This is the seventh year since Zhu Youjian was reborn, and it is also a year that allows him to breathe a little easier.

The original sixth year of Chongzhen can be said to be the year when the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty took a turn for the worse.

In February, Kong Youde, who had caused great turmoil in Shandong, asked to surrender to the slaves and sent the slave thieves really effective artillery and Hongyi cannon. Since then, the slave thieves have artillery that can destroy the Ming Dynasty's solid city defenses.

! Even in the field, Hongyi cannons can be used to bombard the Ming Dynasty's infantry array - because Houjin has the advantage of cavalry, they can restrict the movements of the Ming army's infantry array. Of course, the infantry array that is difficult to move cannot

There is a way to avoid the Hongyi cannon. Therefore, the Hongyi cannon of the Hou Jin Dynasty can play a greater role in field battles, but the Hongyi cannon of the Ming army is of little use to the Hou Jin army which has the advantage of cavalry...

In June of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Hou Jin attacked Lushun under the leadership of Kong Youde. With the Hongyi cannon and more than a hundred warships brought by Kong Youde to Hou Jin, the Ming Dynasty's defense in the Lushunkou area completely collapsed. Huang Long, the commander-in-chief,

The brave generals Li Weiluan, Xiang Zuolin, Fan Hualong, Zhang Dalu, Shang Keyi and others were all killed in battle.

Different from the situation when the Jin army briefly occupied Lushun twice in the first year of Tianqi and the fifth year after Tianqi, the fall of Lushunkou this time brought an end to the 12-year Ming and Jin Dynasty Battle of Lushun.

After losing Lushunkou, a stronghold that seriously threatened the southern coastline of Liaoning, the Pidao Ming army was on its last legs, and its final collapse was only a matter of time!

However, the impact of Kong Youde's gold drop and the fall of Lushunkou on the Ming Dynasty was far from being compared with the plague that broke out in Taiyuan, Shanxi, at the junction of Datong and Datong in the first half of the sixth year of Chongzhen. Although in the sixth year of Chongzhen,

The plague did not cause much damage, but it was just the beginning. In the next eleven years, more Ming armies were defeated by the plague than were wiped out by Hou Jin and rogue bandits combined...

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In the autumn of the sixth year of Chongzhen, migratory locusts began to appear again in northern Shaanxi!

As a result, the four major natural disasters of flood, drought, locust and epidemic came together.

But even so, compared to the tenth year of Chongzhen and beyond, the sixth year of Chongzhen was actually a good year!

And in this life, Zhu Youjian finally had a fate-defying change - truly defying fate, relying on the efforts of Tmall Division, he suppressed the natural disaster and plague in Shanxi!

The four major natural disasters of floods, drought, locusts, and epidemics may be missing one or the other!

In the upcoming seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian's memory mainly includes droughts in Shanxi and Shaanxi, locust plagues raging everywhere, and floods caused by the Yellow River burst in Peixian County.

There is nothing you can do about drought - you can't call for wind and rain!

The locust plague can be dealt with, but the effect is limited. But the Yellow River burst cannot happen again... As early as the spring of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian ordered Prime Minister Zhang Guowei, the censor of Hedaodu, to govern Luo Sigong in Huaibei.

Huaidong Commander-in-Chief Luo Yangxing and others excavated more than 200 miles of the Yellow River's passage into the sea. It should have been completed by June of the seventh year of Chongzhen, right? Zhu Youjian urged this project urgently, but the money and authority given were not small.

, it can be said that we need money to give money, people to give people, and power to be delegated.

They all assigned Luo Sigong the task of regulating Huaibei - his son was the commander-in-chief, and he was the governor. The father and son controlled the military and administration of Huaibei! Moreover, they were both fierce men who had served as commanders of the Jinyi Guards! If this task could be done,

If they smash it, then their heads will have to be chopped off!

With this channel into the sea, the Yellow River can be discharged into the sea when it floods. In this way, Huaibei should be able to get a rare bumper harvest.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian smiled and closed the imperial edict that had just been approved for the censor of Hedao and the generals of Huaibei and Huaidong, exhaled, and then looked at several pavilions in Yuxi Palace.

The old man finally set his sights on Xiong Wencan, who had just joined the cabinet.

Xiong Wencan came to replace Xu Guangqi - Xu Guangqi fell seriously ill in the summer of the sixth year of Chongzhen and went home to recuperate. So Zhu Youjian transferred Xiong Wencan, who was then the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, to the court to replace Xu Guangqi in the engineering department.

This Xiong Wencan did not take up the post alone, but came to Beijing with his supervisor and hundreds of Chinese and Western craftsmen hired from Foshan, Macau and other places.

Of course, Chinese and Western craftsmen were hired for the Xuanfu Artillery Factory and Gun Factory. Zhu Youjian hoped to expand the output of these two arsenals and produce turtledove guns in Xuanfu.

After Xiong Wencan's supervisors came to Beijing, they were all transferred into the Royal Navy - not as sailors, but as marines to attack Luzon.

The reason why Guangdong troops were used to attack Luzon was because the people in Guangdong and Guangxi were somewhat resistant to malaria and were accustomed to hot weather.

In addition, many of Xiong Wencan's supervisors have fire gun soldiers, so it is easier to practice "Taizu's Phalanx".

The person who replaced Xiong Wencan to oversee Guangdong and Guangxi was Zhang Yiming, the former Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue. This high-ranking official who had been influenced by Zhu Youjianguang when he was governor of Datong was now used as a confidant of the emperor.

This time I went to Guangdong and Guangxi with the task of recruiting and training new armies in Guangdong and Guangxi. Zhu Youjian remembered that in his previous life, he used the Northern Army and the Japanese Army in the plague-ridden areas of the south. As a result, he suffered a lot of losses due to the epidemic.

, and later the Guangdong and Guangxi troops were used, and the situation improved.

In this generation, Chongzhen had experience, so he used troops from Guangdong and Guangxi from the beginning. He also mobilized the cat eunuchs from Tmall Division to go south with Zhang Yiming, specifically looking for ways to restrain the southern epidemic... fighting in the hot and humid land of Nanyang,

Epidemic prevention is combat effectiveness!

"Xiong Ministry of Industry," Zhu Youjian said to Xiong Wencan in a serious tone, "I order you to inspect the Yellow River construction sites in eastern Henan and Huaibei after spring... This year is a critical year for the Yellow River to change its course into the sea.

Before the summer rainy season comes, all projects must be completed, and the water of the Yellow River must be diverted into the sea. This is a project related to the national movement. If there are any mistakes, I will cut off your status and behead Zhang Guowei, Luo Sigong, and Luo Yangxing. I say

We’ll do it!”

How could Xiong Wencan dare to be careless? He quickly replied: "I will work hard to live up to His Majesty's expectations!"

Zhu Youjian's face was gloomy and he nodded slightly. In a blink of an eye, it has been seven years since Chongzhen... and the disaster of the Ming Dynasty is getting closer and closer.

If the water from the Yellow River can be introduced into the East China Sea this year, then Huaibei will definitely be ripe in eight or nine years, and it will be able to collect and store 10 to 20 million stones.

Not to mention 40 million acres of fertile farmland. Even if the weather is dry and cold, you can still grow wheat.

And from ten to seventeen years, although there was a severe drought, Huaibei was still relatively humid, and there was always some harvest...compared to the previous life, this was an "extra wheat"!

"Mr. Bi Ge," Zhu Youjian called Bi Ziyan's name again, "Nanyang and Xiangyang warehouses will be completed this year, so why don't you make a trip there?"

Bi Ziyan immediately went out and said: "I must go and take a good look at my younger brother, and never let him miss your majesty's important event."

The brother-in-law he was talking about was Bi Zisu, who was now appointed as the Imperial Envoy and Governor of the Granary. Among other things, he was in charge of the two "life-saving warehouses" in Nanyang and Xiangyang.

Zhu Youjian knew that Bi Zisu was an upright official with empty pockets and a cruel temperament. In his previous life, he did not comfort the Liao soldiers who could not get their due pay. Later, after the mutiny subsided, he was so ashamed that he went on a hunger strike and died. Such an official manages a "life-saving warehouse"

"Of course it was perfect, so Zhu Youjian did not ask him to supervise the army or govern the place, but instead gave him the life-saving food of the Ming Dynasty.

"My soldier," Zhu Youjian called Zhang Fengyi, Secretary of the Ministry of War, "last year there were floods in Shaanxi, and this year there is drought and locust plague in Shaanxi. There will definitely be a spring famine this spring. I can't go to Shaanxi in person, so I'll trouble you to go there.

When I am the governor of Shaanxi and the governor of the three sides... I don’t want to provide disaster relief. Shaanxi has been plagued by disasters since Tianqi. It has never had a good year. It is better to bring out the victims as much as possible to eat!
Chapter completed!