As soon as Bi Ziyan's question came out, Zhang Pu felt that everyone was looking at him!
Zhang Qingtian said in his heart: What do they mean? Is it because my family was poor when I was young that I should know how to beg for food? It's really ridiculous. Although I am from a poor family, I have never asked for food... Before I was in high school, the wealthy businessmen and gentry in Suzhou took the initiative to send money and gifts!
It is no secret that Zhang Pu's family is poor in the officialdom, but he is also a young talented man, and he is also famous in Suzhou Prefecture. He is recognized as "a must-win guest in Suzhou". Of course, there will be many wealthy businessmen and gentry rushing to provide funding. Zhang Pu can even be picky and picky. He still thinks the money sent by profiteers with a bad reputation is dirty.
Therefore, although Zhang Pu was "poor" when he was young, he still had enough food and clothing and could study with peace of mind.
His "poor days", for the real poor, are a good life that is unimaginable, even the big landowners in northern Shaanxi cannot compare...
"Futai, why do you ask this?" Yang Tingshu, Zhang Pu's fellow countryman from Changzhou, Suzhou, took over the question and asked in return.
Yang Tingshu is now the county magistrate of Huan County in Qingyang Prefecture. Huan County has also been suffering from drought in recent years, and some people are still singing "To Chongzhen". And of course he wouldn't beg for food... His grandfather Yang Cheng had been the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, and his ancestors had been officials for generations. If you look up, you can always find the Huayin Yang family of four generations and three nobles. How could someone from his family know about begging?
Bi Ziyan smiled bitterly and said: "The person who summoned you to Xi'an this time is actually Lord Long Live... Lord Long Live knows the suffering of Shaanxi, so he asked people to compose songs to encourage the hungry people in Shaanxi to gather in Xi'an. The next step is to Take them out to chase food! Do you know what chasing food means?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Yang Tingshu and said, "Back then, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty had the nickname of Emperor Chasing Food! Wei Dou, you should be familiar with the deeds of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, right?"
It turns out that among the elders of Privy Councilor Yang Ting, there are still people who want to eat!
"Futai, the emperor really wants to take the hungry people of Shaanxi to hunt for food?" Yang Tingshu frowned, "But Henan and Shanxi are also short of food!"
"That's right! Henan is also suffering from drought this year. Shanxi is better, but Shanxi doesn't produce much food."
"If you want to eat, I'm afraid you have to go to Shandong and Beizhili..."
"Is it too far to go there?"
Bi Ziyan listened to a group of county magistrates with Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Huguang, and Sichuan accents talking about going to Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, and Beizhili to beg for food. He just felt funny in his heart - they were all Jinshi, and they didn't have this. Come to think of it, this year’s Jinshi class is not very smart!
If the little emperor wants to go to Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, and Beizhili to beg for food, will he use you as county magistrates?
Now the parents and officials of the severely affected prefectures and counties in Shaanxi are all from Huguang, Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Sichuan... Doesn't this mean that they are required to lead the way to their respective hometowns to beg for food?
You intellectuals, leaders of one party...will soon become the sinners causing harm to your hometown! Others are returning to their hometowns in fine clothes, but it would be better for you to take people back to your hometowns to beg for food...
Of course, Bi Ziyan would not casually tell others what he had guessed about Zhu Youjian's thoughts. He just smiled and said: "Now a large number of refugees from various states and counties have gathered in Xi'an, and they are in urgent need of care. I have arranged them according to their place of origin. They were placed in dozens of camps respectively. But these victims still need to be looked after by parents and officials... You are all the parents of the people in various states and counties in Shaanxi. Now that the people have fled to Xi'an, you should not follow them. Take care of it?"
What? Looking after a bunch of beggars?
Everyone studied hard and finally got a Jinshi, but now they have become the head beggar?
"Futai, we are local officials, we are in charge of a county!"
"Yes, I can't leave... How complicated are the affairs of a county? We have to deal with them one by one, and we have nothing to do!"
"Yes, yes... I really can't leave!"
The parents of a bunch of people are not stupid, how can they be willing to fall into this trap? Isn't it good for a good official to take care of these beggars?
Bi Ziyan smiled and said: "Not to mention the ten houses and nine empty houses in the prefectures and counties you are in charge of, most of the people have left their homes, and there is nothing you can do if you stay in the place...Long live the Lord wants to You leave the trivial local affairs to the prefect's yamen, and then bring a group of capable and reliable officers to Xi'an to look after the hungry people coming out of various states and counties. Don't let them be deceived by the bandits again!
Long live the Lord also said that if there is another incident of thieves and bandits bewitching the hungry people, and the hungry people in any state or county are bewitched, ask the state and county officials about their crimes... They will cut off their registration to the people! "
It would be a disaster to reduce one's status to serve the people...all the years of hard study have been in vain, and he will no longer even be a scholar or a scholar in the future!
Bi Ziyan looked at a group of county officials who had stopped talking, and said with a smile: "The Emperor has arrived at Tongguan. You go back and prepare. Tomorrow you and I will go fifty miles out of the city to meet the Emperor's carriage!"
Emperor Zhu acted vigorously and resolutely!
During the war, soldiers were very quick, and now when they go to beg for food, they are also very quick! I left Beijing in mid-August, and now it is only the fifth day of September, and I have already arrived at Tongguanwei.
And just when the Emperor of Heaven was about to return to Xi'an and lead the hungry people of Shaanxi Province southward to beg for food, something unexpected happened in the border towns in the northeast that he had just arranged.
Huang Taiji sent troops to attack... and this Huang Taiji actually did not follow Zhu Youjian's wishful thinking and left Yanshan three times, but went to western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning.
In western Liaoning, countless Jianzhou soldiers suddenly crossed the Xiaoling River on August 25 and attacked the three cities of Songshan Fort, Xingshan Fort and Tashan Fort on the south bank of the Xiaoling River. They rushed to the east of Bijia Mountain near Ningyuan City.
Although Zhu Youjian had long asked Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou to abandon Ningyuan and retreat to Shanhaiguan, these two people kept delaying. After Huang Taiji left Yanshan, the Ming Dynasty's situation in the northeast improved significantly. Zhu Youjian also had enough troops to deploy defenses in Daning and Yanshan. He no longer needed to mobilize forces from western Liaoning, so he acquiesced to Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou's "renewed" Deployment of defenses in the Western Liaoning Corridor (actually not dismantling the defenses).
Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou's defense was based on Xiaoling River as the boundary, with Songshan Fort, Xingshan Fort, Tashan Fort, Bijiashan and other three cities and one mountain as the frontier. They defended step by step and resisted step by step to defend Ningyuan Jian City. .
I don’t know whether Yuan Chonghuan deliberately lured the enemy deeper or was negligent. Anyway, as soon as the Hou Jin army came out, it was as powerful as breaking bamboo. In the blink of an eye, it hit the dangerous Bijia Mountain east of Ningyuan City!
On the Liaodong Peninsula, the Hou Jin Army's attacks were equally sharp. The Hou Jin soldiers in the brigade took advantage of Mao Wenlong's routine to send troops to harass Hou Jin's rear before the autumn harvest. The troops (numbering several thousand or even tens of thousands) suddenly advanced and surrounded Fuzhou City in one fell swoop. The forwards approached the Jinzhou Acropolis outside the Nanguan Great Wall.
Not only did the two Jin armies arrive suddenly, but their marching route was completely beyond Zhu Youjian's previous expectations. Although it cannot be said that the Ming army in western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning was caught off guard, it also made Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou and Mao Wenlong passive.
Moreover, the Ming Dynasty court in Beijing was also caught off guard - among the three tips left by Zhu Youjian, there was no mention of what Huang Taiji should do when he attacked Liaodong and Western Liaoning!
In the Yuxi Palace in the Xiyuan of the Imperial City of Beijing, a group of ministers started arguing in front of the empresses of the two palaces (Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang) who were listening behind the curtain and the nephew of the emperor who was supervising the country with a gloomy face and his cheeks bulging out with anger. .
"Huang Taiji is seeking death by sending troops to Ningyuan! It's time to mobilize a large army to fight with him... maybe he can be annihilated in one fell swoop!"
"Huang Taiji is cunning and insidious. He must be cheating. The army should not be sent out lightly. It should remain unchanged in the face of all changes!"
"The opportunity for a decisive battle in western Liaoning is rare. If we miss it, when will the battle between Pingliao and Liaoning end?"
"What if there's a scam?"
"Don't be afraid of deceit! The imperial court's army in front of the tent, the army in front of the palace, and the camel army in Xinzhou are all capable and brave soldiers. Why fear slaves and thieves?"
