I have a cornucopia

Chapter 86 The Call of the Wilderness

Texas.

"Move the capital?

This is nonsense. Which treacherous official is deceiving the Holy Spirit? "

"How can an emperor avoid thieves?"

……

There was indignation in the Cheng family living room.

These are all here to support Yang Feng.

However, a local elder who had just come for a visit told them by the way that he had just seen the imperial banknotes at the magistrate's place. A certain imperial official in the capital reported that there were rumors that your majesty wanted to move the capital, so he asked your majesty to make it clear to calm the people.

Of course, the news was deliberately spread quickly.

Because only Di Chao has this speed.

As for the Censor's report, the journalists waiting to copy the banknotes from the Sixth Section will quickly spread the content.

This news immediately caused the scholars who were still reciting poems and composing poems to explode.

Only Yang Feng was still drinking tea calmly.

This news was released deliberately, just to see the reaction of the officials and gentry. Chongzhen also knew that the matter was serious and he had to look at the situation, but his determination to leave should still be firm. After all, given the current situation in the capital, he really couldn't stay any longer. He was worried about everything he did. As soon as Yang Feng left, some fool wanted to suspend the distribution of money...

This is so fucking stupid.

But fortunately, neither Chongzhen nor the nobles in the imperial court or those who survived the disaster were so stupid.

The money was still divided.

Even though the hearts of the nobles were bleeding, the three million taels of silver were still divided.

three million.

They paid for it all.

And that’s not counting the 500,000 people who helped the victims in Shandong and the 200,000 people who helped the people in Zhili Province in the north.

It is normal for the latter to be less. After all, the places where the Qing army killed were all within the scope of this round of money distribution.

Just a dime of money was given to the poor.

Sin!

But Chongzhen also knew that if he dared to ignore Yang Feng's return, the poor people from all over the country who gathered in the capital would break into his palace like those who opened the palace door before. Pooja.

It is possible to defecate or defecate on him at will!

He could not and did not dare to stay in this kind of capital, not to mention that at this time, southern civil servants, especially Zhang Guowei, were also persuading him to move the capital. Even Lu Daqi, who had just been promoted, supported it. After all, Lu Daqi was frightened to the point of fear. Now, although Chongzhen seemed to attach great importance to the Northern ministers and even recalled Fan Fucui as his chief assistant, in fact he had completely despaired of the northern ministers, especially the ministers from Shandong. It was just to appease him. Precisely because he no longer regarded him as a loyal minister, he seemed to reuse him, but in fact, he secretly discussed everything with Zhang Guowei. But moving the capital cannot be done secretly. Ships must be prepared, escorts must be prepared, and there must be countless eunuchs and maids in the palace to follow. If you want to move, it will not be tens of thousands, but probably hundreds of thousands. The preparation work alone requires months.

So let’s test it out first!

But Wu Di, a former bachelor who had just taken up his official post, had already been ordered to go to Nanjing.

He was from Xinghua. Zhou Yanru was dismissed from his post, but he received special treatment and was allowed to invite himself to serve.

"Feng Sheng, tell me, which traitor is deceiving Your Majesty?"

Cheng Xinzhen said excitedly.

Then a group of Confucian scholars all looked at their Knight Yang.

Although there have been a lot of rumors about Knight Yang recently, including massacring nobles, humiliating concubines, and even beating the emperor three times in the capital, this is none of their business and will be automatically filtered into rumors. Beating the emperor three times What about boxing? He can be exempted from taxes every year and receive a salary of 500,000 yuan every year. Even if he punches the emperor three times every year, everyone will automatically filter it out as a rumor.

But moving the capital...

This is really intolerable!

This is Texas.

Prosperity depends on canals!

The canal immediately declined when the emperor moved the capital. After all, there was no grain of four million a year, there were no batches of officials, and there was no material for the palace to build ships to go north...

All the prosperous commercial cities along the canal collapsed.

Yang Feng looked at these faces with a smile.

"Everyone, even if your Majesty moves the capital, doesn't he still have to be able to go to Nandu? In today's Ming Dynasty, how can your Majesty take tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of old, weak, women and children to Nandu for thousands of miles? Isn't it afraid that something will happen if you are not careful? Thousands of people riding thousands of horses to Beimang? You really don’t need to worry about this kind of thing. From Shandong to the south all the way to Huai’an, there are rogue bandits. Has the chaos in Yongcheng been put down? Two hundred miles away from the canal is the battlefield. Your Majesty, the king of thousands of horses, is it true? Dare you take such a risk?"

He said.

Everyone calmed down immediately.

It seems so!

How to proceed with this situation?

As for the Yongcheng Rebellion, it refers to the mutiny of Liu Chao and Liu Yue brothers.

These two were generals who were promoted by Wang Sanshan during the Pingshe'an Rebellion in Guizhou, but they didn't know whether they couldn't speak or because they ran out of money to send eunuchs. Anyway, they originally came to the capital to be rewarded for their meritorious service, but they were actually scolded and kicked home. . Before Li Zicheng went south, the court searched for useful people everywhere, and re-enabled the recruitment of troops in Yongcheng with the title of general soldier. However, there were conflicts with several local eunuchs. They probably had no money and wanted some, which angered the generation hairpins. Sensitive nerves. Yongcheng is a science and technology center, and there are many families like this. They are all very aloof. If you, a simpleton, dare to ask us for money, who do you think you are? Anyway, when he started making trouble, he killed a rural eunuch and his whole family in a rage, and then joined the ranks of glorious rebels. Then he attacked each other with the local gentry in Yongcheng, where Ma Shiying is currently leading troops to besiege.

As for Ma Shiying's main force, he is Gao Jie and Jin Shenghuan.

In fact, there were fights everywhere at this time, and there were all kinds of melees.

Rogue bandits.

bandit.

mutiny.

……

After the collapse of order, everything that should appear appeared.

Under such circumstances, Chongzhen's move south was indeed tantamount to looking for excitement.

but……

"What if Your Majesty takes the sea route?"

A Juren said.

"Sea route? The sea route also has to go through Dengzhou. You can just go and remonstrate when the time comes. I don't believe that tens of thousands of loyal ministers and righteous men in Shandong can go to Dengzhou to remonstrate together, and your majesty can still ignore it."

Yang Feng said.

Got it, we can stop it!

Whether he takes the canal or the sea route, doesn't he have to go through Shandong? Unless he bypasses Shandong, he can only go by land, which would be even more exciting. Would he rather enjoy the bones exposed in the wild in Kaifeng, or the corpses lying thousands of miles away in Xianghan? So moving the capital does indeed mean that in the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, apart from taking a boat to the sea, no matter where you go, it is a thrilling adventure. But if you take the sea route and stop at Dengzhou, how can the Wancheng Supreme Being be able to wade through the evil waves? We are loyal and consider the safety of His Majesty the Emperor.

Now everyone was relieved.

Since this is possible, then there is no need to care too much about this matter.

Want to run?

Did you run away?

At this time an old servant walked in.

"Yang Maocai, a letter came from the Confucian Temple saying it was for you."

He held the letter and bowed.

Yang Feng took the letter.

At this time, the Confucian temples in various places were already regarded as the strongholds of the Knights of Confucius and Mencius, and they were even specially improved. Meetings, news transmission, and ordnance warehouses were all in the Confucian temple, including the maintenance of special messengers, similar to the postal service. That is to say, all the letters between scholars in various places were forwarded from one Confucian temple to another. After arriving at the Confucian temple, the academic affairs were handed over to the students or officers of the official school to deliver them to the scholars. This set of reforms was widely praised. After all, it made the transmission of messages between scholars more convenient and more institutionalized. Therefore, the letter to Yang Feng could be sent to the Confucian Temple. Of course, he would send it directly to him in Dezhou.

This was from Su Dunsheng, telling him that he had reached an agreement with Yuan Shizhong on the recruitment and surrender.

Of course, in the name of Duke Yansheng.

How could Su Dunsheng have such power? Besides, it was impossible for others to believe him. However, Duke Yan Sheng was different. He was a hereditary duke after a saint. His credibility in coming forward to recruit surrender was very high. Therefore, Duke Yan Sheng wrote the letter. Give it to Yuan Shizhong and ask him to lead his men to Yanzhou.

In order to show his sincerity, Yan Shenggong also sent one of his nephews there.

Yuan Shizhong had been wandering around Guide, but he didn't know where he belonged in Bozhou. He defected from Li Zicheng.

Want to surrender to the court.

But this requires connections. After all, if you rashly find a local official, not to mention the latter's disbelief, Yuan Shizhong himself is worried about being tricked and killed!

Self-reliance.

He is not strong enough.

He has tens of thousands of people under his command, and folk rumors say there are even two to three hundred thousand.

but……

In the late Ming Dynasty, he was the kind of person who was destined not to achieve great things, or to put it simply, he had a good heart. He originally led the hungry people to grab food during the famine in Kaizhou, so his subordinates were more like a group of refugees begging for food than rogues. . Most of his men were old, weak, women and children, but he couldn't feed them, and he couldn't bear to drive them away, so he just took them step by step. Anyway, at this time, there was famine everywhere in the east and south of Henan. He didn't care about these people, and so did the latter. He was going to starve to death. In the end, he took these people and wandered around Henan like this.

Also following various celebrities, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai...

He followed them all.

Li Zicheng won over him and married his daughter, whether it was his biological daughter or an adopted daughter.

But he kidnapped his daughter and ran away with him.

This is too much.

"Feng Sheng, these bandits don't care what he does, they can't even enter Shandong."

Cheng Xinzhen said.

"it works."

Yang Feng said simply.

Indeed, he works.

First, it would be no problem for them to gather a few thousand soldiers to fight. Second, he needs workers, to be precise, fishery processing workers, because he will have to engage in trawling next. Then the handling and processing of marine fish, especially canning, all require a large number of workers, and refugees like this are the most suitable.

"No, I have to leave quickly, Li Zicheng won't let him go."

He said suddenly.

Yuan Shizhong was killed in April, and it was already April.

He immediately said goodbye and went straight to the state government office, forcing the magistrate to give him an urgent document. He took this thing and ran to the inn. Then he kept changing horses at the inn and went straight to Anton Wei at the fastest speed. But he happened to meet Su Dunsheng's letter to the Confucian Temple in Teng County. Yuan Shizhong had already left Qixian County and Li Guo was chasing him. Su Dunsheng had gathered all the troops and came, so Yang Feng didn't need to wait for him and turned directly to Xia. town, and soon passed Weishan Lake.

then……

"This Tamar is full of bandits!"

he exclaimed.

In front of him, more than a dozen people who were obviously rogues were swarming towards him.

"Catch him. He who wears a kerchief is a fat sheep!"

The leader roared excitedly.

Yang Feng stood on the already somewhat green field and looked at him, and even opened the folding fan in a strange way.

The guy thought he was frightened, so he rushed towards him with his men. At the same time, he stretched out his hand on the horse's back, preparing to catch him directly. However, at the moment of meeting, Yang Feng suddenly jumped up, and at the same time, his free arm Drawing horizontally in mid-air. He slapped his arm directly on the guy's chest, and as the horse passed below, the guy flew backwards on the horse, instantly hit his companion behind him and fell to the ground.

Then he twitched.

Then his head tilted.

Yang Feng landed immediately, and like a hero in an old Hong Kong movie, he calmly shook his folding fan.

The remaining bandits were all stunned.

"Go on, I'm okay!"

Yang Feng said.

"Damn it, I don't believe this monster can stop bullets!"

One of the bandits said fiercely.

Then he held the three-eyed gun, pointed it at Yang Feng and started to blow the match rope, but the next moment Yang Feng arrived in front of his horse, and before he could react, he grabbed the three-eyed gun and carried the thing. Smash him over, knock him off his horse, and then continue to hit him...

"You are a demon, right? You are blind, right? I am so obviously a scholar, but you actually say that I am a demon, you are the demon, and your whole family is a demon."

Yang Feng said while smashing wildly.

The unlucky bandit screamed as blood and flesh splattered, but he soon stopped screaming.

"Ah, comfortable!"

Yang Feng threw away the three-eyed gun and said with a very satisfied expression.

After saying that, he looked at the bandit, then yelled, lifted him up from the ground, and suddenly kicked him out. The bandits were left trembling and watching until he stood up elegantly again. There he began to scan them, and the latter got frightened and dismounted as quickly as possible and fell to their knees.

"Is this Mr. Yang of Anton Wei?"

One of them said tremblingly.

"Hey, you still know me!"

Yang Feng said.

"Reply to Mr. Yang, who in Shandong doesn't know how famous he is?"

The bandit hurriedly said with a smile.

"How dare you become a thief if you know that I will pay Tamar back?"

Yang Feng kicked him and cursed.

The latter quickly turned over and knelt down again.

"Mr. Yang, the young ones have no other way to survive. As you can see, there is not even a piece of farmland around here. It has been dry since the year before last. The court has not allowed the opening of the gates to release water for the canal. There is no one left in the drought for a long time. There are some landowners who have water to irrigate the land and harvest grain. How can the young ones grow food? If they don’t grab it, they will all starve to death. The whole family of the young ones will starve to death. I am the only one left. All depends on following King Chen. Only by robbing can you survive.”

He said.

"Ha, you are on the same level as Emperor Taizu Gao.

Who is your King Chen? "

Yang Feng said.

"Back to Mr. Yang, it's King Cheng. What this guy said is not clear. Our King Cheng has occupied the area around Feng County. King Cheng also contacted King Yuan and said that they would fight to the capital together to seize the throne. From now on, the emperor will take turns."

Another quickly explained.

"King Yuan is Yuan Shizhong, right? Do you still have those kings?"

Yang Feng said.

"There is also King Wang and King Zhang. We are all in this area, and we often work together to rob Xuzhou."

Another bandit quickly added.

"So there are actually four groups of rebels in this small county? Sure enough, they are all young people with great ideals, and they went to the capital to seize the throne? Come on, lead the way, I'll meet you guys Kings."

Yang Feng couldn't help but exclaimed.

(End of this chapter)