Gao Huan was originally the deputy envoy of the two Huai capitals and an important head of the Huaiyan interest group.

At the time of the corruption case, he chose to fake his death and escape, and then fled overseas with his family. After many years, I didn't expect to be arrested here.

"I'm Gao Huan, please let me go for my father's sake!" Gao Huan did not hide his identity, but decided to play the emotional card.

Because his father Gao Gu is an out-and-out minister, and even Liu Ji, the current cabinet chief, is his father's protégé, so the disciples and grandchildren have long been all over the government and the opposition.

Although he doesn't know the origin of the official in front of him, he must have something to do with his father, and he may still be his father's apprentice.

Weng Peng, the deputy envoy of the two Huai Cities, snorted coldly, but waved his hand directly: "In addition to being a little famous, what did your father do for our Huaxia?" Someone, escort this person back, let's capture the absconding prisoner tonight, but it's a great achievement! ”

"Damn, you'll definitely regret it, the water in this officialdom is deeper than you think!" Gao Heng saw that the other party was so unreasonable, and he gritted his teeth.

Weng Peng, the deputy envoy of the two Huai Cities, shook his head gently, but he directly pierced the other party's illusions: "Do you think Jiangnan is still the Jiangnan you control?" This official will tell you the truth, today Zi Shengming, two pavilion elders sit in Jiangnan. You people who harm the interests of the country for personal interests will all be punished, and your official loyalty and love for the people are not the same as you! ”

Originally, the imperial court opened the sea to let Jiangnan merchants take the goods of the Ming Dynasty overseas in exchange for their resources, but in the end, these Jiangnan gentry and gentry were not good, but helped Japan to mine silver and rob the fruits of China's labor.

Now, in disregard of the imperial decree, he even wants to secretly smuggle the grain of the Ming Dynasty to Kyushu Island to help Japan, which is simply naked treason.

Not to mention that he doesn't respect Gao Gu, even if he is really Gao Gu's disciple and grandson, in the face of the country's righteousness, it is impossible to let go of this traitor.

As for his own future, the current Son of Heaven Shengming is no longer able to reverse right and wrong by these Jiangnan parties, and he will only have a bright future.

This......

Gao Huan has been away from Daming for many years, and he was still a little lucky in his heart, but seeing Weng Peng's righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, especially thinking that the emperor was indeed not a pedantic monarch, he couldn't help but feel a panic.

According to the crime he committed earlier, he is now preparing to smuggle food. If he is arrested and interrogated, even if the current Ming Shoufu is his father's protégé, I am afraid that he will inevitably die.

Jiangnan is in an eventful year, and it is the year of autumn, so the news is spreading very quickly.

"It's only been how many years Gao Ge has been in the ground, I didn't expect such a bad guy!"

"Not only Gao Ge Lao, how many descendants of Jiangnan officials are promising?"

"If you don't have any interest, let's see what bastards they have done, this is betraying the country!"

……

Gao Huan was captured by the Yamen of the two Huai capital transfer envoys, which was a very disturbing thing, so it quickly aroused the anger of the people in Jiangnan, and even pointed the finger at the descendants of Jiangnan officials.

The reason why the Jiangnan group can be so arrogant is that they provide a steady stream of virtuous ministers to the imperial court, and as the descendants of virtuous ministers, they also become official gentry through the political heritage of their fathers.

Gao Huan, as one of the most eye-catching descendants of the Jiangnan group, undoubtedly tore the veil of some people this time.

It doesn't matter how much practical things those virtuous ministers have done, but their descendants are often self-interested, and even traitors like Gao Huan have appeared.

It's just that the matter is not over yet, and the big stick of the imperial court is waved again.

"After investigation, Jiangnan Business continues to provide food to the Ouchi family this year!"

"The Jiangnan Merchant Company transshipped grain and iron tools to Japan through Korea, which was a big rebellion!"

"From today onwards, all merchant ships of Jiangnan merchants will be suspended from going to sea and will be subject to verification by the imperial court!"

……

As the imperial court successively verified that Jiangnan merchants were smuggling grain, things soon changed, and the imperial court decided to open a case for investigation against Jiangnan, the largest merchant gang.

In response to the Jiangnan merchants, the imperial court only filed a case for investigation, which to a large extent reflected that the Hongzhi Dynasty was a rule-oriented ruling power.

After so many years of operation, today's Hongzhi Dynasty has not only won the love of the people, but also won the support of more and more low-level readers.

"Our female weavers who have been abducted and trafficked overseas must be found!"

"Kyushu takes our Chinese woman, please send troops to Kyushu!"

"We are willing to abandon the pen and follow Rong, and ask the imperial court soldiers to go out of Kyushu to strengthen my Chinese majesty!"

……

Although the Jiangnan gentry thought that it was an inconsequential matter to deceive a group of female weavers to go overseas, these female weavers were related to hundreds of families, and they also aroused the indignation of many scholars.

In particular, the "Ming" magazine has a huge influence, and as the public opinion of a group of Chinese women being abducted and trafficked to Kyushu Island continues to ferment, the call for sending troops to Kyushu is getting louder and louder.

Daming is not a belligerent country, but when it comes to his female compatriots, as well as the provocations of the Ouchi family and the Otomo family, they also inspire blood.

Of course, whether the imperial court will use troops on Kyushu Island and when it will use troops depends on the one in the Forbidden City.

Just as the Ming Dynasty's crackdown on smuggling was in full swing, the food crisis on Kyushu Island in the East China Sea continued to worsen.

They waited for more than half a month, but the grain ship of the Jiangnan Merchant was still nowhere to be seen.

Unlike the advanced communication conditions of later generations, even if the grain ship of the Jiangnan Merchant was sunk by the Ming Navy, they did not know anything about it.

They can only wait in silence now!

Every day, I hope that the merchant ships full of grain from Jiangnan will arrive, and every day I hope that a batch of grain from China or North Korea will relieve their food crisis.

But......

Day after day of waiting, people's patience will eventually be exhausted.

Hou Haotian didn't dare to return to Jiangnan since he learned that Li Yi was going to be executed, and now he said nervously: "Why can't the grain be delivered?" ”

Now not to mention that the Ouchi family and the Otomo family keep reaching out to him to ask for food, even if the Jiangnan New Town built by their Jiangnan firm is now also in a food crisis.

"Supposedly it has already arrived, unless ......"

"Unless what?"

"They encountered a shipwreck at sea, or maybe it was like the grain ship from North Korea to the south met the Ming Navy!"

Hou Haotian had a strategist by his side, and the strategist was originally inclined to wait, but now that the time has far exceeded expectations, he knows that something happened to the grain ship.

Hou Haotian no longer has the grace and grace he had earlier, but he said hatefully: "Even if something happens to the grain ship, but there are so many ways, there is no reason why not a grain of grain can come so far!" ”

"That tyrant is so unpopular, and he really shouldn't be!" The strategist also felt that things were too strange, and couldn't help but echo the truth.

Not to mention that it is not easy to search for a grain ship in this vast sea, and Hongji has already been slandered as a tyrant by them, so there should be some ships to bring grain over.

In particular, they cooperated with the Otomo family to collect a lot of silver on Kyushu Island, so they didn't need to worry about credit at all, as long as they shipped grain, they would make a lot of money.

While they were still frustrated by the delay in the arrival of food, an even greater crisis crept in.

On this day, rats come out of their burrows or move with mice in their mouths, swarms of bats appear in the sky, and fish in the water keep jumping out of the water.

It was on the night of mid-July that an earthquake struck without warning.

As the earth trembled and cracked, countless houses, temples, and bridges collapsed with a deafening roar. Dust and rubble flew in the air, and on this moonlit night, there was only one scream.

In the mountain city, panicked people fled in all directions, their cries and cries mingled with the roar of the earthquake, forming a miserable picture of a moonlit night.

Matsumoto was about to play poker with his wife on the tatami mat, when suddenly he realized that he hadn't moved, and the ground had shaken.

The floor beneath his feet began to shake violently, and the contents of the house fell off the shelves and shattered.

The husband and wife were too scared to communicate deeply and hugged each other in fright, but Matsumoto soon realized that if he stayed here, he would die here.

As the shaking intensified, Matsumoto heard the terrible sound of the beams breaking.

Matsumoto and his wife tried to escape, but had just taken a few steps and looked up with a sense of awareness. By the faint moonlight shining in from outside, I was horrified to see that the roof was beginning to collapse, and something had already fallen down.

Matsumoto was hit by a falling plank, and the pain was so severe that he couldn't help but scream, while his wife was also crushed by the rubble and couldn't move on the ground.

Fear and helplessness gripped the Matsumotos' hearts, and they began to cry out for help, hoping that someone would hear them, but who could save them?

At this moment, there was chaos outside, and countless people were trying to escape for their lives.

The burial of Matsumoto and his wife was not an isolated case, but the entire northern part of Kyushu Island suffered a sudden earthquake and many people were buried in the rubble.

Earthquakes are usually not just one, but often have aftershocks ranging from a few to a few hundred, and the duration can vary from one to the other.

By noon the next day, the aftershocks were still ongoing.

The water levels of rivers and lakes have changed dramatically, causing terrible flooding. These floods have washed away farmland, inundated villages, and left countless people homeless.

In this day and age, there are simply no professional rescue teams.

The Ouchi family, stationed in northern Kyushu, initially wanted to come to the rescue, but they were facing a severe shortage of food. Not to mention the fact that it costs a lot of food to save people, and even if they do, they don't have enough food to provide for these refugees.

Fortunately, the houses of the Japanese people are mainly made of wood, and even if there is no rescue team, the vast majority of the people survived the earthquake.

Another month has passed, and the food crisis on the island of Kyushu has become even worse.

Several Japanese companies could no longer wait for the grain from Jiangnan firms, so they began to search for grain, hoping to find some accumulated grain from some wealthy families.

If you come across a house with food, dig up the ground and search for it.

The people of the time recorded: Evil soldiers and soldiers, taking the opportunity to be captive, Mo dare to Yi River. That is, the woman and the woman, who have a loaf of bread in their bosom, also take it away in their bosom. The people are unjustly murdered, and the people's grievances are not redressed.

When things got to September, things got even worse.

Ashin is a simple villager in a remote village in Hizen Province who originally relied on farming for a living.

However, after the earthquake, the hometown was flooded, which not only washed away the village, but also flooded the farmland, and the food rations that had been accumulated were taken away by the samurai passing through the village.

Like other villagers, he had to choose to flee the famine in search of a chance to survive.

However, the journey to escape was fraught with hardships and dangers.

They starved, slept in the open, and people fell along the way. Some of the old, weak, sick and disabled could not keep up with the ranks and had to stay where they were and wait for death.

Ashin hadn't eaten a full meal for a long time, and he slowly fell behind in the crowd fleeing the famine.

His face was pale, his eyes were hollow, and his gait was faltering. When he saw the person in front of him find the food, he couldn't help but stare at the food in the hands of others in a daze, and his saliva flowed down unconsciously.

However, in this time of extreme food scarcity, no one is willing to give him a bite to eat.

That evening, Ashin couldn't walk anymore.

He leaned against a tree, gasped for breath, and then closed his eyes to rest.

He had a dream in which he had fragrant white rice and delicious fish, and he ate it greedily, and it seemed that all of them really could fit into his stomach.

However, when Ashin woke up, he found himself still leaning against the tree, surrounded by darkness. He touched his belly, feeling hungrier and less hopeful of survival.

It was at this moment that Ashin suddenly saw a faint fire in the distance, and faintly smelled the fragrance wafting in with the night breeze.

He struggled to his feet and walked in the direction of the firelight. When he approached, he saw that it was a bonfire, and several yellow-skinned people were cooking something next to it.

Ashin's eyes lit up suddenly, and he walked over quickly, wanting to get a bite to eat from the meat pot. However, when he saw what those people were cooking, his stomach suddenly churned.

The stronger the smell of meat, the more uncomfortable his stomach became, but ...... He still wants to live!

Food shortages have spread across the island, and the whole of Kyushu is in chaos.

Originally, their liberation of the people into the battlefield had already led to a reduction in food production, and as a result, they were hit by natural disasters, and their lives were not hopeful.

As for their desire to go to sea to hunt, under the powerful firepower of the Daming Navigation Team round after round of cleanup, it is now difficult to find a fishing boat that can float.

It can only be said that they fell into a huge trap at the beginning of the fight.

The Ouchi family also slowly realized that Da Ming was not a paper tiger, and the reason why people had not taken action for a long time was because it took time for people's big moves.

Now that the time has worked, the Ming Dynasty cut off the transportation lines of Chinese grain and Korean grain, and they are forced to enter a cannibalistic society.

By mid-September, the Ouchi family had no last grain of food, and their only reliance was on the one million taels of silver mined from the Iwami silver mine.

But, you really can't eat silver!

Fortunately, at this time, Masahiro Ouchi, the head of the Ouchi family, finally returned with the army. (End of chapter)