In Kaifeng City, after Huang Shu killed the grain merchant Li Yuchun in public, the price of grain fell in response, but only a few days later, all the grain stores that opened quietly resumed price increases, even exceeding the price of grain when Li Yuchun was killed.

There is only one reason for the rise in grain prices: Huang Shu's killing of unscrupulous grain merchants will only temporarily lower grain prices, but will not increase the grain in the city.

The grain store has a good stockpile, not to mention affordable grain, even if someone pays a high price, they may not be able to buy grain.

Maybe the grain merchants still have some surplus grain in their hands, but who knows when the imperial court will be able to send rescue troops, when the Heavenly Mandate army outside the city will be able to withdraw from the siege, and the grain in their hands must ensure their own food supply!

In July, many grain stores put up notices saying "no grain to sell", but the people still gathered at the door of the grain stores and refused to disperse for a long time.

Then the people, who were really hungry and unbearable, began to get together and smashed open the door of the grain store, and looted the only grain stored in the grain store.

When the government got the information, it was able to send soldiers to protect the main grain stores at first, but when the people looted, the soldiers guarding it also fished in troubled waters, took the opportunity to take off their armor, and joined the people who were robbing grain.

Gao Mingheng was afraid that the soldiers would lose their military discipline and have no intention of defending the city, so he withdrew from the garrisons of the grain stores.

There was a looting of the grain store in the city, and the next chaos was going to be, and Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, was afraid that the city would fall into chaos, and eventually affect the various palaces in the city, so he gave Gao Mingheng a death order: Be sure to keep the city stable!

Gao Mingheng was unable to do so, so he had to send soldiers to patrol the main streets to maintain law and order in the city.

After thunderous measures, the crisis of the people's rebellion was temporarily suppressed, but the people in the city still had no food to eat, and if the people could not be allowed to fill their stomachs, the riots could be resumed at any time.

There is really no way, Gao Mingheng set up a porridge shed in Dongyue Temple with Huang Shu, and gave gruel to the people who were out of food, although Huang Shu felt sorry for the food, but he did not dare to disobey Gao Mingheng's order, besides, there are indeed many people in the city who have fallen into a situation of being out of cooking.

But Huang Shu only gave gruel for three days, and he couldn't support it.

In three days, forty or fifty stone of grain was used, and the people could only get a small bowl of gruel every day, barely surviving, but more and more people were waiting for the soup kitchen, and the porridge shack in Dongyue Temple was seriously insufficient.

At this time, it is the height of summer, the night is to sleep at home, it is also very hot, thousands of hungry women, sleep in the Dongyue Temple at night, even on the street around the Dongyue Temple, there are many women sleeping at night, one is to relieve the heat, the other is to wait in line for the soup kitchen.

There are bad people in the city, take the opportunity to gather in Dongyue Temple, not only to wait for the soup kitchen, but also to rub oil on the woman's body, in the night of extreme hunger, the woman's body is worthless, often a pound of wheat, two flatbreads, or a cucumber, you can sleep with a woman for a night, some women while gnawing on the flatbread they just got, while they are allowed to have sex # concubine.

These things did not happen in the broken house, but in the Dongyue Temple and the surrounding streets, where men were having fun and women were completely shameless.

The men in these women's families are not unsympathetic to their women, but they can't survive their stomachs, and if they don't want to starve to death, they have to let her live.

All of a sudden, Dongyue Temple is inferior to Qinglou and Goolan every evening, there are bad people, holding melons and fruits, flatbreads, and then getting the women lying on the ground one by one, pinching their faces, touching their tits and buttocks, and making a deal in public if they like it.

The women who fell asleep next to them were not surprised, but looked at the little food that the woman got with eager eyes, and sighed at the same time, hating their father and mother for not giving them a good figure, otherwise they could have changed some food to satisfy their hunger.

It's a completely seller's market, as long as there is a little food, you can change a woman's night, both parties are consensual, and there is no entanglement!

When men get the woman they want, they often go to the temple to worship in gratitude to the Buddha......

When Gao Mingheng learned of what happened in Dongyue Temple, he was furious and shut down the porridge shed.

In desperation, Gao Mingheng opened the west gate and the north gate, and the people could go out of the city to dig wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, but only for women and the old and weak, and the young and strong were not allowed to go out of the city.

The news from inside the city was transmitted to the outside of the city through the Han Qing Bureau, and Li Zicheng was not half happy, but frowned deeply, and even the news that Liu Yunshui had obtained the victory of Runing, Yang Wenyue and Hu Dawei was killed in battle, but it failed to arouse his interest.

The third siege of Kaifeng, in order to send reinforcements, consumed the army of the imperial court, but now, the reinforcements of the imperial court are no longer visible, do you want to trap the people of the whole city?

Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance jointly asked for a meeting and persuaded Li Zicheng to wait patiently, there was no food in the city, and it definitely couldn't last, Li Zicheng still hesitated.

Later, Li Xin also asked to see Li Zicheng, "Metropolitan Governor, the situation in the city ......"

Li Zicheng barely squeezed out a smile, "What does Gongzi Li think?" ”

"Dadu Governor, with what his subordinates are doing in Qi County, isn't it true that he has the world in mind?" Li Xin knew that the governor of Dadu could not bear the suffering of the people in the city, so he said: "We are besieging the city, and the people in the city are indeed suffering, and even want to die, but if we give up Kaifeng, how many more years will the people suffer?" As long as it is a just war, how many dry bones can be reduced after a successful victory? ”

Li Zicheng nodded silently, yes, only war can really stop the war, and there is a future Huaxia in his heart...... He suddenly got up and waved at Li Xinchang, "Li Gongzi woke up the dreamer with a word, you don't need to persuade him anymore, Kaifeng City, I have to take it this time!" ”

Li Xin hurriedly returned the salute, "The subordinates don't dare, they are all wise governors!" ”

In his heart, he was very happy, since he followed the Metropolitan Governor, in his heart, he had already passed the stage of solving his own food and clothing, the goal of the Mandate of Heaven Army, and the mind of the Metropolitan Governor, were all to take the world directly.

Only by overthrowing the Ming Dynasty can we truly save the world!

If the Governor is an indecisive and hypocritical man, he is staking his future...... From that long body, he saw that he had thought of the Grand Governor...... Decisive killing, firm will, judging the situation!

Li Zicheng made up his mind, and his face turned resolute, "Li Gongzi, I heard that some people in the city went out of the city to dig wild vegetables?" ”

"The west gate and the north gate are opened in the city," Li Xin said: "Those who go out of the city are all old and weak, women and children, and Gao Mingheng is ......."

"Gao Mingheng is stubbornly resisting to the end," Li Zicheng sneered: "Qingzhuang stayed to defend the city, and released the old and weak women and children out of the city to collect wild vegetables!" ”

"Governor, what are we going to do?"

"Be kind to these people who go out of the city, help them if you can, their wheat outside the city has been harvested by us," Li Zicheng said lightly: "If possible, let the brothers spread the word to them, as long as they are willing to stay, we will send food until Kaifeng City is broken!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Li Xin hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Governor, the city is running out of food, should we try to attack the city and speed up the speed of breaking the city?" ”

Li Zicheng pondered for a moment and said: "No, we have time to wait, if the city is attacked now, Gao Mingheng will definitely close the city gate, and the people in the city who are out of cooking will have no way to live!" ”

Li Xin was secretly shocked, to put it simply, in the heart of the Metropolitan Governor, he really pretended to be the people, and compared with the Metropolitan Governor...... He stood up, waved at Li Zichang, and said, "Governor, my subordinates understand, and my subordinates will go to give orders!" Walking to the door of the big tent, he just lifted the rolling curtain, but stopped again, turned around and said: "Don't worry, the governor of the capital, we have to open the city, but the people's will is more important, but if there is a little way, the subordinates will definitely help the people in the city!" He bowed to Li Zicheng again before walking out of the big tent.

The people who came out of the city to dig wild vegetables, basically the people who were out of cooking, originally in the Dongyue Temple, the government still had a bowl of gruel every day, if you give up your body, you can also get two pieces of flatbread, half a catty of wheat to help, although you can't eat enough, but you can also maintain survival, even the children at home, don't have to be hungry and croak.

But the government suddenly stopped the porridge shed, and they fell into a situation of death, but fortunately the city gate was opened, and the people of the government said that there were many wild vegetables outside the city, and whoever dug it was whoever's.

As soon as the news came out, they, who had been cut off from cooking, were ready to move, and it was rumored that the Mandate of Heaven army outside the city would not be difficult for the people, and would even help the people...... Don't count on help, as long as you don't embarrass the people, it is the Buddha's manifestation!

In the west and north of Kaifeng City, the people who went out of the city were cautious, but fortunately, the camp of the Liukou was far away from the city gate.

The people were digging up wild vegetables and watching the situation around them, although there were figures shaking, fortunately they were far away, at least a few miles away.

At the end of the day, the sun was already very scorching, but the baskets of the people were almost full of wild vegetables, and some women were reluctant to see the wild vegetables around them, but they were dragged back by the old man.

The first time I went out of the city to collect wild vegetables, there was no rogue to stop me!

The news spread rapidly in the city, and in the afternoon, many people went out of the city to dig wild vegetables, and this time, the people who went out of the city were surprised to find that not long after leaving the city, there were many pancakes on the avenue, piled up one by one.

There is no one around, is this the reward of the Buddha?

The women were still very careful at first, lest they be called "thieves" in case they were caught by the Mandate of Heaven......

Then the experienced old man smiled, his eyes swirled around the women, and finally he picked up the pancake and bit it with the few teeth in his mouth, "It's okay, let's eat......"

The woman and the child seemed to have received an amnesty, and they snatched the pancakes on the road and pressed them to the bottom of the basket, "Go home and give the baby to eat, the baby hasn't eaten the pancakes for two days!" ”

"Wa's father is too, I haven't seen a grain of grain in two days, how good it would be if we could go out of the city together!"

In front of the pancakes, the women and children quickly forgot their original fears, and the pancakes on the avenue were snatched up, so they dug up wild vegetables, and before dark, they went home full of wild vegetables......