The hungry people who can't eat will surely rush up desperately when they see such a magnificent procession like them, hoping to get something to share!

"Hungry?!"

This time, Feng Qingru was holding the child and couldn't sit still in the car. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Feng Qingru, who has always been very concerned about the lives of the people, how could he not want to ask about the situation of these hungry people?

So, she held the child in her arms, said nothing, and jumped out of the carriage first.

When she came to the outside of the car, there was already some order in front of the car.

Because of the disturbance of the hungry people, the samurai who guarded them also began to threaten with swords.

However, the hungry people, who had no food to eat, although they were a little afraid, finally ignored this and scrambled to the ground and continued to squeeze forward.

They're dead end anyway, are they still afraid of these samurai?

Just when the situation was out of control, and the warrior pulled out his blade and was about to start killing the hungry people on the spot, Feng Qingru suddenly shouted an order.

"Stop!"

The swarming hungry people watched a demure, dignified and generous woman in white who got out of the car, and a newborn baby in her arms, all stopped crowding and couldn't help but stop the sound.

A group of people were silent, looking at Feng Qingru tremblingly, surprised and amazed.

At this time, Feng Qingru glanced around, and then grabbed a skinny old man and began to ask with concern.

"Old man! Why do you look like this? Is something wrong? ”

For no reason, there won't be so many hungry people near Pingcheng!

The old man saw that Feng Qingru was kind and kind, not like a bad person, and then sighed sadly, and patiently explained their origins.

"The girl doesn't know, we all came from several places in Huaxian, Junxian, and Puyang, Henan! Because of the flooding of the Yellow River, our homes and our fields have been flooded by the river! We have nowhere to make a living, so we have to try our luck in the national capital, hoping to make a living at the feet of the Son of Heaven! …… But who knows, we walked all the way on an empty stomach, and when we got here, we were too hungry to walk! ”

"The Yellow River is overflowing?"

When Feng Qingru heard the old man say this, he felt uneasy.

Now is the season to harvest grain in various places, if the Yellow River floods, then the people around the Yellow River will inevitably suffer because of this, there is no grain to harvest, and finally all become hungry. If this is the case, then this country will be unstable again!

"yes!"

The old man nodded helplessly, his face full of old wrinkles in a heap, looking miserable.

"Isn't there a disaster relief at the court? The states and counties should take measures, right!? ”

Feng Qingru suddenly thought of the imperial court.

Tuoba Hong is now in power, and according to her understanding of Tuoba Hong, he will not stand idly by when encountering this kind of thing that is related to people's livelihood and people's danger.

But the old man's answer made Feng Qingru feel unexpected.

"Disaster relief! It's just that by the time the food is sent to the top, and then when the food arrives in our disaster area, there will be very little food left! It's not at all, it's not useful! ”

"What! Left?! What the hell is going on? Could it be that someone is withholding food from the disaster? ”

As soon as Feng Qingru heard the old man's answer, he held back his anger and secretly gritted his teeth, blaming these officials who lost the grain.

However, when the old man heard Feng Qingru's rhetorical question, he shook his head helplessly and began to keep silent.

In front of him was the team of officials, how could he dare to arrange and talk nonsense at will?

At this moment, Xiao Xincheng didn't know when he got out of the carriage, walked up to Feng Qingru, and suddenly spoke.

Li Yi, Wang Yu, and Red Dove also came over.

Xiao Xincheng glanced at the old man with a helpless face and couldn't say anything, and said bluntly.

"Since the day of the founding of our Northern Wei Dynasty, officials at all levels in the imperial court~ have no money! These officials had no money on weekdays, so they had to rely on corruption, plunder, and the emperor's rewards to earn their fortune. In the previous years, there were constant wars, and they were mainly plundering and seizing in the war, but in recent years, the Great Wei Dynasty has been relatively peaceful, so the opportunities for these officials to plunder and seize wealth have decreased! Therefore, in order to satisfy their selfish desires, they have no scruples to exploit and loot the people's fat and ointment, which is also very possible! ”

Regarding the development history of Xianbei, Xiao Xincheng, a Xianbei person, must know much more thoroughly than Feng Qingru.

He has long known that it is a hidden danger without a fortune!

But the situation has been decided, the road has not changed, and no one dares to overthrow the old system left by the ancestors at will, including him.

"Then you can't deduct the disaster food and starve the people to death!"

Although Feng Qingru knew that the officials in the court did not have money and that the officials would be corrupt and take bribes, he did not know that they would be so excessive in private.

"Xianbei and Han people are not the same family after all! The disaster grain escorted by these ~ will be handed over to the local Xianbei officials in the end, how can these Xianbei officials care about the life and death of the Han people? ”

Xiao Xincheng said a word, but returned to the fundamental issue.

In the final analysis, it is still the contradiction of the nation!

Although he is also a Xianbei nobleman, his heart is the same as that of Tuoba Tao who has far-reaching vision, and he hopes that Xianbei and the Han people are one family.

This is the best way to go, and it is the trend of the times.

"Hateful!"

How could Feng Qingru not know about the contradiction between Xianbei and the Han people? Tuoba Tao wanted to solve it when he was alive, but in the end he didn't solve it, and Tuoba Tao also wanted to solve it when he was alive, but in the end it was not solved.

This big contradiction is now left to her, and she doesn't know if she has a way to solve it.

In desperation, she had to ask the old man if he had thought of any other way.

"That old man, have you gone to the surrounding states and counties to have a look, maybe go there, the local officials will give you some land to make a living!"

Feng Qingru took it for granted that there would always be a way for them to live in this world.

However, the old man's answer disappointed her very much.

"Gone early! Whatever it is! The old man shook his head dejectedly, and said with a sad look in his eyes, "The suzerains there are all powerful landlords for generations, not to mention the excessive taxes they collect on weekdays, and they also forcibly occupy a lot of fertile land and keep tenants in captivity!" We didn't want to cling to their land and obediently become their tenants, so we had no choice but to go to the national capital! ”

Since the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the powerful families living in the north have gathered many clans to live, set up dock walls for self-protection, and are self-sufficient. After the establishment of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Wuzhu (Haoqiang landlord) was appointed as the suzerain, acting as the local administrative power, and the so-called suzerainty supervision and protection system was implemented, and the tenant was a kind of peasant who was attached to the land of these wealthy families and barely begged for a living under its shade, similar to serfs.

"Alas! It's all fate! Who made us Han people inferior! ”

The old man suddenly sighed deeply, as if he had really accepted his fate.

Feng Qingru heard the old man's sigh, and felt a lot in his heart.

(To be continued.) )