165 Can Human Rights Eat?
Wen Tiren said this and remembered the emperor's previous decision, he immediately added: "There is a lot of food shortage, and now it can only be allocated from the capital. However, according to Your Majesty's plan, the censor can be sent to supervise the local area, and the prefectures around Yongping will be given first, and the prefectures will be replenished before they are close to the prefectures, and finally the capital will return it."
After pausing, Wen Tiren thought about it carefully and shook his head and said, "But there is definitely not enough food in the capital. The capital is the foundation, and food must be indispensable and chaos cannot be caused!"
When Hu Guang heard this, he clapped his hands and decided to say, "Then let the prefectures in the south of the capital also provide food in turn, sending out censors, Dongchang and Jinyiwei to supervise!"
When it comes to the personnel sent out supervision, Wen Tiren said he was the censor, and Hu Guang believed in the factory guard more. However, he could not only use the factory guard for everything, so Wen Tiren said that the censor did not rule out, so he should use it, so as not to do things and have a good meal.
If the emperor said this, it would be impossible for others to have any objections, so the matter was decided.
There is a solution to the food matter, and there is another thing that has not been resolved. Wen Tiren thought, and reminded: "Your Majesty, what should I do with this labor force? If the civil servants are recruited and the labor force is sent, the current situation will probably cause greater disaster!"
A very heavy burden for the people of Ming Dynasty was labor service. If you have to send extra labor service after the war disaster, it is very likely that the people who could only barely survive would join the bankruptcy ranks, and even their families were destroyed. This is by no means alarmist, but a very high probability of fact.
Hu Guang thought a little, and immediately remembered something and immediately instructed: "Aren't there about 3,000 prisoners in the Battle of Changli? They all took them to Yongping, and they didn't have to worry about the damage. Just use this group of labor to build houses. There is no requirement to build them well for the time being, so that the people can have a place to shelter from the wind and rain!"
He originally thought of using cement to help the people of Yongping rebuild their homes, but then he thought that cement has just been tested and mass production of the rebuilding blast furnace has not yet begun. There must be a difference between the middle and the experiment. The output at the beginning will definitely not meet the demand.
Another reason is that cement is a new thing, and how to use this cement skillfully also has a process. If you want to use it immediately, it will take time to explore the process. With the current financial resources of the court, it is really impossible to afford it!
Therefore, Hu Guangti did not mention cement. Let the prisoners build it in the simplest and most familiar way first. When the opportunity is ripe in the future, then use cement to rebuild it.
After listening to the emperor's plan, Wen Tiren was the first to speak out and said in agreement: "What Your Majesty said is that this catastrophe was brought by those prisoners. Now letting them rebuild Yongping is to give them a chance to atone for their sins. I would like to approve them!"
"I'm going to agree!" Zhang Zhifa made a statement.
Of course, others would not have any objections and agreed. As for the human rights of those prisoners? What is human rights? Can they be eaten?
If the labor force to rebuild Yongping was just these prisoners, it would not be enough. However, with these prisoners as the main force, so many old and weak can do some effort, it can be considered as if they can be defeated.
This matter has been discussed. Hu Guang still has a lot of things in his mind. When he was about to mention it again, he saw Bi Zi, the Minister of Revenue, bowing and saying: "Your Majesty, how should the strategy of food control in the capital be distributed? Please make clear!"
There was only one general issue when he was assigned by the emperor, and he didn't know what to do. He had been holding it in his heart for a long time, and when he saw that he had the chance, he immediately asked.
When Hu Guang heard this, he thought that this matter was one of the things he would discuss next. Since it was proposed, let’s talk about it first.
So he immediately instructed: "The capital's grain distribution should be based on the head, but we should distinguish between adults and children and ration them at the minimum amount. The purpose now is to not starve people to death, but we should also make as much food as possible."
Speaking of this, Hu Guang stopped and said, "Anyone who has surplus grain shall not be given food. If there is food and comes to take advantage of it, he will be punished ten times more!"
When Bi Ziyan heard this, he smiled bitterly in his heart and asked, "Your Majesty, this family with surplus food may not be distinguished. What should I do? Should I ask the factory guards to provide a list?"
Wen Tiren heard this and interrupted, "Your Majesty, this is probably extremely difficult to grasp. Even if the list is provided by the factory guards, it may cause chaos."
He couldn't directly point out that if someone in the factory guards made a fuss about this matter and deceived his superiors and subordinates, even if the Dongchang and Jinyiwei acted together and supervised each other, as long as something happened, the dissatisfied person would take the opportunity to cause trouble. Wen Tiren couldn't understand such a thing very well.
Hu Guang heard what Wen Tiren said, and it was really difficult to operate after thinking about it carefully, so he knew that he was a little simple.
He thought carefully for a while, then said carefully: "You see, this is good. Anyone who receives the rations should be given a specific name and then when the disaster passes, he will be able to repay the labor force, and he cannot impersonate the name or let others do it for him."
If you do this, those who are well-known and have surplus food at home will probably not be able to let go of this posture and sweat like ordinary people for a little bit of food.
But maybe these families sent their servants out to collect food in order to cause trouble or save their remaining family.
After Hu Guang finished speaking, Bi Ziyan had no objection this time. After all, there was no precedent before, which was free to allocate grain, and this was very operational for him. He immediately responded: "Your Majesty is wise, this is much better than returning grain in the future."
Those rich families knew that if they could repay the food in the future, they might be able to collect the food this time and cause trouble for the court.
Wen Tiren listened at the side and then added: "When receiving the food, except for serious illness, paralysis and inability to come, the rest of the people must receive it themselves."
After hearing this, Hu Guang nodded and praised him for his goodness. Seeing that no one added any more, he reminded Bi Ziyan: "Take this opportunity, the Ministry of Revenue should do a good job in demographic statistics. If you are not a registered person, you must register and not miss it this time."
During the Ming Dynasty, there were many hidden households. Even in later generations, there were hidden households, but it was not for tax evasion, but for rebirth. The reasons were different.
At this time, it is also a good thing to continue the grain distribution, which is to be considered as a relatively accurate count of the population. For the court, the more people who count the number of people in the city, the more taxes they will naturally be, which is a good thing.
After Hu Guang finished speaking, seeing that no one added to this matter, he became serious and looked at the ministers below and said, "The war in the capital will basically end. All the government offices of the court should count the war damage. The situation of military disasters in various places must be fully grasped, rewarded for merit, punished for crimes, and provide disaster relief for disasters!"
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