The kid was overjoyed and jumped four feet high: "Uncle, you are amazing!

Mai Ke was also very happy, and yelled, "Get on the bus!"

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 were riding approached that the soldiers noticed that some of the soldiers turned around and shouted at the train: "Don't get close! Go back quickly!"

Anything you want. And their main energy is to deal with those who intercept and intercept first.

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.

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

Mai Ke turned on the telescope function, and all the people who were stopped came to his eyes.

When Mai Ke saw it, he 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 were many people piled up there. Apparently already lifeless corpses.

Farther away, there were dots along the way, and there were human bodies lying on the ground everywhere, apparently all of them had become hungry.

Mai Ke asked Yue Blade, who was standing next to him, what was 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 from above. As a result, people have no food to eat, many people are starving to death, and some people want to flee to other places to eat. To avoid starving to death, Zhizhou was afraid that his scandal would spread, so he stopped all those who wanted to flee to other places, and even if they starved to death on the spot, they would never be released. ”

Scorched earth doesn't pay much attention to these things. But one of his subordinates, whose hometown is in Yiyang, knows what is going on there, and tells Scorched Earth about it, begging him to rescue his family.

Where is there any way to scorched earth, just give them the money in the cottage. Let them 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 grief-stricken, he told Mai Ke some details about the disaster 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.

In this way, everything that can be eaten is eaten, and everything that cannot be eaten is 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 expanded there infinitely and played out in every family.

(To be continued......)