Why did Shi Qinming say that Zhuang Diaozhi today is different from usual? When Liu Peng saw Zhuang Diaozhi, he really understood it. He realized that Zhuang Diaozhi was wearing hemp and hung up today. When he saw Liu Peng, he knelt down. He was definitely coming to Liu Peng to cry in front of Qin Ting.

The six or seven people he brought were also wearing filial piety. Although they were all surprised that Liu Peng was so young, they knelt down to Liu Peng at the first time.

Seeing that they couldn't get up, Liu Peng knew that things must be in trouble. He quickly said, "Turn it up, we are all our own people, don't play this trick, let everyone get up, get up quickly and talk slowly, and have something to do!"

However, a group of people, including Zhuang Tiezhi, knelt on the ground and refused to get up. However, at this time, Zhuang Tiezhi finally spoke. He pointed to a young man who was still kneeling on the ground and said, "Mr. Liu, this is my brother Zhuang Qian."

Liu Peng was really shocked. This Zhuang Qian is not an ordinary person!

He was a Juren, the first Juren in the history of Dadian Zhuang. He passed the Juren in the forty years of Wanli and started the path of Dadian Zhuang's ascendance in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In another time and space, he was the first Jinshi of the Dadian Trading Man. In the 47th year of Wanli, Zhuang Qian passed the Jinshi and later became the Shaanxi Inspector Censor. He also made a famous film in a well-known time travel novel.

Even though Zhuang Qian has not passed the Jinshi exam yet, he is still a well-known figure in the prefectures and counties. Even if he cannot retire, he is enough to be rampant in the village. However, such a well-known student seed in Qingzhou Prefecture actually kneeled in front of him and couldn't get up. Therefore, Liu Peng hurried over and wanted to help Zhuang Qian up: "Brother, please get up, brother, are you going to kneel down and kill me!"

However, Zhuang Qian was very disrespectful to Liu Peng. He still knelt on the ground and couldn't get up. But he said directly: "Young Master Liu, Juzhou is famine, and life is in trouble. Please ask Mr. Liu to take action as soon as possible to save hundreds of thousands of people in Juzhou!"

Zhuang Qian had already cried out at this time, and the people who came to Juzhou with him also started to cry, crying and shouting, "Please beg Mr. Liu!"

"Please be kind to Mr. Liu!"

"Young Master Liu has mercy. Now Juzhou is extremely famine. Every day and night, people in the state die of cold and hunger. Please let Mr. Liu have mercy quickly!"

Liu Peng asked in surprise: "The disaster in Qingzhou has reached this point. Brother, please get up quickly. If you have something to do, we can talk slowly. I will definitely not sit idly by and watch the disaster in Juzhou spread!"

However, Zhuang Qian and others regarded Liu Peng as their life-saving straw. They surrounded Liu Peng and said, "Mr. Liu, don't talk slowly, I just want Mr. Liu to take action as soon as possible. Now there are at least dozens of people who are starving to death every day. Juzhou really can't wait!"

"Okay, okay! Get up, get up!" Liu Peng said to Zhuang Qian: "Get up, I have always regarded Tiao as brothers and sisters. There is Tiao, so don't worry about major issues!"

With Liu Peng's guarantee, the Juzhou Township Party finally stood up. Liu Peng immediately took Zhuang Qian's hand and asked about the disaster in Juzhou.

He really didn't expect that the disaster in Qingzhou Prefecture was so serious that it was so shocking.

He didn't know that during this severe drought in Shandong, if one of the three eastern prefectures was given a severely affected area, then how could Qingzhou Prefecture definitely take Juzhou as an example? According to records in the late Wanli year, in the 42nd year of Wanli, there were 74,539 people in Juzhou and 22,182 hectares of land. However, after this disaster, Dingkou reduced more than 43,000 people and land decreased by more than 10,000 hectares.

In other words, the population after the disaster in Juzhou was almost less than half of the 42nd year of Wanli. You can imagine what impact this great famine had on Juzhou.

The actual loss of the population of Juzhou is more than 40,000. After all, the official documents record that people should be sent to the public, and most of the facts of Dingkou are not registered. The population lost by the entire Juzhou Prefecture may reach more than 100,000 or even higher.

Although the population losses of more than 100,000 may include some fugitives, most of them are permanent losses, which is an unbearable price for Juzhou.

In addition to Qingzhou Prefecture, Qinglai Prefecture will each choose the most affected area. Laizhou Prefecture will inevitably be Changyi County, which is "unprecedented" and "people lead to eat each other", while Dengzhou Prefecture will choose Wendeng County.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Wendeng County, Yongle, had a registered population of more than 70,000. In the seventh year of Zhengde, the household registration was reduced, and only more than 30,000 remained. In the later years of Jiajing, the registered household registration was restored to more than 50,000. In the 44th year of Wanli, the people of Wendeng County were killed and injured and fled, and the villages were in ruins. The population decreased by half, and only 6,230 households were 251,127, which was only one-third of the early Ming Dynasty and half of the Jiajing Dynasty. Considering the population growth during the Wanli period, the actual population loss should also be close to two-thirds.

It is precisely because these severely affected areas have lost half or even two-thirds of the population, so modern population scholars in another time and space estimate that Shandong has about 14.82 million people in this severe drought, and in this severe drought, it has lost 6-7 million people, which means half of the population.

However, Liu Peng was born in this time and space. Since Changyi became Liu Peng's territory, Liu Peng naturally transported tens of thousands of stones of rice beans. Therefore, Changyi County is now a place with relatively mild disasters in the entire Laizhou Prefecture.

Although Wendeng County is not the basic territory of the Longkou Gang, Wendeng is a county under Ninghaizhou. Ninghaizhou was the first local government to accept bank votes to pay taxes. Therefore, Ninghaizhou had long had a semicolon of Beihai Money House, so Ninghaizhou received full support from Longkou during this famine. Wendeng County, a county under Ninghaizhou, naturally received nearly 10,000 stones of rice beans.

In addition, the military and civilians of Wendeng County also borrowed nearly 10,000 stones of rice beans from Beihai Money House in the name of individuals, clans or local areas. Although the disaster in Wendeng County is still quite serious, it is no different from another time and space, and there is no "death, injury, escape, and villages are in ruins".

However, the situation in Qingzhou Prefecture is the most serious. Although Liu Peng imported tens of thousands of stones of rice beans into Qingzhou Prefecture through Zhucheng and Gaomi, there is naturally no problem with this rice bean to help a large county. However, although it is not a drop in the bucket to help Qingzhou, the big prefecture is not a drop in the bucket, most of the time it is only to do its best.

However, before Xing Da took action, Qingzhou Prefecture could at least get a steady stream of rice and beans from Jiaozhou Bay, greatly alleviating the disaster in the mansion. However, after Xing Da took action, the grain routes in both Xiaoqinghe and Zhucheng were completely cut off by the Hengwang Mansion. Now the only thing that can enter Qingzhou Prefecture is the relief money and grain from the province.

However, the province's relief money and food are pitifully weak. Although the historical books praise the current Qingzhou prefect, only losing two-thirds of the population from Juzhou alone can tell how capable the prefect is.

Historical books praise this prefect for "issuing hundreds of fines and purging them in Nanjun to save them, and their survival is a million." Anyone with some common sense will know that "issuing hundreds of fines" and "issuing millions of fines" are not the same as "issuing millions of fines". Even if the rice price is low, hundreds of taels of silver can be exchanged for at most a few hundred stones of rice beans, and it is absolutely impossible for "issuing millions of survival".

In fact, the relief of Qingzhou Prefecture is now only concerned with prioritizing the protection of Yidu County, Qingzhou Prefecture, and remote prefectures and counties like Juzhou have become victims. The serious problems that were originally very serious were naturally doubled.

Liu Peng immediately asked, "Didn't the mansion bring you relief rice beans for Juzhou?"

"There are more than 70,000 people in Juzhou who are in charge. In fact, there are not 300,000 or 200,000 people. The 180 stone rice beans are not enough to even plug the gap between the teeth. Moreover, the 180 stone rice beans are pulled out in batches!"

Zhuang Qian said angrily: "Juzhou is now suffering from creatures, almost to the point where people are rushing to eat each other. Even if there are not fifty people who die every day, there are thirty people. And now is not the time for a real hunger!"

Why is it said that this is not the time of real famine? Although Zhuang Qian was a high school scholar, he was a real poor person. When he was a child, he was a child selling cakes. By chance and the support of the clan, he had the opportunity to pass the imperial examination. Therefore, he knew the situation of the farmer best.

For China in an agricultural society, the most difficult time of the year is the spring famine after spring. The grain stored in the previous year has been eaten completely, and winter wheat must wait until May of the next year to be launched. Zhuang Qian always couldn't eat enough when he encountered the spring famine in these three or four months. Sometimes he could only drink two or three sips of porridge all day.

This is the case in normal years, let alone the disaster year, let alone the disaster in Juzhou this year. Many Juzhou farmers cannot even grow grain and are forced to give up the cultivation of winter crops, so next year's local winter wheat will only have a maximum harvest of four or five cents.

As the disaster in Juzhou became more and more serious, Zhuang Qian said sincerely: "Mr. Liu, let me be honest, our Dadian merchants can still live a good life now, but our Dadian merchants have lived in Juzhou for five generations, for a whole five generations! Since our bankers have lived in Juzhou for more than a hundred years and it is the water and soil of Juzhou that have raised us, we naturally have a responsibility to Juzhou!"

In this unprecedented disaster, the Dadian Mansion Mansion was still living a good life. After all, the Xincheng King Da Sima Sected the village to remind the Dadian Mansion Mansion, so the Dadian Mansion Mansion Mansion was prepared in advance for the disaster.

The incident of Zhuang Dianzhi's resignation to Liu Peng from Longkou has also caused a lot of controversy among the dealer. At first, the dealer disagreed with this. Some even thought Zhuang Dianzhi was a self-destructive future, but they unanimously believed that this was a wonderful move, which gave the dealer a glimmer of vitality in this disaster.

Although Zhuang Diaozhi was in charge of the Locust Elimination Site in Denglai and did not return to Juzhou, what he could do was not only give the banker a hundred and eighty stones. He not only sent a team of experts who were proficient in locusts and control locusts to the banker, but also sent a well-drawing team to Juzhou through the relationship between Nie Chuan and the Zhang family in Zhucheng to help the banker dig five big wells.

It is precisely because of the support of Zhuang Dian and the mutual support of Zhuang clans that the life of Dadian merchants is not very comfortable, but they can barely live, but the entire Juzhou Prefecture cannot live.
Chapter completed!