I have a cornucopia

Chapter 66 What a sin!

Move the capital...

This kind of thing has actually been discussed by ministers for a long time.

Besides, it’s not about moving the capital.

To be precise, I visited Nandu.

It can be said that going to Nanjing is the simplest and most effective way to solve the current dilemma of Ming Dynasty.

First, there is no need to face the rising tide of hungry people.

Although there were actually many slaves in the south of the Yangtze River, they were just slaves who resisted the serf owners. It was not difficult to suppress them after all, not to mention that it was theoretically illegal for the gentry to keep slaves...

They are not qualified.

According to the law, only seventh-grade officials were qualified to raise single-digit domestic slaves, but it was very common for Jiangnan gentry to have thousands of child servants. Of course, it could also be interpreted as an adopted son, but the adopted son had the right to divide the family property. Zhu Yuanzhang had already thought of this kind of thing. Gentlemen could indeed raise slaves privately in the name of adopted sons and daughters, but Zhu Yuanzhang's rule was that an adopted son was a son and an adopted daughter was a daughter. The former has the right to divide the family property, while the latter is a traitor if you dare to play with them, even if you agree. According to the biological daughter, even if they are harmonious, they are still strong. Lao Zhu has already blocked the road for them.

Although these rules have been largely tacitly ignored after his death, the law is the law.

it has.

Slave transformation is really easy to solve.

Simply overhauling Lao Zhu's laws can solve this problem.

Second, there is no need to face Jianlu entering the customs.

Of course, the emperor and the court no longer had to face each other.

The people in the north are still the same.

Third, the food problem in the capital has been solved.

Because there is no need to travel thousands of miles from the south to the capital, Nanjing itself is a gathering place for water-borne grain. This city can be said to be the capital choice with the lowest maintenance cost. There is no one comparable to it. After all, the entire Yangtze River Basin is where shipping converges.

There are really too many benefits.

However, supporters are still few and far between.

Northern officials objected, and they firmly opposed it, because the emperor was in the north, and the south at least had to transport grain to the north for support. This grain made up for the shortage of the north. But if the emperor went south, the north would be abandoned. You can fend for yourself! We must believe in the integrity of the southern gentry on this point. When the emperor is in the north, they don't want to transport grain to the north. Without the emperor, do you expect them to control the life and death of the north?

Go and fend for yourself!

In fact, a large number of southern ministers are also opposed to it.

Because the emperor went to Nanjing, it would be easier to collect taxes.

He will definitely lead his army south, and if he dares to engage in tax resistance like the Suzhou civil uprising, he should go to the Beijing camp and shoot him.

Now they can make a lot of excuses, just to transport grain to the north as little as possible, but when the emperor really arrives in Nanjing, there are no excuses. It must be understood that the southern gentry is not simply unwilling to transport grain to the north, they actually don't even want the emperor Raised.

Therefore, this issue was very sensitive in the court, and Chongzhen was worried about being ignored after going south. Northern officials were worried that the south would no longer care about the life and death of the north after he went south. Southern officials were worried that after he went south, he would increase tax collection in the south...

This matter is really sensitive.

Really effective though.

Walking is not a hassle.

Just go to Tianjin and take a boat after spring.

It is not difficult to travel by sea or canal.

Of course, these had nothing to do with Yang Feng. He still took the princess, like a group of bandits, singing hero songs in the capital, smashing open the mansions of nobles one by one and forcing them to pay for their money. Although Chongzhen sent Wang Dehua and Jin Yiwei to take the princess back to the palace, they were rushed by the unruly people before they even got close. In the end, they could only watch the princess happily throwing money on the carriage from dozens of meters away.

Fortunately, the savior finally appeared to turn the tide...

Xiangcheng Bofu.

"You unscrupulous people, do you want to rebel?"

Uncle Xiangcheng, wearing a helmet and whipping armor, roared angrily while riding a white horse.

Five hundred cavalry were arrayed behind him.

A true cavalryman.

Equipped cavalry.

Of course, he did not mobilize troops privately.

He just took 500 cavalry to the Ministry of War to collect some supplies. It was reasonable to receive the supplies. The Ministry of War allocated them to them, but because of the unruly people in the city and no one to transport them, they had to go into the city to collect them themselves.

Then Uncle Xiangcheng, who had been in the camp for many days, stopped by to take a look.

Encounter...

It must be a chance encounter.

Occasionally, he encountered some unruly people trying to rob his house.

After all, he also knew that if something went wrong, Chongzhen would definitely be blamed. But the problem was that he couldn't ignore his own family. What was robbed was his money. That wasted money was just thrown to the poor!

孽 孽!

"Uncle Xiangcheng, Princess Kunxing is here, why don't you be polite!"

Yang Feng shouted while sitting on the carriage.

In fact, Li Guozhen, who was still relatively young, silently looked at the princess sitting on the silver table. The latter was too excited along the way, her face was red, and her clothes were a little messy because she didn't pay attention to her manners. Sitting there with two silver ingots in her hands, because of her special status, she was surrounded by girls of the same age, but they were all in rags, with a sallow complexion and thin skin, which made her look like a fairy descended from the earth.

Of course, salutes are still necessary.

"Princess, I am wearing armor and it is difficult for me to dismount. Please forgive me, Princess!"

He raised his hand and said.

"Xiang, Uncle Xiangcheng, there is no need to be more polite."

The princess somewhat panicked and tried to stand up and return the favor.

But then Yang Feng turned around and held her down.

"Yang Feng, you are a student who doesn't study hard. How can you imitate the gangsters who dare to bewitch the unruly people in the capital and kidnap the princess and the princes? How can you not be afraid of the might of God who will wrath you and kill your nine clans? Let the princess and the princes go immediately. Bind your hands and blame the crime. After your Majesty remembers you as a loyal minister, he will pardon your sins. If you persist in your persistence and the iron cavalry behind me moves forward, it will be too late to regret."

Li Guozhen shouted.

Yang Feng smiled.

The laughter made Li Guozhen feel a little uneasy. Even his horse felt the danger and became restless.

"Big, bold, and yet you don't hold back your hands to blame!"

He shouted bravely.

The next moment, Yang Feng suddenly jumped up and was on the back of the driving horse. He stepped on the horse and jumped up again. In the blink of an eye, he was in front of Li Guozhen. Then he shook the chain saw whip in his hand and whipped it down with a roar that broke the air. Only then did Uncle Xiangcheng react. He screamed in horror and tried to turn around, but the soldiers behind him reacted much faster than him. The two soldiers stabbed their spears upwards on his left and right sides. Yang Feng's chain saw whip fell on the two spears, but it was soft, so the front end of the chain saw whip still fell off. Fortunately, it was originally hitting him, but now it was sweeping in front of him, and the chain saw whip The saw teeth of the whip lightly scratched his nose...

"what!"

Uncle Xiangcheng screamed.

Under his petrified gaze, the chainsaw whip continued to fall on his horse.

The saw teeth tore open the horse's back instantly.

The severe pain caused the white horse to stand up, neighing, and then threw Uncle Xiangcheng down.

The soldiers behind him swarmed forward.

but……

"boom!"

"boom!"

... Continuous gunshots rang out.

The two soldiers fell off their horses immediately.

The rest all stopped and looked at the unscrupulous people behind Yang Feng in shock. In the hands of several unscrupulous people were smoking three-eyed guns...

"Uncle Xiangcheng, my youngest daughter starved to death the day before yesterday, and my family can't survive for a few days. Your family wealth is not just millions, but hundreds of thousands. Yang Sheng just asked you to give 50,000 taels to my little one." We have a chance to live. Our little ancestors also followed your ancestors through life and death. Don’t you have any love at all? Today you don’t give us a chance to live, so we will risk our lives. We will starve to death or go to the execution ground. It’s also death, so it’s not a bad idea for the young guys to go out of their way to get a count to join us.”

A skinny and ruthless man said angrily.

"Yes, you all have a millionaire, and now our whole family is about to starve to death, and you still refuse to give us 50,000 taels to keep us alive?

How do you get your money?

Isn’t it squeezed out from us poor military households?

In the past years, what did your Xiangcheng Mansion do, didn't it force us poor military households? All the good land in Wei has been robbed by you, and the food and clothing given by Long Live Lord have been withheld by you. Even when you have weddings and funerals, you still have to force the children to hand over gifts. The children have raised you for generations. Now the children are fast. I'm starving to death, and you refuse to give me some money to survive?

If you don’t let the little ones live, then we won’t all live. "

shouted another troublemaker.

"Yes, I will drag you princes with me to death."

……

Then came the roar of confusion.

This kind of thing is like a flood behind a dam. It's okay if you don't make a hole, but if you make a hole, the dike will burst.

Dare to stop?

Then you have to be prepared for the violent raging waves.

"Rebellion, rebellion, you unruly people, kill without mercy, shoot without mercy!"

Li Guozhen, who got up from the ground, roared angrily.

After all, he was still too young. In fact, he was only in his twenties. He had been well-fed and well-dressed all his life. He probably had never been beaten or even scolded. He was also considered a young success. After all, at this age, Chongzhen re-appointed him to take charge of the capital camp. Definitely a teenage success. Although it is true that the nobles take turns in charge of the Beijing camp, there are not many people like him in their twenties who are in charge of the Beijing camp. Chongzhen still attaches great importance to the Beijing camp. The pain and humiliation at this moment had already made him dizzy. Looking at these unruly people and Yang Feng, he completely lost his mind and even forgot that there was a princess behind Yang Feng.

At his roar, the cavalry immediately began to move forward.

These are not necessarily local.

In theory, the Beijing camp is indeed a military household in the capital, but in fact, military households from other places are also transferred to other places for training in the later period.

At the same time, the unruly people with weapons behind Yang Feng, including the military household officers who also came to collect the money, and even the soldiers who were not actually on duty in the Beijing camp, came forward with weapons, and the two sides stood in the narrow space. The streets are lined up...

"stop!"

Yang Feng suddenly roared.

There was silence all around.

Yang Feng turned his head and looked at the princess...

"Princess, please close your eyes. The next scene is a bit bloody and not suitable for you."

He said.

Her Royal Highness quickly closed her eyes.

next moment……

"Shoot to kill, right?"

Yang Feng turned around and said ferociously.

At this time, Li Guozhen had been helped up by the soldiers, and other soldiers protected him. However, because Yang Feng was followed by the princess, although these soldiers had three-shot short muskets similar to those of the previous Qing army, they did not dare to fire. Some of them were holding spears and assuming a defensive posture. As for the mounted cavalry behind them, they were not actually moving forward.

These are just the costumes of the cavalry. In fact, they are just decorations and have no impact power at all.

But these soldiers can really fight.

"Then let's kill without mercy!"

Yang Feng suddenly grabbed his door-breaking weapon...

Horse hitching post.

This thing has a lion on it, and the lion's legs just happen to be able to grab it.

Yang Feng grabbed it with both hands and threw it out suddenly.

The 400-pound stone pile instantly hit the two soldiers' horses with a roar that broke through the air. The huge impact force caused the two horses' front legs to be completely broken, and they fell forward directly. Then Yang Feng jumped up, stepped on the back of the cavalry who also fell forward on the horse, and bumped into Li Guozhen behind him. At the same time, he threw out the chain saw whip in his hand and instantly wrapped it around Li Guozhen's neck. Yang Feng, who had landed on the ground, suddenly swung back. Uncle Xiangcheng, who was wrapped around his neck, flew backwards, passed by the two fallen soldiers, and landed in front of Yang Feng's carriage.

And the next moment Yang Feng also fell down.

"Shoot to kill, right?"

he shouted.

Then the chain saw whip was thrown away, and just as Li Guozhen was covering his neck and screaming, the whip hit him on the back.

This thing was a chain saw blade, and Yang Feng also modified it. In a moment, the armor on Li Guozhen's back was torn to pieces, followed by a second blow, and his bloody back was exposed after these blows.

"It's the other way around, right?"

Yang Feng shouted.

Then his chainsaw whip came down again.

This time it was even more ruthless, and the saw teeth were flung outward with flesh and blood.

"what!"

Uncle Xiangcheng let out a heartbreaking scream.

"You are a troublemaker, aren't you?"

Yang Feng shouted.

Then came another whip.

This isn't a whip, it's basically a meat scraper.

Once the whip was struck, even if he held back his strength, it would still tear Li Guozhen's flesh into pieces. With just two whips hitting the flesh, Uncle Xiangcheng's back was rotten and he fainted from the pain. The soldiers moved forward like crazy, but the unscrupulous people behind Yang Feng also moved forward like crazy, and the two sides collided with each other in an instant. But under such circumstances, it was useless for the soldiers to fight. They were surrounded by people. Those skinny and unruly people grabbed them like hungry ghosts, dragged them under their horses and beat them wildly. In the middle, Yang Feng was still whipping Li Guozhen. Poor Uncle Xiangcheng woke up from the pain again when he was whipped. He screamed weakly and then passed out from the pain.

"Go in and evacuate his house. It's shameless. Since he refuses to take 50,000 taels, then don't leave it to him. Evacuate all the money, grain, and livestock for him. It's all yours." of!"

Yang Feng shouted.

"What are you looking at? You don't want money?"

A rogue shouted to the helpless armored cavalry.

The latter calmed down instantly.

Yes, this is an Earl's Mansion, filled with gold, silver and jewelry!

Then they all turned their horses' heads.

At the same time, someone climbed over the wall and climbed into the Xiangcheng residence. The door was opened from the inside. Excited people outside swarmed in. All the cavalrymen dismounted and threw away their armor, just like the unruly people. Rushed into Xiangcheng Bofu. Yang Chongyou and others on the carriage outside watched this scene tremblingly. They didn't know whether they were afraid or grateful that they were not as twitchy as Li Guozhen.

Only fifty thousand taels.

"Why bother!"

Yang Feng looked at the unconscious Li Guozhen and said while holding the bloody whip.

Of course, the latter is not dead yet.

As for whether he will die in the future, it is none of his business. If he dies, he will die. Most of these guys will die next year, and the whole family will die together, or they will be trapped. If they die in his hands, the whole family will be left behind. , this can be regarded as worthy of his ancestors.

(End of this chapter)