Late at night, only Emperor Jiaqing sat in the imperial study to review the chapters, but what he didn't expect was that when he finished reviewing these chapters, the sky was about to dawn, and the sky gradually opened up after taking a nap, it was time to go to the court early, put on a yellow robe and go to the hall. The long whip rang three times in front of the palace gate, and hundreds of civil and military officials went to court one after another. Emperor Jiaqing ascended the treasure hall, and the civil and military officials of His Royal Highness knelt down and said, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

"Everyone, Aiqing is flat," the civil and military officials stood up before they sat down.

"I have received a recital, which says that the battle ahead of the White Lotus Sect riot is tight, and grain and grass are the top priority at present, and the officials at the front have blown grain and grass to me many times. I have sent troops to suppress it many times, and the supply of grain and grass is also continuous, and there is no food to collect in the DPRK and China. ”

Zhongtang Wang Jie stood up and said: "The emperor, because of the continuous riots ahead, many victims flocked to the capital, and the problem of refugees begging encountered by the ministers on the way to the court was unbearable. The minister implored the emperor to build a porridge tent to relieve and appease. ”

"Quasi-play, Wang Aiqing, this matter will be handled by you."

"Emperor Xie," Zhongtang Lord Wang Jie stepped aside.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have a way to solve the problem of grain and grass, and ordered local officials to recruit township soldiers and villagers, and bring their own grain and grass," Zuodu Yushi Guangxing Station debuted.

"Okay, Guang Aiqing has solved my worries! Quasi-play. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister has a book," He Jiehao, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, made his debut.

"He Aiqing has something to play, but I can come to the road."

"Your Majesty, do you know why the thieves are getting more and more suppressed? It even threatened the imperial court, one of which was the heavy tax rate of corruption of local officials, the officials forced the people to rebel, and the people had no way to survive before they fell into the grass and formed today's situation; The second officer took advantage of this to embezzle military salaries, and the bandits could not be exterminated, leaving their remnants to develop, so they used this to ask for military salaries from the imperial court and invite merit. Your Majesty, the thieves have spread to the minister's hometown, and the minister is willing to recruit the township soldiers and secretly investigate the corruption case. ”

"Okay, I have appointed He Qing's family as the minister of the Qin Mission, and I can set up the majesty of the Son of Heaven for the Heavenly Patrol Pastor, and I can cut it first and then play it with my hand, and I don't have to report it in time."

"Thank you for the emperor's heavenly grace," He Jiehao got up and retreated.

Hua Hong was pregnant, and Fengming Tower was no longer a place for her to stay for a long time, so she walked downstairs, brought a bag of silver taels and its entanglement, and left some silver taels to redeem herself. The old bustard was very happy to see the silver ingots on the table. Hua Hong looked at the silver ingots on the table and said, "Old mother, this is the silver tael to redeem yourself, do you see enough?" ”

"Enough, enough," the old bustard only cared about the silver taels in front of him, and he could take care of whether others would go or stay. Hua Hong hung up the package and carried the box and walked out of Fengming Tower slowly, looked back and then breathed a sigh of relief, hired a carriage at the door, left the capital, and went straight to Sichuan, which is He Jiehao's hometown. Along the way, many refugees poured in, starving everywhere, and hungry dogs snatched the corpses of refugees abandoned on the road. Hua Hong asked the coachman, "Uncle, why are there so many refugees on this road?" ”

"The girl didn't know that thieves were rampant in Sichuan and other places, and the people suffered. The thieves burned and looted the people, and they couldn't survive, so they had to go out to beg. ”

Walking to the wasteland ahead, its yellow sand is long, and the bones are all over the ground. They were uprooted from their homes due to the war, endured the torture of hunger and disease, and could only fall on the spot and starve to death. Vultures circle in groups, driving away the swarms of dingoes for carrion. In the middle of the yellow sand, there was a ragged man sitting on the ground, gnawing on the corpses of his companions, and the sound of hunger and crying, and the sound of wolf howling was sometimes faint and sometimes clear, and what he saw and heard was that the fleeing people were really miserable. The carriage passed by, and finally arrived in Sichuan, and after getting off the bus, I paid some money to find a hotel to live in temporarily.

After He Jiehao received the emperor's order, he went out of Beijing overnight and rushed to his hometown in Sichuan to recruit township soldiers and volunteers. The fast horse galloped all the way on the road and soon entered the territory of Sichuan. After He Jiehao entered Sichuan, he did not go to the local garrison barracks, nor to the government, but secretly visited the people, so he unknowingly investigated the people's livelihood and suffering. He Jiehao led the horse into a village, the surrounding houses are all dilapidated and rubble, wandering around the village, it seems that they are just lonely old people, and the withering of people's livelihood cannot be expressed in words.

He Jiehao slowly walked into a dilapidated courtyard, an old man sat on the threshold, his eyes were blank, his face was brittle and skinny, how could He Jiehao endure it after seeing this situation. Seeing that the old man was very dazed, He Jiehao stepped forward and bent down, and said, "Uncle, why are you sitting here alone?" ”

"Everyone in the village who can walk has gone to flee, only some of us who are old, weak, sick and disabled who can't walk, where are you from?" The old man looked at He Jiehao standing in front of him.

"I, I'm from the capital, I'm going back to my hometown, it's been more than 20 years, why is it that the more and more chaos is suppressed, the power of the anti-thieves is getting bigger and bigger?"

"There are too many corrupt officials above, the soldiers are lazy, these officers and soldiers have two guns in their hands, one is a red tassel gun, and the other is a smoking gun, and they can only flee in defeat when a strong enemy attacks."

"Oh, so what are the smoking guns in the hands of these officers and soldiers?"

"It's opium."

"What? Opium, "Opium actually spread to the army, at this time He Jiehao realized the seriousness of the problem, thanked the old man and rushed to the garrison barracks. These generals and magistrates didn't have time to greet the lord Qincha sent by the imperial court, but He Jiehao was already standing outside the barracks tent, so they could only hurriedly go out of the camp tent to greet him, and said, "The lower officials are here to greet Lord Qincha." ”

"Generals, please get up, let us go into the camp and talk."

"Lord Sechincha."

He Jiehao stepped up to the handsome seat and sat down, and the generals and magistrates sat on both sides. After He Jiehao ascended to the command, he suddenly offered to greet the Qincha guards, and then checked the soldiers in various military camps. When the guards arrived, they went straight to the barracks to check the posture and appearance of the soldiers, and these people stood in rows listlessly, as if they had not slept well, and some yawned constantly. He Jiehao stood on the platform and saw that the soldiers under the stage were all like this, and a general in the future said: "Do you think that such a scattered army can talk about winning a battle, if the enemy suddenly attacks and is not completely annihilated?" ”

"They didn't prepare for the sudden visit," the general said, bowing his head.

"Will the enemy give you a chance to prepare in advance?"

"Yes, yes, the boss is right."

He Jiehao ordered the Qincha guards around him to forcibly enter the soldiers' barracks and search carefully, including the beds where the soldiers slept and other places without giving up, and the results of the careful search were jaw-dropping, and a lot of smoking guns and a small amount of opium were found under the beds of these soldiers. He Jiehao called his master to record the bed number and name of the soldier who hid opium and his smoking gun, as well as the soldier's place of origin, and then stood on the platform and pointed out the soldier's bed number and his name, and dragged out the thousands of soldiers who were named out and beheaded to show the public, and immediately blood spilled outside the city wall, so that the audience was shocked and frightened, and the magistrates present also broke out in a cold sweat for this. After that, He Jiehao stood on the platform of the general and said: "You have committed a taboo against soldiers by smoking opium, and those who find it in the future will be severely punished, of course, there are also mistakes of the chief general who are not strict." After finishing speaking, he squinted at the generals and these magistrates behind him, and these magistrates and generals knelt down with their legs weak, and said, "Lord Chincha," their kneeling legs trembled. Then He Jiehao continued: "If the army is not strictly managed, the battle will definitely be defeated. Then he entered the camp and ordered his scribe to bring the army's salary and account books to check the accounts. The generals and local officials sitting next to them were silent, and their faces were also dazed, and they did not make any preparations, and some of the magistrates were afraid that they would be killed, and even some were weak-hearted, so they fainted on the spot and ordered someone to carry them down.

"Who kept this account, there are many loopholes."

The scribe walked out and knelt down, and He Jiehao said: "Dragged out and beheaded, what use do these mediocre officials want him?" ”

"Lord Qincha, the small wrong, it was Lord Yu and General Ji who wanted the small one to record this."

Lord Yu and General Ji walked out and said, "Lord Qincha," as if he was a little arrogant.

"Someone's coming, drag these two out and behead them."

"Why do you want to kill us, we have someone in the capital, and it is a celebrity next to the emperor, you are just a scholar, and doing it against us is equivalent to touching an egg on a stone, you can't do it, this general advises you to accept it when you see it, don't go too far."

"This official has the emperor's decree, but he has the right to cut first and then play, you despise the superior, someone is coming, drag it out and behead." Then he ordered the Qin Guards to confiscate the family property of Lord Yu and General Ji, including the account books and lists of bribing officials, among which there were indispensable first-class officials in the capital, and there were many corrupt officials, how could the Qing Dynasty not decline. They are all intertwined, their power is so great, and their power can easily pinch him to death, so they still accept it when they see it and secretly burn these account books. The next day, according to the list, some generals and local officials were named, and said: "Such corrupt officials embezzle military salaries, and their crimes are extremely heinous, and they confiscate their family property, and the first offender or the most serious offender is beheaded for public display, and the accomplices are sent to the army, and their families are enslaved to set an example." Then the generals of these officials were dragged down, and blood was sprinkled all over the torture table. The soldiers in the audience and the onlookers all cheered and cheered, and the military appearance was greatly boosted. Then recruit village soldiers to expand the military strength. Everyone knows that he governed the army fairly and strictly, and he came to join the army, drilled, and prepared to fight on the front line.

Hua Hong's belly is getting bigger and bigger day by day, and when I went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables alone, I overheard the news of Lord Qincha's recruitment of new soldiers, and I also saw the notice posted on the wall, saying, "Do you say that this Lord Qincha is He Jiehao?" ”

These aunts discussed: "It's not the son of the He family or who, we can also follow the light." ”

"Who are they, they are the Wenqu stars in the sky, we can't touch them and can't climb them."

"Where he's recruiting new soldiers, can you tell me, aunties?" Hua Hong was a little happy, happy that her heart had finally settled, and a little excited, excited that she could finally find out the whereabouts of her beloved, so she asked anxiously.

"In Nanchong, but Nanchong is far away from here," these aunts looked at the woman with a big belly, and asked a little strangely: "Girl, why are you asking about this?" ”

"The little woman is here to look for a husband, and my husband is also a soldier in the barracks, so I inquired about it."

"You see you have a big belly, it's not easy, but it's a little inconvenient to go to Nanchong, where does the girl live, and the accent is not a local."

"The little woman came from the capital and stayed at the Honglai Inn temporarily."

These aunts began to worry about this, and said: "I am alone and looking for a husband, and now that there are many wars ahead, your husband may no longer be there." ”

An older one next to him reproached: "What nonsense are you talking about, how unlucky," and then smiled at Hua Hong and said: "The road to Nanchong is far away, I think you are about to give birth, I think it is not very convenient to go after the child is born?" ”

"Thank you for your kindness, whether he is there, whether he is dead in battle or alive, the little girl will find him," after saying that, he left slowly, and the aunt behind him exclaimed, "Come to my house when you come back if you have no place to live," and it seems that these aunts were touched by her behavior.

Hua Hong traveled thousands of miles to Nanchong to find her husband, and the bitterness along the way was indescribable, and her heart to find her husband was so resolute. When it was dark, I realized that I had even worn out my feet in order to rush to Nanchong, and before I limped to the barracks, two soldiers stepped forward and pointed their spears at Hua Hong.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? ”

"Little woman bonus, here to find my husband."