The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 388 A conspiracy emerges
Although Kyushu is rich, it has suffered from disasters since ancient times. All dynasties have been prepared in this regard, building granaries and stockpiling food for military supplies, disaster relief, etc.

The Ming Dynasty was no exception. It built large and small granaries in the two capitals and thirteen provinces to store large amounts of grain. For example, the Guangyun Granary in Xuzhou, the Dezhou Granary in Dezhou, the Linqing Granary in Linqing, and the Fengji Granary in Huai'an were four very famous granaries for water transport, storing large amounts of grain.

Even though the Ming Dynasty court collected less than three million taels of silver in taxes a year, this was actually only a small part of the tax collected.

Because most taxes are collected in kind, such as grain, cloth, silk, tea, etc., among which grain is the main part of agricultural tax collection.

This time, famine occurred in the three northern provinces. According to the usual practice, the imperial court issued an order to provide disaster relief, requiring local governments to open their granaries and release grain and cook porridge for disaster relief. They only needed to hold on for a few months, and when the spring wheat harvest came, the famine would be over and nothing would happen.

This was also the confidence that gave Zhu Houzhao the ability to fight against the civil officials and gentry.

As long as you have food in your hands, there is no need to panic.

As early as last winter, Zhu Houzhao sent people to investigate.

After several years of hard work, the major granaries in the northern provinces have sufficient food, and a lot of old food has begun to mold because it has not been eaten.

In addition, the weather in the past few years had been good, and the rivers and seas had been peaceful, so Zhu Houzhao had saved up a lot of wealth. In addition to the millions of taels of silver in the treasury, there were also a lot of grain piled up in warehouses all over the Ming Dynasty, and the silk, tea, etc. collected by the court were countless.

Afterwards, the imperial court sent out troops to consume most of the grain, but the grain in the four major granaries was never used. This was the red line mentioned by the Minister of Revenue Jiao Fang, and it could not be easily mobilized unless it was absolutely necessary.

That is why Zhu Houzhao had such confidence and courage, and did not take the attacks from the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River seriously at all.

But for some reason, Zhu Houzhao always felt a little uneasy in his heart, so after thinking about it, he decided to tell the savage about this matter and ask him to help analyze it.

The secret letter was sent by express horse and soon arrived in Dongsheng City.

At this moment, Tang Hao had led his troops to Dongsheng City and successfully joined forces with the An Guo Army.

All the generals were very happy at this moment. They sat in the stage and talked among themselves, recounting their experiences during this period, drinking wine and eating meat with big gulps, looking very happy.

Tang Hao sat in the main seat, smiling but not saying a word, drinking by himself.

The strategic goals of this expedition were basically achieved.

He strangled the barbarians all the way from Liaodong, fought his way into the Liaoxi Corridor from Liaodong, and then fought his way to Daning from Liaoxi, and then to Kaiping... After killing all the way here, not to mention the other soldiers, even Tang Hao was a little tired.

So a celebration banquet was inevitable, and the ban on drinking in the army became bullshit at this moment!

The soldiers of the three armies have experienced more than half a year of bloody killings, and their nerves have been tense. If we don't find a way to let them relax, there may even be a possibility of mutiny!
Tang Mu hooked his arm around An Guo's shoulders, his face full of fatigue.

"Tubdy An, you don't know, this time we chopped all the way from Liaodong to Nantianmen, and the number of barbarians we slaughtered was really countless, densely packed, densely packed, densely packed..."

When everyone heard this, they were speechless for a while, and then they burst into laughter.

However, when they saw the confusion in Tang Mu's eyes, they soon stopped laughing.

Among all the generals, Tang Mu was the most eccentric and shameless one.

Ma Yong's personality was erratic because of his bad temper, while Tang Mu became the glue among the generals because of his blood relationship with the Marquis and because he was a playboy before. He eased many conflicts and everyone liked him very much.

But now, after more than half a year of bloody fighting, Tang Mu has become a little depressed and decadent.

As the saying goes, one general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers!

But after experiencing a long period of uninterrupted bloody killing, even the generals in the army were frightened and even had nightmares when they closed their eyes at night.

An Guo also understood these principles, and patted Tang Mu's shoulder with deep emotion.

"We are not wrong, it is those barbarians who are wrong!"

"If they had behaved themselves, there wouldn't be this disaster today!"

Tang Mu sighed when he heard this, then picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

Seeing this, Tang Hao smiled and clapped his hands, then stood up and picked up the wine glass.

"I know everyone is very tired during this period."

"But all the hard work and efforts are worth it!" "We have rebuilt the northern border defense line of the Ming Dynasty!"

"We have wiped out the barbarian tribes occupying the border areas!"

"We have re-established a safety line for the soldiers and civilians of the Nine Border Military Town to protect them from being slaughtered!"

Tang Hao looked around at the generals, and then said loudly: "The right and wrong will be judged by future generations!"

"But in the present world, we are undoubtedly the heroes of the Ming Dynasty and the heroes of the people!"

"My men, let's celebrate our victory! We will achieve our goal in one battle! The day we recover Hetao will be the day we return to Beijing!"

All the generals stood up suddenly and raised their wine glasses.

"Drink victory!"

"For the Ming Dynasty!"

Just at this moment, the Jinyiwei came in and handed Zuo Yidao a secret letter.

Zuo Yidao did not dare to delay and handed the secret letter to Tang Hao.

Tang Hao checked the secret letter alone, but his expression gradually became gloomy.

The generals were originally chatting, drinking, and joking, but when they noticed the expression on their lord's face, they suddenly fell silent.

"My Lord, what happened?"

Zuo Yidao asked subconsciously.

Tang Hao handed him the secret letter with murderous intent in his eyes.

"Something happened in the capital!"

"Those civil officials and gentry started a food war with the Emperor!"

"They want to take advantage of the famine in the three northern provinces and control the food supply to force the Emperor to submit to them!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar.

Tang Mu said, "The imperial court has four major granaries. Even if these gentry drive up the grain prices, the grain in the granaries is enough for the imperial court to lower the prices. When the spring wheat is harvested, their plans will become a joke..."

"You know all this, how could those gentry not know it?" Tang Hao sighed, "If I'm right, the four major granaries should have been...empty!"

Hearing this, everyone present was shocked.

Zuo Yidao stood up suddenly and subconsciously exclaimed: "How is this possible? How dare they do this?"

"If the four major granaries were emptied, wouldn't the tens of millions of disaster victims and famine victims in the disaster-stricken areas of northern Xinjiang starve to death?"

There was a cold light flashing in Tang Hao's eyes, and he was filled with murderous intent.

"Yidao, return to Beijing immediately and investigate this matter!"

"Tang Mu, send a message to North Korea to raise food!"

"An Guo, contact the left wing and march to the right wing immediately!"

"I need a great victory to return to the court, and then suppress all the rebellious people!"

The generals accepted the order and launched emergency action.

Although they didn't dare to believe it, they didn't dare to gamble!

Because, those are hundreds of thousands or even millions of ordinary people!

(End of this chapter)