Chapter one hundred and sixty
The rain was as thick as thin threads, no longer pouring a few days ago, but the sky became more gloomy and I don’t know when it would be clear. Ying Yi passed by Zhu Xianzhen, and in the vast haze, there was desolation.
Where you can see, inside and outside Zhuxian Town, under the woods, in the stone mountains, and in the pits, where you can shelter from the rain, you will be a thief like a chicken.
Some dry corpses were exposed in the mud and their faces were flooded by mud. The elderly, weak, women and children were bullied by strong and fiercely, and each of them had either a ferocious face as a beast or a numb corpse.
Occasionally, disputes broke out, and murderers were common.
Eat people is the norm - some fresh bones are piled up in the mud.
Human life is the least valuable here.
When Ying Yi saw this, he even doubted whether his decision was correct. Is there any need to save these people?
But 300,000!
He sighed in his heart.
The ancestors used "ritual" to regulate moral behavior. The fundamental purpose was to promote human nature and eliminate animal nature. People are human beings, not animals. Human nature is greater than animal nature.
However, in the past, when dynasties were about to end, morality was degraded, human nature was suppressed by animal nature, and all kinds of incredible things happened.
Although Li Chuang's crime was caused by the corruption of the court and the corruption of the official laws. However, he was not forgiven for leading animals to eat people.
There were 300,000 here, Ying Yi sighed and did not change his mind. Although the cannibals are unforgivable, there is not no trace of human nature.
I have also seen some young and strong people supporting the elderly and weak, and I have also seen some elderly and weak protecting young children.
This is the place worth saving.
"It is to make the elderly have a place to support them, the young have a place to educate them, and the widows, widows, widows, and common people have a place to support them..." Ying Yi was thrilled in his heart.
The 300,000 people in Zhuxian Town are a huge group. How to sort out and resettle them is not a trivial matter. All aspects involved, selecting good and punishing evil, whether it is food or accommodation, requires careful planning. However, Ying Yi, as the leader of the party, did not handle it personally.
It can also be regarded as a kind of tempering for the civil and military under his command. At present, 300,000 will be more than this in the future, 3 million, 30 million, 30 million...
In the vast Chinese, Yanhuang Miao Seeds, Ying Yi said: "I will decide this clan leader if you dare to be the first in the world!"
After passing Zhu Xianzhen, Ying Yi's heart was still a little heavy.
Cao Mengde once said: I would rather let others down than let others down. Ying Yi has a lot of experience. Betrayal may be a betrayal, but it may also be a burden.
I would rather let others down than let others down, and I will be the leader of the Yanhuang clan, and I will bear all this and take responsibility for it!
Not far away is Kaifeng. Kaifeng was the capital of the Central Plains and was the capital during the Northern Song Dynasty. It has always been a large population and prosperous economy. Although Kaifeng is not the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it is also one of the best cities. There are millions of households and millions of people in the city and outside the city.
The bandits poisoned the Central Plains, and Kaifeng generals used a strong wall to clear the fields and moved the people outside the city into the city. Unfortunately, they were besieged and could not communicate with the inside and outside. A pool of stagnant water made the city increasingly scarce.
It is approaching a critical moment.
If the original history is followed, the thieves will be besieged for a period of time, so that the city will be completely exhausted and the people will have no food and clothing. Then they will break the dike and release the water, drown all the people in the city!
It's still okay now, I can still hold on.
Ying Yi looked at Kaifeng from a distance. The mud outside the city was muddy, and the traces left by the war in the past were clearly visible. The rain had not been washed away. Such a huge city, lying in the mist and rain, like a dying giant beast. In Ying Yi's eyes, a breath of decay and death appeared, without any vitality.
Ying Yi sighed and turned around and left.
The thief was no longer afraid of Ying Yi's eyes. If you want to attack him, it would be easy to get rid of him. But what made Ying Yi worry about was not the thief, but the people all over the city.
Millions of households, millions of people!
The three counties in Nanyang have only collected more than 100,000 yuan. There are millions in Kaifeng City. In addition, the 300,000 yuan in Zhuxian Town, this huge burden has made Ying Yi silent.
Although he had already ordered Sun Xiucai to purchase grain through Zheng's trading firm without measurement, the food for millions of people could not be solved in just one sentence or two sentences.
Fortunately, Ying Yi has a clear mind - in Kaifeng City, many wealthy and nobles are Ying Yi's targets.
The wealthy and nobles of the late Ming Dynasty, counting forward from now on, no dynasty can compare with it - there is no lower limit to moral integrity.
Kaifeng was originally a major city, and among them, the rich and nobles were not as good as the Southern Beijing Division, and they were among the top five. Among them, there were countless rich and nobles. But they were all idiots who had no entry or exit.
They would rather bury their grain in the cellar and get moldy than take out some good deeds when the country is destroyed and their families are destroyed. They would rather bury gold and silver into winter melons tightly than pay a little extra tax for the country.
Ying Yi had reason to believe that even if the people in the city starved to death, they could still take out a large amount of gold, silver and food from the cellars of the nobles in the city!
Yes, King Zhou made an indelible contribution to Kaifeng's perseverance until now. He took out a large amount of gold, silver and grain to the army to boost morale. But King Zhou would not take into account the people all over the city.
The royal family of the old Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty was also a strange thing in all dynasties. In order to prevent the rebellion of the kings and to ensure the core orthodoxy, Zhu Hongwu raised the royal family. Except for not being able to be an official or join the army, he could do everything else.
Therefore, the royal family is often a big merchant and a big landlord. He has money and food.
Of course, this is only a small part. Many people think that in the late Ming Dynasty, hundreds of thousands or millions of royal families were to be raised, and the country would give a lot of salary every year, which would drag down the national finances.
Indeed, to a certain extent, it has dragged down the national finances. But in fact, not so many people can get their salary.
Generally speaking, except for the main lineage, there are only three generations. For example, in the Zhou Dynasty, the descendants of the Zhou Dynasty, except for the one who could inherit the title, the other descendants were reduced from generation to generation. Basically, after three generations, the title would be reduced to the point where they could not get the salary of the court. If they could not manage the family, their lives would be no different from those of the people.
The kings and titles in various places are indeed local tyrants, and they actually look down on the little salary of the court. For example, the Zhou royal palace, the Zhou kings of all dynasties have accumulated a lot of family business, both shops and land, and they are the best in Kaifeng. Even if they collect rent, they are countless times more than the little salary of the court.
However, only these kings were seen by officials, and civil servants did not take them seriously at all.
After searching through the history books, except for a few kings who popped up from time to time, there were not even a name below the kings who jumped out from time to time.
Since the civil servants became powerful, the military generals and royal families of the Ming Dynasty were suppressed. It was not them who really competed for the big head of interests with the country. The group that colluded with civil servants and landlords and merchants was the most powerful.
Chapter completed!