67 I will go personally
The first purpose is naturally to save these more than 5,000 refugees from the capital, so that they can survive this winter and wait until the Qing Dynasty Tartars can return home and start over after they leave the customs.
The second purpose is that these refugees in the capital should not have a good impression of corrupt officials. In this way, absorbing some small people into the Dongchang will not only have fresh blood to impact the original pattern of decay, but also give them more motivation to do what a Dongchang man should do and investigate those corrupt officials strictly.
The third purpose is to arrange refugees to enter the homes of the princes and nobles and officials at all levels of the capital, just like a nail that penetrates them. At least in a short time, it is impossible to become the real person of each prefecture. When the Tartars retreat, according to Xue Guoguan's proposal, they start to borrow money from civil and military officials and nobles, there may be new channels for information to obtain. After finishing this matter, these refugees can return home and should be able to catch up with the spring plowing!
Emperor Chongzhen thought about this, but his expression still asked seriously: "What else do you have to report to me?"
At this time, it was already bright, and the officials who attended the morning court were already very cold. It was not a particularly important matter, and no one would want to report the right thing in the morning court again. In addition, the two things just now were not very satisfactory, and the emperor seemed to be very independent. If something happened again and the emperor led the decree on the spot, there would be no need to change it. Therefore, based on this idea, no one started to speak out for a while.
Many of them were actually thinking about the emperor's performance in the morning court this day. I heard that the emperor was different after Taizu held a dream. Now when he saw him, it was true. How should he deal with the emperor in the future so that the situation would not be deviated from his own plans, and he had to think about it carefully.
Seeing that the civil and military officials below did not speak, Emperor Chongzhen spoke: "More than 5,000 refugees are my people. Although they can be resettled now, I have not seen it in practice, I have not seen it true that they can really eat a bite of food, and there is a place to escape the cold, so I still feel uneasy. I decided..."
When the ministers below heard his words, they couldn't help but wonder, the emperor wouldn't really care about the untouchables, right? Didn't he respond because of his duties as the emperor?
They can still see sincerity.
Generally speaking, emperors are actually the most ruthless. But as the father of billions of people, they always have to express some of the people suffering from disasters. After all, emperors care about face the most. Now that the matter of resettling victims has been arranged, it is actually done well enough for the emperor.
This matter should be exposed! But the emperor seems to have not finished yet, what is he going to do?
When they were puzzled, they heard Emperor Chongzhen make a serious decision: "I have brought officials above the fifth rank to visit the refugees, and sent another order to the princes and nobles of the capital. I have to rush over immediately. I am waiting for them. I have to see that all the refugees have been completely resettled, otherwise it would be okay for me to remember them!"
Hearing this, the rotating eunuch immediately took two steps forward and shouted sharply: "The officials above the fifth rank of Beijing will follow you, and the rest will retreat!"
When some officials who were so cold that they heard this, they immediately shouted "Long live long live long live long" according to etiquette and quickly sent the emperor back to the court. They could also go back to the yamen to warm up.
Many other officials heard this and originally wanted to stop the emperor. The emperor was the 195th emperor, so how could he leave the palace easily? But they didn't have time to say it, and the emperor had already stood up. With this attitude, they didn't give them a chance at all. In addition, their colleagues were shouting "Long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long, which made them helpless and unable to stop it!
At this time, although the winter had risen, it was still very cold under the raging cold wind! There were all kinds of tents in the square southeast of the city. Each tent was almost full of people. However, there were more people, and there were no tents at all. They all hid in the corners of the walls, crouching into a pile to resist the severe cold.
On the outside of this square are fully armed soldiers and soldiers of five cities. The cold light is shining with weapons, and the refugees who dare to attack them and try to escape from here will be driven back without hesitation. They are stubbornly stubborn, just a few hanging corpses not far away from them, which are considered as killing chickens and terrifying monkeys, swaying in the wind.
When the sun was rising, some soldiers were only seeing large tanks coming up, shouting "drinking porridge".
Suddenly, refugees who were originally crowded together immediately flocked to the big jars, holding various bowls and the like. There is no order, only strength. What kind of etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame are useless in front of this life-saving porridge!
This so-called porridge, not to mention that it can't be poured into the chopsticks, is just a jar of water, or it's just a little white water. If you put a bowl of rice, you can only see single-digit rice grains. But even this is like robbing. Those who are weaker are squeezed aside.
But when you reach the edge of the tank, no matter how strongly you push others, you will change into a smile on your face and nod and bow to the soldiers on the edge of the tank to get a bowl of "porridge". Otherwise, if you are a little disrespectful, the lighter one will be scolded and scolded, whipped heavily, or even kicked out of the porridge team. The so-called dignity is worthless here, and if you care about dignity, you will only starve to death!
While serving the porridge, a group of young men suddenly came over in a furious manner. When the soldiers from the outside saw it, they all gave in. It was obvious that these people who came had identities.
When the refugees saw it, they avoided it, but no one came to please me.
After entering the refugee camp, these young men showed disgust on their faces, covered their mouths and noses with their hands, rode on horseback, and began to scan around. One of them suddenly pointed with a horse whip.
Suddenly, the two servants behind him rushed over, dragged a woman pointed at and left.
When a young man next to the woman saw it, he immediately rushed over and tried to stop him, but the two servants were beaten to the ground by one of the servants. At the same time, he cursed and said, "It is her blessing for my young master to fall in love with her. Do you want to die?"
The woman also struggled violently, obviously unwilling to go, and cried and shouted: "Brother, save me, brother, save me..."
The young man struggled and got up again, but he should be hungry and had no strength at all, so he was kicked to the ground again.
This scene made the soldiers and other servants watching the side laugh, as if they were watching a big show.
Almost all the other young men were doing the same thing, looking for beautiful women among the refugees. After using a horse whip, a servant would pounce on him, regardless of whether others would like to do so.
Without family members, they were dragged away directly; if there were family members, just like the young man who tried to stop him, he could only bring a beating and laughter like a show.
The young man looked at his girl being dragged away, and his eyes were filled with despair. At this moment, a majestic voice suddenly came: "Stop!"
Chapter completed!