A large number of officials in Tianjin were arrested and imprisoned, and all government offices came to a standstill.
Wei Shiming was the only cabinet minister who followed Emperor Su He and was the head of the civil service.
He did his duty and was temporarily appointed governor of Hebei by Emperor Su He.
Responsible for handling various government affairs and restoring the operation of various yamen.
Wei Shiming has been extremely busy these days. He has basically restored the operation of various yamen in Tianjin. Then he came to Emperor Su He's study to report on the relevant situation.
When Su He saw Wei Shiming coming in, he immediately ordered Zhou Fangzhi to give him a seat.
He saw that Wei Shiming's face was full of fatigue, it must have been a very hard time.
Su He asked Yang Zhengfeng to immediately go to the northwest to take office, which directly led to the shutdown of various government offices in Tianjin.
With such a big event happening in Tianjin, Su He didn't trust Yang Zhengfeng very much.
Only by transferring Yang Zhengfeng as soon as possible can we truly find out whether Yang Zhengfeng was involved in this case.
Su He consoled him: "Wei Aiqing has worked hard these days. I have notified the capital and selected some officials from the officials who came to Beijing to report on their duties.
Wang Yanhu, the prefect of Nanning, was promoted to the governor of Hebei, and Zhou Yang, the director of Hanzhong Industrial Zone, was promoted to the prefect of Tianjin.
If there is a shortage of relevant officials in various yamen in Tianjin, the Imperial College will give priority to dispatching this year's Jinshi to fill the relevant vacancies.
For the remaining vacancies, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will also mobilize officials from surrounding provinces to come to Tianjin to fill the vacancies.
Tomorrow Wang Yanhu will take some officials to Tianjin by train and take over Wei Aiqing's duties."
Wei Shiming smiled when he heard Emperor Su He's arrangement.
As the cabinet minister in charge of industry, Emperor Su He had to accompany Emperor Su He when he visited Tangshan Mansion, the center of heavy industry.
Now it is distracted by the chores here in Tianjin, and other officials have taken over. This is really good news.
Fortunately, it was the end of the year, and a large number of officials who were about to be promoted came to the capital to report on their duties, so that Emperor Su He had enough candidates to choose the governor of Hebei so quickly.
Wei Shiming said happily: "It's great that your Majesty has sent officials to take over my work.
In the past few days, I have appointed a small number of officials and promoted some officials to maintain the situation in Tianjin.
There was no major turmoil in Tianjin, and people's lives were not affected.
They applauded the large number of corrupt officials who were imprisoned.
After detailed investigation, I found that Governor Yang Zhengfeng was indeed dismissed.
He is an old-school official who trusts his master very much, but he did not expect his master to betray him."
After Wei Shiming finished speaking, he summarized the work during this period and handed it to Emperor Su He through Zhou Fangzhi.
Su He briefly looked through the work content reported by Wei Shiming, and he was very satisfied.
Wei Shiming was very capable at work. He straightened out the messy officialdom in a short time.
"Wei Aiqing, you did a very good job." Su He praised.
Wei Shiming has outstanding abilities. It is a better choice for him to stay in Tianjin.
But Su He did not do this. Wei Shiming was a cabinet minister and could temporarily act as governor for a few days. If he stayed in the governor's position for a long time, he would be demoted.
Su He selected Wang Yanhu, the prefect of Nanning, as the governor of Hebei from among many candidates.
His main consideration was that Wang Yanhu was good at preventing and dealing with plagues.
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As soon as Wang Yanhu arrived in Nanning Prefecture, a serious plague broke out there due to war and floods.
After he took office, he quickly solved the plague in Nanning Prefecture.
At this time, there were many epidemics in Guangdong and Guangxi. Guangxi, including the capital Guilin, suffered from plague many times, but Nanning Prefecture was immune.
Su He learned from his past life memories that there would be a great plague outbreak in northern China.
In previous lives, the fall of the Ming Dynasty's capital and the defeat of Li Zicheng were closely related to the Great Plague.
The plague caused nearly half of the Ming and Dashun armies to become infected and lose their combat effectiveness.
The plague pandemic was closely related to the war's disruption of official order.
Now that order has been restored in various parts of the Great China Dynasty, the plague will not be as destructive as it was in the late Ming Dynasty.
But this is the plague, a disease that can easily kill tens of millions of people.
Su He will never take it lightly. He has been preparing various methods to reduce the harm of the plague.
The government strongly advocated raising cats, which was Suhe's insignificant policy to deal with the plague.
The commander of the Suzaku Guard, the great eunuch Zhou Fangzhi, saw that Emperor Su He was distracted, and reminded him:
"Your Majesty, you are going to Tianjin Wharf next. The Governor of Water Transport, Shi Xi, reported some time ago that grain transport ships from Nanyang will arrive at Tianjin Wharf today."
When Su He heard Zhou Fangzhi's reminder, he came back to his senses.
In this era, the plague had a great impact, but as long as the order in the court was maintained, it would not cause too many casualties.
In the feudal era, there was a unique way to deal with plague.
Send troops to seal off the infected towns. If all the infected people die, the plague will end.
Some cruel rulers would even directly choose to massacre the city and kill the host, so that the disease would have no chance of survival.
Su He said with a smile: "Wei Aiqing and I went to the pier to have a look. I just thought about something and got a little distracted."
Wei Shiming just laughed from the sidelines. Emperor Su He was distracted while communicating with him. It was nothing serious.
On the contrary, it is a big deal.
Su He took Wei Shiming and others by carriage to Tianjin Pier.
Shi Xi, the Governor of Water Transport, dressed in a second-grade official uniform, respectfully greeted Emperor Su He and his party.
As the director of the Grain Reserve Bureau, he slowly accumulated merits and was promoted from a fourth-rank official to the second-rank water transport headquarters.
As one of the first batch of officials to participate in the recruitment hall, he was promoted slowly except for those who died and went to jail.
The governor of water transportation in the Great China Dynasty managed the grain transportation work in various provinces across the country.
One of the most important grain transportation routes is the South-to-North Grain Diversion.
After Shi Xi saluted, he said happily: "Your Majesty, today is the first batch of grain shipped from Nanyang to Dahua, with a total of three million tons of grain.
More than half of them were seized old grain.
Because the price of food was too low, those Westerners collected a large amount of food, but much of it was not shipped back to their home countries.
The transportation of so much grain can effectively alleviate the current food shortage in the northern region."
Every time Su He heard the news, he was very happy.
The Great China Dynasty conquered the Nanyang region and has now achieved good results.
The first batch of grain was shipped to Dahua itself. Su He thought this was very worthwhile.
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When there is a food shortage, no matter how rich people are, they cannot buy food.
Now is the Little Ice Age. Even with the two high-yield crops of corn and sweet potatoes, most areas of the Great China Dynasty can only solve hunger.
Nowadays, few people die from hunger, but most rural people have not solved the problem of food and clothing.
Su He read reports from various places and found that during slack seasons, many rural families only eat one meal to save food.
He arranged for a group of university students to go to rural areas in the north to investigate local conditions.
The results of these college student surveys surprised Su He.
Natural disasters continue, which is an important reason for the reduction in grain production.
Last year there was a severe drought in parts of Henan and Shandong, resulting in almost no winter wheat and summer corn harvests.
The imperial court mobilized a large amount of grain and grass from the two lakes to solve the disaster there.
Such natural disasters cannot be solved by building water conservancy facilities.
The second important reason for the food shortage investigated by college students turned out to be that Suhe conquered the world too quickly.
Su He worked hard to destroy the Qian Ming Dynasty and conquer the world in a short time.
A large number of people were not affected by the war.
At the end of the dynasty, 30% to 50% of the population was generally wiped out.
During the period from the Anshi Rebellion to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, 70 to 80% of the population was even wiped out.
A large number of people were lost, which solved the land conflict and also solved the hunger.
This laid the foundation for the prosperous new dynasty.
In the process of Suhe's struggle for the world, less than 10% of the population was lost.
A large number of people survived, but then encountered the Little Ice Age, and natural disasters occurred frequently.
The shortage of food in various parts of the imperial court is already an ongoing crisis.
The way to deal with a crisis is usually to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
The population will not decrease on a large scale, and cutting expenditures is not feasible.
Open source is the only way.
The method of open source Su He chose was to seize wealthy land elsewhere.
In northern China, affected by the Little Ice Age, grain production decreased on a large scale.
The southern region is less affected, and regions further south, such as Southeast Asia, are not significantly affected.
The Great China Dynasty's seizure of Nanyang was only the first step.
Suhe has set its sights on other regions in Southeast Asia. When the northwest and north are stabilized, the Dahua Dynasty will expand to the south.
The main expansion direction of the Dahua Dynasty has always been the south, where a large amount of food can be obtained.
But Suhe chose to pacify the north first. The impact of the Little Glacier climate will determine their life and death for the nomads in the Mongolian grasslands.
Every time during this period, the grassland tribes would change dynasties and eventually form an overlord.
The overlords of the grasslands in the previous life were Jiannu, but in this life Jiannu have been eliminated.
Once the southward strategy is determined, it will occupy most of the resources of the Great China Dynasty.
At this time, the nomadic tribes in the north were rising, and the Great China Dynasty was unable to mobilize too many troops in a short period of time. It was very likely that the nomadic forces in the north would become bigger.
In order to prevent this from happening, Su He first solved the northern region of Great China and controlled the grassland in the hands of the Great China Dynasty.
The northern region can provide a large amount of meat and minerals, and the profits are huge.
Dahua has an absolute advantage in force, and Su He is confident that the northern region will be resolved as soon as possible.
Shi Xi took Su He and his party to visit Tianjin Wharf.
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This is a specialized cargo terminal with a large number of steam cranes.
Su He asked: "How is the situation when water transportation is changed to sea transportation?"
The food near the capital could not feed the capital's population when the weather was good, let alone during the Little Ice Age when natural disasters occurred frequently.
Grain must be transported from other places, water transportation is the lowest cost mode of transportation, and there is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
As a major artery, the Grand Canal formed a water transport system for transporting grain from the southeastern region to the capital.
Nearly one million people depend on water transportation for their survival.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, many enlightened officials had discovered that water transportation was too expensive and far inferior to sea transportation.
But at that time, the Ming Dynasty simply could not afford the price of rebellion by millions of water transport practitioners.
After the establishment of Dahua, the sea was no longer closed and it vigorously developed maritime trade.
It is the consensus of all officials that sea transportation replaces water transportation through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
The dispatch of grain by sea is still called water transportation, but it no longer specifically refers to the transportation of grain and grass through the Grand Canal.
In the past, people related to water transportation were allocated land or absorbed by factories.
The Great China Dynasty possesses absolute force and is not afraid of rebellion by these rabble-rousers.
When Shi Xi heard Su He's question, he immediately replied: "Your Majesty, the shipping volume is huge. A large ship can transport several thousand to tens of thousands of tons of grain.
The loss on the road is minimal.
For water transportation through the Grand Canal, the normal loss is about half, and the transportation volume is far less than that of sea transportation.
During the Ming Dynasty, the grain loss during water transportation was as high as 20% to 30%, and these were all corrupted by relevant officials.
Shipping speed is also very fast, especially today's paddle steamers, which can sail slowly on the sea even if the wind is against them.
The Governor's Yamen of Water Transport has established a loss standard for each ship. As long as the ship does not sink in the sea, if the loss standard is exceeded, the captain will be punished.
Land transportation consumes the most food. Even if it is transported by truck, 20 to 30% of the food will be lost.
If it is transported to remote areas, 60 to 70% of the food will be consumed on the way."
Just as Shi Xi finished speaking, he heard a harsh air whistle sound.
Su He saw a huge sea ship, emitting raging black smoke, heading towards the shore.
There are eight large steel paddle wheels on each side of the ship, and the ship has five large masts supporting huge sails.
This is the current mainstream transport ship of the Dahua Dynasty, a five-mast paddle steamer.
It combines steam engine paddle wheel technology and sail technology.
This kind of ship has many shortcomings. It moves slowly and has poor maneuverability. In particular, it is very difficult to turn.
It can only be used as a civilian cargo ship, not a warship.
Its biggest advantage is the large amount of cargo it can carry.
The huge cargo ship docked at the pier, and the various steam cranes on the pier immediately started working.
The cargo loading of Dahua Dynasty's transport ships is relatively standard.
Suhe learned from later generations of containers. Iron boxes were too expensive, and they were all covered with huge wooden boxes.
When the hook of the steam crane hooks into the wooden box, the wooden box weighing several tons can be lifted and moved to the truck parked on the dock.
A carriage pulled by four horses can pull the weight of a wooden box.
Su He randomly called a carriage and asked someone to open the wooden box of the carriage.
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Inside the wooden box are neatly stacked sacks.
The guard opened a sack of hemp and found yellow-orange rice grains inside.
Shi Xi introduced from the side: "Your Majesty, these are rice shipped from Nanyang region, a total of three million tons of rice.
Two million tons of them were allocated to the northern provinces, and one million tons were shipped to the northeastern region.
When the northeastern region can be self-sufficient in grain production next year, there will be no need to transfer grain from there, and it is even expected to feed back to the Guannei region."
Su He looked at the busy grain trucks, which were the people's living food.
"Zhou Fangzhi, for today's lunch, everyone will try food from Nanyang."
Shi Xi reminded: "Your Majesty, Nanyang rice is harvested three or four times a year and does not receive sufficient nutrients. It is not very delicious."
Su He waved his hand and said: "What is this? When you are hungry, if you have something to eat, it is a delicious food.
I have eaten rice bran and wild vegetables, let alone rice. No matter how unpalatable it is, rice bran is also unpalatable."
Su He had rice shipped from Nanyang for lunch.
Its taste is indeed not as good as the rice from the Lianghu area.
But when you eat it, you will feel full in your stomach. This is a life-saving food for many people.
Su He looked at the freight carriages coming in and out of the dock.
He thought of the loss of food transported by land and was heartbroken.
The construction of railways connecting major cities still needs to be continued.
