The mountain's cry of long live rose to the sky!
At this moment, when Zhu Youjian flew into the capital among more than two thousand cavalry in front of the tent, everyone outside Desheng Gate shouted long live the mountain. Not only were the 2,000 Tiqi led by Jinyiwei Wubiao shouting, but the relatives in Beijing who were preparing to leave Beijing to go south to make a fortune also shouted Long Live. Even the people in the capital who were far away from the evil Jinyiwei and Tiqi, They all cheered together.
It turns out that everyone knows the destiny of China - the destiny of China has always been to have strong soldiers and horses!
What Zhu Youjian now shows to the "examiners" here in Beijing are his strongest cavalry troops and infantry troops in front of the tent. More than 10,000 elite horse infantrymen are neat and mighty, well-equipped and well-trained. Anyone with a little bit of knowledge will know that these elite soldiers are extraordinary. After Yongle's grandfather Long Yu Bintian, such elite soldiers were used in the Ming Dynasty. Here, I'm afraid it's extremely rare. Unexpectedly, I could see it outside Beijing today, and the owner of this powerful army was actually the real Ming Emperor.
It seems that destiny is still on Emperor Zhu's side!
So now the city of Beijing still supports Emperor Chongzhen!
Zhu Youjian, who entered Deshengmen Urn City on flying horse amid cheers, did not show much success... because he knew that the people in Beijing were very poor in judging destiny! In their previous life, they first welcomed Li Zicheng and then Dorgon, but in the end they were kicked out of Beijing by Dorgon and left to fend for themselves without knowing where to go!
Therefore, he is not very proud of winning the support of this group of people - it's just that he answered the first question correctly in this "Emperor's Supplementary Examination"... There are still many difficult problems to come!
Although Huang Taiji in the east lost two battles, his strength is still there, his energy is not injured, and he can fight again!
Although the two big bandits in the west, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, are gone, the bandits like Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai have not fallen into officialdom and are still fighting against the court!
The most terrifying enemies of the Ming Dynasty were not people like Huang Taiji, Gao Yingxiang, and Luo Rucai, but natural disasters! This is the most difficult question!
If there had been no natural disasters, Zhu Youjian would not have ended up abandoning Beijing and fleeing in his previous life... And most of the reason for Nizi's comeback was to throw out the northern half of the country that had been ravaged by natural disasters, and then he could Focusing on cleaning up half of the country in the south, we found a turning point.
And Zhu Youjian can't throw the northern half out now... He has to find a way to survive for the tens of millions of Ming people living in the northern half!
We have found a way for them to survive, and they must pass the make-up exam...
When Zhu Youjian flew through the Deshengmen Urn City, turned onto the Xiejie inside Deshengmen, and ran towards the Drum Tower, he found that there were already huge crowds of people on both sides of the Xiejie.
The Beijing people watching the excitement on the side streets did not see the shocking scene outside the city, so they were not particularly aware of the power of this little emperor. Just seeing the emperor's banner, coupled with the shouts of the imperial guards guarding both sides of the street and the soldiers of the Dianqian Army (Eight Prefecture Training Army) who entered the city in advance, they were all "half short", and they were still shouting as if to deal with the matter. "Long live, long live."
When Zhu Youjian saw this huge crowd of people, he couldn't help but frowned... There is still a large population in Beijing! The population in Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places outside Beijing is even greater.
In the blink of an eye, it has been the fourth year of Chongzhen. Not many years have passed since the severe drought that began in the tenth year of Chongzhen... Moreover, God did not reward food in the years before the tenth year of Chongzhen. There were almost no droughts in the north and floods in the south. There were also plagues and locust plagues one after another.
And starting from the third year of Chongzhen, the drought spread from Shaanxi to Henan. In the third, fourth, and fifth years of Chongzhen, there were severe droughts for three consecutive years. The drought reached the point where there was no grass in the wild. In many places, ten houses were empty. .....They all went to flee! In the fifth year of Chongzhen, a famine broke out in Henan and Shaanxi that affected the entire province!
In the sixth year of Chongzhen, there was another flood in these two provinces... In the seventh year of Chongzhen, it seemed that some harvests could be achieved. Unfortunately, autumn locusts appeared again after autumn, gnawing up all the autumn grain in Shaanxi, and Shaanxi continued to be famine!
The situation was slightly better in eight or nine years, but ten years later it would be a severe drought like hell on earth... During the worst years of the drought, even the water town of Zeguo in the south of the Yangtze River suffered from drought year after year!
With the blessing of this apocalyptic natural disaster, the power of these two man-made disasters, the Western Thieves and the Eastern Pirates, has doubled! And the power of the Ming Dynasty to deal with them also declined rapidly... With one ebb and flow, the Jiashen Change came naturally.
Thinking of these problems, Zhu Youjian's good mood suddenly disappeared. He just lowered his head and rode forward, heading towards the destination of his trip, the Xiyuan of the Ming Dynasty Imperial City.
That's right, Zhu Youjian has no intention of returning to the Forbidden City - although he has already cleaned up the palace, the Marquis Gate is already as deep as the sea, let alone the Palace Gate? Moreover, there were some places in the palace that he could not clean. For example, under the wings of the emperor's sister-in-law, Queen Yi'an, it was difficult for Zhu Youjian to clean.
So Zhu Youjian simply started anew and no longer lived in the Forbidden City. Instead, he chose the Xiyuan of the Imperial Palace where Emperor Jiajing lived as his residence in Beijing.
As early as the second year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian sent his most trusted Cao Huachun as the envoy of Xiyuan Palace, responsible for repairing the houses and palaces in Xiyuan. By the autumn of the third year of Chongzhen, all the repair projects had been completed. Later, Zhu Youjian also selected three to four hundred young eunuchs from the former Nanhai Zijing Army eunuchs and sent them to Cao Huachun to be the brand eunuchs of Xiyuan.
In addition, he also obtained a group of widows from five Mongolian noble concubines whose husbands were beaten to death by Huang Taiji, totaling four to five hundred people. Zhu Youjian sent them to Xiyuan as palace maids. These Mongolian women are strong, simple, and good at fighting. Let them work in Xiyuan, and sometimes they can serve as female bodyguards...
In early December of the third year of Chongzhen, Widow Xu moved into Xiyuan with the account books of "Nanhuangzhuang" (in charge of the properties of Prince Fu's Palace and Prince Qin's Palace), and she also took over the errand of Xiyuan's female envoy.
Under the care of her and Cao Huachun, Imperial City Xiyuan has been managed into a comfortable home where Zhu Youjian can live with peace of mind.
In this comfortable place, Zhu Youjian could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and then calm down and think about how he could lead the Ming Dynasty to survive a series of disasters from the 10th to the 17th years of Chongzhen.
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Just as Zhu Youjian was galloping towards his comfort zone, under the Drum Tower at the end of Xiejie, he had returned to Beijing. Niu Jinxing, who was preparing to take the imperial examination, and his friend Li Xin from the same hometown were watching Hao Hao. The infantry marched into the city tent in great force!
Fire gun soldiers, spear soldiers, and sword soldiers were all lined up in formations. They were all well-organized and marched forward singing loudly. Moreover, everyone wore helmets and armor. You could tell at a glance that they were elite troops who were not easy to mess with. There were also 12 legendary "black cannons" pulled by horses, which also entered the city together with the more than 10,000 people in front of the tent, passing under the noses of the people gathered on both sides of Xiejie and Drum Tower Street.
Seeing this group of elite soldiers, Niu Jinxing and Li Xin both took a deep breath, and then looked at each other. In their eyes, they both had eyes that encouraged each other - they had to take the test carefully. ah!
After passing the Jinshi examination, you will become a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty... Look at the elite soldiers of the little emperor! This Ming Dynasty seems to be able to live past its 300th birthday safely!
What do the current natural and man-made disasters mean to these elite soldiers?
The emperor...after all, it is only for those who have strong soldiers and horses!
The question now is just whether the questions in this imperial examination are difficult? Can I pass the exam?
At the same time, Fan Wencai and Zhang Xiaoqi were already on their way to Juyongguan... They discovered new elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty again!
Although this little emperor likes to use crafty tricks, his ability to train troops is unspeakable... It seems that it will be difficult for the Kingdom of Jin to break into the Great Wall again! I'm afraid the Great Khan can only be a Khan outside the Pass and in the North, and he has to guard against the young emperor's elite soldiers coming out from within the Pass... The Great Jin Kingdom is now facing a life-and-death problem!
