On the official road of the Ming Dynasty.

A lavishly decorated carriage was moving smoothly, and on both sides, hundreds of sturdy men were riding their horses and whips, escorting the chariot, their eyes were sharp, and their nerves were tense to the extreme, their left hand holding the reins of the horse, and their right hand firmly holding the hilt of the knife at their waist.

Without him, both sides of this avenue are full of people.

It was all ragged and thin-skinned people. In front of them was a notched cauldron, or a fire, on which something was being done, giving off the smell of meat.

When they heard the sound of the carriage, they turned their heads violently, and their eyes showed ferocity and greed, but when they saw the knights of the group, they showed a look of fear again, and hurriedly lowered their heads.

"Zu, where is this?" Yan Chun poked half of his head out of the curtain and saw this scene.

At this time, Yan Ling was taking the thirteen-year-old Yan Chun to the south, Yan Chun was the eldest son of this generation of Yue Guogong, and the child who was sent to Chen Guogong's mansion before.

According to his memory, there will be no major incidents in Chenghuanian after that, unless Yan Jingxiu and Yan Yuan lose their minds and mess around in Beijing, there will definitely be no problems.

The entire Chenghua Dynasty was the early period of Zhongxing, the dynasty was prosperous, and the emperor in the later period was obsessed with cultivating the Tao and taking pills and other things, and the government began to be corrupt again.

Of course, because of the disturbance of his descendants in the previous generation, a series of great achievements of Emperor Chenghua have been weakened a lot, for example, Wang Yue, who originally made great contributions in the Chenghua Dynasty, although this time and space also followed Zhu Yong to quell several rebellions, but it is foreseeable that he will not be as dazzling as the original time and space, because the border troubles in the north have been greatly weakened.

Because Warat has become the training object of the Ming army, and has been tortured to the point of unbearable suffering, although the Tatars have begun to recover in the northern part of the steppe, but because of the 100,000 Ming troops separated by the bondage, it is easy to harass the border pass.

As for the recovery of the Hetao or something, not to mention, half of the current Hetao is fetters, and half of the people who come and go are cavalry of the Ming army, and the grassland power of this era has been suppressed to a low point, even if Wang Yue wants to fight, he can't fight it!

Originally, in the next few years, he should have been with Wang Zhi to shock the grassland, but now he definitely doesn't have this opportunity.

Fortunately, there are achievements such as pacifying the Broken Tengxia and setting up Xunyang, and Emperor Chenghua has also done a good job.

Now that the Martial Emperor experience card is about to expire, and Xuanzong is about to possess his body, there is nothing big for Yan Ling, and he has to focus on the Ningbo side for the time being.

So he decided to go back to his hometown and take charge of the overall situation.

The Ming Dynasty is about to enter the middle period, and he is about to start his own layout.

Yan Yuan was already alone enough, and Yan Chun was still a little behind, so he followed Yan Ling to the south.

Just now, Xiao Yanchun smelled the smell of meat outside, and couldn't help but poke his head out curiously, but what he saw was such a scene.

"Zu, why are they so hungry, and they still have meat to eat!" Yan Chun asked curiously.

"It should be almost out of Beizhi." Yan Ling sighed softly and touched his head:

"As for what they eat, historically, there have been many names."

"Two-legged sheep, vegetable man, etc."

"They mean human flesh!"

"Human flesh!" The child's face showed a look of fear and shock, and he turned his head in disbelief to look at the victims outside.

"Hunger, cannibalism." Yan Ling sighed softly, it's good to let this kid see these things as soon as possible.

"You see, it's all barren land, there's not even a lot of weeds, even the land is cracking, it's because the north has just been hit by drought."

"But you know what? At the time of the great drought in the north, there was a flood in the south, and all the provinces in the south were affected, countless lands were flooded, and hundreds of thousands of people fell into famine. ”

As he spoke, even Yan Ling couldn't help but feel a little sad for Da Ming.

Even the North Zhili and the feet of the Son of Heaven were so badly affected that other places can be imagined.

Is the Ming Dynasty already decaying? No, the current Ming Dynasty is still in its heyday, even if there are some problems in the administrative system, it is still far from the situation of continuous man-made disasters in the last years of the dynasty, although there are land annexations, but it is not too serious.

The reason why this is so, as he just said, is that in this same world, there should be a drought in the north and a flood in the south, which is simply outrageous.

In the year of Chenghua, every year is "vibrating xx hunger" and "free xx grain", how can this finance stand it!

Even he knew that it would not be long before the food for the relief would arrive. But by that time, how many people had starved to death and how many had been left in exile?

Such a calamity, God really blesses the Ming!

……

Yan Ling went to Nanjing to accept the bow of the contemporary Yue Guogong, and then went all the way south to Ningbo Mansion.

The flood has just receded, and like the north, it is also desolate and full of people.

He first entered the city of Ningbo and took control of the power in the name of a person from the Yueguo Mansion, and then immediately rushed to various parts of the family to inspect the disaster.

The Yan family has always followed the concept of Yan Ling and treated the local people well.

So when the people were displaced after the flood, they were the first to stand up.

Needless to say, his own people distributed food and helped rebuild.

Even the outcasts were able to get a cup of hot soup from the Yan family.

It's just that such a huge number of displaced people, even with the wealth of the Yan family, is a little unsupportable.

"Your Excellency, take a look." The relevant clan elder handed over the account book with a sad face:

"Yes, the family is a big business, but it can't withstand such a consumption method! The family's treasury is empty, and now it is completely dependent on Luzon for blood transfusion, but Luzon's food will run out sooner or later. ”

"My opinion, my lord, is that forget it. Anyway, the family doesn't have so much land, so what if it's relieved, it's impossible for us to convert them into recluses, so what's the point? ”

He suggested.

"No, the relief can't be stopped." Yan Ling frowned.

"Shengmien fights Mi Hat, now the relief has begun, if you stop, then everything will be ruined, these people who can't get food will not remember that we helped them, only remember that we made them starve again, and the good reputation of the family's painstaking management will be completely ruined."

Yan Ling is a hundred years old, and he has experienced a lot, and he has a very thorough understanding of human nature.

"How long will it take for the relief food from the imperial court to arrive?"

"The first batch has arrived, but it has been supplied to Nanzhi and Hangzhou first, and the second batch will take at least a month!"

It's going to last another month.

Yan Ling frowned and paced.

"What is the situation of the disaster in the nearby prefectures and counties, and there is still surplus food?" He asked.

"There are several prefectures and counties in the south that have not been affected, and because our rice shops cannot supply rice, our share of our business has been taken by them, and they have also taken the opportunity to raise prices, and now the price of grain is extremely high!"

The clan elder said indignantly.

When Yan Ling heard this, his eyes lit up.

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