Early the next morning, Xia Ming came to report that a group of hungry people had come to the gate of the post station, kneeling on the ground and begging for food. It turned out that after eating some food yesterday, Wu Yi Chang brought some bread to look for orphans and children in the city and distribute some food to everyone. So this morning, many victims ran to the post station and begged Zhang Xiaowu to give them some food.

Zhang Xiaowu couldn't bear to see the hundreds of victims suffering, so he ordered: "Two pieces of bread per person, no matter how big or small, must not be fought for, and no one should be oppressed, and if anyone violates it, there will be no forgiveness." ”

Wang Yijin went to distribute food to the victims, this bread is the most hungry, and it is also the easiest to store, one bread can be eaten for five days, and two breads can be eaten for ten days. Afterwards, Wang Yijin said: "The two wolf passes have been restarted and switched off, if you want to live, you can go to Saibei." Although Saibei is also suffering, at least everyone is well fed and clothed, which is better than staying here and starving to death. ”

"Thank you Xiao Langjun, I'm getting old, I can't walk anymore, thinking that if I die, I will die in my hometown, and I don't want to go." An old man said.

Seeing the suffering of the people of Shangyi County, the originally enthusiastic marching team suddenly fell silent, everyone thought of their hometown, and they didn't know what happened to their hometown, their relatives, and whether they were as suffering as Shangyi County? In particular, a few soldiers from poor areas are even more worried about their families.

"Alas...... Xing, the people suffer, death, the people suffer. Zhang Xiaowu said with emotion.

The team continued to go on the road, but everyone didn't feel that the sun was scorching, and the tragic situation in Shangyi County made them feel more worried than the sunshine. Zhang Xiaowu also finally understood why Emperor Dade insisted on stopping the Northern War, and delayed to increase the number of gold, silver, grain, grass and soldiers in Mucheng.

"In the final analysis, the cause of the withering of the Holy Han is that Emperor Taiqian is warlike." Ruan Qingwen said, "When he is in Jingshi, he only sees the people of Jingshi, and Jingshi has to be supplied by the whole country, so the people of Jingshi will naturally not fall into famine." The reason why Yuezhou rebelled was not because the people couldn't survive anymore. ”

"It's also like Shangyi County?" Wang Yijin asked hurriedly.

Ruan Qingwen shook his head and said: "The land in Shangyi County is barren, and it coincides with a disaster, so the people naturally will not resent the government, and you see that the county orders are all sick and dead, who can they complain about." And Yuezhou is different, Yuezhou has fertile land, is the granary of the Holy Han, there was a saying that Jiang Yue is familiar with the world's abundance, it is conceivable that if the people of Yuezhou do not pay for food, they will not starve. I think it must be that the grain tax is too high, causing the people to grow their own grain but not enough to eat, and everyone is resentful, so they naturally rebel. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "That Yuezhou is not as good as Shangyi County, at least Shangyi County suffered a natural disaster, while Yuezhou is a man-made disaster." ”

"Yes, man-made disasters are more important than natural disasters." Ruan Qingwen said helplessly.

Along the official road, you will see desolate land, barren farmers, and few uninhabited fields, and even the occasional bandit with a dung fork ready to rob the road. Zhang Xiaowu just sent people to disperse them, he really couldn't figure it out, since the country was already so withered, why did Emperor Taiqian still start such a war, was he playing games with the people, and using human lives as flags? Fortunately, now that Emperor Dade is in power, he began to pay attention to recuperation, but unfortunately, after Emperor Dade ascended the throne, it coincided with natural disasters, and the Holy Han Empire was really ill-fated.

A few days later, everyone finally arrived at Daizhou City.

As the capital of Daizhou, Daizhou City is naturally far more prosperous than Shangyi County, and it finally has popularity, but what they didn't expect was that before they came to Daizhou City, they encountered a large-scale fight. It turns out that there is a river outside the city of Daizhou, called the Dai River, in the flood, this generation of the river is the disaster star of Daizhou, but now in the drought, the Dai River has become a savior. Because the government builds embankments every year, the embankments of the Dai River are built higher and higher, so that the water level of the river sometimes exceeds the height of farmland, and it is extremely dangerous during floods, but now the drought has shown that it is easy to irrigate.

However, the Dai River has also been fully drained, and if it can be irrigated upstream, it cannot irrigate the downstream, so in order to compete for water conservancy and irrigation, there are often fights between villages and towns. This time the fight was between Bazhen upstream and Liujiabao downstream. Since the officials of the Holy Han Empire only went to the county level, and the towns and villages were basically appointed by the county order or recommended by the local government, there were no government officials in the villages and towns, and a town or village was a separate small kingdom, so once there was a conflict between the two villages and towns, it would be a "national war" in the style of the Japanese Warring States period.

The people who participated in the armed fighting in these two towns added up to thousands of people, and the officials and officials did not dare to interfere from a distance, lest they would affect themselves. Zhang Xiaowu and others happened to pass by, and they saw this amazing scene, the fight of thousands of people was really exciting, one group wore gray clothes, one group wore black clothes, but after a while, both groups became bloody clothes.

Everyone's weapons are only agricultural tools, clubs, and so on, although there are also swords, but they are not sabers, but they rarely use hunting bows. But after everyone fought together, the hunting bow was extremely easy to kill and injure their own people, so everyone threw down the hunting bow and carried the stick and continued to fight.

It was just a brawl between the people, but it was on the official road, it turned out that the left side of the official road was Ba Town, and the right side of the official road was Liujiabao, and the two parties agreed to duel on the official road, but Zhang Xiaowu and others were stopped.

"Let's take a look at the bustle, pay attention to vigilance, and the sergeant will be equipped with armor, so as not to hurt us." Zhang Xiaowu immediately ordered that if anyone came close to us, there would be no forgiveness.

"Whoa."

However, probably frightened by the armed forces of the ghost guards, the eighty-man personal guards, holding skull grimace flags, wearing black scarves, wearing heavy armor, scarlet cloaks fluttering in the wind, rows of simple knives flashing brightly, the people of the two towns quickly separated, and they all looked at this group of "black gods" in amazement, lest they were the other party's reinforcements.

The two towns each sent one person to inquire, and Wang Yijin stepped forward and said: "Saibei Ghost Guard, go to Beijing to face the saint, idlers avoid it!" ”

"Ghost guard? Ghost general? When the people of the two towns heard the name of the ghost general, they immediately worshiped it, and they came over to see who the famous ghost general was, and even the fight stopped. Zhang Xiaowu was helpless, thinking that he would see a fight, but he didn't expect it to become a large-scale fan meeting.

Then the Li Zheng of the two towns (quite about the mayor) rushed over and begged the ghost general to administer justice for himself, Zhang Xiaowu said: "I am not your county order, how can I give you justice?" ”

The two Li Zheng said in unison: "The rest of the people are not convinced, only serve the ghost general, the ghost will be dedicated to killing the dog for the country, the name shocks the world, we all know the name of General Zhang, Jun Shi is a loyal and patriotic person, the pillar of the country, he will be fair, judge right and wrong, and we will never say anything." ”