To develop a region, you must first remove the malignant tumors that plague it.

These malignant tumors are stumbling blocks to the development of a place. Only by removing these tumors can development proceed much more smoothly.

The large number of disaster victims appearing in various parts of Korea is clearly abnormal, and since it's abnormal, it's a problem that needs to be addressed. We need to make it normal again.

For example, regarding the situation of the disaster victims, in Zhu Yunwen's understanding, although the people of Goryeo were also relatively short of food, there should not have been such a large number of disaster victims.

After all, Goryeo had hardly ever experienced natural disasters. Zhu Yunwen placed great importance on this matter and ordered the Imperial Guards he had brought with him to investigate together with Fu Youde.

The news came back in just one day.

Fu Youde looked at Zhu Yunwen and said:

"Your Highness, the reason why there are so many disaster victims in Goryeo this time is because the former King of Goryeo, Yi Seong-gwi, wanted to attack the Ming Dynasty."

Upon hearing this news, Zhu Yunwen frowned and said:

"So, he spared no expense and caused immense suffering to forcefully push forward this war. Now, this mess is left before our eyes."

Fu Youde nodded and said:

"Indeed, judging from the current situation, the fact that so many places in Goryeo are experiencing famine is indeed undeniably related to the war."

After all, this time Goryeo attacked our Ming Dynasty with an army of 200,000, which required a huge amount of funds and supplies.

Goryeo's national strength was not very strong to begin with, and using such a large sum of money naturally increased the burden on the people. With a heavier burden on the people, the number of starving disaster victims increased.

Upon hearing this news, Zhu Yunwen could only sigh helplessly.

Li Chenggui's ambitions led him to leave behind a mess, which ultimately needed to be resolved by Zhu Yunwen.

Just as he was thinking this, Fu Youde seemed to suddenly remember something and said to Zhu Yunwen:

"By the way, Your Highness, there is something related to this matter that I find somewhat puzzling."

Zhu Yunwen asked:

"What is it?"

Fu Youde thought about it carefully and said:

"During our investigation of the disaster victims, we discovered that the situation was particularly dire in a place called Dingzhou City, not far from the capital. It is said that many people in that area have suffered a complete crop failure this year."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yunwen frowned slightly and asked:

"Has this city of Dingzhou ever experienced a drought?"

Fu Youde shook his head and said, "There has been no drought!"

Zhu Yunwen asked in confusion, "There has been no flooding or other natural disasters affecting crops?"

Fu Youde continued to shake his head and said:

"There was none, which is precisely the strange thing. The people in this area planted a lot of grain, but all of it yielded nothing."

Even the grain grown by some landlords was like this. Yet, no disasters occurred at all, which is highly abnormal.

In Dingzhou alone, due to this food problem, nearly 70,000 to 80,000 people suddenly went hungry.

This has even affected other surrounding cities and their inhabitants. I find this matter very strange, so I specifically came to report it to Your Highness, the Crown Prince.

Zhu Yunwen took a deep breath and slowly began to speak:

"There were no natural disasters or anything special that happened, yet the crops planted yielded no harvest at all, and even some landlords were affected. This is too strange."

After a moment of silence, Zhu Yunwen looked at Fu Youde and said:

"Investigate this matter thoroughly! There was nothing wrong in previous years, so why is there no harvest this year?"

Farmers have grown grain their whole lives, how could they not grow grain? Someone must be sabotaging them, or there must be something wrong with the seeds.”

Zhu Yunwen was so suspicious because in the society he lived in before he transmigrated, he had heard of people selling bad or fake seeds.

This was a serious matter and was dealt with severely. Generally speaking, it's now difficult for anyone to adulterate grain seeds on the market.

Because food is the most important thing for people, if someone sells adulterated grain, causing farmers to be unable to grow grain, those families may have no harvest the following year and starve to death, which is a huge crime.

Therefore, it is almost impossible for grain seeds to be adulterated in later generations.

However, this was ancient times after all, and such things were still possible.

But that's impossible; surely most people bought adulterated seeds?

Therefore, there must be a bigger problem.

So Zhu Yunwen told Fu Youde to try to investigate the grain seeds.

If most of the crops planted by the people have problems, and it is not related to natural disasters, then it is very likely that there is a problem with the grain seeds.

After having a clear objective, Fu Youde quickly left to resume his investigation of the matter.

The reason why Zhu Yunwen wanted to investigate this matter thoroughly was actually quite simple.

That is to go to this place and sound the alarm for those hateful guys who are thinking of taking advantage of the people's lives and interests to seek their own private gain.

This can be seen as making an example of someone to warn others, to let those who profit at the expense of the people understand that the Ming Dynasty will not allow such things to exist.

Zhu Yunwen would never allow such a thing to exist.

Sure enough, with a clear objective, the investigation became much easier.

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