Li Yanzhi quietly set off from Yuegang on a small boat. No one told him about the coast of Fujian, so he came to the official. Feng Qi, Tian Dake, Zhan Zhen and others tried to cover him up, causing the illusion that he went to a temple to study in a closed door.

As for the officials, when the leaders heard that he was coming, they all came to greet him. Chen Yuting saw him and said, "Third Master, you are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Li Yan asked, "What?"

Chen Yuting found an excuse to turn others away, and then said, "How many people in Japan are traveling thousands of miles to meet you." Then he talked about Yoshihiro's Westward Journey, and the purpose of the group of people's Westward Journey, and said, "These two young men are here to ask the third son to let their father and grandfather go, and hope to borrow troops from us to attack Shengjiu."

Li Yanzhi frowned and said, "Where is the time to care about them now! How do you arrange them?"

Chen Yuting said, "I heard their intentions and interrogated them carefully. I felt that they didn't look fake, so I arranged for them to go to Xiyu first, let them do some small work, and calm their hearts first, and wait for the third young master to come back before making plans." He also talked about the envoys from Xu Fan, but Li Yanzhi did not dare to be negligent about the people of the Xu Jie family. He quickly received Xu Laiwang first, asked about the purpose of coming, and asked about some drought in Jiangzuo. After Xu Laiwang left, Chen Yuting asked how to deal with Yijiu, Yihong, and Li Yanzhi pondered for a while, and called Lin Daoqian to ask him to deal with the matter. Lin Daoqian said, "Three Master, you have to give a charter."

Li Yan said straight: "What I mean is that I am willing to reconcile with the Shimazu family, but I have to ensure that they will not bite back in the future. As for the matter of borrowing troops, we will drag it out first. Now we must use our main force to rescue disasters. Also, we must first communicate with our second brother about this matter, and we must take care of our second brother's reaction and see how our second brother expresses his opinion. It's basically like this, you can do it."

Lin Daoqian accepted the order and was about to go out. Li Yan said straight: "Come back quickly after finishing this matter. I may still need you by my side!" Lin Daoqian was happy to see Li Yanzhi attaching so much importance to him and agreed to go.

After the matter was quickly dealt with, Li Yanzhi transferred the granary manager to ask the official how much grain was left. The manager said: "We have been stocking up on grain since last year and bought a lot. Especially in the middle of last year, merchants in Siam and Chammen heard that we were buying grain and transporting rice from two sailboats each. At that time, we thought the price was expensive, but Master Xiaolian told him to stock up on more than 100 feet, so we gritted our teeth to buy it. But now, these four boats of rice are worth buying! With these four boats of rice and our grain storage, it is enough to support the hungry people for more than half a year."

Li Yanzhi said oh, "More than half a year..."

Chen Yuting said happily: "Yes, so don't worry! As soon as these hungry people came, I organized them into a new people's production team and went to the senior officials to open up land and work. In this half a year, our newly opened sweet potatoes and rice fields have matured early!"

Li Yan snorted and said, "There are only a few thousand people coming now, right? What if there are tens of thousands of people coming again? Will you save them at that time?"

Chen Yuting was stunned and said, "Ten thousand people? There won't be so many, right? I found out that the other side is close to prefectures and counties, and probably all those who can come. In recent days, there have been very few hungry people coming. I think the hungry people tide is coming to an end."

Li Yanzhi sneered: "The other shore is close to prefectures and counties, and the ones that can come are really the same. But what if the victims from eastern Guangdong, northern Fujian and even eastern Zhejiang are coming? There are fewer hungry people coming recently, how do you know that it is not an interval between the two peaks?"

Chen Yuting was startled: "East Guangdong? Northern Fujian? So far... no..."

"I'm not afraid of ten thousand, I'm afraid of one!" Li Yan said straight: "This time I went to all the prefectures of the province and southeastern Zhejiang. The situation is not optimistic! According to the literati and officials, it seems that not only Fujian, but more than a dozen provinces across the country have droughts! Compared with Huainan, Jiangzuo, Fujian is quite light! When people are hungry, their ears will be effective! I heard that there is food here, but I'm afraid that it will come hundreds or even thousands of miles away. It will be dangerous at that time!"

Immediately ordered that all the heads who knew the warehousing situation of the senior officials be banned, and they were temporarily transferred to Youxi to serve on duty. Another group of people came and sealed the warehouse. Only the leaders above Chen Yuting's level knew about how much food there was.

On the second day, Li Yanzhi issued another notice, informing Penghu, all villages and islands, saying that due to the arrival of hungry people, Penghu storage is in urgent need. Now the entire area of ​​the Penghu Inspection Department will carry out a grain distribution system for half a year to collect surplus grain from the people. The system of giving three dou of rice as soon as the victims enter the country is temporarily stopped. The notice finally stated that under the grain distribution system, the grain in the warehouse can completely allow the officials. After Penghu has reached the harvest, I hope everyone can help Li Jie to tighten the difficulties of the government in the Pudongxia, tighten the belt and overcome the difficulties together.

Chen Yuting said: "Will this be too much? We actually have surplus food in our hands!"

Li Yan pointed directly at him and said, "You are skilled in government affairs and can handle the current affairs well, but you just don't know how to prevent tomorrow's dangers! You don't really know the urgency to prepare for the future!"

When the news came out, residents of the two places and the newly dependent victims were panicked and urged the village chief, the village leader and the disaster victim leaders to inquire about the news. Li Yanzhi also allowed them to go in and out. When he saw them, he tried his best to comfort them not to worry, saying: "There is actually food in the warehouse. Now it is mainly based on the situation. We can definitely last until the end of this drought. Don't worry. But everyone has to work harder in the past six months, tighten their belts and hold on together." He did not avoid them when he was having dinner.

When the village chiefs, the village leader and the disaster victims arrived, they saw that Li Yanzhi had a bad meal, just a bowl of porridge and a bowl of sweet potatoes. In this era, an adult man would definitely not be able to eat this meal. The village chief, the village leader, and the disaster victims saw that Li Yanzhi was living such a hard life, so they couldn't blame him. However, after returning, they became a little panicked. From then on, almost every household counted on rice grains to put them in the pot. Those who could go out to sea to fish and go to forests to hunt also tried to make some fish, shrimp and wild game to help supplement their household expenses. In this panic, the rice prices of the officials in Penghu also soared again, but every family held the rice jar tightly, but they had nowhere to buy rice even if they had money! Soon, merchants in Luzon and Ma Yi and other places were all moved when they heard the news of the high grain prices in Penghu.

Under Chen Yuting's rule, the Penghu officials had never had any trouble. At this time, Li Yan came and issued a decree to him, which immediately caused panic among the Penghu officials. He couldn't help but feel dissatisfied and said, "Third Master, you have nothing to do now, but you deliberately panic about food shortage. Is it necessary?"

Li Yan said straight: "Now we have food in our hands, we can deal with it even if there is a little panic. We have to wait until we have no food in our hands before issuing this decree. Then it will not be panic, but a mess! In fact, I hope it is because I am troubled! I hope it is because I am wrong!"

In order to avoid panic turning into turmoil, he and Chen Yuting, Jiang Yifan, Wu Ping, Lin Wei, Chen Men and others visited various villages and production teams separately. Although each household was quite nervous, Li Yanzhi and other leaders went to the countryside to comfort him. After seeing these leaders themselves and hearing their personal assurances, the panic in the villagers decreased. Most of the old residents had stored grain in the rice jars, and they trusted Li. The credibility of Chen, the local government of the Attendance, quickly stabilized; the situation of the new immigrants was worse, and they did not store grain in the rice jars, and people's hearts were inevitably fluctuating, and the trust of Li Yanzhi and others had not been established. Fortunately, although the grain distribution was less, they had enough stability and had never stopped. In addition, they fled to famine and had never thought about how good they could get. As long as they had a bit of food today, it would be enough.

After a busy life, panic did not spread, and the rations of the aircraft were still sufficient. Although the rations of the new immigrants were insufficient, they could ensure that they did not starve to death. These two points ensured that the situation of the officials in Penghu was only on the surface, but in fact there was no chaos.

God did not take care of Chen Yuting's optimism, but he tended to be Li Yanzhi's pessimism!

The situation of drought is indeed developing in a bad direction! The climax and ending of drought, and the beginning of the victim's activities, are usually out of sync. When the drought is happening, farmers may still have food in their hands and expectation in their hearts, and there will be no chaos at this time; when the drought reaches its climax, farmers have almost eaten enough food in their homes and their hopes have been lost, and they will start to chaos at this time; but the climax of the disaster may occur at the end of the drought. At this time, the panic and hunger accumulated in the early stage broke out together, and the farmers have already fallen into despair and are even on the verge of starvation. The new round of harvest cannot be achieved immediately, and chaos on the coast will arise!

Li Yanzhi didn’t know that this year was only the second year of three consecutive droughts! This three-year natural disaster may not have been as serious as a series of natural disasters in the late Ming Dynasty, but it was enough to affect the "local" of the millions of square miles and tens of millions of people along the southeast coast!

When farmers heard that there was money and a way out at sea, when they flocked to the sea to join the private business team, the private business team joined the pirate team after being saturated, and the old pirate team also became saturated, they formed a new pirate team... Then the pattern of the entire East China Sea changed! The environment of trade in the foreign trade became worse, and the personnel composition became more complicated. The destructive power that the farmers burst into dead ends by hunger was combined with the greed of the sea merchants, the sharpness of the Japanese sword, and the sparks of the Flang machine cannon!

Everything becomes uncontrollable!

What Xu Dong, Wang Zhi, Xu Weixue, Xie He and others have to consider is no longer the issue of making money and making more money, but the issue of saving capital or even saving lives! And the gentry of the Lin family, Xie family, and Chai family have also found that they have been surrounded by hundreds of thousands of pairs of red eyes!

Everyone in the East China Sea, including gentry like Lin Xiyuan, private business like Wang Zhi, and pirates like Chen Sipan, will face an unprecedented change!

What about Li Yanzhi? He is facing a crisis that he had never expected, but it may also be an opportunity to speed up his growth!

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