At the scene of the chaos, after Yuhuatian shouted loudly, the people quickly lined up under the command of Jinyiwei. Who dares not to line up, after laughing, Jinyiwei said very clearly just now, cancel the release of grain without queuing, unless they want to starve to death.

Seeing that the people were lined up, Li Banghua came to Zhu Youzhen to ask for instructions:

"Your Majesty, do you want to start putting grain?"

"Yes, before the release of grain, I would like to announce that from this month onwards, the grain will be released once a month, and the people only need to receive enough food for a month today."

Zhu Youzhen's words made Li Banghua nod frequently, he felt that the emperor was doing things more and more reliable, and he was much more decisive than before.

Zhu Youzhen said, and Li Banghua looked at Yuhuatian:

"Lord Rain, I'm bothering you to shout."

What the emperor said just now, Yu Huatian also heard it very clearly, and he knew that Li Banghua did not dare to use this artifact in his hand.

Yu Huatian nodded, and picked up the tweeter again:

"Everyone listen, now announce a good news, just now the emperor decreed, in the future, grain will be released once a month, today you only need to receive a month's rations."

Before Yuhuatian's words fell, it immediately caused an uproar among the people, and they couldn't believe their ears.

In the past, the imperial court and local officials only knew about the requisition of grain, and who cared about the life and death of the people, which caused a large number of displaced people to appear, why did they suddenly change the sky.

"...... Uproar"

"No, our ears are not mistaken, we will put grain every month, or the emperor himself decrees it......"

"That's right, everyone heard it right, the Ming Emperor really loves the people like a son, thank the emperor quickly......"

After getting the news that they would not be hungry, many people were dazzled in their eyes, knowing that there were no relatives who died of starvation at home, and now they were saved.

I don't know who it was, but he took the lead in kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to thank him, which caused the butterfly effect.

All the people knelt on the ground, facing the direction of the imperial city, and chanted with three rings of their heads:

"Thank you to the emperor for saving the suffering, there is a holy monarch, the emperor's grace is mighty......"

People's moods will change with the environment, and such a scene not only moved Zhu Youzhen, but also Li Banghua and other ministers felt that their eyes were a little moist.

A restaurant not far from the grain depot.

At this time, there were three people standing in front of the window on the second floor, looking at everything in front of them, and one of them, a beautiful girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, waved her right fist a few times.

"yes, my father is so good."

Yes, these three are Princess Zhu Weijiao of the Ming Dynasty, the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus Qinglian, and the old eunuch Wang Chengen.

Princess Zhu Weijiao waved her pink fist fiercely, shouting in her heart, the already tall image of her father in her heart was even more majestic at this time.

And the White Lotus Holy Maiden Qinglian, at this time, her heart is like overturning a five-flavor bottle, and she has any taste, sweet and sour.

She suddenly didn't understand the White Lotus Mother's approach, such a good Ming Emperor, why did the White Lotus Sect and Li Zicheng rebel and make a lot of misery.

If she was just afraid of Zhu Youzhen before, now that Qinglian is more of a admirer and admirer of Zhu Youzhen.

But Lao Wang frowned, he couldn't understand what the emperor did.

If the food is divided among the people, where will the military rations come from in case it is time for war?

Without the support of military rations, how can the army win a big victory, and the Ming Dynasty may fall into a situation from which it will never recover.

At the beginning of the grain release, each family has three buckets, because the food is limited, and the people will not be allowed to eat without restrictions, and there is still a plan for temporary meals.

In the Ming Dynasty, one stone was equal to four buckets, that is, 120 catties, and one bucket was equal to thirty catties.

At that time, the number of ordinary families was not large, and almost every family had died of starvation, and later many people died of the plague.

After calculation, three buckets of grain a month, a little saving, a family of three to four people, can still make up enough to eat.

"Xianggong, the imperial court should also be short of food now, they will actually release grain to help the people, this is not Emperor Chongzhen's style"

"Alas, Li Zicheng is destined not to be a big thing, now it seems that the Ming Dynasty will usher in a prosperous era, we go back to train the army, it is estimated that the imperial court will soon raise troops to clear the country's righteous army."

In the crowd, Li Yan and his wife also praised the court's decision to release grain, and it seemed that the Ming Dynasty was about to take off.

The Jingshi is releasing grain to help the people, and many major events have happened in areas outside the Jingshi, and the most surprising is the base camp of the Liukou.

In some of the places they occupied, there have been many secret assassinations in the past few days, and in Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui and other places, the leaders of the gangsters were assassinated after taking the lead.

The leader who had just been elected was soon killed again, and now the rogue people everywhere were terrified, and no matter how much they guarded, their heads would be cut off in a short time.

These killers are all black-clad and masked, accustomed to appearing at night, and can often kill the leader of the rogue unconsciously and unknowingly, and their body and martial arts are extremely terrifying.

They never fight alone, they are all in small teams, a team of about 30 people, and they move very quickly.

Without waiting for the rogue army to form an encirclement, they escaped from the encirclement as quickly as possible.

There are also some killers who are mixed in with the rogue army, and whenever they have the opportunity, they will carry out crazy assassinations against those new leaders, and the success rate is very high.

These killers who caused great deterrence to the Liukou were, of course, all the elites of the Jinyi Guard under Zhu Youzhen, and some of them were Cao Zhengchun and his subordinates in Dongchang.

These people are all composed of masters of the rivers and lakes, and if the two armies fight against each other, they will not play a big role, and they will be far less fierce than the regular army.

But to do some assassination activities, they are definitely very qualified killers, which is why Zhu Youzhen sent them to assassinate the leader of the Liukou.

After Li Zicheng's death, the morale of the Liukou army has long been weakened, and now it has begun to split again.

After the gold, silver and grain of the rich merchants and nobles were consumed in the early stage, they began to loot the local people.

The people's hearts were useless to them at this time, and the common people were even more miserable than under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and many of the common people were gradually drifting away from the rogues.

Eight Imperial Merchants

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the rise of the Eastern Invasion and the continuous wars caused the people of Hebei, Shandong and other places to suffer from the war.

Only the shrewd Jin merchants not only did not suffer losses, but made a fortune and grabbed more wealth.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty government was tired of dealing with the iron cavalry of Nurhachi and his son, and the demand for arms, horses and other war necessities was very large.

Shanxi is located on the high slopes of the loess, and does not produce horses and munitions, but has abundant coal resources.

Occasionally, some Jinci rice and Qinzhou millet are produced, and a palm-sized piece of land is barely enough to make tribute to the emperor.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was in financial difficulties, and the officials were also helpless, and they could only make some money by doing business with the government, so they set their sights on Nurhachi.

At that time, the Northeast was in shambles, and there were three main gods in Hindu mythology, the god of creation, the god of destruction and the god of harmony.

The creator god is in charge of creation, and the god of destruction is in charge of destroying the fruits of the former's labor, and the god of reconciliation is in the center to coordinate.

And Nurhachi is a pure god of destruction, specializing in destruction in the land of Liaodong, not building, and grabbing a piece of land when he occupies it.

At that time, there were no rats in Liaodong.

Of course, it is not that Nurhachi does not want to engage in construction, but that his subordinates do not know anything about farming and iron except for war and hunting.

To make matters worse, natural disasters continue year after year, and food and clothing have become the biggest problem.

According to records, since the "Xiaoice River period" that began in the Wanli period, the CPI began to soar.

At that time, although there were only 700,000 people in the eastern captivity, the people were easy to eat, and the price of rice was as high as 80 taels and 1 stones, and cloth was 221 horses.

The Jin merchants took a fancy to this point, and took Zhangjiakou as a base to collect goods from all over the country, and then traveled back and forth to inside and outside the customs to engage in trade activities.