In the first year of Chongzhen, there was a great famine in Shaanxi, and he was born in Majiagou, Ansai County, Yan'an, and Ma Maocai, who was born in Majiagou, Ansai County, Yan'an, was ordered to enter Shaanxi to investigate, and saw the tragic scene of cannibalism in his hometown, so he wrote what he saw and heard along the way as "Beichen Great Hunger and Hunger", and reported the disaster situation on May 18: Yan'an Mansion, a township of Chen, had no rain throughout last year, and the grass and trees were scorched, and the people were vying to pick the grass in the mountains for food. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the grass is exhausted, and the bark is peeled and eaten. When the bark is exhausted, it digs the stones in the mountains and eats, the stone is cold and fishy, and the food is full, and the abdomen is distended and falls to death in a few days. Hungry people gather together to be "thieves", and instead of waiting to starve to death, it is better to die for "thieves". He also burned human bones for wages, and boiled human flesh for food, and those who ate men died in a few days with red and swollen faces, and heat and dryness. So, the death pillow, the stench is stinking, and several pits are dug outside the city of Ansai County, each pit can accommodate hundreds of people, and it is not as good as the people who are buried, and I don't know how many more? If this is true in small counties, it can be known in large counties, and if it is like this in one place, it can be known elsewhere. The people were safe and untouched, and became "thieves". To the north of Qingyang and Yan'an, the famine was even worse.

Sanshui Wang Er and Wang Daliang rose up in order to survive, although they sacrificed one after another, but the successors were numerous. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the second year of Chongzhen, more than 7,000 rebels attacked Sanshui, and the guerrilla Gao Conglong was defeated and died, and more than 2,000 officers and soldiers were wounded.

Maybe the current Ming officials did not take these things into their eyes, but Li You knew that this was a more serious problem than Jiannu, more than ten years later, Li Zicheng, the leader of the rebel army who came out of Shaanxi, entered the capital, Emperor Chongzhen hung on the crooked neck tree of the coal mountain, and the civil and military officials were arrested and tortured by Li Zicheng, and the Ming Dynasty lost its position as the commander of the world.

So now that we have come to Shanxi, which is close to Shaanxi, we should go over and see it anyway, the reason why Shanxi is displaced can be described as three natural disasters and seven man-made disasters, and the arrival of the Xiaoice River period has led to severe drought in Shaanxi for many years, and the grain harvest is poor, but if these only need the imperial court to transfer grain relief from other places, it will not cause such consequences in the future.

However, the Ming Dynasty has lasted for more than 260 years, and the imperial court has long been corrupt and can no longer shoulder the heavy responsibility of relieving the victims. It stands to reason that Jiangnan is a rich place, and they should bear the lion's share, but because of the flourishing of Jiangnan's literary style, more than half of the Jinshi admitted over the years are from Jiangnan, and these people in order to safeguard the interests of their families, they threw the Liaoyu to the already poor and miserable Northwest.

Fortunately, the current situation has not deteriorated to that point, in the future, the famous Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others are only Gao Yingxiang who has already started an incident, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who destroyed the Ming Dynasty, have not yet rebelled, and Shaanxi has not been completely chaotic, Li You still has time and opportunity to eliminate this disaster invisibly, what Shaanxi needs now is life-saving food, and after confiscating the wealth of the eight traitors, Li You is not short of this food, The only thing I have to worry about now is whether the food will be distributed to the victims.

So just like confiscating the property of the eight traitors, he will never hand over this task to those local officials, but must be completed by himself, with the aftermath of defeating Huang Taiji and confiscating the eight traitors, Li You led the soldiers and horses to sweep the displaced people in Shanxi, and then entered Tongguan and came to Shaanxi, and summoned local officials to inquire about the specific situation.

Yang He, the governor of the three sides, Liu Guangsheng, and other Shaanxi officials welcomed Li You into Xi'an, and took the lead in congratulating Li You on the defeat of Emperor Taiji, "The ministers congratulate Your Majesty on the defeat of the Eastern Captives, and Your Majesty's martial arts directly chase Taizu and Chengzu, and the ministers congratulate Your Majesty and congratulate Daming!" After that, the ministers worshipped and praised one after another.

"Well, compared with Jiannu, I am more worried about the displaced people in Shaanxi, Jiannu is a barbarian, I can lead a large army into Liaodong and kill them all, but the displaced people in Shaanxi are my people." Obviously, the two cannot be disposed of in the same way.

"Your Majesty is merciful, and Weichen thinks that if you want to solve the problem of the displaced people in Shaanxi, you can suppress and use it." Yang He's trilateral governor was not in vain, he was more clear about the situation in Shaanxi, and also figured out a set of self-righteous plans, "The thieves always have a hard time because of the famine, and the people are not able to make a living, so they should be appeased mainly and pursued and suppressed." ”

"It's just that now Shaanxi's finances are insufficient, and there is a lot of money and food needed to suppress it, and I am afraid that the financial resources of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Gansu alone are not enough, and the support of the imperial court is still needed." In the original history, Yang He relied on the 100,000 taels of gold issued by the imperial court, 50,000 silver donated by the vassal king and 20,000 stones of grain to implement the appeasement policy, which did play a certain role, but because the money and grain were too small, it was impossible to continue, and finally fell short.

"What I came for is that at this time, the confiscation of the family property of the eight families is more than enough to support the appeasement of the homeless, and since the Dongyu has been greatly injured by me, I think that the levy of this levy should be stopped." If Guan Ningjun can't even deal with the little strength that Huang Taiji has left, it will be useless to ask them, "Also, since Shanxi and other places have caused disasters, the money and grain that should be paid to the imperial court can be exempted for the time being, Yang Aiqing and you might as well make a list." ”

Since ancient times, it is also a reasonable means to reduce taxes in the event of disasters, but it is difficult to say whether the benevolent government of the imperial court can really reach the hands of the people, so Li You and they thanked and then warned, "I will treat the people of the Ming Dynasty well, but if someone wants to take the opportunity to make a fortune, don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

Now the officials in Shanxi are not good to be stripped of the skin and grass by Li You, and placed in the local City God Temple, presumably the officials in Shaanxi should also know these things, if they still hold the idea that people die for money, birds die for food, then Jinyiwei and Dongchang will teach them to be people.

Yang He, Liu Guangsheng and the others happily went down to make all kinds of preparations, while Li You called the leader of the Jinyi Guard, who accompanied him, "In addition to helping me keep an eye on these officials recently, you also need to hurry up on another matter. After that, Li You handed over a list, "You all find out the people on this for me and bring them to Xi'an, and I will reward them with official positions." ”

The first two names on this are Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and the rest are also leaders of the rebel army with similar identities to them.