Although he understood that Xu Honggang's main purpose was to lead himself away from Suzhou, Yang Xin rushed to Xuzhou alone...

Xu Honggang is not exaggerating.

At this time, Xuzhou City had been completely swallowed by the surging Yellow River.

Standing on the Kuishan Tower, Yang Xin looked around and looked like a few mountains. There were only a few mountains that looked like an isolated island. The torrents that surged from the breach of Kuishan Dike easily blew the southeast. It was originally the city wall at the water gate, and then flooded the entire Xuzhou city. Even if four days had passed, Yang Xin could still see the dead bodies piled up at the foot of the mountain. The breach of Kuishan Dike was washed into a gap hundreds of meters wide. The water of the Yellow River continued to gush out, forming a diffuse death fan shape from Xuzhou to Hongze Lake.

"Several big rivers along the way broke and were washed away by the influx of the Yellow River."

Lu Zhaoxiong sighed.

He was the governor of the grain transport industry and was directly responsible. He arrived in Xuzhou by boat the day before yesterday. Xuzhou was destroyed. Some of the escaped households, local officials, and victims were mainly crowded on the hill outside the south gate.

That is, Houston Mountain.

But at this time it was called Nanshan.

"The flood broke the dike at night, and it collapsed from the southeast water gate to the city wall. The people in the city were caught off guard. I still don't know how many people were submerged under the flood in the city. Everything in Xuzhou was gone, leaving only the victims who took refuge in the mountains.

However, most of the canal transport troops in Xuzhou escaped.

Before, Lao I led the Jiangbei Army to attack the Red Turban Army and pulled them over, and three thousand canal transport troops were stationed in Taixing.

They escaped.

Governor Yang, Lao Huang, did have some conflicts with Governor Yang, but at this moment, the only way to ask the Governor to save the hundreds of thousands of people, not only Xuzhou, but also from Pizhou to Suzhou and even from Sizhou to Sizhou, everything was gone. The countryside was leveled, the city was washed away, the crops were flooded, and the grain was poured into turbid flow. What's more, this break could not be blocked, and the victims in this area could not farm again.

This year, the Ming Dynasty was really full of disasters. Both the north and south were shaken. There were heavy floods in the south of the Yangtze River. A few days ago, the floods from Baoding to Shandong were shaken again. Now the floods in the south of the Yangtze River have not yet passed, and Huaibei is over again.

God won’t bless me to the Ming Dynasty!”

He said.

"Didn't Yang cause natural disaster?"

Yang Xin said.

"We all know those things."

Lu Zhaoxiong said with a wry smile.

"Can the canal transportation be maintained?"

Yang Xin asked.

“It’s OK for the time being.”

Lu Zhaoxiong said.

It would be much easier to maintain the grain transportation. Now the grain prices in the north are almost unable to be controlled. If the grain transportation here is cut off, it will really jump up in an instant.

"It is unrealistic to block the breach. This breach cannot be blocked until winter, but it is useless to block it. The silt in the Yellow River will be deposited in the entire flooded area next. It is estimated that even if the water is gone, the city of Xuzhou will be buried in silt. Xuzhou City can only be rebuilt. The canal transportation must be maintained here, and the victims cannot leave, but the victims in other flooded areas try to migrate as much as possible. The land of silt silted in the silt cannot grow crops, and they cannot live any longer even without water."

Yang Xin said.

This is the biggest harm to the Yellow River.

After the Yellow River breaks, a large area of ​​sediment will be formed in the flooded area of ​​river water. This is not a soil with enough humus. Just watch the old movie ***. It is all fine sand, just like a desert.

All the fertile fields were buried below.

It is impossible for ordinary people to dig up these mud and sand that may be several meters thick.

Therefore, the Yellow River flooding areas will become chaotic areas of poverty and hunger without exception. Originally, these places were all the core areas of the bright area, because the fertile fields were silted under the silt layer after flooding again and again. These silt layers can only be used to grow sorghum. Since this is the case, what are the people who are destined to not be able to support their own people? Not to mention that the drought here will also be a severely affected area. At that time, the area was completely out of stock, and the entire area was so hungry that people were so silenced. Why not move them out?

All sent to Taiwan.

"Migration, this is not that simple."

Lu Zhaoxiong shook his head and said.

"It's very simple. If you ask the counties to immediately count the people affected by the disaster, especially those whose homes have been completely destroyed. This matter does not need to be controlled by the court. I will arrange for people to hire them and hire them to reclaim land. As long as the people I hire sign and sign and approve, I will pay them wages immediately, but they must go together. Before sending them to the reclaim land and completing the resettlement, my Yang family will always support them."

Yang Xin said.

He is preparing to move to North Korea.

Taiwan cannot.

The climate in Taiwan is much different from that here. The mortality rate of immigrants in this area was too high in the past, but it doesn’t matter to go to North Korea. They will be as suitable as in their own hometown.

This model is very good. Just try your best to brag about the benefits of North Korea to the victims.

Besides, the area around Quanzhou is really good.

However, this will take a long time. After all, the war in Korea must be resolved. However, before this, all the victims can be sent to Fengyang Reclamation Area. In addition, canned factories must be built along the Yangtze River, and even in batches to Zhoushan. The canned factories there have been started. Then, they will dig iron ore, because they must smel the iron themselves, and the consumption of tin tin cans is increasing. It is impossible not to smel iron by themselves. The iron ore in Ma'anshan also needs to be developed. This mine alone requires a large number of workers. This may not be the turn to reclaim wasteland in North Korea.

Lu Zhaoxiong didn't say much.

This is indeed much easier to deal with. The population of this area is far less than that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Currently, there are only four or five counties that have suffered disasters. Although there are more than one million people in total, the court cannot do without relief. After all, the canal transportation is maintained here.

All he was afraid of was the rebellion of hungry people and robbed the grain transported to the north.

But it was easy for Yang Xin to take the hungry people away.

Yang Xin took away all the victims who were most affected by the disaster by employing workers. The rest of the disaster was slightly less severe. The court would provide some silver to help them. After all, there was a canal here, so the supply of grain would not be short of. The shortage was just a purchase of silver. As long as there was silver, the food on the canal would be delivered continuously.

“How much food is there in Huai’an?”

Yang Xin asked suddenly.

"Huai'an is full of grain, and this one cannot be moved without an imperial edict. As for the private merchants, there is not much food, almost all of them are transported to Jiangnan."

Lu Zhaoxiong said vigilantly.

Grain must not be moved.

However, there is indeed not much grain available in Huai'an. After all, there is a disaster area in Jiangnan, where half of the Ming Dynasty's grain is sucked in like a whirlpool. The population of that disaster area is no less than ten million. The official population of Suzhou Prefecture alone exceeds two million. In fact, these populations are in Suzhou City, and the population of the entire Suzhou Prefecture is probably no less than five million. In addition, Changzhou and Songjiang, which are also affected by the disaster, and even some Zhenjiang, Huzhou and Jiaxing, the population of the disaster is absolutely tens of millions. These people can easily absorb the food stored around them for meals.

The Huainan area originally mainly supplies grain to Jiangnan.

It is really difficult to have too much excess food in Huai'an.

"I will get you a hundred thousand stones, prepare me a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and I will borrow a hundred thousand stones for you."

Yang Xin said.

Who should I borrow it from?

Of course it's his old friend!

Yan Shenggong was four hundred miles away, so he was the grain warehouse of course he had come to him. Although Yan Shenggong was scolded by Shilin for disappearing over the years, the wealth of the Kong family could be increasing day by day. Tianqi rewarded him from time to time. For example, in the last Six Arts Assessment, Tianqi rewarded him with a python robe.

Poor Kong Yinzhi had no idea that he had never escaped Yang Xin's claws even though he had been separated by four hundred miles.

As for whether he agrees...

He will definitely agree, he is Governor Yang's best friend.

Then Yang Xin left Xuzhou.

However, he did not return to Suzhou, but went directly to his Fengyang reclamation area, and summoned 5,000 militia here, driving a small boat to the north to pick up the victims of Huaibei. For the next half month, he was doing this, constantly bringing the refugees who had signed contracts with him from the hills where they were hiding from floods to Fengyang, and some of them were half hungry. However, at this time, Fengyang had not much surplus grain. Although the summer harvest here was completed and the harvest was good, all the surplus grain sold to him was transferred to Jiangnan.

Fortunately, this is easy to solve, just buy it from Huguang.

This is under the responsibility of Wang Wanqing.

She took this opportunity to try to ease the relationship with her father.

Of course, it's not OK to go home.

If she dared to go home, she would probably never come out again in her life. Now her reputation has been destroyed, and the jokes that have been circulated outside like a demon woman, including the various jokes between her and Governor Yang, have also been widely circulated in folk tabloids.

However, many people also regard her as their benefactor.

After all, she and Long Xiaozu were responsible for earthquake relief in the entire Jiangbei.

Anyway, she can't get married.

When she got home, her father forced her to put it into a nunnery or Taoist temple. It is likely that it was the former. Her grandfather was Li Zhi's disciple and also believed in Buddhism. Her family has a close relationship with the masters of Huangzhou Prefecture, so she believes that a nunnery has left her a place.

Just when Yang Xin hired the victims, Tianqi also issued an order to issue a 100,000 taels of salt tax nearby to use these salt taxes to help the victims of Xuzhou and surrounding areas. As for Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Yang Xin will be responsible for all the disaster relief funds, and he will be temporarily paid forward.

As for the rescue of North Korea...

Is North Korea important or Gangnam important?

Response, when the situation in the two disaster areas stabilizes before going to go, Li Neng will continue to hold on with him first, Tianqi is not stupid, North Korea is nothing to do with his life or death, but in the chaos in Jiangnan or Xuzhou, it will make the capital hungry.

At this time, a war in Liaodong had begun.

Sun Chuanting, the Liaodong general, personally led the central army with Cao Wenzhao, Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Shenwu as the core to attack Sarhu, Zu Dashou's army as the south route to Yahu Pass, Kaiyuan General Zhao Rujiao's army and Yehe cavalry as the north route to Guangshun Pass, and the troops divided into three groups to launch an attack on Hetuara.
Chapter completed!