The world of the late Ming Dynasty, which was numbered as '04' by Coco, within the scope of China on this timeline, also happened to be in the Xiaoice period, grain production was reduced year after year, and even simply no grain was harvested, plus years of war so the Chinese people at this time, it was really a miserable life.

However, the people who are now in the sphere of influence of Coco suddenly found that even the food that money could not buy was suddenly bought overnight, which really makes people feel that it is a strange thing.

You must know that now that Nanjing has set up another imperial court, there is no food in the south here in the capital at all.

And the west is in the sphere of influence of the Dashun army, so there is no need to think about it.

And over the years, Houjin has frequently invaded, and the land from the capital to the Shanhaiguan line has basically been abandoned, so there is no food at all.

Originally, when the army had not yet broken through the capital, the capital could still count on the grain transported from all over the south to alleviate the needs of the people in the capital.

But all this was no longer expected after the Dashun army broke through the capital and forced Emperor Chongzhen to death.

This is one thing that anyone who is not a person with a negative IQ can basically be sure of.

Now that the army has withdrawn from the capital, the new owner has changed to a force called the 'True Destiny Female Army', and there is a female doll who has become the emperor.

As the saying goes, when a country is about to die, there will be demons.

But let's look at the people who are on the stage of history now.

Of course, for the Shengdou Xiaomin, whether it is a female doll or a British lord, the most important thing for them is to be able to get food and not starve, which is the most important thing.

However, because of the above reasons, there is no grain in the capital now, and even the homes of the former Ming Dynasty officials who did not escape from the capital are also facing such a situation that they cannot open the pot.

Many pessimists believe that if this situation continues, it will not be long before cannibalism occurs, and this is not too surprising.

At this time of year, Henan, Ningxia, Xi'an and other places have already seen such a tragic situation in the early years.

It's just that now it's about to be the turn of the people in the capital to face this kind of thing.

Therefore, for a while, there was always a very sad cloud in the sky over the capital, and people were also shrouded in an atmosphere of despair.

Most people think that's how things went.

But suddenly, a large number of grain shops sprang up on the streets, and there was plenty of grain for sale in these grain shops, and the prices were very cheap and varied.

Such a change really made the desperate people in the capital unbelievable.

But no matter what, it's always a good thing to have food to buy, especially when food is still very cheap.

Therefore, after a short period of shock and incomprehension, the recovered people still rushed to those grain stores as soon as possible, took out all their money, and bought as much food as possible, for fear that they would not be able to buy it if they went late.

Therefore, for a period of time, on the street where the street food store in the capital is located, you will always see people queuing up for such a scene, and there are even big fights in order to queue up.

Fortunately, Andrew had already foreseen such a problem, and made arrangements to place a large number of soldiers in the area where the grain store was located to maintain order, so there was only a problem of fighting at the beginning, and it never happened again.

With the passage of time, people suddenly found that the situation that they were worried about selling out of grain in the grain store did not occur at all.

In this way, after three or four days of crazy shopping, everything gradually returned to normal.

And with food at home, the original atmosphere of depression and despair here in the capital has all disappeared, and people's hearts have quickly stabilized.

Needless to say, there are so many grain shops and so much grain all of a sudden, and this must have something to do with Cocoa.

Speaking of which, Coco also has to thank Li Zicheng, who has been killed.

If it weren't for the fact that this thing killed a large number of former Ming Dynasty officials during the occupation of the capital, resulting in no one being able to incite the people of the capital to cause chaos to Coco, the little guy wanted to control the Jingshi so easily, it would really not be so easy.

Especially those officials were killed by Li Zicheng, and the real estate and shops they left behind were all cheaper in the end.

Therefore, he mastered a large number of mansions and shops, and opened hundreds of grain shops in Beijing in one go, and sold low-cost grain through these grain shops, in this way to stabilize people's hearts.

You must know that in these years, all the owners who can open grain shops in the territory of Jingshi are all members of the DPRK and the Central Committee who participate in the shares, or find someone to preside over it.

And after those guys were killed by Li Zicheng, the grain shop in Jincheng was inevitably closed.

So, to a certain extent, Coco really has to thank Li Zicheng.

Because it was Li Zicheng who helped Coco sweep away those 'pests' in the capital, and also left Coco a lot of 'wealth', so that the little guy became a 'big landlord' out of thin air as soon as he occupied the capital, and he could easily take those 'wealth' in his hands without being notorious.

Of course, the cocoa that mastered these mansions and shops also did a good thing for the people of the capital, that is, selling grain cheaply.

In addition, among the hundreds of grain shops opened by Cocoa, there are many kinds of grain sold, such as soybeans, corn, sweet potatoes, and sorghum, in addition to rice and flour, but everything that is eaten is sold.

Even in the grain store, cocoa has opened up an area for selling vegetables across the ages, and at this time of winter, all kinds of vegetables are sold at very low prices......

Therefore, in this season when there is no green and yellow in all parts of China, and even a large number of people starve to death, the people of the capital have not starved to death for the first time.

The main reason for this is that the grain sold in the grain shop opened by Coco is too cheap.

In addition, Coco also set up a lot of free porridge shacks inside and outside the capital, three times a day for refugees who fled from the northwest and Henan to Beijing.

And this move has also won a lot of hearts for Cocoa.

Of course, in Coco's opinion, this is just a casual one, and it is nothing at all.

After all, she wants to get food, which is simply not too easy.

Go to the mystery shop and use one faith point to buy tens of thousands of tons of food, and it's still Thai fragrant rice.

Food is ridiculously cheap in the Mystery Shop.

And now that she has mastered the three faith source worlds, she can earn hundreds of thousands of faith points every day, and take out a few or even a dozen faith points to buy food from the secret store, which is nothing to her.

Besides, the little guy doesn't want someone to starve to death in the territory he controls.

Because it would make her seem incompetent.

Anyway, she's the emperor now.

Although the little one didn't know what the emperor was going to do, at least she knew very well that it was a matter of concern to feed the people under her rule.

Therefore, with the opening of the Jingshi to sell grain, coupled with the establishment of the porridge shed, the turbulent people's hearts here in the Jingshi quickly stabilized.

Even the common people think that it is not a bad thing to have a female doll as an emperor.

After all, it is precisely because of the relationship between this female doll emperor that everyone doesn't have to worry about being hungry now, right?

In fact, the people are very realistic.

They don't care who the emperor is, what they care about most is whether they will go hungry.

And those literati who cared about this, as well as the former Ming Dynasty officials who didn't have time to escape from Beijing, because after being killed by Li Zicheng, the remaining guys were not afraid at all.

In short, these guys who are still in Jingshi can't make any big waves at all.

Not to mention, these guys are still secretly watched by Andrew's faction.

But if anyone who is discovered by the watchmen sent by Andrew dares to show that they are not satisfied with their own lady or something, then their fate is death.

Even if the watchdog kills these disgruntled guys, he doesn't have to report it to Andrew at all.

Under such a premise, how can the capital be unstable.

Therefore, the cities on the first line of Jingshi and Shanhaiguan controlled by Coco have no need to worry about food problems at all, and this alone has thrown off the areas controlled by the forces of the Dashun Army, as well as the areas controlled by the forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

As for Houjin...... Coco's next target is them, so there's no need to make comparisons.

The homeless people were assigned to start repairing the roads in the capital, and although Coco provided them with porridge for free, Andrew still didn't want the guys to be too idle.

After all, if people are too idle, there will be trouble.

Besides, Andrew also felt that it was not good to give these guys food and drink for nothing, so he came up with such an idea.

Of course, more importantly, Coco was disgusted by the road conditions in the capital at this time, which prompted Andrew to have such an idea.

Anyway, those homeless people are idle, so it's better to let them find something to do.

Besides, these homeless people are not doing things in vain, Andrew, the 'Prime Minister of the Universe', is the one who pays them.

There is money for work, and there is a lot of it, and they can drink gruel three times a day, how can those displaced people not accept it, for them this is simply a good thing that falls from the sky.

Therefore, one by one, they burst out with great enthusiasm and drive.

As the emperor, Coco, while staying in the palace of the former Ming Dynasty emperor, began to slowly introduce some policies to benefit the people under the inspiration of Andrew.

Also thanks to having Andrew there.

Otherwise, would the bear child think of this?

Obviously, this is unlikely.