Chapter 464: A Few White Sails to the Haihe River
"Murderer, Nan and Duan Shaolong are also!"
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Duan Shaolong raised the head, excitedly turned around the field, and shouted three times before throwing the head down.
"Ahh
The bloody human head and bones rolled in front of Zhang Zhao's group.
Many people saw Wang Huapo hurriedly retreating, and those who couldn't retreat sat directly on the ground.
"Killβuh"
Before Old Man Fang finished shouting, he was beheaded by Hu Xiaotian.
Two people died one after another for a while, and the people on both sides were scared and squeezed back.
Li Chengqian saw that what came out was a muscular young man, thinking that it was Duan Shaolong's follower.
I don't want this young man to be very assertive, and he killed Old Man Fang and bowed solemnly to Li Chengqian: "Caomin Qinghe Hu Xiaotian see His Royal Highness the Prince." β
Then Duan Shaolong also followed and saluted Li Chengqian.
"Two strong men are even." Li Chengqian smiled.
Hu Xiaotian straightened up, turned around and looked at the place where Zhang Zhao and Cui Rafter were standing.
Hu Xiaotian has a great reputation in the entire Hebei Province, and his family is from Qinghe County, so he naturally knows Cui Rafter and Zhang Zhao, who are famous in Qinghe County.
"Little Brother Hu, why did you kill Mr. Fang." A poor man who had just asked Old Man Fang for advice looked at Hu Xiaotian timidly and asked.
"If this old liar doesn't kill it, will he still keep it for the New Year?" Duan Shaolong said angrily.
These poor people didn't dare to rush into him when they saw that he had killed Mrs. Wang Hua just now, and he was still covered in blood.
Cui Rafter and Zhang Zhao saw that Hu Xiaotian had been staring at them, so they turned around and retreated into the crowd.
"Cui Gongzi and Zhang Gongzi led people to make trouble for His Royal Highness the Prince, did they force hundreds of thousands of poor people on the south bank of the Haihe River to death?" Hu Xiaotian asked sternly.
"The people of the Cui family and the Zhang family are also here?
What a guts! β
Li Chengqian's face was solemn and he walked out of the crowd.
Hu Xiaotian turned around, stretched out his hand and pointed at the crowd and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, please look, this is Cui Rafter, the son of my Cui clan in Qinghe County, and this is Zhang Zhao, the son of the Zhang family." β
Li Chengqian's eyes followed Hu Xiaotian's hand, and sure enough, he saw two different young people in the crowd.
Seeing this, Cui Rafter and Zhang Zhao looked at each other and walked out, and respectfully bowed to Li Chengqian: "Cui Rafter and Zhang Zhao of the grass people pay a visit to His Royal Highness the Prince. β
Li Chengqian looked at the standard posture of Cui Rafter and Zhang Zhao, and before he could speak, he heard a discussion behind him.
"This is the son of the Cui family and the Zhang family!"
"Why did they come here to suffer?"
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From the discussion of the people, it can be heard that these people respect these two sons from the bottom of their hearts, and even worship them blindly.
Yan is a celebrity brainless fan, see the mentality of a star.
The corners of Li Chengqian's mouth twitched, he took a deep breath to calm his mood, and then said calmly: "Flat." β
Cui Rafter straightened up and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the two of us were worried that so many poor people would come to His Royal Highness the Prince, and we followed all the way for fear that something would happen on the way.
Because I didn't expect to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today, and I wasn't prepared, I didn't dare to come out to see it, and I asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for forgiveness. As he spoke, he made another gesture at Li Chengqian.
He spoke in a respectful tone and with a gentle smile on his face, and no one could fault the slightest rudeness.
Hao Chujun stepped forward and said: "Since this is the case, then please ask the two of you to lead these poor people to Youzhou City, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has ordered that the 100,000 poor people who are going there now will be arranged by the Youzhou Governor's Mansion." β
Cui Rafter looked at Li Chengqian when he heard this, he was saluting and explaining to Li Chengqian just now, so he wanted to wait for Li Chengqian's words.
Li Chengqian knew that Cui Rafter wanted to raise his identity, so he ignored him, turned his head to look at Duan Shaolong and Hu Xiaotian and asked, "Why did you kill these two people?"
"They slandered His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and should be killed." Duan Shaolong said in a sonorous tone.
Li Chengqian smiled when he heard this, and then turned his head to look at Hu Xiaotian.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Zhang Zhao shouted with an ugly face.
Li Chengqian looked back at the two of them in amazement and asked, "Are you two okay?"
Zhang Zhao's face was ugly and he couldn't speak, Cui Rafter said with an unchanged expression: "His Royal Highness the Prince of Qiqi, just now this person ordered me to lead the people to Youzhou, and we should have been ordered to lead the people to Youzhou, but these people came to defect to His Royal Highness the Prince, and they obeyed the orders of the grass people." β
Li Chengqian waited for Cui Rafter to finish nodding lightly, and then motioned to Hao Chujun to continue to 'persuade' these people to leave.
Hao Chujun glanced at Cui Rafter Zhang Zhao, who was standing next to him watching the play, took a few steps forward, and said loudly: "This official repeats, the land reclaimed here can only feed the more than 300,000 people who have come here now. If so many of you have to stay here, you will all starve to death together. β
As soon as Hao Chujun finished saying this, the people standing behind Li Chengqian, who had not yet moved, started to talk first.
"No, they're all starving, right?"
"There's so much land here, everyone can just eat less."
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There is a saying in "Red Lantern Notes" called "The poor do not help the poor who take care of it, two bitter melons and one vine" For thousands of years, the Chinese have been like this, they have a nest head, and when they see someone asking for food, they can break a small piece for others to eat.
Hearing Hao Chujun's insistence on driving these people away, the poor people who came first were not happy.
Li Chengqian couldn't just take a few steps, turned around and looked at everyone sincerely, and said in a hoarse voice: "The lonely king arranged for them to go to Youzhou not to starve them to death, but to arrange other things for them to do.
The Lone King has never given up on you, so how can he ignore them?"
At this time, Li Chengqian was still wearing a sackcloth with high trouser legs, and black mud was sticking to his shoes.
When a group of poor people saw the image of Li Chengqian, they choked on a thousand words and couldn't say a word.
Li Chengqian continued: "You also saw the two people who came out just now, and as soon as they opened their mouths, they either said that this place could not be cultivated, or that someone had been thrown into the river.
Do they want to stay here and reclaim the wasteland? Do they want to share a bite to eat?"
As soon as Li Chengqian said this, the armor chiefs selected by Hao Chujun also said below:
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is benevolent and righteous, and personally leads us to reclaim the wasteland, as long as we obey His Royal Highness the Prince."
"Just listen to His Royal Highness the Prince, can you eat without a mouthful of food?"
"They don't even dare to listen to His Royal Highness the Prince, if they stay, will we still have a way to live?"
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With such discussions, no one will pity the person opposite.
Li Chengqian turned to look at the person opposite and asked solemnly, "Are you really planning to disobey King Gu's order today?"
In fact, they have long disobeyed, saying this just to put pressure on the person opposite.
When Li Chengqian's guards in the East Palace heard this, they all looked at him with a grim expression. These people are all people who have been killed in the sea of corpses and blood, and the momentum released at this time is terrifying.
Some people on the other side unconsciously took a step back when they saw it.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is serious."
Saying that, a middle-aged man walked out of the crowd, and Li Chengqian saw that although he was wearing a coarse linen short coat, his face was round and his demeanor was frivolous, and he was by no means a poor man who spent all day in the fields.
"Caomin Pingjian County Li Wu see His Royal Highness the Prince."
The middle-aged man walked out and saluted Li Chengqian very standardly.
"Flat."
Li Chengqian looked at him lightly, waiting for him to speak.
Seeing this, Li Wu was stunned, so he continued: "The grass people and villagers heard in Pingjian County that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is benevolent and righteous and shelters us helpless poor people. We have come here with a lot of hard work, and the food we brought has been eaten, and now we are going to Youzhou, this is ......"
When Li Wu said this, he hid his face and cried bitterly, and as soon as Li Wu cried, there was a sigh around him.
"Zhao County Li can't survive in Pingjian County?"
Pingjian County is the county of the Li clan of Zhao County.
Although Li Chengqian held back his anger and tried his best to calm his tone, his words were still full of sarcasm.
Li Wu was also furious when he heard this, but he still pretended to wipe his tears with his sleeves before raising his head and saying: "The Li family of Zhaojun will naturally not be unable to live, the grass people are not the descendants of the Li family, they are just poor people, so their livelihood is difficult." β
Seeing this, Li Chengqian sneered, pointed at Li Wudao, and said, "Pull him over and let everyone see where he looks like a pauper?"
As soon as Li Chengqian's voice fell, the burly Duan Shaolong grabbed Li Wu's wrist as soon as he stretched out his hand, pulled him in front of the poor people behind him and said, "Open your eyes and see, this person is a poor person?"
As he spoke, he grabbed Li Wu's hand and raised it towards everyone: "This thin skin and tender meat is different from yours." β
Those poor people who were standing at the front were also busy walking up to look, and Li Wu, who was controlled by Duan Shaolong, blushed when he saw this, and kept twisting his body, but he was never able to get rid of Duan Shaolong's control.
"At first glance, such a person is a rich young master who doesn't do any work, how could he end up in this step?"
"He's here to make trouble for us, it's good to see us!"
"Bang Bang"
Several paupers looked at Li Wu, and the more they talked, the more angry they became, and one of them raised his hand and slapped Li Wu twice as he spoke.
Seeing this, Duan Shaolong pushed Li Wu forward, and Li Wu plunged into the crowd, and then felt a raindrop of fists, and the soles of his feet all beckoned towards him.
"Ahh
Li Wu was kicked on his side by the angry pauper, bending over like a prawn and screaming uncontrollably, and the pauper kept calling him with his fists and feet.
Listening to the screams behind him, Li Chengqian looked at the opposite man calmly: "This is the end of deceiving the people, do you really want to continue?"
"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, stop deceiving people."
Seeing that the brother of the same clan was beaten with a sandbag of adult flesh, Li Ying couldn't bear it anymore and strode out.
"Presumptuous!"
"Someone take down this maniac." Hao Chujun shouted.
Several East Palace guards stepped forward to take Li Ying down, and Li Ying looked at the East Palace guards proudly when she saw this.
He raised his face and said: "I am Li Ying, the son of the Li clan of Zhao County, who of you dares to be rude." The guards of the Li family who were mixed in the crowd stepped forward to protect Li Ying.
Li Chengqian raised his hand to stop the guards of the East Palace and looked at Li Ying with a smile.
Li Ying saw that everyone was looking at him, smiled proudly, looked at Li Chengqian, and said:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, let's not talk darkly, I Li Ying checked before I came here, you only have a few days of food here, and now the food that can be sent from all over the country will be half a month away at the earliest.
You are now making these people work hard, but you are only going to order them to be killed and filled into the sea when they are exhausted and unable to resist. β
"It's nonsense, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally digs up the mud and throws the soil and shares the weal and woe with the people, how can it harm the people." Duan Shaolong was the first to speak for Li Chengqian.
Li Ying sneered and said, "'It's nonsense', then you can ask this person if he has prepared enough food?"
Duan Shaolong and some poor people couldn't help but look at Li Chengqian when they heard this.
Hao Chujun stood up and said to everyone: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already issued an order to transport grain from Dengzhou by sea ship here, and the grain will arrive in the next two days." β
Hu Xiaotian took a step forward and asked, "Li Ying, if you had seen that there was no food here, you should have stood up early in the morning and told everyone, why did you tell this matter after exhausting the rogue means?"
It is clear that you scholars want to forcibly occupy this fertile land, so they led people to make trouble. β
"This Li Ying is planning to break the kettle today." Li Chengqian said in a deep voice.
Li Ying didn't answer Hu Xiaotian's words, and directly refuted Hao Chujun: "Who saw the grain transportation by sea?" If there is no food, there is no food, and if you want to starve to death, you want to starve to death. β
Speaking of this, he raised his voice sharply and said: "Fathers and elders, I, the Li clan of Zhao County and the Cui clan of Qinghe, as well as the Zhang clan of Qinghe, have been in Hebei Province for hundreds of years, and have taken care of the elders in the township for generations.
Today, you listen to Li Ying's words, if there is no food here, you will definitely starve to death if you stay here, so you might as well take your tools and go back to the countryside with us. β
As soon as these people spoke, the poor people were suddenly dizzy, and they were stunned and did not know what to do.
After Li Ying said that, someone behind him pointed at Li Chengqian and shouted, "How can such a vicious person tolerate him?"
"He wants to harm us, and we want to get justice."
"I don't believe he's the crown prince."
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These people were all arranged by Li Ying, and the target was directly aimed at Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian heard that there was no sound behind him for a long time, and his heart was really cold.
Secret Dao: Wouldn't it be good for me to cross over and cooperate with the high-ranking officials of the Shi clan......
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard someone shouting from behind: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally led us to surround the field, don't you have a little conscience?"
Saying that, another person said: "These people came here to forcibly stay, and now they say that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to harm us, do you believe their words?"
The people who spoke for Li Chengqian were all in the crowd, and the voice could only be heard when it reached Li Chengqian's ears.
Li Chengqian looked back and understood, there were more than 10,000 people standing opposite him, many of whom were standing in front of Li Ying arranged in advance, and there were more than 100,000 people behind him, and those standing in front were some old people who looked stable, and only the steady old people were selected by Hao Chujun.
These people really don't have much knowledge, and they have been taken care of by the scholars since they were children, so they are more willing to believe Li Ying's words.
It took half a day for Li Ying to speak in front and reach the back, so the voice of support for Li Chengqian sounded relatively late.
As he spoke, the supporter squeezed through the crowd to the front and made a desperate posture to fight with the person opposite.
Seeing that his hard work was not in vain, Li Chengqian immediately ignited his fighting spirit and directly ordered: "Put a signal!" β
When one of the guards heard the order, he hurried to a place where no one was there to set off a flare.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, these rabble are not to be feared, just leave it to the ministers here." Hao Chujun said with a dry spirit.
"No, the Lone King is going to fight this group of local tyrants with the people here today." Li Chengqian looked at Li Yingdao, who had already retreated.
The war horse that Li Chengqian rode when he came just now had been parked beside him, and at this time he was about to start a war, and Liu Kui was busy bringing Li Chengqian's war horse.
Li Chengqian turned over on his horse, and the guards over there also lit the signal flare.
"Boom-boom-boom"
There were three loud noises in the sky, causing tens of thousands of people to turn their heads to look.
Li Chengqian was riding on a war horse and was about to give the order to start a battle, when countless white sails on the Haihe River in the distance were galloping towards him.
Li Chengqian turned around and shouted: "Hebei father, the grain allocated by the lonely king has come. But food is limited, and if these people take it, you will starve to death! β
As soon as Li Chengqian said that, someone followed suit.
"Food has arrived ......"
"These people are here to steal food......"
"They stole the food and we starved to death......"
"Fought with themββββ"
Without waiting for Li Chengqian's order, with a shovel in his back, the poor people with pickaxes swarmed out and went desperately with the people opposite.