Lin Jinghua took a few puffs of cigarette fiercely, sighed and said: "This year's famine is different from the past, even if there was a disaster in previous years, everyone escaped together, and everyone at two ends could drink porridge for three days along the way, but this time it was too evil, it is said that the north has not rained for a whole year, and even the people in the town have escaped with the farmers." If you look at the outside of the collection point, the people who die every day are piled up so high that we can't even bury them.

This can't be done, there are dead people everywhere after the disaster, and if you don't get it right, you have to make a plague. In previous years, northern Shaanxi suffered disasters every year, and after the disasters, there were major epidemics, and sometimes more people died because of the plague than those who starved to death. You say hello to the company and ask them to bring some anti-epidemic medicines, and if there is a plague, throw our employees into it. Also, don't bring the food ashore, if these people see the food, they will have to riot. ”

Li Ming listened to Lin Jinghua's words, his face was also heavy, he took out two more boxes of cigarettes from his pocket, stuffed them into Lin Jinghua's hands, and instructed: "Lao Lin, don't worry, I will send a telegram to the company to truthfully inform the company of your reaction, so that the company can be prepared to deal with it." Brother, you're all this age, don't stay here every day, you always stay like this, how can your body not stand it. ”

Lin Jinghua shook her head and said: "Sometimes, I can't stand it anymore and want to go sleep for a while, but seeing that everyone is staying up here, how embarrassed am I to go." A few days ago, the family was homeless, and the youngest girl was only a few years old, and she starved to death next to me, but I could only stand there and watch, this dog's way of the world......"

Suddenly, there was chaos on the shore again, and it turned out that another fleet of ships had come, and it was not the Far East's own river engine sailing fleet, but all ships hired by the company in various places. The homeless people who have been crowded on the shore all the time. Crying and hugging towards the shore.

"Poof...... Puff ......"

The few people standing at the front were squeezed into the river by the crowd, and the scene became extremely chaotic for a while. Dozens of Far Eastern officers and soldiers wearing Ming costumes and a group of local people brandished wooden sticks and beat the homeless people with their heads and faces. But there are so many people that they can't control the crazy crowd.

"Bang...... Bang ......"

A burst of gunfire came, and the officers and soldiers of the Far Eastern Army had no choice but to shoot, which could be regarded as temporarily quieting the displaced people on the dock. But the heart-rending cries of the crowd are still heard, including the voices of children. Many families of displaced people were separated by the chaos of the docks, and some people were trampled to death. It's like hell on earth.

Li Ming's face was gloomy, looking at the scene on the dock, as if hundreds of knives were stirring in his heart. But he couldn't help at all, so he could only stand here and watch.

"Commander ......"

Hearing the shout, Li Ming looked back and found that Zhou Billy was constantly waving to him in the distance. He ran up in a few steps, and Billy Zhou said excitedly: "Commander, I just received a telegram." The members and members of the Standing Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company formed several delegations. Get ready to come to Daming. ”

When Li Ming heard this, he frowned and said: "I have made it very clear in the telegram, but the company has not mobilized for a long time, and it seems that there are differences within the company. It's good for everyone to come and have a look now, and also to experience the situation of the Daming disaster victims. ”

Billy Zhou glanced at Li Ming and couldn't help but smile in his heart. In fact, he also does not advocate large-scale mobilization by companies. He and Li Ming traveled south along the Fenshui River from Shanxi, and the banks of the Yellow River were overwhelmed with victims. After all, the Far East's capabilities are limited, and it is nonsense to rely on the strength of the company to save the victims of the Ming Dynasty.

Sometimes he especially can't understand Li Ming, when he should be ruthless. Tougher than anyone else. But sometimes he always has a bodhisattva's heart, which is not good, especially in the future, if he is going to be in charge of the big ship of the Far East, if he is always a woman's kindness, then how can he do it. So Billy Zhou always reminded Li Ming quietly when he had something to do.

"Commander, I think it's good that we do our best in the Far East, and we don't have to smash the pot and sell iron to put the company's future on the line. In the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, they don't even care about their own courts, and the officials and wealthy households in various places are looking forward to the death of the victims, what can we do. This is a troubled era, but also the inevitable law of history, it is an era of change of dynasties, natural disasters, man-made disasters, military chaos, anyway, all kinds of disasters seem to have come all at once.

Then there is the dark and chaotic times, tossed for hundreds of years, suddenly a true son of heaven, a hero of the world, dominates the world, establishes a powerful empire, then flourishes for hundreds of years, and then slowly weakens, and finally collapses. We have done enough in the Far East to come to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and we have done our best. Not to mention anything else, we destroyed the Tartars, and indirectly saved how many people in the Ming Dynasty. We pacified the northern steppes, and after that, there were no Mongols who beat grass valleys every year, and how many people at the border were indirectly saved. ”

Li Ming turned his head and glanced at Billy Zhou, and said with a wry smile: "If you have anything to say, just say it clearly, what are you doing hiding it." I know that many people in the company share the same idea as you. But I still don't think I can watch so many people starve to death. In fact, I also understand what you are worried about, afraid that the displaced people of the Ming Dynasty will drag the company down.

In fact, what we lack is nothing more than food, and if we don't have food, we will get it, and we have a powerful Far Eastern Army in our hands, so are we still worried about not being able to get food? I don't believe it, a living person can suffocate urine. If not, go and grab it, there are feudal kings, bureaucrats and gentry, landlords and wealthy businessmen from all over the Ming Dynasty, which of them is not a rich country, which one is not a warehouse full of surplus grain.

There are Siam, Chenla, Vietnam, Nanyang, India, and Persia far away, where there is food, we will go to grab it, as long as we can save the victims of the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty, we will go there to rob his mother. When I returned to the company this time, I made a suggestion to the board of directors of the company, and we have the most powerful army in our hands. ”

Zhou Billy's eyes lit up when he heard Li Ming's words, and he said with a smile: "Commander, you are going to use all your strength." Ha ha...... But it's really a solution, and it smacks of militarism. ”

Li Ming shook his head and said gloomily: "If we don't do something, then what's the point of us coming to this era." Anyway, I can't sit back and watch countless victims starve to death like this, and still be indifferent. ”

Zhou Billy lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said with a straight face: "Then we have to make a good calculation, there is no problem here in Daming, as long as the Shanxi guerrilla detachment is allowed to go out of the mountains, strengthen some of our regular troops in the Far East, and then coerce a large number of displaced people, we will definitely be able to make a big mess in Daming." As for overseas, the first thing to do is to deal with Korea and Japan as soon as possible, and although those two places are not rich, they can always get some food.

Not to mention Siam and Chenla, where you can grow three crops a year, and the rice is so much that it is about to become the price of cabbage, you can't fight there, even if it is beaten down, it is a hammer deal, but it destroys the agricultural foundation there, and the great drought in Chongzhen has to last for several years, so we have to let them farm for us in a down-to-earth manner, and we have to find a way to let them honestly sell grain to us at a low price.

Those turtles all over the South Seas are no problem, as long as we don't destroy them in the Far East, let their people pull their belts for a few years, and help us raise food, they will definitely not even dare to fart a fart. The only thing that the company can send troops to attack is India, where there is no shortage of food, and the lords of the southern Mughal Dynasty, which one is rich, is worth our troops to fight him. (To be continued......)