Chapter 50Next, it's time for me to perform

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February 25

In the Imperial Garden, early spring has arrived. The freshly drawn branches of a few peach trees by the pond are dotted with tender red buds. The birds and finches also began to flutter happily.

Zhao Zhe wore a thin jacket, comfortably crossed Erlang's legs, and sat on the Taishi chair by the lotus pond. Shaking slowly, half-closing his eyes, enjoying the refreshing and slightly warm feeling of the sun shining directly on his body. It looks leisurely on the outside, but on the wooden coffee table at hand, there are thick stacks of dense folds. There are Jinyiwei, and there are also officials from various ministries secretly developed by Zhao Zhe.

At least more than sixty percent of this pile of compromises is the detailed progress of the intensifying conflict between the eunuchs and the Qingliu. There were also several secret folds, but after Zhao Zhe read them, he put them down and pondered for a full hour. The eunuchs and maids were driven away by him, and even if they were far away, they didn't dare to relax their vigilance at all.

Mob, borderline. The two [***] broke out at the same time in this already warmed weather. This made Zhao Zhe's heart suddenly rise to the extreme.

Last year, before Zhao Zhe crossed over, Da Zhao had two extremely damaging natural disasters. First of all, the flood in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhao Zhe himself learned from the data, the number of direct or indirect deaths has reached 50,000, and caused dozens of waves, nearly one million refugees. More than 10,000 houses, millions of acres of fertile land, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep were washed away. This is still the most direct loss, and the Yangtze River basin is the grain production center of the Great Zhao Empire. Suffering such a severe disaster also directly reduced the total grain output of the Great Zhao Empire by two percent last year.

The drought in the Central Plains in August was no less than that flood. The Central Plains, which is also an important grain producing area, has greatly reduced the total amount by 20%. In the course of those two disasters, although the Cabinet also issued a disaster relief policy, under today's complex and [***] political situation, disaster relief is slow and weak. When the treasury used for disaster relief and the granaries in various places were stripped down layer by layer and distributed to the victims. But they can only let the victims eat chaff and they can't be full.

Most importantly, most of the victims of the Yangtze River floods gathered in the Central Plains. Before I could come to my senses, I was hit by a drought again. Under these two blows, the vast majority of the victims have little strength to survive.

Even if Zhao Zhe didn't investigate, he could imagine how many tragic things would happen in that case.

However, the winter is almost over, but they will be greeted by a long spring and summer before they can harvest the grain. Even if you can get it, what about the fertile land? What about seeds? The refugees, who were already so hungry that their eyes were panicking, and they felt that they had no way to live, began to gather and attack the granary of the rich landlord's house. Perhaps, their initial thoughts were very simple, just thinking that there was so much grain stored in the granary of the landlord's house, and it was all dead, so it was better to rob it and eat a full meal.

However, a spark can start a prairie fire.

Those who go to rob are full. Those who didn't rob it, but they were hungry. And how many people will be willing? The more the grain grabbing organization, the more they gather, the more they gather. And the rich landlord's family can usually rely on a few family members to bully honest people and be arrogant. But what can we do when the poor and the poor gather in the thousands, and because their eyes are red because they are pierced by hunger and blood, they do not obediently and tremble to open the warehouse and release food?

Feudal official? Guards? Now that the politics are in turmoil, the eunuch party is desperately pouring over the Qingliu party. And in order to protect itself, the Qingliu Party also had to fight hard. The local guard post has always only had the right to lead troops but not the right to send troops. The power to send troops, but it was in the hands of the Qingliu Party and the Eunuch Party. What's more, the local health center already adopts the tuntian system, how can the two major disasters not involve them? Although there is more or less support from the official food, it will not be too good. Rather than risk being punished by the law and suppress the mob without a military talisman, it is better to stay at home.

It is precisely because of these factors that the victims who were frightened at the beginning, but tasted the sweetness. Completely turned into a mob. It turned out that the landlord and the rich man, who was usually fierce and could ride on their backs at any time, were so cowardly. It turned out that when they were grabbing grain, the government that originally existed like heaven in their hearts only dared to open their eyes and close their eyes, and the officials took a detour when they saw it. It turns out that in this world, you don't need to farm, you can still have food to feed your family. It turns out that being a mob is so enjoyable that you can trample on the landlords who are powerful and prosperous in peacetime and humiliate them wantonly. It turned out that those landlords' wives and concubines who were high, with willow eyebrows and pink faces, and watery skin, could also let them be pressed under their bodies and ravaged and moan......

The successes again and again made their hearts swell up even more. After eating a full meal, the hatred that had been suppressed in my heart for a long time gradually surfaced in my heart. It turns out to kill, plunder, rape, destroy. It's so exciting. Under the instigation of the use of the organization by well-intentioned people, the mob, which became more and more emboldened, began to attack the government and the official granary. Because it is said that there is more food there. Also, in the treasury of the government, there are knives, guns, bows and crossbows that they urgently need. Eyes, all red.

robbed the county office, and then went to rob the state capital. With weapons and human leadership, hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people, were quickly gathered like a snowball. Like locusts, they wreaked havoc on the land of the Central Plains, destroying them desperately, and began to have a violent conflict in the regular military guard of Dazhao. At first, the guards were able to suppress them with more training and organizational weapons than the mobs. But as the number of mobs grew, so did the organization and experience, as well as the rampaging blood surname.

Gradually, the guards were defeated and retreated, and the entire Shandong and Henan almost became the world of the mob in a short period of time.

And almost at the same time, a group of barbarians who called themselves Houjin changed from the small-scale entry and harassment and plunder of previous years. He gathered a large army and went south, and engaged in a fierce battle with the border army on the border of Liaodong. Fortunately, the border army is in a state of combat readiness all year round, firstly, in the event of an invasion, the general can directly lead the troops to resist, and secondly, although the border army is also due to long-term erosion [***], but at least it is much stronger than the local guards that even the peasants can't beat.

The border army was extremely reluctant, and it could be regarded as blocking the offensive of the Houjin barbarians. But this only refers to blocking the large army, and the thousands of Houjin barbarians have divided into dozens of bands, which have entered the hinterland of Liaodong, and even burned and plundered everywhere near the Jingshi.

Zhao Zhe gradually opened his eyes, looking at the clear early spring sky, and in his heart, an indescribable battle spirit was burning. Eunuchs, clear streams. Next, it's time for me Zhao Zhe's performance.

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