Chapter 591 Natural and Man-Made Disasters

There are also large areas of bamboo on the edge of the grassland. The bamboo grows very fast. The tallest one is already three or four feet high, and there are some purple bamboos mixed in.

In addition, there are many trees on the edge of the orchard, including poplars, willows, banyan trees, maples, fir trees, mulberry trees, etc. There are dozens of different trees, all of which were transplanted into the space by Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi from Yunwu Mountain, Jiujiang Mountain Range and Wanshanling.

In addition to trees, there are many animals in the space, such as cattle, sheep, deer, roe deer, squirrels, bamboo rats, hummingbirds, golden pheasants, larks, thrushes, etc.

Yang Zhengshan is still very cautious about the introduction of animals to prevent the ecological balance in the space from being unbalanced.

There is only one animal at the top of the food chain in the space, that is, tigers, three three-year-old tigers.

In addition to tigers, there are no carnivores in the space.

In order to prevent these animals from destroying his medicinal fields and spiritual fruits, he and Yu Qingyi also built a fence around the spiritual fruits, medicinal fields and ponds, enclosing hundreds of acres of land.

In the space, tigers can eat other animals, and other animals can eat grass, grains and fruits. Birds can also eat bees. The bees in the space are a bit rampant, so Yang Zhengshan specially introduced some birds to eat bees.

In fact, the most domineering in the space are not tigers, but horses.

Those horses have lived in the space for several years. Their physiques are very strong. Even the king of beasts has to avoid them.

Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi came to the grassland. Yu Qingyi looked around, "Are there no more silly roe deer?"

"No?" Yang Zhengshan jumped directly onto a tree and looked around. Sure enough, he didn't see any silly roe deer.

"Sure enough, it was the silly roe deer that was exterminated first!"

They didn't introduce many roe deer, only seven in total, a small group.

In fact, there is no shortage of food for tigers in the space. There are many chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep. If the tiger is tired of eating, there are elk, musk deer and geese.

Roar~~

Just as Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi were observing the animals in the space, a roar suddenly came from the woods behind them.

Yang Zhengshan turned around abruptly and shouted, "Get lost!"

The sound was like a bell, and the three white-browed tigers fled into the orchard in the west.

"Why don't these three guys remember to be beaten?" Yu Qingyi chuckled.

Yang Zhengshan is not a shit shoveler. He doesn't treat these tigers as treasures. These tigers are not even pets, but at most his experimental subjects.

In comparison, he prefers the horses in the space, and those horses are all carefully raised by him.

Yang Zhengshan was too lazy to care about the three ignorant tigers and looked up at the horses in the distance.

"Hongyun is old, should I change a horse?"

"Are you willing to give it up?"

"What's there to be reluctant about? It's not that I don't want Hongyun anymore, I just keep Hongyun in the space in the future!" Yang Zhengshan said.

Although Hongyun is still very strong now, his life span is almost reaching the limit of a horse's life.

"Perhaps if he is kept in the space, Hongyun's life span will be longer!" Yang Zhengshan said again.

In the space, Hongyun can not only drink the spiritual spring water at any time, but also eat the grass, papaya and fruit watered with the spiritual spring water at any time.

This is definitely better than in the outside world. Even if Yang Zhengshan takes good care of it every day, the grass it eats is still not as good as the weeds in the space.

"Then take Hongdou out. It looks very similar to Hongyun, and others should not be able to tell!" Yu Qingyi suggested.

Hongdou is the name given by Yu Qingyi. It has brown-red mane like Hongyun, and is strong, with a height and body shape similar to Hongyun.

It is unknown how many sons Hongdou is Hongyun.

Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi walked towards the herd of horses and looked at the handsome Hongdou.

The horse was much closer to Yang Zhengshan. When it saw Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi coming, it took the initiative to come up and rubbed its big head against Yang Zhengshan.

"How about you let me ride you in place of your father in the future?" Yang Zhengshan stroked Hongdou's mane.

In fact, there are not many opportunities to ride horses on Xingyue Island, but Yang Zhengshan still likes to ride horses occasionally, or go up the mountain, or go to the beach, or go to the fields to have a look.

The simple Hongdou didn't know that people were sinister. It still felt close to Yang Zhengshan, but it never expected that Yang Zhengshan actually wanted to ride it.

The two stayed in the space for more than an hour, then took Hongdou out, and then threw Hongyun into the space.

Hongyun quickly integrated into the herd of horses. After all, these horses are almost all its descendants.

But Hongdou was miserable. He was tied in the stable and almost demolished the stable.

Hongdou, who was used to freedom, was tied up for the first time, so he naturally felt uncomfortable.

Yang Zhengshan comforted Hongdou for several days before she slowly got used to living in the stable.

After the New Year, all affairs on Xingyue Island gradually got back on track.

Jiang He sorted out the affairs of the government office, and all departments under the government office were able to operate normally.

The boys and girls who moved here also gradually got used to the life on the island. They read and practiced martial arts every day. Their lives were simple and fulfilling, but a little tiring.

Of course, the liveliness of the teenagers was also fully reflected on the island. These children either went to the sea to catch fish or went up the mountain to get bird eggs, making the island a little chaotic.

But it was precisely because of these children that the island became more and more lively.

The business was also on track. After the Luo family and Zhen family's fleet was included in the Yang family's business, they were divided into six fleets. Most of the time they were doing their previous business, but occasionally they would transport some supplies to Xingyue Island.

In addition to the Yang Family Fleet, the Tenglong Guard's fleet also often comes to Xingyue Island.

Although Xingyue Island is not a must-pass place for the route, it is relatively close to several routes in the southeastern waters.

The sea trade of Tenglongwei has already begun in the southeastern waters. From the Desheng Dynasty in the north to the Liusheng Dynasty, and then to the Lusheng Dynasty in the south, this route will pass near Xingyue Island.

Many merchant ships from Tenglongwei will go south along this route or go east along this route.

Five hundred miles east of Xingyue Island is the territory of Shenmu Island, and five hundred miles southeast is the sea area of ​​the Dragon Dan Dynasty.

There is the Earth Fire Island to the south of Xingyue Island, which is about 300 miles away, and the Lu Sheng Dynasty to the southwest, which is about 800 miles away.

Further south, there are the Sulan Dynasty, the Zhang clan Dynasty, the Mingde Dynasty, the Sa Island Dynasty, the Daluo Dynasty and many other island dynasties.

Some of these dynasties have large territory. For example, the Daluo Dynasty has thousands of islands of all sizes, with a sea area of ​​more than 3,000 miles east-west and west, with a population of 30 million.

There are also small territory, such as the Zhang Dynasty, whose main territory is a large island with a population of more than one million.

At present, Tenglongwei's sea trade route has arrived at Shenmu Island to the east and the Lu Sheng Dynasty to the south. Dihuo Island is an important partner of Tenglongwei in the southeastern waters.

However, at present, Tenglongwei still has a great market to expand in the southeastern waters. It is estimated that it will take a lot of effort to open up the routes of these forces.

The Yang Family Business cannot be launched in the southeastern waters in a short period of time. There is no way, the Yang Family Business has too few merchant ships and warships. Just the coast of Darong is enough for the Yang Family Business.

In mid-February of the first year of Xingyue, Xingyue Island welcomed another group of immigrants.

More than 3,000 immigrants from Darong Fuhai Province arrived at Xingyue Island by boat.

Yang Zhengshan stood on the pier and looked at the group of ragged immigrants, frowning deeply.

"Where did you get refugees from?"

Luo Jinsong sighed slightly, "Funing Mansion."

These people from Funing Prefecture are all pale and skinny, and are skinny, obviously because of long-term hunger and malnutrition.

"What's going on?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Funing Prefecture is a prefecture in the northern part of Fuhai Province. Before, Yang Zhengshan passed by the coast of Funing Prefecture when he went to Zhaowuwei, but he had never been to Funing Prefecture.

Luo Jinsong explained: "Last year, Funing Prefecture had a severe drought, and many fields were harvested without grains!"

Yang Zhengshan frowned. Fuhai Province is mountainous and has few arable land. Fuhai Province has a large population, making it the most populous among the several provinces in the southeast of Darong.

There are many people and few lands, and coupled with a severe drought, the results can be imagined.

"These people were originally tenants. Not only did they lose their harvest last year, they also had to pay rent to the landlords, and..."

Luo Jinsong didn't continue to say it, but Yang Zhengshan already understood.

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The landlord and the tenant themselves are the relationship between the exploiter and the exploited. On the head of the tenant, in addition to the exploiter, the landlord, there is another larger exploiter, that is, the government.

Because of the relationship between the Imperial and Shangsi, the court has not been short of money in recent years. In theory, the taxes of the people should be reduced, but in fact, the taxes that ordinary people need to pay have not decreased, but have increased.

This problem is actually no longer in the court, but in the local government.

The court did not increase taxes, but local officials often impose various taxes on taxes.

"There is no relief in the court?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Luo Jinsong said, "I guess the court didn't know that there was a severe drought in Funing Prefecture!"

"You mean someone is covering the cover?" Yang Zhengshan's face looked a little ugly.

"Well, the county government not only did not provide any relief to the victims, but also closed the gates of the county town, blocking tens of thousands of victims outside the door."

"After I go, I don't need to say anything more. As long as I say I'm giving food, a lot of people will follow me on the boat!"

Luo Jinsong said.

Yang Zhengshan sighed long.

"Master of the Island, do you want to take care of it?" Luo Jinsong asked.

"How do I care?" Yang Zhengshan didn't know what to do.

Tell Emperor Yanping about this?

I guess Emperor Yanping would think he was meddling in other people's business.

Not only Emperor Yanping, but many ministers in the court may think he is troublesome.

Do you really don’t know about the court?

Perhaps Emperor Yanping didn’t know, but did not one of the nobles in the court know?

Obviously it is impossible. After all, there are many officials in the court who came from Fuhai Province. There was a severe drought last year. Even if the news spread slowly, many officials in the court should receive the news.

Even if they don’t report the report, what can Yang Zhengshan do?

"You brought so many people here, no one cares about it?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"No!" Luo Jinsong said.

Yang Zhengshan thought for a while and said, "Do we have a few islands?"

Luo Jinsong nodded, "The islands of Xingyue Gate belong to us, and no one dares to come and snatch them!"

“The four islands in the southeast, southwest and northwest can be cultivated.”

Xingyuemen previously owned 64 islands of various sizes, of which more than a dozen had fresh water resources and could be inhabited. There were fewer islands with arable land. The four islands in the southeast, northwest and northeast were the bases of the four flag armies of Xingyuemen. Although these four islands were not as large as Xingyue Island, there were tens of thousands of acres of land on each island.

"Go recruit some more disaster victims, put them on those islands to farm, and give them some food every month in the future! Help as much as you can!" Yang Zhengshan said.

Resettling disaster victims is something that everyone in the Yang family is familiar with. After all, Yang Zhengshan resettled millions of disaster victims in Chongshan Town.

However, they now have few islands, and even fewer islands that can be cultivated. At most, they can only resettle 20,000 people.

Yang Zhengshan wanted to help the disaster victims in Funing Prefecture, but he didn't know that the number of disaster victims in Darong this year was far beyond his imagination.

Only Funing Prefecture and Jianyang Prefecture in the north of Fuhai Province suffered from drought, while western Jiangnan, northern Yunnan and Guilin, southern Longnan, and eastern Shuzhou, a total of more than 20 prefectures, suffered from severe drought last year. This year, during the Spring Festival, there were starving people everywhere. Tens of thousands of starving people gathered in groups outside the prefectures and counties waiting for relief.

The court has sent a governor to inspect the relief work in the five provinces, but the relief money and grain of the court were reduced by half before they arrived in the disaster area. When they arrived in the disaster area, the corrupt officials of the local government took advantage of it, and less than 20% of the food could actually enter the stomachs of the victims.

What's more hateful is that there are a large number of profiteers who took the opportunity to hoard food, causing many victims to be unable to buy food even if they had silver.

However, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the court of Darong is short of food.

Western Jiangnan, northern Yunnan and Guilin, southern Longnan, and eastern Shuzhou are all grain-producing areas of Darong. The disaster in these four areas has seriously affected the grain production of the entire Darong.

The famine not only appeared in the disaster area, but also spread to the surrounding prefectures and counties, and even the grain price in Kyoto was affected.

The court is not short of silver now, but the court has no grain at all.

The court did not have enough grain for disaster relief, and the government offices at all levels took the opportunity to embezzle the money and grain for disaster relief, resulting in the famine victims not being able to get relief.

At this time, many disaster-stricken areas had exploded.

In the north of Bashu, Dachang County, Kuizhou Prefecture.

Thousands of famine victims had rushed into the county, burning, killing and looting like thugs, and slaughtering all the wealthy families in the city.

In the county government, the county magistrate Zhao Yuankai was guarding the gate of the county government with hundreds of yamen runners and runners.

Zhao Yuankai looked at the famine victims who climbed over the wall with a panicked face, and shouted hoarsely: "Quick, quick, kill him, kill him!"

Zhao Yuankai was very unlucky. He had just arrived in Dachang County and encountered a riot less than a year after taking office.

But Zhao Yuankai deserved it, because he was the one who embezzled the grain for disaster relief.

The relief grain from the court was not delivered, but many wealthy families in the city still gave some old grain to the county government to help the victims outside the city, but he was unwilling to give even these old grains to the victims.

The wealthy families in the city were not kind-hearted. They lived in the city and had no worries about food and clothing, but it was not a solution to block thousands of disaster victims outside the city, which would affect their business and their own farming.

The spring plowing was about to start, so the wealthy families in the city discussed and collected 1,200 dan of old grain to send the hungry people outside the city back first.

As long as these hungry people were willing to return home, they could take the opportunity to lend money at high interest rates, annex the land of self-cultivating farmers, and recruit more tenants to farm for them.

As long as they could hold on until the summer harvest, they would not only not suffer any losses, but would also be able to harvest a large amount of land.