Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

The people of our Ming Dynasty are suffering!

Liu Yue had already turned around and was secretly wiping away her tears.

"Excuse me! Get up! Everyone, get up!"

Zhu Youxiao hurried forward to help up the nearest victim.

But what he didn't expect was that when he reached out to help the victim, he failed to lift him up. His hand slipped and he staggered and fell backward.

Wei Zhongxian and You Tong were shocked and quickly held him up.

Wei Zhongxian could not help but shout at the victim: "How dare you!"

But Zhu Youxiao glared at him fiercely.

The victim was a little terrified: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Please let me kneel for a while longer."

"this......"

Zhu Youxiao was deeply moved, but how could he bear to let them continue kneeling.

He immediately pointed at the official who had just taken the lead in kneeling.

"Liu Zeshen! I order you to stand up!"

The person kneeling in the front was an acquaintance, Liu Zeshen, the governor of Shanxi.

How could he dare to disobey the order? He immediately thanked him and stood up.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, long live my emperor!"

The officials behind him quickly followed suit.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the victims again and said, "I order you all to get up. This is an imperial decree! Do you want to disobey the imperial order?"

The victims looked at each other, still reluctant.

They felt that apart from kneeling down to the emperor, they had nothing else to offer to express their gratitude.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Long live the Emperor!"

After being comforted by Wei Zhongxian, Liu Zeshen and others, everyone knelt down again and then slowly stood up.

Zhu Youxiao finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the victims standing up.

He pointed at Liu Zeshen and the officials there.

"You two stay here, and the others go back to their original positions and continue working!"

"Yes! I'll take my leave!"

Taiyuan is the seat of Shanxi, and the Shanxi Provincial Administration is located in the city. Liu Zeshen returned from Datong half a month ago.

Zhu Youxiao was not surprised to see him. He nodded slightly and said to Liu Zeshen.

"I just came back from Datong and I have to take charge of disaster relief. Thank you for your hard work."

"Your Majesty has spared no effort to provide disaster relief, traveling thousands of miles in person. How dare I complain about the hardship?"

Zhu Youxiao looked at the official next to him and knew his identity from his crimson official robe.

"Are you the prefect of Taiyuan?"

"Your Majesty, I am the prefect of Taiyuan, Sun Kangzhou."

Zhu Youxiao patted Sun Kangzhou on the shoulder and said, "Mr. Sun, you did a very wrong thing. Do your best. I will reward you later."

Sun Kangzhou was terrified: "I am ashamed. As a prefect, I failed to save the people from the disaster and instead made them homeless. I have failed in my duty, so how can I dare to talk about my achievements?"

Zhu Youxiao was deeply moved and said: "If all the officials of the Ming Dynasty were as dedicated to serving the people as you two, there would be no worries for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty!"

The two of them bowed their heads and clasped their hands together: "Your humble servants are ashamed."

Wei Zhongxian suddenly stepped forward and reported quietly.

"Your Majesty, Lord Guo is here."

Zhu Youxiao looked back and saw Guo Yunhou leading the Jinyiwei escorting food towards the city gate.

Chapter 397 It’s normal for women to have some emotions

The grain cart creaked as it came towards them, and Zhu Youxiao turned around to look at Sun Kangzhou.

"The food has arrived. You don't have to feel ashamed. Go and receive it!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Sun Kangzhou was overjoyed and ran towards the grain cart happily.

His excitement didn't seem fake.

Looking at his back, Zhu Youxiao nodded secretly.

The officials that the Ming Dynasty needs are those who can share the people’s urgent needs!

With sufficient money and food, the disaster relief work quickly got on track.

Three days later, Zhu Youxiao appeared in the South Gate resettlement area as usual.

It is past the beginning of autumn and the weather is noticeably cooler than before.

A breeze blew by, and Zhu Youxiao felt his throat itchy.

"Cough cough!"

"Your Majesty! You are coughing again."

Wei Zhongxian saw him coughing, and hurried forward, saying distressedly: "I'll ask the queen to come and take a look."

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly stopped him and said, "No need, I'm fine. Maybe it's because of the cold weather and I caught a cold. I'll ask someone to make some ginger soup later."

"There are many victims who are sick now, and we don't have enough doctors with us. Yuepin went to help and didn't disturb them."

When Wei Zhongxian wanted to persuade him again, Zhu Youxiao had already left.

"There seem to be a hundred new victims ahead. Let's go and take a look."

Zhu Youxiao and Sun Kangwang went to meet them.

He asked, "My fellow villagers, where did this come from?"

The victims included men and women, young and old, all of them were ragged and skinny.

By the time they got here, many people were exhausted, and a few were lying on the door panels, as if they had been carried all the way here.

These people were flattered to suddenly see several nobles in gorgeous clothes asking them questions.

Rich people have money and food. If you say nice things to them, they might reward them with some food.

So everyone came forward to answer very actively.

"To answer your question, the goose is called Gousheng, and it comes from Xugou."

"The goose is called Maodan, it's also Xu Gou's!"

"The geese are coming to Yuci!"

"The goose is from Shouyang!"

"Ejia Jiaocheng."

......

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he realized that most of them came from the east and south.

The young man named Gousheng took the initiative to ask: "Master, let me ask you something. It is said that there are officials in Taiyuan City who give porridge to us disaster victims. Is it true?"

Zhu Youxiao said kindly: "Really, the relief grain from the court has been allocated, and there will be porridge stalls ahead."

"Master, are you telling the truth?"

"Really, go ahead."

Hearing this, the victims cheered.

At this moment, it seemed as if all the fatigue disappeared, and he began to run forward with full strength.

"Great! There's something to eat!"

"Hahaha, Maodan, the goose said that the officials in Taiyuan would give us food! You still don't believe it, look, there will be food soon, hahaha!"

"Yeah! Brother Gousheng, it's a good thing I didn't listen to Fenqiu. He said that in Taigu and Qixian, not only grain will be distributed, but also land! This is too ridiculous. There is no such good thing in the world."

......

A group of people passed by Zhu Youxiao, and he heard the conversation between Gousheng and the other two, in which they were shouting the loudest.

He couldn't help but think that a few months ago, Li Zicheng had robbed the eight major Shanxi merchants, and several of the wealthy merchants seemed to be in Taigu and Qi County.

Along the way, he saw many tragic scenes of famine.

Thinking about it now, Li Zicheng and his men's method of killing the corrupt and treacherous and providing relief to the people was more effective and did save many victims in time.

After Li Zicheng took Luoyang, he is now continuing the cleansing in Henan. I don’t know how the other routes are doing.

After the victims left, Zhu Youxiao lowered his voice and asked Wei Zhongxian, "What is Zhang Xianzhong's current situation?"

Wei Zhongxian replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, except for Xi'an, most of the major counties in Shaanxi have been looted by Zhang Xianzhong."

"Oh! I didn't expect Zhang Xianzhong to act so quickly." Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised.

After thinking for a moment, he gave the order: "I will not stay in Taiyuan for too long. After a few days, it is time to meet the King of Qin!"

"Send your trusted aides to tell Zhang Xianzhong and his men to leave Shaanxi with their troops and continue heading west!"

"As you command! I will do it right away."

After Wei Zhongxian stepped down, Zhu Youxiao wanted to continue inspecting other resettlement areas.

But suddenly, he felt weak all over for no reason, his body swayed and he almost fell down. Fortunately, Youtong supported him in time.

"Your Majesty! What are you doing..." Yutong's face was full of worry.

"It's okay, it's okay. I'm just a little tired. I'll be fine after a rest. Ahem..."

After a while, Zhu Youxiao regained his spirit and continued his inspection. He did not return to the Prince of Jin's Palace until late in the evening.

When dinner was served, Zhu Youxiao felt a bitter taste in his tongue and had no appetite.

"Oyu Tong."

"The servant is here."

"Why hasn't Yuepin come back yet?"

"Your Majesty, the Queen has returned to Changchun Palace and should be having dinner in the East Warm Pavilion now."

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but frown when he heard this: "Go and ask what's going on. Why didn't he come to the main hall to eat with me, but hid away to eat by himself?"

Youtong left as ordered, but soon came back alone.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but frown when he saw this.

"Didn't you tell her to summon Concubine Yue? Why did you come back by yourself?"

Yutong groaned in his heart, but had to bite the bullet and return the favor.

"Your Majesty, I have conveyed your instructions to the Queen. But the Queen said that she has been in contact with patients in recent days, and she is inevitably contaminated with some dirty and gloomy air. I am afraid that it will harm your Majesty's health, so she cannot accompany you."

"this......"

Zhu Youxiao was speechless.

But think about it, Liu Yue followed me all the way south and saw many tragic scenes, so she has always been in a heavy mood. In addition, there have been many illnesses among the victims of the disaster recently. She must be feeling very uncomfortable facing patients every day.

As a woman, it is normal to have some emotions.

Now the most important thing is to provide disaster relief and save lives.

"That's all."

He waved his hand to let everyone go, and fell asleep soon after.

Two more days passed in the busy disaster relief inspection.

Early that morning, Zhu Youxiao woke up and asked.

"Where's Yuepin?"