The north wind howled, making the thatched brushes on the houses rattle, and the cold air came in through the tattered window paper in the cracks of the doors, and the cold people shivered. The climate is getting colder and colder every year, and it is the weather at the end of October, which makes people feel that it has reached the cold winter wax moon. In such a cold season, I don't know that those Mantars outside the gate are not good to stay at home, why do you have to come to Daming to make trouble?

Only Chen Yue knows that this is the famous Xiaoice period, the weather on the entire earth is much colder than before, even in the subtropical Liangguang, in winter there will be goose feather snow. The winter is extremely cold, the summer is drought and flooding, the grain production is extremely reduced, the people have a very poor harvest resulting in hunger, in addition to the unrest of the side of the court taxes are not reduced, the people who have no way to go have to rise up, as if cursed by God, the last decades of the Ming Dynasty natural disasters and man-made disasters one after another.

Dozens of family members wrapped in thick clothes, gathered in the largest room to listen attentively to Chen Yue's lectures, four huge candles lit the four corners of the room, the whole room was lit like daylight, there were two coal stoves against the window, there were bamboo pipes through the window to draw smoke outside, the copper kettle sitting on the coal stove was bubbling with blisters, and no one in the house cared about it.

Training during the day and literacy at night is Chen Yue's plan for the family, according to the requirements, each family member should know at least 80 words in a month, and after a year, they should be able to read and write simply. The teaching materials for the teaching did not use the three-character scripture and thousand-character text for children's literacy, but the literacy textbooks compiled by Chen Yue himself according to the training, and compiled them into a thin booklet for everyone to learn from.

Among the family, people like Chen Ping, Li Yi and others are already literate, and it is naturally no difficulty to learn these. Sometimes Chen Yue wanted to be lazy, so he asked Chen Ping and Li Yi to teach instead of him. Li Yi was appreciated by Chen Yue for his calmness in the battle against the Qing soldiers, promoted to a small flag officer, and temporarily appointed as Chen Yan's deputy.

After learning the words for half an hour, the family members dispersed to sleep, and Chen Yue pushed open the door of the house and stood in the courtyard. Looking at the swarthy city wall in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, the head of the Qing soldiers was hung on the head of the city, he and others were no longer recognized as spies, and they were also rewarded by the city officials, but the city gate was still not opened, and he and others could only stay outside the city, but fortunately, there were still houses in the coal yard, and there were inexhaustible honeycomb coal, so that everyone would not be frozen.

Although the city gate was not opened, a lot of food was hung from the city, rice, oil, flour, salt and vegetables, and all kinds of materials were enough for dozens of people to live outside for a month. Chen Yue didn't know what the officials in the city thought, why did he know that everyone was not a spy but a meritorious hero, but he still didn't open the city gate to let everyone in?

Chen Yue doesn't know what the people in the city think, what he can do is to be safe, since he can't enter the city gate, then stay in the coal yard outside the city, anyway, the Qing soldiers will not attack Beijing, it is very safe to be close to the city wall, just take advantage of the rare clean time to practice his subordinates. I believe that the families who have experienced a war have gained a lot, and they will gradually grow into qualified soldiers after experiencing brutal battles!

I just don't know what happened to my father Chen Jianghe now, as well as the lovely Wu Wan'er, and my honeycomb coal business......

Just when Chen Yue was thinking about his relatives at home, another coal yard (formerly Yangjia Coal Yard) separated by a city wall, the houses in the coal yard were also brightly lit, and Wu Wan'er was crying with joy because she heard the good news that Chen Yue and her younger brother Chen Ping were safe.

"Anyway, that's it, Ah Yue is fine, but he has made a great contribution, it is estimated that soon the imperial court will grant him an official position, and then maybe he will be a thousand or something, your brother Ah Ping is fine now, I saw him with my own eyes in the city." Chen Jianghe persuaded Wu Wan'er, and then went back to the room to rest. He was on duty until dark, and he was really tired after a hard day, if he hadn't told Wu Wan'er the news, he would have fallen asleep in the barracks.

He's fine, he killed a few Qing soldiers and made meritorious contributions, and his younger brother is fine, all this is so good! Wu Wan'er looked at the candles on the table blankly, and wanted to cheer with joy in her heart. It turns out that it is such a taste to miss a person, and I will always worry about him!

In the Forbidden City, in the Qianqing Palace, two candles were placed on both sides of the table, illuminating the place above the desk, but the light was so faint in the empty hall.

Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty leaned over the desk, frowned and looked at the folds on the table, the news of the loss of Jizhou only reached Beijing today, and the Qing soldiers had already arrived between Beijing and Tongzhou, the first assistant Zhou Yanru swore that it was just a movement made by the border army, who knew that it was the Qing soldiers who blocked the news after breaking through Jizhou. The dignified Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, when the Qing soldiers came to the city, did he know the news that the Qing soldiers had entered the city of Koulian and lost several cities.

"The side will not be enough, the side will have nothing to rely on, and I hate the post even more, the Tang newspaper is not issued, two strokes and one town, and the prison of the Er Department will be punished!" Chongzhen slammed the fold on the ground and said viciously. Wang Chengen, the eunuch who was waiting on the side, silently stepped forward to pick up the fold, put it aside, and retreated silently.

I picked up a book again, but it was Wu Weiying, the Gongshun Marquis of the Governor's Jingying, who said that the soldiers had not been paid for several months, and the army had no morale, and asked the court to make up the salary.

The household department played a recital, saying that the treasury was empty, and that there was no silver tael at all, and now even the court officials' salaries had been halved and were in arrears for two months.

Bad news, bad news everywhere! In the entire capital, in the entire Ming Dynasty, there is not a single thing that makes me worry! Chongzhen swept the fold aside with hatred, leaning on the back of the dragon chair and gasping violently. After a while, his sense of responsibility forced him to lean over the desk again and pick up a notebook again.

This book is played by Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital, and said an interesting thing that happened when patrolling the city, a small general, with dozens of family servants met the Qing soldiers' sentry outside the city, and fought angrily, and actually defeated the elite Qing army sentry horse, and captured four Manchurian heads.

It turns out that I still have warriors! This Chen Yue is really available, and over time, he will definitely be a brave general like Cao Wenzhao, which is Li Banghua's expectation of Chen Yue in the compromise. But the Ming Dynasty is so weak, even if Mangui Cao Wenzhao is alive, is he able to turn the tide?

"The minister thought that the Jingying was rotten and incorrigible. Letting Chen Yue enter the city, like a white cloth falling into a dye vat, does not regain its color, it is better to put it in the wilderness, a dangerous place, sharpen it, or become a pillar of the material! ”