Don't look at Yuhuatian's extremely high martial arts, killing people without blinking. But a mask has been working for a long time, and I am sweating profusely, and I still can't wear it well.

Zhu Youzhen tried his best not to let himself laugh, stepped forward twice to help him put it on, Yuhuatian touched the cover on his mouth, and suddenly realized.

However, he has never been good at talking, and he doesn't know how to pat a horse, so he just bowed to the emperor with a red face:

"Trouble the emperor, Yuhuatian is guilty."

"Let's go, and remember not to take it off."

Yu Huatian nodded in agreement, and took the lead in wanting to go to the camp.

"Whoever stands, this is a military forbidden place, and idlers are not allowed to enter."

As soon as the two of them entered the barracks, a faint voice came, it didn't look like a soldier's voice at all, Zhu Youzhen followed the voice.

Only then did he find that there was a Ming soldier sitting next to a camp tent, he curled up his body, looked very cold, and looked at Zhu Youzhen and the others vigilantly.

Zhu Youzhen came out wearing civilian clothes, but Yuhuatian was still dressed as the overseer of the West Factory, and he just wanted to grab the soldiers, but Zhu Youzhen urgently stopped him.

"Yuhuatian, don't touch him, retreat quickly."

"Obedience"

Yu Huatian didn't know what the emperor meant, so he hurriedly withdrew his hand and retreated a few meters, his eyes coldly glanced at the soldiers and asked:

"Our family is Yuhuatian, the superintendent of the West Factory, what about the rest of the three major battalions, how many people are there now?"

"Those who can run have run, and the rest are in the back barracks, you can go in and see for yourself what is going on."

This soldier doesn't care who Yuhuatian is now, his own life is almost over, and he is worried about a ball. ”

Without waiting for the soldier's words to fall, Zhu Youzhen had already turned around and left, and Yuhuatian hurriedly caught up, and the military camp of about 300 steps was transferred to it.

Yuhuatian stretched out his hand to open the door, and Zhu Youzhen stepped in, the situation was similar to what he imagined.

Few were able to stand, but none of them were dead, and their condition was the same as what he had seen in the house.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhu Youzhen suddenly understood that it was not that the Ming army did not resist, but that it had lost its combat effectiveness.

The damned military department and cabinet did not act and did not report, and Emperor Chongzhen was completely kept in the dark.

As for why they didn't report it, the purpose should be that they were on empty pay all year round and didn't dare to report the truth.

"Who's in charge here?"

"I've run away a long time ago, and there's no person in charge here."

When a soldier heard someone asking, he struggled to sit up, looked up, and saw that it was a young man and the overseer of the West Factory, so he was weak to answer.

Seeing the tragic situation in front of him, Zhu Youzhen suddenly felt that Zhang Jinchen's death was too cheap, and Ling Chi should execute him.

"How many people are here? It won't just be a few hundred of you, right? ”

"Some time ago, there were about 5,000, and more than 1,000 died of illness, and then the condition became more and more serious, and all of them who could run were gone."

"More than five thousand?"

Zhu Youzhen remembered that when he raided Zhang Jinchen's mansion, Cao Zhengchun gave him an account book, which clearly stated that there were about 10,000 in the three major battalions.

Now it seems that those corrupt officials have eaten half of the soldiers' salaries, that is, they are eating empty salaries.

With an extremely heavy heart, Zhu Youzhen turned around and walked to the armory, kicked open the door and entered the warehouse.

The firearms were still there, and he stepped forward to pick up a Vulcan gun, which was rusty and obviously hadn't been used for a long time.

As soon as a shot was fired, it immediately exploded, which startled Zhu Youzhen Yuhuatian, and then picked up more than a dozen firearms in a row, almost all of which could not be used.

"Nima, how long has it been since this has been used, these beasts, it is not too much to die ten thousand times."

Zhu Youzhen now suddenly feels that Chongzhen is so pitiful, completely controlled by the Donglin Party, and these civilian officials know about infighting and corruption all day long.

Either fighting generals, or eunuchs, or fighting with the emperor, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed in their hands.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, just in time for the Xiaoice period, crops were barely harvested.

The good land was seized by officials, wealthy businessmen and nobles, and with heavy taxes, ordinary people could not have enough to eat.

In order to survive, people began to flee and migrate in large areas, and even the rats were eaten along the way, but many people still starved to death.

It is impossible to dispose of the dead body, and as a result, flies and mosquitoes are infested in many places, and sometimes the sunlight in the sky can be covered by patches of flies and mosquitoes.

These flies, mosquitoes, and fleas spread the plague virus to those hungry people, and people have no awareness of prevention, and they will be infected all the way along the way.

From Gansu to Shanxi to Hebei, to Henan to Anhui, plague exists in almost the entire area north of the Yangtze River.

As a result, the plague spread in the Ming Dynasty, and because the rogue was a mobile war, it was not very conducive to the spread of the plague, so their infection was not very serious.

But the city is different, the military camp and the people's homes are relatively closed, which is more conducive to the spread of plague.

The imperial city has no contact with the outside world, and the officials' residences are closed, and they do not have much contact with the hungry, so they pay more attention to prevention and control, and their infection rate is much lower.

Ordinary people have become the most difficult group of people, and the army is to patrol and enforce the law, and they will often come into contact with those who are hungry, and the chance of infection is greatly increased.

The plague spreads very quickly, not only by contact, but also by air, and once it spreads in the army, the entire army will lose its combat effectiveness.

Zhu Youzhen now finally knew why the rogue army, which was in full swing, was defeated by a blow when it encountered the Eastern Invasion cavalry.

When they set out from Beijing, they only took more than 60,000 people with them, and less than 20,000 of them were left in Beijing, and in 40 days, the Liukou army lost less than half of its combat strength.

The health was already not good, and with the spread of the plague, the Ming soldiers and rogues were unable to resist the Eastern Capture cavalry.

After the eastern captivity entered the customs, the garrison and the Ming troops lived separately, and their purpose was to guard against the sudden rebellion of the troops, but they coincidentally avoided the spread of the plague.

Thinking about this time, it was really difficult for Daming, the exiles were everywhere, and the eastern captivity occupied the entire northeast, not only encountered the Xiaoice River period, but also broke out a serious plague.

According to incomplete statistics, the plague caused Daming to lose millions of people.

If it weren't for the outbreak of the plague that caused a serious decline in the combat strength of the Ming army, it would be impossible for Liukou to enter the Beijing Division so easily, and Chongzhen was really powerless at this time.

If Chongzhen can't do it, can Zhu Youzhen do it? He is a time-traveler who not only knows history, but also has a golden finger.

Leaving the barracks, Zhu Youzhen quickly returned to the Taihe Palace, all the ministers were still waiting in the main hall, and when they saw the emperor coming in a hurry, they felt that something big had happened.

Sitting down on the dragon chair, Zhu Youzhen's eyes looked at Li Banghua:

"Li Aiqing, how much do you know about the outbreak of plague in Beijing?"

Li Banghua hurriedly bowed and saluted:

"Your Majesty, the plague veteran doesn't understand, but there are indeed many people in Jingshi who have died of illness, didn't the former first assistant Wei Zaode report to the emperor?"

"Smack"

Zhu Youzhen slammed his fist on the Long Shu case, and the Long Shu case that had just been replaced was bombarded and scattered by him, which frightened all the ministers' bodies.