Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 51 The Mysterious Assassin Team

The originally chaotic scene, after Yuhuatian yelled loudly, the people quickly lined up under the command of Jin Yiwei.

Who would dare not to line up? After laughing, Jin Yiwei made it very clear just now that if they don't line up, the food distribution will be cancelled, unless they want to starve to death.

Seeing that the people lined up, Li Banghua came to Zhu Youjian to ask for instructions:

"Your Majesty, do you think the grain distribution has started?"

"Yes, let me announce before releasing the food. Starting from this month, the food will be released once a month. The common people only need to receive enough food for one month today."

Zhu Youjian's words made Li Banghua nod frequently. He felt that the emperor was more and more reliable in doing things, and he was much more decisive than before.

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, Li Banghua looked at Yuhuatian:
"Master Yu, I'm sorry to trouble you."

Yu Huatian also heard clearly what the emperor said just now, he knew that Li Banghua would not dare to use the magic weapon in his hand.

Yuhuatian nodded, and picked up the tweeter again:
"Listen up, everyone. Let me announce a good news. Just now, the emperor ordered that rations be distributed once a month. Today, you only need to receive one month's rations."

Before Yu Huatian finished speaking, the common people immediately made a commotion, and they couldn't believe their ears.

In the past, the imperial court and local officials only knew about collecting food, and who cared about the life and death of the people, which caused a large number of refugees to appear. Why did the sky suddenly change?

"Wow..."

"No way, we didn't hear it wrong, right? The food will be released every month, and the emperor personally decreed it..."

"That's right, everyone heard it right. Emperor Daming really loves the people like a son. Thank you, Emperor..."

After receiving the news that they would not be hungry again, many people's eyes were filled with dizziness. They knew that there were no relatives who died of starvation at home, and now they were saved.

I don't know who was the first to kneel down and kowtow to thank, which caused a butterfly effect.

All the people knelt down on the ground, facing the direction of the imperial city, kowtowed three times and shouted:

"Thank you, the emperor, for saving the suffering, you are a sage, the emperor's kindness is mighty..."

People's moods will change with the environment. Such a scene not only moved Zhu Youjian, but Li Banghua and other ministers felt their eyes were a little moist.

A restaurant not far from the grain depot.

At this time, there were three people standing in front of the window on the second floor, watching all this with eager eyes. One of them, a beautiful girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, swung her right fist a few times.

"Yeah, Father is awesome."

That's right, these three are Princess Zhu Weixi of the Ming Dynasty, Qinglian the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus, and the old eunuch Wang Cheng'en.

Princess Zhu Wei waved her pink fist fiercely, shouting in her heart, the already tall image of her father in her heart became even more majestic at this time.

As for Qinglian, the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus, she felt as if she had knocked over the five-flavored bottle in her heart at this time, with all kinds of tastes, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy.

She suddenly didn't understand what Bailian's old mother was doing. Such a good emperor of Ming Dynasty, why did Bailian Sect and Li Zicheng want to rebel and make people miserable.

If it was said that she was only afraid of Zhu Youjian before, now Qinglian worships and admires Zhu Youjian more.

But Lao Wang frowned tightly, he couldn't understand what the emperor did.

If the food is distributed among the common people, where will the military food come from in case of war.

Without the support of military rations, how could the army win the battle, and Daming might fall into a situation of eternal doom.

At the beginning of the food release, each family has three buckets. Because the food is limited, the people will not be allowed to eat without restriction. For the time being, there must be a plan for eating.

In the Ming Dynasty, one stone was equal to four buckets, which was 120 catties, and one bucket was equal to thirty catties.

At that time, there were not many ordinary families, and almost every family died of starvation. Later, many people died of plague.

After calculation, three buckets of grain a month, with a little savings, can still make up enough for a family of three to four.

"My lord, the imperial court should also be short of food now, but they actually released food to help the people. This is not the style of Emperor Chongzhen."

"Well, Li Zicheng is destined to fail to achieve great things. Now it seems that the Ming Dynasty will usher in a prosperous age. Let's go back to train troops. It is estimated that the imperial court will soon mobilize troops to wipe out the rebels across the country."

Among the crowd, Li Yan and his wife also praised the court's decision to release grain, and it seemed that the Ming Dynasty was about to take off.

The capital is releasing food to help the people, and many major events have occurred in areas outside the capital. The most surprising thing is the base camp of the rogues.

In some places they occupied, there have been many secret assassinations in the past few days. Leaders of bandits in Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui and other places were assassinated first and then later.

The leader who had just been elected was soon killed again. Now the rogues everywhere are in panic. No matter how prepared they are, their heads will be cut off in a short time.

These killers are all masked in black and are used to appearing at night. They can often kill the leader of the bandit without knowing it. Their physical skills and martial arts are extremely terrifying.

They never fight alone, they are all in small teams, with about 30 people in a small team, and they move very quickly.

Before the army of rogue bandits formed an encirclement circle, they broke out of the encirclement and escaped as quickly as possible.

There are also some killers who are in the bandit army, and whenever they have the opportunity, they will launch crazy assassinations on the newly appointed leaders, with a high success rate.

The killers who caused great shock to the rogues were of course the Jinyiwei elites under Zhu Youjian's command, and some were Dongchang Cao Zhengchun and his subordinates.

These people are all masters of the rivers and lakes. If the two armies fight against each other, their effect will not be great, and they are far less fierce than the regular army.

But for some assassination activities, they are definitely very qualified killers, which is why Zhu Youjian sent them to assassinate the bandit leader.

After Li Zicheng's death, the rogue army's morale had long since been slackened, and now it has begun to split again. Although it occupies a lot of territory, it actually has no fighting power at all.

After the gold, silver and grain of the rich merchants and nobles who robbed the rich merchants in the early stage were consumed, they began to loot the local people.

People's hearts are useless to them at this time, the common people are more miserable than under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and many common people and bandits are drifting away.

Eight Royal Merchants
At the end of Ming Dynasty, the Eastern Captives rose up, and the wars continued, and the people in Hebei, Shandong and other places suffered from the wars.

Only the shrewd Shanxi merchants not only did not suffer losses, but instead made great fortunes for the country and grabbed more wealth.

At that time, the Ming government was struggling to cope with the iron cavalry of Nurhachi and his son, and there was a great demand for war necessities such as arms and horses.

Shanxi is located on a high loess slope and does not produce horses or arms, but has rich coal resources.

Occasionally, Jinci rice and Qinzhou millet are produced, and the ground is as big as a palm, barely enough to be a tribute to the emperor.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was in financial difficulties, and the officials were helpless. Doing business with the government could only make a little money, so they set their sights on Nurhachi.

At that time, the Northeast was in a mess. In Indian mythology, there were three main gods, the God of Creation, the God of Destruction and the God of Harmony.

The God of Creation is in charge of creation, the God of Destruction is in charge of destroying the fruits of labor of the former, and the God of Harmony is in the middle to coordinate.

Nurhachi, on the other hand, is a pure god of destruction. He only engages in destruction in the land of Liaodong, and does not engage in construction.

At that time, Liaodong could not even survive with mice.

Of course, it's not that Nurhachi doesn't want to engage in construction, but that his men know nothing about farming and iron except for fighting and hunting.

What's worse is that local natural disasters have continued year after year, and food and clothing have become the biggest problem.

According to records, since the "Little Ice Age" that began in the Wanli period, CPI began to soar.

Although there were only 70 people in the Dongyao ruled area at that time, the people had to change their sons for food. The price of rice was as high as 80 taels a stone, and the cloth cost 20 taels a head.

Shanxi merchants took a fancy to this point, based in Zhangjiakou, collected goods from all over the country, and then went back and forth between inside and outside the pass to engage in trading activities.

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