I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 413 Disaster Relief
In the Mongolian dictionary, if you don't have the strength, what's the point of being a Khan? You're just a puppet!
Barsborot also wanted to call on several Mongolian tribes with whom he had good relations to retake Hetao, but without strength, he had no appeal, and these Mongolian tribes were no match for the Ming army in Hetao, so they were even more reluctant to send troops.
The Ming army's offensive on Hetao directly forced the new Khan Barsborot to retire in disgrace, and the Mongolian tribes that had just been unified showed signs of conflict again.

Therefore, after the Ming army occupied Hetao, they did not encounter any decent counterattack and firmly occupied the Hetao area.

In late March, Zhu Houxuan collected information through various channels that the Mongolian tribes were about to start conflicts, and decisively decided to increase investment to take advantage of this strategic opportunity to completely occupy Hetao.

Therefore, the Royal Group began to use various means to transport supplies and immigrants to Hetao, and at the same time, took back the young and strong people and children among the more than 5 Mongolian captives to the Ming Dynasty, a total of more than people, and these people would become the new targets of transformation.

The immigrants and prisoners prepared previously were obviously not enough. After all, Hetao was a newly occupied area, and not many of the dismissed personnel from the Beijing camp were willing to go to Hetao.

Therefore, Zhu Houxuan had to start the plan to move the garrisons northward ahead of schedule.

The Zhenxi Guard and Zhenwu Guard of Taiyuan Prefecture, and the Andong Zhongtun Guard of Datong, were originally the second line of defense for the Ming border army. However, with the Battle of Hetao, the front line was pushed forward and they directly became the rear. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao gave an order to move these three guards to the north.

Of course, the conditions offered were also extremely generous. Each household was granted 20 mu of land, silver coins as departure money before departure, and one cow, two horses, and sheep after arrival. The land granted and the land reclaimed later were exempted from all taxes for ten years. If they were willing to leave the military household, they could also become civilian households.
There are more than 20,000 households in these three garrisons. The Royal Group has been operating in Shanxi Province for two or three years. Its propaganda power is also very strong. It quickly conveyed the policy to every military household and told them about the situation in Hetao. The Royal Group's reputation became very high after the Salt War. The military households trusted the words of the Royal Group's propagandists. Ordinary military households were overjoyed when they heard these conditions and were quickly mobilized.
The only unhappy ones are the officers of these garrisons. What will happen to their land without these military households? The crops on the land have only been planted for a few months. They can't do without someone to take care of them. They can't farm the land themselves.
However, it should still be in time to recruit a group of tenant farmers from the surrounding counties and cities.
Zhu Houxuan did not return the original land of these three garrisons to the state because it was not suitable to do so at this point in time. Hetao was undergoing immigration and reclamation, and the capital was clearing out the Beijing camp. There were three or four hundred garrisons in the Ming Dynasty. If the land of these three garrisons was taken back and other garrisons were to cause trouble, it would be difficult to handle at this critical juncture.
So Zhu Houxuan just endured it for the time being.

"Your Highness, the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture has an urgent report. Kaifeng Prefecture has suffered a severe drought this year, which is a once-in-a-century event. Yuzhou, Xiangcheng County, Xuzhou, and Changge County have been hit the hardest. There is no harvest and the people are displaced. I request Your Highness to exempt the taxes in these four places this year." Mao Ji stepped out and made the request.

"Give him a reduction!" Zhu Houxuan said.

After Zhu Houzhao returned to Beijing this time, he behaved even more unbridled. He had covered up the last time and took back Zhu Houchun's power as regent, and then let Zhu Houchun continue to handle state affairs.

This time, no one is trying to cover it up, and no one is talking about taking back the power of regent, so Zhu Houxuan is still discussing state affairs with ministers in the Qianqing Palace.

"Kaifeng is the heart of the Central Plains. These four places have always been densely populated. I don't know how many people have been displaced and left homeless by the disaster!" Jiang Mian shook his head and sighed, his face showing sorrow.
Zhu Houxuan looked at the memorial from the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture in front of him. The description of the current situation of the disaster victims in the memorial was very miserable, and he couldn't help but feel sympathetic.
Then he suddenly thought of something, and asked, "My Lords, I have read this memorial. This is a drought that occurs only once in a hundred years. Is it not enough for the court to just reduce taxes? Do you have any plans for relief?"

Relief measures?

The Minister of Revenue Shi Jie stepped out and said, "If Your Highness wants to provide relief to the victims, you can only open the granaries to release grain and encourage the local wealthy families to provide porridge."

"What do you mean by opening the granaries and releasing grain?" "Every state and county has reserve granaries, agricultural granaries, and community granaries, which can release grain to the victims in times of disaster," Shi Jie continued.

"How much grain can be stored in the reserve warehouses, agricultural warehouses, and community warehouses in these four counties? Moreover, it is not uncommon for local officials to embezzle the reserve warehouses, agricultural warehouses, and community warehouses."

"." Shi Jie was somewhat speechless.
"Moreover, simply opening warehouses to release grain and distributing porridge is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution!" Zhu Houxun lamented.

The ministers present exchanged glances with each other, not understanding what Zhu Houxuan was up to and why he suddenly became interested in disaster relief.
Kaifeng Prefecture, Yuzhou, Huashi Village.

Wang Ze squatted in the shadow under the eaves with a numb face. The hot weather made the shadow of the eaves unable to bring him any coolness. Sweat continued to pour out of his body, and his tattered clothes were soon wet. He unconsciously held a piece of weed in his hand, and the root of the weed had been crushed to pieces by his fingers at some point.

There were several other farmers dressed similarly to him, squatting in the shadow of the house. They all had sad faces, were thin, and had pale faces.
The door of the house was opened, and Wang Ze stood up quickly. A man dressed as a farmer walked out of the house. He shook his head at the person outside, and then left in a hurry.
Wang Ze noticed that the man was holding a small bag.
"Wang Ze, it's your turn." A wealthy middle-aged man waved to Wang Ze.

"Uncle Wang, I'm here." Wang Ze said with a nod and a bow.

The man called Uncle Wang frowned and walked into the house.
"Buying food or selling land? Hurry up, there are many people behind us." Uncle Wang said impatiently.

"I want to borrow some food," Wang Ze said hesitantly.

"Borrow?" Uncle Wang snorted at Wang Ze, "Don't you see what the situation is like this year? Still want to borrow? There's only buying and selling! You can stand here because of your surname Wang, and you're still taking advantage of me and still want to borrow?"

Wang Ze swallowed hard. He was extremely thirsty from the sun, but he didn't dare to ask for water.
"What's the buy price? What's the sell price?"

"If you buy, I'll pay you one stone and five taels of silver. If you sell, I'll pay you two taels of silver per mu of your land," Uncle Wang said leisurely.

(End of this chapter)