Chapter 230: Simple and Crude
He stopped abruptly: "Call all the soldiers back, and the grain trucks will be concentrated in the backyard." ”
"Lord Wang, are you going to catch them all?" Xiao Jue's eyes lit up.
"At this time, there are still those who have the leisure to do their hands, presumably they have not suffered too much, and those who want to catch alive seem to be short of food soon. ”
Xiao Jingchen shook his shoulders, only then did he feel a little cold, but he still wanted to go back to the stove to warm up.
But after thinking about it, he frowned again: "What news is there from the capital?"
"After we left, the emperor sent General Yuan to the palace, and General Yuan deliberately delayed for half a day before going back, and the emperor only said that he would find out carefully, and the matter was temporarily shelved. ”
Xiao Jue still had some confusion about when General Yuan reached a united front with his prince.
"Send someone to send the news back, the snow disaster in the Northern Zhou is serious and needs a lot of material reinforcements, if you don't rescue in time, I'm afraid of heavy losses. ”
Obviously, all the situation began to improve after Xiao Jingchen arrived here, and the news was just to hide people's eyes.
Soon Xiao Jingchen's recital was presented to the court, and the emperor frowned and threw it aside.
"Is the snow disaster in the Northern Zhou really so serious? Isn't it just a few snowfalls, and it would be nice to wait until the weather clears. ”
"Your Majesty, although the snow can melt, but a long period of low temperature snowfall is easy to make people sick, causing food shortages, the same crops planted in the field will be frozen to death, and it will also cause no harvest in the coming year, it is not so simple, it is better to send manpower and materials to support it earlier. ”
There are still some ministers who are worried about the country and the people, and they can only shake their heads and sigh when they see that the emperor does not take such an important matter in his eyes.
Someone came out to admonish, and the other party sneered: "The Northern Zhou Belt is a very rich place, and it can trade with neighboring countries, but because of the war in the market, the emperor has reduced their taxes, presumably they have saved a lot of grain, so why bother so much?"
"Besides, the war king is their vassal king, this kind of thing should be in his charge, if it is really so serious, the emperor should be the first to punish him!"
"Yes, it's better to take the opportunity to let the king of war return it to the imperial court, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"
"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to lead troops to support the Northern Zhou to transport supplies, the current urgency is to solve the disaster, and other things will be discussed later. ”
General Yuan listened to those people gloating, and at this time he did not discuss the disaster, but thought about how to seize the fruits of other people's labor, and only felt extremely irritable in his heart.
"General Yuan must not leave Beijing, the capital is not peaceful recently, the king of Xiliang has just left, there are more Xiliang people in the capital, it is really a little strange, the emperor, the urgent need is to keep the capital safe. ”
As soon as he heard that the capital was not safe, the emperor immediately panicked, and nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, the most important thing is to protect the safety of the capital, General Yuan, from today onwards, you will personally lead the troops to patrol, and arrest all suspicious people when you encounter them." ”
The things that should be solved in the court have not been solved, but some unnecessary things have been added in vain.
Su Qing was so cold that he couldn't sleep at night, this place was located in the north, and it had been snowing for so long, and the temperature had been below zero for so long.
The brazier in the house can't burn too much, it can only be kept unextinguished, and the bed doesn't seem to be warm at all.
She missed the warm quilt in the capital, she originally wanted to take Qingshuang to a remote place that no one knew, but she didn't expect to be brought here.
"Someone, catch the thief!" suddenly remembered a loud voice that startled Su Qing.
She jerked up from the bed, the sound seemed to come from the back yard, and she ran to the window and opened it, and saw some torches dangling underneath.
Then there was the sound of fighting, and I heard Xiao Jue shouting again: "Catch it alive!"
As soon as his eyes were wrong, he saw Xiao Jingchen standing under the eaves on the side, and he was calmly watching everything that happened in front of him.
It seems that these are all under his control, Su Qing frowned, thinking of the situation when he was caught by him at the side gate of the palace with Qingshuang.
Suddenly, I felt a chill in my back.
"Lord Wang, people have caught it. "Xiao Jingchen and they have already made full preparations, and as soon as these people appear, they will all be easily captured.
A total of five people were arrested, all of them were dressed in night-shaped clothes and black cloth, and they were escorted to Xiao Jingchen in front of the six gods who were all panicked.
"People from Mobei, if you want to take advantage of the chaos to rob at this time, this king sees that you are tired of living. ”
They were still masked, and Xiao Jingchen recognized them as Mobei people, and now they only had to beg for mercy: "The king of war spares his life, and we can't do it......"
"You can't steal or rob if you can't do it? These are the life-saving food of the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, what did you steal from them?"
Xiao Jingchen had a straight face and a sharp look in his eyes: "Lock them up, and in two days, this king will take them to see the king of Mobei in person!"
"War King, we are also ordinary people living in the surrounding area, this heavy snow has been falling for so long, and there is no food in our house for a long time, so we moved our minds......"
These black-clothed men were still arguing, and Xiao Jingchen stepped down the steps and reached out to tear the black cloth off one person's face.
"I have walked around a few caravans all the year round, and this king knows each other, if you don't explain honestly, don't blame this king for being polite!"
"The prince, the prince spares ......"
"Now it's useless for this king to ask for your life, take out all the food you can get at home, as much as you want, if this king can't see you before lunch tomorrow, then go to the king of Mobei to explain." ”
After Xiao Jingchen finished speaking, he let go of the person who spoke just now, and asked Xiao Jue to take him down personally.
Before dawn, the wind and snow outside suddenly became heavier again, and Su Qing put on the thick clothes sent by Xiao Jingchen, and stood by the window looking worried.
Yesterday I thought the snow was about to stop, but today it started to snow again.
In the face of natural disasters, human beings are really too small, and she thought about it and prepared to go to Yamen.
Qingshuang was still with her, and now she couldn't speak, but she was back to the same as before.
However, Su Qing would not let her do everything, she felt guilty about Qingshuang, so she treated her more closely as a blind date.
When I went downstairs, I saw a few shadow guards guarding the door, and Su Qing asked, "Where is the prince?"
"The prince went to the yamen early in the morning and ordered the princess to rest at the post station because of the heavy snow today. ”
"I'll also go to the Yamen. Su Qing said that she was leaving, and the shadow guard stretched out his hand to stop her: "The prince has ordered ......."
"If someone is injured or sick in such extreme weather, can I help and leave me here to watch like a prisoner?"
Su Qing's tone suddenly became stern, and the shadow guard was startled, and Su Qing, who was stunned, had already walked into the wind and snow with Qingshuang......