Chongzhen's open life

Chapter 400 Speechless Reality

When the news of the complete pacification of the Southwest came back to the court, it was already mid-August.

August, a month that is supposed to be the end of summer, seems to be longer than usual this year.

It's clear that the end of summer is known, but the hot sun continues in full swing throughout the north. Under the scorching sun, the land is as dry as cracked porcelain.

The seedlings planted in the spring plowing have all turned into withered grass on the roadside. The branches that should have formed ears of wheat are only dry and empty shells hanging on them. Blowing away with the wind, there is not even half a grain of wheat formed.

Farmers who have worked hard for a year have been able to predict their own future by looking at such a scene. It is the tragic life of leaving their homeland and becoming a refugee for a way to survive.

The experienced ones have already started to pack their bags. Taking advantage of the food at home, they can support them to go further, and maybe they can have a chance before they starve to death.

Shaanxi was the most severe drought in the north, and the drought in Shaanxi in the first year of Chongzhen came as scheduled.

The sky is as red as blood, the people on the ground are heading south like a colony of ants, and the densely packed crowd of fleeing famines are heading for any place they can think of where they can find something to eat. Yi Zi Er Shi is no longer a few cold words in the history books. , but a human tragedy right in front of us.

A scene of hell on earth is about to open the bloody red curtain...

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The capital of Ming Dynasty, the Hall of the Emperor.

At the end of the eighth day of the eighth day of August.

A sudden court meeting made the courtiers who were hurriedly summoned unprepared. Before entering the palace, they did not discuss much due to etiquette reasons. Discussed up.

"Master Liu, do you know what happened today? Why did His Majesty suddenly call me into the palace?"

"The old man doesn't know, but with such an emergency, something must have happened."

"What will it be?"

"Maybe it's something about the Southwest."

"Southwest? Isn't everything going well in Southwest? What can happen?"

"You ask the old man, who should the old man ask?"

"Uh……"

"Forget it, judging by the looks of the elders, they should be confident."

The courtiers who were discussing turned their attention to the elders in the front row. The elders stood at the head of the civil servants, which is commonly known as the front row.

All of them rolled up their sleeves, their eyes were slightly closed, and they looked calm.

Seeing the calm appearance of several pavilion elders, all the ministers gradually calmed down the panic in their hearts.

Mr. Ge is not in a panic, what are we panicking about?

With this mentality, the originally noisy court gradually quieted down.

But what they didn't know was that despite the calm appearance of Huang Liji and the others on the surface, they were already panicked in their hearts.

Since they became the cabinet elders of Chongzhen, they were often called to meetings suddenly, and the severity of the matter was always directly proportional to the urgency of the meeting.

This time not only summoned them urgently, but also summoned almost all the courtiers, and directly held a grand court meeting, one can imagine the seriousness of the matter.

It's just that since they ascended the throne today, they have often encountered this kind of situation, so they have gradually gotten used to it, and they have truly achieved the collapse of Mount Tai without changing their faces.

Zhang Ruitu even asked his family to prepare the coffin before going out. The worst outcome would be death. He was already mentally prepared, so he was extremely calm. But he still maintained a calm appearance on the surface.

However, their appearance unexpectedly made the flustered courtiers calm down. Perhaps this is the role of the leader.

It didn't take long, before a quarter of an hour came, the eunuch's shouts sounded outside the hall.

"His Majesty is here!!!"

Baihuan saluted and bowed, staring at his shoe upper without moving.

Soon there was a rush of footsteps on the main road in the middle of the hall. A pair of vermilion boots embroidered with golden dragon patterns stepped quickly and walked up to the imperial steps. A group of trotting people also quickly followed the front man. Go to the front.

Soon, the voice of the emperor came from above.

The Son of Heaven's voice is very calm, but people can hear a sense of urgency from this calm.

"Okay, it's urgent, don't use this set, let's get back together!"

All the ministers secretly looked around and didn't know what to do. At this time, the five elders in the front set an example.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Upon hearing this, the ministers hurriedly followed Xie En and straightened up, turning their gazes to the emperor on the dragon chair.

After the extremely simple etiquette, Zhu Youjian didn't hesitate, and directly took a memorial book from Wang Chengen's hand and said directly to the courtiers:

"Shaanxi Governor Bi Jianming recently sent me a letter of emergency through the Jinyiwei channel. The weather in Shaanxi has become hotter and hotter since summer, and it has not rained for three full months. The land is dry and the food is withered, but the sky can still be as red as red. It can be described as blood, seeing that Guanzhong's grain harvest this year is going to be wiped out.

Many people in Shaanxi have already packed their bags and joined the ranks of refugees.

Some of them went north, some went south, and went to find their own way of life. Now at least 20 refugees have come on foot on the road from Shaanxi to Beijing. What do you think should be done? "

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quiet!
Deathly silence!

There was silence all over the court, and everyone was so shocked by the sudden news that they couldn't speak.

There was a severe drought in Shaanxi, and 20 refugees came to Beijing. All these incidents made their minds unable to turn around for a while.

After a long period of silence, a censor suddenly stepped out and said angrily, "Your Majesty! I want to impeach Bi Jianming, the governor of Shaanxi, for the crime of inaction when the natural disaster is approaching!

The sudden natural disaster is of course a natural disaster, but since Bi Jianming, as the governor of Shaanxi, should start releasing food at this time to stabilize the situation and reassure the people, how can he let the disaster victims go their own way?
It even made 20 disaster victims come to the capital, which would bring great safety hazards to the capital, and it was an act of dereliction of duty in the eyes!

I ask His Majesty to punish him severely! "

Zhu Youjian waved his hand and said helplessly: "You have misunderstood Bi Qing. As soon as the disaster appeared, Bi Qing had already opened a warehouse to release grain. I had already anticipated the disaster, and the Qin Tianjian had warned me a long time ago. Therefore, all the major official warehouses in Shaanxi are full.

But what we didn't expect was that the opening of warehouses to release grain suddenly made many victims settle down, but more people who had experienced previous disasters thought that the court would not release grain for too long, and they would still become refugees in the end. So while there was still some food at home, I took Zao to find a way out.

This has caused countless people in Shaanxi to leave their hometowns to find their own way of life. "

Zhu Youjian also had a headache, and he didn't expect this to happen. When the disaster happened in previous years, the court's performance made many people lose confidence in the court's disaster relief measures, so even this time he was ready for it tomorrow morning. Enough food, but people don't believe you anymore.

People's trust in the government has dropped to an extremely low level.

But when encountering this situation, Zhu Youjian was a little helpless for a while.

As the so-called freezing three feet is not a day's cold, it is the bitter fruit accumulated by the court over the years, and he can't blame anyone.

But the most urgent thing now is how to resettle those Shaanxi disaster victims who escaped?

There are so many people running around outside, if someone is accidentally swayed by those careerists, maybe the team of thieves that Zhu Youjian has been trying to avoid will appear, and then things will really be troublesome.

Just look at the late Ming Dynasty in the previous life to see how tenacious the vitality of such things as flow thieves is.

This is Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, and once he appears, he will keep bloodletting Da Ming, and Da Ming is just in the Little Ice Age, these guys directly emptied Da Ming's huge body.

This allowed the Jiannu outside the pass to enter the Central Plains with the assistance of Wu Sangui, the leading party.

Zhu Youjian felt a headache, and the officials were also stunned. They didn't expect things to be like this.

In the past, refugees appeared because the imperial court was unable to provide disaster relief, but this time the imperial court was able to do so, but the common people didn't believe it and took the initiative to join the refugee team!
This is also the first time they have encountered such a sloppy situation.

The Holy One asked them how to deal with it, but they also felt numb?

How to break?Wait online!Urgent!

(End of this chapter)