After Li Rucai arrived at Kaifeng Prefecture, he reported that a group of robbers broke into the county government office, which immediately caused a great shock in Kaifeng Prefecture.

On the same day, it was reported to the Henan Chengxuan Political Envoy Department.

The people from the Ministry of Education announced that the Ministry of Education informed the matter to Kaifeng Xuanwuwei.

Xuanwuwei gathered some officers and soldiers in the city early in the morning and planned to go to Chenliu County to take a look.

A total of 2,000 people were mobilized.

Xuanwu Guard is the local garrison office, and the commander-in-chief of the Ministry of Recruitment.

The Commander and Censorate Department were declared that the Political and Censorate Department were the three local departments of the Ming Dynasty.

To simply suppress the bandits, the Commander Office can still mobilize some people to go.

However, 2,000 people were obviously out of range.

If it is large, it must be reported layer by layer.

Or the local governor or governor issued an order.

There is no governor in Henan yet.

The command department issued an order, but the mobilization of 2,000 people was enough to show that the garrison system had collapsed, and most of them might not be soldiers of the garrison.

On that day, Chongzhen happened to arrive outside Kaifeng City.

As soon as he arrived outside Kaifeng City, Chongzhen saw a large number of people walking into the city under the escort of some officials.

Two people were planning to run away, but were caught back, and then beaten up, making their skin furious.

Another robbery?

No, it’s almost time to reach the city gate, where can I grab the fields?

Chongzhen immediately brought people forward.

"stop!"

When the officials saw Chongzhen's attitude, they did not dare to be arrogant and said politely: "What's the point of doing, this official?"

Chongzhen asked coldly: "What are you doing?"

"We are servants of the Zhou royal palace. His Highness of the Zhou royal palace has been repairing the mansion recently and needs some people to perform labor service. These people are all going to perform labor service."

What is corvee service?

It's just free work.

For example, officials need to repair houses, carry sedan chairs to officials, etc.

In ancient times, ordinary people had to perform corvee service.

Think about it, the 21st century relies on infrastructure to drive the economy.

But in ancient times, once a large-scale construction was built, it was extremely painful. Why?

It is because corvee labor is free physical work and there is no life guarantee.

The corvee system certainly has its rationality, and even if time travelers come, they cannot be abolished in just one sentence.

So, here, Zhang Chen did not go too far into the corvee labor itself. He said: "Why do you have to beat people when you perform corvee labor?"

“These people are not honest.”

The beaten man said, "Officials, our land has not yet been planted. If we delay the farming, we may not have a good harvest this year."

The official spat: "You are arrogant. Now His Highness the King of Zhou wants you to work. Is His Highness the King of Zhou important or your land important!"

"Besides, your little bit of land will belong sooner or later to His Highness the King of Zhou!"

When Chongzhen heard this, he was unhappy.

He whipped it with a whip, whipped the official's face, and tore a hole open.

The official screamed, took two steps back, and looked at Chongzhen in confusion and anger: "You..."

Chongzhen said angrily: "It's all released!"

"This is the person His Highness of Zhou King wants!"

"Let me go and talk to the King of Zhou."

When the officials saw Chongzhen bringing so many people, wearing them all, with a cold look on his face, he didn't dare to say anything more, and waved to those people, "Let's go! Let's go!"

At this time, the commander of Xuanwu Guard, He Bin, had arrived at the city gate.

Chongzhen also brought people over.

When He Bin saw that there were a lot of people coming, he was shocked.

"Sir, those may be the bandits mentioned above."

He Bin was furious when he heard this: "I'm so brave, I dare to come to Kaifeng City blatantly."

"Sir, do you want to close the city gate?"

"No need to close, we have 2,000 people, are we afraid of them?"

Chongzhen first sent Sun Chuanting to negotiate with others, and asked Kaifeng to open the city gate immediately.

Sun Chuanting went over to report his identity, and He Bin and others laughed and said, "What a shit Shenwu Guard, I have never heard of it. Do you think you are the emperor's personal army, a group of bandits dare to run to Kaifeng City to play wild! Men, come on, kill these bandits!"

Sun Chuanting did not expect that the other party would take action after a disagreement.

However, they were still fighting against the Eight Banners elite on the grassland, and this kind of scene really couldn't scare them.

When Chongzhen saw that the girl was angry at the door, his temper also came. With his order, the Shenwu Guard behind him immediately rushed to the door to support him.

What's the result?

As a result, Xuanwuwei was quickly killed so much that he howled and everyone turned around and retreated to the city.

Chongzhen immediately ordered everyone to enter the city.

In this way, the Shenwu Guard and the Jinyi Guard rushed into the city gate on horseback. It was too late for the soldiers at the city gate to close the city gate.

Half an hour later, the city gate was controlled by the Shenwu Guard.

Chongzhen rushed in with his men.

According to Zheng Chengzhi, he, the Zhengzhou magistrate, also arrived in Kaifeng City.

In fact, all the magistrates and magistrates of the 30 counties and 4 prefectures came to Kaifeng Prefecture.

Kaifeng City was called Bianliang or Tokyo City during the Song Dynasty. At that time, it was the largest city in the world and the most prosperous city.

After hundreds of years of war, the Ming Dynasty was rebuilt.

In the first year of Hongwu, it was also designated as Beijing, but it was abolished in the second year of Hongwu.

Since then, Kaifeng Prefecture was an ordinary prefecture among many prefectures in the Ming Dynasty.

But it also has its own special features.

For example, Kaifeng had a "bridge of eight provinces" in the Ming Dynasty, which shows that it had an excellent geographical location and a very developed natural economy.

There is another more unusual place.

Where?

Kaifeng is the city with the largest number of royal palaces.

How many royal palaces are there in Kaifeng?

According to historical records, during the Jiajing period, there were 1 prince, 66 princes, 180 generals of the State, 464 generals of the State, 690 generals of the State, 725 lieutenants of the State, and 185 lieutenants of the State.

These are all royal families and have titles.

There are 45 palaces in Kaifeng Zhoufan.

If you walk on the streets of Beijing City, throwing a toothpick out can kill a large number of officials.

Then, on the streets of Kaifeng, if you cut a blindfolded sword, you might be able to kill a relative of the Zhou king.

In fact, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the imperial court had to support the royal family for tax collection.

This is by no means alarmist.

After entering the city, Chongzhen looked around and saw some scholars wearing silk and satin on the street in front were talking about something.

When everyone saw such a large number of people suddenly coming in, panic appeared on their faces.

On the other side, the street was full of beggars.

There are women and children.

Those people were not afraid when they saw them, and they only had numbness on their faces.

Going further forward, I saw some people selling their wives or even children.

Passers-by don't seem to think that these are anything.

At the end of the dynasty, conflicts between all classes of society were sharp, and the gap between the rich and the poor was huge. The life of ordinary people was really just a matter of surviving.
To be continued...