I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

The two cavalrymen only had time to utter the six words: "Decree of King Khan's Golden Arrow". Before Fan Wencheng could ask what happened, they heard a war horse hissing sadly, fell to the ground, and twitched all over. , spraying bloody white foam from mouth and nose.As soon as this horse fell to the ground, the other one also fell suddenly. If the cavalry hadn't dodged quickly, it would have been suppressed.

The horses collapsed, and the two cavalry were dying.Fan Wencheng looked at the two cavalrymen, their faces, eyebrows, and beards were all covered with hoarfrost. It was obvious that they had traveled a long way.

"What the hell happened?"

Fan Wencheng grabbed a Jiannu cavalryman and asked anxiously: "What happened, tell me!"

A bad idea popped into Fan Wencheng's head, could it be that Ning Haijun took advantage of the cold winter to surprise Shenyang?This idea is very strong. Now the Ning Navy has absolute strength to attack Shenyang. After all, Liaoyang controlled by the Ning Navy is too close to Shenyang, and the cavalry is coming every day. This is definitely not bragging.

What's more, the Ning Navy is different from other Ming armies. The Ning Navy has powerful artillery. For the Ning Navy, the strong city is not an obstacle, and it only takes a little trouble.

The Jiannu cavalryman caught by Fan Wencheng was panting heavily, obviously exhausted: "Liaodong...Liaodong, a white calamity!"

Fan Wencheng said in amazement: "What!?"

The older cavalryman managed to control his breathing and said, "The white disaster is coming! Half a month ago, there was a sudden blizzard in Liaodong, countless tents were crushed, countless cattle and sheep were frozen to death, and countless tribes died because of a blizzard." Disappeared. Thousands of people froze to death in Shenyang City alone, and the corpses were dragged into hundreds of carts. We counted for a long time and couldn’t figure out how many people froze to death!”

Speaking of this, the elder cavalry choked up, and his family also froze to death in the blizzard, including his youngest son who was just eight years old, his 11-year-old daughter, a wife and three concubines, and his Mother, a family of seven people, except him, were all frozen to death.

Faced with this bad news, Fan Wencheng was also in chaos. The snowstorm was quite fatal for the nomads. Their only way of survival was to pass on the loss and go south to attack the land of farming civilization in the Central Plains.

For thousands of years, these nomads have been doing this, but the problem is that the Ning Navy is to the south of the Dajin Kingdom, and it is an existence they cannot defeat. Even if all the slaves are pulled up, it may not be possible The Ning Navy's defense line, as for attacking the Guan Ning Army's territory westward.

In all fairness, the elite of Jiannu can gnaw at the Ningyuan defense line of the Guan Ning Army, open a gap, grab a hand from the Guan Ning Army, and tide over the difficulties.

But the problem is that although it can be robbed, it cannot be robbed.

This is like in later generations, an old man holds a huge sum of tens of thousands of yuan. Although he has no force, no one will rob it, because the police are not vegetarian.

If Jiannu attacked Ning Haijun, the Guan Ning army might not send troops to help Ning Haijun, but once Jiannu sent troops to attack Ning Haijun, with Cheng Shijie's style and habits, he would definitely send troops to attack Jiannu.

Huang Taiji thought of this. He didn't immediately think about going south or west while Dajin still had some strength, but he immediately sought Fan Wencheng's help.

After the autumn harvest was completed in October, Fan Wencheng reported his victory to Huang Taiji and achieved gratifying results in the farming of Fengzhou. He planted more than 28 mu of corn, harvested more than 42 stones, and more than 2 in Langwei Valley In total, Fengzhou has 45 shi of grain and more than 1000 million catties of forage.

These grains seem to be surplus to more than 4 soldiers and civilians, but the problem is that if these grains are placed in Dajin, it will not be enough. Since the surrender of Mongolian Ezhe, the entire Dajin Kingdom has increased instead of falling. Now has millions of soldiers and civilians.

More than 40 shi of grain, on average, can only be divided into five buckets per person. Even if you save food, you can persist for three months at most, and it will not last until the beginning of spring.

More importantly, if these grains are transported to Liaodong, I am afraid that they will not be able to be transported to Liaodong, and they should be eaten up on the light road. The capital has a maximum of 800 million stones, and when it is less, it is only more than 400 million stones.

But the problem is that the whole journey from Fengzhou to Shenyang is 460 kilometers, which is a little closer than Hangzhou to Beijing, but the road is all land transportation.If one horse-drawn cart can transport ten shi of grain, more than 40 shi of grain would require more than 4 four-wheeled carriages.

Regardless of whether Fan Wencheng can get more than 4 horse-drawn carriages in Fengzhou, the crux of the problem is that these more than 4 horse-drawn carriages require two horses. A person needs to eat at least 63 catties of grain every day.

From Fengzhou to Shenyang, it will take more than 30 days at the fastest, which means that from Fengzhou to Shenyang, one carriage, two horses, and one person need to eat twelve stones and two buckets of grain.

No amount of calculation was enough, Fan Wencheng thought about it and decided to lead thousands of people to Shenyang to help Huang Taiji solve this imminent problem.

……

The capital, Cheng Shijie's mansion.

This time, the person who followed Cheng Shijie to Beijing was Meng En. In fact, Cheng Shijie did not leave any intelligence agencies in the capital, but Cheng Shijie would know what he should know.

Jin Yiwei's reputation among Cheng Shijie's is very good, and they do things with money. As long as the price is right, they will sell no matter what information it is.If Cheng Shijie needed which concubine Wen Tiren slept with and what he said yesterday, Jin Yiwei could also get the information.

For example, now, Meng En is holding a stack of information in his hand. Of course, these are not original documents, but manuscripts. These people are all people who have recently impeached Shijie. The methods used by Ming officials to impeach officials are nothing more than a few.

Start from the aspects of character, virtue, integrity, and ancestors.Cheng Shijie just ignored the nonsense of accusing Cheng Shijie of raising the bandits' self-respect, connivance of the soldiers under his command to rob the gentry, making people miserable, exploiting the village and bullying men and women.

However, Cheng Shijie looked at these memorials to impeach him, and his face became ugly.

"Big guy!"

Cheng Shijie angrily slapped the memorial in his hand on the table, and even jumped up with the brush wash and paperweight.It can be seen that Cheng Shijie is very angry.

In the memorial to impeach Cheng Shijie, not only those who scolded Cheng Shijie, but also Cheng Shijie's parents, and some also scolded Cheng Shijie for not being able to act in a humane manner.

The point is that Cheng Shijie has no way to explain it yet.

Cheng Shijie was very angry.

Seeing Cheng Shijie angry, Meng En said, "Marshal, do you want to..."

Meng En is a soldier thinking, habitually using force to solve problems.

Although Cheng Shijie led not many personal guards when he came to Beijing this time, there were 400 people. It would not work to attack the city with 400 people, but it was not a big problem to deal with some civil servants.

At least, a Ning Navy soldier can beat ten officials, and older officials can beat twenty. Of course, there is a prerequisite for this, except for officials like Mao Yuanyi and Lu Xiangsheng, because Lu Xiangsheng and Mao Yuanyi are both They are masters, and ordinary generals are no match for them, let alone ordinary soldiers.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Although swearing is hateful, the crime does not lead to death. However, this hatred must be avenged!"

"The commander-in-chief means..."

"Let Lin Xuwen come over!"

"Yes!"

Not long after, Lin Xuwen came to Cheng Shijie.

"Meet the Duke!"

Cheng Shijie didn't arrange any manpower to inquire about the news in the capital. In the Cheng Mansion in the capital, there was actually only one manager, Lin Xuwen. Lin Xuwen was Lin Xuzong's cousin.

"You ask the kitchen to make more steamed buns, one or two thousand steamed buns! After these steamed buns are ready, you take the steamed buns and go to the street to find some little beggars with good legs! Let the little beggars do one thing for me! "

"what's up?"

"Set off firecrackers!"

When Cheng Shijie entered this time, his relatives brought more than 1000 grenades and threw grenades at the homes of these officials, which would inevitably cause many deaths and injuries.

However, take out the gunpowder from the grenade, make good firecrackers, and throw the firecrackers at the homes of these impeachment Cheng Shijie, then give them a warning.

It was night, after dark, the little beggars temporarily recruited by Lin Xuwen began to split up. For these little beggars, setting off a firecracker can get ten steamed buns, which is a good thing that is hard to find in the world.Although it is said that throwing firecrackers in the official courtyard may offend the officials, but they have fast legs and feet, and they must be caught.

Located near Dongzhimen, this is the residence of Cheng Jinxin, the censor. Cheng Jinxin was a Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen. Because he had no backer, he worked on the bench for several years. Cheng Jinxin was promoted from the eighth grade to the sixth grade in the experience division, and was promoted to three levels in succession.

According to Cheng Jinxin's official position, if it is released, it will at least be the magistrate of a prefecture or a county like Wanping and Daxing. He has been promoted from an insignificant section-level cadre to a county-level official. Among Beijing officials, he is already a middle-level and senior official. .

He slept late that day. After all, Cheng Shijie's three strategies caused turmoil in the court. They needed to deal with it, and the meeting was held very late.Just as I was returning home, I met another grain merchant from my hometown for a banquet.

The food crisis in Gyeonggi is a major benefit for grain merchants. Now that water transportation is cut off, and one grain is missing, if the price does not increase at this time, when will it increase?If it doesn't increase several times, you will be embarrassed to tell others that you are a grain merchant when you go out!

Troubled times are a terrible purgatory for the poor, but for these unscrupulous businessmen, it is a good opportunity to make a fortune.They know that in this troubled world, food is the most precious thing, so of course they should take advantage of the good opportunity in front of them to raise the price of food as much as possible so that they can make a lot of money.As for whether those muddy legs can afford it, and whether they will starve to death, what does it matter to them?Everyone decided that the grain shop will be closed tomorrow and will open the day after tomorrow, and the price of grain will increase by [-]%!

After receiving a generous gift from the grain merchant and hints from the big bosses above, Cheng Jinxin decided to have a fling with the concubine, and as for the yellow-faced woman, he stayed.

Just as Cheng Jinxin mounted his horse with a gun and galloped to his heart's content, there was an earth-shattering loud noise from the courtyard.

Cheng Jinxin was suddenly frightened...

It took Cheng Jinxin a long time before he came back to his senses, and shouted: "Come on, what's going on?"

The steward held a few small pieces of paper, and saw that it was printed on it: "Keep your mouth shut, this is a warning, next time it will be a real one!"

Cheng Jinxin could see what this meant. Although he had experience as an inspector, he was also a censor, and he could impeach all officials, but the problem was that he was always cautious. Except for the impeachment of Shijie according to the above meaning, other people... He will not impeach, is he full?

Cheng Shijie does have the strength to mess with him.

Just as Cheng Jinxin was wiping the cold sweat off his forehead, there was another loud noise not far away.

That night, the capital city was very lively, with thousands of firecrackers, and more than two-thirds of the capital officials received special care. The problem was that the sound of firecrackers did not stop until midnight.

When the morning assembly was held, Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed when he saw the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, most of them had panda eyes.

When Emperor Chongzhen thought that these officials would impeach Cheng Shijie, he didn't expect that it was actually a matter of discussing the opening of shipping. Emperor Chongzhen vaguely understood that these officials were bullying and fearing hard.

In fact, if all the ministers knew what Emperor Chongzhen was thinking, they would probably cry out. The grenade equipped by Ning Haijun is not a secret. If a grenade explodes, it is common to kill several people or dozens of people. No one dared to risk their lives to test whether Cheng Shijie was serious.

The food shortage in Gyeonggi is critical, and this time it is rare to make a quick decision. The imperial court decided to formally set up a shipping office in Tianjin. Things.

Due to the rush of time, the Ministry of Officials did not give any details on how to fill in the structure under the Office of the Shipping Department. However, Sun Yuanhua dealt with it according to the power. He could select officials with fame from the local area or directly select officials as subordinates, and the Ministry of Officials would ratify them afterwards. .The Shangyu did not directly specify that there was a maritime army under the Department of Shipping, but it also clearly stated that Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun were temporarily under the control of Sun Yuanhua and performed the duty of protecting the sea.

Giving the Governor of Water Transport the power to open sea transport is actually to appease the millions of water workers and 12 water soldiers. The benefits are too great. The policy adopted by Emperor Chongzhen and the court is to rot the meat into the pot and play for future generations The way that a team has two cards.

As for how the Ning Navy will cooperate with the Department of Shipping, how to gather grain, how to organize sea ships to transport from Jiangnan to Tianjin, and how much grain can be organized, the DPRK and China have not yet made a decision.

The crudeness of the plan shows the haste and panic of the Central Committee in deciding to open the sea. In a day or two, it is difficult to expect Wen Tiren and others to think everything through.

While Cheng Shijie was eating lunch, heavy snow fell in the sky, and the snow was getting bigger and bigger. At night, it had turned into a world of ice and snow.

Cheng Shijie waited for a day, but he didn't wait for the official's impeachment, and he didn't wait for the Emperor Chongzhen to be held accountable. In fact, Cheng Shijie didn't know that his firecrackers made the business of the doctor who treated impotence and premature ejaculation in the capital boom.

Cheng Shijie fell asleep happily, until dawn, Cheng Shijie faintly heard the sound of crying.

"what happened?"

Meng En, who followed Cheng Shijie to Beijing, said, "Report to Commander, it snowed last night, many houses were crushed by the snow, and many people died..."

Cheng Shijie was slightly stunned: "Go and investigate, how much damage has been caused by this snow!"

"Yes!"

He also has to do some things. The so-called rise and fall of the country is everyone's responsibility. Cheng Shijie has no loyalty to the court, but he can't bear to see the country in turmoil and countless people starve to death on the streets.

In the capital these few days, it is rare to see that the efficiency of the imperial court is much higher.

Not long after Cheng Shijie had breakfast, Meng En came with the investigation information.

Meng En actually got the information from Jin Yiwei. As for the worthless information like the snowstorm in the capital, Meng En didn't spend any money, but a pot of Baogu Shaobai wine produced in Liaodong. The market price is about one tael of silver and twelve catties. Just got the information.

"According to Jinyiwei's information, last night's blizzard caused more than [-] houses to collapse in Daxing and Wanping counties alone, killing more than [-] people, freezing to death more than [-] people, and leaving tens of thousands homeless. Anyway, as for the loss of Shuntian Mansion, it has not been counted yet!"

Listening to Meng En's report, Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "It's really a leak in the house and it's raining continuously, making it worse!"

The imperial court now wants to use the team of water transport to temporarily put aside the problem of canal blockage, and transport the grain to the capital first to solve the grain crisis in Gyeonggi. It is also a solution to the problem, although this method is very crude.

However, the right people are used.

Although there are more than 1 water boats in the Yamen of the Governor of Water Transport, these water boats cannot sail at all.

But the problem is that Sun Yuanhua is Cheng Shijie's old boss. If Sun Yuanhua proposes to hire Ning Haijun's transport fleet, Cheng Shijie is willing to take the business as long as he gives money.

After all, shipping by sea is much cheaper than water transportation. With 400% of the transportation cost, without considering the wages of the boatmen, if you transport 30.00 million shi of grain, you only need to eat less than [-] shi of grain, which is less than [-]% of the cost of water transportation. one-third.Even if Sun Yuanhua only pays [-]% of the price, this business can be done.

Cheng Shijie still makes money.

However, this sudden blizzard will definitely disrupt Sun Yuanhua's plan and make the food crisis in Gyeonggi even worse.

"Meng En, send people to Liaodong to see the disaster situation in Liaodong!"

Cheng Shijie immediately thought of authorization. Liaodong has rich experience in disaster relief, so he wrote directly: "The management committee is responsible for disaster relief. It can be done cheaply, and there is no need to ask for instructions!"

After Cheng Shijie finished writing, he handed the letter to Meng En: "Send it to Liaodong as quickly as possible!"

In fact, the snowstorm was more serious than he had imagined, and the first trouble was naturally the border.

The Mongolian plateau was first hit by snowstorms, and the continuous blizzard for more than 40 days caused heavy losses to the Mongolians. Many weak tribes disappeared in the snowstorm, and they were nowhere to be found.

Faced with livestock that died of cold and starvation everywhere, the Mongols were in despair. Their herds were already seriously injured. How would they live the next day!
What's even more frightening is that in the Monan and Mobei regions, the Mongols suffered even more severe losses. Some tribes, not to mention cattle and sheep, even the war horses that were regarded as lifeblood, died so few were left. The crazy Mongols began to migrate towards the south, trying to get a little compensation from this fertile land with drought and floods, and make do with this catastrophic year.

The only way for them to overcome the difficulties is to break into the border, plunder the farming area, and obtain food, cloth and other materials for survival from the border towns. If they succeed, their ethnic group can survive. If they fail, the entire ethnic group It also disappeared.Everything is for survival, there is no right or wrong.

But the problem is that the people at the border also want to survive. They are not Sakyamuni, but they don’t have the habit of cutting off their own flesh to feed the greedy hawks. When the jackals come, they will naturally take up weapons to defend their homeland.

Now this terrible wave is still fermenting and has not yet officially erupted. Hundreds of thousands of Mongolian soldiers are on their way to Datong, Xuanfu, and Jizhen hungry hungry. hand, killing blood into rivers.

At present, it is mainly the tribes such as the Tumed tribe and the Chahar tribe.However, the Ming Dynasty, which has experienced many storms, has already smelled the smell of the storm, and its nerves are tense inside and outside the court, not daring to be careless in the slightest.

After a catastrophe, there must be a big war. This is already a historical law, and any behavior that ignores this law will definitely pay the price of blood!
The second problem is that the snow disaster has spread too widely. The leader who received the news of the disaster must be Shuntian Prefecture. Miyun and Huairou suffered heavy snowfall, and tens of thousands of people were affected.Then, Cangzhou, Taiyuan, Daming Mansion, Jinan Mansion...

In other words, the snow disaster spread from north to south to the banks of the Yellow River. As for whether Henan and Shaanxi were affected, it is hard to say for the time being, it is impossible, but the news has not yet come.

What makes people want to cry most is that in the face of such a terrible natural disaster, the first reaction of those civil servants who love death is not to try to relieve the disaster, but to force Chongzhen to issue an edict.They plausibly said: "Your Majesty, you used sycophants and jesters, indulged him in lawlessness, and angered God, so God will send disasters to warn Your Majesty! For the sake of the common people in the world, Your Majesty, hurry up and punish the people all over the world. God admits his mistake, and promises to be a virtuous minister, far from a villain, and ask for forgiveness from heaven, so that all people can be saved from the fire and water!"

Chongzhen was extremely annoyed by this. Damn it, why is it Lao Tzu's fault every time there is a natural disaster?

I spent so much money and received so much arrogance to support you, just to let you find fault with me and force me to criticize?He naturally knew who the "sycophants" these civil officials were talking about?
Who else?Naturally, it refers to Cheng Shijie, but the ministers dare not mention Cheng Shijie's name, because Cheng Shijie is in the capital now. They impeach Cheng Shijie on the front foot, and Cheng Shijie dares to throw bombs at their house on the back foot. Cheng Shijie has a criminal record for doing this. (end of this chapter)