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Chapter 50 The world is in turmoil (Part 2)

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    However, no one knew that a letter faster than Liu Yishen's letter had already reached the hands of the eunuch guarding Nanjing. Immediately, all the people in the south of Dongchang mobilized to combine those who agreed to open the sea to transport grain and those who opposed it.  The people who opened the sea to transport grain have been recorded one by one. These are all evidences for settling accounts in the future!

    At the same time, this letter also drew pictures of three crops: corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, and ordered the Nanjing garrison eunuch to find these three crops no matter what. As long as they are found, it will be a great achievement. Therefore, after collecting responses from several people,  , searching for three crops has become the top priority of Dongchang Fanzi in the entire South!

    The reason why Zhu Youxiao sent people to search for these three crops is of course self-evident. These three are high-yielding crops, especially corn and sweet potatoes, which almost supported the agricultural output of the later Qing Dynasty and were also recognized as the Qing Dynasty¡¯s  Able to achieve food security for 400 million people!

    However, many people don¡¯t know that these three crops have actually come to China with Western sailors around the mid-16th century. There is even a mention of potatoes in Xu Guangqi¡¯s "Agricultural Policy Complete Book".  It's just that China has not paid attention to these crops that it has never seen before, from top to bottom, so it has missed a good opportunity to solve the food crisis!

    But will Zhu Youxiao make such a mistake?

    The answer is of course no. As a time traveler, although he is not sure whether the history he traveled through is on the same timeline as the history he originally knew, the general situation should be no different, so he sent people to the south.  Look for these three crops!

    According to Zhu Youxiao¡¯s own words: ¡°If these three treasures are found, two-thirds of the Ming Dynasty¡¯s dilemma will be solved!¡±

    When the fans in Dongchang in the south were looking for corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, convoys with yellow dragon flags also appeared in various places in the north. The people in charge of these convoys were all eunuchs in the palace, but it was the workers who had the final say.  The team of extremely experienced craftsmen in the ministry spread along the dry and frozen rivers in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty!

    Every time the convoy arrived at a place that needed repairs, eunuchs took the yellow satin imperial edict and ran to each village to read it out. The content of the imperial edict was very simple and clear, that is, the royal family provided food and hired local farmers to repair water conservancy and so on. This made seeing  The county magistrate felt like it was extremely unreal when he saw the Tianni Legs!

    More than one village sent people to the county to report to the officials, saying that there was a liar in the village who was pretending to spread the imperial edict, but the only reply they received was that it was typed on a big board. Obviously the county magistrate was very angry!

    There is so much food and so many benefits, but you can¡¯t get it yourself, so why don¡¯t you be angry!

    In any case, food will not deceive people. A strong laborer can eat three kilograms of rice a day without adding more water. The semi-dry but not watery food is enough for a family to fill their stomachs. Women and children can also go to the construction site, although women can eat two kilograms of rice a day.  If the child is given only one catty of rice and grain, who cares how much he may earn?

    With food, people can run their course, and the yellow dragon flag representing the royal family is planted on the construction site, which makes people feel somewhat excited. When rice is distributed every day, there is always a legendary eunuch who shouts a few words in a high-pitched voice,  We must remember the grace of Lord Long Live, which makes these mud-legged people feel that their strength is not in vain!

    But what makes these people who can hardly go out of the countryside thirty miles most happy is that the eunuch in charge likes to talk to them about daily life. When it's time to eat, the eunuch will use that extremely unique voice to tell them about the capital.  things inside.

    For the first time, this bunch of people who had had nothing to eat before knew that there was a good emperor in the capital who killed many ministers and good emperors in order to provide them with food.  Be a traitor!

    So the reputation of the emperor on the river construction site soared at an unparalleled speed. Every time when they got off work to receive rice and grain, those farmers who had received one day's wages would always kowtow in the direction of Beijing and shout gracefully to thank the Lord for his grace!

    At the same time, the reputation of civil servants was collapsing at an unimaginable speed in various parts of the north. Some officials who wanted to go to construction sites to show their people-friendly image soon discovered that not only the eunuchs did not take them seriously, but also the farmers  When I saw myself, I no longer had the deep awe before, but was replaced by a kind of contempt!

    In Liaodong, Li Rubai came back with one million taels of silver and hundreds of carts of cloth, salt, and tea bricks. The Li family, who thought the sky had fallen, suddenly came to life.

    Although no one knows what the position of the Royal Guards Cavalry Commander is, it is absolutely true that Li Rubai did not lose his head and was granted an official title by the emperor!

    So the scattered soldiers of the Li family gathered together again. Although the number was not comparable to that of the Li family in its heyday, there were still more than 3,000 people., obviously Li Rubai and Zhu Youxiao were bragging when they said they still had eight thousand soldiers!

    But there is one thing Li Rubai said rightly, that is, with cloth, salt, tea bricks and a lot of money, it is definitely not difficult to raise a cavalry of tens of thousands. Now that Liaodong is in chaos, those who want to be soldiers  There are still quite a few!

    Li Rubai¡¯s conscription was also Han Xin¡¯s order to recruit as many troops as possible. As long as he could ride a horse, shoot an arrow, or dare to risk his life, he would want anyone who could lead a horse by himself, regardless of age, Han, Mongolian, or Jurchen!

    So under this situation, Li Rubai quickly raised 50,000 cavalry, and used a large amount of goods to exchange for many war horses from the Mongols and Jurchens. It can be said that Li Rubai suddenly became the most powerful in Liaodong.  A force!

    Liaodong Manager Xiong Tingbi sent someone to ask what was going on. Li Rubai directly dismissed Xiong Tingbi's people on the grounds that the emperor's orders were in his hands. Nurhachi, who had just won a great victory, also sent someone to harass him!

    As a result, Li Rubai changed his ambiguous attitude in the past and directly sent Nurhaci out with five hundred elite cavalry to kill them all. The Ming army could not defeat the Jurchens at all. That was ten years later. If the Ming army really fights with all its strength now, the Jurchens will be defeated.  In fact, that's what happened to the cavalry. Nurhachi, who had suffered a loss, did not dare to make any more moves, but shrank his troops back to Hetuala!

    Before the heavy snow closed the road, Li Rubai took his whole family, 50,000 cavalry, and 70,000 horses into Shanhaiguan and marched towards Beijing. There were constant police alerts along the way, but Li Rubai had the imperial edict and the token in his hand, so  No matter how frightened the local officials are, they can only let it go!

    When Li Rubai returned to Beijing with his people, it was already close to December. Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao had already made preparations and asked people to lead the idle people in Beijing to build a building twenty miles west of Beijing.  The simple camp was enough to accommodate an army of 100,000, so the army brought back by Li Rubai was not allowed to sleep in the wild!

    A cavalry force of 50,000 people suddenly entered the capital, and the whole capital was naturally shaken. Fang Congzhe and Liu Yishui hurriedly entered the palace to meet the emperor. Although they had an extremely bad premonition, they still had to know immediately that the little emperor was going to  What to do!

    When the first and second assistants of the Ming Dynasty met Zhu Youxiao, they found that the British Duke Zhang Weixian and the commander of the Imperial Guard Luo Sigong were also there. The bad premonition in their hearts became stronger when they saw these two Fang Congzhe and Liu Yishui.  !

    It¡¯s just that Fang Congzhe has sold himself to the little emperor, so even if the little emperor does the worst thing, he can only help clean up the situation, and even risk his own life at the critical moment!

    It wasn't Fang Congzhe's loyalty, nor was it Zhu Youxiao's bastard spirit that suppressed Lao Fang, but Zhu Youxiao had made Fang Congzhe an offer he couldn't refuse. In the Ming Dynasty, the total number of civilian titles was only Weiningbo.  Wang Yue, Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji, and Xinjian Marquis Wang Yangming, but none of them have ever served as chief ministers!

    Liu Yishen was different. Although he was beaten several times by Zhu Youxiao and wrote letters to big families in the southeast, he couldn't overcome his temperament of being a scholar first, so when he found out that the little emperor seemed to want to put aside  When the civil servants came out with a powerful force, a sense of crisis emerged that the Ming Dynasty was about to escape from the control of the civil servants!

    At this time, Liu Yishuo suddenly realized that the pride and integrity of the civil servants that he had believed in before seemed worthless in front of fifty thousand elite cavalry. Although Liu Yishuo did not believe that Zhu Youxiao would kill all the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty, he could  Liu Yishen believed that with these 50,000 cavalry in hand, no one could stop what Zhu Youxiao wanted to do!

    "Mr. Fang Ge and Mr. Liu Ge are here. I have two decrees here. You two have a look and see if they are okay!" Zhu Youxiao said bluntly before Fang Congzhe and Liu Yishen greeted him.

    Fang Congzhe and Liu Yishui hurriedly met the ceremony, and then received the two imperial edicts handed over by the eunuch. The first one said that the British Duke Zhang Weixian was appointed as the Minister of War.  The second line says that a Lord was added to the Ming Dynasty title, but the Lord has no fiefdom, no salary, and cannot be hereditary!

    Fang Congzhe and Liu Yishui were both mentally prepared for the first imperial edict. After all, the news had been spread for a long time, but the little emperor had not taken any action, and everyone gradually forgot about it. Now it seems that the little emperor has not forgotten it at all.  , but waiting for the arrival of the fifty thousand cavalry!

    But they were a little confused about this second imperial edict. Since ancient times, the titles have been divided into five levels: duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male. The Ming Dynasty eliminated viscounts and barons, leaving only dukes, marquises, and earls. But  No one has heard of this Lord!

    What¡¯s more, such a title has neither a fief nor a salary, and it cannot be hereditary. So what is the use of this title?

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