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

"So, these few days are the most dangerous."

Mu Yongyuan, who had been standing by and had not spoken, tensed up when he heard this: "What should we do? Should we avoid it first?"

Xiong Wencan said, "You can't avoid it! If you avoid it, it means you admit defeat to them."

"And once we leave Zhangzhou, they can take this opportunity to completely destroy all the evidence!"

"So, not only can we not leave, we have to closely monitor their every move!"

Li Chaoqin pondered his words for a while, then looked at Mu Yongyuan and said.

"Go, do as Lord Xiong said, and keep a close eye on the Wen and Kong families!"

"If there is any sign of trouble, report it immediately!"

"Yes!"

Upon hearing this, Mu Yongyuan hurried down to arrange manpower.

The sun moved slowly in the sky, and Li Chaoqin felt very uneasy in the room.

He really doesn't like this situation!

It was not until the evening that the sound of horse hooves was heard outside, and then a guard came to report that Shi Bangyao had arrived.

Li Chaoqin hurriedly said: "Please come in!"

Soon, Shi Bangyao came into the hall with two men, walking like a dragon or a tiger.

His left shoulder was injured, and his forehead was wrapped in a three-inch wide cotton cloth, and his face looked a little sallow.

The two men were also in a dishevel, with many holes in their clothes from being cut by swords and knives, and mud still stained the soles of their shoes.

As soon as Xiong Wencan saw him, he immediately stood up and asked.

"Master Shi, have you caught the thief who set the fire?"

Qi Bangyao looked regretful and shook his head at the three of them.

"Those people took a shortcut into the dense forest. The horses were not able to move easily, so I abandoned the horses and led my men to chase them, but we were ambushed in the dense forest."

"If I hadn't withdrawn in time when I saw the situation was not good, I would have lost my life!"

"I went to check again later and found that they had disappeared. They must have fled to the sea."

After saying this, he stared at Li Chaoqin with resentment.

"Captain Li!"

"What do you have to say?"

Li Chaoqin:.............

Ok!

It’s my own fault again!

How the hell did I know that the noble families here would be so crazy!

How dare you rebel just for a little food?

Look at those nobles and literati in the capital?

When their house was raided, they didn't even resist...

Wrong!

It's so frustrating!

Chapter 101: The waist is not big, so I need a grill

November 25, the seventh year of the Tianqi reign.

Beijing, Medical School.

Ten days after Zhu Youxiao's birthday, Wang Gongchang was divided into two parts, with the military school on the left and the medical school on the right.

In the past few days, both the ideological and political teaching at the military academy and the battlefield nursing teaching at the medical school have begun formal teaching.

The classroom for teaching medical skills was converted from an original large room. There was no fire dragon under the house, and in order to keep out the cold, the doors and windows could only be covered with thick quilts.

This alone was not enough to keep warm, so Zhu Youxiao brought craftsmen from the Ministry of Works to make a bunch of coal stoves.

This thing actually already existed in the Ming Dynasty, but its smoke exhaust effect was much worse. It was okay for burning charcoal alone, but if you burn coal, you might get carbon monoxide poisoning if you are not careful.

There are eight coal stoves, one under each window on both sides. Long iron pipes are connected to the coal stoves to discharge the exhaust gas produced by combustion out of the house.

In this way, the temperature in the room was finally warm enough for people to reach out and write.

A three-month-old piglet was pressed on a wooden platform in the middle of the room by four eunuchs. Zhang Jingyue stood beside them with a special sharp blade in his hand. A cold light flashed, and the piglet immediately began to howl miserably.

The ammunition bag containing the bullets was cut, but no blood seeped out.

This knife avoided all the capillaries, which was a very skillful move.

"Liu Yue, come here!"

He threw the knife into the porcelain jar of liquor beside him, turned to look at the female doctors surrounding him, and asked one of them to name the names.

"is teacher!"

Liu Yue took two steps forward, stretched out her hand nervously, grabbed the piglet's bullet bag, squeezed it hard, and two round outer waists came out from it.

She pinched the outer waist and pulled it slightly, and then the various tubes connecting the outer waist and the piglet's body were pulled out.

With one cut of the scissors, the outer waist was separated from the piglet's body. She skillfully tied a knot on the tube that she had pulled out of the piglet's bullet bag and then stuffed it back in.

The other two doctors nearby brought instruments. She picked up a bent sewing needle, threaded it with boiled cotton thread, and carefully sewed up the wound on the piglet's bullet bag.

One stitch, two stitches...

Zhu Youxiao stood by and watched, nodding with satisfaction.

It turns out that women are more talented when it comes to sewing and mending.

Zhang Jingyue stroked his beard and smiled, "Your Majesty, this strong liquor you had people distilled really has an excellent effect on external injuries."

"These days, of the hundreds of piglets that have been castrated, very few have died from wound deterioration."

Zhu Youxiao shrugged his shoulders and said, "We are just getting started. When summer comes and the weather gets hot, we can develop penicillin, and the chance of the wound getting worse will be reduced by several percent."

Zhang Jingyue's eyes widened when he heard this: "Penicillin? What is that?"

Zhu Youxiao said: "I only heard it from Emperor Hongwu, so I don't remember it in detail."

"It looks like the green hair that grows when steamed buns become moldy. It can be used to treat worsening wounds."

"And it can not only treat the aggravation of external injuries, but it also seems to be able to treat other diseases, such as tuberculosis, syphilis and so on."

"The green hair on the bun?"

Zhang Jingyue was stunned. This thing was so common!

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao smiled and picked up the two pork loins, then walked to the window beside him, where there was a barbecue grill!

Put the fish on skewers, apply oil, grill them over charcoal fire, sprinkle some spices on them, and the whole classroom will be filled with delicious aroma.

Zhang Jingyue and those female doctors were no longer surprised by such things.

Over the past few days, the number of castrated pig loins that entered his stomach must have been at least eighty!

Just after taking two bites of the roasted kidney, Wei Zhongxian came rushing over.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the south!"

Zhu Youxiao was shocked: "Zheng Zhilong?"

"Yes, not all."

Wei Zhongxian glanced at the female doctors in the classroom and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao took the skewer and walked outside.

After leaving the classroom and walking a distance, he pushed open the door of a dormitory and walked in.

This is where the doctors live, but they are all in class right now, so there is no one inside. It is a good place to talk about private matters.

After Wei Zhongxian followed in, he quickly took out a memorial from his pocket and handed it over.

"Your Majesty, this is an urgent letter sent back from the south, six hundred miles away."

Zhu Youxiao took it casually, but after just two glances, his brows furrowed.

Then he threw the letter to the ground.

"800,000 dan of disaster relief grain, but when it arrived in southern Fujian, only 100,000 dan were left?"

"What a courage!"

"Return to the palace, and tell the Minister of Revenue to come to the palace to see me!"

After saying this, he turned around and left angrily. Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian could only bend down, pick up the memorial and follow him.

After leaving Wanggongchang, he instructed the eunuch beside him to go to the six ministries to call for people.

Half an hour later, in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao looked at Guo Yunhou and was extremely angry.

"Tell me about it!"

"How did 700,000 dan of disaster relief grain disappear?"

Guo Yunhou was so frightened that he trembled and quickly bowed.

"Your Majesty, this matter was originally handled by the Left Assistant Minister Liu Yi, and I don't know the details."

"boom!"

Zhu Youxiao picked up a cup and threw it at him.

"You are the Minister of Revenue, how come you don't know much about disaster relief?"

"Where's Liu Yishou? Call him over here!"

Wei Zhongxian, who was standing next to him, stood up with a conflicted look on his face when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, Liu Yishou, the former Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was sent by you to Shaanxi to serve as a county magistrate."

Guo Yunhou added: "Your Majesty, Liu Yishou is now the magistrate of Shangzhou."

Shangzhou........

Upon hearing these two words, Zhu Youxiao's expression froze.

Shangzhou was conquered by Liu Zongmin not long ago. If nothing unexpected happens, Liu Yishou must be dead now.

But with his death, there is no one to be held accountable for the relief grain issue!

Guo Yunhou?

He is the Shangshu and it is impossible for him to handle everything personally. Even if he is to be blamed for this matter, it is at most a crime of negligence.

Now Zheng Zhilong has offered conditions: if he receives disaster relief, he will surrender.

Therefore, the most important thing is to raise food and appease the people in southern Fujian.

Zhu Youxiao waved to Guo Yunhou and sent him away.

Then he looked at Wei Zhongxian and asked, "How is the progress of the people I asked you to send to Guangxi to buy grain? Have you received any news?"

He had originally prepared this batch of grain for Shaanxi, but now he could only divert it and find a way later.

Wei Zhongxian bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Suning sent a messenger back half a month ago, saying that he had raised 1.3 million shi."

"It should be no problem to raise three million shi of grain by the end of the year at the latest."

Chapter 102: My mind is made up, so stop trying to persuade me

Guangxi has had plenty of rain this year, as can be seen from the memorial given by Wu Dao, the governor of Guangxi.

With enough rain, the rice can be harvested in abundance. This is also one of the few provinces in the entire Ming Dynasty that can have a good harvest this year.

A bumper rice harvest means that food prices will be cheaper. Currently in Guangxi, the purchase price of one stone of rice is only 700 wen.

When Marquis Suining, Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing, left Beijing, he took with him three million taels of silver. If all of it was exchanged for rice at this price, he could have bought back at least four million shi!