After broadcasting the ancient times live, I handed the system over to the state.

The streets were desolate. This desolation was not in the absence of people, but in the expressions on their faces. Even though they had won the battle, they were still filled with anxiety, fearing that the cannibalistic Jin soldiers would break into the city at any time.

The wounded walked down the street with their heads down, while some who had run out of food came to the government's disaster relief site to scramble for the last remaining thin porridge.

More soldiers were guarding everything and maintaining order; otherwise, these ragged people would never have lined up so obediently.

When faced with the prospect of survival, the evil in human nature becomes immeasurable.

Normally, this pair of pants is worn by the younger sister, and Erdan is always naked. But now that they need to go out to collect food, Erdan has to go with his mother.

There were many people queuing up today, and they could smell the aroma of the porridge from a distance. The aroma was different from the others, as if something extra had been added to it, making it sweet and fragrant.

Once, Erdan happened to find some malt candy thrown down by a benefactor on the street. He picked it up and ate it, and he would never forget the sweet taste.

Now this porridge tastes just like that.

He sniffed desperately, and when he told his mother, she didn't believe him.

When they received the porridge, they walked home very carefully, afraid that someone might run out and steal all the food for their family.

That's just how the world is now.

Fortunately... there wasn't.

When they got home, they discovered that there were extra golden, yellowish things in the porridge, which tasted incredibly sweet!

What is this?

Not only were they puzzled, but many people were too. But after a day or two, they learned that this thing was called a sweet potato and that it could fill their stomachs!

The city was under martial law, and the order was relatively good; at least there were no incidents of burning, killing, or looting.

Li Gang coordinated the official granaries and private reserves in Kaifeng Prefecture to distribute the grain in a unified manner. Many people even voluntarily donated grain. Compared to the death of people, being hungry for a period of time was nothing.

Many civilians also volunteered to participate in logistics, such as transporting supplies and repairing fortifications.

They even promulgated reward and punishment regulations, and even those who died in battle received certain compensation... They thought of everything very thoroughly and comprehensively.

So the first defense of Kaifeng in history was successful, but the second one was much worse.

Not long after the first Battle of Kaifeng, Li Gang was demoted, and Zhong Shidao proposed to fight, but the higher-ups refused and instead went out of the city to negotiate peace, which angered Zhong Shidao to death...

People passing by saw a group of strangely dressed people walking around Kaifeng City under the protection of guards.

Because they were being guarded, and they knew they were not to be trifled with, they only glanced at them.

With their short hair and unusual clothing, could these people be barbarians?

Zhu Qinggu and his group did not intend to violate the regulations here. Li Gang had done a very good job, whether it was the allocation of resources or many other things.

She only asked a few brief questions, and none of these people dared to speak the truth because of the guards. However, an older, seemingly frivolous man lazily spoke up, "Your Excellency doesn't know that these Song soldiers are far more despicable than the Jin people. They stole all our rations..."

One of the men next to him pointed to his wounds and cursed, "Lai Laoliu, what nonsense are you spouting? Do you even have enough food to talk like that? Do you dare to go up and fight? If you think the Jurchens are so great, why don't you come out of the city and join them?"

The moment this person spoke, it turned into a denunciation. Many people around him were also transporting supplies and rushed up to the city wall, where they witnessed the fierce battle taking place.

The more one experiences, the more one understands how difficult it is. Therefore, one can say that one hates those people in the city who do not engage in production and disturb the peace of the people to the extreme.

Before Zhu Qinggu and his men could even lift a finger, these people had already started punching and kicking them, and it was only the guards behind Zhu Qinggu and his men who stopped them.

Before long, the patrol team under martial law in the city arrived. They looked at Zhu Qinggu and the guards behind him, then at the idlers, and asked in a cold voice, "What's going on here?"

A group of people then pointed the finger at Lai Laoliu, this idle man.

"Since you're so bored, go do some work."

So Lai Laoliu was arrested by them. Liao Ming asked a question and found out that he had been taken away to do work.

Didn't they say the Jurchens were good? Now let them experience the Jurchens' knives!

Zhu Qinggu went to other places afterward. Many people were still feeling dejected, but some regained some confidence because of this victory. Many more, however, had wives, children, and elderly parents back in Kaifeng and continued to fight on...

She also went up to the top of the city wall and looked around. Zhong Shidao's army was stationed outside. On that day, Wanyan Zongwang's troops were decimated and wiped out.

However, Wanyan Zonghan's western army is still attacking Taiyuan from Datong. The crisis in Kaifeng has been resolved, but not completely. They still need to go to Taiyuan to provide assistance.

In the following period, Zhu Qinggu also viewed the war from the perspective of Zhao Kuangyin and others.

Even though the Jurchens were driven away, the real crisis came not only from the outside, but also from within.

What nonsense about not killing scholar-officials? That's a lie. Even during the reigns of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong, many corrupt civil officials were killed. So now Zhao Kuangyin is following Zhu Yuanzhang's example, killing people everywhere, and he has an extra layer of murderous aura about him.

Once the defense of Kaifeng eased, he took his long sword and went to hunt down Zhao Ji. He spread the word that he was going to kill Zhao Ji and sent a bunch of people to chase after him, just to make that bastard Zhao Ji live in constant fear.

What's the fun in just killing? We need to put Emperor Huizong (Zhao Ji) in that kind of environment.

Then Zhao Ji led his men onto a boat, which sailed away from the shore but did not dock at the island.

Knowing that they had limited supplies, Zhao Kuangyin ordered his men to surround the ship from a distance, preventing it from going ashore, to see how long it could hold out.

There are fish in the sea, but no water, and the amount of fresh water they carried was limited.

Under the Canopy

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped his thigh, lamenting that he had indeed let Zhu Qizhen die too young. He should have locked up the three of them, depriving them of light, water, and food, and seen what kind of things they would eventually do.

"Can we still tell Miss Zhu that we want to capture a few more Zhu Qizhens?" Zhu Yuanzhang muttered.

Zhu Biao, who was standing to the side, fully understood Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts and said with a hint of helplessness, "Father, this is hurtful and harmful, let it go."

"What's that saying again? It's something people often say: it's harmful to heaven and people, but not to literature..."

"Father, this is not appropriate. Our Zhu family's reputation has only just begun to recover," Zhu Biao refused directly.

Faced with his son's discipline, Old Zhu is now listening to him more and more. Isn't the future all going to the young people?