I have a cornucopia

Chapter 65 The princess who robbed the rich and gave to the poor

Her Highness the Princess, who had probably never left the palace in her life and had never seen anything outside, was like a colorful girl who suddenly fell into a world of black and white.

There were rags all around.

All skin and bones.

People who looked like hungry ghosts in paintings were reaching out to her.

He really looks like a hungry ghost.

Famine is no longer a year or two.

The famine lasted for more than ten years in the Ming Dynasty. From north to south and from east to west, more than half of the counties in the country were not spared. Even Jiangsu and Zhejiang also suffered from famine. Although the famine in the latter was the most food-deficient, and some poor people starved to death in some places. Rather than the devastating one in the northwest.

Even Guangdong is suffering from famine!

There are heavy snowfalls in Guangzhou in winter.

Although the capital has external food supply, it costs money. The normal food price of four, five, two, and one stone determines that the common people in this city can only live in a state of starvation, but they are also constantly hungry. To put it simply, we are living day by day. After all, this kind of food price is simply beyond the reach of civilians. In this case, all civilians are basically skin and bones. The hungry ghosts in hell in Ming Dynasty paintings basically have this image.

Countless people like this gathered together, really like a group of living dead.

And when their dead branch-like hands are all stretched out towards themselves, it looks like a horror movie.

In the ditch behind them, dead bodies appeared from time to time in the ice and mud, and there were even wild dogs eating the dead bodies. Dead people were really common in this city. During the worst period of the plague, thousands of people were carried out a day. A dead body. The road to death from starvation is inevitable every day in winter, and those old women who are too hungry to stand up are struggling to crawl towards the princess, as if crawling towards their hope. And those soldiers who were also in ragged clothes were pushing them away with rusty weapons so as not to block the road. Although the weather was clear at the moment and the sunshine was pretty good, there was no color in the world in front of her...

There is no life.

There is only death and decay.

The sun couldn't make her feel warm, she could only feel the coldness of death.

Not only people are dying, but the entire city seems to be dying.

All this made her so horrified that she could only hold Yang Feng's arm, which was her only warmth and her only support at the moment.

"This is your father's picturesque country, and these are the people of Ming Dynasty."

Yang Feng said with ridicule.

Of course, for a little girl who is only fourteen years old, she actually doesn't understand much. As a traditional lady, she doesn't know anything about politics.

The princesses in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were truly educated in full accordance with Confucian principles.

Stricter than civilians.

What they have learned since childhood is nothing more than to be a lady according to Confucian standards. When they grow up, they will choose a prince-in-law with an ordinary background, and then live an ordinary life in a deep house. It can be said that both the princesses of the dynasty and the consorts have no sense of existence. It can even be said that most of the transparent people, including the consorts, are civilians. In the later period, some wealthy businessmen simply bribed the eunuchs, and many of them deceived the princess. For example, Wanli's sister was deceived and chose a tuberculosis man who paid to bribe the eunuch. She died a month after getting married. But according to Confucian etiquette, the princess cannot remarry. Even if Wanli really loves his sister, he can only make his sister a widow for the rest of her life. She will die in her twenties, and her body will still be found after she dies.

As a man who aspired to become a Holy Lord and Mingjun, Chongzhen was even more strict about the education of his children.

He really believed that.

But it’s hard to say now.

After all, he must have been beaten too much by reality in the past ten years.

Therefore, Her Royal Highness the Princess will not understand why her father's empire is like this.

but……

What I saw before me was so shocking.

She really didn't understand, but as long as she wasn't brainless, she would understand that this was wrong.

Picturesque country?

A picturesque country filled with people dying of hunger?

Her father, who worked hard on state affairs every day and seemed to be always busy, managed such a country in the past ten years? If she were to follow the Confucian standards she had studied, wouldn't such a scene only happen to a foolish king?

In a complete daze, Yang Feng took her to a carriage, then picked her up and placed her on the carriage.

"Just do the same as them. By the way, let me tell you, I robbed the silver from Fengcheng Hou's mansion. Fengcheng Hou refused to give it to me, so I broke his leg, which was on the carriage behind."

Yang Feng pointed behind him.

Her Highness the Princess turned her head and looked behind her. On a carriage that was also piled with silver, the unlucky Marquis of Fengcheng Li Kaixian was lying on his silver, beating his chest and cursing the unruly people around him. A girl was sitting next to him, constantly picking up ingots of silver and throwing them towards the surrounding poor people. The poor people who took the silver were all cheering.

"Am I a bad person?"

Yang Feng lay on the silver and looked at the bewildered Princess.

the latter……

The latter was still confused.

I'm really confused. This is the money he robbed, and he broke a marquis's leg because he refused to give it to him. The poor Marquis of Fengcheng is still screaming. This is indeed an act of robbery, but the problem is... Look at the skinny people around, the bodies starving to death on the roadside, and then look at the fat and wealthy Marquis Fengcheng who is incompatible with everything around him.

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this. He has gained so much weight, so he must have a lot of money.

Why not use some to save these hungry people?

"Nowadays, the price of rice in the capital is five taels. This ingot of silver can buy one stone of rice. One stone of rice can allow a person to live for three months.

I didn’t rob much. 50,000 taels for a family can help 10,000 hungry people survive for three months. These 50,000 taels will not have any impact on the Fengcheng Hou family. I went into his bank account and there is at least 150,000 taels left in it. Two, this is just a bank in his family, there must be others. For people like them, 50,000 taels only means less to buy a few beauties and less to build a few gardens, but it can enable 10,000 hungry people to survive, so I must rob them.

But these are still too few.

I will continue to rob the remaining noble houses, at least so that all the people in the capital who are about to starve to death can have such a piece of silver, and then live until the summer grain harvest. In this way, most of them will probably survive this year. As for later, we will talk about it. Maybe later!

There are too many people starving to death in the world, and we can't save many with this method. We can only count the ones who survive! "

Yang Feng picked up a piece of silver and handed it to her and said.

Her Royal Highness the Princess nodded. She finally took the silver and looked at the expectant eyes below.

In the end, she threw it to a girl about the same age as herself, but with patches all over her body.

Later, Marquis Fengcheng shut up.

He can't scold the princess!

He can curse these unruly people as much as he wants, but the one who is giving them his money now is the princess, the daughter of His Majesty the Emperor. Besides, he doesn't know if the princess's appearance here is the emperor's will. He can only watch and watch the money being thrown away. Her Royal Highness, the princess, beat the silver with grief and anger.

The uncles on the other carriages all watched numbly.

Really numb.

In fact, they also misunderstood.

They were far away and did not hear the conversation between the princess and Yang Feng. At this moment, they could not guess what the emperor meant.

After all, the princess must have left the palace under orders, otherwise she would never have appeared here. "Go, keep moving forward!"

Yang Feng shouted.

He grabbed the driver and drove the carriage himself.

The turbulent mobs surrounded him and Her Royal Highness and continued to move forward happily. So far, they had only robbed five noble families. There were dozens more waiting for them in front of them, and the same mobs in this city They are still coming, and even some unscrupulous people from the city who heard the news have entered the city.

And the vast majority are military households.

"Let's go if we say we can. You have everything I have!"

Yang Feng continued to howl.

"Hehe, it's all there.

There is no turning back in water or fire! "

The troublemakers, who were already familiar with it, immediately began to howl.

On the carriages among them, the girls headed by Her Royal Highness were like virgins throwing money away, while the marquis and counts watched numbly. Soon they stopped in front of the next unlucky earl's door. Yang Feng stepped forward and kicked the door suddenly...

"Open the door and rob!"

he shouted.

Then he turned to look at the princess.

Her Royal Highness, who was already very excited, immediately waved her fist.

"Open the door and rob!"

she shouted with a smile.

"Open the door and rob!"

There were countless shouts of joy all around.

The door slowly opened, and inside, a middle-aged man in Feiyu suit looked at this scene with a sad face...

At this time, His Majesty the Emperor did not know that his daughter had become an accomplice, and he was still furious.

but……

He still refused to issue an order to transfer the Beijing camp to the city.

In fact, he knew very well that Lao Wang was truly loyal to him. Although Yang Feng said that he would hang himself next year, and Lao Wang was the only one who followed him, which was really hard for him to believe, Lao Wang's move was truly loyal. When his daughter leaves the palace to meet Yang Feng, it can basically guarantee that Yang Feng will not do anything crazy. This traitor obviously has ulterior motives for his daughter. He admitted that it was in his best interest to feed his daughter to tigers, but it was too shameful to agree. However, since Lao Wang killed him first and then reported it later, it would not involve his face, so after he ordered Lao Wang to be imprisoned, he Still refused to transfer the Beijing camp into the city.

At this time, Zhang Xin and the eunuch Wang Dehua, who already understood his thoughts, had better reasons to oppose him.

Make sure the princess is safe!

If the princess is in the hands of Yang Feng and the capital camp is mobilized into the town to suppress her, what will happen if this traitor is so crazy that he hurts the princess?

Who can bear this responsibility?

"When Gao Huan was in Luoyang, he saw the Yulin army rioting and burning down the leader Zhang Yi's house, but the court did not dare to intervene, knowing that the world was about to be in chaos. Now the military households in the capital have been seduced by a monster, robbed nobles, and beat Hou Bo. Your Majesty But they still dare not mobilize troops to suppress it, and the Ming Dynasty’s chaos may begin today.”

Xu Shiqi looked at the unruly people who had blocked the street in front of him and said angrily.

In the end, they failed to persuade Chongzhen.

If His Majesty the Emperor refuses to issue an order, then either Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen will mobilize troops into the city without authorization, or Zhang Guowei, the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War in Beijing, will order troops to be mobilized. Both of them have the power. Of course, they have the power to mobilize troops, but the consequences of deploying troops to the capital without an imperial decree are another matter. Any dynasty that does this will risk killing the Nine Tribes. Of course Zhang Guowei would not do this. Although he was indeed loyal, he actually had no conflict of interest, and even the civil servants had little influence. The only ones who were unlucky were the nobles. It is true that civil servants have money, but this money is not in the capital. Under the Ming Dynasty system, non-locals are not allowed to purchase properties. Officials with foreign citizenship even rent their residences in the capital, unless they are granted a title or the emperor grants them the title of royal guard in the capital.

Otherwise, they would have no house or land in the capital, and they would be so worried!

Vast wealth?

All the wealth is in my hometown!

Last time when Huang Shijun retired, Chongzhen was afraid that such an honest man would not have money to go home, so he specially gave money for travel expenses. I wonder what His Majesty was thinking when he knew that Huang's family had a garden villa that was one of the four famous gardens in Lingnan. Feelings?

The poetic and picturesque life he led after he returned home was much better than his.

"The chaos of the Ming Dynasty? The Ming Dynasty has been in chaos for almost twenty years."

Zheng Sanjun sighed.

A group of ministers and censors were silent.

Indeed, the Ming Dynasty has been in chaos for almost twenty years. In fact, it is a miracle that something like this has not happened in the capital until now. It can only be said that the military households are indeed loyal to the old Zhu family. Now, to put it bluntly, this is The country had reached a critical point of chaos, and then Yang Feng tore away the last fig leaf.

Local gentry were already abandoning the imperial court.

Military households in the capital are also breaking free from the shackles of the last bottom line.

Even some officials have crossed the last line...

Zhang Xin was threatening the emperor.

With Yang Feng, a good thug behind him, he has openly threatened the emperor. What kind of magic can seriously injure Abatai from the air? Isn't that a warning to the emperor, if you have a falling out, be careful that Yang Feng will kill you from the air. Your imperial city cannot stop drones.

Uh, magic weapon!

"Let them make trouble. We are almost at Li Guozhen's house. Let's see if Li Guozhen can hold it back."

Zhang Wei said.

"In fact, we might as well grant their wishes."

Zhang Guowei said.

"Then what will happen to the capital in the future? Shall we continue to transport food and feed it? The money and food in Beizhili are gone, the money and food in Shandong are gone, the money and food in Henan are gone, and the money and food in Shanxi and Shaanxi have been given to Sun Boya to train troops. There are millions of people in the capital, and countless emperors Do we rely on us to support our relatives?"

Zhang Wei sneered.

He was from Wujin, and he was still a student of Donglin boss Sun Shenxing.

During the Ming Dynasty, Suzhou ranked first in taxation, Songjiang ranked third, Changzhou sixth, Jiaxing ninth, and Huzhou thirteenth. The five prefectures combined accounted for one-fifth of the country. Now Pingyang, the second, and Xi'an, the fourth, all trained troops for Sun Chuanting. Jinan in the fifth place was slaughtered by the Qing army just a few years ago, Kaifeng in the seventh place was razed, and Qingzhou in the eighth place is now Yang Feng's dark background. In fact, the gentry headed by Fang Kezhuang relied on the Knights of Confucius and Mencius as thugs and was already misappropriating local tax revenue. If this gap was loosened, other countries in the north such as Taiyuan would definitely follow suit. At that time, they directly relied on the regiment to support them. Who will the imperial family look to for taxation?

Isn’t it necessary to get the various prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River?

Therefore, even if Shen Tingyang succeeds in transporting grain by sea, he must fail.

Is shipping smooth?

Then the emperor would be better off asking for food.

"Move the capital."

Feng Yuanbiao, the Minister of War, said.

Everyone fell silent for a moment...

(End of this chapter)