First Prince of Ming Dynasty

After returning to the county office, he saw his father with his hands behind his back facing the direction of the execution in a daze. Zhu Biao could hear the screams and the people's exclamation and panic when he walked here. quite large.

Zhu Yuanzhang said suddenly: "Are there many people watching the excitement?"

After saluting, Zhu Biao replied: "There are a lot of them, and there are more and more of them. I'm afraid because I'm afraid, but I want to see the excitement."

"How is Liu Ying?"

Zhu Biao thought for a while and replied: "Liu Ying is also considered a smart person, and she has no complaints. It's just that I heard that I went to bed very late last night."

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed leisurely: "Okay, it's good to be smart. People are valuable because they have self-knowledge. This is good for the Liu family and for our Zhu family. It will be even better if we can keep our wealth in the future."

Zhu Biao echoed, "I will definitely do what my father wishes."

Zhu Biao stood in the courtyard and looked back in that direction, and then followed Zhu Yuanzhang into the house. The noisy voice was much quieter. After sitting down, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "The magistrate of Fengyang reported to the court that he moved people to cultivate. I am very enthusiastic. I don’t know whether to encourage or suppress the land reclamation in Linshan and the paddy fields around the lake. I asked the imperial court for a regulation. This involves our hometown. Here it is."

Zhu Biao raised his brows. He didn't expect Fengyang to be saturated so quickly, but it was reasonable. After all, the people had been migrating there since the founding of the country, and with the large number of officials who were sentenced to open up wasteland, Fengyang can now farm. The land has indeed been developed almost.

But if you think about it carefully, the relocation is probably not because the existing land is not enough for farming. After all, the population is still sparse.

After all, Zhu Biao personally resettled the relocation of Fengyang residents. The land reclamation area he planned at the beginning was enough to ensure that each household would have enough food and clothing for five or six children, not to mention that the plan had been completed earlier than expected.

Zhu Biao took the memorial and made sure that it was not because of someone's large-scale annexation of the relocated land before he said: "What I mean is that the Fengyang government should be restrained. Although the land reclamation at any cost can increase a lot of cultivated land in the short term, it will not Such a large-scale reclamation of mountains and forests is not a good thing, not to mention that the paddy fields around the lake are not conducive to water conservancy cycle, once it affects the Huaihe River, it will be a big trouble."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect this. He still thought that it was a great thing for the people to work so hard, and he planned to let the local government encourage it. However, he also knew that his son had extraordinary knowledge in this area, not to mention that Fengyang Emperor Township was in his heart. Very important, so I frowned and thought again.

Seeing this, Zhu Biao persuaded him that protecting the natural environment is a long-established tradition in China. After all, we advocate the unity of nature and man, but it is only a kind of sentiment after all. For the imperial court, people's cultivation is more important than everything else.

But the price of destroying nature is real. Zhu Biao knows that the Huagu Ci that will be spread in the future "Speaking of Fengyang, Tao Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place. Since Emperor Zhu was born, ten years have passed. There will be a nine-year famine!"

Although I don't know whether it was sung by the migrants or by the folks in Fengyang, the irony of this ballad to Zhu Yuanzhang is very clear, and Zhu Biao naturally doesn't want to see this word reappear in this life to impale his father. Heart.

When he relocated, he had thought carefully about why Fengyang would be in a state of drought for nine years in the next ten years. First of all, Fengyang is hilly and barren, and there are frequent famines. It is farting to say that it was originally a good place. .

And my father really loves his hometown deeply. After the founding of the country, the first post road to be repaired was from Nanjing to Fengyang. Twenty stations were repaired. The so-called road is built first if you want to get rich. Fengyang has a road that can go directly to the capital. The meaning is self-evident.

There was no problem with the emigration after that. The people of Fengyang fled in all directions after the troubled times and disaster years. Most of them died outside. It is impossible for the remaining people to rebuild Fengyang. Restoring people's livelihood is beneficial to Fengyang.

Afterwards, two founding marquises were dispatched to supervise the repair of Fengyang Water Conservancy, and various other measures beneficial to people's livelihood were planned and implemented one by one by Li Shanchang, Yang Xian and others.

Some time ago, Zhu Biao followed his father back to his hometown to worship the imperial mausoleum. Fengyang is far more prosperous and prosperous than what he saw when he worshiped the ancestors for the son of King Wu. There are many restaurants like clouds, a sign of prosperity.

At that time, he was curious about how Fengyang was dilapidated, but now he has seen some clues. A large number of mountains and forests have been reclaimed without a plan, large-scale blocking of rivers and lakes and rice fields, and continuous soil erosion will definitely affect the ecology of the lower reaches of the Huaihe River. Environment, if these are put in other places, that's all. After all, the environment has self-healing ability.

It's just that the environment in Fengyang is quite harsh, so it will naturally lose the ability to resist famines. Of course, these will not lead to ten-year famines, but what if Hongze Lake is added?

At this time, Zhu Biao had turned to the end of Fengyang Zhifu’s memorial. Fengyang Tongzhi suggested that in order to prevent Hongze Lake from breaking its embankment and submerging the ancestral mausoleum of the emperor’s hometown during the flood, Hongze Lake should be excavated to release flood water during the Taiping Festival. .

Where is Hongze Lake? It is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in the country in later generations.

Unexpectedly, someone proposed to open the embankment to stop the water, and Zhu Biao wanted to order the killing of the official who mentioned it. Moreover, seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's meaning, he was a little moved. After all, the Zuling also represented the Zhu family's good fortune. Lao Zhu doesn't believe in monks and Taoists, but he still believes in such mysterious and mysterious things.

Zhu Biao has almost guessed why Fengyang suffered from constant famines in history. Once Hongze Lake was dug, the river poured down, and the people in the downstream must have their homes and fields destroyed. When it is destroyed, its subsequent impact is even more comprehensive.

Coupled with the over-exploitation of the barren mountains and the congestion of the lakes and rivers caused by the paddy fields surrounding the lakes, the Huaihe River is bound to suffer from frequent floods. Once it rains heavily, the flat land will naturally become a country of water swamps and rivers, where the people cultivate. Naturally, there is nothing to keep in the fields.

And after the flood, because the mountains and forests have been over-cultivated, naturally there is no water retention. Once there is no rain in the second year, then the drought after the flood may occur. probably the reason.

Zhu Biao also had to admit that if Zhu Yuanzhang allowed the report sent by the prefect of Fengyang, then he would indeed have to bear the blame for Fengyang's ten-year famine. Think twice.

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