"Is that true, you don't know?"

Zhu Youjian asked.

Student Gai Jian said: "The students really don't know."

"Since that's the case, are you willing to collect all the debts of the Gai family and burn them in front of me, saying that you don't admit it because you don't know it? If you want, I will only order the detention of Gai Hu!"

Zhu Youjian asked.

"This, this."

The student of Gai's prison hesitated. His Gai family took advantage of the drought to expropriate the livelihood of the villagers and released a lot of usury loans. He really refused to admit it and personally destroyed all the loan notes.

Li Honggen has long been dissatisfied with these gentry and powerful people who have taken advantage of the situation, so he helped Zhu Youjian more actively, and said, "Your Highness, he will definitely not be willing to let go. He has released a lot of usury loans from the Gai family. If he doesn't want it, he can't force others to sell their children and daughters!"

It would be fine if Li Hongji didn't remind him like this. As soon as he reminded him, Zhu Youjian became even more angry. He asked Jusheng Gai again and said, "Come directly!"

Student Gai Jian was shocked, then looked at Li Hongji and pointed at Li Hongji: "You! You! You are a pariah!"

Li Hongji sneered proudly.

He only now realized that there was someone who could deal with these people.

About half a day later, Lu Xiangsheng rushed to Zhu Youjian and reported: "Prince, our people have confiscated more than 20,000 stones of grain in Ai Mansion, which is enough for disaster relief."

After hearing this, Zhu Youjian nodded: "Then use this food to provide disaster relief immediately."

Juren Ai fainted after hearing this.

Here, Zhu Youjian continued to say to other gentry: "Since you are unwilling to release grain to save the villagers, you can only save the government! But the government has no food yet, so the food of all of you will be forcibly collected. At that time, the government will return the food to you based on the amount of food you are levied."

"ah!"

These gentry naturally couldn't accept Zhu Youjian's words.

After all, they hoarded food to take advantage of the food shortage caused by drought and took the opportunity to sell it at a high price and make a fortune.

As a result, the court now wants to forcefully take away their food, and the key is to return it to the future. This suddenly makes these gentry's idea of ​​making money from food vain.

"Send people to collect food from house to house! Those who do not follow will be forced to conquer their homes for the crime of disobedience."

After Zhu Youjian said this, he ordered Lu Xiangsheng.

"yes!"

...

At the same time, Zhu Youjian arranged people to build civilian sites overnight, distribute food sites, and arrange to recruit soldiers to the disaster victims.

Relying on his youth, Zhu Youjian worked all night long and was very responsible.

Just like when he was an emperor in history, he was very diligent in doing things.

However, Zhu Youjian's forced collection of gentry food naturally caused dissatisfaction among the gentry.

Not only was he dissatisfied with Zhu Youjian, but he was also very dissatisfied with Ma Maocai, the governor who recruited the court.

But even though these gentry were dissatisfied, they did not dare to fight against the imperial army.

They could only secretly instigate some bandits who colluded with them to attack Mizhi County in order to stop Zhu Youjian's behavior.

But these bandits were naturally not opponents of the government army and were quickly defeated, and these gentry could only hand over all the food obediently.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian was able to feed many victims with the food collected from the gentry before the arrival of the food mobilized by the court, which made no more victims in the Yan'an Prefecture starve to death or become thieves.

"Your Majesty, King Xin has offended the gentry in Shaanxi this time. Now there have been several memorials that impeached King Xin to do something wrong in Shaanxi, and used the name of disaster relief to make money and cruel to the gentry. Some censors even submitted memorials to impeach Ma Maocai and exaggerate the disaster. Obviously, some gentry in Shaanxi blamed Ma Maocai for your sudden request to King Xin to go to Shaanxi for disaster relief."

Two months later, Xiong Tingbi came to Zhu Youxiao with several memorials to report on the disaster relief work of King Xin in Shaanxi.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao only smiled and said, "Brothers in war, father and son are fighting. How can I just offend the gentry in the world? King Xin will not only not punish him, but will reward him. You have to draw an imperial decree, and in the name of King Xin's contribution to disaster relief, he will be allowed to eat the prince's double salary! In addition, Yan Zibin embezzled, deceived the prince, delayed disaster relief, dismissed, and brought it to Beijing to punish him strictly!"

"Abide by the order!"

Xiong Tingbi also knew that Wang Xin did this now, which undoubtedly means that the powerful and powerful gentry who are not satisfied with the status quo in the future will never want him to replace the emperor, and in the future these people will completely focus their attention on the princes.

"I don't know when the drought in Shaanxi will end. There are so many victims, it is not enough to just transfer grain and provide relief. The court does not have that much food. Moreover, the court still has hundreds of thousands of troops to support, so it must be self-sufficient as soon as possible."

Zhu Youxiao suddenly said at this time.

Xiong Tingbi couldn't help but frown and said, "What Your Majesty said is, now the drought in Shaanxi is severe, and the fields everywhere cannot be cultivated at all. Even if water conservancy is being built, it will be too late. It is difficult to make it self-sufficient as soon as possible."

"Why do we have to stay in Shaanxi to cultivate? Is there no idle land that cannot be planted in this world? As far as I know, there are many fertile land in Siam, Mughal and other places, and it is possible to move the victims to farm. However, this will lead to conflicts with local natives. Therefore, our court needs to provide military support to these victims and help them take root in these places."

"But the court cannot directly provide military support in this matter, which can easily cause the conflict to suddenly become bigger. It is better to form a company first, called Ocean Development Company. I and the court invest in it, and you can also invest in it. Then the company can develop corresponding industries overseas and hire some young and strong victims, especially young and strong victims who have committed any incidents, and go to these places to develop. The company provides each of them with a horse, a fire gun, a pair of bows and arrows, a piece of armor, a geese feather knife, and a number of lead bullets. They can be sent to these places for free to occupy their own fields. They can occupy as much as they can, but they need to give the company the benefits of the development. This matter is the responsibility of Han Aiqing."

Zhu Youxiao said at this time.

Han Du replied: "Yes!"

"Try to recruit all the victims. Now, in Shaanxi, there are no more people due to drought. After the drought, there may be locust plagues or even plagues. Let them stay here, either starve to death, or cause trouble for the thieves, or drag down the court. They can only immigrate them to other places and transfer the disaster to the barbarians! Now is not the time to be kind."

Zhu Youxiao continued.

Xiong Tingbi nodded: "What Your Majesty said is a good way. Now that I think about it, I can only do this. After all, it is because of the incompetence of heaven. If I am not kind, I have to do this."

"Yes, we can't suffer the people, we can only suffer the barbarians. Who makes them unwilling to pay attention to our China!"

"In addition, I would like to mention a few people, so I must hire them at that time. Han Aiqing will check carefully. One is from Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, Li Hongji, who works as a postman in Yinchuan Post, Yan'an Prefecture, Dingyuan County, Qingyang Wei, Yan'an Prefecture, Zhang Xianzhong, who has served as a constable in Yan'an Prefecture and a border army in Yulin Town, and the other is a man who sells horses and is called Gao Yingxiang..."
Chapter completed!