It's fast to mid-June.

The plague did not break out, but more than 100,000 displaced people had gathered in Xuzhou.

Originally, the people who fled from Beizhili were ready to go south to Nanzhili, because Nanzhili has always been the richest and most prosperous region in China, and there are few wars.

But Chongzhen's Tuntian in Xuzhou changed that outcome.

Hearing that the current saint personally presided over Tuntian in Xuzhou, the people who were originally going to go to Nanzhili changed their minds and flocked to Xuzhou to participate in Tuntian.

In less than half a month, more than 100,000 displaced people gathered.

And more displaced people are flocking from the banks of the Yellow River to Xuzhou.

This inevitably made the string in Chongzhen's heart tense again, because in the first half of the first half of Tuntian, there was only input and no output, so if there were too many displaced people, the whole plan would be dragged down.

Originally, the army from Yangzhou had arrived in Xuzhou and transported 200,000 stone of rice.

If it is only 100,000 displaced people, according to the standard of one catty of food ration for a displaced person, it will only be 667 stone a day, and by the autumn of this year, it will only be 120,000 stone.

So feeding 100,000 displaced people is not a problem at all.

But the problem is that the current 100,000 displaced people are likely to be just the beginning.

Chongzhen had a strong premonition that this wave of displaced people from Beizhili was likely to exceed 500,000, and possibly even more than 1 million.

Jiannu's shaving order is extremely lethal.

If this is the case, the pressure on the transport will increase sharply.

Chongzhen also knows now that Daming's drift is not exaggerated.

Let's just say that this luck can't be calculated according to theoretical numbers at all.

According to Lu Zhenfei, it only takes one month to go from Yangzhou to Xuzhou, and a cao boat loads 400 stones, so theoretically 10,000 ships can transport 400,000 meters to Xuzhou in a month.

But in reality? In fact, only 200,000 stone grains were transported.

Where did the remaining 200,000 stone go? The first is that the number of transport troops and cao ships is not as much as Lu Zhenfei estimated, and the second is that they are drifting.

This drifting is divided into two kinds, one is the real drifting, that is, the ship decays and capsizes or the grain is soaked in water and mildew during transportation, and the other is the "drifting" of the unspoken rules of officialdom.

In Dongjiang Town, where Mao Wenlong was set at 10,000 taels of silver, he could only get 7,000 or even 6,000 taels of silver, and the remaining 3,000 to 4,000 taels of silver were lost by government agencies at all levels from the central to the local level.

Chongzhen just didn't expect that at this time, Da Ming was about to die, and he still had to play drifting.

At this moment, Chongzhen deeply felt the difficulty of doing things, without an efficient and honest team of officials, no matter what you do, you can only do half the work, just like falling into a quagmire, the more you struggle, the more suffocating.

For example, now, Chongzhen can't check if he wants to check whether the grain is drifting.

One is that there are no useful people on hand, and the other is a lack of energy.

Just the affairs of Tuntian have already kept him busy.

Due to the lack of an official in charge of Tuntian, the current affairs of Tuntian are enough to cause headaches.

Chongzhen himself is a second knife, and the eunuchs Wang Chengen, Han Zanzhou and Gao Qiqian are even less useful.

The combing of displaced people, the overall planning of cultivated land, the distribution of farm tools, and the supply of seeds are complicated and messy, and they are very energy-consuming, and Chongzhen is already busy anyway.

If there were more displaced people, he was really worried that he would die of exhaustion.

Someone said, why not let the local officials in Xuzhou take charge of Tuntian?

I tried it earlier, and the local officials in Xuzhou were not as good as Chongzhen himself, and they dared to be corrupt, and the Tongzhi and judge of Xuzhou were dismissed for corruption.

Dare to be greedy for all kinds of food.

The good news is that the prefect of Changsha should be in Xuzhou soon.

As a lover of Ming history, Chongzhen remembered many famous ministers during the Ming and Qing dynasties, but only three of them could impress him.

The first one is Yan Yingyuan, the Jiangyin canonical history of "80 days with allegiance, a figure of the 17th Dynasty of Taizu, 100,000 people who died with one heart and righteousness, and guarded the 300 miles of rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty".

The second is Zuo Maodi, who knew that he would die but resolutely led the mission to the north, for eight months, in the face of various coercion and temptations of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and finally even Dolgon followed the example of Huang Taiji and personally went out to lower the rank to persuade him to surrender, but Zuo Maodi was never moved, and finally calmly took justice at the entrance of the vegetable market.

It is easy to die generously, but it is difficult to be righteous calmly.

This is a man who was born for faith.

Zuo Maodi's belief is not the Ming Dynasty, but - the Han family's clothes!

The last one was to break into the enemy camp on a single horse and persuade the 400,000 loyal battalions to surrender to the blockade of Yinxi.

On the occasion of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was definitely a place for Yinxi among the many capable ministers, which was a real capable minister who could govern the army and manage the people! If he was given a stage, he could really save Daming, but unfortunately he was defeated in the end.

Plugging Yinxi is also the Tuntian imperial history that Chongzhen is looking for.

Of course, letting the plug in the tin tuntian is just the beginning.

Chongzhen's real intention was to let Yinxi be in charge of the Huanghuai defense line.

Because he was the emperor, he could not stay in Xuzhou all the time, as long as he carried the first two waves of Jiannu's offensive, and even after the first wave of Jiannu's offensive, he had to return to Nanjing.

What to do in Nanjing? Of course, it's to make money, and it's to shake people.

It was only an expedient measure to build the Huanghuai defense line and use the border army of 28 towns to hold the Yellow River.

There are still many things to do in the future, so Chongzhen can't stay in Xuzhou all the time, so he must find a minister with outstanding ability to shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding Xuzhou when he is not there.

And Plug Yinxi is the candidate Chongzhen is looking for to guard Xuzhou.

Chongzhen was thinking about his thoughts, when a voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Father, I'm hungry." ”

When Chongzhen looked back, he saw that the youngest Zhu Cizhi was looking at him pitifully, and found that he had successfully attracted Chongzhen's attention, and Zhu Cizhi was about to cry.

"Don't cry." Chongzhen snorted and shouted.

Zhu Cizhi could only take back his tears.

On the other side, Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong are very strong.

After a few months of upheaval, I grew up.

One of the two brothers stepped on the pit with his foot in front of him, and the other sowed seeds, and he was already presentable.

"Hold on a little longer." Chongzhen stepped forward on the pit and said to Zhu Cijiong, "After planting this ridge of land, we can have dinner." ”

Zhu Cizhi held a small dustpan, grabbed corn seeds from the dustpan and sprinkled them into the soil pit, and said, "Father, I want to eat white noodles, can I have white noodles tonight?" ”

Chongzhen sighed lightly when he heard this.

He himself must have eaten the same brown rice with the homeless.

It's not masochistic, it's just a political show.

If we can't set up a holy monarch who "sympathizes with the people and cares for the low-level soldiers", why should we change people's hearts? What to fight with the civil officials? After all, the military and civilians at the bottom have long been desperate for Daming.

The scholars of the world may still have a trace of nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty.

But the military and civilians at the bottom have long been desperate for the Ming Dynasty, they have no resistance to the change of dynasty, the Dashun army said that there is no need to pay food and eat with the king of Chuang, they followed the king of Chuang, if they do not do anything to shave their hair and change clothes after entering the customs, they will not resist, as long as there is a bite of food, who wants to rebel?

Therefore, it is necessary to reverse the image of the Ming Dynasty in the hearts of the military and civilians at the bottom.

We must let the low-level soldiers and civilians know that Daming has a good emperor, Daming is not over, it is still worth rescuing, and the emperor who follows Daming can also have enough to eat.

Of course, reversing the people's morale is a systematic project.

It's not a matter of days or even months of political show.

For this, Chongzhen has a whole idea in his head, and now it is just the beginning.

All in all, it is a point now, hold Huanghuai, and at least withstand the two waves of the Jiannu offensive, especially the one in October, and then have a chance to think about other issues.

……

Chongzhen didn't know that Du Yinxi had arrived in Xuzhou.

And at this moment, Du Yinxi was standing on the ground, watching Chongzhen with the three imperial heirs in a daze, and followed the homeless people to sow seeds in the ploughed field.

Xu Haogu, who blocked Yinxi's staff, was also surprised.

"Dong Weng, have you ever heard of an emperor who personally cultivated it with his heir in ancient and modern times?"

"In ancient times, there may have been, but in the past 2,000 years, only the monarch has advised farming, and I have never heard of the emperor taking the imperial heir to work in the field like an old farmer."

"So, is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Of course it's a good thing." Du Yinxi said categorically, "In any case, an emperor who knows the difficulties of the people's livelihood and three princes who also know the hardships of the people are great blessings for the people of Li Shu in the world." ”

"Dong Weng's words are very much in line with my feelings." Xu Haogu said happily, "This time the Holy Monarch is in the court, and there are capable officials like Dong Weng to assist him, and I am expected to prosper in the Ming Dynasty." ”

Hearing this, Du Yinxi just shook his head.

To be honest, he didn't know why the emperor suddenly summoned him.

If you want to say that he is blocking Yin Xijian in the emperor's heart, he will never believe it.

He was just a scholar from a poor family, with no background, and no speculative drilling, so he went to Nanjing only a month ago to visit Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and Yuan Jixian, the governor of Jiangxi.

Shi Kefa and Yuan Jixian both admired him.

Could it be that Shi Cabinet recommended him to the Holy Lord?

Seeing that Yin Xi didn't speak, Xu Haogu said, "Dong Weng, you should come forward to see the driver." ”

"Oh yes." Plug Yinxi woke up like a dream when he heard this, and hurriedly walked into the ridges of the field in a straight dress.

"Stop, who's who?" The two Yiding guarding the ground immediately rushed forward to block the way.

Plugging Yinxi fell to the ground after a dozen steps away, and said loudly: "The minister Plug Yinxi knocks on the saint." ”

"It turned out that Aiqing had arrived." Chongzhen was overjoyed, and immediately stepped forward barefoot to help Du Yinxi up with his own hands, and then pulled Du Yinxi's hand and said, "I have been waiting for you for more than a month." ”

"He made the saint wait for a long time, and the minister died." Plug Yinxi said in a panic.

"Hey, how can I blame you for this?" Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Let's go back and talk about it in detail." ”

Okay, Chongzhen actually left his three sons, took Gu Yinxi's hand and left, left.