Above the river, the vast stream of water finally carried the Hutchison fleet downstream. The Yangtze River rolled, sending the Hutchison fleet into the Susong River again, and then exited the river estuary and ran towards the vast sea.

The people behind him were different and undercurrents were surging. In the end, Qian Qianyi and other famous gentry began to secretly contact Hutchison and form a co-governance parliament. Hutchison personnel had almost semi-public activities in various places in Hutchison, Jiangnan. After the Yangtze River Fleet, no local governments or local forces dared to offend. Hutchison's potential in Hutchison's Jiangnan Hutchison has increased day by day. Many co-governance meetings have discussed in considerable detail with Hutchison personnel. When Hutchison's army attacks half a year later, how to resettle, garrison, defense, local garrison and public security management, and local officials and gentry, clan power division, etc.

After the incident in Nanjing, the eunuch at the garrison only submitted a vague memorial, as if a pirate suddenly came on the Nanjing river, with a background of the peacekeeping, and then returned without success.

If you only understand it literally, there will be nothing in Nanjing and nothing in Jiangnan. Everyone who knows the inside story understands that the canal transportation is almost cut off now. Although Nanjing is still there, it is only a matter of time before the flag changes in Jiangnan, Lake, Guang, Fujian and Zhejiang.

It was almost the end of the year when the south was turbulent. The food shortage in the north was already quite serious, and the Ming Dynasty was already in a state of great trouble. Things in the south were very important and fatal, but it was difficult for the courts in the north to truly bet on the south. They are now in more and more trouble.

The nine borders were in chaos, and the damage from rising grain prices had already involved each military town. The morale of the army was unstable and small mutiny continued, so the court had to send a large amount of grain storage to each town.

At the same time, Ban Cao's army in Henan, Shandong and other places were left in the capital, and a small number of elite soldiers were selected to become combat soldiers. A large number of Ban Cao's soldiers acted as laborers in the capital, which made the local garrison resentful, but the court could only ignore it.

The price of grain is rising, and people's resentment is only in the troubles. The first major event of the court was to change the era. From next year to the first year of Chongzhen, the eradication of Wei Yin should have been a peaceful and hopeful year of change, but now everything has been destroyed because of the Xinpingbao incident.

Although the first year of Chongzhen has not yet arrived, the actual situation is close to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

People are silently preparing to accept, or sitting on the lookout, the only thing that makes people feel strange and disapproved is a series of actions between Zhang Han and Hutchison. Does Hutchison plan to use the current method to overthrow the Ming Dynasty? The Ming Dynasty still has tens of millions of people and millions of troops in the north. If Hutchison uses this kind of warm water-like method, it seems that it will take a long time to complete the cause of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty and establishing the new dynasty. For a hero in his twenties, Zhang Han's personality is also too gentle.

When the undercurrent is surging, the saddest thing is of course the emperor.

The atmosphere in the palace was very bad. The emperor punished the palace people around him for many consecutive days. Many young eunuchs were beaten to death, and several were beaten to death... In this regard, when Zi is far less generous than Emperor Tianqi, he is rarely used during the Tianqi period. Chongzhen has used it many times before the reign has changed.

Many news is bad news. Although Chongzhen was not very talented in politics, he was still a very normal person. His imperial poetry, calligraphy, and paintings showed that he not only had normal IQ but also had certain artistic talent. Compared to Qianlong, who was more and more gorgeous in writing 100,000 poems, the more gorgeous the porcelain burned.

Chongzhen's failure lies in his personality. He was unable to hold back, unable to stabilize, too stubborn, too self-righteous, too fond of scapegoating and turning the blame on his subordinates. As the emperor, he had no responsibility, and no magnificent measure of using people without doubt.

Just like now, the emperor was furious in the Ganqing Palace.

"What do you say to the Governor of Ji Liao?" Emperor Chongzhen, with a pale face, asked Wang Chengen beside him.

Wang Chengen, wearing a newly-gifted python robe, was not old. He looked very young and stood by the emperor with a whisk. A few months after entering the palace, the emperor had a clear trust in Wang Chengen. Among the old people in the Xinwang Qian’s residence, the one who had been serving the emperor was Xiao Wang’s father-in-law.

The seventeen-year-old emperor seemed extremely haggard. For many days, the emperor stayed asleep and was very nervous and in pain. In order to pursue the illusory central hope, the emperor was not afraid of hard work. However, in addition to the bad news, all the memorials came up to invite soldiers, wages, and military rations.

The grain depot in Tongzhou was being consumed sharply. At this time, the emperor was also anxious. After asking, Wang Chengen and his future answered. The emperor said hurriedly: "How many grain ships have been going north recently? Can the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Warehouse have a reply?"

Wang Chengen bowed down and replied: "Governor Ji Liao replied that he would come back after the New Year. He wanted to see what the news is going on in Korqin."

Chongzhen said "Oh" and knew that Yuan Chonghuan was indeed inconvenient to leave. Hutchison's soldiers were chasing and annihilated the rebellious Taiji in Korqin, and the battle was very lively. Jizhen and western Liaoning had long been martial law.

Yuan Chonghuan had been trying to negotiate peace with the Donglu. At least after stabilizing the rear, he transferred the elite troops in western Liaoning to Jizhen. The cannons also tried to transfer them to enrich Jizhen, so that they would have the confidence to block Heji's troops going south in Jizhen. Otherwise, Yuan Chonghuan said very frankly when submitting the memorial that if the military service and equipment were insufficient, he would not have the confidence to block Heji's elite troops.

According to Chongzhen's personality, he would be quite dissatisfied with such officials who were shirked and lacked confidence, and would even directly issue an order and blame him. However, he still had some tolerance for the great hero Chongzhen in his mind. After thinking about it, Chongzhen frowned and said, "It seems that he has to wait for news about Korqin and Zhutaiji."

The emperor suddenly felt hopeful and said, "The people of Korqin have been independent since they were young, with 200,000 people. Although they were divided and declined, they still have more than 100,000 people in control. If they can be self-reliant, Hutchison may not be able to do anything to them."

Wang Chengen quickly said: "What the emperor said is that if Hutchison had not been in trouble on the grassland, how could there be no news of peace until now?"

This is very pleasing to Chongzhen.

"I came to see you in the early February of the year." The emperor still didn't have much patience and immediately instructed: "I am worried, please tell him this."

"Yes, I will do it later."

The warm pavilion of the Ganqing Palace was quiet for a while, and only the charcoal fire in the copper furnace made a slight explosion. The inside of the warm pavilion was a bed, and the outside was an imperial case where the emperor worked. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not meet people in the Ganqing Palace, nor was in the Yangxin Palace. This was a pure inner world. No one except a few foreign ministers could get here.

The outside room is also extremely quiet. Eunuchs and palace people pass by here, and only people who report the time will ring the cloud board when passing by to remind people of the current time. In addition, it is silent.

The floor of the warm pavilion is paved with gold bricks made by Su, which exudes a fusion luster. The furnishings, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, and a small number of antiques in the room are all finest. Not to mention the artifacts of the Tang and Song dynasties, antiques from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are also very common. Most of the landscape characters of the Song dynasty hanging on the walls are calligraphy and paintings of the Song people. The emperor is not very interested in portraits, which is not much the same as his ancestors. Emperor Xuanzong's calligraphy and painting skills are both outstanding, and Emperor Chenghua's painting skills are the qualified standards among the academy painters. Emperor Chongzhen was more interested in calligraphy. If he raised his head in piles of official documents and wrote a few words on high-quality rice paper, it would be a rare time to relax.

The emperor wrote quickly, and the imperial case was nothing more than asking for money and soldiers, and also asking the court to send a large army to annihilate the bandits.

Most of the people who were asked to attack the thieves were censors or officials from Henan. The emperor shook his head slightly and said, "The thieves are just a minor problem, and they are mostly refugees without food. Why are they so ignorant? Hutchison troops went south and sent the army to Henan, okay?"

Originally, most of them were left to stay at the Central Committee, but after a second thought, officials from Henan would be very disappointed. Behind these people were a large number of Henan gentry, as well as relatives, King Tang, King Zhou, and King Fu, who had submitted memorials, requesting the court to strengthen the troops in Henan. The princes had their own guards, but they had been deprived, so the court also had an obligation to protect their safety.

Moreover, from the face of the situation, if the thief suddenly breaks through a big city and kills his relatives, a tragedy that has not happened in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years will happen to his own hands, and the "holy virtue" will be a stain that will be unexplained in the future.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen immediately said: "The Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Army will select a general, and lead the Beijing camp's troops to Henan immediately. The salary and equipment must be prepared!"

Wang Chengen wanted to say that the Beijing camp was empty. Once there were police in the capital, it would be difficult to gather troops. If there were police in the capital, they would be very embarrassed and embarrassed, or even dangerous. However, he knew that the emperor's mind was changing, and he hated someone to question him the most. After the emperor ascended the throne, he was very alert to the eunuchs. Most of the eunuchs in the palace did not dare to talk about military and national affairs casually. For fear of the emperor's suspicion, he could only agree gently. After a while, he ordered the Sili to write the imperial edict and hand it over to the cabinet for transfer.

When the emperor assigned something, his thoughts broke down and he couldn't read the memorials that made him unhappy. He pondered for a moment, gently hit the table with his fingers, and asked, "What's wrong with the canal boat just now?"

Wang Chengen complained a little secretly, but could only reply: "I'm afraid there were no canal ships coming again before the New Year."

"How much grain is there in Tongzhou Daku?"

"At the beginning of the month, the Minister of Kurabata replied, saying that there were more than seven million stones."

"Too little, too little!" Chongzhen's face changed. Although he had been emperor for a while, the importance of the Tongzhou warehouse was still quite clear. If the grain storage was less than 10 million, the problem would be really great.

It is said that millions of stones of grain are a lot, but now all towns in Jiubian have to allocate grain from the imperial court. The grain storage in various places is insufficient to use, and the millions of people in the capital rely on the Tongzhou grain warehouse. This consumption level is quite huge. When the new grain arrives next spring, there may be not much grain left in the Tongzhou granary.

"How is the price of grain in the capital?"

"Three days of money to eight qian per stone."

“Too high, too high.”

Wang Chengen lowered his head and looked down and did not dare to speak. There were some grain shops in the capital that sold this price, but no one could buy grain. However, the incident was to go to these grain shops to inquire about the price and then report it to the Dongchang. The Dongchang Admiral Cao Huachun reported it again, and deceived his superiors and concealed his subordinates. This was nothing more than this.

Although he knew the inside story, Wang Chengen was beaten to death and dared not tell it. Not only one family who had hoarded grain in the capital, almost all the Dukes and Boxungui families were hoarding grain, and the rich civil servants also hoarded grain. In addition, big merchants with backgrounds were hoarding grain, and some relatives from Henan and Shandong were also involved in this matter. Local tyrants and gentry also joined in one after another. The price of grain in the whole north rose sharply like a monkey in the sky, and it was even more surprising before the New Year. The price of grain in the capital was at least supplemented with grain, which was not as high as that in Henan and Jiubians, but it was more than two taels and one stone, and eight coins and one stone could not even be bought with grain.

In some places, such as northern Shaanxi, the grain prices are just three taels per stone, and they are even rising steadily.

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