Today's tragic situation on both sides of the Yellow River is completely inadequate to describe it in one sentence.

It's just that the son eats and starves.

It's all going to be written into the history books.

Hongtian clenched his fists, and the nails that were originally trimmed short and neat had been pierced into his palms, and drops of blood oozed from his palms, but Hongtian didn't care.

Why did it fall into such a situation?

To tell the truth, he Hongday is not an absurd prince in the true sense, what he does is just to defile himself, and to dispel the current emperor's suspicion of himself.

His song "The Song of the Golden Bottle", which spread all over the government and the opposition, is a manifestation of his weakness to the imperial power. (Note 1)

However, this does not mean that he has to endure the humiliation in front of him.

He took the initiative to apply for disaster relief in the Yellow River this time.

It's really the political situation in the imperial capital, and he can't bear it anymore.

Qianlong has been on the throne for 18 years, and he is gradually recovering the power that was not controlled by him.

However, for some reason, the queen mother always held the powers that should have belonged to the emperor as a matter of course in the palm of her hand.

Outsiders don't know, and they think it's the queen mother's dictatorship.

However, Hongtian knows very well that his mother is not a power-hungry person, and she has long wanted to live in her old age.

I don't know when the contradiction between the two gradually became clear.

As the leader of the Queen Mother's party, many things were not something he could not do if he didn't do it.

For example, recruiting people from the rivers and lakes as help, which was the queen mother's idea in itself, and after being reprimanded by the emperor, Hongyang itself had disbanded most of its strength, and only retained a part of the elite and a part of the new power that had nowhere to be placed.

However, the queen mother's intention is to let him continue to maintain his solicitation efforts, which is nothing more than a more clever means than before, so that others can't grasp the handle.

And all this means that he is fighting his brother in the ring.

This elder brother of his, smart and resolute since he was a child, and has a lot of calculations, if possible, Hongday really does not want to be an enemy of Qianlong.

So this time, he specially applied for disaster relief, but in fact, he wanted to get away from the whirlpool that could swallow people's lives as soon as possible.

However, he didn't expect that everything on both sides of the Yellow River made him see the undisguised ugliness of the Qing Dynasty, which seemed to be an invincible national power authority.

In a country known as the prosperous dynasty, there are thousands of ordinary people who are hungry and eat in Yizi......

Can this still be said to be a prosperous age?

This is simply a sign of the country's demise.

How did Da Ming die?

The party struggle has exhausted the vitality of the court, and the foreign enemy has consumed the essence of the country, and what really dealt a fatal blow to the Ming Dynasty was the influx of people from all over the country.

Da Ming is not dead*, but died in exile, died in Li Zicheng, died in Zhang Xianzhong, died in all parts of the country, and died in the anti-thieves who could not be wiped out and killed.

These thieves themselves are ordinary people who work hard, have hard work, and sell their entire family labor just for a mouthful of food.

It was famine, and it was corrupt officials who forced them to embark on the dead end of killing officials and rebelling.

How many years has it been?

More than 100 years, but it is only two or three generations.

Have the top and bottom of the Qing Dynasty forgotten this kind of lesson?

A pair of firm hands held the crumbling Hongday.

Without looking back, Hongyang said, "Are you back?"

"It has been verified that Gao Bin, the governor of the river, is deaf and incompetent, and his subordinates are the same as Li Yan and Zhang Bin, who are the guards, are the direct cause of the Yellow River disaster. (Note 2)

You must know that the lower reaches of the Yellow River have narrowed, and the embankment has been bursting over the years, and most of the imperial court's river control costs are used more in the downstream, and this Hetao area has had a saying that "the Yellow River is harmful, and only one set of profits" has been said since ancient times.

With flat terrain and fertile soil, it has always been one of the largest granaries in China, and as long as basic maintenance is maintained, there will be no disasters at all, let alone such once-in-a-century disasters.

This is digging the root of the Qing Dynasty!

Hongday's eyes were red, and his whole body was trembling: "Check, arrest if it is verified, kill if you should kill, don't let anyone go!"

It was almost an angry roar, which made the old man beside Hongyang tremble.

Although he is not a king, he has the responsibility of a king, but it is a pity that he was born so many years late.

The old man sighed, agreed, lowered his hand, and walked out of the gate of the military tent.

Hongtian took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled.

Only in this way, which is similar to that of a Taoist, can he calm his anger.

These damn corrupt officials, except for investigating and punishing a few leaders, cannot break the entire field of corruption at all.

It would be nice if that person was by his side and gave advice to him.

Pity.

Xu Yang still rode out of the imperial capital alone, and Zhuang Cheng stayed in the imperial capital as his eyes and ears, which was better than following himself.

After all, he still has a lot of secrets that he can't be known.

Including Zhuang Cheng.

Tsk, Lanzhou, Xu Yang shook his head.

Rushing from the imperial capital to Lanzhou, there are at least more than 3,000 miles along the way, although his horse is good, but he can run a maximum of 200 miles every day, no matter how fast, the horse will be scrapped in a few days.

Of course, you can go to the post station to change horses, but who knows where there is a post station along the way, let's go all the way.

In this way, it will take at least 15 to 20 days to reach Lanzhou.

Fortunately, Hongtian was escorting grain and grass to disaster relief, and it was estimated that he was slower than himself, although he had to leave almost a month earlier than himself, and when they arrived, he should not be too far away.

It shouldn't be a mistake.

And the heroes of the Red Flower Society will not wait for Hongtian to start an incident as soon as Hongtian arrives, this operation, due to Hongyang's intervention, is more difficult than before, and they will inevitably spend more time planning the entire operation.

Considering these, Xu Yang rode his horse on the official road, but he was not in a hurry.

No matter how long the road is, there will always be a day when you will go to the end.

More than 20 days have passed in a flash, and the three-thousand-mile avenue has come to an end.

At this time, it was already the beginning of September, and the journey was more difficult than I imagined.

Since stepping on the vicinity of the Loop, there have been more hungry people on the road day by day.

Xu Yang couldn't bear to look at its tragic situation.

Although he also brought some food, he really didn't expect the disaster to be so serious, except for keeping some dry food for himself, the rest was given to the most pitiful-looking children on the road.

Of course, you can't give more, you can only give them enough to eat, and giving too much will hurt them.

Watching the child eat the dry food in two bites, and then staring at him with a pair of eager eyes, Xu Yang had to get up and leave every time.

Because the other hungry people around him were also watching him.

How can a child keep a surplus of food?

At this time, people are no longer people, and they can do everything for a mouthful of food.

I believe the heroes of the Red Flower Society are doing something similar, right?

It's just a drop in the bucket, how can we save thousands of victims?

After finding out where the Yellow River camp was, Xu Yang rode his horse straight away.

Note 1: "The Song of the Golden Bottle", a famous article of Hongday, is praised by historians as a "life-saving poem", expressing Hongday's desire to have no power and just want to have fun in time, drunk and dream of being a ridiculous prince.

The original poem is as follows:

The world is impermanent,

The cup cup Tailang is drunk with red dust.

It's rare to have a confidant in life,

Push the cup to change the lamp, talk about the ancient and modern.

Note 2: In the 18th year of Qianlong (1753), heavy rain in Lanzhou caused the Yellow River to swell, washing away many houses.

In the autumn of the eighteenth year, the river broke the thirteen forts of Yangwu. In September, the Zhangjia Road of the Tongshan was broken, "more than 200 zhang of the inner embankment, the wisp and the embankment were crossed", and the south was injected into Ling, Hong and other places, and entered the Hongze Lake, and the Huai went down. After the decision, Emperor Qianlong appointed Yin Jishan as the governor of Nanhe, and sent Shangshu Hede to accompany Bai Zhongshan to the assistant governor. Shi Tongzhi Li Yan and the garrison Zhang Bin embezzled wages, and in order to learn from the impeachment of the political envoy Fu Lehe, after the investigation, Gao Bin, who had served as the governor of the river for many years, and Zhang Shizai, the governor of Jiangsu and the assistant director of the river affairs, were guilty of negligence and "restrained execution". Winter, break the plug.

In this article, the time of the levee burst was slightly advanced, in June and July.

Also: Remarks are not counted in the updated word count.