The beggar emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty - Chapter 557

Qin Huan believed that with more than 1000 inspection envoys, officials in all parts of the Qin Dynasty will have more concerns when they bend the law for personal gain, embezzle and accept bribes.

After all, although there are censors from the duchayuan everywhere, because they are rich people, they must protect the interests of the rich class. They will not care about the life and death of ordinary people. It is unrealistic for ordinary people to study and test censors in a short time.

Although the supervision department of the interior government has the power to picket hundreds of officials, its energy is limited and its management is not comprehensive. It is inevitable that those officials who are far away from the emperor will not take chances, embezzle and accept bribes, worship Yin and violate Yang.

Although the more than 1000 inspection envoys have no real power, they can query all account files of Yamen at all levels, write memorials directly from what they see and hear in various places, and report them to the emperor.

The key is that in the future, Qin Huan plans to send a group of inspection envoys to inspect every province every year. Every county has to go through it with great fanfare and ask those civil servants whether they are afraid or not?

Because these more than 1000 inspection envoys are equivalent to the eyes and ears of the emperor. Officials who have done something wrong are afraid that they will not sleep at night. They will have a feeling that everything they do in the place is well known by the emperor.

These inspection envoys are not only lonely, but also loyal to the royal family. For them, money, beauty and the officialdom of previous dynasties are a joke, and they can’t buy it if they want to buy it.

If you want to assassinate, you also have to weigh the consequences, because compared with after the violation is exposed, dismissing officials and going to jail for questioning, attacking and killing patrol envoys will be equivalent to conspiracy and rebellion. It will not only end itself, but also harm your immediate family members. Which is more important or less is clear at a glance.

As for the remaining more than 1000 young widows, they can only support them for the time being. Anyway, the interior government has never been short of work. Finally, if the 500 infertile women can’t get married, he can only give the identity of a concubine to provide for the elderly in the harem, which is what he promised at the beginning.

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The time is running fast, and the autumn harvest is approaching. The young workers are starting to return to the provinces. The registered residence of the population in the south of the Yangtze River is also being re counted. After the autumn harvest, the new deal will be implemented.

The new deal in other provinces may have to wait another year or two. At least the administrative structure must be built and improved, and the national guards in all counties must be in place to clean up bandits, mountain bandits and local ruffians before it can be implemented. Otherwise, there will probably be trouble.

Qin Huan was tired of staying in Hubei. At the end of July, he took his beautiful wife and concubine along the Han Dynasty and began to go north to Henan for an inspection.

However, the war just ended in Henan. Just two years later, the people had some silver in their pockets, and the disaster came again.

This is not a man-made disaster, but a natural disaster. In July, heavy rains fell in most parts of the north, resulting in a sharp rise in the water level of the Yellow River.

Although Qin Huan had been ordering people to reinforce the Yellow River levees for the past two years, those levees were still like paper paste in the face of the soaring flood. A large area of levees burst near Kaifeng. The torrential flood swept the whole Kaifeng Prefecture, Xuzhou, Jianghuai and other places in an instant.

Countless houses have been destroyed, countless people have been killed and injured, and tens of millions of mu of cotton farmland have been destroyed. The whole Jianghuai river has become a land of prosperity. The Yellow River and Huaihe River have been indistinguishable, and the canal has disappeared.

Qin Huan just arrived in Nanyang when he received the news. When he learned about the disaster, he was stunned. He didn’t react for a long time. He never thought that the Yellow River burst its banks, which would be so terrible in ancient times.

“Now what is the situation in Kaifeng, Jianghuai and what are the specific losses?”

“Your Majesty, since the breach can not be blocked, the specific losses can only be counted after the flood recedes. However, from the situation of various places, the losses are certainly not small, among which Kaifeng government is the most serious. Kaifeng City is still immersed in the water, and when it is serious, the flood quickly overflows the city wall.”

The official who came to report replied tremblingly.

Qin Huan took a breath of air-conditioning. He knew how high the walls of Kaifeng house were. If the walls were almost flooded, there would be no place in Kaifeng house to be spared.

Although Qin Huan was extremely anxious, he could only stare. Three days have passed. Even if he ordered all localities to rescue the people at all costs, it would have no meaning at all.

Because the damned man had already died, even if he sent troops to rescue him now, he could only collect the corpses and rebuild them after he arrived. Qin Huan realized that in ancient times, he mainly relied on local self-help. It was a joke to want all kinds of support.

However, Qin Huan believed that local officials would not turn a deaf ear to the lives of the people like officials in the Ming Dynasty, so what he could do now was to prepare for the disaster, let the commercial banks mobilize food materials to Nanyang and Jianghuai as much as possible, and at the same time, let the Government Council prepare for the disaster.

“Sister Yan, you stay here. I want to go to Kaifeng immediately.” Qin Huan was no longer in the mood to visit Nanyang Industrial Zone and Tiangong Institute.

“Your Majesty, it’s too dangerous. You’d better wait until the flood recedes.”

Zhang Yan was worried and advised that, as a person near Kaifeng, she could not understand the horror of the Yellow River burst. It was not human power at all. What she could do was to stay as high as possible, wait for the flood to subside, and then plug the gap.

But it usually takes several days. Sometimes it can’t be blocked in ten days and a half months. From the scale of the breakout, it is definitely once in a century. I’m afraid the whole dam near Kaifeng has collapsed. This situation can’t be completely blocked in a month or two, so I’m more worried than Qin Huan.

“The flood peak should have passed by now. I’ll go by boat. There won’t be any danger.”

Qin Huan waved his hand with a heavy heart. He thought the world was peaceful and could rest easy from now on. Who ever thought that the Yellow River just collapsed, which was more terrible than Li Zicheng and Huang Taiji.

Qin Huan realized that his greatest enemy was not people, but the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, drought, locusts and ice.

“But your majesty, I’m afraid of another rainstorm!” Zhang Yan is still worried.

“It’s all right. The dike has burst. It’s just like that in the rainstorm.”

“Xianggong, I’ll go with you!” However, the red warbler said directly that after staying in Henan for so long, she also had some feelings.

“OK, let’s take the railcar now!”

Qin Huan nodded.

Seeing Qin Huan’s firm attitude, Zhang Yan and several other women didn’t persuade him any more and said they were willing to go with him, but Qin Huan resolutely refused.

Qin Huan didn’t delay either. He took five thousand guards and got on the track carriage to kill Xu Zhou.

After more than two years of construction by more than one million workers and countless people, the wooden track foundation originally designed from the north of Xiangyang to the south of Kaifeng has already been built, and the wooden track has also been laid near Xuzhou from Nanyang. If there is no flood, it may be completed by the end of this year.

This kind of carriage specially built for wooden track can be driven by horses alone or connected together, galloping like a long dragon.

At this time, Qin Huan connected a hundred carriages together for two or three miles. Each carriage was loaded with dozens of people, but only two hundred war horses were used to pull a carriage. On average, two horses pulled a carriage, which would never be possible on a conventional dirt road.

Because each carriage, including its own weight and dozens of strong men, must have at least eight or nine thousand kilograms, and tens of thousands of kilograms are possible, that is to say, each horse has a load of five thousand kilograms.

No, Zhang Yan and a group of officials and gentry in Nanyang looked at the carriage like a long dragon, drove away slowly, faster and faster, and finally disappeared in the north. They were shocked. They looked like ghosts and realized the terror of the wooden track for the first time.

Although the wooden track from Xiangyang to Nanyang has been opened, most of them are transported by a single carriage, and occasionally two or three are connected together. People have never thought of hundreds of vehicles connected together.