Daming: Let you build roads, you have access to highways throughout the country

The blazing sun hangs above the heavenly dome, the land of the three Jins, there has been no rain for a long time, and the cracks in the earth are like spider webs, densely packed and extending in all directions.

A gust of hot wind blew, and the loess flew on the official road.

When the dust settled, a few small black dots appeared in the field of vision, and when you got closer, you could see that it was a family of five, carrying a bag.

They are the victims of the disaster.

Behind them, every certain distance, you can see a small number of disaster victims, walking slowly on the ground, I don’t know how long I haven’t eaten, I have long lost my strength, just follow the people in front of me numbly walked forward.

From time to time, in the long loose line, some people will fall, and the people behind will just numb past, and no one has the energy to care about these victims who faint or starve to death.

In the year of the catastrophe, starvation was raging, and the death toll was increasing every day.

At this moment, the sound of horses’ hooves came, and the victims walking in front raised their heads and looked at the carriages coming on the opposite side with some surprise.

This is a caravan, carrying a cart of grain, to make a fortune in the land of the Three Jins.

Disaster wealth has always been despised, and once the imperial court investigates it, it is also a serious crime of killing the head, but in the face of interests, there are always people who are willing to take risks.

Once successful, it may well be worth a lifetime of hard work.

But some money is not so easy to earn.

The wagons carrying grain were soon targeted by hungry victims.

After driving for about several kilometers, finally one of the victims could not help but move and pounced on a horse-drawn carriage.

Subsequently, more people flocked up, like wolves who had been hungry for several days, and quickly snatched up all the truckloads of food.

The men who escorted the caravan were either beaten away or killed, or knocked unconscious, and the merchants who escaped were devastated and fainted on the blazing earth.

In Taiyuan and other states and counties, disaster relief has already been launched.

However, the Daming Dynasty was taken over from the Yuan Dynasty, and its foundation was relatively weak, and even the imperial court had little money at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the people had no food.

Over the years, he has been resting and recuperating, but he has been worried about internal and external troubles, and there have been no fewer wars, and there is not much surplus food in the hands of the people.

This year, there was a great drought and no grain harvest.

The people either sold their children or their farmland, and struggled to survive.

Some people, although they have sold their children or farmland, can still hold on, but the people at the bottom have completely gone bankrupt.

Some people began to beg, others were reluctant to sell their land, dragged their families to find a way to live in other areas, and waited until the disaster was over, and then returned home with their wives and children to re-cultivate the land.

In the land of the Three Jins, there are more than 3 million people. More and more people are displaced and become victims of disasters.

From a few thousand people at the beginning, it quickly expanded to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.

In this era of agriculture, hundreds of thousands of people open their mouths to eat every day, but they cannot produce value, which is an extremely huge burden for the land of the Three Jins.

The grain mobilized by the imperial court was delivered one cart after another, but it could not feed the hundreds of thousands of victims.

Moreover, the disaster continues to expand, and if it is not controlled, it may even extend into winter.

At that time, the number of victims may even reach the scale of millions!

This is a very terrifying thing, because if it is not well controlled, it is likely to lead to uprisings and rebellions.

The common people are very simple and not very demanding, they only want to eat enough, but if they can’t eat for a long time, and the people around them die one after another, they will have no way back.

I don’t know how many layers of exploitation the grain mobilized by the imperial court have been used, and in the end, less than half of it has really been used for disaster relief.

The land of the Three Jins can no longer withstand this huge number of victims.

Those who did not want to wait for death dragged their families and mouths one after another, spreading to the surroundings and becoming displaced people.

Most of them went all the way to the east and went straight to Qidi, because in the impression, Qidi has countless good fields and is rich in grain, and if you go there, you should be able to eat a full meal.

The imperial court kept collecting grain and sending it to Jindi, and Jindi kept returning news of the expansion of the disaster and the increasing number of deaths, and continued to ask for disaster relief money and food.

The land of the Three Jins, with millions of people, is like a bottomless pit, to hollow out the bottom of Daming’s family.

At the same time, grain prices soared, centered on the land of the three Jins, and the closer to Jindi, the higher the price of grain, and not all merchants dared to sell grain in Jindi.

It’s not that they don’t love money, it’s not that they’re afraid of being found and killed by the imperial court, and in the face of huge interests, some risks are worth taking, but there are too many displaced people in the land of the Three Jins, and whether their own grain can be sent to the market to sell is unknown.

It is likely that before reaching the destination, the food has been robbed, and even the caravan escorting the food may be killed by the victims.

In the face of life and death, what laws, what shame, what morality, all bondage, will no longer exist, and survival is the first element.

Some victims even changed their children to eat in order to survive, and the scene was terrible!

Above the court, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, rebuked the six departments, and strictly investigated those who embezzled grain and grass for disaster relief.

Whoever is involved, there is no mercy!!

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