Zheng Xunrui believes that history has changed, since August passed, he had such an idea, Houjin's Emperor Taiji did not die violently, Dolgon did not become the regent, the young Fulin did not become the Shunzhi Emperor, seeing that the Liukou was strong, ready to attack the capital, Yang Sichang led the imperial army defeated Li Zicheng who entered the North Zhili, let Li Zicheng evacuate in a hurry, the North Zhili basically stabilized, and the Cao Yun also began, continued to transport Cao grain to the north, Shanxi and Henan lacked grain, Li Zicheng sent Li Guo to buy grain, took out 50,000 taels of gold in one go, and bought 100,000 stone of grain, which can also temporarily solve the problem of food shortage in the two places.

If history has undergone major changes, what direction it will develop in the future is something that Zheng Xunrui cannot predict, and it seems that he will have to rely on his own judgment in the future.

However, the situation took a turn for the worse, and the information sent by the dark line in the capital showed that a large-scale famine had begun to appear in the capital, and with the occurrence of the famine, many people seemed to have begun to contract an indescribable strange disease, which was so severe that it could kill a healthy person within a few days.

Zheng Xunrui was puzzled, it was said that the grain had been transported to the capital, how could there be a large-scale famine.

The continuous flow of information from the dark line made Zheng Xunrui's face turn green.

The large-scale food famine in the capital was not due to a lack of food, but to man-made reasons, and its root cause was that the imperial court had lost its credibility, and scholars and scholars believed that the imperial court was difficult to maintain, so they began to accumulate wealth on a large scale, and food became their primary material for greed.

After the grain arrived in the capital, it did not all enter the warehouse, when it was at the wharf. Covert and overt transactions were going on, and some merchants, on behalf of the scholars, came forward to buy these grains on a large scale, and the price was higher than the price purchased by the imperial court, and the difference in price impressed the officials of the household department, so that it was necessary to ensure the food of the imperial court and the army. The rest of the grain was all traded.

These traded grains were either Tunjuqi, or sold at high prices in the capital and in various parts of Beizhili, and some people even smuggled the grain to Liaodong and traded privately with the Houjin Tartars.

The affairs of the household department are directly responsible for Yang Sichang, the second assistant of the cabinet, but Yang Sichang is critically ill and really controls the household department, and it is Qian Shisheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, who controls the household department behind the scenes.

When Qian Shisheng was the first assistant of the cabinet, he installed a large number of Donglin party members and cronies in the DPRK, and the officials and household departments under his direct control. has long been controlled by the Donglin Party and cronies, although Yang Sichang is directly in charge of the household department, many things are helpless, and he alone cannot play a big role.

Yang Sichang was originally prepared to severely punish the reselling of grain, but later found out that the eunuchs of the celebrant were also involved, so he had no way to control it, and later. Yang Sichang can only ensure that the food of the court and the army cannot be reduced, and the rest cannot be managed. I don't want to bother anymore.

In the final analysis, the grain transported from the south to the north was completely controlled by the magnates and used to earn silver, and these magnates did not have any confidence in the imperial court, so they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to earn more silver. Leave a way back for the family or themselves, in their opinion, no matter how the dynasty changes, as long as there is silver, everything is easy to say.

The dark line in the capital has a list of some of the people involved in grain reselling. The names of Jiading Bo Zhou Kui, Tian Hongyu, Gao Qiqian, Wang Dehua, Pang Tianshou and others are impressively registered.

As for the powerful virus mentioned in the dark line, in Zheng Xunrui's view, I am afraid it is pneumonic plague.

The desperate people must struggle, as long as they can eat, they must find out, flying in the sky, running on the ground, including swimming in the water, growing on the ground, in Shaanxi and Shanxi and other places, all such a situation has occurred.

The capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the common people still dare not rebel.

Rats will surely become the people's meal.

As winter approaches, the climate in the north has become bitterly cold, making this season suitable for the spread of pneumonic plague.

Seeing the information sent by the Investigation Bureau, Zheng Xunrui could only look up to the sky and sigh, it seemed that Da Ming's qi was really exhausted, and the immortals could not be recovered.

In the next few days, the information sent by the Investigation Department confirmed Zheng Xunrui's judgment.

Not only the capital, but also other places in Beizhili, involving most of the places in Beizhili, close to Shanxi's Zhending Mansion, Baoding Mansion and other places, close to Henan's Daimyo Mansion and Hejian Mansion, the situation is better Shanhaiguan and Xuanfu.

After the emergence of pneumonic plague, the imperial court should attach great importance to it, and timely isolation can prevent the spread, but it is a pity that the emperor and the imperial court did not care about this aspect of the matter at all, even the imperial hospital in the capital did not care about it.

At this time, Zheng Xunrui believes that what should happen in Chongzhen's seventeenth year will definitely happen.

The integration of Zheng Jiajun has been completed.

Zheng Xunrui issued an order, the first army to transfer 50,000 soldiers, the second army to transfer 20,000 soldiers, the third army to transfer 40,000 soldiers, a total of 110,000 Zheng family troops, respectively concentrated in Nanjing, Xi'an Fucheng and Dengzhou Fucheng, ready to go out at any time.

The issuance of this order caused a shock in the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate at the highest level in Nanjing.

Everyone thought that the situation in the north would slowly stabilize, and Zheng Xunrui also showed his intention to continue to stabilize the situation in the south, but how long has it been, why did the order for the Zheng family army to assemble suddenly be issued.

The household department and the military department began to make urgent preparations, and many specific matters needed to be handled by them.

Zheng Xunrui is still the same as before, after giving the order, he thinks about the problem alone, and doesn't care about the details at all.

No one will bother Zheng Xunrui at this time, everyone knows very well that Zheng Xunrui is thinking about important matters, and once this thinking is over, it will be the time for major decisions to be made.

In Nanjing, the climate is not particularly cold, and many people have entered the atmosphere of purchasing New Year's goods and preparing for the New Year, but the six departments in Nanjing are very busy.

Yang Sichang never dreamed that there would be a large-scale famine and disease in the capital.

By the time he sensed something was wrong, it was too late.

The disease is not only transmitted among the common people, but even the eunuchs in the palace have encountered accidents, when Yang Sichang was in the Qianqing Palace, he saw the eunuchs fall to the ground with his own eyes, and he lost his life in an instant.

Zhu Youzhen also found that the situation was wrong, and began to arrange the cabinet, which must allocate a certain amount of silver and hand it over to the Tai Hospital to treat the disease, Qian Shisheng suggested that he take out 10,000 taels of silver, which made Zhu Youzhen hesitate for a long time.

10,000 taels of silver to defend against pneumonic plague is a big joke.

There are people in the capital who are constantly walking and falling to the ground, and there is no one who is not afraid of the disease, many people close their doors and stay at home, for fear of contracting this terrible disease, and no one knows why such a terrible disease occurs.

It is impossible for ordinary people to hide at home, because they have no food to eat, and hiding at home means starving to death.

Ying Tianfu began to recruit people who transported the corpses, and the treatment was still very good, they could earn five dollars of silver a day, and according to the current price of food, they could buy half a bucket, which was enough for a family to last for a day or two, but there were fewer and fewer people willing to do this money-making thing, because many people earned silver, but they also became one of the many people who fell, and their families were almost not spared.

The suggestion made by the Tai Hospital is that these corpses must be disposed of, otherwise the scope of infection will become larger and larger, and eventually no one in the capital will be able to escape.

So the sergeants of the Beijing camp were dispatched, and this decision was made by the emperor himself, and it was also a helpless move.

This helpless decision became the first straw that ruined the capital, the sergeants in the Beijing camp were not beaten with iron, and the situation of the officers in the Beijing camp taking the lead salary was widespread, and many of the old, weak, sick and disabled in the capital were pulled by the Beijing camp to pretend to be sergeants, and at this moment, the children of the rich families who were mixed in the Beijing camp would never come forward, so the soldiers with no background were ordered to clean up the corpses.

The disease quickly spread to the camp.

Although Yang Sichang, who found that the situation was wrong, decisively stopped this behavior, the disease had begun to spread in the Beijing camp and could not be controlled at all.

With the passage of time, there were emergency attacks in Zhendingfu, Baodingfu, Daimyo and Hejian Mansions, and there were also large-scale infectious diseases in these places, and what was even worse was that the local garrisons also had large-scale infectious diseases.

After seeing these twists and turns, Yang Sichang felt that the sky was about to fall.

It's a pity that Yang Sichang won't understand that the root cause of all this is the shortage of food, the Great Famine, and the magnates in the capital who resell grain.

The emperor's decree and the imperial court's edict began to travel to various places in the north and were also sent to the south of the country.

Zheng Xunrui had been prepared for a long time and completely blocked the border between Shandong and Beizhili.

At this time, Zheng Xunrui will never be soft-hearted, whether it is the poor people, or scholars and scholars, including high-ranking officials and nobles, all are not allowed to enter the territory of Shandong, and anyone who sneaks in will be killed, there is no reason to say.

Zheng Xunrui knows very well that according to the current medical conditions, it is impossible to completely prevent pneumonic plague, and if this disease is allowed to enter Shandong, or even spread to Nanzhili and other parts of the south, it will be a disaster that cannot be written in history.

Although some people also put forward different opinions on Zheng Xunrui's approach, Zheng Xunrui insisted on his own opinion and did not waver in the slightest, and he even issued a death order later, Shandong is close to the border of Beizhili, and sergeants must be sent to patrol around the clock, prohibiting anyone from entering Shandong, even those businessmen who enter Beizhili to do business, are not allowed to return to Shandong. (To be continued.) )