Zhu Youxiao left as soon as he said that, and the imperial edict was issued to Chen Ce, the governor of Yongwei Camp. More than 10,000 people in Yongwei Camp also moved quickly.

The Yongwei Camp is no longer what it was when it was just established.

The Yongwei Battalion has been expanded twice, and more than 10,000 elite troops were selected from the nine sides, with firearms, baggage battalions, formation battle battalions, and cavalry teams under it.

In terms of the priority level of armor and ordnance, the Yongwei Battalion is higher than the three major camps of the capital and the Nine-Border Army.

After the explosion of Wanggong Factory, it is being rebuilt. The position of factory supervisor as eunuch was revoked and the military weapon department was registrared. The military weapon department sent experienced firearm experts to be managed.

The gunpowder and weapons produced will be sent directly to Yongwei Camp. After the Yongwei Camp is selected, they will be sent to Jiubian, and then to other guards.

In addition, Yongweiying also has a dedicated horse farm in the suburbs of Beijing, with more than 10,000 good horses that were paid or purchased from Mongolia.

This time, due to an emergency, all the members of the Yongwei Battalion stepped on the war horses, with a total of more than 10,000 cavalry and more than 20,000 war horses. They ran out of the capital from Yongdingmen and headed straight to Baishui County, Shaanxi Province.

Shaanxi, the province with the most serious natural disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty, followed by Shanxi, Huguang, Henan, Shandong, and the five provinces in the Central Plains, can all be said to be the hardest hit areas for natural disasters and erosion.

Entering the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the natural disasters caused by the Little Ice Age have become more and more serious.

Since November of the sixth year of Tianqi, the whole of Shaanxi has been drought and rain for a long time, withered and scorched plants and trees, and thousands of miles of barren land. No matter how much disaster relief supplies the court has issued, it is a drop in the bucket.

The power of natural disasters is far greater than the limit of disaster relief at present. Therefore, although the international situation of the Ming Dynasty is becoming increasingly strong, there are still many internal contradictions.

Up to now, most of Shaanxi Province has not had a drop of rain for several months. In early February, a locust plague occurred in Baishui County, resulting in barren mu of land and no harvest. Hungry people fled and starved people were everywhere.

In this case, the famine is even worse.

And the wave has not yet been resolved and the wave has started again. At present, the epidemic is prevalent in Shaanxi. Almost every household has died, starved to death, sick, and forced to death by the government. Even the doctors are reluctant to go again.

The more people die, the more people are venting their anger, and they want to rebel against officials and tyrants in order to survive.

Baishui County is the most severely eroded area in Shaanxi. "The plants and trees are gone, and people eat each other" and the farmers are "the skin and bones are gone, and they will not look down on their lives."

Although Zhu Youxiao had cancelled taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the first year of Tianqi, and the expenses used for disaster relief have increased year by year.

The Ministry of Revenue reported that over the years, the expenses of the imperial court for disaster relief and resettlement of refugees were equal to military expenditures by the end of the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

If this trend continues, the expenditure on disaster relief will exceed military expenditure this year.

But the facts have proved that people are not satisfied with their hearts. Even the Hongwu period, which is full of people, has countless corrupt officials, let alone the current Apocalypse period.

Zhu Youxiao discovered that unless it was a form of disaster relief directly under the factory and the bathroom, all disaster relief materials in other places would be exploited layer by layer. There were still many local governments who ignored the rules and regulations of the court, took risks and made clever names.

The imposition of heavy taxes and abuse of power is now common, and the more small the officials are, the more they are, the more they are, the more they are.

The ignorant and petty people who suffer such unfair treatment will most of them vent their anger on the inaction of the court, the current emperor's wine pool and meat forest.

Since all the people of the group were cavalry, they came out of the capital and walked all the way. It took only three days and two nights to leave Jifu.

On March 12, we finally arrived at the outskirts of Baishui County.

"Your Majesty, this is Baishui County!" Chen Ce finished speaking and ordered around him: "Send people to the city first to find out the situation."

"yes!"

After the words came to the ground, a cavalryman of the Yonggu Camp slapped his horse and headed straight for the city.

Baishui County is said to have been occupied by rebellious hungry people, and Chen Ce has to act cautiously as a guard of the imperial lord.

In fact, he had made the worst plan, which was to fight a war with the hungry people here and calm the situation.

With the combat effectiveness and military equipment of the Yongwei Battalion, it is as easy to capture a county occupied by hungry people as drinking water.

Of course, this is the situation that everyone least wants to see.

After all, the hungry people in Baishui County were unable to survive before they rebelled. Nowadays, they all know what the place looks like.

This time, Emperor Aoki came down in person, obviously to change the current situation.

Zhu Youxiao held the horse's reins with one hand and looked around. He did not find any officers and soldiers standing guarding on the top of Baishui County.

Baishui County is not big at all, and it is even quite small among the five northern provinces.

The city walls were all made of rammed earth. After Renxuan, some important towns began to convert the earth walls into brick walls. Baishui County was included in this ranks because it was located at an important node of the Silk Road.

However, the cost of renovating towns across the country was too huge. After the Renxuan Dynasty, the work was suspended before and after the Zhengtong period. The rest of the dynasties were repaired and repaired, and they have not yet been built to Baishui County.

The Baishui County town that Zhu Youxiao saw now is just a small town with rammed earth. The outside of the city is empty, and it looks like a small poor place at first glance.

Soon, the cavalry who were exploring the city returned.

He immediately clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, the hungry people in the city are led by Wang Er and Zhong Guangdao. When they heard that the king's army came, they were willing to give up resistance!"

Chen Ce frowned and asked, "Are you serious?"

Seeing the cavalry nodding, he turned his head and said, "Your Majesty, it is better to ask these two rebellious hungry leaders to leave the city and see the emperor."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said:

"Then let it go, send someone to the city again. Summon King Er and Zhong Guangdao out of the city and tell them what grievances are there? I, the Emperor of the Heavenly Qi of the Ming Dynasty, can make the decision for them!"

The cavalry nodded, then turned around, ran into the city again, rolling up smoke and dust.

Seeing him leave, Zhu Youxiao rode on his horse and glanced at the city wall from afar, frowned, not knowing what he was thinking.

Soon, heads began to appear on the city wall.

A large number of hungry people came to the city walls to support the elderly and the young, which quickly aroused the alertness of the Yongwei Battalion. The current Yongwei Battalion lined up to wait for almost became the subconscious action of soldiers and officers.

There was no need for Chen Ce and Zhu Youxiao to order that more than 10,000 people from Yongwei Battalion formed a defensive formation. The bird gunner trotted to the front row and took the medicine.

Seeing that this uniform army outside the city was ready to attack, there was an instant surprise and loud shout from the top of the city.

The hungry people could see that this army with distinctive armor was the famous Yongwei Battalion beside the emperor, and its combat effectiveness was stronger than the border troops on the Nine-sided sides, and they were not able to resist it.

Although many women were very scared, they turned their children's heads and did not want them to see this scene. Even a "whimper" cry came from the city wall.

At this time, the cavalryman from the Yongwei camp who had first entered the city came out with two people. It was the leader of these thousands of hungry people, Wang Er, who was the leader of the Shouguang Dao.

Neither of them expected that this incident would cause such a big shock, which alarmed the emperor and came to Baishui, a poor county in person.

When the king's army arrived at the city, the two of them had no intention of resisting, because they were nothing more than taking these people to die.

The two walked to Zhu Youxiao, looked at each other, and then knelt down and saluted one after another.
Chapter completed!