Chapter 2 The Shed of Goodness
"What month and year is it?" Su Chengyu asked Chanyidao.
"Hui Ye, it's July 28 of the first year of Longwu."
"When was the Longwu Dynasty first established?"
"The first day of the seventh month."
"Fortunately, Longwu has just ascended the throne." Su Chengyu nodded, there was still a year before the fall of the Longwu Dynasty, and there was still some time.
He asked Chanyi to fetch his coat and put it on, and despite her dissuasion, he walked back and forth in the room, fortunately, his body was still normal.
When he passed by the mirror in the room, he turned his head and saw a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, of medium stature and delicate appearance, who had not washed his hair and shaved for a few days, and the whole person looked quite decadent, it was himself.
I went, and it seems that I really crossed over. He scolded his crossing technique in his heart again - according to the history he remembered, at this moment, the north of the Yangtze River was basically occupied by the Manchus, and the surrender of the Ming army everywhere became the norm. The core of the army of the Longwu Dynasty was 10,000 people under Zheng Zhilong, a pirate leader, plus the soldiers of the former Fujian Guard and the temporarily recruited peasants.
However, even such a little military power is still in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, and Emperor Zhu Yujian has no military power in his hands! In addition, Longwu said that he was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but the only areas where the government decree was smooth were Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, of which Jiangxi was still a battlefield.
He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, and Ding Kui, the governor of Liangguang, respected Zhu Yujian as orthodox on the surface, but in fact they were quite selfish, and it was difficult for the imperial court to mobilize their troops.
Sichuan and southwest China were the territory of the rebellious peasant army, which fought against the Qing army and against the Ming dynasty.
Jiangxi was frequently in a state of urgency under the attack of the Qing army's Jin Shenghuan troops, and the wind and rain were shaky.
In the north of Zhejiang, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, established himself as a prisoner of the country, took over the battalion of Zhejiang, plus the original main army of Nanjing under Fang Guoan, and his combat strength was not weak. If it weren't for the threat of a full man, it would have been called in minutes.
With such a chaotic situation, where do we go from here?
A few days have passed, and Su Chengyu has gradually become familiar with the environment of the palace, but he still has no decision on how to deal with himself in the future.
In addition to seeing the Imperial Doctor and Princess Chen every day, he faces Chanyi and other little maids all day long, and there is no source of information if he wants to understand the world he is in now.
And Zhu Linmiao's memory is almost all sage books, this prince used to love to stay at home to read books, and his eyes on the environment and current affairs of Daming were simply black.
Since you can't get useful information in the palace, let's take a look outside.
Even though Chan obeyed the princess's orders and let the prince stay in bed to recuperate, she couldn't stand Su Chengyu and insisted on going out, so she had to tell the other maids and guards not to tell the princess. Since she has become Zhu Linmiao's personal maid, she is considered his person according to the usual rules, so she naturally has to listen to him more.
When Su Chengyu came out of the inner house, a young man in his twenties with a square face and a thin face hurriedly greeted him, it was Qiao Qian, the little guy next to Zhu Linmiao.
"Master, are you well?"
"Alright." According to Zhu Linmiao's memory, Su Chengyu knew that he was usually waited by Qiao Qian when he went out before, so he told him that he was going out for a walk.
When Su Chengyu didn't go far from the gate of the palace, he saw a large grass hut on the street, with hundreds of ragged people crowded in it, noisy, mixed with crying from time to time.
Seeing his puzzled expression, Qiao Qian hurriedly came over to explain, "Master, this is a good shed set up by the princess, firstly, to save some refugees who have suffered from military disasters, and secondly, to accumulate some good fortune for you." If you really have a good reward, you will be fine. ”
Su Chengyu looked at the refugees in the shed, all of them looked sad or numb, and there were many disabled people who were just waiting for death. There are even people who sell their sons and daughters on the spot or sell themselves into slavery, just to live a few more days. From time to time, refugees die, those with relatives can still hear a few cries, and those who have no relatives are carried outside the city and hastily buried.
Tianxing Mansion was the capital of the Longwu Dynasty, and even here there are so many refugees, you can imagine the situation in other places.
Su Chengyu asked Qiao Qiandao, "How can there be so many refugees?" ”
"Master, I heard that most of Chizhou and Huizhou have been captured by the Qing army, and hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured into Fujian." Qiao Qiandao, "The princess has been setting up a good shed for a long time, and most of the refugees from Tianxing Mansion gather here. ”
As he was talking, he saw another group of refugees in the distance, and the situation was even more miserable than before. These people seemed to be hungry, and when they saw the good shed, they rushed up with red eyes and competed for the good porridge.
The palace guards on the side hurriedly stepped forward to maintain order, while the guards who followed Su Chengyu immediately blocked Shizi in the middle, concentrating on vigilance.
The shed was already overcrowded, and the new refugees were desperately squeezing in, and the other refugees were willing to come out, and there was an instant chaos in the shed.
Seeing this scene, Su Chengyu hurriedly instructed Qiao Qian to scatter some money to the refugees and let them buy food by themselves.
It wasn't until Qiao Qian divided more than ten yuan out that the order of the good shed was restored.
When the new refugees had eaten a little, one of them began to cry.
"Huizhou was surrounded by Qing soldiers into a lonely city, and there were countless dead!"
"I originally lived outside the city of Huizhou, and the sound of artillery was constant every day, and Huizhou was afraid that it would not last long."
"Except for Huizhou, there are Qing troops everywhere......"
When Su Chengyu heard the news from Huizhou, his heart sank.
Huizhou is south of the Yangtze River and can be used as a bridgehead to attack Zhejiang and Jiangxi. If this place falls, the Yangtze River is equivalent to being crossed by half of the Qing soldiers, and if he remembers correctly, Huizhou will soon fall in history.
Su Chengyu suddenly thought of a question - now that his body is surnamed Zhu, Aixinjue Luo will never let him go. If according to the development of history, it will not be long before the entire land of China will be returned to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at that time, the world will probably have no place for itself!
You must know that Emperor Yongli after Longwu even ran all the way to Burma, and in the end he was not caught and slashed?
Judging from the situation at this time, it is difficult for me to survive!
Most of the refugees in the shantan earlier were from Huizhou, and when they heard the news, they immediately exploded.
"My father and brothers are in Huizhou, I'm afraid, I'm afraid of ......"
"No wonder my family hasn't heard from me so far, it turns out that Huizhou is a dead city!"
"My son......"
Almost instantly, the refugees were in tears.
The sadness caused many refugees from elsewhere to cry as well.
"My family of eight, on the day of the destruction of Nanjing, was full of people ...... under the knife"
"Jiannu killed dozens of relatives of my clan!"
Even some of the stewards and guards of the palace looked gloomy, and some even wiped their tears, apparently some relatives died in the war.
Su Chengyu couldn't help but tremble in his heart, remembering that he had seen someone count that the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty exceeded 150 million, and by the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were less than 100 million! The entry of full people has brought extremely terrible disasters to the land of China and to the Ming Dynasty!
Yangzhou 10th, Jiading Santu, Jiangyin, Guangzhou, Sichuan...... The Holocaust is in almost every city! In 20 years, more than 50 million Han Chinese have died tragically! Although many of them were committed by traitors who surrendered to the Manchus, none of this would have happened without the decisive factor of the Manchu entry into the customs.