Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

"General, why are you back so soon?"

Zhu Fan stabbed the throat of a prisoner who was not dead yet with a knife. He turned to look at Li Wenzhong who was coming over. He slowly withdrew the knife in his hand and spoke calmly.

Li Wenzhong's face was livid, he tried hard to control his anger, and said in a deep voice: "Who asked you to execute these tens of thousands of prisoners?"

"Didn't the general say before he left just now that he would leave all the cleaning of the battlefield to me?" Zhu Fan seemed not to notice Li Wenzhong's anger and replied.

This sentence was indeed said by Li Wenzhong.

Zhu Fan used Li Wenzhong's words to refute him.

But is this the same thing?

It's equivalent to your parents going on vacation, saying, child, when you grow up, everything at home will be left to you while we are away.

Good guy, but when they came back, they found that their home was gone? !

Zhu Fan clearly took advantage of the loopholes in Li Wenzhong's words, leaving him helpless.

In addition, his status as the third prince is here.

Li Wenzhong really couldn't do anything to him.

If Xu Da were here, it would be different.

When Zhu Laosi joined the army, he was often dealt with by Xu Da.

Li Wenzhong said in a deep voice: "Why do you want to kill them?"

Li Wenzhong wanted to know the reason.

"Eighteen thousand prisoners are equivalent to eighteen thousand mouths. If you don't kill them, keep them. General, how much military rations do you want to use to feed them?"

Zhu Fan took out a piece of cloth, wiped the blood off the blade in his hand, and then spoke.

"Our goal of sending troops this time is not just to take back Tieling, we want to take Kaijing in one fell swoop. Next, our army will cross the Yalu River and drive straight into the capital city in the heart of the enemy country. No one knows what the situation will be like by then."

"The general has been in the army for half his life. He should understand better than me. With the battle line so stretched, it is difficult to supply logistical supplies. This time it is not as simple as the fourth son's attack on Mobei before. All the food and grass supplies can be supplied by rail trains. Ship it directly from Jiangnan to Beijing City."

Swish!

The sword is sheathed.

Zhu Fan looked up at Li Wenzhong and said, "Therefore our food is extremely precious. If we keep it all the way to take down Kaijing, these guys will have no choice but to die."

Li Wenzhong was really shocked by Zhu Fan's words.

What opens the capital? !

You must know that during their expedition this time, Zhu Yuanzhang only said that he would teach Korea a heavy lesson.

Zhu Fan was already thinking about destroying Goryeo.

In Zhu Fan's eyes, in order to better achieve this goal, killing these prisoners is the best way.

And not just because of the rations.

If they were kept alive, whether they were escorted back to Beijing or detained on the spot, in order to prevent secondary disasters that would cause a second mutiny, they would need to consume the strength of their current army.

And this is exactly what Zhu Fan doesn't want to see.

This time, the Ming Dynasty King's Army will definitely cross the Yalu River and attack the mainland of Goryeo.

But if things develop normally, after the Ming Dynasty King's army conquers several cities with overwhelming force, the King of Korea will definitely start to sue for peace and surrender.

At that time, in order to maintain his dominance, the King of Goryeo will definitely accept a series of unequal treaties and cede territory in the hope of quelling the anger of the Ming Dynasty.

This possibility exists.

At that time, Ming Dynasty will not be able to go too far in name out of morality.

Maybe you will accept the other party's conditions.

But in Zhu Fan's view, even if Goryeo ceded half of its territory to Ming Dynasty, he would never be satisfied.

Because Zhu Fan knew in his heart that the other side of the Yalu River would be his territory in the future.

He doesn't want to be as useless as the second child.

Guarding such a big place in the Japanese country, if he were replaced by Zhu Ping, I am afraid he would have started to take action long ago.

At this time, Zhu Ping was far away in Japan.

But he found a way to make money no less than mining silver mines.

That is Japanese women.

Zhu Xi wants to build his fiefdom into a dream country!

escape!

Escape like crazy!

Run away like crazy without looking back!

Everything that happened in Tieling City before was simply a nightmare for Li Chenggui and the others.

There were shells all over the sky, earth-shattering explosions, and overwhelming bullets.

It’s like the end of the world is coming!

This is the army of Ming Dynasty!

Is this the fighting power of Ming Dynasty? !

Before, I was puzzled that Li Chenggui was so afraid of the Ming army's partial generals. Now he was shaking like a sieve: "General Li, what should we do next?"

How to do?

How do I know what to do? !

Li Chenggui's face was gloomy, and he had already scolded Cui Ying, who supported the main war faction, in his heart, and greeted him by the way.

Among the nine clans was his son-in-law, the King of Korea.

After winning Liaodong, Li Chenggui didn't know what these guys were thinking about?

Naha in Beiyuan has been unable to maintain its business for many years.

Why would they, Goryeo, be the rival of Ming Dynasty?

Li Chenggui, who was riding a horse, looked back. After their defeat at Tieling, they led the main force to run all the way. After crossing the Yalu River, they ran for more than ten miles in a row before they stopped with a squeak. Apparently many people were left behind on the road.

"Let's gather the troops first and then talk." Li Chenggui said with an ugly face.

As for what to do after gathering the troops, Li Chenggui himself didn't know.

Because he was already in a dilemma.

Leading the troops forward to continue fighting with the Ming army has been verified before and is a dead end.

And when he brought his troops back, there was no need to think that a treacherous minister like Cui Ying would definitely put all the blame on him, and he would probably be executed.

God, can't you give me a way out?

Li Chenggui looked up at the sky, speechless and choked.

Li Wenzhong, Zhu Fan and their conquests against Goryeo were in full swing, and good news came from time to time.

Zhu Yuanzhang was alone in the secret hall, looking at the huge sand table of the world. Full of ambition, he picked up a flag representing the Ming Dynasty and was about to plant it on the territory of Korea.

A fast horse coming from the west interrupted his movements.

Hongwu ten years.

A natural disaster occurred this year.

The rains in Huguang area are generally premature this year, and the people in Huguang and Huguang were caught off guard by the continuous heavy rain for months.

Months of heavy rain have resulted in skyrocketing water levels in Yangtze River tributaries across Huguang.

By the time the Huguang Chief Secretary's Yamen noticed, it was already too late.

A massive flood ensued.

This fast horse coming from the west is delivering an urgent report from Baili.

As soon as the memorial was delivered to the capital, it was immediately sent to the palace overnight.

In later generations, the Yangtze River was called a golden waterway.

But in the Ming Dynasty, it was almost completely uncontrollable. The dams built on the river in the past dynasties are not of any use if they are of some use.

Whenever a major flood season comes.

On the river surface, the water flow is fast and the rainy season is long, so the places along the river are basically left to their fate.

It's not their fault.

After Zhu Yuanzhang founded the People's Republic of China, he also made some efforts. In addition to strengthening the existing dams, he also built some new flood control facilities in the main stream and tributaries of the Yangtze River.

It's just that it is a bit difficult to expect these to resist floods. With the level of science and technology and productivity at that time, it was impossible to do it.

We must know that in modern times, the Yangtze River Basin has experienced two devastating floods in 1860 and 1870 and two major floods in 1931 and 1935. All four floods were very serious.

Now that the flood has occurred.

So the next thing the court has to do is how to provide disaster relief.

It also rained in Jinling City tonight.

Within half an hour after receiving the urgent report from the Huguang Chief Envoy, Xu Da, Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, and six ministers and nine ministers hurried to the palace.

When Li Shanchang and others arrived, Zhu Yuanzhang was standing in front of his desk and looking carefully at the river map in front of him, with Prince Zhu Biao standing next to him.

I heard the call from the chamberlain.

Zhu Yuanzhang remained expressionless until everyone arrived, then he raised his head and looked at the ministers, raised his hand and asked the chamberlain to give each of these ministers a chair.

After all, it was late at night, and these people were all older.

Some of the ministers here were full of doubts about Zhu Yuanzhang's overnight notification to them to enter the palace, but Li Shanchang and the others could vaguely guess.

Li Shanchang glanced at the heavy rain outside the palace. As the Prime Minister of Zhongshu Province, he had naturally noticed the abnormal rainfall in Huguang and Huguang for more than a month.

At the moment, he only hoped that His Majesty summoned them not because of what he was thinking about at this moment.

But things in the world are often like this.

Good ones don’t work, bad ones work.

"Prince, let the ministers read the urgent report first." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Zhu Biao took the Huguang emergency report from Zhu Yuanzhang and handed it to Li Shanchang.

After Li Shanchang read it, he passed it on to the next one. After everyone read the content of the urgent play, everyone's expression changed drastically.

Everyone was silent because they all understood the seriousness of the matter.

Although the emergency report from Huguang only contained a few lines.

But everyone seems to have seen the displaced people in Huguang and Guangzhou, the houses destroyed by floods, and the scenes of corpses strewn everywhere.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw everyone's expressions in his eyes and said, "It has happened. Now is not the time to hold people accountable."

"The most important thing at the moment is disaster relief. It just so happens that the Ministry of Public Security and the Sixth Department are here. You will stay here tonight and work with the prince to seize the time to come up with a plan, and then immediately send it to the Yamen in Huguang."

After saying this, Zhu Yuanzhang walked out of the hall directly, without an umbrella, and walked into the rain alone.

Finally, the Ming Dynasty's national power has been growing rapidly in recent years.

Now that everything was almost ready, when Zhu Yuanzhang was about to show off his talents, God suddenly gave him a wake-up call.

The rain came at the wrong time.

What we fought in the war was food, money, and the rear.

You must know that Huguang is the second most wealthy place for the imperial court after Jiangnan.

In order to appease people's hearts, the most important thing for the court at the moment is disaster relief.

Disaster relief requires large amounts of food.

After the loss of hybrid rice, the rice stored in granaries in various places had to cope with successive years of fighting, so it was completely insufficient for disaster relief.

Fortunately, there are still potatoes.

It was only when a steady stream of potatoes was shipped to Huguang.

There were no problems at first. With potatoes as a disaster relief tool, the victims finally no longer had to go hungry.

Just when everyone thought that the floods in Huguang and Guangzhou would be solved like the drought in Sanjin in previous years, something unexpected happened.

First, in a refugee camp, a small number of people developed abdominal pain, bloating, and diarrhea after eating potatoes.

Not long after, similar situations occurred in other places.

There are also other symptoms such as numbness of the mouth and tongue, itching of the throat and burning sensation. In more serious cases, whole body convulsions, coma, and even death may occur!

These sick people, without exception, all ate potatoes.

The local doctor also concluded that the poisoning of these victims was caused by potatoes.

For a time, the victims of the disaster in Huguang and Guangdong were all talking about potatoes.

It is different from the previous disaster relief situation in Sanjin Land.

It has been a continuous rainy season recently.

Potatoes from Yangzhou and Jiangnan are sent to Huguang and Huguang. The long distance and rainy weather accelerate the spoilage of potatoes.

Originally, the most secure storage environment for potatoes was in a cellar.

But the yamen in Huguang and Guangzhou were completely unprepared. The usual grains were piled directly in the granaries and not so many cellars were dug.

You must know that Huguang has always been a place where rice is harvested. No matter how good the potatoes are, it is impossible for people all over the country to eat them for three meals a day. There must be somewhere to grow rice and wheat.

Therefore, potatoes have not been promoted in Huguang and Hunan in recent years.

They were completely unprepared and had absolutely no experience in storing potatoes.

They also did not expect that such a huge flood would break out this year, causing all the rice fields to be submerged by floods, and countless victims to lose their homes and require relief from the court.

Although before the potatoes were delivered to the imperial court, officials had already informed them to dig cellars.

But in this emergency, manpower is scarce, and there is no one free at all.

Manpower is needed everywhere, who has time to dig cellars?

In the view of officials from Huguang and Huguang, there is no need to build cellars to store grains. Isn't it better to use the remaining manpower to do other disaster relief tasks?

Although some cellars were still dug, after all, the court required it.

But the overall quantity is completely insufficient.

The potatoes with problems were those that were not stored in the cellar.

At the beginning, the potatoes did not sprout, and naturally there were no cases. At that time, these potatoes were exposed to the air for such a long time and encountered rain on the way. In addition, there were also problems with the storage location itself. Although Huguang and Hunan were The heavy rain finally stopped, but it still rained from time to time and the air was humid.

It was under these conditions that the potatoes finally sprouted.

Even in these years, the imperial court used the Ming Dynasty Daily to popularize science among the people across the country, saying that potatoes are poisonous and should not be eaten after they sprout.

But when it comes to disaster relief, people cook a big pot of rice.

It’s easy to overlook these details when working with ingredients in large batches. (End of chapter)