Zhu Youzhen and Concubine Tian went to Xiyuan first, called Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan as attendants, and left the palace.

In the past, Zhu Youzhen also went out of the palace several times, and he chose Li Dingguo as his follower, and later added Zhang Huangyan. In the Xiyuan Boy Boy Camp, these two people are the most outstanding, and the purpose of letting them serve as attendants is to train nearby to enhance their relationship, and then these two are not bad at martial arts, and they can protect themselves in case of emergency.

In the past, these two people were very active, but today because Concubine Tian is here, they are honest and cautious, and they look like real followers.

Zhu Youzhen didn't pay attention to them, but patiently accompanied Concubine Tian on the street.

Walk west from Chang'an Avenue towards Xuanwumen Street. Due to the heavy snowfall, the streets are sparsely populated, and although many shops are open, Yemen looks like Yemen is crowded.

In front of the shops everywhere, the men are wielding wooden shovels to clear the snow, and there are many high snowdrifts piled up on both sides of the street, and there are children running and playing in the streets.

To be honest, the current street scene is not lively at all, there is nothing to see, but Concubine Tian is very interested, looking curious about everything, occasionally bending down to grab a handful of snow and throwing it at Zhu Youzhen, and then fleeing far away when Zhu Youzhen is angry, letting out a silver bell-like laughter.

It's a pity that she is dressed in men's clothes, and she looks like a handsome man is coquettish to another man, and passers-by are looking sideways. Concubine Tian soon realized something, and hid beside Zhu Youzhen with a blushing face, no longer so naughty.

"I've been running for a while, are you tired?" Zhu Youzhen lovingly brushed the snow foam off her clothes and asked with a smile.

Concubine Tian shook her head: "I'm not tired at all, brother, let's go to the outer city, okay?" This inner city is not lively at all, and I heard that there are a lot of juggling in the outer city, as well as all kinds of delicious snacks. ”

Beijing City is divided into the inner city and the outer city, the inner city is where the various yamen of the imperial court are located, the court nobles, civil and military officials, and the military households of the Beijing camp all live in the inner city, and it can be said that those who can live in the inner city are either rich or noble, or have been rich, and they all have such and such a relationship with the imperial court and the government.

Ordinary people, on the other hand, can only live in the outer city. There were also wealthy people in the outer cities, but more of them were poor people, who depended on domestic servants to sell coolies for a living, and the situation was complicated by the large number of them.

Thinking of the outer city, Zhu Youzhen's expression suddenly became serious, for the nobles living in the inner city, a heavy snow just added a lot of Yaxing, but for the poor people living in the outer city, I don't know how many people can't survive this heavy snow......

"Brother, I just said to be playing, otherwise let's go back." Seeing that Zhu Youzhen's face suddenly became a little gloomy, Concubine Tian thought that she had upset him, and hurriedly said.

Zhu Youzhen shook his head: "The current outer city is probably not as lively as you imagined." Let's go, I want to check it out too. ”

Yesterday, Zhu Youzhen had already summoned the cabinet ministers and instructed the Snow Queen to settle the bereavement pension, and he didn't know what the situation was now, Zhu Youzhen wanted to go and see it with his own eyes.

"Childe, I'm afraid it's not safe to go to the outer city." Zhang Huangyan walked a few steps quickly and persuaded in a low voice.

"If Beijing is not safe, where else is it safe in this world?" Zhu Youzhen said lightly.

When Zhang Huangyan wanted to persuade again, he was stopped by Li Dingguo.

"There's nothing wrong with Your Majesty being aware of the people's feelings, there are too many bastards in Beijing City, it's time to rectify it." Li Dingguo said in a low voice.

"But ......"

"It's nothing, there are Praetorian Guards, there are brocade guards all over the city, what is it for Your Majesty to go to the outer city? Otherwise, there are our brothers! Li Dingguo patted his chest, and the sound of "Bang Bang" sounded, and he was wearing iron armor inside his robe.

A carriage came quickly, Zhu Youzhen took Concubine Tian into the carriage, and drove along Xuanwumen Street to the outer city, Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan sat on the wheels on both sides, looking at both sides of the street vigilantly.

In more than a moment, the carriage left the Xuanwu Gate, and when I looked out of the window, the scenery was different. The inner city is full of eaves and columns, and most of them are wide mansions, while the outer city is full of low shacks as far as the eye can see.

In the inner city, there are soldiers and soldiers of the Five Cities Terracotta Division who are responsible for cleaning the streets, while the outer city is full of filth, and the white snowdrifts in front of each house are full of yellow and white things.

The occasional pedestrian walking through the street cowered and stared back.

A cart was walking on the street, and when she saw the carriage coming, the two servants who pulled the cart hurriedly avoided the side of the road, and Concubine Tian looked through the window of the car, and saw that the cart was covered with a reed mat, and a pair of barefoot feet that were frozen and green stretched out under the seat.

"Ahh Concubine Tian exhaled in a low voice.

"It should have frozen to death, and I don't know how many people will freeze to death in this heavy snow." Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes.

"It's so pitiful, I didn't even have a pair of shoes when I died." Concubine Tian was full of pity.

Maybe they had shoes, but they were stripped off after death, Zhu Youzhen thought secretly, but he didn't say more.

"Go to Chongfu Temple." Zhu Youzhen thought for a moment and commanded. He remembered that in the recital submitted by the cabinet, the government would open a porridge shed in front of Chongfu Temple to give porridge.

The carriage continued to move forward, and the closer it got to Chongfukuji Temple, the more people appeared on the street, all of them in tattered clothes, hobbling with wooden bowls in their arms, and it seemed that they were all going to the porridge shed to receive porridge.

There are too many poor people living in the outer city, most of them sell coolies for a living, many of them have eaten the last meal without the next meal, and it has snowed for several days, the car market and the docks have stopped, and many poor people have lost their source of livelihood and have been hungry for more than a day.

Considering that the carriage was too eye-catching, Zhu Youzhen stopped the carriage from a distance and chose to walk towards Chongfu Temple.

originally wanted Concubine Tian to sit in the car and wait, but Concubine Tian insisted on refusing, so she had to be with Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to follow her.

From a distance, there are hundreds of people waiting for the soup soup in front of the Chongfu Temple, and there are more than a dozen such soup kitchens in the city, so it seems that this heavy snow has caused at least tens of thousands of victims!

Zhu Youzhen and Concubine Tian walked in front, Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan were guarding on both sides, and in the distance on their periphery were a large number of Praetorian Guards in plain clothes.

Zhu Youzhen and the others were already dressed very ordinary, but compared with the poor people in tattered clothes, they were still very conspicuous, watching them coming, the people who were waiting for the soup kitchen avoided them one after another.

When there was still some distance from the porridge shed, there was a sudden commotion, scolding, whipping, crying and begging for mercy, and there was a great chaos around the porridge shed.

Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan hurriedly blocked in front of Zhu Youzhen, stopped him from moving forward, and did not let Zhu Youzhen scold.

"Childe, it's too chaotic over there, just wait for news here." Zhang Huangyan persuaded.

The news soon came that the cause of the riots was that the porridge was too thin, causing dissatisfaction among the refugees, and that the officials in charge of the soup kitchens were whipping the "troublemakers" to suppress the riots.

Zhu Youzhen's face suddenly sank, and after thinking about it, he didn't squeeze into the porridge shed again, but grabbed Li Dingguo and whispered a few words.

"Childe, look at it!" Li Dingguo's eyes lit up, and he ran away with a smile, and after a while, he reappeared, but he changed into a tattered cotton suit, and his dirty face looked no different from those refugees who received porridge.

Li Dingguo winked at everyone, turned around and squeezed towards the porridge shed, although he was young but flexible, he soon squeezed in front of the porridge shed, and saw several officials carrying whips, around a man in tattered clothes, whipped around, the man who hit him rolled all over the ground, and the refugees around him who received the porridge dared not speak out.

"A bunch of untouchables, it's good to be able to drink a bowl of gruel to survive, and dare to pick the fat and pick the thin, and I don't see if you have the life to eat porridge!" Xing Yushen, the head catcher of Shuntian Mansion, stood in front of the porridge pot and scolded the refugees.

"Stop!"

Li Dingguo was about to make a move, when suddenly a loud shout sounded, and he saw a man break through the crowd and walk in.

This man is in his thirties, dressed in a Confucian shirt, and his face looks very obscene, but his face is upright.

"The court asked you to give soup porridge to help the refugees, not to let you and others bully and beat the people!" The man pointed at the officials and scolded sharply.

The officials who whipped the refugees stopped, Xing Yushen looked at the spoiler who suddenly appeared in disbelief, and asked tentatively, "Dare to ask Your Excellency?" ”

There are many officials and magnates in Beijing, and there are many scholars, but the nobles generally do not come to the slums of the outer city, but they are not allowed to wander to the south city on a whim.

"Under the royal people's newspaper ace author, the old king next door is also!" The man in his thirties said proudly.

Ace author of the Royal People's Newspaper? The word royal made Xing Yushen feel shocked, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment before he reacted.

Isn't the Royal People's Daily the newspaper that sells and edits in Beijing, as a head catcher, Xing Yushen also knows some words, bought newspapers a few times, and heard the name of Lao Wang next door, which is quite famous.

However, it seems that anyone can contribute to the newspaper, and many scribes in the Shuntian Mansion Yamen have also written manuscripts for the newspaper, with the purpose of earning some manuscript fees to subsidize their lives.

Okay, a street writer actually pulled a tiger skin to make a banner! Xing Yushen couldn't help but be furious. When he wanted his subordinates to take this guy down, he held back.

This guy called Lao Wang next door seems to be quite famous, maybe he has something to do with the newspaper, and many of the editors of the newspaper seem to be from the palace, and he can't afford to mess with him. If you catch this guy and provoke the father-in-law in the palace, it will be troublesome.

Thinking of this, Xing Yushen called out to an errand officer and gave a low command, and then the errand officer ran away quickly.

"Your Majesty is merciful, since you have issued an order for disaster relief, you will naturally allocate enough money and food, this porridge pot and rice porridge are so thin, even if you drink ten bowls, you can't fill your stomach, how can you let these disaster victims survive the cold night? This author has reason to suspect that most of the money and grain allocated by His Majesty have been embezzled! Lao Wang next door continued to speak, and Xing Yushen's brows furrowed when he heard it.

"Who's talking nonsense? Dare to slander the government, don't you want to live? At this moment, a clear voice sounded, and an official wearing a blue official robe with a righteous face appeared in the porridge shed.