Chapter 102 Abandoned Baby Clan Rich

The little girl lying in the wooden basin slept soundly with her eyes closed. Her mouth was slightly open, revealing her pink and tender tongue. Her nostrils were opening and closing, as if there would be snot bubbles coming out of her nostrils at any time.

But at this moment, the little girl's face was pale, and it was obvious that she had not eaten since she was born.

Zhu Di frowned, asked the person next to him to take the child and hold her in his arms, and stretched out his hand to feel her breath.

——still alive.

Zhu Di ordered: "Ji Gang, take him to the military station behind and find a woman or a cow or sheep in the camp of the civilian husband. Feed the child and take good care of her."

"I obey the order!" Ji Gang accepted the order with his fists clasped on his horse, and then he took the baby and turned back to the auxiliary troops behind him.

"What's going on?" Zhu Di frowned more and more, "Are there abandoned babies in the richest place in Jiangnan?"

Jin Youzi said helplessly: "Perhaps because it is a girl, the family feels that it will cost them money to raise it, or maybe the family just wants a boy to carry on the family line."

Zhu Di didn't say much, but became a little silent, and the team continued to move forward.

Soon, Jin Youzi was mercilessly slapped in the face.

Tong Xin's Hai Dongqing was startled by the vultures that were looking for food in the forest. Following the smell of rancid meat, everyone found a dozen abandoned babies buried together in a suburban mass grave.

There are boys and girls, nine boys and five girls.

"What the hell is going on?"

Zhu Di was completely puzzled: "If the family needs men to work in the fields or something else, why are there more abandoned babies of men than women?"

Jin Youzi was also completely speechless. It was true that he was born in a village in Jiangxi, but his father Jin Shouzheng was a scholar and was hired as a tutor in Linjiang Prefecture. Jin Shouzheng was a strict and upright person, with profound knowledge, and his students returned to him with honor.

He is "Mr. Snow Cliff".

Jin Youzi received the best education his father could provide since he was a child. He studied under Nie Xuan, a Jinshi in the fourth year of Hongwu (who was an assistant at the Imperial Academy and taught at Luling), and studied the Confucian classic "Spring and Autumn".

Therefore, Jin Youzi's understanding of the countryside was limited to when he was very young. But at that time, children were playing in the village, so how could they understand farming? Not to mention the current problem of abandoned babies.

After becoming an adult, Jin Youzi relied on his knowledge to rise to the top and rarely paid attention to the lives of ordinary farmers.

"I feel ashamed, I really don't know the reason." Jin Youzi bowed his head and said.

"fine."

Facing the scene in the mass grave in front of him, Zhu Di, who crawled out from the pile of dead, did not blink his eyes, and his heart of stone did not feel any discomfort from it.

What Zhu Di really cares about is that the real scenes of the people in the south of the Yangtze River he saw were not only different from what he remembered, but also different from what the ministers reported, and even different from other places he had been to.

In the north, people's lives should be poorer than in the south of the Yangtze River.

But even if they move their families at the risk of being beheaded, it is rare to see someone abandoning a newborn baby, let alone a baby boy.

Get the title immediately.

If a family in the North has a large family and cannot afford to raise a child, they can just send them to join the army.

So, why are there so many, even large-scale, abandoned babies in Jiangnan?

An answer gradually emerged in Zhu Di's mind.

Because the people can't afford it.

This is not nonsense, what really matters is the reason behind not being able to afford it.

Normally speaking, even if farmers in Jiangnan pay the highest taxes in the world, their family can still have enough food and clothing.

Why? Because the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River have the highest yield per mu, and are the only kind.

Otherwise, the empire's decision-makers are not fools. How could it be possible that the yield per mu of land across the country is the same, yet Jiangnan pays taxes several times higher?

But what went wrong that caused farmers in the Jiangnan region, which is the most prosperous in the world, to abandon their babies?

Before Zhu Di could think clearly, his thoughts were suddenly interrupted.

"Don't go any further!"

Zhu Di raised his head and saw the few scholars he had just met on the road riding back in a panic on donkeys, panting.

Jin Youzi was pretending to be the leader of the team at this time, so he raised his voice and asked with a Jiangxi accent as a matter of course.

"Why are you so panicked? What happened in front of you and you can't move forward?"

The scholar who was still the leader said with some tears at this time: "I heard from my classmates and friends that the village twenty miles away in front was invaded by the army! Those officers and soldiers kill everyone on sight, so run away!"

Zhu Di's first reaction was that it was impossible.

It was his decision to lead a large number of troops to clear the south of the Yangtze River. Of course, Zhu Di also knew the virtues of his Qiu Ba group, but he had given repeated orders before departure. Logistics and supplies were all transported by auxiliary soldiers and civilians coordinated by the Fifth Army Governor's Office, and all troops were transported

If you bring tents, cooking utensils and other items, you are not allowed to disturb the people under any pretext. Otherwise, you will be detained together and military law will show no mercy.

Zhu Di would understand if there were one or two daring soldiers who lost their minds and killed or looted.

However, such a thing as killing a village cannot be done by one or two soldiers. How could an officer risk his head and future and risk his colleagues and superiors to do such a thing?

What's more, the most paradoxical thing is that the ones exploring the way ahead are the Emperor's personal bodyguards, the Zhongyi Guards!

Tong Xin also shook his head at him, indicating that Zhongyiwei would never do such an unqualified thing.

The loyal guards, not to mention officers, are just ordinary soldiers. Their annual salary is much higher than that of looting the village. And once they are released, they will be junior officers of other guards. Who would go to the * village with nothing to do?

"Go to the front and see what's going on. Be smart."

An escort was sent out.

The four scholars wanted to speak but stopped.

Jin Youzi asked again: "Did you see it with your own eyes?"

A scholar took out his handkerchief and wiped his uncontrollable nose, and said sadly: "How can I see it with my own eyes? Is it possible to come back alive after seeing it with my own eyes?"

Hearing this, Zhu Di and others felt relieved.

"Then who did you listen to?" Jin Youzi asked inquiringly.

The four scholars looked at each other hesitantly.

Just as they were about to refuse, Jin Youzi shook out half of his clothes from the package carried on the back of the mule.

It's just a clean, starched green robe.

"You are an official of the imperial court?"

The scholars were a little surprised.

Jin Youzi nodded and said, "That's right. I don't want to expose my identity before I take this opportunity to return to my hometown to visit my relatives. Please forgive me."

"No wonder, no wonder we can afford to hire Mongolians as guards, and there are several of them."

A scholar whose face was mostly scratched pointed at Zhu Di and said to Jin Youzi: "Sir, your wife seems to be a strong man. Can you lend me his mule? My donkey beat me."

So cruel, my hoof sprained while running wildly."

Seeing Jin Youzi's expression of shock, the scholar thought that he had not explained clearly, so he turned around and exposed the donkey's butt, which was covered with bright red bloodstains. It was obvious that several people had beaten him without hesitation when they fled in embarrassment.

Jin Youzi had prayed in his heart, and Zhu Xi could leave him a whole body.

But I did not expect that Zhu Xi should be simply, not only did he get off the mule, but also gave him him in person.

Shizi was grateful, thanked him again and again, and took out the money and handed it to Zhu Xi.

Zhu Xi generously put into his arms and wanted to take away the reins of the donkey.

The donkey recognized the owner, and when he didn't want to board, he had a hoof.

"careful!"

Tong Xin watched the donkey's hoof and kicked the emperor. If the emperor kicked the emperor, the joke would be big.

How to write later history books?

"The Emperor of the Five Emperor of the Ming Dynasty": The emperor of the Wen Emperor is a long -term soldier. According to the place where the Yanyan -shaped victory, the Wenwen is weak, the long drive is inward, and there are four seas.

Just when Jin Youzi rushed over in a very unwilling posture, Zhu Xi seemed to have expected it. He avoided the donkey's hoof sideways, and immediately raised his hand to hold the donkey's thigh roots, pressing hard.

"Bang"!

The donkey fell to the ground and made a dull impact sound!

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Xi pushed the donkey's ankle joint at a speed at a speed that everyone didn't see clearly, and the "Gausao" sounded, and the donkey himself stunned.

Seeing that the donkey stood up struggling, he took two steps as usual, and walked towards Zhu Xi.

Several guards pulled out the knife, but were stopped by Zhu Xi.

Zhu Xi clapped his hands, and the donkey kissed his big hand with a sparse gray mane on his head.

"The old crafts in the past haven’t lost yet."

Until then, Jin Youzi suddenly remembered that the emperor in front of him was also a heavy armor that was able to wear forty or fifty pounds. He held a gun with a gun and fought on the battlefield to fight with a tireless man.

After a small episode, I saw the force of "Lao Doo" and several guards. The four scholars were finally willing to tell the truth.

"*The news of the village is not seen by ourselves, but it is a classmate living near the village.

Looking at Jin Youzi, who is calm, one of the scholars sincerely persuaded: "This adult, you should be familiar with the principle of the gentleman who does not stand under the wall, no matter whether the news is true or not, you don't have to go forward."

The scholars looked at Jin Youzi's guard again, and said with some eyes: "It's better to go back and look at each other, but also have a care."

Tong Xin and others scoffed at this.

Consolidate each other?

I am afraid that I have brought four oil bottle, right?

Obviously I am afraid of being asking for others, and it seems that the two sides are mutually beneficial and beneficial. These Confucian students are too young, and they are already hypocritical.

"You tell this official first, and then talk about other."

Instead, Jin Youzi put on a style of being an official, and ignored the request of the scholars, and made his own request.
To be continued...