Chapter 53: The world is flooded

Li Sicheng thought of other ideas for a moment, and he asked the ministers: "Can you counterattack and eat this Ming army?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the Annan generals changed their colors one after another.

Seeing this, Ruan Chi smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness, our country's taxpayer has no ability to leave behind the 100,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty. And I think the most important thing now is to send envoys to Xiu, otherwise our country will not be able to bear much of such a war."

There was no answer for the time being, how many casualties between the two sides of this battle.

But generally speaking, the killing is comparable, that is, the number of deaths of the Ming army in battle is probably the same as the number of deaths in Annan. It seems that no one takes advantage of it.

But everyone knows that the size of the Ming Dynasty cannot be compared with that of Annan.

The Ming Dynasty didn't care about the same loss at all.

Not to mention, except for the 50,000 Beijing camps, the Ming Dynasty's southern expedition troops were all chieftain soldiers and guard soldiers, which were second-rate troops of the Ming Dynasty.

Once the Ming army's Beijing camp launched a large-scale invasion of the south, it would be different whether Annan could stop it.

Li Sicheng sighed in his heart and said, "Wu Qing."

Wu Shilian said: "I am here."

Li Sicheng said: "You have been to Beijing on your behalf. Remember to agree to whatever Beijing requires."

If the purpose of this battle was just the Ming Dynasty taught Annan a lesson, then the effect had been achieved, and now Annan's monarch and ministers no longer had a hint of arrogance.

They urgently need peace.

But whether peace can be achieved depends on how Beijing handles it.

After Mao Sheng's body reached Pingxiang, it deteriorated rapidly.

In fact, after he just returned to Pingxiang, his body was still recovering little by little. It was just a piece of news that made him unable to bear it. It was nothing else, but the flood in the world.

It seems that after several common years, God can't help but make trouble.

This year is not a good year.

Mao Sheng wanted to continue fighting. Even if this time failed, he still wanted to continue to move south at the end of this year. However, he heard about the floods everywhere and the military rations transported from the mainland were temporarily intercepted.

It has been used to provide relief to local disaster victims.

This local official who was executed first and then reported was not punished by the emperor.

In this way, the emperor's tendency is very obvious.

Once Mao Sheng’s heart is gone, he will naturally become a sick bed, and it will be worse than the other day.

In the Qianqing Palace.

Countless rain lines were weaving, falling on the brick floor in the palace. The sound was very pleasant, but when Zhu Qizhen heard it, he sighed a long time. He didn't know what to say.

God is not beautiful.

The Huai River and the Yangtze River are flooding in large areas, and even the Qiantang River is restless. Almost south of the Yellow River, there is a marina country, and the northernmost part is Xiuwu, Henoi, Tangyin, and Luoyang. The rest is the entire Huai River, the entire Yangtze River, and there is no easy place along the coast from Jingzhou.

This flood is already very difficult.

But there is still a severe drought this year.

Hebei, Jinan, Shandong, Qingzhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia are all drought.

The situation in Hebei is a little better, but other places are not good. Even though the northwest has been operated by Yu Qian for several years, it is not optimistic.

Zhu Qizhen has already predicted that tax exemptions will be exempted from all places this year, and the money and food for disaster relief will probably not be included, and the court will have to pay a large sum of money.

If you don’t do it well, it will be a turbulent situation in the world.

At this time, I was fighting Annan, and I was going to stand aside, such as the Cultival Code, military reform, etc.

Zhu Qizhen was very tolerant of Li Xian and asked Li Xian to focus on handling disaster relief affairs.

Although the result of the Battle of Annan made Zhu Qizhen a little disappointed. However, being able to test Annan’s capital was not a bad thing. At least Zhu Qizhen knew Annan’s strength, so he would not think that more than 100,000 people could destroy Annan.

The next attack on Annan will definitely be several times the current force.

Moreover, many problems arose during this battle.

First of all, the army that captured Annan was nominally three routes, but the three routes fought on their own. After Liu Pu attacked from Yunnan, he was unable to make a move in Annan.

There are many reasons. First, the Yunnan army is not as strong as Guangxi, and secondly, the Yunnan army started the war just after the news that it was war in Guangxi. The time window was not big, so how long did the Yunnan army fight in Annan?

These two routes did not form a joint force at all. The only function of the Yunnan army was to restrain some Annan troops.

As for the navy Wang Ying's journey, it was even slower.

When he rectified the Guangdong Navy and began to harass the Annan coastline, Guangxi was ready to retreat.

Even on the way to Guangxi alone, Zhu Qizhen was not very satisfied with Mao Sheng.

However, Mao Sheng has tried his best after all. If it were someone else, it might not be better than Mao Sheng. After all, the battlefield of Annan is different from the battlefield outside the border.

More probably is a cruel offensive and defensive battle.

However, no matter whether it is the time or the situation within the Ming Dynasty, this battle is not allowed to continue. However, the Annan army cannot be overlooked, and Zhu Qizhen cannot withdraw his troops.

So they asked them to station in Guangxi first, but transferred Zhu Jianjun over.

Unless the Annan army had the courage to invade on their own initiative, the army of Annan and the Ming Dynasty were stationed on the border for a long time, staring at them.

Zhu Qizhen asked the prince to directly participate in disaster relief in the Yangtze River Basin.

It is also possible for the prince to see the sufferings of the people.

Wang Shu has not been idle for the past year. He led the Hanlin Academy to summarize all the changes in official system and laws from various archives of the Ming Dynasty and Hongwu since the Ming Dynasty. He arranged them all in the year.

Although it is just a draft, there are all frameworks that should be found, and the rest is to verify the authenticity of each piece of information bit by bit, corresponding to other historical archives.

See if there is any problem.

However, Wang Shu didn't write a single word about the code Zhu Qizhen wanted, and didn't even have a draft.

It’s not that Wang Shu didn’t support Zhu Qizhen, but that this matter was too important. Wang Shu felt that he should not draft it.

Zhu Qizhen didn't make things difficult for him either.

After all, Wang Shu can only be regarded as a minor minister. Such a major political document cannot be done by the emperor just by finding one or two minor ministers. The best person to draft should be the chief minister of the cabinet.

But today, I can only let go of this matter first.

Although the task of disaster relief in the world is very heavy and busy, the cabinet is more busy than Zhu Qizhen.

It’s not that Zhu Qizhen is lazy.

But Zhu Qizhen knew very early that in disaster relief, the Daming civil servant system had a very complete set of methods. As long as the court gave enough food, no matter how many people could block it.

The historical record of disaster relief in the Ming Dynasty was that during the Hongzhi period, people who were alleviated by tens of millions of people. You should know that in this era, except for the Ming Dynasty, the total number of people in many countries may not be as large as tens of millions.

How can we talk about having the ability to place tens of millions of people in one go?

The only thing Zhu Qizhen did was to increase immigration. Immigration to Liaodong, Haixi, Haidong, Yizhou, Hetao, Northwest, Guangxi and other border areas.

It is also a means of filling the local area.

Apart from this, Zhu Qizhen did not interfere much.

Because Zhu Qizhen felt that the more he interfered in this matter, the easier it was to help him.

He looked at the various rules and regulations of the five prefectures and six ministries brought by Li Xian and even other yamen places, which correspond to the draft just compiled.

From the perspective of future generations, we should look at where appropriate and where there are shortcomings, and lay the foundation for future reforms.

At this moment, Wu Shilian also arrived in Zhejiang from the sea. He got off the boat in Zhejiang, went on a private trip, and took his guards to go all the way from Zhejiang to Beijing.

This is also one of the disadvantages of opening the sea.

If the sea was not opened, Wu Shilian would be officially received along the way, so there was no possibility of leaving without authorization. However, after the sea was opened, there was a very mixed relationship between various customs stations. Even someone in Annan pretended to trade between Chinese people. In this way, it was not impossible for Wu Shilian to enter the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why Wu Shilian did this was to judge the disaster within the Ming Dynasty and adjust his bargaining chips. Although Li Sicheng said that he was willing to pay any price to reach peace.

But this is just a matter of listening to what can be agreed to and what cannot be agreed to. Wu Shilian still has a scale.
Chapter completed!