The next day, the 29th day of the fifth lunar month in Hongwu, it was sunny.
Prince Zhu Biao passed away on April 25th. Zhu Di received the news on the 28th and set out on the 29th.
After eleven days, we arrived in the capital on May 10th.
On the third day in the capital, Zhu Ying met Zhu Yuanzhang for the first time.
It's been half a month now.
After Zhu Ying made a routine inspection of the teahouse, she headed in the direction of Prince Yan's Mansion.
He has been a little strange recently. Zhu Gaochi has never looked for him in the past half month.
According to previous habits, Zhu Gaochi would come not only every day, but at most every two or three days.
He has also been preparing how to persuade Zhu Gaochi to find a way to go to the military battle station.
As a result, no one's shadow disappeared, which was very embarrassing.
In desperation, I had no choice but to come to the door myself.
At this time, in the Daming Palace, Fengtian Hall.
The sound of the eunuchs and eunuchs retreating was also heard.
With a gloomy face, Zhu Yuanzhang left from the back door of Fengtian Hall and walked towards Huagai Hall.
"Call the six ministers here and call them all." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Liu He, the eunuch who was in charge of the ceremony.
"I obey the decree."
Liu He immediately left quickly to convey the order.
In the corner where Zhu Yuanzhang did not see, Zhu Yunwen watched Grandpa Huang leave directly, and went back towards Chunhe Hall with some sadness.
Without Zhu Yuanzhang's orders, even though Zhu Yunwen was now the emperor's grandson, it didn't mean that he could just follow him to discuss government affairs.
You can go to the morning court together and listen.
But after going to court, without Zhu Yuanzhang's permission, he could only return to the palace alone in silence and grief.
In the canopy palace.
It's almost noon now, just past eleven o'clock.
When the Six Ministers arrived, Guanglusi had already prepared breakfast and sent it over.
It is said that there are six ministers, but in fact there are only five at present.
Among them, the previous Minister of Rites was passed away by Zhu Yuanzhang, and no one has yet filled it, so there is a temporary vacancy here.
Five of them are:
Shen Shu, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Ru Yu, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhao Mian, the Minister of the Ministry of Husbandry, Zhan Hui, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Yang Jing, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments.
"Everyone, sit down and finish your breakfast first, and then I'll have a nice chat with you."
Zhu Yuanzhang said in a somewhat unkind tone.
He wasn't targeting anyone, it was just that yesterday's good mood was ruined.
Originally, the relationship with his eldest grandson was getting closer and closer, but something happened that made Zhu Yuanzhang very upset when he went to court today.
Flood problem.
The Yellow River is the mother river of ancient and modern China, giving birth to five thousand years of splendid civilization.
However, the Yellow River has also brought great disasters since ancient times, and successive dynasties have been working hard to comprehensively control the Yellow River.
On February 8 this year, the Yellow River burst at Yangwu.
After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River underwent a major management project, which had relatively little impact.
But in fact, the number of people affected by the disaster is definitely over one million.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that land rent within the area affected by the Yellow River floods be exempted.
But for many disaster victims, regardless of the issue of land rent, they simply cannot afford to eat.
These victims have no land, and the only way they can think of to survive is to flee.
Generally speaking, the direction in which disaster victims flee is the capital.
Starting from Henan to the capital of Nanjing, the straight-line distance is about thousands of miles.
The roads in ancient times were obviously not that easy to walk. They were winding and winding, so the victims had to walk.
But you are not eligible to use the inn.
Ordinary people's journey is about thirty or forty miles a day.
These victims fleeing the famine were on their way hungry, and occasionally had to beg for food, so they were naturally even slower.
After the floods and famine broke out, it took nearly three months for the first batch of victims to finally arrive near the capital.
As the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang obviously wanted to find a way to solve the famine problem.
After the arrival of this first batch, there will naturally be a large number of victims behind.
The problem is that even if Zhu Yuanzhang is the emperor, he cannot keep them every day and must let them go back.
After the floods are controlled, they still need to continue farming.
The top priority is how to stabilize the victims.
According to reports from various places, the total number of victims of this disaster was approximately 200,000.
What is the concept of two hundred thousand disaster victims?
The current standing military strength of the entire Ming Dynasty is just over one million, and the number of disaster victims has directly reached one-fifth of the entire Ming Dynasty's military strength.
Of course, if we ignore it, probably not even half of the 200,000 disaster victims will be able to reach the capital.
Zhu Yuanzhang was once a refugee and felt this deeply.
Since the Yuan Dynasty, the Little Ice Age has come, and various disasters have occurred.
Zhu Yuanzhang also promulgated an effective way to deal with disasters.
The first is to report disasters and avoid disasters.
In areas affected by the disaster, local officials first reported to the court to give the court a rough estimate of the number of people affected and the situation.
First of all, the land rent must be exempted, and the local area must first carry out disaster relief.
Then there is the relocation of disaster victims and food adjustments to stabilize the rise in food prices in the disaster areas.
The movement of disaster victims is also under the control of the government, and is gradually diverted during this journey.
A certain amount of food will be given every day.
If you really want to go without eating anything, not even a few people can persist for hundreds of miles, let alone thousands of miles.
Then there is the compensation and resettlement, such as burial, land and a series of other measures.
Scenes of tens of thousands of people wandering around are generally rare to see, and only happen at the end of the dynasty.
As soon as this situation occurs, they immediately attack the government, start an uprising, and directly rebel.
When a major famine occurs, the number of victims that local governments can accept is also very limited.
Generally speaking, after the local government takes in these disaster victims with families and families, they will use work-for-relief methods to provide local resettlement.
After the disaster is completely over, the government will provide financial support and send them back to their place of residence.
After breakfast.
Zhu Yuanzhang then asked directly: "Tell us how to resettle the victims of this disaster."
"The autumn harvest has not yet arrived, and there is not much food in grain depots in various places. As the disaster expands, food prices are soaring."
"You all come to discuss this."
The ministers lowered their heads and looked at each other, but they were all slightly silent, and no one spoke.
They knew that what His Majesty asked was certainly not a temporary issue of dealing with the victims.
But how to digest this disaster.
The Ming Dynasty had no shortage of money.
This sentence may sound a bit unbelievable, but given the current situation, it is indeed true.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had mastered the Ming Dynasty's treasure banknotes, could just print as much silver as he wanted.
Although at present, Ming Dynasty banknotes have begun to depreciate in value, their purchasing power is still very strong.
The key is not about money, but about food.
No matter how much money you have, it is useless if you cannot buy food.
The capital's grain reserves are not very large. Grain merchants from all over the country are hoarding their goods. You don't even have to look at them to know that the prices of grain outside have risen to sky-high prices.
Regarding these grain merchants, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill them all.
However, there are so many large and small grain merchants that massacre people without guilt will only make the situation more fragmented and cause a big mess.
After a period of silence, the ministers spoke one after another.
The chatter lasted for most of an hour, but it was still the same as before, which made Zhu Yuanzhang irritated, and finally drove several ministers out directly.
At this time, Jiang Wei came in and reported: "Your Majesty, Liu Rixin arrived in the capital last night."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up and he suddenly thought of a good idea.
Then he told Jiang Wei: "Summon Liu Rixin into the palace immediately."