Chongzhen's open life

Chapter 213 Nightmare!

At night, at the end of Haishi.

The night wind blew gently on the square outside the gate of the imperial city, blowing the lanterns hanging on the Meridian Gate and shaking them back and forth.

The mottled light and shadow flickered around with the shaking of the lantern.

Shi Fenglai's whole body was stiff. On the one hand, he had been kneeling for a long time, and his blood was not flowing well.

But even so, he still didn't dare to raise his head, and he didn't even dare to groan!
He was afraid that because of the actions he might make, he would offend Zhu Youjian, who he thought had been paying attention to him, and lose the chance to keep the family alive.

suddenly!

Shi Fenglai felt that the already dim light suddenly went dark, but when he glanced around, there was still some light in other places, except that the place where he was was became dim.

Shi Fenglai was puzzled, subconsciously looked up, and saw a black shadow on top of his head slowly falling from above!
Shi Fenglai was shocked at first!
Could it be that His Majesty saw that he was upset and planned to smash himself to death with something?

But then he immediately dismissed this absurd idea. If His Majesty really wanted to smash himself to death, he would have no time to react, let alone the thing was still falling slowly.

Shi Fenglai looked it over carefully again, and then with the help of the dim light, he saw clearly that it turned out that a big bamboo basket half a person's height was being slowly lowered by a rope!
After seeing it clearly, Shi Feng was taken aback for a moment, and then felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart!
It's not that he doesn't know that at this time, it will only be opened unless it is an emergency, otherwise it will not be opened anyway, so most people enter the palace at this time and are mostly hoisted in by hanging baskets.

Now he was the only one outside, but he put down the hanging basket. There was no doubt that this was the hanging basket that took him into the imperial city.

As for why there is a hanging basket to pick him up, isn't this nonsense?His Majesty must be willing to see him!

It seems.My pleading guilty is still effective, His Majesty is finally willing to see me!

In ecstasy, Shi Fenglai stood up quickly, but he was still not used to kneeling for a while and would suddenly stand up. He staggered and almost fell, but finally he stood upright with strong perseverance, his eyes fixed on the slow The fallen gondola waited.

Not long after, the hanging basket finally landed on the ground, and Wang Chengen's voice came out from above: "Master Shi! There is a decree from the Holy Spirit, I declare you to meet me in the imperial study, get on the hanging basket quickly, and we will lead you there !"

Shi Fenglai immediately recognized that it was Wang Chengen's voice, and regardless of whether Wang Chengen could hear it or see it, he immediately cupped his hands and gave a deep bow to the city wall, and then loudly replied: "Thank you, Wang Gonggong, I will go up now!"

After saying that, Shi Fenglai lifted up the hem of his clothes and stepped into the hanging basket, shouting together with a strong voice: "Get up!"

The hanging basket was dragged up towards the imperial city wall.

……

In the desolate borderlands, the black army swarmed like swarms of ants. They spoke incomprehensible words, laughed loudly, waved their weapons and looked ahead, their eyes full of bloodthirsty and greed. .

Blood and fire are burning!
One by one, peaceful villages were engulfed in flames. The wailing of village names, women's wails, and children's cries kept ringing out.

Those who couldn't understand the words rushed into the houses everywhere, frantically snatching everything they set their eyes on.

Property, food, iron pot, women!
They want them all!
The flames were gradually extinguished, and the original village had been reduced to ruins, leaving only cokes smoking black smoke everywhere, and... corpses that were beyond recognition!
……

"Damn!!!"

In the dormitory, Zhu Youjian, who was sleeping soundly, let out a fierce roar, opened his eyes and sat up from the bed.

After a burst of violent panting, Zhu Youjian's mood gradually calmed down, and he looked around, it was his bedroom, and he was still in the palace.

Only then did Zhu Youjian let out a long breath, and murmured in a low voice: "It turns out...it's just a dream... It's okay! It's okay..."

Zhu Youjian, who was sleeping soundly just now, had a dream. A group of barbarians dressed completely different from those of Daming rushed into the territory of Daming from the border, burning, killing and looting everywhere, doing all kinds of evil. I don’t know how many people died at their hands. The whole north was suffering from the invasion Unbelievable, the people are in dire straits!
Zhu Youjian was so angry that he woke up with a yell, only then did he realize that everything just now was just a dream.

But for some reason, although he knew that everything just now was just a dream of his own, his heart was still extremely heavy, as if a stone was pressing on it, making him breathless and feeling extremely uncomfortable !
This feeling is very bad, Zhu Youjian was puzzled and couldn't understand why this happened, but when he looked up to the north, his heart suddenly moved, and a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind!
food!north!Jurchen!Buy food!famine!Loot!
Clues emerged in his mind, Zhu Youjian suddenly realized and understood.

I finally figured out the reason for my uneasiness.

Since the Jurchens let the eight profiteers buy food in such a large quantity, it can only explain one problem, that is, they are short of food!

In addition, the weather in the whole of the north in the past two years has been very abnormal, which can be described as a lot of disasters. This year, the production has been reduced on a large scale, but it has not yet reached the most dangerous level.

But in contrast, the grasslands bordering the north and Liaodong were not in good weather. They also fell into a situation of reduced food production. Originally, the Jurchens had fewer people and lacked cultivation.

It is only by relying on the people who plundered from the Ming Dynasty over the years as serfs that they can grow food for hundreds of thousands of Jurchens.

Today, under the natural disasters, all the Jurchens' grain production has been reduced on a large scale, which has made them even more harsh on the already harsh slaves. In order to save food, they are even unwilling to give these serfs who grow food for them. , This directly led to a vicious circle, the food production was reduced, the serfs had no food, and a large number of people starved to death, and then there were fewer people who grew food, and the food output was less and less year after year!
Originally, the Jurchens could go to the Ming Dynasty to plunder new serfs and come back to replenish the lost serfs, but this year, the Jurchens were shut down in Liaodong and were blocked by Yuan Chonghuan!

In this way, their serfs will naturally not be replenished, which directly leads to the scarcity of labor that is already scarce!
No matter how fertile the land in Liaodong is, if no one is planting it, it is impossible to grow food out of thin air!

Therefore, the Jurchens are in a food shortage!
This is why they purchased such large-scale grain from the eight major profiteers.

Since no more food can be produced internally, it is necessary to obtain supplements from the outside, and the easiest place to find food is undoubtedly the rich neighbor Ming Dynasty next door.

Therefore, this is how the eight major profiteers bought Shanshan and Shaanxi in order to buy grain, and officials in Henan and some places under the jurisdiction of Beizhili robbed grain from the people in the name of the title!
But now these profiteers have been caught by themselves, and the food has not yet been sent out, which means that the Jurchens' idea of ​​buying food to solve their own food shortage problem has failed.

And after the idea fell through, the only way they can solve the food shortage is only one, which is to grab!
Rob!Where to grab it?
North Korea?

This has been snatched up long ago, and it can no longer be snatched out.

Rob the Mongols?

Hehe, they are poorer than themselves!

Then, there is only one goal left for them!

That is the good neighbor with great business and great business, Ming Dynasty!
Only from the Ming Dynasty can they grab the large amount of food they need.

This also means that the peaceful northern border since the Battle of Ningjin in May will usher in war again!

But this time, the Jurchens will not retreat at will, because they will fight for survival!
Therefore, this battle is bound to be very tragic, and the Jurchens want to live!Don't I know people don't want to live?
The robbers are all robbing the house, so all we can do is fight!

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(End of this chapter)