The two cavalrymen only had time to say the six words: "The Golden Arrow of the Khan King", and before Fan Wencheng could ask what was wrong, he heard a war horse neighing in sorrow, and the servant fell to the ground, convulsing, and spurting bloody white foam from his mouth and nose. As soon as this horse fell to the ground, the other also fell with a bang, and if it weren't for the cavalry's quick dodge, it would have been suppressed.

The horses went out of business, and the two cavalrymen were dying. Fan Wencheng looked at the two cavalrymen, there was hoarfrost on their faces, eyebrows, and beards, and it was obvious that they were in a hurry.

"What the hell is going on?"

Fan Wencheng grabbed a Jiannu cavalryman and asked anxiously: "What happened, tell so-and-so!" ”

A bad thought rose in Fan Wencheng's head, could it be that Ning Haijun took advantage of the cold winter to attack Shenyang? This idea is very strong, the current Ning Navy has the absolute strength to attack Shenyang, after all, Liaoyang, which is controlled by the Ning Navy, is too close to Shenyang, and the cavalry is coming, which is definitely not bragging.

What's more, unlike other Ming armies, the Ning Navy has powerful artillery, and the fortified city is not an obstacle for the Ning Navy, at most it takes a little trouble.

The Jiannu cavalryman who was caught by Fan Wencheng gasped for breath, obviously tired enough: "Liaodong...... Liaodong, encountered a white plague! ”

Fan Wencheng was shocked: "What!? ”

The older cavalryman barely controlled his breath and said, "The White Plague is coming!" Half a month ago, a sudden snowstorm fell in Liaodong, countless tents were crushed, countless cattle and sheep were frozen to death, and countless tribes disappeared because of a blizzard. Thousands of people froze to death in Shenyang City alone, and hundreds of cars were pulled by corpses, and we couldn't count how many people froze to death for half a day! ”

At this, the older cavalryman choked up, and his family also froze to death in this blizzard, including his youngest son, who was just eight years old, and his eleven-year-old daughter, a wife and three concubines, and his mother, a family of seven people, all of whom froze to death except for him.

In the face of this bad news, Fan Wencheng was also in chaos, and suffered a snow disaster, which was quite fatal for the nomads, and their only way to survive was to pass on the losses and go south to attack the territory of the Central Plains agricultural civilization.

For thousands of years, these nomads have done this, but the problem is that now the south of the Dajin Kingdom is the Ning Navy, which is an existence that they cannot defeat, even if they pull all the Jiannu up, they may not be able to gnaw at the defense line of the Ning Navy, as for attacking the territory of the Guanning Army to the west.

In all fairness, the elite of Jiannu can gnaw at the Ningyuan defense line of the Guanning army, open the gap, grab a handful from the Guanning army, and tide over the difficulties.

But the problem is that although you can grab it, you can't grab it.

This is like in later generations, an old man with a huge sum of tens of thousands of yuan, although he has no force, but no one robs it, because the police are not vegetarians.

If Jiannu attacks the Ning Navy, the Guanning Army may not send troops to help the Ning Navy, but once Jiannu sends troops to attack the Ning Navy, with Cheng Shijie's style and habits, he will definitely send troops to attack Jiannu.

Huang Taiji thought of this layer, and he didn't think about going south or west while Dajin still had a certain amount of strength, but sought Fan Wencheng's help as soon as possible.

As early as October, after the completion of the autumn harvest, Fan Wencheng reported to Huang Taiji and achieved gratifying results in the tuntian of Fengzhou, planting more than 280,000 mu of corn, harvesting more than 420,000 stones, and the wolf's tail valley also more than 20,000 stones, adding up to 4560,000 stones of grain and more than 10 million catties of forage in Fengzhou.

For more than 40,000 soldiers and civilians, this grain seems to be a surplus, but the problem is that if this grain is placed in Dajin, it is far from enough, since the surrender of the Mongol Ezhe, the entire Dajin country has increased instead of decreasing, and now it has one million soldiers and civilians.

More than 400,000 stone of grain, on average, each person can only divide five buckets, even if you save food, at most three months, you can't last the beginning of spring.

What's more, if these grains are transported to Liaodong, I am afraid that they will not be transported to Liaodong, and they should be eaten up on the road, although it is said that the grain from the south of the Ming Dynasty was transported to the north, and more than half of it was lost, that is to say, eight million stone of grain, transported to the capital at most four million stones, and only more than three million stones when it was less.

But the problem is that the whole journey from Fengzhou to Shenyang is 1,468 kilometers, which is slightly closer than Hangzhou to Beijing, but it is all land transportation along the way. If calculated according to the fact that a horse-drawn cart can transport ten stone of grain, the more than 400,000 stone of grain requires more than 40,000 four-wheeled carriages.

Regardless of whether Fan Wencheng can get more than 40,000 carriages in Fengzhou for the time being, the crux of the matter is that these more than 40,000 carriages need two horses, one person, according to the horse's food of 30 catties, the person eats three catties, two horses and one person, and at least 63 catties of grain need to be eaten every day.

From Fengzhou to Shenyang, it will take more than 30 days at the earliest, which means that from Fengzhou to Shenyang, a carriage, two horses, and one person need to eat twelve stones and two buckets of grain.

No matter how much he calculated, Fan Wencheng thought about it and decided to lead thousands of people to Shenyang to help Huang Taiji solve this imminent problem.

……

Beijing, Cheng Shijie's residence.

This time, the person who followed Cheng Shijie into Beijing was Meng En, in fact, Cheng Shijie did not leave any intelligence agencies in the capital, but Cheng Shijie would know what he should know.

Jinyiwei's reputation is very good here in Cheng Shijie, it is completely about taking money to do things, as long as the price is in place, no matter what kind of information it is, they will sell it. If Cheng Shijie needs which concubine Wen Tiren slept with yesterday and what he said, Jin Yiwei can also get the information.

For example, now, Meng En is holding a stack of information in his hand, of course, these are not originals, but manuscripts, these people are the people who have recently impeached Shijie in the impeachment process, and the means by which Ming officials impeach officials are nothing more than a few.

Start from the aspects of character, morality, ethics, and ancestors. Accusing Cheng Shijie of raising self-respect, conniving at the soldiers under his command to loot the gentry, making the lives miserable, and exploiting bullying men and women in the township, Cheng Shijie directly ignored it.

However, Cheng Shijie looked at these impeachment twists and turns, and his face became ugly.

"Dashuai!"

Cheng Shijie angrily slapped the fold in his hand on the table, and even the pen wash and paperweight jumped up. It can be seen that Cheng Shijie is very angry.

The impeachment of Cheng Shijie was a compromise, not only scolding Cheng Shijie, but also scolding Cheng Shijie's parents, and scolding Cheng Shijie for not being able to walk humanely.

The point is that Cheng Shijie has no way to explain it now.

Cheng Shijie was very angry.

Seeing that Cheng Shijie was angry, Meng En said: "Dashuai, do you want to ......?"

Meng En is a military thinker, habitually using force to solve problems.

Although Cheng Shijie did not lead many guards in Beijing this time, there were also three or four hundred people, and it was not possible to attack the city with three hundred or four hundred people, but it was not a big problem to deal with some civilian officials.

At least, a Ning Navy soldier can fight ten officials, and older officials have no problem fighting twenty, of course, there is a prerequisite for this, except for officials like Mao Yuanyi and Lu Xiangsheng, because Lu Xiangsheng and Mao Yuanyi are both masters, and ordinary generals are not opponents in front of them, let alone ordinary soldiers.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Although scolding is hateful, sin does not lead to death." However, this revenge cannot be avenged! ”

"Dashuai means ......"

"Let Lin Xuwen come over for a while!"

"Yes!"

Not long after, Lin Xuwen came to Cheng Shijie.

"Meet the Prince!"

Cheng Shijie did not arrange any manpower to find out the news in the capital, in the Cheng Mansion in the capital, there is actually only one steward Lin Xuwen, Lin Xuwen is Lin Xuzong's cousin, who is coarse and reliable.

"You ask the guy to make more steamed buns, make one or two thousand steamed buns! When these steamed buns are ready, you take them to the street to find some little beggars with good legs! Let the little beggars do one thing for me! ”

"What's the matter?"

"Set off firecrackers!"

Cheng Shijie entered this time, and his relatives Wei Ke brought more than 1,000 grenades and threw grenades at the homes of these officials, which naturally caused many casualties.

However, take out the gunpowder of the grenades, make good firecrackers, and throw the firecrackers into the homes of these impeached Cheng Shijie, then give them a wake-up call.

That night, after dark, the little beggars who were temporarily recruited by Lin Xuwen began to act separately, for their little beggars, they could get ten steamed buns by putting a firecracker, which was a good thing that was difficult to find in the world. Although it is said that throwing firecrackers in the courtyard of officials may offend the officials, they are fast and must catch them.

Located near Dongzhi Gate, this is the residence of Cheng Jinxin, Cheng Jinxin is the first year of Chongzhen, because there is no backstage, he has been a cold bench for several years, until he took refuge in Wu Zongda, the official department of Shangshu and the scholar of the Zhongji Palace, after the prince and young master, Cheng Jinxin from the eight products of the grinding of the grinding, even promoted to three levels, and became the experience of the six products.

According to Cheng Jinxin's official position, if he is released, he will at least be the palm seal of a county magistrate or a county such as Wanping and Daxing County, and he will be promoted from an insignificant section-level cadre to a county department level, and he will already be a middle-level and high-ranking official among the officials in Beijing.

He slept late that day, after all, Cheng Shijie's three strategies caused turmoil in the imperial court, and they needed to deal with it, so the meeting was held late. Just when I was going home, I met a grain merchant from my fellow villagers for a banquet.

The Gyeonggi food crisis is simply a major positive for grain merchants, and now that the grain is cut off, the grain will not rise at this time, when will it rise? If it doesn't rise several times, you are embarrassed to tell people that you are a grain merchant when you go out!

Troubled times are a terrible purgatory for the poor, but for these black-hearted businessmen, it is a good opportunity to make a fortune. They know that in this troubled world, food is the most precious, and of course they must take advantage of the good opportunity in front of them to raise the price of food to the death, so as to make a lot of money. As for whether those mud legs can afford it, whether they will starve to death, what does it have to do with them? Everyone decided that tomorrow the grain shop will be closed first, and the day after tomorrow will open, and the price of grain will rise by 20%!

After receiving the generous gift from the grain merchant and getting the hint from the boss above, Cheng Jinxin decided to have a fight with the concubine, and as for the yellow-faced woman, he stayed on the side.

Just as Cheng Jinxin was picking up his gun and galloping to his heart's content, an earth-shattering loud noise came from the courtyard.

Cheng Jinxin suddenly withered with fright......

Cheng Jinxin came back to his senses for a long time, and shouted: "Someone, what's the matter?" ”

The steward took a few small pieces of paper, only to see that it was printed: "Take care of your mouth, this is a warning, next time you will change the real thing!" ”

Cheng Jinxin can see what this means, although he has experience as an inspector, he is also a member of the imperial history, and he can impeach hundreds of officials, but the problem is that he has always been cautious, except for the impeachment process Shijie according to the above meaning, others ...... He won't be impeached either, is he fed up?

Cheng Shijie does have this strength and can engage him.

Just as Cheng Jinxin was wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, a loud noise sounded not far away.

This night, the capital was very lively, thousands of firecrackers, more than two-thirds of the Beijing officials received special care, the problem is that the sound of firecrackers did not slowly stop until midnight.

When it came to the early dynasty conference, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and he was immediately happy, most of them were panda eyes.

When Emperor Chongzhen thought that these officials would impeach Cheng Shijie, he didn't expect that it was actually to discuss the matter of opening a sea port, and Emperor Chongzhen faintly understood that these officials were bullying the weak and afraid of the hard.

In fact, if the ministers knew what Emperor Chongzhen was thinking, it was estimated that they would cry and pee, it is not a secret that the grenades equipped by the Ning Navy are not secret, if a grenade explodes, it is common for several people to be killed and more than a dozen people, and no one dares to risk their own lives to test whether Cheng Shijie is real.

The imperial court decided to formally set up the Maritime Department Yamen in Tianjin, and Sun Yuanhua, who was also in charge of the river in Fengyang, the former governor of Caoyun and the military governor, was appointed as the maritime governor, and was fully responsible for the opening of the sea.

Due to the rush of time, how to fill in the structure under the yamen of the shipping department, the officials did not give a statement, but Sun Yuanhua disposed of it from the power, and he could select officials with meritorious names or directly select officials as subordinates from the local government, and the officials would be recognized afterwards. The edict did not directly specify the establishment of a maritime army under the Yamen of the Maritime Division, but it also made it clear that Cheng Shijie and the Ning Navy were temporarily under Sun Yuanhua's control and were responsible for protecting the maritime transport.

The power to open the sea to the governor of Caoyun was actually to pacify and appease the millions of Cao workers and 120,000 Cao soldiers, and the interests were too great, and the policy adopted by Emperor Chongzhen and the imperial court was to rot the meat into the pot, and to play the way of one set of teams and two cards in later generations.

As for how the Ning Navy will cooperate with the Shipping Division, how to gather grain, how to organize ships to transport from Jiangnan to Tianjin, and how much grain can be organized, the DPRK and China have not yet decided on a plan.

The crudeness of the plan shows the haste and panic of the central decision to open the sea, and in a day or two, it is difficult to expect Wen Tiren and the others to think everything through.

Just when Cheng Shijie was having lunch, it snowed heavily in the sky, and the snow became heavier and heavier, and by the evening, it had become icy and snowy.

Cheng Shijie waited for a day, did not wait for the impeachment of the officials, nor did he wait for the accountability of Emperor Chongzhen, in fact, Cheng Shijie did not know that his firecrackers made Langzhong, who treats impotence and premature ejaculation in the capital, have a good business.

Cheng Shijie fell asleep until dawn, when Cheng Shijie faintly heard the sound of crying.

"What's going on?"

Meng En, who followed Cheng Shijie into Beijing, said: "Back to the handsome, last night's snowstorm, many people's houses were crushed by the snow, and many people died......"

Cheng Shijie was slightly stunned: "Go and investigate, how much damage this snow has caused!" ”

"Yes!"

There are some things he also has to do, the so-called rise and fall of the country, the husband is responsible, Cheng Shijie has no loyalty to the imperial court, but he can't bear to watch the country turmoil, countless people starve to death on the streets.

In the capital these days, it is rare to see that the efficiency of the imperial court has increased a lot.

Not long after Cheng Shijie had breakfast, Meng En came with the information of the investigation.

Meng En actually looked for the information that Jinyiwei obtained, as for the worthless information that the capital suffered a snow disaster, Meng En did not spend silver, but a jar of Liaodong production, bud valley roasted liquor, the market price is about one tael of silver and twelve catties, so he got the information.

"According to Jinyiwei's intelligence, last night's blizzard, in the two counties of Daxing and Wanping in the capital alone, more than 9,000 houses collapsed, more than 800 people were killed, more than 1,300 people froze to death, and tens of thousands of people were homeless.

Listening to Meng En's report, Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "It's really a house leak that happened to rain all day, which made it even worse!" ”

The imperial court now wants to use the Caoyun team to temporarily shelve the problem of the blockage of the canal, and first transport the grain to the capital to solve the Gyeonggi food crisis, which can be regarded as a solution to the problem, although this method is very crude.

However, the right people are employed.

Although there are more than 10,000 cao boats in the Yamen, the governor of Caoyun, these cao boats have no way to sail at all, and once they reach the sea, when the wind blows, they will be subverted.

But the problem is that Sun Yuanhua is Cheng Shijie's old boss, and if Sun Yuanhua proposes to hire the transport fleet of the Ning Navy, as long as he gives money, Cheng Shijie is willing to take over this business.

After all, shipping is much cheaper than shipping, and two percent of the transportation cost, without considering the wages of shipmen, transporting four million stone of grain only needs to eat less than 80,000 stone of grain, less than one percent of the cost of transportation. Even if Sun Yuanhua only comes up with 30% of the price, this business can be done.

Cheng Shijie still earns.

However, this sudden blizzard will definitely disrupt Son Won-hwa's plan and make the Gyeonggi food crisis even more serious.

"Meng En, send to Liaodong to see the damage in Liaodong!"

Cheng Shijie immediately thought of authorization, Liaodong has rich experience in disaster relief, he directly wrote down: "The management committee is responsible for disaster relief, but you can do it cheaply, you don't need to ask for instructions!" ”

After Cheng Shijie finished writing, he handed the letter to Meng En: "Send it to Liaodong as quickly as possible!" ”

In fact, this snow disaster was more serious than he imagined, and the first trouble was naturally the border pass.

The Mongolian Gaoyuan was hit by a snowstorm, and the snowstorm for more than 40 consecutive days caused the Mongols to suffer extremely heavy losses, and many weak tribes disappeared in the snowstorm and could no longer be found.

The Mongols were desperate in the face of the cold and starving cattle everywhere, their herds were already devastated and how they could live the rest of their lives!

What's even more terrifying is that in the southern and northern regions, the Mongols suffered even more heavy losses, some tribes not to mention cattle and sheep, and even the war horses that regarded them as their lives died so that there were only a few left, and the Mongols who were driven crazy by the pressure of survival began to migrate to the southern region, trying to get a little compensation from this rich land of drought and flood to survive this year of catastrophe.

The only way for them to survive the difficulties is to break through the borders, plunder the agricultural areas, and obtain food, cloth and other materials for survival from the border towns. It's all about survival, it doesn't matter what is right or wrong.

But the problem is that the people at the border also have to live, they are not Shakyamuni, but they do not have the habit of cutting meat from themselves to feed the greedy falcons, the jackals are coming, they naturally have to take up arms to defend their homeland.

Now this terrible wave is still fermenting, and has not yet officially erupted, hundreds of thousands of Mongol soldiers are on their way to Datong, Xuanfu, and Jizhen on their way to the Datong, Xuanfu, and Jizhen areas, and the forward troops have already engaged the Ming army on the defense line of the Great Wall, and the blood is pouring into the blood.

At present, it is mainly the Tumut tribe, the Chahar tribe and other tribes. However, the Ming Dynasty, which has been through the storm for a long time, has already smelled the smell of the storm, and the government and the opposition have tensed their nerves inside and outside, and they dare not be careless.

The catastrophe must be followed by a great war, this is already the law of history, and any act that ignores this law will inevitably pay the price of blood!

The second trouble is that this snow disaster has spread too widely, and it must be Shuntianfu who received the news of the disaster, Miyun and Huairou suffered from heavy snowfall, and tens of thousands of people were affected. Then, Cangzhou, Taiyuan, Daimyofu, Jinanfu......

That is to say, this snow disaster, from north to south, has spread to the banks of the Yellow River, as for whether Henan and Shaanxi have been affected, it is difficult to say for the time being, it is impossible not to have, but the news has not yet come.

The most tearful thing is that in the face of such a terrible natural disaster, the first reaction of those civil officials who have infinite love for death is not to try to relieve the disaster, but to force Chongzhen to make an edict for his own crimes. They were full of words: "It's all Your Majesty, you used the courtiers and courtiers, connived at his lawlessness, and angered the heavens, so God will send disasters to warn Your Majesty!" For the sake of the common people in the world, Your Majesty, you hurry up and issue an edict to the people of the world, admit your mistake to God, and ensure that you are close to the virtuous ministers and far from the villain, and ask for God's forgiveness, so as to save the people from fire and water! ”

Chongzhen was extremely annoyed by this, fuck, why is it Lao Tzu's fault every time there is a natural disaster?

Lao Tzu spent so much money and was supported by so many birds, just so that you could find fault with Lao Tzu and force Lao Tzu to review? He naturally knows who the "ministers" in the mouths of these civil officials are?

Who else could there be? Naturally, it refers to Cheng Shijie, but the ministers don't dare to mention Cheng Shijie's name, because Cheng Shijie is now in the capital, they impeached Cheng Shijie on the front foot, and Cheng Shijie dared to throw a bomb at their house on the back foot, Cheng Shijie has a criminal record for doing this. (End of chapter)