Han Sen, the general banner, still took people to repair the boats at the dock, and there are many boats in Dahewei, and these boats must be repaired from January to February every year, otherwise they will go to Beijing in February, and it will be a big trouble if the road is broken, and when it comes to whether they can complete the task, each person in charge is quite serious.

There were nearly seventy ships in Yunti Pass, and each hundred households had at least five, and it was these five ships that Han Sen was responsible for repairing.

As a test hundred households, Min Yuanqi does not have to go north with the ship, and when Min Yuanqi becomes a hundred households, he will give up the position of chief flag he holds concurrently, and then choose a general flag, and the two general flags will take turns to take the army north.

Han Sen had been gone for ten months last year, and if he was in charge of going north again this year, he would naturally be full of resentment, and whenever he saw Min Yuanqi, his attitude was not very respectful.

"I've seen a hundred households." Han Sen greeted him, hurriedly clenched his fists, and said with a somewhat unhappy expression: "I heard Li Baihu and them say that the trial Baihu and Yang Shida and his gang have fought with Yang Shida and his gang in the tax card, and they have cut down several of them?" ”

"There's this." Min Yuanqi said: "What does Han Zongqi have to say? ”

"The salt dog took 20% for nothing, and a certain person naturally refused to accept it." Han Sen blushed and said with a thick neck: "But trying a hundred households is only a momentary pleasure, if you send salt in the future and meet Yang Shida and his gang again, the banner army under the hundred households will be very dangerous." ”

"Han Zongqi doesn't know the foresight of Lord Baihu." Liang Shifa took a few steps forward and said Min Yuanqi's previous words loudly, and for a while, not only Han Sen was speechless, but dozens of flag soldiers who were repairing boats at the dock were also silent for a while.

In these years, the transmission of information is slow, bad news is always exaggerated when it spreads, the ferocity of the rogues and the officers and soldiers is doubly spread among the people, what Min Yuanqi wants to do is the future that everyone is worried about, the rogues and the officers and soldiers will fight on the side of Huai'an Mansion sooner or later, once the tug-of-war is opened, this place will become a battlefield, and the future is really miserable.

If there is a certain amount of self-preservation, the rogue does not like to gnaw hard bones, which is proved in Henan, many large households who have formed villages to protect themselves have preserved their clans and family property, and most of them hiding in the city have waited for death, and the family property has been wiped out after being killed. This habit of collecting grain formed by the peasant army did not change until the capture of the Beijing Division, including the torture of many princes and relatives, although they got a lot of gold, silver and grain, but they seriously lost points politically.

Just like this at this moment, although many banner troops are hungry, there are always some grain reserves and houses, as well as wives and children at home, and no one knows what the consequences will be if the rogue kills them.

At this moment, many people looked at Min Yuanqi with awe, this hairy boy-like hundred-household adult, who actually hid this big article in his heart.

Han Sen was also shocked, he was a general banner, although he had gone north many times and was well-informed, the more he knew that the situation in the north was extremely miserable, not to mention Henan, which was not lightly tossed by disasters and wars, even Shandong was almost half destroyed. The Qing army marched south to slaughter Jinan, killing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city, and destroying many cities. Some of them went to Shandong, and the damage was also extremely staggering.

Coupled with Liu Zeqing's general army scourge places, looting and massacres, as well as countless poles and bandits, Shandong is simply like a ghost domain.

If it weren't for the escort of the transport army, coupled with the constant dispatch of battalions to protect the grain, I am afraid that even the transport would have been cut off long ago.

The more he saw, the more frightened he became, Han Sen hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but say, "The plan to try a hundred households is good, but how do you do these things?" ”

"Mr. Han doesn't have to rush to repair the ship." Min Yuanqi thought about it, although he couldn't remember the specific time, but Li Zicheng would definitely succeed in entering Beijing this time, and Caoyun would be cut off next. Then the Qing army entered the customs and beat Li Zicheng, the Southern Ming monarchs and ministers were stupid, and they also wanted to negotiate peace with the Qing court, and sent a lot of money and grain to the Qing court, and then the main force of the Qing army went west and south, and then beat Nanjing, and then got Hangzhou after the destruction of the Hongguang small court, and the land south of the Yangtze River changed hands, and the north was taken by the Qing court very quickly, and Caoyun was quickly restored.

The establishment of Dahewei and Huai'anwei has been retained, and the two guards still have fixed boats and guards in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, as well as the fields of the guards, and they were completely canceled in the early stage of the Qing Dynasty.

"Caoyun won't recover for a while." Min Yuanqi said in a deep voice: "The rebellion has already passed Shanxi, maybe the soldiers are almost near Datong, this time is a mess, and now it should be Qinwang soldiers and horses who are going to Beijing, what are we going to do at this time, send food to Liukou?" ”

Han Sen's eyes were confused, the shock that today's events had given him was not ordinary.

Liang Shifa said suddenly: "Baihu, Zongqi, will the emperor flee south, if he comes to Nanjing, he may pass by Huai'an Mansion." ”

This is an unusual way of thinking, since people know that they will march to Beijing after the New Year, many people are pessimistic. There are several total soldiers with tens of thousands of troops here in Jiangbei, and so far no troops and horses have gone to the north. Shandong's soldiers and horses not only did not go north, but went south one after another.

Because in the first two years, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng spied on Nanjing, and the imperial court strengthened the defense of Fengyang, Chuzhou, Hezhou and Jiujiang, from Ma Shiying to Shi Kefa, these civil officials, and then to Zuo Liangyu and Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and other generals, and now Liu Zeqing is here, the strength of the south has increased, but the north is quite empty, the Shun army has been claimed to be a million, and none of the officers and soldiers dare to take its front, if the city can not be defended, everyone knows that the Beijing division can not be defended.

The Tartar siege division was unsuccessful, mainly because the soldiers and civilians in the city were afraid of the Tartars, the monarchs and the people were united, and there was a steady stream of rescuers outside.

Li Chuang besieged the Beijing Division, there were no soldiers who dared to save outside, and there was no city that must be defended inside, and those with a little common sense understood this.

Han Sen heard this and said: "It's hard to say, two years ago, Gong Juma went south, and people said that the emperor wanted to see the Nanjing palace and prepare to go south. Later, it was said that the Nanjing Palace was not broken, and the emperor did not come. ”

Min Yuanqi shook his head and smiled, such words must be speculation among the people, some places in the Nanjing palace must be in disrepair, but most of the places should be well preserved. Even if there are a lot of destroyed places, the imperial court will not be able to take out the money for repairing the palace room for hundreds of thousands of taels.

It should be that Chongzhen considered Nanjing as an alternative fourteen years later, but because the lessons of the Song Dynasty were too painful, and the changes in civil engineering and Xu Youzhen and other southward migration factions were proved to be wrong, Yu Qian went up at a critical moment and saved half of the country for the Ming Dynasty, and this example made Chongzhen even more miserable.

In fact, Chongzhen himself still has fantasies, after all, Jingshi is a big city with a population of tens of miles around Zhouguang, with a population of one million, and there are more than 100,000 forbidden troops on the books, plus sufficient food, Daming still has most of the land in control, if Li Zicheng besieges the city is unfavorable, it is like opening the seal and cannot be attacked, and the Liukou can only break the siege and go, and the Jingshi is in hand, then the righteous name still exists.

The most important thing for Chongzhen is that he is unwilling to take the responsibility of losing more than half of the country, this person has always been like this, and he has no responsibility at all. Chen Xinjia negotiated peace for him, and after the news leaked, Chongzhen killed Chen Xinjia to escape responsibility, and after fighting this matter, no minister dared to serve for the great tomorrow.

As for the ordinary courtiers, there are many clear-eyed people, the north is empty, the army has no will to fight, there is no one to control after Li Chuang defeats Sun Chuanting, even if the siege of Jingshi fails once, there will be a second time, or there is no need to withdraw the siege at all, the emperor's fantasy is unreasonable.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, many outspoken ministers persuaded the emperor to move south, or at least send the crown prince to Nanjing, but these last opportunities and hopes were rejected by Chongzhen and directly buried.

Min Yuanqi was upset when he thought of these things, this was the overall situation, and there was nothing he could do about it.

"Now first call 100 households to lower the banner army and distribute the grain according to the households." Min Yuanqi said: "Feeding the flag army is the most important thing at the moment. ”

A few small flag officers and many flag soldiers cheered, and dozens of people rushed to the boat and began to carry food.

The entire hundred households were in a sensation.

Originally, the distribution of grain was a major matter, a while ago Min Yuanqi was sick for more than ten days and did not go out, the more the salt was cooked, the more the firewood was almost unable to keep up, and now the hillside woodlands everywhere are ownery, and the officers and gentry have divided the woodland and firewood, not only the military households here, but also the firewood of the stove households is not enough, which is also the reason why Xu Guangqi plans to change frying to drying.

The salt fried by the military households was sold for silver to buy grain, and at the same time they had to exchange it for a part of the firewood, and many of the forest lands were owned by the owners, most of them were in the names of the officers, and some were owned by the gentry, and they could only exchange silver or grain.

Firewood and manpower are costs, and frying salt is not a business.

At this time, the whole ship of grain was carried down, and as long as the entire hundred households could walk, they all rushed over, and everyone was already in a hurry, and many of them were almost out of rice. Now in this spring famine, there are few weeds in the fields, and there are withered yellow weeds and frozen soil mixed with residual snow, and there is nothing to eat at all.

When the food was carried down, the crowd let out bursts of cheers of joy, the men automatically went up to help, and many of the women shed tears of excitement.

Min Yuanqi's expression was serious, the embarrassment of these people in front of him was not caused by him, these people were so poor decades ago and hundreds of years ago, and this poverty was already a kind of scar, deeply branded on their bodies. Men are thin and lean, women have yellow hair, both men and women, and those who are over forty years old may lose their teeth due to calcium deficiency, or night blindness, but the waist between forty and fifty is bowed, which is also caused by long-term lack of nutrition and calcium deficiency.

Everyone has almost a bad tooth, because there is no doctor to treat the bad tooth, the pain can't stand the direct idea of extraction, long-term eating brown rice and rough noodles, the teeth are eaten bad.

It's really rare to have a good tooth these days, at least it has to be a well-off family.

In the sound of the slogan, one hundred and two stones of grain were quickly carried down the dock by the crowd like ant boats, and then pushed by a small cart, carried on their shoulders, and soon piled up in front of the Hundred Household Official Hall, that is, in front of Min Yuanqi's mansion.