For the first time, Zhu Yuan had an in-depth understanding of what was going on at the grassroots level, and the impact of Fangshan was great to him. Zhu Yuan was a child, and he has been by Zhu Hongsan's side when he grew up, spending his childhood in Guangzhou and Nanjing, and his youth in Beijing, these three places are the core of Zhu Hongsan's power, and those officials are eager to show their most glorious and majestic side to the emperor.

But leaving the capital is different, Fangshan is only more than fifty miles away from the capital, and there are people everywhere, and there are people everywhere, which is completely different from what Zhu Yuan heard in the court.

Yu Chenglong saw that Zhu Yuan's consciousness was depressed and he didn't know what to say, in fact, Shuntianfu is not bad here, at least Fangshan is relatively close to the capital, and some relief food from the south can leak into the county. If those remote states and counties, such as those in Shanxi and Shaanxi, have people eating people, the situation is 10,000 times worse than here.

Zhu Yuan's Qincha team set off south the next day, Xu Youdao came to see him off, Zhu Yuan didn't see him at all, which made Xu Youdao not embarrassed.

After more than 10 years of war in northern China, coupled with the large-scale staking of land in the years of occupation by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, many people fled from various prefectures and counties, and a large number of displaced people were formed. In the Shuntian Mansion and Baoding Mansion close to Beijing, because of the proximity to Beijing, the local officials naturally did not want these displaced people to delay the happy life of His Majesty the Emperor, so they sent the inspection department and local officials to either settle these displaced people in the place, or directly drive them to Henan, anyway, the imperial court has a decree, Henan needs a large number of people, and it is just to save some trouble to drive these displaced people to Henan.

Zhu Yuan and his entourage passed through Zhending Mansion, which was Shijiazhuang in later generations, and the large number of displaced people around them began to increase, of course, unlike the situation of hundreds of thousands of millions of displaced people passing through the province in the former Ming Dynasty, now the displaced people are divided into small groups ranging from tens to hundreds of people, driven by the local officials of various prefectures and counties along the way, slowly go to Henan along the official road, as for how many people can reach Henan alive, it is not under the control of the local officials.

Zhu Yuan's team had more than 700 people, and they were all loaded with guns, and they were not good at first glance, so a large number of homeless people on the official road saw the army of the official government coming, and they fled to distant places to hide, leaving only some old and weak people standing on both sides of the official road, hoping to beg for some food from these officials.

Zhu Yuan stood on the carriage and looked at the homeless people on both sides, one by one they were really like skeletons, some women had no clothes on their shirts at all, but they were already so hungry that they didn't have any shame, and they looked at the convoy with empty eyes, trying to ask for some food to survive.

Although Zhu Yuan was considered an adult in the Ming Dynasty, he was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old junior high school student in later generations, and he saw this there. At this time, there was a shout and scolding from the front of the team: "Your mother, these roads are overturned, why don't you get out of the way, don't you know if you block the uncle's way?" ”

As soon as Zhu Yuan heard what he said, this was Ding Changsheng, the deputy head of the accompanying guard, how did this guy's heart grow, these homeless people are so pitiful and still scold them?

Zhu Yuan said to the guards beside him: "Go, find Captain Ding!" ”

After a while, Ding Changsheng came, Ding Changsheng was originally from a military household in Shaanxi, and later participated in the Liukou, and was one of the Liukou captured by Zhu Hongsan in Xinyang that year. Ding Changsheng has very high seniority in the army, if he is placed in the local army, he is a proper regiment commander, but he is half a rank lower in the Praetorian Guard Division, so he is mixed with a deputy regiment commander and battalion commander.

Ding Changsheng was in his forties, covered in tendons and flesh, came to Zhu Yuan's side and asked, "Lord Wang, but those corpses on the road hinder the view of the prince?" The lower official will send someone to drive them away! ”

Zhu Yuan knew that the battalion commanders of these Praetorian Guard Divisions were all absolute cronies of his father, so he couldn't say anything serious, so he had to say seriously: "Commander Ding, these people are so pitiful, don't drive them away, give them some of the rations we brought!" ”

Ding Changsheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "What?" Lord, you said to give them some of our rations? ”

Zhu Yuan nodded firmly and said, "Yes!" ”

"Lord Wang, we just got out of Zhending Mansion, and there are still hundreds of miles away from Shunde Mansion in front, what are we going to eat for the rations for this gang of roads?"

Ding Changsheng was born in a military household in Shaanxi, and the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty began in Shaanxi, Ding Changsheng was naturally used to seeing this kind of homeless people who were going to starve to death, so he didn't take it to heart, but he didn't expect this little prince to find out in his conscience that he had to save these poor ghosts.

Zhu Yuan didn't want to see this rude and uneducated Qiu Ba along the way, but there was no way, this guy was his father's henchman, and he was still sent to protect him, so Zhu Yuan couldn't help but be dissatisfied and said: "Commander Ding, this king is Qincha, and he is the director of this team, and now I order you to take out half of the grain and give it to those homeless people!" ”

Ding Changsheng is the third-in-command of this team, so he naturally knows that Zhu Yuan is the ears of a deaf man, and he is furnishings! The actual leader of this team is Yu Chenglong, Yan Wang's teacher. So Ding Changsheng looked at Yu Chenglong with his eyes and asked what to do!

Yu Chenglong sighed, he knew that there were thousands of homeless people on the road now, and there were thousands of homeless people watching from afar, and the food he brought was really like a drop in the bucket. But now that Zhu Yuan's love is overflowing, he can't refuse Zhu Yuan's opinion in person, so he has to say to Ding Changsheng: "Captain Ding, you go and see how much food is left in the team, leave enough for us to go to Shunde, and distribute the rest to the homeless!" ”

Ding Changsheng saw that Yu Chenglong had spoken, so he had no choice but to take a platoon of soldiers to distribute food.

Zhu Hongsan has always treated his soldiers well, eating polished rice from Guangdong, and at the same time preparing a large number of bacon and other non-staple foods, all of which are now cheap for those homeless people.

When these hungry people saw that there was something to eat, they pounced on them like hungry wolves, whether it was rice, bacon or raw, and they just opened their pockets and ate it. Ding Changsheng saw that the displaced people were gathering more and more, so he didn't dare to stay here, so he hurriedly put the grain on the ground and then escorted the Qincha team out of the crowd.

These grains became a delicacy to attract sharks, and the displaced people in the far distance saw that there was food here, and began to gather, and some strong men began to snatch the food from the hands of the old and weak, at first it was just a snatch, and then someone was killed, and for a time there was a wail in the homeless crowd.

But there was only so much food, and there were five or six thousand displaced people, and those who did not get food put their hopes back on that team. Some ill-intentioned homeless people began to pick up sticks and stones to grab food.

Ding Changsheng had already expected this kind of outcome, and these hungry ghosts would definitely not stop. Ding Changsheng saw that those homeless people gathered with bad intentions, and directly ordered his soldiers to shoot, and for a while, gunfire rang out, and a large number of homeless people were killed on the spot. However, the musket still had some effect, and the remaining homeless people began to flee in all directions, after all, they could survive for a few days and starve to death, and there was no way to survive against the musket.

Zhu Yuan saw the hundreds of homeless people who were killed in front of him, as well as those who were killed for grabbing food in the distance, but he didn't expect that he just wanted to give them a way to live, and he actually killed them.

Ding Changsheng came over scolding at this time: "King Yan, old. . . The lower official said, this gang of roads can't be pitiful at all, you see, these guys just kicked their noses in the face, and they can kill them according to the will of the lower officials, and they can also alleviate some trouble for the magistrate! It's good now, half of our food is gone, and there are still hundreds of miles away from Shunde, what if there is any problem on the way? ”

Ding Changsheng followed Zhu Hongsan to fight in the north and south, and he was extremely convinced of the emperor, but he really didn't have much respect for this fifteen or sixteen-year-old young prince. The reason is also very simple, the army looks at military exploits, and his background is useless, and Zhu Yuan is not the crown prince yet, Ding Changsheng, as the emperor's confidant, naturally does not pay much attention to Zhu Yuan.

Yu Chenglong looked at Ding Changsheng who was chattering, and then looked at Zhu Yuan's face getting worse and worse, Yu Chenglong interrupted Ding Changsheng and said: "Head Ding, there's nothing for you here, you go to the front!" ”

Ding Changsheng clenched his fists and left, Zhu Yuan looked at the dead homeless, and sighed for a long time before he sighed and asked: "Teacher, in the past, this king always thought that there was the governance of his father in the palace, although there were not enough to eat in the whole world, but there were absolutely no homeless people, and now this appearance is really an eye-opener for this king!" ”

"Lord Wang, Zhang Yanghao of the Yuan Dynasty said in Tong Care Gu: Xing, the people are bitter; It is not unreasonable for the people to suffer! ”

"Teacher, I see that the excerpts given by the political envoy of Guangdong to his father and emperor have to transport hundreds of ships of grain to the north every year, how can there be so many displaced people here in Zhending Mansion?"

"Lord Wang, hundreds of boatloads of grain look like a lot, but how many billions of displaced people in the northern provinces? In addition to these displaced people, there are also hundreds of thousands of troops in eastern and northwest Liaodong, and they also have to eat, these hundreds of boats of grain are really a drop in the bucket! ”

Referring to the wars in the east, west and north of Liao, Zhu Yuan couldn't help asking: "Teacher, students don't understand, why there are no major wars in eastern and northwest Liao, and why my father still maintains such a number of troops in these two places. This king heard Master Chen from the Military Aircraft Department say that there are 60,000 new troops in Liaodong, 80,000 other auxiliary armies, 50,000 new troops in the northwest, and 780,000 in other guard armies and patrol battalions. ”

This point mentioned by Zhu Yuan is also one of the main contradictions between Zhu Hongsan and the cabinet, which believes that there is no major war in the whole country, and that it is now necessary to go all out to develop domestic production, and there is no need to maintain so many troops on the border. However, Emperor Zhu Hongsan insisted on maintaining a total of more than 500,000 troops in the northwest, Liaodong, and southwest, which was really a big burden for the Ming Dynasty that had just ended the war.

Yu Chenglong is also one of the civil officials, and naturally he also opposes the emperor's recklessness, but what can he say in front of the emperor's son? There was no way, Yu Chengchan had to sigh and said: "His Majesty the Emperor relied on those army generals to start his business, so naturally he wants to give them convenience, which is also reasonable!" ”

Yu Chenglong didn't dare to speak ill of the emperor, so he had to detain all the basins on the heads of those army generals.