"The canal is frozen?"

Yu Guozhen put down the cloth bag in his hand, took off the towel from his neck, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked back at Wang Qinian, Wang Qiniu stuck out his tongue and obediently took the cloth bag.

The cloth bag was filled with rice transported from Xinxiang, and these hundreds of thousands of victims were waiting to eat, and sometimes, Yu Guozhen himself would come to help carry the rice. In fact, there is not a lot of labor on his own, and he is not for making a show - these hundreds of thousands of people rely on the rice work of Xinxianglai, he doesn't have to do any drama, and the people are already grateful to him.

If he is sincere for the people and cares about the people in his heart, then the people will naturally regard him as their own. Otherwise, just relying on one mouth to say big things and squeeze tears in one pair of eyes, even if you can act again, you can only deceive people for a while, how can you deceive people for a lifetime?

The reason why Yu Guozhen came was only because he liked this, and only in this way did he feel that he had not left the land where he was born, and had not left these ignorant and intelligent, clumsy and hard-working Chinese people. In a phrase he often says, Tiger Guard must always be down-to-earth.

"Yes, we have checked that from Texas to the north, ships are not passable. Moreover, looking at the weather, it will get colder and colder, and I am worried that the outside of the mouth will also freeze, in which case, the situation will be a little bad. ”

"The Flying Falcon is in Yangjiaogou, I'll go to Zhigu to take a look, Jiaming, now that the containment of the victims is on the right track, you will send 8,000 people to the north and prepare to receive them in Dezhou." Yu Guozhen wiped the sweat and said, "It's just right, it is reported that there is Gyeonggi." Li Chuang's military discipline is very bad, and we just put some pressure on him to stop acting against the people! ”

"Yes." Gu Jiaming responded: "Officials, you have to be more careful." ”

"It's okay, the Falcon is here, who else can catch up with me?"

"Would you like to bring more men?"

"Just let Qi Nian take a team of people with me, in fact, there will be nothing wrong, I just go to see Zhigu Port." Yu Guozhen smiled: "After going this time." I'm afraid I won't go north again for a while. ”

Taking the sea route from Yangjiaogou to Zhigu is only 500 miles, that is, 250 miles of sea route, at the speed of the Flying Falcon. That's a matter of twelve hours. Yu Guozhen slept on the boat, and by the morning, the ship had stopped outside the mouth of Zhigu.

At this time, Zhigu was in a mess. There is no style of the largest port in the north in the past, not because Li Zicheng invaded the capital - this news has not yet arrived, and it is still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but because Li Zicheng dug the north embankment of the Yellow River, and the Yellow River seized the canal and the Daqing River into the sea.

In their opinion, the victims of the flooding of the Yellow River on both sides of the river, in addition to going to the east of the mountain, gathered in Tianjin and Jingshi, in their opinion. Jingshi is an important place for the imperial court, and the government always needs to have a face, and it needs to give some relief. Therefore, tens of thousands of victims gathered in the entire Zhigu, and the government could not contain them, so they were crying here.

There are a lot of people. and if they have no food, and the weather is cold, they must not commit adultery.

Almost at the same time, Chongzhen and his party finally arrived in Zhigu.

Seeing so many vehicles, coupled with the more than 1,000 horsemen of the guards, those victims did not dare to come up and grab them. But one by one they knelt outside, begging loudly, hoping for a little alms.

This sudden sound woke up Kunxing.

She slept in a daze in the carriage all night, with a little sister and two younger brothers by her side, and she knew that as the eldest sister, she should take care of her younger siblings at this time, so she slept very lightly.

"What's the matter, what's going on outside, is it the thief chasing after you?" A younger brother asked in a low voice.

It seems that they have also not slept well, and in the hearts of these princes and princesses, thieves are now the most terrible thing in the world.

Kun Xing lifted the curtains a bit, and then saw the victims kneeling on both sides of the road.

The tragic situation of the victims made Kunxing's heart ache as if it was bleeding: these victims are no longer human.

Originally, she fell into the current situation, and she still had some resentment in her heart, feeling that as a noble member of the heavenly family, she had always been merciful, her father was diligent in serving the people, and her mother was kind-hearted, and God should not treat them like this to the Zhu family. But when she saw these people, she realized that her so-called misfortune was nothing compared to them!

She even saw the wizened mother crying bitterly with her starving baby, the girl of her age tearing open her clothes to reveal her shame, looking at the sky in a daze, the old man munching on the ground with his body bent, and the tragic situation that she had never seen in her deepest and worst dreams before!

She retracted into the carriage and began to cry.

Chongzhen was also awakened from his dream by the shouting, he lifted the curtains and looked out, and saw the appearance of those people, and his heart was equally miserable.

In any case, he wanted to try to be a good emperor, not as virtuous as the legendary Yao Shun, and at least try to make the people under his rule live a peaceful life.

He failed, he was driven out of the capital, and he saw that this was how his people lived.

At this time, Chongzhen didn't have too many thoughts in his heart, but he couldn't bear it and was ashamed. After looking at it for a long time, he lowered the curtain and let out a long sigh in the darkness.

"I'm ashamed...... The people are so poor, but I don't know ......"

The queen also saw it, but she only looked at it a few times, and she couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and when she heard Chongzhen's words of self-reproach, the queen took his hand again: "Your Majesty, this is not Your Majesty's responsibility alone, natural disasters have been repeated over the years, and most of the Chinese and martial arts in the court are incompetent......"

Chongzhen heard her mention the Chinese martial arts of the dynasty, and couldn't help but say hatefully: "Shushi is not the king of the dead country, the subject is really the minister of the dead country!" ”

"Fortunately, we still have a chance, after Your Majesty goes south this time, the selection of talents and abilities, the country's military strategy, and the best of Nanhaibo, ten years of life and reunion, ten years of revenge, will definitely make the world return to peace."

Queen Zhou's words were very tactful, Chongzhen understood what she meant, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in her heart.

At that moment, they heard a cry from front of them: "Can you help them?" ”

But it was Kun Xing's voice, Kun Xing's car was adjacent to them, and Chongzhen could hear Kun Xing's words. My heart moved. This daughter of mine is kind-hearted, but she ...... After all, I am raised in the deep boudoir, and I am not very clear about the current situation.

Hearing Kun Xing's voice, Tian Boguang stepped forward and saw Kun Xing lift the curtain to a corner, revealing half of his small face, full of pleading.

Tian Boguang's attitude towards her was slightly different: "Miss." It's not easy. ”

"I ...... We just discussed, we have a few brothers and sisters, we can eat less. Save some for them, please. Kun Xing didn't dare to look at him, and pleaded in a low voice.

"A drop in the bucket. And you know, what is the result of me giving them one or two sacks of grain now, it is a riot, and in order to fight for this grain they will fight and grab it, and the infirm will die first. Tian Boguang said: "Even if you want to help the victims, it shouldn't be like this." ”

His voice was not deliberately lowered, so Chongzhen in the latter car also heard it.

"You...... You just watched them do this...... Nanhai Bo is a great hero who stands up to the sky and the earth, and wants to save the people from fire and water. Even I was in the deep palace, and I heard him say that he was talking to the people, how could you bear to look at them like this......"

"Ten years ago, I was no different from them, when the Denglai army was in turmoil. I crawled out of the pile of dead people, and I know what hunger is like. Tian Boguang smiled: "If it weren't for the officials, I would only be able to die in despair like them, so I know their feelings better than you." ”

Kun Xing was speechless when she said this, and she raised her eyes and glanced at Tian Boguang. I can't figure out how this seemingly heroic Tiger Guard general has such a past.

"General Tian!"

Chongzhen couldn't help but stick out his head and greeted Tian Boguang, Tian Boguang was a little troublesome in his heart, this Chongzhen Tianzi, don't you know your current situation, he just wants to show his head as little as possible now!

He returned to Chongzhen: "What do you want from the officials of Zhu?" ”

This is what they said on the road, in order to avoid revealing the news, they called Chongzhen Zhu Daguan, just to cover it up for a while.

Chongzhen sighed and said: "Thousands of guilty, the sin is in ...... The sin is in me, and if there is a way to save these victims, I should save them. ”

"To save this victim, we need to have enough food, enough manpower, enough fuel, and even enough iron pots, but we don't have them yet." Tian Boguang shook his head: "The most important thing is that there must be someone who is as organized as our tiger guard, not those big masters in the government who do things to prevaricate, and who are willing to go to these disaster victims, not those who go to the disaster victims to perform how much they care about them!" ”

With these words, there was a faint irony of Chongzhen's concern that it was acting, and Chongzhen could only sigh and retract.

What does he have to say, the country has become like this, as the Son of Heaven and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, if he says that he is completely irresponsible, he himself does not believe it!

"Go south along the canal, to Ji' Nanfu, Nanhai Bo in Ji ' Nanfu to put grain for relief, and there are people along the way to answer! Walk south along the canal to Ji' Nanfu, Nanhai Bo put grain relief in Ji' Nanfu, and there are people along the way to pick up! ”

Not long after he retracted into the carriage, he suddenly heard such a shout outside, dozens of people shouted in unison, the sound spread far away, Chongzhen's heart moved, and a thought crawled up in his heart, so that he couldn't care about being sarcastically ridiculed by Tian Boguang, and opened the curtain to look out.

Tian Boguang was not there, it was another tiger guard who was there, and he greeted the tiger guard: "This strong man, are you sure that Nanhai Bohui will arrange people to pick up the victims along the way?" ”

"That's natural, my family official knows that the people are suffering, as long as he can, he will definitely be prepared for emergencies. For so many years, it has been. The tiger guard said with a smile: "Under Zhu Daguan's hands, many people have spent a lot of money and want to dig up our Tian Shizuo and others, why don't we Tian Shizuo go?" We have all decided on one thing, only we officials in the world really think about the people! ”

These words made Chongzhen's face feverish again.

If he had changed the past, he would definitely have to suspect that Yu Guozhen was trying to buy people's hearts like this, but now, he has reached this point, what else can he be suspicious?

He was just a little angry in his heart, thinking that Hu Wei might be exaggerating.

But at this moment, the tiger guard's eyes suddenly lit up: "Hey, it's Wang Qinian, Wang Qinian is here, and our officials must have arrived!" (To be continued)