With the support of the old abbot, Mai Ke not only directly controlled the Tongbai Mountains, but also increased his troops by 21,000.

What makes Mai Ke happiest is that a thousand elite monks and soldiers, all of them are ten with one.

And the scorched earth general.

Finally, it was Yue Jian, the young general of the Yue family, who was originally the commander who led the monks and soldiers, and was also a candidate for the next abbot.

Mai Ke tried his martial arts, and found that he had a slight upper hand in the enemy, and if he automatically used his own weapon, Mai Ke was slightly defeated.

Mai Ke's weapon was his nine-section whip, and Yue Blade's weapon was also his Yue family's ancestral steel spear, which was eight feet long.

Listening to Yue Jian, his uncle Yue Feng, who is the current abbot, had already told him that once he had the opportunity to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and make contributions to the country, he would let him go to the world!

Otherwise, there would not be a hit and treat today.

Because it was a train, there was nothing else to disturb on the way, and Mai Ke took the opportunity to preach the gospel to these newly joined heavenly army, and the number of people who decided to believe in the Lord also reached 100%!

As a result, the army remained entirely Christian.

The army was supposed to quickly cross the Tongbai Mountain to the East Henan Plain of Yingzhou and directly capture Yingzhou, but when it didn't want to pass by Yiyang Prefecture again, it was stopped.

Blocking the way were the Qing soldiers who were pulling away from the front line.

But it wasn't the Qing soldiers who stopped the train.

When he arrived at the front of the queue of Qing soldiers, Mai Ke found that the interception object of these Qing soldiers was not them, but the crowd east of the interception line.

It wasn't until the train that Mai Ke and the others approached that the soldiers found out. Some of the soldiers turned around and shouted at the train: "Don't come closer! Go back quickly! Take a detour!"

There are all kinds of shouting, and their main energy is still to deal with the person who intercepts and intercepts the first side.

Mai Ke couldn't help but be curious, he was originally a curious baby-type person, and he had to dig up some secrets if he had nothing to do, not to mention that there seemed to be something really going on now, and it seemed that there was still a big deal.

However, Mai Ke didn't know who was in charge of the big deal, whether it was those who cleared the soldiers or the people who sent them to clear the soldiers.

Mai Ke turns on the telescope function. The people who were stopped all came to their eyes.

Mai Ke took a look. I couldn't help but gasp!

The situation of those people is so miserable!

Apparently they were poor peasants.

On this cold winter day, they were wearing only single clothes, and they were either standing and shivering, or lying on the ground shivering!

A little farther away. There are a lot of people piled up there. Apparently already lifeless corpses.

farther away. Along the way, there were dots and dots of human bodies lying on the ground, apparently starving.

Mai Ke asked Yue Blade, who was standing next to him. What the hell is going on there?

Yue Jian said: "I don't know the specific situation, but I heard that the Zhizhou of Yiyang is not very good, not only expropriating and expropriating, but also embezzling the relief materials and silver sent down from above, causing people to have no food to eat, and many people starve to death; ”

Scorched Earth didn't pay much attention to these things, but some of his subordinates knew what was going on there and told them about it, begging him to come to his rescue.

Where is there any way to scorch earth, just give them the money in the cottage, so that they can give more support to the needs of the family.

Now he remembered this stubble and said to Mai Ke: "The big dog lives in Yiyang and knows what happened to the family. ”

"Big dog?" Mai Ke didn't react for a moment and asked.

"One of my minions, he may know something. Scorched Earth replied.

"Okay! ”

"Big dog, come here!" The scorched earth was at that time, and it turned out that the big dog was in a carriage not far behind.

As soon as he heard Mai Ke ask about this, he couldn't help but cry.

"The last time I went back with money, but it was too late, my parents, grandparents, two older brothers, two younger brothers, and two younger sisters, all died, starving!"

After hearing this, Mai Ke was shocked!

Is there such a thing in the world?

Hurriedly asked him what caused them all to starve to death.

Although the big dog was grieving, he told Mai Ke some details about the disaster that he knew.

It turned out that it was really as Yue Jian said, the root of the problem was all in that Zhizhou, and his name was Gu Yu.

First of all, for the sake of political achievements, he desperately collected taxes and grain, and added a lot of clever things to the normal amount.

As a result, the tax that should have been one stone of grain has now become five stones.

As a result, many people have finished paying their food, and there are no more rations!

And all this grain, except for a small part handed over to the central court, has been divided among corrupt officials at all levels!

As soon as winter began, most families had already run out of food!

Since then, people have had to dig up grass roots and peel tree bark to satisfy their hunger, because in winter, wild vegetables, leaves and other vegetables are gone.

Later, the roots of the grass were dug up, the bark was stripped naked, and people had to eat some of the more delicate branches of the tree, and even eat Guanyin soil.

At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, people were so hungry that they had to abandon their ancestral business and flee to other places.

In fact, during this period, the central imperial court still allocated some relief materials, but these life-saving things were regarded as an opportunity to make a fortune by Gu Yu, who was obsessed with money.

More than half of the relief supplies were filled by him.

The remaining half was bitten fiercely by the officials at all levels below, and as a result, it was less than one in ten in the hands of the victims.

At this time, people began to die, and the capable and unscrupulous landlords began to give porridge to help the poor, in fact, to save lives, but the government did nothing.

However, when the hungry people had to flee, there was a movement in the government.

They sent large armies to block people in all directions so that their dark practices would not be exposed.

Such. Everything that could be eaten was eaten, and everything that could not be eaten was tasted.

In the end, it developed to the point of eating human flesh and eating children.

Even so, hunger continues to kill people every day.

As a result, the death toll is increasing rapidly every day.

Big Dog said that in a village in his hometown, there were hundreds of families, five or six hundred people, all of whom died!

The tragedy of his own family starving to death was played out in every family.

"I hate that dog officer to death! If I can catch Gu Yu. I must have lit his sky lantern! And the general soldier. Tu Tao is also the culprit! He doesn't let the hungry people escape, and he is also afraid that people will expose his affairs, and his corruption is as hateful as Gu Yu!" said the big dog hatefully. If these two people are in person. He's definitely going to pounce on them and bite them both.

Mai Ke was so angry that his lungs were about to explode when he heard it. There are such corrupt people in the world who are not as good as pigs and dogs!

Since you have no bottom line, your sins are so heinous that you can't say it. I'm about to get justice!

So, he decided to change his plan and take Yiyang first!

The Qing soldiers who blocked the hungry people were simply insurmountable mountains in front of the unarmed and crumbling people, but in front of the heavenly army, they were like paper paste.

Especially in front of the indignant soldiers of the Celestial Army!

I can't get that dog officer Gu Yu and Tu Tao for a while, so I will take you accomplices first and get angry!

The train roared, tearing through the interception line of the Qing soldiers, and then came to an abrupt halt in front of the hungry people.

Those Qing soldiers were all tragic.

They were all captured alive and dragged into the carriage.

Immediately, he was rewarded with punches and kicks by those scorched earth men, and then tied up tightly.

The most unlucky thing was the general manager, who began to scold him hard, thinking that he was the biggest official and wanted to spread some prestige, but he was used as a punching bag.

Everyone knows in their hearts that whoever is an official will definitely reap the benefits, so naturally they will also be punished.

Everyone punches and kicks on it, and no matter how they fight, they can't get angry.

If Mai Ke hadn't stopped it, maybe this unlucky guy would have been killed on the spot.

Mai Ke was determined this time, he wanted to punish these things that harmed the people, as long as there was a blood debt and caused the death of starving people, no matter how big or small the officials were, they would definitely be allowed to pay for their lives.

This officer, if there is a blood debt, it is too cheap for him to die like this.

If not, he cannot be allowed to die at the hands of the angry multitude.

When the train stopped, Mai Ke immediately sent a regiment down to carry out a disaster relief operation on the spot!

In fact, for the vast majority of people, it is to provide something to eat and something to drink.

These disaster relief officers and soldiers took down the fruits of the four seasons and the river of life from the car and distributed them to the people.

Because wherever the train goes, there is a three-in-one hub connected, in which the four-season fruit trees can provide unlimited four-season fruits, and the living water in the river of life is also inexhaustible, so the problem of eating and drinking has been completely solved.

For the victims of the disease, Mai Ke asked Lingxi to work at full speed to diagnose all the victims present, and then according to their conditions, prioritize the most critical patients first, and then gradually treat them.

After completing these basic treatment steps, the train continued to the center of Yiyang City!

Mai Ke knew that if it was not bad as expected, the disaster in this place just now should be relatively mild, and the hardest-hit area should be in the city. The most dying crowd should be those who are not even able to escape.

As expected, along the way, there were starving people along the way, and there was not a single living person!

In the few villages I encountered, there were silent and lifeless birds, except for harrier eagles that came from nowhere, hovering there, swooping down from time to time, pecking at the carrion there.

Whenever you pass by such a village, there is a rancid smell in the air!

Mai Ke had already sentenced Gu Yu and Tu Tao to death in his heart.

The train rushed into Yiyang City and caught the two culprits who were feasting in the state office!

After a little preparation, Mai Ke held a complaint meeting!

One by one, one by one, the facts of blood and tears have become ironclad evidence that these two people deserve to die!

On October 1, the 30th year of Daoguang, villager Wang Pinggui was forced to hand over a little grain from his family, and was severely beaten by a flat dan, and died five days later due to his injuries. Soon after Wang's death, the whole family of four starved to death.

On October 2, the thirtieth year of Daoguang, villager Luo Mingzhu had no food to hand over, so he was tied up and hung and beaten and frozen with cold water. Law died the next day. On October 3, the 30th year of Daoguang, Wang Taishu, a villager, was tied up and beaten with a stick because he had no food to pay, and died four days later, leaving his 14-year-old daughter Wang Pingrong who also starved to death.

On October 4, the 30th year of Daoguang, villager Zhang Zhirong was unable to hand over food, and was tied up and beaten with firewood and wooden sticks before dying; after Zhang was beaten to death, two children, eight and ten years old, starved to death.

On October 5, the 30th year of Daoguang, villager Chen Xiaojia and his son Chen Guihou were hung on the beams of the canteen and severely beaten because they could not hand over food. Then throw it out of the door and pour it in cold water. The Chen father and son died within seven days, and the two children left behind in the family also starved to death.

On October 6, the thirtieth year of Daoguang, villager Liu Tailai came because there was no food to hand over at home. Tied up and beaten severely. Died twenty days later.

October 7, 30th year of Daoguang. Villagers Zheng Jinhou and Luo Mingying and his wife found 28 silver dollars from their homes while paying taxes by hand. He was beaten to death, leaving his three children unattended and starved to death.

On October 8, the 30th year of Daoguang, villager Chen Yinhou was framed for having a grain store at home, stripped him naked, hung himself on the beams of his house, beat him badly, and drenched him in cold water, and died two days later.

On October 9, the 30th year of Daoguang, Xu Chuanzheng, a villager, was framed for "not paying food", hung on the beam of the canteen, brutally beaten, and died six days later. The Xu family of six then all starved to death.

On October 10, the 30th year of Daoguang, villager Zhong Xingjian was hacked to death with an axe because he was considered to have "disobeyed the government".

On October 11, the thirtieth year of Daoguang, villager Wang San was severely beaten and seriously injured because he had no food to pay, and died ten days later.

On October 12, the 30th year of Daoguang, villager Xu Linsheng could not hand over the food, and was hung on the beam of the canteen and beaten severely, and died two days later.

On October 13, the 30th year of Daoguang, Yu Wenzhou, a villager, was brutally beaten by Yu Wenzhou and his 15-year-old daughter Yu Laifeng because he could not hand over food.

On October 14, the 30th year of Daoguang, Feng Shouxiang, a villager, was regarded as looking down on the government because he did not come here to give food to the servants, so he hung Feng on the beam of the house and beat him severely, and tore off his ears, and died six days later.

On October 15, the 30th year of Daoguang, Zhang Zhiying, a villager, was beaten and then frozen with cold water because he could not hand over food, causing Zhang to die on the spot. Zhang's three children also starved to death.

On October 16, the 30th year of Daoguang, Tu Dezhi, a villager, was tied up in the canteen because he had no food to pay, was severely injured, and died ten days later. On October 17, the 30th year of Daoguang, the villager Jian Mingxiu was tortured by poison because he could not hand over the food, and then froze with cold water, and died ten days later.

On October 18, the 30th year of Daoguang, Zheng Zhonglin, a villager, was beaten to death and died four days later after being beaten unconscious because he had no food to hand in.

On October 19, the 30th year of Daoguang, Xu Zhifa, a villager, was beaten with firewood and sticks by the messengers because he did not find food from the village, and died ten days later.

On October 20, the 30th year of Daoguang, Chen Fuhou, a villager, was pierced through the ears with a rope because he had no food to hand, and was tied up and hung on a beam and beaten with a flat pole, drenched in cold water, and died on the spot. In order to prevent his son Chen Wensheng from making a public announcement, he framed him for slaughtering a ploughing cow, tied him up and beat him to death.

On October 21, the 30th year of Daoguang, villager Chen Zenghou was severely injured because he had no food to pay, and died five days later.

On October 22, the 30th year of Daoguang, Li Chenmin, a villager, was found cooking at home by a servant, and was severely beaten for the crime of "unknown source of food", and died the next day.

After running out of food, the villagers looked for various food substitutes.

The first is to eat straw, which was originally used to feed cattle and horses to build houses and ropes.

Now, people first use a guillotine to crush the straw, put it in a large pot and fry it to dry and coke, then put it on the stone mill to grind it into pieces, then grind it with a stone mill, and then grind it into a dough shape after grinding, and then mix it with 30% of the dried sweet potato noodles and then make it into a nest.

The second is to eat corn stalks, which are the fuel used by farmers to cook on fires, and they don't even eat livestock in normal years, but now they also become food.

The way to eat it is to remove the skin, put it in a pot and fry it dry and chop, grind it into noodles, mix it with dried sweet potatoes, and make cakes.

The second is to eat egret droppings, which are waterfowl that feed on fish, and the droppings are blue-white and not smelly.

The hungry people dug up the egret droppings home, washed them with water, steamed them in pots and ate them.

In addition, wild vegetables, peanut sprouts, mice, sparrows, grass roots, tree bark, mussel shells, cotton wool, etc. are all used as food substitutes.

Yu Wenhai, an elderly farmer in his seventies, and his two sons, Yu Hailong and Yu Haibin, jointly sued.

Yu Wenhai described the scene.

His grandfather, his mother, uncle, aunt, grandmother, two sisters, and a baby all starved to death.

Hundreds of people were buried in a pit in the west of the village.

Yuzhuang, Gaozhuang, Caizhuang, and Xuzhuang are all there.

If you don't have anything to eat, it's hard to get some wild vegetables to eat.

Some families starved to death and did not carry people out. Place it at home and cover it with a quilt.

Why do you put it at home? First, you don't have the strength to lift it, and second, you want to keep a place and get a little relief.

The corpse was left at home for a winter, and the nose and eyes were gnawed by rats.

The phenomenon of cannibalism is not an isolated one. I've eaten people too.

It was in Yaozhuang, he was looking for Yao Dengju to have something, and he smelled the smell of meat in that person's house.

The man said, "Eat meat." ”

Yu Wenhai asked, "What kind of meat?"

The man said, "Dead pork." ”

Yu Wenhai uncovered a piece of the pot and put it in his mouth, it was soft, and said, "This is not pork." ”

The man said that it was the flesh of a dead man cut by someone else, and that it had been slipped from a dead man in the ground, and that he had brought a piece and boiled it.

Yu Wenhai commented. Human flesh is quite delicious! It's just softer.

Gao Hongwen of Gaozhuang has three children. Gao Hongwen went on an errand, and his wife cooked and ate all three children.

There are many people who eat the flesh of the dead outside, and the flesh on the thighs and buttocks, and the people who starve to death are very thin. Not much meat.

Pieces come and go. Some of the dead bodies outside were only skeletons of bones.

At that time, cannibalism was mostly eating the dead. Eating the living is individual.

It was winter, and the dead bodies were not broken when they were left outside.

Yu Wenhai said that after winter. They buried the dead in a large pit at the edge of the village.

He pointed out the big pit to everyone.

Looking in the direction he was pointing, there was no trace.

No one would have thought that under this delightful green patch, there would be hundreds of starving corpses!

As a result of the lack of food, many tragic events occurred.

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl in Wulidian Village, Yiyang, killed her four or five-year-old brother and cooked it.

Because both parents starved to death, only these two children remained. The girl was so hungry that she ate her brother.

According to everyone's complaints, according to Mai Ke's statistics, the largest number of dead people in Yiyang Prefecture was in Yishan County, with a total of 50,000 deaths and more than 5,000 dead families.

The largest proportion of dead people is in Huaibin County, which has reached 30 percent of the total population.

One of them, the Great Pear Tree, is dead in a village where more than 60 percent of the people died.

A total of thirteen villages were completely uninhabited.

So many people starved to death, and no one cried, couldn't cry.

Most of the dead bodies have not been dealt with, and the Celestial Army needs to deal with such things specifically.

In the course of the complaint, many cases of government officials beating people to death were also exposed.

As mentioned earlier in this book, many people were killed in the anti-concealment of property and private distribution. In addition, hungry peasants could be beaten to death if they stole a little food. Those who tell the truth and those who do not obey can be beaten to death.

In the two counties of Qishan and Huangchuan, 2,100 people were beaten to death.

Among them, more than 50 villages in Qishan County killed 404 people, of whom one was buried alive, and two were lit with sky lanterns.

Xi County killed 1,065 people, 226 on the spot, 360 people died after the beating, and 479 people were forced to commit suicide.

The most heinous thing is to intercept the flight of hungry people.

They cut off the last line of life for these people!

The villagers starved and blocked the news to prevent them from passing it on, all the avenues and roads were cleared and controlled, and pedestrians were searched and checked.

When it came to be strict, the road was simply blocked, and those outside were not allowed to come in, and those inside were not allowed to go out.

Twenty-three men from one family beat people and died of starvation, and they wrote a bloody letter asking for help from their fellow clansmen in the province.

This letter was intercepted by the Qing soldiers and the family was suppressed.

A farmer in Zhangshan County went to see a doctor, and the doctor said that the disease was easy to treat, and that two bowls of porridge would be fine, but the doctor took him and executed him. In order to prevent the hungry people from going out and leaking the news, the government at all levels dispatched all the officials and arranged them separately to strictly guard against them.

The four gates of the state capital are guarded by Qing soldiers, guards are set up on major roads everywhere, and mobile patrols along the state border.

Townships, prefectures, and counties demanded that militia groups set up cards at the head of the villages, and if they found anyone going out, they would take away their belongings, even strip off their clothes, and torture them.

With such a tight blockade, the peasants had to wait at home to die.

The leader of Lijia in Yangqi Village, Baique Township, Qishan County, organized more than a dozen militia groups to intercept the people fleeing famine and hunger.

From November of the 30th year of Daoguang to the beginning of the first year of Xianfeng, more than 40 hungry people were beaten, 12 of whom were killed and 195 were stripped of their clothes.

Huangchuan County set up 67 detention centers, and after arresting the fugitives, they passed three levels: interrogation, search, and beating, followed by forced labor and no food.

These 67 shelters contain a total of 9,970 fugitives, and 2,795 are severely beaten to death and maimed in the camps.

At this time, Mai Ke had already called Gu Jiaxuan over, and it turned out that he was the world's anti-corruption envoy, whether it was in heaven or abroad, he would be responsible, especially with one piece, he could do it himself without waiting for the arrangement of the anti-corruption envoy!

Isn't it a godsend now, he can just do the right thing for heaven!

However, when he came to take a look, he immediately crooked his nose!

He crooked his nose angrily, not because the officialdom was so corrupt, nor because he saw so many dead people, which is certainly very human.

The reason for his anger is that when this Zhizhou is a foreign person, he is like his own nephew, the eldest son of his eldest brother!

As soon as he saw that this typical person who had caused a big disaster and Mai Ke had decided to kill, it was his nephew who had been told by thousands of people and instructed him by thousands of times, and he used all his strength to whip him four big mouths!

Two on the left and two on the right.

Then, he was ordered to be put on death row in the worst conditions.

He completely severed ties with him.

He couldn't save it, Mai Ke was waiting there.

The second is that even if he can save it, he doesn't plan to save it, Gu Yu really did something absolutely amazing!

After making up his mind to send his nephew to see the king of Hades, he set his sights on the officials at all levels in Yiyang, from Tutao to the village chiefs and yamen, all of whom became the targets of accountability.

He locked up all these men, a total of 1,000 officials and officials, and 2,500 Qing soldiers.

For a time, the prison was overcrowded.

The facilities that had been designed to torture prisoners were now their turn to feel for themselves.

There is only one principle for Gu Jiaxing's trial and conviction - as long as in the process of requisitioning food, providing relief, and intercepting the fleeing people to help the hungry, one person will be killed and executed!

Causing the indirect death of two people, equivalent to the direct death of the same person, executed!

At the same time, all ill-gotten gains will be confiscated and a fine of double will be imposed twice!

As a result, none of the officials and all the Qing soldiers escaped the punishment of death!

There are 500,000 dead souls in the state, and it is difficult for them to atone for their sins.

And the two culprits, Gu Yu and Tu Tao, were sentenced to death by Ling Chi!.

(To be continued......)