It's autumn, and it's slightly cool at night.

As night falls, crane-shaped lanterns are hung on the four walls of the pavilion in the middle of the lake, and the misty light slowly pours on the surface of the lake, sparkling, and it is a rare place of tranquility compared with the noisy and chaotic city of Beijing.

Zhu Jianying put away the fishing rod and fished for an afternoon, but there were only a few small fish in the bucket, so he put them back into the lake and said, "Such a big lake, if you can't control your mouth, you will eventually suffer." ”

At an unusual moment, the surrounding area of the pavilion was cleared, and only the eunuch Cheng Jing was alone, so he naturally said it to him, and Cheng Jing answered: "Commander Wu handed over the words, and the wind was blowing." ”

Wu An, Zhu Qiyu's biological mother Wu Xianfei's brother, the commander of Jinyiwei, is Zhu Jianying's uncle, and several sons of Wu An were also placed in Jinyiwei in the name of idleness.

Therefore, the Jinyiwei in this period can be said to be a hodgepodge, there are everyone in it, Zhu Jianying let a few people in, it is natural, but now it is of great use.

"Oh?" Zhu Jianying was stunned for a moment, shook his hands, and thought: "Are you still those few?" ”

Cheng Jing nodded.

"The big ones don't come forward, let the small ones go forward and die." Zhu Jianying sat in front of the dining table and muttered, Cheng Jing poured tea, handed over a cup, and said with a smile: "Yanguan, the more you want to die, the more energetic you are, Taizu and Taizong have killed so much, can't they kill them endlessly?" They are all moths in the night, and where there is a fire, there is a fire. The bigger the fire, the more fierce the pounce, and they all remember to leave a name in history! ”

"Let's not join in the fun, let them make trouble." Zhu Jianying took a sip, got up with tea again, and paced back and forth in the pavilion.

Cheng Jing stood aside, raised his head and cautiously glanced at the young and old prince, and wanted to stop.

Zhu Jianying had already noticed it, looked back, sat down in place again, put down the tea, looked at Cheng Jing fixedly, and said, "What's the matter that makes you so embarrassed?" ”

Cheng Jing: "Lord Shizi, the princess will ask you to arrange a few empty spaces in the brocade guard,"

"What?" Zhu Jianying thought that he had misheard, the person who had never dealt with him, had something to ask for himself, and couldn't help laughing: "You let the princess go to Xing'an tomorrow." ”

"Do you want to do it in Xing'an?" Cheng Jinghu was suspicious, after all, the palace and the celebrant have never dealt with each other.

"Huh! Xing'an has more vision than Jin Ying, and he will definitely do it. Zhu Jianying smiled mysteriously.

"Princess Hang also asked." Cheng Jing said again.

Zhu Jianying's biological mother, Zhou, was the maid of Concubine Wu Xian in the palace, and after her death, Zhu Qiyu took Zhu Jianying into the palace of King Yu and passed it on to the side concubine of Hang, so Princess Hang was Zhu Jianying's mother.

"It's windy, let's wait a day." Zhu Jianying finally had some scruples.

Cheng Jing was heartbroken, knowing that the prince was going to pit the princess again, and felt distressed for the brothers in the princess's mother's family.

The huge palace of the king of Yu, the scenery on the surface, but in fact, it is full of intrigue behind the scenes, and since Zhu Jianying entered the palace of the king of the palace when he was a child, he suddenly became the target of the public, and he had no calculation, and he had already gone with his biological mother Zhou.

A palace of the king is still like this, not to mention, the Ming Dynasty, which has two capitals and thirteen provinces.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Jianying was upset and said, "Why don't you eat yet?" ”

"Dinner has already been prepared, but Zhang Lexuan will come back first to report, the prince is on his way back to the house, let you wait." Cheng Jingdao.

"Then just wait." Zhu Jianying had to sit in front of the dining table, fiddling with the Xuande white porcelain teacup, the halo of the crane-shaped lamp on the delicate white porcelain cup, rendering a yellow point of light, faintly reflecting a young face.

Zhu saw that Ying had nothing to do, and asked casually, "Is there anything big in the capital?" ”

Cheng Jing said: "As soon as I heard that the Wara people were calling, the people in Beijing were panicked, and they fled to the south in a swarm, and they couldn't stop it. Princes and nobles, business gentry and people can naturally escape, but where can ordinary people go? Ordinary long trips, single grain and grass have to be prepared for several months, eating, drinking, living and traveling, spending money on everything, this is a hurry, no preparation, except for those who want to leave, most of the people have stayed. Outside the nine gates, the recruitment office, among the people who are willing to stay, whether it is a people, a craftsman, a soldier, or a musician, there are many young and strong people who want to join the army, and the court sends food and money, and there is a family who joins the army, and this famine is over. ”

"The imperial court is very strict with the nationality card, and no foreign nationality is allowed to enter the industry, and those who flee and transgress are imprisoned at the least, and they are issued or beheaded.

"If you don't have food, you can't live, where can you take care of that?"

"There are 1.2 million stone grain in the city, and 8 million stone grain in Tongzhou, which is more than enough to protect Beijing, how can there be a famine?" Zhu saw that Yingying's head twisted, and suddenly looked at Cheng Jing.

Cheng Jing is Yongle twenty-two years of Jinshi, Shu Jishi was born, because of the Han King for profit, was sentenced to corruption, and later became Zhu Qiyu to read, and then became Zhu Jianying to read, old, see a lot, have long been accustomed to this, said: "Shiziye, you are young, I haven't seen it, this thing is not unusual, but where there is a war, there must be a famine." Ordinary people, all year round, have more than enough food and clothing, and the food stored at home is enough for more than a month. No one knows how long it will take for the war disaster to subside, money is not money, food is real, so every family buys grain and saves it. Seeing this, the grain banks will take advantage of the situation to raise prices and make a lot of money. ”

Zhu Jianying roared: "This is making a fortune in the country, so you are not afraid of being investigated by the court afterwards?" ”

Cheng Jing said: "Lord Shizi, you haven't understood what is going on, the imperial court wants to recruit soldiers, those who join the army can get food, the grain store raises the price of grain, and the people who have no money can't afford to buy food, and if they want to live, they can only join the army." ”

"Shhh Zhu Jianying gasped and sighed: "Those who can run, those who can't run buy food, the grain store is under the guise of helping the government recruit soldiers, and it is difficult to make money for the country with peace of mind, and in the end, it is the poor people who have no money and can't afford to buy food bear everything." ”

"After the war disaster passed, the escapees came back, and they still served as their masters, and the poor people were still poor people."

"It's unreasonable!"

Seeing that Zhu Jianying was indignant, Cheng Jing said again: "The prince of the world, you are angry, this world is like this, open the annals of history, what is recorded is the majestic two Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin dynasties, the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the prosperous two Song Dynasty, but it is really necessary to get to the bottom of it, and the products are chewed up, all of which are bitter tears of the poor people." When we were a jinshi in my family, I heard a sentence from the seniors of officialdom, Lord Shizi, don't be angry when you hear it. ”

"You say, I'm not angry." Zhu Jianying sighed.

Cheng Jing recalled: "Our family is a Jinshi in the twenty-second year of Yongle, and Shu Jishi, so I was fortunate to listen to the advice of the predecessors of the officialdom, and they asked what is a person? Our family didn't know at that time, so we replied, 'Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are dogs; The saint is unkind, and regards the people as dogs', so in the eyes of heaven and earth, everyone is like a dog, and everyone is also human. ”

"They laughed and asked our family, the Yellow River is overflowing, the earth is shaking, there is no snow in winter, no rain in summer, and no grain in autumn, so the heavens and the earth are not visible, the saints do not come out, and the people do not fight for dogs."

"He said that the reason why people are human beings is that they can be able to eat, walk, and do things, so they can be human beings, so those poor people who can't eat enough are not human beings."

"If you are not a human being, you naturally do not have a soft heart."

"Fallacious reasoning!" Zhu Jianying slapped on the dining table, and said angrily: "The official word has two mouths, isn't it just that they can say whatever they want?" Where do ordinary people dare to offend them? For these corrupt officials to eat and drink, let them be powerful and prosperous, in the end, even the qualifications to be human beings are deprived, which is really hateful. In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, Chen Shouliu, a farmer in Suzhou, with "Ming Da Zirconium" on his head, escorted the county official Gu Xie to Beijing to sue the emperor, and this kind of thing should come a few more times. ”

"This time, if I want to make a fortune, I don't agree."

Cheng Jing gave himself a slap in the face, blamed himself for being too talkative, and hurriedly said: "Lord Shizi, no, in this situation, the water behind the grain store in the capital is deep." ”

"The water is deep, then go and investigate, let Commander Wu find out, what are the relationships behind these grain stores? Don't startle the snake first, write it down, and after Wara leaves, this son wants to seek a little justice for the people in the capital. ”

Cheng Jing knew the temper of the prince of the world, and the eight horses couldn't persuade him to come back, so he only hated himself for talking too much and causing an incident.

On the shore of Lintai Lake, a line of red lanterns shuttled among the green willows, slowly approaching the pavilion in the center of the lake, Zhu Qiyu, the king of the servants, came back, full of tiredness, entered the pavilion and sat in front of the food table, picked up Zhu Jianying's teacup and gulped a few gulps of tea and drank it.

"Serve!" Zhu Qiyu commanded.

Cheng Jing consciously withdrew from the pavilion, returned to the lakeside, raised his hand, asked people to go to the back kitchen to get food, and then guarded the lakeside with the eunuch Zhang Le.

The pavilion was suddenly quiet, the evening breeze blew slowly, and the golden autumn laurel flowers were pleasant, but Zhu Jianying listened to what Cheng Jing said, so he lost his mood, and filled the Xuande white porcelain teacup with tea, and pondered this matter carefully.

Suddenly, Zhu Jianying thought of a good way, and hurriedly approached Zhu Qiyu, and said: "I heard that Yu Shangshu asked all the troops and horses to enter Beijing from Tongzhou, and at the same time transport grain, and Tongzhou has eight million stone grain, and the 100,000 army can't be transported. ”

Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath and said: "Yes, after discussion, there are not enough people now, only this method is the best." ”

"I have a way to transport it all into Beijing." Zhu Jianying said.

"How?" Zhu Qiyu suddenly became interested, his fatigue was swept away, and he looked directly at Zhu Jianying.

"There are hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the city, facing a shortage of food, and they can't leave, so why not let the people spontaneously go to Tongzhou to transport grain and transport it back to Beijing, and the people of the government will distribute it to the people with one month's ration for one person, and the rest will be handed over to the state treasury. The grain was transported back to Beijing, and the people did not have to starve, so they had the best of both worlds. ”

"What if they flee with food?" Zhu Qiyu frowned.

"There is no way, no register, where can I escape? Even if they escape, they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and it is better than burning them to the ground. ”

Zhu Qiyu slowly pestled his fingers on the desk, thinking quietly, and suddenly slapped the table, and suddenly felt that what Zhu Jianying said made sense, and said: "Reasonable, tomorrow I will tell the household department that it is better to send it to the people than to burn it." ”