Chapter 19: Please

At the beginning, Mr. was not very familiar with the deployment of troops and generals, and when he saw the casualties of the people, his expression was gloomy, and although he gritted his teeth with hatred for the captured Beihu people, he still did not do much.

After a long time, Mr. gradually changed his appearance, becoming more and more proficient in the use of soldiers, looking at life and death more and more indifferently, and gradually becoming a military advisor.

Later, once they surrounded and suppressed the camp of the Northern Hu people, and nearly 10,000 prisoners were imprisoned in the vast grassland, they did not have enough food and grass to support these Hu people, and they did not dare to let the tiger return to the mountain.

The gentleman held the scroll in one hand and commanded with an expressionless face: "Leave no one behind." ”

The young general of the herald was stunned.

But Chu Fengge, who got the news in the capital, couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ past and present lives ++++++++++++++++++++++

Three days later, Wei Heming got the news that Chu Fengge had come in from the corner gate, saying that although Yang Zixu's epidemic had not been cured, he was already sober.

And before he had time to visit this classmate who had escaped death, he heard his news the next day.

Yang Zixu went to beat the Dengwen drum, knelt down at the gate of the palace, and sued the prefect of Xuzhou for concealing natural disasters and lying about the harvest, causing the people of Xuzhou to have no food and water, starvation everywhere, and mourning all over the wilderness. Even several places in Xuzhou have already broken out of the epidemic, and instead of asking for disaster relief, the prefect forcibly sealed off several villages, resulting in the people not losing to the epidemic, but dying in their hometowns.

Yang Zixu originally returned to his hometown to help with farming, but he didn't even see the last face of his family, almost half of the people in the village died, and the only remaining people were also skinny, which was unbearable.

No matter how the people pleaded, the guards refused to give them half sympathy, and they were strictly forbidden to take half a step out of the village, regardless of whether they had the epidemic or not.

Some villagers who were driven crazy by hunger and thirst insisted on breaking in, but they were chopped into pulp alive by the soldiers.

These people did not die of disease, but died of hunger and thirst, and after their deaths, their families could not afford to collect the bodies, so they had to let their bodies be exposed on the streets, and the good village became a place of death.

Yang Zixu was sad and indignant, relying on his identity as a prisoner of the country to coax those soldiers, and rushed all the way to Chang'an, but he didn't want to be contaminated with the epidemic, and he couldn't support it in the suburbs of Chang'an and fell ill.

If it weren't for He Lan's coincidence, if it weren't for Chu Fengge's willingness to lend his own doctor, Yang Zixu would have returned to the West Heaven with his life.

As soon as this incident came out, it shocked the government and the opposition, Yang Zixu was still kneeling at the gate of the palace, but Wei Shangshu had been summoned into the palace.

Even Wei Shangshu felt that this matter was not good, and before leaving, he told Wei Heming to keep to himself, and never have another accident. In this special period, even the slightest mistake may lead to catastrophe.

Wei Heming couldn't sit still at home, so he said a word to Yuyuan, and went straight to the gate of the palace - sure enough, Yang Zixu was kneeling there alone.

And the one who came from the other side was He Lan.

Yang Zixu's condition is very bad, he is seriously ill and has not recovered, in order to prevent the epidemic on his body from spreading to others, he is wrapped in thick clothes and covers his mouth and nose with a cloth. Kneeling in such a long way under the scorching sun, his whole person was about to collapse from the sun, and the figure was shaky, as if he would fall in front of this palace gate in the next moment.

Wei Heming persuaded him: "Since the Holy Lord has heard about this matter, he will definitely not let it go, why don't Brother Yang go back and rest earlier?"

He Lan also said on the side: "If things are like this, you don't have to worry about the prefect as soon as he gets off the horse." ”

Yang Zixu shook his head slowly, and his voice seemed to be squeezed out of his broken throat: "I won't wait for the relief of Xuzhou for a day, and I won't go back for a day." ”

"What are you doing here?" He Lan frowned, and his eyes were a little colder: "Since you have already sued the royal court, the rest of the matter is not something you can get involved in, could it be that you want to threaten the saint?"

Yang Zixu bowed his head and said: "As long as I can let the relief come down one day earlier, I can kneel here with this life." ”

He Lan wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Wei Heming, although he was not familiar with Yang Zixu, he also knew that he was not a brave and resourceless person.

But this time......

"You didn't see it...... Of the people of a village, few survived. How can they ...... I can watch them starve to death and die of thirst like this!" Yang Zixu's voice was dry, not half nasal, but it sounded like he was crying.

"The old man and the child can't hold on, almost all of them leave early, and the later people ...... in order to survive" Yang Zixu clenched his fists, and even his eyes turned red. "I haven't even found the bones of my brother, he's only three years old!"

"Do you know how many dead people I've seen along the way, I can't even count myself, and hell on earth...... Yes, there is a great drought in the world, which is beyond the reach of manpower, but these people are dying in vain! If I don't wait for support, if I don't wait for the retribution of that dog official, I will not be willing to die even if I die!"

Yang Zixu's eyes finally erupted with bitter hatred.

Wei Heming and He Lan glanced at each other, and they both saw the complexity in each other's eyes.

Hunger is everywhere, and the people are struggling to make a living, this is the worst situation, but it is really necessary to follow the normal procedures, I am afraid that when the holy decree comes down, the people of Xuzhou will have already suffered most of them, and then wait for those disaster relief missions to cooperate with the outside to deal with the officialdom layer by layer, not to mention how many people are left in the hands of the people, how many people can survive to that time is a problem.

Even if Yang Zixu can wait, they can wait, but the people of Xuzhou can't wait.

Wei Heming had to sigh in his heart, but he also promised his father not to make trouble as much as possible, and in the blink of an eye, he was going to make trouble again.

Thinking like this, he lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down straight.

He Lan yawned lazily and slowly knelt down.

Yang Zixu was stunned: "What are you doing here?"

He Lan glanced at him, and joked with a smile: "Aren't you the only one who will have compassion for the people?

He drooped his eyelids and said, "After all, we only have this stupid method, although it doesn't work very well, and I don't want to ask those adults - what they think and what we think are not on the same line." ”

Wei Heming smiled: "It's really stupid, but stupidity also has the benefit of being stupid." ”

Yang Zixu looked moved, and he didn't even get up, so he saluted: "Thank you two for understanding righteousness." ”

Wei Heming didn't care about this, and said to He Lan: "I'm kneeling here, you go back to the country first, you have a lot of contacts, see if you can incite this matter." ”

Their eyes would be on him.

Wei Heming smiled slyly: "Since you want to make trouble, then make it bigger, until they don't want to know it." ”

-- They are the prisoners of the country, although they do not have the slightest power in their hands, but they have the right to speak as a white-clothed minister, they can make trouble, dare to make trouble, and they should make trouble.

Fight for those who are still alive.

At this time, the court was arguing.

This time, the prefect of Xuzhou is no longer a simple matter of deception, and the three places where the plague occurred in Xuzhou were almost not spared, and most of them went there.

Just looking at the death toll made me feel shocked, not to mention that rumors from the south actually reached the emperor's ears at this time.

What emperor is immoral and angers the heavens, so that there is no rain, and what emperor star falls, and the new emperor is established, and the great drought is a warning from heaven...... The imagination of the masses of the people is abundant, and it is not so glad when the spearhead of this imagination is all directed at themselves.

The emperor smashed Yang Zixu's fold of the imperial complaint to the ground, and was furious: "People say that the hundred officials are the eyes and ears of the emperor, but now it seems that I have long been blind!"

The crowd hurriedly bowed down and confessed their sins.

The emperor didn't let out his anger, and as soon as he pondered that this matter should be attributed to the head of the household, he insisted on taking out Wei Shangshu and scolding him individually: "I believe that you respect you, what about you? How can you repay me? Such a big thing, as the secretary of the household, you haven't even heard the slightest rumor?"

Wei Shangshu knelt down with a straight face and pleaded guilty: "The minister is dead, please ask the emperor to give him the guilt." ”

The emperor choked in his throat, he actually knew that this matter was not Wei Shangshu's fault, he was a Beijing official, if the local government deliberately deceived, he had nothing to do.

"I don't have time to settle accounts with you now, so you just say, how can I help you this time?"

Wei Shangshu kowtowed: "The minister thinks that Master Gu can be sent to go to the disaster relief." ”

That Lord Gu is a well-known emperor, and he is also known for not eating hard and soft, this idea is in line with the emperor's wishes, just wanted to make a decision, and listened to someone on the other end of the admonition: "Don't do it, Lord Gu is old, it's not very suitable, why don't you send Lord Sun to ......"

"It's not good, it should be ......"

"In Weichen's humble opinion, maybe ......"

The court quarreled with the vegetable market again, and the emperor hated it so much, but he couldn't throw out this group of old immortals.

At this time, he heard the eunuch next to him come to say: "Holy Lord, there are students from the Guozijian outside the palace gate who ask to see you." ”

Could it be that Yang Zixu? The emperor frowned, and when he saw the appearance of the court, he really didn't want to call another one in, so he said: "No, let him go back to China to recuperate first, and I will definitely give him justice." ”

The appearance of the eunuch was a little embarrassed.

The emperor asked, "How?"

The eunuch said: "There is not only one Yang Gongzi kneeling outside, but half of the students of Guozijian have come to kneel." ”

The emperor frowned: "What are they coming for?"

The eunuch spoke more carefully: "It is said that it is to ask for the people's life and ask for early disaster relief." ”

The emperor's heart moved, and his sharp eyes saw the one kneeling for the leader: "That person, but is Wei Shangshu's son?

The eunuch replied: "It's him." ”

The emperor said, "Invite them in, I want to see what tricks they can play." ”