I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 511 Crisis Approaching
Jianlu, Saerhu City.

As the new capital of the "Dajin" country built last year, most of the Eight Banners nobles who started their careers with Nurhachi have settled in this city.

Therefore, although the city does not have music and music every night, it is still extremely lively.But since the beginning of the year, all businesses in Sarhu City have been in decline, and there are only a few people. There are very few pedestrians and merchants, and it is not as lively as usual in the spring of March.

Only the soldiers patrolling as usual and the nobles of the Eight Banners riding on horseback proved that the city still had some life.

The reason for this is that everyone knows that the crisis is approaching little by little.

Especially after the news of Huang Taiji's defeat and return spread, everyone who was still full of expectations suddenly felt despair, and everyone felt a sudden crisis.

The food situation, which Nurhachi had tried hard to suppress before, could no longer be suppressed, and quickly spread throughout the Jianlu Eight Banners.

Many Eight Banners nobles in the city were also worried about this, even though Nurhachi issued edicts repeatedly, saying that the soldiers, horses, and food could last for a long time.But now the banner leaders of the Eight Banners have secretly asked the armored men to hand over rations for emergency use.

The Eight Banners dictated land distribution. The higher the official position, the more acres of land they were allocated, and therefore the more grain they handed over.However, these honorable nobles also raised many slaves and servants, and they also spent a lot of money on food.

Not to mention the current shortage of food in Sarhu City. The price of food has tripled from three taels of silver to one stone last year, and now costs nine taels of silver to one stone. This makes it increasingly difficult for these nobles to make ends meet.

Wealthy families could barely support themselves, while the rest laid off their servants and increased their exploitation of Liao tenant farmers.

Many people are working as farmers at home, and the bannermen who have not been drafted into the army are even more miserable. Their rations are getting less and less, and there are even situations where they are begging for food and selling their sons and daughters.

Many Liao tenant farmers had no right to survive. Not only were they exploited by their employers, many Jurchens were even angry with them. They would abuse and beat them at the least, and rob them of their food rations and plunder their family property.

The panic from top to bottom made the entire Jianlu people panic.But not all are like this, such as Zhang Anning.

In Yue Tuo's mansion, Zhang Anning was counting with Yue Tuo on Xianghongqi's current grain reserves.

"Baylor, Xianghongqi currently still has 21 stones, 310 [-] buckets of food, which is enough to support us for more than a month. If we budget carefully, we can barely support it for two months."

Seeing Yue Tuo frowning when he heard this, Zhang Anning looked worried, but she was extremely happy in her heart.

He knew the situation of Jianlu best, and Xianghongqi's situation was pretty good.Others, such as Zhenghongqi and Zhengbaiqi, are in even worse condition and may not be able to survive even a month.

Although he was now in a precarious situation and was in a difficult situation, seeing Jianlu like this immediately offset a lot of his annoyance.

"Take out [-] dan from these grains and wait for someone with a red flag to come and get them. The rest of the grains must not be touched lightly."

The leader of the Zhenghong Banner is Daishan. When Zhang Anning heard this, he immediately looked puzzled and said:

"Baylor, we don't even have enough food to eat. If we give Zheng Hongqi, there won't be enough food."

"Don't say too much. No matter how bad Daishan is to me, she is still my Amma. At this time, it is even more important to support each other and tide over the difficulties together."

Seeing Zhang Anning's hesitation, Yue Tuo immediately waved his hand to tell him not to say anything.After he finished speaking, he stood up and walked out of the study.

"Khan came to me today to discuss something. I want to go there immediately." "Thank you very much, Baile, for your concern. I am very grateful. I don't know what Khan is discussing, and I need my servant to prepare something in advance."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Anning immediately knelt down and became grateful, and said the last sentence out of habit.But when Yue Tuan heard this, he frowned and said expressionlessly:
"Don't pry if you shouldn't pry, otherwise something will happen. I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you."

"My slave deserves to die. My slave deserves to die. Please forgive me, Lord Beile."

Seeing what Yue Tuo said, Zhang Anning was slightly shocked and immediately kowtowed to apologize.

"Get up. I won't care about it this time. I won't do it next time."

Seeing this, Yue Tuo just glanced at him, sighed slightly, and continued:
"It's uneasy outside right now, so don't leave the house easily. Even if you go out, you have to take a good guard with you and don't go too far."

Although Zhang Anning hated his compatriots very much, he was still a little moved when he heard these words.

Yue Tuo really cares about him, and the entire Jianlu family knows this.Also relying on Yue Tuo's trust, no one in Jianlu dared to touch him.

Yue Tuo then stopped caring about him and went directly out of the mansion to discuss matters.

Zhang Anning continued to keep accounts in Yue Tuan's study, and it took nearly an hour to finish the work at hand.Then he left the study, took two bottles of wine from his house, and walked to the stable in the backyard.

When we arrived at the stable, we saw that the packers were still changing fodder.They were not surprised at all when they saw Zhang Anning coming, and they all stepped forward to say hello.

At this time, a leader came out and nodded when he saw Zhang Anning coming.Zhang Anning immediately handed a jug of wine to the wrapped slaves present for them to taste.Then he took another bottle of wine and followed the leader into the room.

"Why are you so careful this time? Don't look at it. These people have been taught obediently by me and don't dare to eavesdrop. Everyone in the house knows about your relationship with me. We don't meet like this once or twice. Yes, there is nothing to be wary of."

As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Anning put down the wine and looked out of the house warily, with guarded eyes, and the leader couldn't help but laugh sarcastically.

But Zhang Anning had a serious face when he heard this. The person in front of him was Zhang Shun who followed him to Jianlu Jinyiwei Baihu.

Last year, because I was favored by my father-in-law, I asked him to be transferred as a groom.Finally, Zhang Shun helped Jianlu recruit craftsmen, so he was deeply trusted by Yue Tuo, and even promised to reuse him.

However, Zhang Shun used the excuse that he was Zhang Anning's servant and wanted to take care of Zhang Shun, so he asked Yue Tuo to keep him in the house to work.

"It's not like I don't know the current situation. It's becoming more and more dangerous for us Han people to build captives. This time Huang Taiji sent troops, Yue Tuo didn't tell me. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional.

If it's unintentional, that's fine. If it's intentional, that's troublesome.So I think we can't wait any longer and we must act immediately. How are you doing with Chen Liangce of the Han Army? "

Hearing Zhang Anning's anxiety, Zhang Shun's face did not change and he said calmly:
"How to act now? It's not like you don't know the situation outside. Do you think Nurhaci is a fool? The Jurchens are so hostile to us and other Han people. Do you think you have no defense against the Han army?"

When Zhang Anning heard this, his brows furrowed and his heart became more and more sad.

(End of this chapter)