The scorching sun hangs above the sky, and in the land of Sanjin, there has been no rain for a long time. The cracks in the earth are like spider webs, densely packed and extending everywhere.

A gust of hot wind blew, causing yellow soil to fly on the official road.

The dust settled down, and a few small black spots appeared in the field of view. Only when they got closer could they see clearly that it was a family of five carrying bags.

They are disaster victims who are fleeing.

Behind them, at regular intervals, a small group of disaster victims could be seen walking slowly on the ground, without knowing how long it had been since they had eaten. They had long lost their strength and were just following the people in front of them numbly forward.

From time to time, people would fall in the long and loose queue, while those behind them would simply step forward numbly, leaving no one with the energy to deal with these starving victims.

In the year of great disaster, the fields are filled with hunger and the number of deaths is increasing every day.

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came, and the disaster victims walking ahead raised their heads, looking in shock at the carriages coming from the opposite direction.

This is a caravan carrying carts of grain, coming to the land of San Jin to make a fortune.

Disaster wealth has always been despised by people, and once the court investigates it, it is also a heinous crime. However, in the face of interests, there are always people willing to take risks.

Once successful, it is likely to be worth a lifetime of effort.

But some money is not that easy to earn.

These carriages carrying food were quickly targeted by hungry disaster victims.

After driving for about several kilometers, finally a disaster victim couldn't help but take action and rushed towards a carriage.

Subsequently, more people rushed forward, like hungry wolves who had been hungry for several days, quickly grabbing all the carts of food.

The people escorting the caravan were either beaten away, beaten to death, or knocked unconscious. The surviving merchants were heartbroken and collapsed on the scorching earth.

In various states and counties such as Taiyuan, disaster relief efforts have already been launched.

But the Ming Dynasty took over the world from the Yuan Dynasty, and its foundation was relatively weak. Even at the beginning of the founding of the country, the court did not have much money, and the people had no food reserves.

These years have been a period of rest and recuperation, but there have been internal and external troubles, and there have been many wars. The surplus food in the hands of the people is not much.

This year, there was a severe drought and no harvest.

People either sell their children or sell their land, struggling to make ends meet.

Some people, although they have sold their children or land, can still hold on, but the lowest class of people have completely gone bankrupt.

Some people start begging, while others are unwilling to sell their land. They bring their families to other areas to find a way out, and after the disaster, they return home with their families and children to start farming again.

In the land of San Jin, there are over 3 million people. More and more people are becoming refugees due to displacement.

From a few thousand people at the beginning, it quickly expanded to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people.

In this era dominated by agriculture, hundreds of thousands of people eat every day without being able to produce value, which is an enormous burden for the land of San Jin.

The grain mobilized by the court was delivered one truck after another, but it was simply not enough to fill the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims.

Moreover, the disaster is still expanding, and if it cannot be controlled, it may even continue into winter.

By then, the number of disaster victims may even reach millions!

This is a very terrifying thing, because if not controlled properly, it is very likely to trigger an uprising or rebellion.

The common people are very simple and have low expectations, only seeking to have enough to eat. However, if they cannot afford to eat for a long time, and one person after another dies around them, they will have no way out.

The grain mobilized by the imperial court, after countless layers of exploitation, has only been used for disaster relief, accounting for less than half of it.

The land of Sanjin can no longer bear the huge number of disaster victims.

Those who are unwilling to wait for death have taken their families and spread around, becoming refugees.

Most of them went all the way east and headed straight to Qi, because in my impression, Qi had countless fertile fields and abundant grain production. Going there, one should be able to have a satisfying meal.

The court kept mobilizing grain and sending it to the Jin region, while the Jin region continued to receive news of the expansion of the disaster and the increasing number of deaths, and continued to demand relief money and grain.

In the land of the Three Jin dynasties, with millions of people, it was like a bottomless pit, trying to drain the wealth of the Ming dynasty.

At the same time, grain prices skyrocketed, with the Three Jin regions as the center. The closer to the Jin region, the higher the grain prices. Not all merchants dared to sell grain in the Jin region.

It's not that they don't love wealth, nor are they afraid of being caught and killed by the court. In the face of huge profits, some risks are worth taking, but there are too many refugees in the Three Jin regions. Whether their own food can be sold in the market is unknown.

It is very likely that the food has already been looted before reaching the destination, and even the caravan escorting the food may be killed by the disaster victims.

In the face of life and death, all constraints such as laws, shame, and morality will no longer exist, and survival is the primary element.

Some disaster victims even changed their children to eat in order to survive, and the scene is extremely tragic!

In the court, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and rebuked the six tribes, strictly investigating those who embezzled disaster relief food and supplies.

Anyone involved in it will be killed without mercy!!

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