Zhu Gaochi frowned and was speechless when he heard these three strategies.
It was simply absurd!
To think that he had expectations for Ma Jing's grandson!
The first was to stop the refugees from going south.
This could indeed be done, but why would refugees always go south whenever there was a famine?
Wasn't it because the south was rich that the refugees knew that they could only survive by going to the south?
Secondly.
Draining the people north to Shuntian and speeding up the move of the capital were words that would bring disaster to the country!
Shuntian was the capital set by Zhu Di and was still under construction.
If refugees flood in.
Not only would Shuntian not be able to provide disaster relief, but it would also fall into chaos! How could they talk about speeding up the capital relocation?
More importantly…
Although the emperor and his officials were in Nanjing, the common people knew about Shuntian's establishment of the capital.
If the capital of a country was attacked by refugees, it would fall into chaos.
What would people think?
This would definitely cause panic! Let the disaster completely go out of control!
"Calm down and listen to me in detail.”
Seeing through Zhu Gaochi's thoughts, Zhu Le calmly explained,
"Since ancient times, there have always been refugees heading south.”
"This disaster came from Shandong. If we let it go, the refugees will have to pass through Nanjing.”
"Nanjing is prosperous, so it doesn't have much of an impact. However, the emperor and his officials were here. If the number of refugees gradually increased, it would definitely make the people feel that the country's disaster relief was not good.”
"On the other hand, there is no need to worry about this when we guide the people to the north.”
"Indeed, there's no worry in this area.”Zhu Gaochi muttered.
"Can't you just let me finish?" Zhu Le frowned." Learn from Old Man Ma. No matter what I say, you will listen patiently!”
Calling his own grandfather an 'old man'?!
Zhu Gaochi's face darkened, and his evaluation of Zhu Le fell to the bottom.
This brat is unfilial!
With Ma Jing's talent, how could he give birth to such a descendant?
"Humph!"
With a cold snort, Zhu Gaochi prepared to leave.
However, just as he took a step forward, he heard Zhu Le say,"If the refugees go north, not only will they not cause chaos in the country, they will also lose face. On the contrary, it would fundamentally pacify the famine and solve the problem of the refugees starving to death along the way!”
Zhu Gaochi was stunned.
Could it be that there was something he hadn't thought of?
This concerned the lives of tens of thousands of refugees, so he ultimately chose to stay.
"Let me ask you, in this disaster, will the country open its granaries to provide disaster relief?”Zhu Le asked.
"Naturally!" Zhu Gaochi replied.
Although the national treasury was empty, there was still some energy left for disaster relief.
The Emperor and the officials were worried about how to completely quell the disaster.
If the national treasury was full.
After the disaster relief, the national treasury would allocate silver to allow these refugees to return to Shandong. By digging ditches and wells, extracting underground water, and diverting water to irrigate the fields, the problem of drought was fundamentally solved.
But in the current situation, it was clearly impossible.
"Let me ask you again. Do you need a lot of manpower to speed up the relocation of the capital?”Zhu Le asked again.
"Not bad." Zhu Gaochi nodded instinctively as he thought of something.
"Recruit refugees as workers and use the disaster relief food to fill their stomachs. Work first before paying. After the drought passes and the rain falls, let these refugees return to Shandong. In this way, the disaster will be resolved." Zhu Le finally got to the point.
Zhu Gaochi fell into deep thought.
This move killed several birds with one stone.
In this way, the country only needed to use food that was originally meant for disaster relief, but it attracted a large number of manpower to build the capital.
The refugees had something to do and could fill their stomachs, so they naturally wouldn't wander around.
Indeed.
If tens of thousands of refugees were recruited as workers, the wages would be abnormally huge.
But don't forget.
Everyone knew that manpower was extremely cheap during famine!
Anyway, moving would cost money.
Now that there was a way to calm the disaster and speed up the capital relocation, why not?
As for the wages of the refugees, they could wait until the disaster was over and the other taxes came up before slowly paying them. It was likely that the refugees who could not live on would not care about this.
"Wonderful! Wonderful!"
After thinking through all this, Zhu Gaochi was extremely excited and clapped his hands in praise.
Zhu Le directly rolled his eyes and kept a straight face, not saying a word.
Now you know how to praise me? Who was the one with a dark face and was about to leave?
"Uh…"
Seeing this, Zhu Gaochi felt a little awkward and reevaluated Zhu Le in his heart.
This child.
Although he was somewhat unfilial, his intelligence and talent would definitely crush all the officials in the court!
After all, this difficult problem that had caused the officials to rack their brains and the Emperor to worry was easily resolved by Zhu Le's three strategies.
Zhu Gaochi was certain.
This grandson of Ma Jing was as intelligent as Zhu Le who wrote the " Book of Agricultural Administration " and created a whip technique!
"I thank you on behalf of tens of thousands of refugees!”Zhu Gaochi cupped his hands and bowed deeply.
As expected of the later Ren Zong.
Now, as the dignified Crown Prince, he actually bowed to a youth. Such breadth of mind was worthy of the word "benevolence".
Since the others were already in this state, Zhu Le naturally could not continue to put on an expression. He said,"No need" and hurriedly helped him up.
"I am very curious, how did you come up with these three plans?”Zhu Gaochi asked.
Whether it was him or the officials of the current dynasty, they were all standing from the perspective of the famine, thinking about how to start from the root cause, and they were all in a terrible state.
However, Zhu Le had considered the overall situation and solved this problem through other methods!
This taught Zhu Gaochi a lesson.
In the future, he couldn't be narrow-minded. When he encountered anything, he had to think from the overall perspective!
Seeing Zhu Gaoxu staring at him like a curious baby, Zhu Le didn't know how to explain.
In fact, he had learned these three strategies from reading books recently.
As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, there was an official named Fan Zhongyan who solved the famine through large-scale construction and various folk activities.
It was different from modern times.
Although this happened before the Ming Dynasty, due to the outdated way of obtaining information, few people knew about it.
After giving out the porridge and discussing the matter, Zhu Le prepared to leave.
"Tell Old Man Ma to come see me when he has time. I have other matters to attend to.”After saying this, Zhu Le led his maids and servants and left with a wave of his hand.
Looking at his back, Zhu Gaochi pondered silently.
After a long time, he analyzed in a low voice,"
"You're not living together, yet you call your grandfather 'old man'? It seems that grandfather and grandson don't get along!"
Immediately after, Zhu Gaochi thought again.
Perhaps he could think of a way to ease the relationship between the grandfather and grandson?
In this way, not only could he repay this child for his disaster relief plan.
If things went well, he might even be able to use this child for the Crown Prince's residence!
"Oh no, I forgot to ask this kid's name!”Zhu Gaochi suddenly woke up.
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