Every time the tofu pudding secretly came to visit her father, she could always hear her father's violent coughing from afar.
It was heart-wrenching, as if he was about to cough his lungs out.
At this moment, Tofu Pudding's heart would ache.
His father had worked hard for this family all his life, and he was his only relative in this world.
In order to cure his illness, Tofu Pudding had no regrets even if she had to marry that dog eunuch Wang Zhixin.
Today, Tofu Pudding went to the medicine shop to get medicine. This was a prescription specially used to treat cold illnesses.
Tofu Pudding believed that her father would recover very soon after taking these medicines.
For some reason, the tofu pudding's heart suddenly became flustered. Today seemed to be a little different.
This was because when the tofu pudding reached the outside of the cold kiln, she did not hear her father coughing. This made her feel a faint ominous feeling in her heart.
Hence, the tofu pudding quickened his pace. This Cold Kiln didn't even have a door.
When the tofu pudding entered an abandoned cave, it felt like the world was spinning. The herbs in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter.
It turned out that Tofu Pudding's father was lying on the broken wooden board, long dead.
"Father!"
Tofu Pudding cried her heart out…
This kind of thing often happened in the capital under the feet of the Son of Heaven, let alone in the areas where disasters frequently occurred in the Darming Dynasty.
The Great Ming Dynasty was indeed rotten to its roots. This crumbling system of the Great Ming Dynasty had already collapsed.
We always liked to discuss the reasons for the Ming Dynasty's demise. Some said it was because of the Donglin Party, some said it was because of the natural disasters during the Little Ice Age, some said it was because of the collapse of etiquette and music, and some said it was because the Ming Dynasty's fate had come to an end.
In short, no matter what, in Zhu Ci's opinion, there were many reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
It wasn't just one. At least he knew that what was in front of Da Ming now wasn't a factional struggle, nor was it a Jurchen problem. The raiders were rampant, but it hadn't reached the point where they couldn't be contained.
What the Ming Dynasty needed the most right now was money.
First of all, the Guanning Iron Cavalry in Liaodong still had the fighting strength. It was true that the domestic raiders were rampant, and the soldiers still had the upper hand.
As for natural disasters, they were unavoidable. Even if they wanted to help the people in the disaster relief, they didn't have the money.
With money, all these problems could be solved.
Even if they couldn't solve it all at once, they could at least alleviate it.
Making money, making money at all costs, was the biggest problem in front of Zhu Cixi.
As for how to earn money, he could only rely on the Embroidered Uniform Guards.
First, he would start with Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, and Wang Zhixin.
Zhu Ci Xin began his deployment. It was easy to check these three people. He only needed to send the Jinyiwei to rush in, capture them, and throw them into the imperial prison.
How could he blow this matter up and make those civil officials fear the Embroidered Uniform Guards?
When they mentioned the Jinyiwei, they would think of fear. This was what Zhu Ciyao wanted to do the most.
Therefore, he had to think of a way to shake the entire court when he captured these three people.
Tofu Pudding was heartbroken as she looked at her father's skinny body. He was like a withered branch in the wind and rain. Other than bones, there was no more flesh on his body.
He died a horrible death. It was obvious that he struggled before he died.
He coughed up a lot of blood, and the bed under him was covered with straw.
His body was covered with the tattered cotton coat that was so tattered that his original appearance could not be seen.
Tofu Pudding clearly remembered that this cotton coat was personally sewn by her mother for her father during the new year.
At that time, their family was poor and happy. Although their lives were hard, their parents worked hard all year round and worked hard to farm regardless of rain or shine.
At the end of the year, their family finally had a new set of clothes.
Although it was a coarse cotton coat, the family of three felt very content.
His father also said that he would work hard with his mother next year and strive to save some money to buy a cow in three years.
With the cattle, they could plant more land.
But who knew that the imperial court would increase the rent year after year, and the taxes would get higher and higher year after year.
If you couldn't pay the rent, the officials would barge into your house and rob you of everything valuable.
Your land will be sold as collateral, but you will still not be able to pay the rent.
In the end, your family was forced to live on and you had no choice but to wander.
Their family of three abandoned their family and began their life of exile.
They heard that the capital was prosperous, so they wanted to make a living in the capital.
Actually, it was a letter from Tofu Pudding's uncle, saying that he had found a job in the capital. The family went to the capital to seek shelter from his uncle.
In the end, when they arrived in Beijing, the whole family could not find their uncle at all.
It turned out that his uncle was a courier at a courier station. Just like the thief Li Zicheng, his uncle lost his job when the imperial court abolished the courier station.
By the time Tofu Pudding's family arrived in the capital, her uncle had already disappeared.
It just so happened that at this time, the mother of the beancurd girl got the plague again.
In an era where they were used to seeing countless corpses on the roadside and the plague was rampant, a mother infected with the plague was equivalent to being sentenced to death.
However, her father did not give up and brought the tofu pudding to beg in the capital.
Life was in a chaotic world, and everyone was in danger. It was difficult to beg.
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