster trends in future generations, more people may be affected by natural disasters in the future!
The gap between the rich and the poor will only grow bigger and bigger, and now most of the wealth in Daheng is related to the powerful and the wealthy. In other words, a new interest class is gradually taking shape!
However, the people at the bottom will only become more and more serious with the impact of natural disasters, and it is difficult for poor families to produce noble children!
When it is difficult for poor families to produce noble children, this new interest class will only become more and more stable, and in the end, it will be the class solidification!
Obviously, today's Daheng is prosperous, but it is like... cooking oil in the fire! Like... a castle in the sky!
While thinking, the solemn expression between the emperor's eyebrows became stronger and stronger.
The ultimate root is obviously the unstoppable natural disaster!
What he can do is to adopt various disaster relief measures as much as possible to reduce the affected people and improve the people's ability to resist disasters.
Of course, there is also the need to spread the education system!
If the lower class people are unable to support a scholar, then the court will help!
Take it from the people and then use it for the people!
Let the rich first and drive the rich later!
It is enough to form a benign and smooth channel, and the solidification of the class can also be enclosed in a small range.
And to do these things, the most important thing is to say money and food.
Without enough money and food, you will inevitably swallow the disadvantages of this difficult situation!
"Jiangnan..."
The emperor took a deep breath and the war that had been preparing for several months came to his mind again.
"The news has been heard from the navy. Zheng Zhilong has agreed and can help the navy to destroy the pseudo-Ming navy at any time."
The emperor slowly spoke: "In this battle, Xu Feng, you are the head coach and Yan Shun is the deputy head coach, pacify Jiangnan!"
"Zhao Wu led the Fourth Regiment to the Beijing Army, and to Juyongguan, Ruolin Dankhan went south, and you will lead the army to support and coordinate the war."
"I will obey the order!"
The two kings bowed immediately and then received the order!
The emperor nodded, turned slowly, and looked at the setting sun between the sky, and the voice sounded faintly: "There are many people with ulterior motives in Jiangnan. You must clean it up and not leave hidden dangers!"
Hearing this, Xu Feng and Zhao Wu couldn't help but feel trembling. The emperor didn't say such a thing as the tax case that swept the world!
The emperor didn't seem to notice the change in their expressions, and his voice sounded again: "Only by defeating and establishing a great position can Jiangnan be stable!"
"If the disaster continues today and the major strategies continue, the court will not be able to spend too much energy to pay attention to Jiangnan. You must grasp it well!"
"Don't worry, your Majesty, I will understand!"
Xu Feng immediately responded, even though he knew that soon after, his hands would be covered with endless blood again, without any hesitation.
The emperor was silent for a moment, and finally he slowly spoke: "Take good things from King Shou!"
After saying that, the emperor took a deep breath and waved his hand: "Okay, go down and prepare!"
"This battle has been delayed for too long!"
Chapter completed!