"Haha·····"

In the darkness of night, the carriage was escorted by a hundred guards, and disappeared into the rugged mountain road in an instant.

Day 2.

Liuli woke up from sleep, and it was already three poles in the morning, and Mohe was waiting outside the door. "Master, in the morning, Lord Shangshu sent someone to pass the word, saying that you should come over early, he has something important to discuss with you."

"Got it."

Maybe it was because she was drunk last night, and Liuli only felt a headache, and her vision was blurry, and she couldn't see the scene in front of her clearly. He leaned over the head of the bed and asked in a low voice; "What time is it?"

"It's noon."

"What?"

Liuli sat up and complained a little: "Why didn't you wake up the palace earlier?" ”

Su Yitong has just left the city, there are a lot of things in the court, although he doesn't like the court, but with Jun Moyan and the courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty, he has to behave. It's just that on the first day of the dynasty, he came to derelict his duties, and he was afraid that he would become the first prime minister to delay his business because he was drunk.

"This..." Mohe was a little aggrieved. "The subordinate has called."

"Huh?" Frowning slightly, the unhappy look on Liuli's face was self-evident.

"The master drank too much last night, and he fell asleep when it was almost dawn, and his subordinates didn't wake up even after calling several times."

"Is it because of the main palace?" Supporting his forehead, Liuli got up and stayed, "You go to Shangshu Mansion and say goodbye, and the palace will pass." ”

"Yes."

Mohe turned around and walked out of the Prime Minister's Mansion and went to Shangshu Mansion.

After washing, Liuli changed into a moon-white robe and sat in the hall in a daze, not knowing what to think for a while.

Over the years, there have not been many people close to him, and the military department is one of them. Besides, if it weren't for the military department Shangshu who came to the rescue, he would have become a dead man buried in the loess for a long time.

It's just that there are many people in the court, and he is afraid that getting too close to Shangshu Mansion will cause unnecessary suspicion, so in recent years, except for important things, he has rarely stepped into Shangshu Mansion.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly called, "Butler." ”

The housekeeper in the mansion is the old man of Shangshu Mansion, but when he set up another mansion, the old man in the mansion sent by Shangshu Wei Lianjie of the Ministry of War to take care of him, and he was also very close to him.

"Childe."

After a while, the old butler came, perhaps because he was over half a hundred years old, and his waist was always hunched.

"You go and prepare a heavy gift, I'll go back to Shangshu Mansion later." Since he moved out of Shangshu Mansion back then, he hasn't been back to see it for a long time, and now, Feng Feiyi and Su Yitong are not in the court, so he doesn't need to avoid these anymore, not to mention, the matter is important, and this trip is indispensable.

"Is Childe finally going back to take a look?" As soon as he heard his words, the old housekeeper suddenly burst into tears, how many years have he been out of the mansion, and he has not seen anyone from Shangshu Mansion come to the Prime Minister's Mansion on weekdays, and his son-in-law has mostly exchanged letters and never visited the door in order to avoid suspicion, so he has not been back for many years.

"Hmm." Liuli nodded and smiled softly; "The old butler should go and get ready, let's go together,"

"Good, good, good," the old butler replied with three good words in a row. "Old, let's prepare."

As soon as the Son of Heaven and the regent left, the backbone of the capital was scattered again. The officials squatted on the street begging very tacitly, and occasionally ran through the streets with knives chased by a few people who had been oppressed, but they could only break their teeth and swallow blood.

Just because their Emperor His Majesty had already left behind when he left, each official had a shadow guard to take care of him, and if there was a lazy person, the shadow guards would directly carry someone and hang it on the city wall to expose to the sun all day.

In this way, those officials who do not want to obey will learn to be obedient, get up before dawn, and dare to go back to their homes to rest and eat a full meal when there is no one on the streets in the middle of the night.

Of course, Jun Moyan is not idle at this juncture, he knows that now is the time for Su Yitong to employ people, so he has already sent people to the adjacent places of Bianzhou to buy people with money, so as to expand the Shadow Pavilion.

Luoyi and Bianzhou natural disasters, the people are all in danger, in order to survive, a large number of refugees have poured towards the capital.

Zuo Li received the holy decree and rushed to Luoyi, but just after leaving the border of the capital, there were refugees gathered in villages and towns hundreds of miles away, blocking the way for the army to go.

"Adults, let's get something to eat..."

"Please, give me something to eat."

"Uncle and uncle... The slave family has not eaten or drunk for several days, so I beg you to do well, and give you a mouthful of dry food..."

The sun is scorching.

The ragged people sat in the middle of the official road, with the intention of blocking the road to death, but the villages in front were all sealed off, neither allowing outsiders to enter the village, nor saving them from death.

Zuo Li frowned, looked at the refugees everywhere, and then looked at the grain and grass escorted by the five thousand soldiers behind him, and couldn't help but feel difficult.

As far as he knew, the regent's personal guards had already received orders to go to various states and counties to issue holy decrees, so that the magistrates could open warehouses and release grain to the victims.

But for now, it seems as if the decree had no effect, especially for the victims, and most of them had gathered on the official roads to intercept the passing merchants, hoping to find a way out of their mercy.

"My lord, what now?"

"Hey." sighed lightly, Zuo Li said; "What else can I do, go, get some dry food we eat and distribute it, even if it is good to solve the urgent need for a while."

"So what are we going to do?"

Zuo Li said: "Half of the hair is left and half is left." ”

"Yes."

The people who got the dry food seemed to grasp a life-saving straw in the mud algae, and looked at the grain with hungry eyes with gratitude.

"My lord, these people seem to be eyeing the grain and grass we are escorting. What to do? ”

The person who spoke was the shadow guard sent by Su Yitong to protect Zuo Li's safety this time, there were eight in total, and all of them were masters. However, even they had to feel fear in their hearts in the face of such a hungry gaze.

As far as they are concerned, what is now in front of them is no longer ordinary refugees, but a group of refugees who are desperate, like wolves and tigers, on the line of life and death, and if they do not take precautions, they will turn into the most ferocious monsters and pounce on them.

Because, they clearly felt the restless breath in the crowd.

"Is there any road around here that I can get around here?" Zuo Li's brows furrowed, and he also sensed the uneasy aura.

It was the afternoon when the sun was at its strongest, and the hot sweat on the soldiers' foreheads was dripping down layer by layer, and the frowning brows fully showed the tension in their hearts at the moment.

"No..." Shadow shook his head, and the murderous intent in his eyes was already rising.

Zuo Li reached out and held him. "Don't act rashly yet, let's see."

There are only a few hundred refugees, and there are thousands of them, and they have weapons on their backs, so they have nothing to fear in the event of a robbery.

"However, if it continues like this, our people may not be able to stand it."

The 5,000 soldiers behind them had already followed them for a night's journey, and if they just stood like this, something would happen in less than an hour, and the scene would be uncontrollable.

Zuo Li also realized this problem, and as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, he met the refugees who were still lying on the official road, and said; "The dry food has been given, I wonder if you can give way first?"

As soon as he said this, the refugees immediately hesitated, Zuo Li was not wrong, their target was not the dry food in their hands, but the dozen or so carts of grain escorted by the soldiers. Xu hadn't eaten a full meal for so many days, and they had already sensitively smelled the fragrance of rice, the fragrance of rice they had been absent for a long time.

Some people looked at this side with fierceness in their eyes, and some people looked at the grain with hope, hoping to impress the people in front of them with their sincerity.

However, they were obviously wrong in this calculation.

Zuo Li knew very well that this grain could not be given, he was sent to Qincha, and he was an official in the court, and it was not his style to see death and not save him, but these grains were to be taken to Luoyi, if he distributed the food at this time because of mercy, I am afraid that before he arrived in Luoyi, they would die in the riot because of their kindness.

So, he can't give.

But if you don't give it, how can you pass through here, hundreds of lives, he can't step over them.

"How?"

However, for a long time no one responded.

Zuo Li's patience was almost exhausted, and the hot sweat on his forehead was like rain, and all the clothes on his body were soaked.

Keichi leaned over again, "My lord, do you want us to kill them?" ”

In the end, he was a person who was used to being a killer, and he didn't have much patience, and seeing that the person in front of him had no intention of giving way, Keichi couldn't help but clench the knife in his hand, ready to strike at any time.

"Wait." After basking in the sun for almost half an hour, Zuo Li's throat was so dry and hoarse that even his voice changed. "Most of the people here are powerless, if you rashly do it, you will only make more infamy for Your Majesty."

"But there's no way we can do it anymore," they can't fight or kill, but they're about to die."

Zuo Li was also very embarrassed. "Let's see if there's anything else to do."

The refugees' eyes gradually turned fierce, but they stared at the spears in the hands of the soldiers and did not dare to move. Although there is a line between life and death, they don't want to die just like that.

"Where else can I do it?" Eichi muttered, "The surrounding villages and towns have been locked down to prevent refugees from entering the village. "Only they are still standing here stupidly, thinking that those people are good stubble." If only His Majesty and the Great General were here. ”

Zuo Libai glanced at him. "You mean this official is inferior to them?"

Needless to say? Ying pursed his lips and simply remained silent.

After waiting for a while, Zuo Li's patience ran out, he swept over everyone with cold eyes, and said loudly: "Let me ask you one more question, to let or not to let you?" ”

As soon as he said this, the eyes of those refugees gradually withdrew from the grain cart and looked at him blankly, as if they regarded him as a bodhisattva who rescued suffering.

But the Bodhisattva who saved the suffering was already cold, and there was no longer any pity in his eyes when he looked at everyone, so he suddenly raised his voice and said, "The whole army is ready to ......."

"Ready."

The soldiers straightened their backs, and when they heard what he said, they suddenly came to their senses, wiped the hot sweat on their faces, and responded neatly.

Zuo Li's eyes were focused, and his left hand was raised high, as if he would be the first to step over them at the slightest order......