Ming Dynasty: Abandoned baby at the beginning, Zhu let me be the emperor

By the next morning, everyone knew that the people who went out of the city to work had been attacked.

Those who were originally wandering outside the city were even more worried, fearing that they would be the next person to be attacked, and began to crowd into the county town in groups.

The order that had been slightly stabilized after Zhu Ming's arrival began to become chaotic again.

Fortunately, Wang Juren, according to Zhu Ming's suggestion, selected the officers and soldiers in the county and went out of the city to suppress the bandits in a big way, which temporarily stabilized people's hearts.

Zhu Ming was now on the city wall, frowning as he watched the officers and soldiers marching out of the city.

This matter will not end so easily. They will probably have other actions today.

As he spoke, a few wailing sounds suddenly came from the porridge shed behind him.

Zhu Ming turned around suddenly and saw that the people who had drunk the porridge fell down one by one with powerlessness, groaning in pain, and even the porridge spilled on the ground.

The others who had not yet drunk the porridge looked at the people who had fallen to the ground, and they all stood there in shock.

"Those who are getting porridge, stop."

Zhu Ming walked over and loudly stopped the yamen runners who were distributing porridge.

It's obvious from the signs that these people have been poisoned.

The place most likely to be poisoned is the porridge.

"Call the doctor over, quickly!"

He gave the order loudly, then walked to the fallen people with a serious face and observed them carefully.

"Your Highness, my stomach..."

The man looked at the emperor's grandson who walked up to him and used all his strength to squeeze out a few words.

When the emperor's grandson was in the capital, he implemented many policies that benefited the people.

Hedong suffered a disaster, and as the emperor's grandson, he came in person to provide disaster relief.

They saw what Zhu Ming did, so the people admired him in their hearts.

Even if something happened now, there was no intention to blame Zhu Ming.

Zhu Ming nodded, turned around and looked at Chen Ling, but saw that Chen Ling also shook her head in confusion.

Even Chen Ling didn't know when the poison was put into the porridge.

"This porridge is undrinkable. Cook it again!"

Zhu Ming frowned. The person who poisoned the person must be someone from the county government, as he was able to evade the surveillance of the Jinyiwei.

But the most important thing now is to cook porridge again so that the people can have enough to eat first.

"Yes."

Chen Ling responded. It was obvious that Zhu Ming was talking to him.

Although distributing porridge was not the job of the Jinyiwei, it was the Jinyiwei's fault that they did not catch the person who poisoned the food this time.

Letting the Jinyiwei do it now is also to ensure that the man will not have another chance to poison the porridge.

The newly cooked porridge had not yet been prepared, but the news that the food in the porridge stall was poisoned had already spread.

This caused the people who came to the porridge shed to receive relief to riot again.

It started out as just discussion, but gradually turned into a commotion, with even signs of a riot.

Zhu Ming had no choice but to transfer more people to maintain order at the scene.

"This news spread too quickly."

Zhu Ming frowned even more tightly as he watched the situation being slowly brought under control after being stopped by the police.

All of this is a little too abnormal.

It spread everywhere in the blink of an eye. It was too unbelievable.

There are definitely people with ulterior motives among the people.

It was not until Chen Ling brought out the freshly cooked porridge with the Jinyiwei that these extremely hungry people calmed down.

But they crowded at the door of the porridge stall, looking at the hot porridge but dared not go forward, for fear that they would be poisoned as well.

"Don't worry, this porridge is definitely not poisonous."

Seeing this, Zhu Ming had no choice but to walk up to the people and shout loudly.

As he spoke, he filled a bowl for himself and held it in front of them.

"I, Zhu Ming, will test the poison for everyone today."

As he said this, he drank all the porridge in big gulps.

The porridge was being watched personally by the Jinyiwei, so those people had no chance to poison it.

Seeing that the grandson of the emperor actually risked his own life to test the poison on himself, the people who had been rioting just now became quiet.

After Zhu Ming tested the poison, the people felt relieved and lined up to get porridge. The order was much more orderly than before.

Zhu Ming stood aside, glancing at the people again and again, trying to find out who had ulterior motives among them.

These people should have mixed in with the people who crowded into the county town in the morning.

What do you want after going through all this trouble?

"It's not good, it's not good!"

While Zhu Ming was lost in thought, a panicked voice suddenly came from behind.

Juan was running out of breath and when he stood in front of Zhu Ming, he couldn't even speak complete sentences.

"what happened?"

Zhu Ming looked at Juan who was so panicked, took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and asked in a deep voice.

"granary……"

As soon as Juan opened his mouth, Zhu Ming immediately covered his mouth, looked around, and then took Juan to a remote place.

Right now, the people are most sensitive about food. If they knew that something happened to the granary, there would probably be chaos again.

"The granary is on fire!"

Juan pointed in the direction of the granary in horror and stammered.

"The granary is on fire?"

Zhu Ming looked at Juan in shock, then immediately turned around and ran towards the granary.

"There's a fire in the granary!"

Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted loudly, and then the people began to riot and could no longer be suppressed.

There were so many people that Zhu Ming and his men could only squeeze through the crowd to get on the road.

By the time Zhu Ming and his men squeezed out from the crowd and ran to the granary, the entire granary had been engulfed in fire.

Hedong was experiencing a drought and there was not enough water for daily use, let alone water for firefighting.

Looking at such a fire, all you can do is watch with your eyes open.

"What...what should I do?"

The people who followed Zhu Ming saw that the granary, their only hope, had been burned to ashes. They became desperate and did not even have the energy to make a commotion.

Zhu Ming didn't say much. He started the fire from the granary and then lit another fire outside the granary.

"Your Highness, what are you doing?"

Upon learning that the granary was on fire, Wang Juren rushed over and watched Zhu Ming light the fire, and was even more puzzled.

There is a shortage of water now and even putting out fires is a problem, but Zhu Ming still wants to set fire. What is he trying to do?

If you didn’t know, you would think that the emperor’s grandson couldn’t bear the blow and went crazy.

"Extinguishing."

Zhu Ming spoke in a deep voice and lit a fire around the granary.

The fire gradually grew bigger, and then I saw the two flames getting closer and closer. Finally, when there was nothing to burn, they gradually went out.

"The granary is on fire. What are we going to eat?"

But even though Zhu Ming put out the fire, the crowd had no time to be amazed and they all wailed in despair.

Once the granary was gone, they had nothing to eat.