Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 247 The Emperor
Although the old man hated these soldiers and bandits, he was just an ordinary citizen after all.

Seeing the heads being chopped off one by one, he was already limp on the ground, and kept muttering:
"They will take revenge, they will take revenge, massacre the village, definitely massacre the village..."

Seeing that the old man suddenly seemed to be insane, Zhu Youjian squatted beside the old man and comforted him:
"Master, don't worry, they don't dare to kill people and massacre the village. As imperial envoys, we will handle this matter well. Take us to the village to have a look!"

The old man was taken aback:
"What are you going to do in the village? The village is very poor and has nothing, and all the young people have fled, leaving only dozens of old, weak, sick and disabled."

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly, and reached out to help the old man:

"Let's go, take us to have a look."

The old man had no choice but to get up and take everyone back to the village. The journey is not very far, just pass through a forest.

There are not many families in the village, about twenty households, all of which are crooked mud houses.

Seeing a group of strangers entering the village, several children immediately surrounded them. They were thin and thin, and they were still wearing thin clothes. They looked at Zhu Youjian and others curiously.

These are the people of Daming. Seeing their appearance, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but feel a little sad. It seems that there is a long way to go for Daming to make the country prosperous and the people strong.

"Grandpa, haven't you been allocated any land?"

"Hey, what's the difference between being allocated and not being allocated? They have been taken over by those people, and now the whole village is working for them, barely surviving without being starved to death."

After the old man finished speaking, Zhu Youjian nodded, and immediately called Qinglong:

"Qinglong, hurry up and go to Lu'an Prefecture, and tell them clearly that in the future, guards and bandits from Lu'an Prefecture will enter Guangzhou to commit crimes, and let all the officials and generals in Lu'an Prefecture go home to farm. The serious ones will be wiped out. Three clans, you don't have to hurry back, we will meet at Li Dakai's garrison in Fengyang."

"obey"

Qinglong promised to get on his horse and leave immediately. Qinglong's task is very simple. Seeing the arrival of the Jinyiwei commander can scare the state officials to death.

After Qinglong left, Zhu Youjian asked the old man again:

"Master, is the biggest magistrate in your village here?"

The old man shook his head:
"I ran away a long time ago. I have a little connection. Who would like to stay in the bandit's den."

Zhu Youjian nodded and said:
"Now you have the full power to manage this village. You can plant the land that belongs to you. No one will dare to bully you in the future. I will send some winter clothes to your village in a while."

Before the old man could react, Zhu Youjian and others immediately turned back.

Back beside the carriage, Zhu Youjian immediately exchanged two hundred sets of cotton-padded clothes in the system mall, both for adults and children, and exchanged some refined salt charcoal and rice.

Then he loaded all these things into the carriage, thought for a while, took out another 200 taels of silver, and put them into the carriage together.

"You send these two carts to the village, let the villagers share them equally, send them with the carriage, and then come back and continue on the road."

"Yes...but what about our supplies?"

In order to deceive others, when Zhu Youjian left Beijing, he brought two carriages with him for supplies. In fact, he didn't need it at all. As an emperor with a system, a system warehouse can handle everything when he travels.

Seeing that the royal guard hesitated, Zhu Youjian waved his hand:
"Go, you don't have to worry about other things."

"obey"

After Zhu Youjian and others left, other people in the village gathered around the old man and kept asking questions.

"Grandpa, what did those people do just now? Look at their strange clothes, they don't look like poor people."

"Uncle, how do you know each other? One of them seems to be very rich, with so many soldiers."

"Old man, just now the guest said that there is something for us, is it true, there are bandits ahead, remind them to be careful."

……

Everyone was chattering and asking non-stop, and the old man didn't know how to answer them for a moment. Could it be that he told the villagers that they were imperial envoys of the imperial court.

He himself didn't believe this kind of nonsense, let alone the villagers. When the imperial envoys came down, they were accompanied by troops, and local officials followed closely.

But these people are nothing like that at all, they don't even have the ostentation of a county magistrate, but the carriage looks very valuable.

"Look, those people are here again, and they are still driving the carriage!"

Everyone was talking about it, when suddenly two carriages entered the village, and the carriages were full, and the children immediately went up to them and ran after the carriages.

The carriage quickly arrived in front of the old man, and the two royal guards jumped out of the carriage, walked up to the old man and said with a smile:

"Congratulations, sir, you have been appointed by the imperial envoy as the official of the village. There are rice, cotton clothes, charcoal and silver in the carriage, and the lord asked you to distribute them equally to the people in the village. Corruption is not allowed."

After the two guards finished speaking, they turned around and left without even asking for a carriage.

It wasn't until the two guards walked away that the uncle and the villagers reacted:
"What imperial envoy? They said that the things in the carriage will be sent to us, and everyone will share them equally. Let's see what they are..."

Everyone ran to the carriage, and immediately saw a lot of sacks. When they opened it, they found rice, charcoal, silver and many other things. The whole village was a little frugal enough to survive the winter.

The old man felt as if he was dreaming, and now he confirmed that even if the person who came was not an imperial envoy, he must be a senior official of the court.

Tears flowed down the old man's cheeks. How can there be such a good official in the world, not only does not exploit the people, but also gives so many things to the people.

As soon as his legs softened, the old man knelt down towards the place where Zhu Youjian and the others were, and kowtowed repeatedly:
"It turns out that it is really a high official. The old man represents the people of the whole village, and thank you for saving your life."

Seeing the old man kneeling and kowtowing, others knelt beside the old man one after another. Many people shed tears of emotion. They knew that no one would starve to death for the time being.

Zhu Youjian got on the carriage and continued on his way, and soon entered Fengyang territory, which is Lu'an Prefecture.

The road is full of desolation, some fields are planted with wheat, but most of the fields are barren and no one cultivates them.

During the Yuan Dynasty, Haozhou was upgraded to Linhao Mansion, named after the city Linhao River.

In the sixth year of Hongwu, Linhao Mansion was changed to Zhongli Mansion, and in the seventh year of Hongwu, Zhongli Mansion was renamed Fengyang Mansion, and the government moved to Xincheng (now Fucheng).

At the same time, the four townships of Taiping, Qingluo, Guangde, and Yongfeng in Linhuai County were cut off to establish Fengyang County. Since then, Haozhou (now Linhuai Town in Fengyang) has been abolished.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Fengyang prefectures were Hezhou, Chuzhou, Shouzhou, Luanzhou, Sizhou, Hongzhou, Suzhou, Yingzhou, Bozhou, Pizhou, Xuzhou, eleven prefectures and several counties, and eight guards .

A small Fengyang, because it is the hometown of Taizu, has a very large jurisdiction, covering almost half of Anhui.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he wanted to build the capital in Fengyang. In fact, he had already begun to build the capital, but he was strongly resisted by the local people.

Due to the annual flooding of the Huaihe River, the local people have become accustomed to rolling up their bedding, wandering and begging, and singing Huagu opera everywhere to make a living. They think that building a capital is a waste of money.

Later, because some ministers also began to object, Zhu Yuanzhang finally gave up the capital of Fengyang, leaving an unfinished project, and later established the capital of Nanjing.

It now appears that the local people are too short-sighted.

If Fengyang was established as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it would definitely drive the huge development of Fengyang, and the life of the local people would definitely be greatly improved.

(End of this chapter)