The tragic situation of Beizhili is far beyond Su Tiancheng's imagination, the famine over the years, he is still clear, there are disasters every year, but the places where they appear are different, the size of the scope, this is also caused by the climate, coupled with the fact that science and technology are not very developed, the government is tired of responding to the war, and the bureaucrats are greedy for ink, and they don't care about the life and death of the people at all, resulting in a powerful combination of natural famine and man-made famine, so that the people have no way to live. Su Tiancheng is clear about the historical lessons and the gains and losses of fortune and misfortune, so the emphasis is on letting the people have food, clothing, if there is a famine year, the government must help the people, must stabilize the people, the country has hope, of course, he is more aware that relying on the agricultural economy, it is difficult to maintain a huge empire, this empire is also impossible to take off, this era, Europe has begun to enter the road of rapid development, but the strong East, but is beginning to decline.

Whether it is to be the emperor, the establishment of the Great Jin Dynasty, or to try his best to develop the economy, Su Tiancheng's most simple idea in his heart is to make this empire strong, stand proudly at the top of the world, let the Han people become the best people in the world, and make the Han culture the culture of the whole world, and become the goal pursued by the world.

For a long time in Shandong and the south and other places, Su Tiancheng rarely saw the situation that the common people were not clothed and fed, it is said that such a situation is impossible to happen in Shandong, even if it encounters a large-scale famine, it is completely able to deal with it, after occupying Zhejiang, Fujian and Nanzhili and other places, Zhu Xianxuan and Yang Sichang and others quickly came up with methods to stabilize the people in these places. In addition, the officials trained in Shandong, after taking office, tilted the focus of the government to the lives of the people, so they were able to stabilize the people in the shortest possible time.

In fact, the requirements of the common people are not high. If they can have food, even if they can't eat enough, they can get through, not to mention that the government cares about them, if they can't eat, the government will also provide relief, in this case, the people are absolutely stable and absolutely support the government.

It's a pity that the situation in North Zhili. Su Tiancheng was shocked.

After so many years, Su Tiancheng's most unfamiliar place is Beizhili.

When Chongzhen was in the ninth year, he once led the army to fight in Beizhili after the fierce battle of Jin Tatar, and later recruited soldiers in Gaoyang and other places where Sun Chengzong's hometown Baoding Mansion belonged. Beizhi is located in Gyeonggi, and the conditions here should be good.

It's a pity that Su Tiancheng's assumption is not true.

Beizhili has long been the hardest hit area.

Su Tiancheng led the Jiangning battalion. When they were invincible all the way, a large number of wealthy gentry who did not know the truth fled to Beizhili, they thought that the area around the capital was the safest, although some people later understood the truth and began to return to their hometowns, but the population of Beizhili increased sharply. The pressure suddenly increased, and during the war, no one would clean up the household registration, and no one cared about the lives of others. It doesn't care about the lives of ordinary people.

The economy of the north is not as good as that of the south, and the output of grain is much less, and a large number of people have poured into Beizhili, but they have not brought much food, which makes the food of Beizhili begin to be tight, but at this time, the battle of Cangzhou and the battle of Tianjin, the imperial court mobilized a large amount of grain, so that the grain of Beizhili began to be in short supply, but in the process of the battle, no one cares about such a thing, everyone is paying attention to the battle between the imperial court and the Jiangning battalion, who can get the final victory.

Because of the war, a large number of people did not dare to go out at will, lest they die in the war, they could only struggle hard at home, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and Dolgon's looting in the area of Beizhili robbed many peasants of a few grains, which aggravated the famine in Beizhili.

After the twentieth day of the lunar month, the situation began to deteriorate quietly, and more and more people lacked food.

After Jiang Ningying took Tianjin, he originally wanted to spend the New Year in Tianjin with peace of mind, but he didn't expect that a large number of hungry people flocked to Tianjin, because these ordinary people had heard that Su Tiancheng would help the people and would not let the people starve to death.

Su Tiancheng, who got the report, rushed to the south gate to check, the dense peasants outside the city, they couldn't see the edge at a glance, it was estimated that there were no less than 100,000 people, these people were honest, no one thought of rushing into the city, they were all standing outside, and their expressions were very numb.

Qu Qingze also just grasped the situation in this regard, and reported to Su Tiancheng on the side.

Su Tiancheng's scalp tingled when he heard this, he knew that he was in big trouble, I am afraid that the main problem that comes to mind now is not to continue to conquer the capital, but how to stabilize the people of Beizhili, this is what the Ming court should do, I don't know what those civil and military officials in the court of Ludao are doing, if you don't care about these people, Beizhili will start riots soon, and the people who have no food to eat will be tantamount to having no way to live, and nothing can be done.

There is no need to negotiate to help the people, a huge canopy has been set up, according to the requirements put forward by Su Tiancheng, the Spring Festival is approaching, and these people must be fed and well-fed, not only to supply rice and noodles, but also meat and vegetables, and oil and water must be seen in the vegetables.

In fact, Su Tiancheng knows very well that it is not enough to just eat rice and facial masks, without oil and water, the consumption will inevitably be huge, and the bodies of these hungry people are not easy to recover, but they eat more and more, and in the end they don't know how much food they have to eat, with oil, water and meat, the consumption of food will be much less.

Although the grain and grass carried by the Jiangning battalion were abundant, it was far from enough to relieve so many ordinary people at once, including the surrendered Ming army sergeants, and Su Tiancheng's holy decree quickly arrived in Nanjing and Shandong, and a large number of merchants began to transport grain and meat to Tianjin, which were bought by the imperial court with money, and the merchants were of course rushing to do such business.

Part of the surrendered Ming army was organized to appease the people, and Qu Qingze was specially responsible for supervising and preventing people from coming in chaos and causing unnecessary riots.

The hungry people didn't expect that after coming to Tianjin, they could really have food to eat, and meat to eat, and there were a large number of sergeants every day, who were responsible for building temporary shacks for them, after all, it was a cold winter, and if they didn't pay attention to it, they might freeze to death.

The hungry people quickly settled down, the registration process, smooth and surprising, there was no riot, some people knew Qu Qingze, knew that Qu Qingze was a big official, whenever they saw Qu Qingze appear outside the city, many people knelt down to kowtow to Qu Qingze, so that Qu Qingze was not good to go out to supervise.

There is also a problem, and a steady stream of hungry people are still coming.

It is not too difficult to completely solve the problem of the hungry people in Beizhili, but the problem is that the environment in Beizhili is special, and the Jiangning camp has not controlled all the places, and even if it is in the places that have been controlled, it is too late to start rectification immediately, which means that at least one month to two months, it is necessary to continuously relieve these people and let the people settle down.

The consumption of food and meat is very large, but these consumptions, Su Tiancheng is not very concerned, his eyes saw the capital and the places around the capital, Baoding Mansion and Zhending Mansion are like this, is the situation in Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion much better, it must be about the same, which means that there are many hungry people there, besides, the states and counties to which the Beizhili belong that have been controlled by the Great Jin Dynasty have not undergone corresponding changes, and these places are also in need of relief, I am afraid that it will take about two months, There can be no negligence in the slightest in matters of relief.

Su Tiancheng's plan was originally intended to start marching in the direction of the capital after the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, although the intelligence of the Liaodong side has not yet arrived, but the Liaodong border army has not moved, this is a good phenomenon, but such an opportunity needs to be grasped, but it is a pity that a large number of hungry people have hindered his footsteps, and it is impossible to leave these hungry people alone.

Su Tiancheng, who had no choice but to stay in Tianjin, and at the same time asked Zhu Xianxuan, Yang Sichang and others to quickly consider starting to send officials to enter the places that had been occupied, and the government must begin to perform its functions to stabilize the people, at least let the people spend this Spring Festival with peace of mind.

On the day of the New Year, the people outside the city ate hot meat, and the government also provided a small amount of liquor, and the officials said, this is the emperor's grace, and today is the New Year, I hope everyone can rest assured and have a peaceful New Year.

The emperor mentioned in the mouth of the officials, of course, is the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, Su Tiancheng, the common people do not know the way, the emperor in the mouth of the officials is in the city of Tianjin, not far from them.

Su Tiancheng, Hong Chengchou, Qu Qingze, Lu Xiangsheng and Fan Jingwen, who came from Nanjing, had this New Year's dinner together, Fan Jingwen made a special trip from Nanjing, to be responsible for the government affairs of all the places in Beizhili that had been occupied, he had already seen the people outside the city, and felt that the emotions of these people were very stable, and the thoughts revealed were still thinking about returning to their hometown to farm, it was not okay to go on like this, which also made Fan Jingwen feel that there was a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

During the meal, Su Tiancheng told everyone that the Central Plains must be unified in the fastest time, otherwise there will be many changes in the future, which requires all the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion to work together to win the capital of Daming in one fell swoop. (To be continued......)