Since the establishment of Zhao Bing's secretary, with the departure of several elderly people, Ma Duanlin and Chen Shishi have become the main force. Although they work very hard and work seriously, they lack grassroots work experience and cannot make useful suggestions on some issues. Therefore, he has always lacked a head of civil affairs.

Zhang Song was a grassroots manager of the people and joining the army, county magistrate, county magistrate, prefectural provocation, magistrate, and even prefectural magistrate. He took more than ten years to work step by step, and has rich experience in grassroots work. If something had not happened in Haozhou, he would be able to enter Beijing after the three-year term expired. Therefore, Zhao Bing wanted him to be in charge of civil affairs, and of course this also needed further tests. Now he could only serve as a clerk who did odd jobs.

Zhang Song said goodbye, and Zhao Bing certainly did not forget to ask him to offer the book of saving wasteland. After reading it carefully, he couldn't help but feel it. This book not only involves measures to save the wasteland and the responsibilities of officials at all levels, but also provides a deep discussion on the harm of the disaster. It should be said that it is an insightful, profound and operational work.

In the first chapter of the book, Dong Qi raised the disaster relief and famine to a major event related to the survival and decline of the country. He believed that natural disasters such as floods, droughts, frosts, and locusts all existed throughout the ages and were difficult to avoid. If there is no way to save the desolate, the people will be displaced and hunger will be everywhere. In the event of major disasters, the whole country should be given relief. If the rent is not charged and the classes are even more severe, people will be confused and there will be unpredictable disasters.

He attributed the reasons for the peasant uprising in the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the ineffective relief and supervision of the taxes. Dong Qi pointed out that since ancient times, the outbreak of chaos has always begun with famine. If the ruler spares no financial resources and devotes himself to the relief of disaster victims, the society can be stabilized. From this, he infers that although the social unrest crisis arose from famine, the key lies in the ruling people who are in charge of worrying about the people.

According to Zhao Bing's understanding, his words have already involved the essence of things - natural disasters are not terrible, what is terrible is that they are not prepared to deal with natural disasters. Dong Qi actually explained the relationship between "natural disasters" and "man-made disasters", and proposed the decisive role of "personnel" when natural disasters come. From the appearance of famine, he revealed that the ruler's "worry to the people" and does not care about the people's worries, and exploits the people all the work, which is the real root of the chaos.

Secondly, Dong Qi advocated "benevolent government" to sympathize with the people, implemented "benevolent government" to reduce disasters, and emphasized the idea of ​​"benevolent people", which is the "people-oriented" idea we advocate today. He believed that the ancients' strategies for saving wasteland that were beneficial to the people should be inherited and adopted. In ancient times, the rescue of wasteland was generally based on lenient government and poor taxes. When the people were in trouble and money, implementing wasteland government should be sympathetic to the people.

It is emphasized that rulers should pay attention to implementing "benevolent government" in normal times. If the people cannot rest and recuperate, they will encounter a major disaster, even if they immigrate grain, according to Mencius, they will "do not know the root". They advocate hiding wealth from the people, and criticize that they will be kept privately in Shaofu from the Han Dynasty, and will be exclusively for royal enjoyment, so that wealth will be used exclusively for the government. Once the people sue for disaster, the people in the world do not know how to provide pensions. The people in the world are poor but the emperor is rich.

In addition, Dong Qi asked to clarify the duties of rescuing famines that officials at all levels must perform, and emphasized that the lord should be the master, the priest should be the master, the supervisor should be the master, and the county magistrate should be the master, and each has its own duties.

The ruler should do it, that is, the supreme ruler not only has disaster relief measures such as scattering and sacrificing the people to sacrifice and sacrificing economy, improving the government affairs, etc.; there are eight articles in total, taking it as their own responsibility to save the famine, worrying about the beginning of social crisis, stating a request to slow down the expropriation of capital, submitting countermeasures to disperse money and sending relief measures, etc., and raising the consequences of disaster relief to the high level of understanding of the "national crisis"; the supervisory authority should do it ten articles, mainly responsible for coordinating, supervising prefectures to rescue famines, implementing disaster relief strategies, adapting whether there are or not, and picking officials.

The prefect should carry out a total of 16 articles, mainly to examine the warehousing and relief for the warehousing, declare the ban on the ban, and to provide relief to refugees; the county magistrate should carry out a total of 20 articles, and to prevent droughts from being slow, to provide relief, to encourage wealthy households to hoard, to lure wealthy people to promote traffickers, etc. It also proposed that the policy of rescuing famines should be preliminarily discussed when the guards took office. Regardless of the distance, they should take office for one month to submit the strategy of governing the county and towns under the prefecture to prepare for wasteland relief. After review, the court ordered the implementation and not violated.

This book is clearly organized, and it covers everything from measures to responsibilities, which can be regarded as a treasure book for saving wasteland in this era. However, it did not attract the attention of the court, nor was it implemented. Dong Qi was not commended for this and his career ended with a county magistrate, but the reason was thought-provoking.

While Zhao Bing admired him, he studied it from another perspective and found that Dong Qi was actually a person who was "not conscious of the current affairs", which offended the entire officialdom. Once the measures he formulated were implemented seriously and strictly implemented, it would be equivalent to cutting off the financial path of many people and infringing on the interests of the entire bureaucratic group.

In the article, Dong Qi exposed and criticized the despicable problems of the imperial court as a warning, and criticized the despicable problems of the despicable policies in a targeted manner for more than 40 places, and more than 20 kinds of them. For example, officials from counties and counties are dedicated to urging financial resources and are not allowed to report disasters; officials from prefectures and counties are suppressed and not allowed to report disasters, and officials from disasters are afraid that the despicable and the despicable are not allowed to report disasters; officials from the despicable and the despicable are afraid that the despicable and the despicable officials will spend money to entertain them when they come, so they will randomly admit the harvest to avoid spending money, regardless of the suffering of the disaster victims in the future, pointing out the disadvantages of local officials' taboos.

For example, when placing households, when placing relief, the strong can get it, but the weak can get it; when nearby people are easy to get it, and when remote people are remote; more people are close to the clerks, and fewer vulnerable groups such as widows, widows, widows, orphans, etc. are available; when placing relief, officials ordered them to verify, allowing hungry people to prepare their own food, and go to the relief office to gather "shows". They often go empty-handed on the snow and criticize the households and send relief benefits. Dong Qi also criticized the release of relief inspections too slowly, mixed with sand and stones, sent envoys to worry about the people, collect tips in excess of reviewing households, and untimely rewards to those who donate money and rice to help relief, and local officials cannot properly resettle refugees, and then put forward targeted improvement measures.

From the perspective of official governance, Dong Qi made demands on local officials to implement famine policies, and used famine policies as an important indicator for evaluating officials' political achievements to facilitate disaster relief and famine relief, which would inevitably arouse resistance from top to bottom in the officialdom. In addition, the Song Dynasty did not suppress land annexation, and there were many poor households, and middle-class families could not provide relief. Once floods and droughts, the people were helpless and had to be displaced or starved. He proposed to implement a policy of exemption that was beneficial to the poor households, which offended the entire gentry group.

From this we can see that Zhao Bing feels that there are not no capable ministers in this world, and there is no good solution. The key is whether good policies can be implemented. What is more important is whether the ruler has the idea of ​​loving the people, whether he is willing to do things for the people, and whether he dares to fight against interest groups. This is what he should do at the moment, but it is not just about the specific methods and methods of disaster relief.

Zhao Bing thought through the story, but said in the court that this book is good. Those who attended the meeting could sit in their current position. Who is not a clear person? After the meeting, he immediately ordered people to read it through, and then immediately printed it. He used it as a blueprint to guide disaster relief and disaster relief, and formulated relevant policies and measures. Therefore, a newly emerging locust plague was extinguished before the locusts formed, and no large-scale disasters were formed...

May is coming in a blink of an eye, and the weather is getting hotter. At this time, news came from the Mongolian Yuan that Tiemur had escorted the coffin of the Jinjin left Dadu and went to Shangdu, and He Weixian led the Zuoyi Guard to escort it. This marked the end of the dispute over the Khan throne of the Mongolian Yuan. People's minds have settled, and the border areas between the two countries are becoming increasingly stable, but trade exchanges are becoming more and more prosperous.

However, at this time, Zhao Bing did not relax his combat preparations. Although the imperial guards along the border had retreated and the defense was handed over to the border troops of various prefectures, they were still intensifying training. At the same time, the Privy Council and the Ministry of War would also discuss the strategies of re-emerging the Northern Expedition with senior generals and formulate combat plans and emergency plans.

In addition to assisting the emperor in handling official duties, the secretary-general also replaced some of the responsibilities of the Hanlin Academy and had to provide advice for the emperor. Recently, the Privy Council reported the strategy of fighting against the Mongolian and Yuan, and a group of clerks started a discussion. Zhao Bing, who was passing by, thought what they said was interesting, so he sat down to listen.

The Privy Council formulated two combat plans. One was to launch an attack north with Sichuan and Sichuan as the base, seize Shaanxi and Gansu, and plan to cut off the path to the north of the Mongolian Yuan, so as to win the fighter jets for the main force of the Mongolian Yuan in the Central Plains. The other plan was to concentrate troops in the Huaibei region, launch an attack northward, attack Henan and Hebei, seize Dadu directly, and collect Yanyun region to realize the strategy of expelling the Mongolian Yuan from the Central Plains.

In response to these two plans, the Secretary-General was also divided into two factions. The two military generals, led by Ni Liang and Xu Wuhan, advocated advancing westward. They thought that seizing Shaanxi and Gansu and occupying the southern desert would destroy the foundation of the Mongolian Yuan and cut off their way back. This would prevent the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan from rushing north, and still use the southern desert grasslands as the base to invade south, resulting in constant border troubles and having to station a large number of troops in the border areas.

The civil servants led by Chen Shishi supported the eastward advance plan. They thought that the transportation of Sichuan and Sichuan was inconvenient, and they could not support the army's combat in their current state, and they still needed to mobilize food, pay and supplies from Jiangnan and Huguang. The labor expedition brought great economic pressure to the court. Moreover, the dispatch of troops from Sichuan and Sichuan was an attack on the back, and the troops were difficult to deploy, and once they failed, they suffered heavy losses.

But now our dynasty has occupied the line of Yingtian Prefecture, and it is convenient for the canal to mobilize troops and transport materials, and it is conducive to the deployment of the army. It can break through a little and drive straight in, and can attack and encircle in different ways. It can also use the navy to land from the sea and cooperate in combat. Moreover, there are no dangerous passes along the way north, and it is of great significance to attack the majority, which is equivalent to destroying the Mongol Yuan regime and avenging the country to destroy it.
Chapter completed!