Chapter 26 Fujian Drought

Yu Xiaotian didn't know where to pull out a short hair. Suddenly, he raised his hand and only heard a loud bang, and a flower pot on the window sill was smashed on the spot.

These guys kneeling on the ground are really scared crazy now. They didn't expect Yu Xiaotian to be so cruel and dig out their roots. They are fools. If they don't even know what to do, then they should die.

With these handles in Xiaotian's hands, they can only honestly listen to Yu Xiaotian's instructions in the future. Even if Yu Xiaotian let them jump into the sea, they dare not say no.

So these guys even kowtowed and said that they didn't even dare to fart. They even said that they would be loyal to filial piety in the future, and everything would be based on filial piety.

So Yu Xiaotian put away his cold face and drove these guys back. Of course, then he immediately sent his own men and went everywhere to start taking over these officers and soldiers. In name, these guys were still in charge, but in fact it was equivalent to emptying them all. Yu Xiaotian himself controlled these officials with one hand. Jun, and those guys didn't even dare to fart on this, so they could only obey Xiaotian's arrangement.

It took Yu Xiaotian less than two months to get almost all the things he should get. One or two of his military generals were like good babies.

Xiong Wencan received the crimes sent by Yu Xiaotian about several Zhenhai guard generals in Fuzhou City. He immediately understood that Yu Xiaotian was going to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger and subdue those military generals who had just returned to his temperance. He couldn't help sighing in his heart that Yu Xiaotian was really a cruel person. Such a means of action are really not good. It can be done by ordinary people.

However, since Yu Xiaotian is his right-hand man, Xiong Wencan will certainly not help Yu Xiaotian. He immediately ordered Fujian inspectors to interrogate these in the inscrusible guys. These guys went to the prison of the inspectors' envoys. Even if they were willing to deny them, they were officials at Xiong Wencan's instructions. He didn't dare to release water in private. All kinds of punishments took turns to serve, tossed these guys to death, and finally all of them pleaded guilty.

As a result, all of them were dismissed. In the end, they were all sentenced to beheaded, and some guys ended up being beheaded all over the house.

Yu Xiaotian's action couldn't help but make the whole Fujian generals look sideways. They only knew that Yu Xiaotian was a cruel man, but they didn't expect him to be so cruel. These guys were just not convinced by him, so they ruined their families. If anyone encounters this kind of thing again in the future, they will not dare to follow Yu Xiao again. The sky can't pass.

When Zhang Jiace learned the news, he ran to Xie Longyi to save some of his men, but after hearing this, Xie Longyi sighed and comforted Zhang Jiace with kind words, so that Zhang Jiace would not care about these things in the future and feel at ease as his rich man in his hometown, and he was expected to live a peaceful life.

Zhang Jiace heard a strong threat from Xie Longyi's mouth and immediately understood what to do. Thinking about Yu Xiaotian's methods over the years, he couldn't help but feel cold. Now he has said that he has been desecrated for the people and become an official. Even if he has not lost his official position, if Yu Xiao If God wants to kill him, I don't think it will be too difficult.

Over the years, Zhang Jiace has dealt with Yu Xiaotian a lot, and Yu Xiaotian has also grabbed a lot of his braids. Once these things are poked out, even if he has now been cut off for the people, he will probably be investigated by the court and pulled back and cut off his head.

What's more, over the years, he has heard a lot about people against Yu Xiaotian, and most of these families are inexplicably either caught fire or stolen by bandits, which has caused the destruction of their families and the loss of their wealth.

So Zhang Jiace quickly agreed and ran back home in frustration. At the same time, he sent someone to send a generous gift to Yu Xiaotian. As he apologized to Yu Xiaotian, he closed the door and never saw his old subordinates again. From then on, he honestly became his rich man in his hometown and never again Don't ask about the world.

After Yu Xiaotian received Zhang Jiace's generous gift, he did not continue to investigate. Instead, he asked the person who came to give the gift to send a word back to Zhang Jiace and told Zhang Jiace that the matter was over, so that Zhang Jiace could rest assured, but such a thing was only once, and he absolutely did not want to see similar things happen in the future. .

With this warning, Zhang Jiace certainly did not dare to jump out and live with Yu Xiaotian. At this point, Yu Xiaotian has stabilized the position of the current deputy general of Fujian, and no one dares to challenge his authority easily.

However, the first year of Chongzhen is destined to be an eventful year for Fujian. Although Fujian is located in the south and is far from the tragedy of thousands of miles of drought in the north, the mainland of Fujian has been in a state of little rain since the seven years of the apocalypse last year.

Last summer, it was supposed to be the rainy season in Fujian, but throughout the summer, the rain in the interior of Fujian was far less than in previous years, so that in the autumn of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, many paddy fields could no longer grow rice, and as a last resort, a lot of land could only be abandoned.

The terrain of Fujian itself is seven mountains, one water and two fields. The population is large and the farmland is small, which is a problem that Fujian has always faced. Even in the year when the weather is smooth, Fujian's self-produced grain is still not enough for the whole Fujian people, not to mention the year of drought.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the inland of Fujian was still in a state of little rain. Many small rivers gradually began to cut off, and even the water level of many big rivers began to decrease significantly.

In addition, the local farmland merger in Fujian is serious. For more than 100 years, the government has not thought about water conservancy construction, so that in the spring of the first year of Chongzhen, many places in Fujian have begun to appear.

In the early days, the officials of Fujian had not given enough understanding of this matter. In addition, there were large mountain thieves in Yanping Prefecture, Tingzhou Prefecture and other places, and the government was mainly focused on suppressing these thieves.

However, by the end of summer, the summer grain that should have been harvested has experienced serious production cuts or even extinction of land. Then the great wilderness has begun to emerge. By this time, it has begun to completely burst out.

Almost without exception, there were disaster victims who escaped from the famine in eight prefectures and one prefectures in Fujian. A large number of disaster victims had to leave their hometowns and embarked on the road to escape from famine, and rushed to prefectures and counties in various places, intending to get relief from the government or get some food near these cities. Live through this barren year.

So the whole situation in Fujian suddenly became tense. As the victims gathered more and more near cities, chaos gradually began to appear.

After years of war, coupled with continuous defeats, the treasury and local treasury have been exhausted. In addition, the rats in grain bunkers in various places continue to occupy and lose money, so that the grain reserves in various places have also been greatly reduced, which has been in a very dangerous level.

Although Xiong Wencan realized that something might happen and asked state government and county officials to find a way to provide relief to avoid chaos, on the whole, the governments in Fujian can't do anything about it. In addition to their indifference to these disaster victims, they really can't provide much food to give these disaster victims. Ji.

The disaster victims are constantly gathering around the cities, and the government has to order the closure of the city gates and strictly prohibit the escaped exiles from entering the city. Although some local officials have also thought of some ways to persuade the local rich gentry to take out some money and food to provide relief to these victims, they are really conscientious and willing to There are very few gentry and magnates who take out a large amount of money and food to help the disaster victims. Even if they really can't save face, they only take out dozens of taels of silver at best, hundreds of taels of silver.

Such a donation is simply a drop in the bucket for thousands of disaster victims in various places. In addition, the gentry maliciously store grain and constantly raise food prices, which makes disaster victims everywhere even worse. The phenomenon of starvation to death, which was not common in Fujian, began to appear in large numbers in August. In many cities, the bodies of hungry people can be seen in the streets and alleys.

Therefore, local governments can only organize people every day to collect these hungry people on the streets and pull them out of the city to find a place to bury them. Later, when there are more and more hungry, they just find a pit to throw them in and pull them down. On the contrary, some wild dogs are cheaper. They wander around the city all day long and often see wild dogs dragging human fragments. Struggle to eat in the wild.

As the disaster victims became more and more, they really couldn't get food. Some strong and bold disaster victims gradually began to gang up to kill and sell goods.

This situation is getting worse and worse, and some thieves have gradually formed. They are rolling bigger and bigger like snowballs, and the number of mountain thieves across Fujian is also increasing, and there is a great state of control.

At first, some thieves groups only ambush near some official roads or on paths to do some cutting business, but as their number of people gathered, they became bolder and bolder and bigger. In order to burstrate and feed these people, many thieves began to think about some village castles.

At the end of August and the beginning of September, thieves groups appeared everywhere to attack some rich people's village castles. Although the gentry and rich people in these townships and villages and castles formed groups to recruit villagers to try to protect themselves, they could only deal with a small number of mountain thief exiles, and some thieves groups gradually Gradually gathered thousands or even thousands of people. In order to find a life to eat, they began to attack some towns and villages at any cost.

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