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Chapter 724, Emperor Hongzhi¡¯s eyes turned red

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    In the imperial palace in the capital, Emperor Hongzhi was reviewing memorials in his study.

    In the past two years, his life has been very comfortable, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and the weather is smooth. The key is that all internal and external troubles have been swept away.

    Not only did he have money to spend and control the military, but now the court also had money, the treasury was full, and he had so much money that he didn't know how to spend it.

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    "Silver is such a good thing~"

    Emperor Hongzhi couldn¡¯t help but sigh after reading the memorial.

    The memorial just now was sent from Shaanxi. Shaanxi has experienced another severe drought this year. Many places have not had a drop of rain for several months in a row. The earth has dried up and there has been no harvest.

    "If it were in the past, the imperial court had little money and could only mobilize food to help the victims. Often, before the food arrived, Shaanxi might have been in chaos.

    The ground is full of hunger and death, and the phenomenon of exchanging children for food may occur.

    By then, there may inevitably be many mountain kings, peasant uprisings and the like. In short, it may take two or three years of turmoil to slowly subside.

    But it¡¯s different now.

    Although such a severe drought has occurred, judging from the situation reported from various aspects, everything in Shaanxi is very stable. The court has money, and the money is allocated in time.

    The grain transported by the imperial court, the grain purchased from grain merchants, and the Ming Dynasty Morning Post called on everyone to donate money and materials to support Shaanxi. A major drought that was supposed to cause trouble and kill many people was eliminated invisibly.  .

    The court has money, so things are different when doing things. Even if there is corruption, it will eventually fall on the people below.

    What's more, the money used for disaster relief is basically used to buy food and transport it to disaster areas for disaster relief. The corruption situation has also improved.

    The Ming Dynasty Morning Post also plays a certain supervisory role. Many editors of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post go deep into the disaster area to collect news materials. If any local officials embezzle money or food for disaster relief, they will report it and they will definitely die soon.  Yes, this has also made many people restrain themselves a lot.

    Secondly, Daming is building cement roads, and there are also planned cement roads in Shaanxi. This road construction requires a lot of manpower, and it also recruits many victims who just have nothing to do because of the drought.

    Let them have something to do, work to do, food to eat, and money to earn, and they will naturally settle down.

    The construction of highways also made the court's disaster relief faster. With cement roads, four-wheeled carriages could transport large amounts of grain to Shaanxi very quickly.

    In the past, it might take ten days and a half, and only half of ten kilograms of grain could be transported. But now it is different. Two or three days are enough, and ten kilograms of grain can be fully transported for you.

    In addition, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan are also the places where the imperial court focuses on relocating people. Last year, 100,000 people moved to Liaodong, plus people who moved overseas and went to the Beijing-Tianjin area to find jobs.

    Hundreds of thousands of people moved out of Shaanxi last year alone, which greatly reduced the pressure on Shaanxi. With a smaller population, the pressure on survival is reduced.

    Under the influence of many conditions, the severe drought in Shaanxi that should have given Emperor Hongzhi a huge headache did not happen. Everything in Shaanxi was in order, and the victims in various places were peacefully eating good rice and white noodles at home.  We were living so leisurely that many people said that this was a year of famine.

    Emperor Hongzhi couldn¡¯t help but sigh.

    Silver is really a good thing.

    Even though he was the emperor, he had to sigh like this.

    Thinking about the hard days in the past, and then thinking about the present, Emperor Hongzhi understood it deeply.

    When there was a famine in the past, the imperial court was very poor. Let alone money, it would be good if we could have food to help. If we could allocate a few tens of thousands of taels of silver here and there, it would not be enough for these officials below.  Woolen cloth.

    Now, this time, the imperial court directly allocated 500,000 taels of silver, and Emperor Hongzhi took out another 500,000 taels of silver from the internal funds. The Ming Dynasty Morning Post claimed that people from all walks of life donated money, food, etc., and they collected more than 300 taels.  Ten thousand taels of silver, which adds up to more than one million taels of silver.

    Coupled with the large amount of food allocated, such a hugeCome to atone for your sins.

    So stupid, so ignorant, so simple.

    This made Emperor Hongzhi sigh. This was too easy and simple.

    "This Tian Erniu is really a talent. Ten thousand people easily conquered two big kingdoms and gained such huge wealth. He must be heavily rewarded when he comes back."

    Emperor Hongzhi smiled from ear to ear. He and Prince Zhu Houzhao were the major shareholders of Tianjin Ocean Trading Company. After gaining such huge wealth this time, he was already calculating how much of it could go into his own funds.

    "Europeans have actually reached the east coast of Golden Continent~"

    "We really live on a ball. From the Ming Dynasty all the way to the west we can reach Europe. All the way to the east we actually have contact with Europeans."

    After a long time, Emperor Hongzhi's excitement calmed down slightly, and then he began to read the contents of the superstition carefully.

    The content of Superstition is very detailed. It not only explains in detail the situation of the Ming Dynasty in Golden Continent, but also mentions that this time, descendants of the Yin Shang and European Spaniards arrived in the Ming Dynasty with the fleet.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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