Compared with the last time I went to the capital, this way to the north, the place I passed through was more dilapidated and depressed, only the ships from the south to the north on the canal formed a unique landscape, and there were always merchants who were not afraid of death, daring to take the fire.

When I arrived in Shandong, there were more bandits on the canal.

Even a small group of desperate people got a broken boat and ran to the canal to try their luck.

Li Chuan brought not a lot of people to Beijing this time, and he brought 50 family members. However, except for Huang Tianxiang's sailors and Chen Tiezhu and others, the rest of the family members were all newly recruited, and they could make up the numbers, but the combat effectiveness was not much.

Fortunately, there are many people, and there are no blind thieves who come up to provoke them all the way north.

When the ship arrived in Tianjin, it was already the middle of August, and the Qing army had already withdrawn and passed through Beijing to Xifengkou.

The dignified Ming Empire, but a group of bandits who came to loot were helpless, allowing the Qing army to rob countless gold, silver, money and food and the population retreated safely, leaving the ground full of scorched earth, except for the Chongzhen Emperor's vomiting blood, the people were difficult to make a living, and there was no pain in the hundred officials.

It's tragic, it's tragic.

Li Chuan got off the ship from Tianjin, entered Beijing by land, and when he passed by several villages, he saw the real hell on earth for the first time in his life, and cried for the first time after coming to Daming, and his strong empathy made him extremely angry.

"Dog Tartar, I really want to get a few nuclear warheads to send you to hell."

Li Chuan was really angry, he was born in the peaceful era, how could he have seen such a cruel and inhumane scene, those murderous Qing soldiers not only killed people, but even insulted corpses, the tragedy of the scene made him a little afraid to look at it.

There was no one living in the village, only a breath of death.

The wind is whining, and it seems that the dead soul is crying, unwilling to enter reincarnation.

Even Li Yuanqing, a eunuch, was so angry that his eyes breathed fire, so much so that Li Chuangao looked at him twice.

"Dig a pit and bury people!"

Li Chuan waved his hand weakly and asked the family members to clean up the aftermath.

A group of sailors were surprised by life and death, and they were quite calm, and the performance of the seven family members was a little worse, but they could still hold back, and those newly recruited family members were a little unbearable, and they vomited breathlessly one by one, and some people were even frightened and incontinent.

More than 200 miles from Tianjin to the capital, there are too many villages and towns that have been slaughtered.

The originally prosperous hinterland of Beijing is almost a white land, and there are often no people for dozens of miles along the way.

Later, Li Chuan was a little numb, and no longer let the family members dig pits to bury the corpses, but only collected the corpses of those slaughtered villages and towns and piled them up in one place and burned them with fire, and then buried them casually with soil.

Even this pro was delayed for several days before arriving in the capital.

The Qing soldiers are still evacuating, and the capital has opened its gates.

In just two months, the capital has become even more depressed, and there are many fewer vendors on the streets.

Li Yuanqing arranged the group to the post house, and hurriedly entered the palace to hand over the errand.

I don't know what Emperor Chongzhen is busy with, but it took three days before he issued an order to summon Li Chuan.

Following the eunuch into the palace, Li Chuan met the emperor in a side hall.

In just two months, Emperor Chongzhen became even more haggard, with more gray hair, bloodshot eyes, and strong anger still remaining on his face, a person in his twenties looked like he was in his thirties.

"Your Majesty."

Li Chuan knelt down to pay homage, feeling a little helpless.

This damn kneeling salute really made him slander.

"Let's get flat!"

Emperor Chongzhen struggled to contain his anger and raised his hand weakly.

Li Chuan got up and stood respectfully to one side.

Emperor Chongzhen just measured him like this, with a frightening killing intent in his eyes, and did not rush to speak, until he looked at Li Chuan with anxiety in his heart, and then said leisurely: "Li Chuan, can I believe you?" ”

The great eunuch Wang Chengen wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, and the corners of his eyes were a little red.

"Your Majesty?"

Li Chuan was a little stunned, looked up at Emperor Chongzhen, and didn't know what the emperor meant by this.

Emperor Chongzhen immediately restrained his emotions and did not continue the topic, but said: "This time the slaves are rampant, all parts of the capital are white, hundreds of people have no food to eat, homeless, I want to relieve the disaster, but there is not much food in the treasury, even the palace is about to run out of food, Aiqing is willing to share my worries?" ”

Li Chuan said calmly: "The minister is willing to share the worries for His Majesty." ”

Even if he doesn't share the emperor's worries, he is willing to give those people a bite to eat.

Emperor Chongzhen asked, "How much grain can Aiqing come up with?" ”

Li Chuan did not hesitate and said: "This year, there are few floods and droughts in the south of the Yangtze River, and the autumn grain has been harvested. ”

After all the goods were out last time, the total amount of silver obtained was not more than four million taels.

More than 4 million yuan is only the proceeds of the bidding, and the silver of the ten goods left behind has also been recovered one after another.

The final figure is more than 6 million taels.

"Good!"

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't control his emotions anymore and couldn't help but applaud.

500,000 stone grain, which is not a small amount.

If the disaster relief is not provided in time, I am afraid that it will not be long before the Beijing division will fall into chaos, and then the two million disaster soldiers will have no way to live, and what will happen to Emperor Chongzhen dare not imagine.

And with these 500,000 stone grains, the chaos can be suppressed temporarily.

In the past few days, for the sake of disaster relief, Emperor Chongzhen has long been in a hurry.

Those ministers in the court just threw out a problem, but there was no way to solve it, and even if there was a way to solve it, they were not willing to take it out easily, but wanted to use it to bargain with him, Emperor Chongzhen knew this, but there was no way.

But no matter how angry he was, he was unwilling to back down.

In contrast, Li Chuan's generosity is even more commendable.

In this situation, Emperor Chongzhen no longer wanted to show his heart, and he couldn't control his emotions.

Wang Chengen also said happily: "Your Majesty, with these 500,000 stone grains, the people of Jingshi will be saved." ”

Emperor Chongzhen also nodded again and again, and said with relief: "Li Aiqing is loyal to the monarch and the country, and can be a model for hundreds of officials...... Belch! ”

It's a bit of a stretch to talk about.

Reward silver, people have more silver than they have in the treasury.

Emperor Chongzhen was angry again, he was so aggrieved, if the ancestors knew about it, they didn't know if they would be angry again, why couldn't those damn ministers in the court be worried about me.

The emperor wanted to kill again.

Speaking from the heart, Emperor Chongzhen was not a tyrannical person.

But what happened over the years made him suspicious and irritable, and he became more and more murderous.

The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

Originally, he had high hopes for those ministers, but those ministers in the court brought him disappointment day after day, from Yuan Chonghuan's five-year Pingliao to the current state affairs, the emperor has begun to reflect on whether he really took the wrong path when he believed the bold words of those ministers and angrily punished Wei Zhongxian.

But even if he is wrong, as an emperor, he can't admit that he is wrong.

Wang Chengen's face was also twitching, feeling sorry for the emperor.