Cai Boyu walked with the guards in the dry fields, and the cold wind of early spring blew into his collar and made him shiver violently. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"This thief wants to torture people to death!"

As if in response to his words, the cracked ground under his feet was trampled through with a thud, and one of the little fat man's feet sank.

The guards hurriedly pulled him up, and Wu Zhong, the leader, spoke: "Cai boy, pay attention to your feet, these are originally good paddy fields, but when they dry up, they will form hollows, if you encounter a bigger one, maybe you will fall down!" ”

Cai Boyu listened to his words and hurriedly moved to the side of Qianmo, he didn't want to give his life because of this errand......

A group of people walked through the land of Dengzhou, and they had already encountered several desperate villages, and the people of one village fled from the famine to starve to death, and the only living thing they could see was the crow hovering in the sky.

"There's a village in front of Brother Wu, let's go and have a look, shall we?"

Cai Boyu's words attracted Wu Zhong's attention, and he shook his head after looking at it from a distance: "I'm afraid that the village in front of me won't be able to go, you see what's on the tree." ”

After taking a few steps forward, Cai Boyu suddenly retreated in shock, the leafy tree was an illusion at all, and countless crows squatting on the branches made people feel lush.

Think about it, the drought has been for so long, and the trees along the way are all sparse and without leaves, how can there be such luxuriant.

"Huh! I didn't expect the people to be so miserable in the face of natural disasters, and I don't know what happened to Ruzhou where Yan Shu went. ”

Wu Zhong grabbed a handful of soil on the ground, and with a light rubbing, it turned into sand and leaked from his fingers, "I'm afraid Ruzhou won't be any better." The land is so dry that there is no water at all, and unless the next heavy rain drenches the ground, even rain will not help! ”

A few people sighed and got into the carriage not far away, they all knew that it was impossible to find a living person in the country village, so they should go to the nearby town to have a look.

The so-called imperial power is not lower than the county, after all, below the county level is the township, and there are two levels of autonomy.

The township chiefs and lieutenant chiefs are also served by clan elders or virtuous squires, who are only responsible for cooperating with the imperial court to manage the affairs of the townships, and use the natural law of ethics more, but everything that cannot be decided is sent to the county, of course, taxes and labor still depend on them to collect.

Cai Boyu naively thought that the disaster relief grain from the imperial court would be sent to nearby towns, but Wu Zhong and others didn't see it that way, they were all children of peasant families, how could they not know the secret, if the grain arrived in nearby towns, how could so many people in the countryside be starved to death?

The horse-drawn carriage was running on the dirt road, and the dust from the road was lifted high, forming wind and sand behind the car, making the already gray air even dirtier.

"Cai boy, Nanyang City has arrived." The guard said to Cai Boyu in the car on the horse, he thought he was asleep after not moving for so long, but he kept talking all the way, until he saw the starving victims on the side of the road and shrank back.

Cai Boyu jumped down from the car and looked at Wu Zhongren: "Did you say that Zhuge Wuhou did calculate that so many people would starve to death under his grass house back then?" ”

The guards looked at each other speechlessly, Cai Boyu sighed and walked towards the city gate, not far away is Woniu Mountain, Zhuge Lu on the mountain is faintly visible.

Cai Boyu has been facing the city gate for a long time, but no one has come to open the door.

Wu Zhong reluctantly stepped forward to grab Cai Boyu, who was angry and kept kicking the door, and said, "Cai boy is not right......

"What's wrong? I am under the emperor's order, and these people dare to close the city gate, otherwise I will have to wait for me to enter here?! ”

"Don't you think it's strange that people close the city gate in broad daylight?"

Cai Boyu touched his chin: "It's quite strange, there is no war nearby, not even hungry people, why is the gate of this huge Nanyang City closed?" ”

"Hurry up! To enter the city is to send it to death, and it was the lord who ordered the city to be sealed and locked! ”

The weak voice sounded from the door and startled Cai Boyu and the others, but they didn't expect that there was a big living person at their feet!

Cai Boyu squatted down and asked, "This township party, what happened to Nanyang City?" ”

"Plague! Hurry up...... Wow......" The man on the ground began to vomit before he could finish speaking.

Cai Boyu and the others' faces instantly turned pale, "When did it start?" Wu Zhong dropped a water bag and asked next to the man.

The man didn't take the water bag, but waved his hand, "I'm a dying person, you can keep this water bag, half a month ago, people began to starve to death in the city, at first the yamen could still carry the body out, but then there were more and more victims, and soon Nanyang City was crowded, and more and more people starved to death......

Cai Boyu said in disbelief: "Hasn't the relief food from the imperial court arrived?" Junzhou is only two days' walk from Nanyang! ”

The people on the ground let out a terrible laugh, "Haha, Junju? Junzhou is fast and it is difficult to protect itself, how can there be grain to be transported to the people of Nanyang! ”

"Junzhou has not been affected by the disaster, how can it be difficult to protect itself?"

"Grain merchants from all over the country are waiting for the price to sell!"

Cai Boyu blushed and said angrily: "Could it be that the grain merchants in Nanyang City are the same?" ”

"Yes, but didn't you see the corpses under the walls? They are the grain merchants of Nanyang City, who were pushed down from the city wall by the hungry people and fell to their deaths...... But so what? There are too many victims in the city, there is not enough food at all, the old and the young are starved to death first, and the young and strong people begin to kill people and goods, and spoil the children of good families, this Nanyang City is still a Shura hell! ”

"Could it be that there is no king's law!?"

Wu Zhongren asked angrily clenching his fists.

The people on the ground sneered: "Wang Fa? At this time, who still cares about those, survival is the most important thing, but the retribution comes quickly, more and more people die, the corpses are exposed and begin to decompose, and the plague begins to appear, and the eldest lord will take people to seal the city gate and let these miscellaneous pieces die in the city! ”

Cai Boyu keenly found that the person on the ground was wearing a public uniform, although it was dirty and he couldn't see the original color, but the borrowed tooth scarlet on his waist couldn't dodge, and grabbed a small crimson cloth bag, Cai Boyu threw it to Wu Zhongdao: "Open it and see, it's gold or silver!" ”

Wu Zhong opened the cloth bag and said with a stiff face: "Silver." ”

The middle-aged man who fell to the ground looked up sharply and said, "Who are you!" ”

"Your Majesty's people!" Cai Boyu saw that he was dying, so he was not afraid to tell him the truth.

"Your Majesty! Minister...... There is a ...... of holy hope"

Wu Zhong interrupted him and said, "What is the situation in the city? ”

"I've let the good people and officials go, and all that's left are mobs, but there are plenty of deaths from the plague. This city is ruined, you go quickly, this strong man will give me a good time! ”

Wu Zhong looked at Cai Boyu and agreed when he saw him nodding slightly.

"Is there anything else you want the kid to do?" Cai Boyu asked softly.

"Help the old man light this fire oil, if you want this Nanyang City to break and stand up, you have to be reborn! Let the fire consume the dead souls and burn the sins of the city! ”

Nanyang City burned in the fire, and the middle-aged man who died was named Wei Siyuan, who was originally a servant of the Ministry of Officials, and was demoted to the county governor of Nanyang City, so he had a silverfish bag with a scarlet tooth on his waist.

Nanyang City is gone, and he who didn't keep Nanyang City is also dead......

Cai Boyu returned to the car and began to lay paper grinding, he didn't want to write a chapter, so he simply drew everything he saw and heard on the paper, which is more real than words, and can also let the officials take a good look at the people's suffering.