Chapter 123 Tongzhou
After the Chaoyangmen cleared the Tonghui River during the Yongle period, it became a distribution center for grain in Beijing. The canal outside the city can reach Jishuitan, Beihai and other lakes in the city.
However, since the end of Wanli, the country's money was requisitioned by the three major groups. During the Chongzhen period, there was no money to clear the Tonghui River. Now some areas of Tonghui River have been damaged. Grain transport ships can only go to Tongzhou and then transport them to the capital by mules and horses.
There are large granaries inside and outside Chaoyang Gate. Kuding, who guards the warehouse, had already run away. Seeing that the granary gate was open, there were only a few people snatching food inside, and no one was guarding it.
Zhu Hongsan thought that if these millions of stones of grain were put on the food, they would be cheaper. It would be better to burn them all. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan called a platoon leader and asked him to take ten people to the granary along the way to set fire, so that a grain of grain should not be left for the bandits.
Platoon leader Ma Liang took people to set fire, and Zhu Hongsan rushed out of Chaoyang Gate with his men.
After going out for five miles, Zhu Hongsan ordered a rest and waited for Ma Liang and the others. At this time, fire had already appeared in Chaoyang Gate. After a while, Ma Liang and the others caught up and joined Zhu Hongsan to set off for Tongzhou.
This time, the Chaoyang Gate fire lasted for half a month, and millions of stones of grain were burned out. The Northern Zhili generation was not a grain-producing area. The loss of millions of stones of grain caused a large number of Beijing residents to starve to death. Some scholars in later generations estimated that this man-made famine in North China had a total of one million people starved to death, which was all counted on Zhu Hongsan's head.
However, it was precisely because of the reduction of food that Li Zicheng and the Qing Dynasty later ruled, which made them unable to concentrate their efforts to move south for a long time. The small Nanjing court, which had existed in history for one year, was able to prolong his life for one year.
Of course, the one who gets the biggest benefit is Zhu Hongsan. His Guangdong territory has a critical year-on-year development opportunity. When the Qing army eliminated the Hongguang regime and then headed south to Guangdong, it was discovered that Zhu Hongsan had become extremely powerful.
Of course, this is all a story. Now Zhu Hongsan is fleeing like a stray dog. Tongzhou is more than 40 miles away from Beijing. Zhu Hongsan and Feng Ruoshu agreed to gather at the wharf outside the city and then see what to do next.
Thanks to the Chaoyang Gate fire, the bandits who occupied Beijing were not in the mood to pursue the small armed forces of more than 100 people. Under the order of Li Yan, the only one who was still quite sensible among the bandits, he devoted himself to put out the fire.
Zhu Hongsan also took this opportunity to arrive in Tongzhou without any danger.
It was already dark when it arrived at Tonghuihe Wharf outside Tongzhou. Zhu Hongsan was so tired that his horse was trembling. Zhu Hongsan knew that the horse would be exhausted if he ran. His own horses were still war horses, and many of the others were slow horses. More than a dozen were exhausted halfway.
Zhu Hongsan dismounted his horse and ordered a rest, and then asked someone to find Feng Ruoshu and his party.
After Zhu Hongsan finished the arrangement, he turned around and hugged Zhu's mother. He found that the inner side of her long legs had been worn and bleeding, and the blood had already penetrated her pants outside. Zhu's mother's tears were circling in her eyes because she was afraid that Zhu Hongsan would not cry out because she was afraid that she would know.
Zhu Hongsan knew that it was very likely to be infected without bandaging the current medical conditions. Thinking of this, he went up and tear open Zhu Niang's two trouser legs, revealing his snow-white long legs.
Zhu Mai was not expecting that Zhu Hongsan was so unreasonable and shouted loudly. When the soldiers around him saw that their commander was going to be a hooligan again, they turned around and formed a circle to block Zhu Hongsan and Zhu Mai.
Zhu Hongsan said, "Don't move, your legs will be amputated after they are not bandaged and suppurated. Do you want to lose your hands and legs?"
When Zhu Mei stopped and struggled when she heard this, Zhu Hongsan looked at the wound carefully. It was okay, but the skin was broken. After cleaning it with clean water, she took out the bandage tie and wrapped it on the wound.
This is when Zhu Hongsan saw Zhu Ni's pants wearing pink underwear. Royal things are naturally the best. The silk material is very thin, and you can see the skin inside Zhu Ni's pants.
Zhu Hongsan's index finger was moved and his lustful heart arose. He couldn't help but use clear water to reach the middle of Zhu Ni's underwear, and the underwear was immediately soaked in the clear water. The beautiful scene inside appeared in front of Zhu Hongsan. The beast actually reached out to touch the middle.
Zhu Mai was about to cry and asked, "General, have you not finished cleaning yet?"
Zhu Hongsan said: "No, there is a wound between the legs, I'm cleaning it."
Just as Zhu Hongsan was about to continue cleaning, someone shouted next to him: "Son-in-law, son-in-law, where are you?"
When Zhu Hongsanyi heard it was Feng Ruoshu's voice, he cursed in his heart: "This old man is really the time to come, it ruined my good deeds."
But Old Feng had to give him face. Anyway, the wound has been bandaged, so let’s talk about that later. Zhu Hongsan got up and came out of the wall and saw Feng Ruoshu coming to him.
Now Zhu Hongsan is all the hope of Feng Ruoshu running for life. The older he gets, the more afraid he is. In order to escape, Old Man Feng doesn’t want his concubines at home, so he only takes his grandson Feng Run and a few of his confidants and runs out.
Along the way, I met several groups of defeated soldiers who saw that they were few and wanted to steal the horse. Unexpectedly, the fifty people left by Zhu Hongsan were not easy to mess with.
Most of the 200 people in the Guard Company have experienced the bloody battle in Xinyang, and each of them has the rank of a second lieutenant. The most time they are platoon leaders in the company, so their combat power is naturally super strong.
Feng Ruoshu saw that these fifty people had repelled several attacks of hundreds of people face to face, and he couldn't help but think: "Zhu Hongsan said that there are 50,000 troops in Guangdong, and if they are all like this, it would be invincible in the world."
Feng Ruoshu couldn't help but feel confident that he would become the chief minister.
In fact, Zhu Hongsan’s own guard company was established according to the standards of learning the teaching team in later generations. Each of these 200 people can write four or five hundred simplified Chinese characters, and daily writing is basically fine.
In the evening, Zhu Hongsan personally gave brainwashing classes and cultural classes, and he had nothing to say about Zhu Hongsan's loyalty.
Zhu Hongsan plans to expand his army when he goes back, and then his guard company will be ready-made grassroots officers. This will ensure both loyalty and ability.
Feng Ruoshu came to Zhu Hongsan and said, "How is it? How is it in the capital?"
Zhu Hongsan sighed and said, "The emperor has hanged him, and the crown prince has no idea where to end. Now the city is in chaos, and the bandits have set fire to several large granaries in Chaoyangmen."
When Feng Ruoshu heard this, he was shocked: "All of them are burned? These bandits were so powerful that they didn't know how many people would starve to death after all the food was burned?" Zhu Hongsan did not dare to say that he was burning it.
At this time, Zhu Mai put on her pants and tidyed her clothes and then left the crowd. Feng Ruoshu saw a beautiful woman in palace clothes coming out from behind. It was the eldest princess. Princess Kunyi. She quickly bowed and said, "Old minister Feng Ruoshu greeted the princess."
Old Man Feng has lived for more than 60 years and has a very rich experience. When he saw Zhu Hongsan's guards forming a circle behind him, Zhu Hongsan and the princess came out just now, and when the princess saw that she had changed her appearance and color, she knew that Zhu Hongsan did not do good things inside.
Feng Ruoshu said angrily: "Zhu Hongsan, are you still doing such a thing at this time?"
Zhu Hongsan's face turned red and turned around and asked someone to take Zhu Moe down first.
Seeing Zhu Mai walking away Zhu Hongsan said, "Uncle, I picked up this princess in the palace. His hand was cut off by Chongzhen. I think she is really pitiful. If no one helps her, she will definitely die at the hands of the bandits. Uncle, don't worry, she and I are definitely a pure relationship between men and women."
Feng Ruoshu is not Ma Jiyuan, and he doesn't believe Zhu Hongsan's nonsense at all. What he was angry about was not that Zhu Hongsan saved the princess, but that he was afraid that his niece Ma Xiaofang would not have the status of his niece. After all, this Zhu Mo Yu had too high status.
Zhu Hongsan certainly knew what Old Man Feng was afraid of and whispered: "Don't worry, uncle, Ma Xiaofang is the wife of the lower house. Zhu Hai is the eldest son."
When Feng Ruoshu heard Zhu Hongsan say this, his face was a little better. Now the world is in chaos, and Zhu Hongsan, a powerful soldier, is in need of the world to be unified. His Feng family and the Ma family are tied to Zhu Hongsan's chariot. At this time, other women must not be allowed to steal Ma Xiaofang's position as the wife.
Feng Ruoshu thought for a while and said, "Son-in-law, I miss my grandson Zhu Hai very much. Can I teach him how to enlighten me after I arrive in Guangdong?"
"This old guy seems to be worried, but it's a problem for me to interfere with my heir so quickly." Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Of course, I'll bother my uncle."
Feng Ruoshu was guaranteed to calm down and asked, "The prince really doesn't know where to end?"
Zhu Hongsan smiled and whispered: "It's not to be said."
Feng Ruoshu felt relieved when he heard this. What he feared most was that his former master was still alive. Hearing that Chongzhen and his son were all dead, he would not help Zhu Hongsan, but a meritorious person.
Chapter completed!