I have a cornucopia

Chapter 68: Anger turns beauty into beauty

The unlucky Zhou Yanru was beaten to death at the Meridian Gate by the nobles.

As for Chongzhen...

What can he do?

The nobles called him to see.

These guys were extremely unhappy, but because of reality, they had to accept the consequences of paying for food and money to be a good person for him, so they deliberately vented their anger in front of his eyes.

Also a warning to him.

Let's forget it this time. Next time, don't think that we are also weak persimmons. The rabbit bites people when it is anxious and wants us to provide food and money. Do you think we won't cause trouble? Why, you can't afford to offend Shandong, which is playing separatist rule to protect itself, and Jiangnan, which supports you, so you think that we nobles are fat pigs that can be slaughtered by you at will.

In the end, facing the anger of the nobles, Chongzhen also chose to give him some face. Anyway, Zhou Yanru was no longer of use value to him.

Already abandoned.

It was none of his business to be beaten to death by nobles.

It is indeed illegal for the nobles to beat Zhou Yanru to death. They can pick any count at random and count him as the one who beat him to death. However, they have iron certificates and can avoid death in such criminal cases. Therefore, they can only be dismissed from the post of Governor of the Fifth Army and reflect at home. Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and Xu Yunzhen, the Duke of Ding, who took the lead, were all fined. In this way, Zhou Yanru's death was in vain, but it cannot be said that he died in vain. As an appeasement to the southern ministers, the imperial edict for his dismissal was recovered, so he could be buried as the chief minister. In the future, various official positions could be engraved on the stele, and then That's a pretty good posthumous title.

Otherwise, what else are you thinking about?

Should the murderer be severely punished?

All those participating have iron certificates!

This was not treason. Not to mention that it could only be a manslaughter. Even if they cut off Zhou Yanru's head directly, they would still avoid death.

Of course, the anger of southern ministers and the Jiangnan gentry after it spread to the south is another matter.

"My thoughts have changed!"

In front of Chengtian Gate, Yang Feng said with emotion.

Indeed, my mind has changed.

The nobles are no longer the nobles of the past.

Although they are actually a group of fat sheep ready to be slaughtered, the problem is that they themselves do not consider themselves fat sheep, not to mention that they have been entrenched in the capital for more than two hundred years and can be said to be the biggest local snake. No matter how intertwined the forces inside and outside the palace were, and even formed groups through marriage, at least for now, they were still a huge part of the imperial court. Just like the elongated shadow under the light, it was obviously a puppy and thought it was a Tyrannosaurus rex. It was impossible for them not to do something. Besides, if Chongzhen could do it the first time, he could do it the second time. What the emperor lacked most was nothing more than money and food, and Yang Feng had already opened the lid of their warehouse, and their financial resources had been seen by Chongzhen.

Eat the marrow to know the taste.

One day when we encounter a critical moment again, we will have to take action against them when we have no choice.

They must warn Chongzhen and let His Majesty the Emperor understand that they also have sharp teeth and claws...

Although they actually only have claws to scratch people.

When the news spread to the south of the Yangtze River, it is estimated that the minds of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River also changed. Although Zhou Yanru was actually not very popular among the gentry in the south, neither he nor Wen Tiren were from the Donglin Party. It was wrong to say that Chongzhen reused the Donglin Party. The vast majority of those chief ministers are really not from the Donglin Party...

One thing is that the core members of the Donglin Party were killed by Jiu Qiansui.

Secondly, he is not stupid.

Cronies are something any emperor will fight against.

What's more, the Donglin Party is so arrogant that they call me a crony.

Especially when the Qing army entered the customs for the first time, the first assistant was the veteran Han Xu, who was pro-Donglin Party, but the second assistant Qian Longxi was in charge. This was the genuine Donglin Party, and Yuandudu relied on him to rise. He said that Yuandudu was promoted by him. After this incident, Chongzhen no longer had a good impression of the Donglin Party.

He really hates Yuandudu.

Qian Longxi was also imprisoned and exiled because of Yuandudu.

As for Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, they were reused by Chongzhen precisely by stepping on the Donglin Party and showing themselves to be neutral and without cliques. They were indeed members of the Jiangnan Group. Zhou Yanru was even from Changzhou, the home base of the Donglin Party. They are from the core area of ​​Yixing, not Wuxi or Wujin, but they do not represent the Donglin Party. Zhou Yanru came to power because he stepped on Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party. He and Wen Tiren were responsible for the latter's expulsion from the court, and Wen Tiren killed the same genuine Donglin Party, and he was also the leader of the younger generation of the Donglin Party. Zheng Yan, or Luo Zhi, has a bunch of shocking crimes...

Mother of sticks.

orthopedics.

In the end it was too late.

However, Zhou Yanru does not represent the Donglin Party, but represents the southern gentry!

Such a person was actually beaten to death at the Meridian Gate.

The anger of the Jiangnan gentry is inevitable, and even the Donglin Party will be angry. Putting aside their grudges with Zhou Yanru, this incident itself represents the emperor's contempt for the Jiangnan gentry. Now he dares to kill a Jiangnan leader even if he is noble. Fu, what else do you want to do in the future? Especially the re-activation of Fan Fucui, this old guy now has Yang Feng as a thug, and he will not be as honest as before in the future.

and so……

Your Majesty, do you not want to be the Holy Lord and Mingjun?

In a sense, Yang Feng really made a very bad start. He violently tore apart the pretense of hypocrisy between the various forces in the Ming Dynasty, shattering the entirety that was originally connected only by a thin film. , causing the court to fall apart like a broken plate.

No more pretending.

The ministers from Shandong blatantly relied on Yang to threaten the emperor, and the nobles blatantly beat the chief minister to death. Although he was the former, he was only dismissed for less than ten minutes. What kind of court is this? Rebellious ministers and traitors are rampant, and the country will not be the country!

But that's not a bad thing.

It cannot be destroyed or established!

How to build a new one without destroying the old?

If you continue like this, won't you be doomed in the end?

"Hurry up, what are you waiting for? Brothers are waiting to go back and have a full meal!"

he shouted impatiently.

In front of the row of royal guards in front of him, a eunuch looked back with a smile...

"Princess?"

The eunuch said to the princess sitting next to Yang Feng.

"let's start!"

Her Royal Highness the Princess, who was still assembling her house, said.

She is responsible for this grain release on behalf of her father.

Of course, it was mainly requested by Yang Feng, so Chongzhen had no choice but to endure it. In fact, from the emperor's point of view, it should be considered a shame for his daughter to be exposed.

"It's started, it's started. Are all the Kingo vanguard here?"

the eunuch shouted quickly.

There was a dense mass of heads in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, the Jinwu avant-garde military households who had gathered and waited for a long time all responded with approval. There were all men, women, old and young, and there were even some holding children, and some pushing carts. It can be said that at present, all the military households of the Jinwu avant-garde and their The family is all here. Although in theory one guard could have more than 5,000 regular soldiers, and behind each regular soldier there was a family, which probably had more than 100,000 members till now, but in fact, by this time in the Ming Dynasty, there were not that many military households fleeing. People who were pro-junwei fled as well. Under the military household system in the late Ming Dynasty, everyone fled. There were more than 50,000 military household refugees wandering around Nanjing all year round, and the vast majority were actually pro-junwei and Jingwei. Because many guards were divided into one in the south and one in the north. These military households had clan relatives in Nanjing. Otherwise, without clan relatives to accept them, how could they not be arrested.

This is a deserter.

The current total population of the capital is not enough to support the 26-guard establishment of the pro-insurgent army alone.

After two hundred years of normal reproduction, the twenty-six guards alone would probably cost more than two million.

In fact, there are a total of seventy-two guards in the capital.

The current population of the capital is estimated to be only around one million. Not to mention sorry for the results of their two hundred years of reproduction, even the regular soldiers are sorry for this number. After all, a regular soldier must at least have parents, wife and children. Even if there are five people in a family, then It has to be more than 1.5 million. Except for the few who left the Wei status and converted to Min status for various reasons, most of them actually ran away. It is difficult to leave the Wei status. Even a family like Yang Feng who was later listed as a scholar in the imperial examination is still a civil servant. Wei nationality. Shi Ji is just a title.

Wei registration is his family's real household registration.

Including Sun Chuanting, they are also from Wei.

However, in the household registration of these health centers, the number of military households is relatively real.

Because of this year-round inspection.

And it's a civilian investigation.

As Jin Wu's avant-garde palm print commander personally called out the household registers, the military households stepped forward to distribute food according to their population. The main soldiers received two dan, the remaining soldiers one dan, the women and children five dan, and each family basically received four or five dan. But it’s not just millet. In fact, a large part of it is wheat and brown rice. The distinction is not so clear, but no matter what, those who are allocated grain will at least not starve to death before the summer grain harvest.

But only in theory.

After all, there is no winter wheat in the capital area.

The tax revenue from the north is definitely gone. At most, there will be grain merchants selling the grain to the capital after the summer grain harvest, but the key is water transportation, so it still depends on whether the grain from the south of the Yangtze River can be transported in time and in sufficient quantities.

It shouldn't be a big problem.

Because the Governor of Water Transport at this time was Shi Kefa, his family was in the capital, and he was a member of the Imperial Guard of the capital. Seriously speaking, his ability was indeed limited, but he still had no problem in abiding by his ministerial duties. In short, that's all Yang Feng can do. Now it's not just the capital city in the north that doesn't have enough to eat, almost all places in the north don't have enough to eat. Including Shandong, there is not enough to eat, so he has to go back and organize fishing. This is the only solution he can think of under the current situation. Anyway, the fish in the sea are not affected by natural disasters. Build some centipede boats and then load them with trawl nets. fishing.

Of course, he also had to deal with transportation.

So canning is a must.

As for the capital, it was just a matter of time. To be precise, the grain release was just a by-product of his troubles. It was mainly to make troubles and do some good things on the side. This is how this era is. Catching up can save He must save at least tens of millions of hungry people in the entire Ming Dynasty...

He is a human being, not a god.

Besides, this is a famine that will last for more than ten years in the future.

There is really no more effective method besides my Qing Ding reduction.

After all, if you kill all the people who have no food, there will be no famine.

"O living Bodhisattva who saves the suffering!"

The first military household to receive food suddenly fell at Yang Feng's feet.

"Well, I don't like this title, or you can call me a living god."

Yang Feng said.

"From now on, my whole family will set up a memorial tablet to the living gods to burn incense and worship you for generations to come."

The leader of the old man cried.

"Whatever. Also, Princess Kunxing is in charge of the food distribution now. I'm just in charge of supervision."

Yang Feng said while looking at Her Royal Highness the Princess who was still assembling the building blocks.

The old man and his family rushed to the princess.

The princess stood up in a panic to help her, but then the building blocks she had assembled for a long time accidentally dropped and fell apart...

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Yang Feng smiled happily.

Her Royal Highness the Princess looked at the blocks on the ground with tears in her eyes.

"This monster!"

On the wall above their heads, Funing Marquis Zhu Guobi said angrily.

He was actually a marquis in the capital. It was just that Li Zicheng ran very fast when he entered the capital. After running to Nanjing, he was promoted to Duke Baoguo by Hongguang. Under them at this moment, there were carriages carrying grain. The grain in these carriages was all It was shipped from noble families like them. However, because theirs alone was not enough, Chongzhen had decreed that all the world-level commanders and above should donate food, and the eunuchs in the palace should also donate food. In short, the goal is to raise at least 500,000 dan, and those who are not enough will be given silver, and each person with citizenship will be given one tael of silver. In addition to the nobles, Chongzhen also contributed some. After all, he still has something. This is not to the point where we will need to borrow money next year.

With Li Guozhen's corpse comparable to that of Ling Chi, both nobles and lay commanders, including the eunuchs, all honestly accepted the reality.

After all, Yang Feng really knows how to kill.

Besides, the amount they want is really not enough for them to lose their minds.

Of course, that doesn't mean they aren't angry.

"Damn it, how do you kill this bitch?"

Xue Lian, Marquis of Yangwu, looked at Yang Feng who was pulling blocks for Her Royal Highness the Princess and said bitterly.

Next year he will be the worst.

Because of his many evil deeds, it is said that Liu Zongmin tortured and robbed him most brutally when he was captured, and the people in the capital applauded him after he was captured.

"We're afraid it won't work.

Those who use hundreds of kilograms of horse stakes as weapons are given to us for free, except for the elite servants of the general soldiers. But among the recent general soldiers, except for Ma Ke, who had some conflicts with him, they all followed him. Quite a few. Although several of Marco's men were injured by him, it was said that he had seen him perform magic with his own eyes, but he was just trying to be strong, but in fact he was afraid of him, unless he found someone who was not familiar with him and didn't know his details. If you dare to go up to someone like this, it would be best if you can kill him when the time comes. If you can't kill him, you can also settle your hatred, which is just for our use. "

Dingxi Marquis Jiang Bingzhong said.

He was also pinched to death next year.

"Wu family?"

Zhu Guobi immediately understood what he meant.

The one who meets this condition is the Wu Xiang family, whose servants are really good at fighting.

"Wu Xiang is still in prison. Let's go tell the Wu family and ask them to pick a few master servants to assassinate Yang Feng for us. As long as they can kill Yang Feng, we will ensure that Wu Xiang is released and reinstated."

Xue Lian said.

"Can't you kill him?"

Zhu Guobi said.

"If you can't kill him, tell Yang Feng that it was the Wu family who did it, and ask him to clean up the Wu family to anger Wu Sangui. Then Wu Sangui will become a mortal enemy with him. Damn, he is just a lucky upstart. When Tian Hong meets this piece of shit, he actually... Give him Chen Yuanyuan, this beauty will destroy his blessings."

Xue Lian said bitterly.

Then the guys laughed together.

Yang Feng suddenly turned his head when he heard the laughter, and they were so frightened that they quickly shrank behind the female wall.

(End of this chapter)