Chapter 128: The Refugee Picture

However, even so, it is an offensive thing to engage in salt administration.

Therefore, Xu Jie did not have any good intentions in his opinion. He also had a very accurate understanding of Zhou Mengchen's thoughts.

Zhou Mengchen wanted to have the idea of ​​reforming the world, but he didn't like the salt administration for a long time. Before, the salt administration was the core interest of the Yan Party. Zhou Mengchen wanted to move the salt administration and had to turn against the Yan Party.

Zhou Mengchen was weak and unwilling to have a fierce conflict with the Yan Party.

But now it is a very suitable opportunity to deal with the problems of salt administration and improve the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty.

According to Fang Du’s meaning, the Ministry of Revenue will be more chaotic for a while in the future.

Xu Jie may not have encountered such a situation. His solution is to increase an additional income. Such income may be the property of Yan Song's family. The current bank is about 4 million to 5 million taels. As for some antique houses and even the price of land, it is difficult to determine.

It can even be said to be priceless.

On the other hand, I guess I’m counting on the Salt Administration.

Relying on Zhou Mengchen to go to this mine formation.

Zhou Mengchen was really moved in his heart.

There are many prerequisites to accomplish something. But if you can’t do it, there is only one prerequisite that is not enough. The so-called success is not enough to make things happen. Salt administration is particularly difficult in this regard. Even if the party is strictly aside, the interests are still difficult to deal with.

If Xu Jie's support is supported, many things will be much easier to do.

Although Zhou Mengchen knew that Xu Jie had his own mind, it might not be beneficial to him. However, Zhou Mengchen still had to admire Xu Jie's desire to know people. Zhou Mengchen felt that he could overcome Xu Jie's small plot. However, there were great opportunities to organize the salt administration at all times.

Zhou Mengchen thought about it over and over again, and after thinking about Xu Jie, climbing the tree drawer, crossing the river and tearing the bridge, turning around, causing trouble to the Eastern Wu, and other methods, he thought of various ways to deal with the moves. Finally, he felt that he said, "Since the master of the cabinet has something to entrust, how dare I not obey?"

Li Chunfang said: "Then I wish Brother Zhou a good journey."

Zhou Mengchen sent Li Chunfang away, Xu Wei and others immediately stepped forward. Zhou Mengchen explained the matter to them in a few words.

Xu Wei immediately said, "Sir, there is a problem here."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Of course there are problems. But in the Ming Dynasty, no matter what the matter is, how can there be no problem? Such problems, such problems. Why, if there are problems, no matter how you don't do things?"

“What should be done still needs to be done.”

Xu Wei said: "A gentleman can deceive him, but Mr. Xu just took a little bit of it."

Zhou Mengchen said, "I, Zhou Mengchen, or a gentleman?"

Zhou Mengchen shook his head. He has long since he entered politics, he has never been asking for a gentleman. He doesn't even require that he does not have the blood of innocent people. Now, with one order, he can kill countless people. Many of them deserve it. But are some really guilty?

Zhou Mengchen didn't know.

He could only ask himself and have a clear conscience.

He headed south from the capital because of his pursuit of speed. Zhou Mengchen originally wanted to take the land route, and whipped the horses all the way.

But I never expected that I would be blocked on the road.

What is blocking is not something else. It is the Yellow River.

Zhou Mengchen knew that the Yellow River broke in the 37th year of Jiajing. At that time, the court even specially ordered a batch of money and food from Jiangnan, which made Zhou Mengchen feel embarrassed. However, Zhou Mengchen just looked at the memorials and did not think much about it.

The reason is very simple.

The special river governor is responsible for the matters on the river.

But what I saw now shocked Zhou Mengchen and was simply unimaginable.

He only knew that in the summer of the 37th year of Jiajing, the Yellow River broke its mouth and twelve rivers opened, but he never expected that today, a year later, the Yellow River had not been repaired. Moreover, disaster relief measures were also very lost.

It’s okay on the north bank of the Yellow River. Once you pass the south bank of the Yellow River, you’re almost unable to move.

What stopped him was not something else, but the victims. A large number of victims almost stopped Zhou Mengchen's horse hooves.

In front of Zhou Mengchen, there was an unimaginable picture of refugees.

There are no seedlings in the field.

In the eyes of many people, floods can pass by just one stroke. But in fact, it was not in ancient times. Especially in the Yellow River. The Yellow River has too much mud and sand, and wherever the water passes, a layer of mud and sand can be spread out in the fields.

Generally speaking, the land accumulated by river mud is very fertile. But under normal circumstances, the Yellow River feels that it is not ordinary. Most of the places where the Yellow River water passes become sandy land.

It takes at least three to five years to get from wasteland and fertile land. Once the Yellow River water rushes, it will take several years to restore the previous fertile land.

However, agricultural production is inherently weak. Once this happens, it is an unforgettable situation for farmers.

Faced with such a situation, the people have no ability and no idea to reclaim the land, because they cannot live the day when the land becomes fertile land again.

Secondly, the people who surrounded the horse's hooves and covered the road. There were adults, children, old, weak, women and children, all of them were skinny and pleaded with the horse's team to give some food. Zhou Mengchen's eyes were farther away, but some were still dead. Some were still swept by grass, and some didn't even have straw mats.

Zhou Mengchen read nothing wrong.

These people are dead.

Zhou Mengchen had seen dead people. On the northwest battlefield, at the most critical moment, he was less than a few dozen steps away from the front line, a place where bloody battles were fought, a place where corpses were established, and corpses were accumulated. He had never seen anything.

But he didn't think that the scene on the battlefield was even more tragic than today.

Because death in battle is a matter of a moment.

Starving to death is a long and desperate torture.

Moreover, Zhou Mengchen knew that the place they passed was where the official road was. Generally speaking, the official road was where the nearby bustling places were. This was already like this.

Not to mention more remote places.

Either it is already eating from Yizi, or it is no longer crowded.

Zhou Mengchen shouted angrily: "What's going on?"

Xu Wei sighed and said, "Sir, I guess it was Wang Ting, the governor of the river, who concealed the truth from the court. At least there was no full explanation. Moreover, there was probably a problem with the funds from the river. In the end, it might be a strategy for river control."

"The biggest problem in the world is the river."

"Sir, we are not in our posts and do not do our jobs. The matter in Nanjing has been delayed a lot. Let's set off."

Zhou Mengchen was silent for a while and said, "Whose man is Wang Ting?"

Xu Wei said: "Wang Ting, a Jinshi in the 11th year of Jiajing, is from Sichuan. He is not someone. He is the kind of person who is versatile and good at dancing. He can change his wishes among all the big guys, and even be able to rise step by step. If you have half the means of Governor Wang, it is not like this now."

Zhou Mengchen heard this and snorted coldly.

Although the party struggles in the Ming Dynasty are serious, it does not mean that most senior officials are from both parties. There is one very interesting word, that is, taking sides. This represents the trend of many senior officials in the party struggles. They have the right to choose.

Some people were crushed into pieces during party struggles, such as the famous Li Shangyin.

There is a kind of person who can get along well in the party struggles, even with the strength of both parties, and rise step by step. Wang Ting is probably this kind of person.

Zhou Mengchen said, "I don't want to do it." Zhou Mengchen was silent for a while and said, "Calculate the amount of food, how much time it takes to go to the next county town, and distribute the excess food to the victims."

Xu Wei sighed and said, "Okay."

Zhou Mengchen felt very complicated in his heart, but he had long passed the age of being emotional, and now his status is not allowed to be emotional. Xu Wei is right. He has no right to get involved in the issue of river management.

After all, in the officialdom, it is a taboo to point fingers at things outside of your own power. Although the current official positions of the Governor of the River and Zhou Mengchen cannot be considered equal, they are also considered enemy bodies.

If Zhou Mengchen interfered in the control of the river, he would have to distinguish between the river governor Wang Ting and the difference. Moreover, he would really decisively deteriorate Zhou Mengchen's reputation in the officialdom.
Chapter completed!