The northernmost part of Shuntian Province, Miyun County.

Miyun is located at the junction of Pingchuan and Yanshan Mountains in the Central Plains, the vast Yanshan Mountains lie across the northern suburbs of Miyun County, and there is only one Gubeikou Canyon leading to the northern grassland.

As a result, Miyun County has become an important gateway from Beizhili to the northern grassland, and is known as the key to the Beijing Division.

As an important northern town of the Gongwei Jingshi, the Gubei Kou, where the tide river flows through, has set up two guards.

As the local emperor of the soil, the county can not be said to have a cloud brocade jade belt in the county, and he can also wear a silk and satin pattern right shirt.

The southern suburbs of Miyun, the confluence of Tangshui and Chaohe rivers.

In a pergola on the edge of the field.

The new Miyun Zhixian was wearing a green cloth straight embellished, a bamboo hat on his head, a pair of black cloth shoes on his feet, and he was also covered with muddy water.

Where is a county emperor with tens of thousands of people who have the power to kill and kill, and it is clearly a poor people in the countryside.

Zhu Yu of Miyun Zhixian County still has red lips and white teeth, but he has tanned a lot and lost weight.

But the spirit of the whole person has undergone earth-shaking changes, and when Wang Gongchang was in charge of the factory, he still had a bit of the style of a rich boy, revealing a sense of frivolity.

Now there is only one breath in the body, pragmatic.

The spirit is even more full than ever, like a heavy ear of rice.

Zhu Yu stood in the pergola, holding a notched white porcelain bowl, drinking well water, looking at the fields that were leveled into squares in the distance, and showed a pleased smile.

There was still a bit of pain in the smile.

Chongzhen for seven years.

Zhu Yu rode the little donkey that the uncle forced into his hand, the father secretly stuffed him with five hundred taels of silver, the mother packed a large burden of candied pastries, and the second uncle forged a goose knife before leaving.

If it weren't for Zhu Yu's strong refusal, his brother Zhu Jin would have given him a few beautiful servants as maids.

With a family full of concern, he went to Miyun County in the north.

Zhu Yu's family used to be very poor, but they barely survived, relying on their father to be a tooth man in Beijing, and they could still eat enough.

Arriving in Miyun County, Zhu Yu knew what real poverty was.

There is only one Dongshi street in the county, barely a street, and the shops are dilapidated, and a few shops still look like they will collapse at any time, and the roof beams are supported by a few wooden stakes.

Because Miyun County has the heavy responsibility of resisting the Mongolian Tatars in the north and the Eight Banners of the Army, the city is quite large, but except for this street, the other large areas are all wasteland.

Zhu Yu rode a little donkey to the county office, and there were skinny poor people everywhere on both sides of the dirt road, and one of them, a young girl, made him feel a great shock.

The little girl can't be said to be skinny, there is not a single or two flesh on her body, she is like a skeleton in human skin, and her belly is huge.

Zhu Yu knew that she was not pregnant, but that her stomach was swollen after eating Guanyin soil, and it looked like she was pregnant.

Zhu Yu really couldn't stand it anymore, and took out a few candied fruits from the burden and gave them to the little girl, but she didn't even have the strength to bite the candied fruits.

He held the food in his hands, but starved to death.

Zhu Yu gave the candied fruit and hurried to the county office to submit the official document, but he didn't see this scene.

After giving the little girl candied fruit, a large number of scrawny women immediately gathered around, some old and some young, and even an old woman in her fifties.

It's not to ask for candied fruit, and to ask Zhu Yu if he wants to be happy, just half a dough cake.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Yu had a squad of riflemen stuffed by his eldest brother around him, armed with a doumi-style rifle to guard him, these skinny women would have been able to forcibly have some trouble with Zhu Yu on the spot.

Zhu Yu's face was immediately a little ugly, how could the people under his rule be so corrupt, and shouted: "This hall is the magistrate of this county, quickly dodge." ”

When the skinny women heard that they were the magistrates of this county, they were frightened and hurriedly kowtowed to Zhu Yu, hoping that the old man would spare them.

Zhu Yu was just angry for a while, he didn't expect the poor people in Miyun County to be so afraid of officials, you must know that some poor old women in Beijing dare not avoid seeing the five-grade officials.

I could only leave here as soon as possible and speed up to the county office.

The county government of Miyun County also disappointed Zhu Yu, it was completely different from what he imagined, and there was no prestige that the yamen should have.

The plaque on the gate of the yamen is hung with cobwebs, and the inside is also in tatters, which is not as good as the Shouzang temple secretly built by some small eunuchs.

Zhu Yu stepped down from the little donkey, the little donkey that the emperor gave to herald the beginning of the rise of the eldest brother, and walked into the yamen hall.

There was only one plaque left in it that pleaded for the people's lives, and all other wooden tools such as water and fire sticks were gone, and the entire yamen hall was empty.

There are still traces of swords and axes on several pillars, which should have been cut down and burned as firewood.

Hearing the movement, a white-haired scribe who looked like the head of the sixth room walked out from the back of the lobby wearing a soap suit with patches, and said weakly: "There is nothing to chop here, you better go back." ”

Zhu Yu took out the appointment document and the county magistrate's seal and handed it to the white-haired scribe, and said politely: "This old gentleman, this hall is the new magistrate of this county. ”

The white-haired scribe didn't take over the appointment clerk and the county magistrate's seal, and looked at Zhu Yu with a strange look, and actually sighed with a trace of pity and said, "Tangzun must have offended someone in the officialdom." ”

"Since you're here, let's stay up slowly for a few years, and there's always a chance to get out of here."

Zhu Yu followed the white-haired scribe to the public office behind, two riflemen followed him, and the remaining eight riflemen spontaneously began to clean up the dilapidated county office.

The public office in the back was also in tatters, and Zhu Yu chatted a few words in order to integrate into this place as soon as possible.

Suddenly froze in place, unable to move his steps for a long time.

The skinny women who were scolded by him just now were all military families of the two northern guards, Caohe and Miyun Guards, and they came out to do some secret business when they couldn't live anymore.

Zhu Yu couldn't believe that the families of those soldiers who were stationed in the country for Daming were reduced to being prostitutes, which was a great shame for Daming.

Thinking that those Donglin Party members in the court knew all day long that they were quarreling and impeaching and fighting for their own interests, and they would not pay attention to such 'trivial matters' at all, I couldn't help but feel a little disheartened.

No wonder the eldest brother said that Da Ming's qi was exhausted, and at that time he was still very strange that the Jingshi was so prosperous, how could Da Ming's qi be exhausted.

Until now, Zhu Yu didn't believe it, but he was a little shaken.

Zhu Yu did not continue to greet him, put down the burden in his hand and left the county office, and took four riflemen to the countryside to observe the people's conditions.

Because he didn't wear an official uniform, the lieutenants of various villages just thought that he was a rich young master, and they didn't go to serve him, but just arranged for a personal entourage to keep an eye on what the rich young master was doing.