"Cao Cao and his subordinates have escaped from Luoyang, his subordinate Dian Wei died in the battle of our army at the north gate, Wen Hou and General Gongming have led troops to chase, but it is estimated that Cao Cao and his party are in the Yellow River by boat, our army has no navy, I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up. In addition, there are Beihai Kong Rong and Liu Bei and others who escaped, it has been ascertained that it was Huang Zhong from Jingzhou and Beihai Tai Shici and others who rescued him, Huang Zhong and others' comrade Liao Hua was beheaded by General Ma Chao, but General Ma Chao was also shot in the shoulder socket by Huang Zhong, fortunately did not hurt his life......

In Dong Zhuo's bedroom, Kang Peng, who was faint from the smoke, did not wake up until the early morning of the next day, and Kang Peng immediately summoned Jia Xu, Li Ru, Lu Su and others to inquire about the situation last night.

Kang Peng waved his fat hand impatiently, "Ignore them for the time being, let's talk about the situation in the granary first, how much grain has been rescued?" "Thinking of the food that the victims outside Luoyang City needed for the winter, Kang Peng had a headache, and now he has been burned again, which is even worse, Kang Peng can't care about Cao Cao and Liu Bei.

Li Ru said bitterly: "More than eighty percent of the 500,000 Hu wheat stored in the Luoyang granary was burned, and less than 100,000 Hu were rescued. ”

Kang Peng's eyes rolled and he fell on the bed weakly, about 30 catties per hundred, 3 million catties per 100,000 hu, this number looks very large, but there are more than 400,000 victims in Luoyang City, and the average is less than ten catties of grain per person, which is enough to last for a few days? There is still an endless stream of victims coming in from the Tiger Prison Pass and Bishui Pass, and what should those victims do?

Kang Peng squeezed out a voice from between his teeth, "Have you found out?" Why is the fire so big? Who set the fire? I'm going to kill his whole family! Kang Peng shouted frantically: "These beasts, they can even get their hands on the life-saving food of the victims, I will kill their whole family to the point that no chickens and dogs will be left!" ”

Li Ru stopped talking, and Jia Xu muttered: "Who set the fire has not yet been investigated, according to the report of the non-commissioned officer and the on-site investigation, it is estimated that the person who set the fire used gunpowder to start the fire, so the fire spread extremely quickly." Although gunpowder has been invented in the Han Dynasty, there are very few people who know it, and even fewer people can use it, so Jia Xu added, "Gunpowder is a powder that burns very quickly, and Fang Shi inadvertently made it when he was alchemy. ”

"I know the formula of gunpowder, one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal." Kang Peng gritted his teeth and said: "To be able to light such a big fire, there must be not a few gunpowder used, the enemy is prepared in Luoyang, go and check Luoyang's shop for me, who has been buying saltpeter and sulfur in large quantities in recent times, you will know who set the fire." ”

"Yes, the villain will arrange it." In order to relieve the pressure on Li Ru, Lu Su had already taken over the economic management of Luoyang, and with Kang Peng's order, he hurriedly ran to make arrangements.

There was silence in the room, each thinking about their own thoughts, and after a while, Li Rucai said: "Father-in-law, Mr. Wenhe, now that things have come to this point, Cao Cao, the initiator of the crusade against our army alliance, has run away, and Liu Bei, who has a strength that cannot be underestimated, has also run away, if we can't catch them, what should we do next?" There are also rations for the victims, and now the rest can last up to ten days, and even if the grain is transferred from Chang'an, the time will not be able to catch up. ”

Kang Peng pondered for a long time, closed his eyes and sighed: "I don't know anymore, you go down to discuss it, and then report back to me, I'm tired, let me rest for a while." After one failure after another, Kang Peng was physically and mentally exhausted, and he just wanted to escape.

Li Ru wanted to say something, but Jia Xu grabbed him and shook his head slightly, Li Ru didn't say anything anymore, and bowed down with Jia Xu.

Kang Peng looked at the mosquito net on the bed in a daze, failed, completely failed, Cao Cao and Liu Bei did not kill, but also put into the life-saving granary, the scholars were offended by themselves again, and the infamy spread all over the country, the Yellow Turban Rebel Army outside the Tiger Prison was about to fight, whether it could hold it for the time being, the people in the gate were all over the field, and it was nothing to be infamous if one was not handled well, I was afraid of provoking the people's uprising. Why is it that the protagonist in the novel can be proud when he returns to the Three Kingdoms, but I am struggling? Can't I really escape the fate of Boss Dong?

A large number of people who bought saltpeter sulfur were quickly found, Lu Su found out that saltpeter sulfur was purchased by several scholars in Luoyang, and some officials in the court were also involved, and several scholars who could provide funds had fled from Luoyang long before the civil and military conference, and a few officials who did not flee did not speak, but just scolded Dong Zhuo for bullying the king, ** students, perverse behavior, Li Ru and others also knew that this was because of Kang Peng's recent emphasis on the people and light on the people, and they were afraid that they would be tortured to provoke greater resistance from the scholars, and they did not torture them too much, just put them in prison, not wanting these people to commit suicide soon after being imprisoned, and the burning of the granary became an unsolved case.

Here Kang Peng wanted to escape the trouble, but the trouble came to him one after another throughout the day, first to hunt down Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others Lu Bu and Xu Huang twice empty-handed, and then the court military officials attacked him because of the assassin's break-into the palace, to investigate his dereliction of duty, if it was not for Gao Shun's mobilization of the camp to protect Dong Zhuo's mansion, I am afraid that the siege of Dong Zhuo's mansion will be repeated. Then it was the literati who came to participate in the civil and military conference, because there was such a big thing in Luoyang City last night, the civil and military conference was forced to be canceled, and the generals were easy to do, and all those who had the ability and volunteered to join Dong Zhuojun, and arranged positions according to their performance in the preliminary round, which was the only gain in this conference, but those poor and sour literati were not easy to fool, most of them were the kind of villains scolded by Kang Peng. But these wastes like to be arrogant, self-righteous, jumping up and down in the Taichang Mansion, pointing fingers, and insisting that the court give them justice, Li Ru and Jia Xu considered that these people are all scholars and literati, and they are people who can no longer offend now, so they kicked the ball to the servant Zhu Xian, who has a good reputation in Shilin, and Cai Yong, the servant, and let them go to waste saliva with these people.

These Kang Peng can be ignored and handed over to his subordinates, but what happened outside Luoyang City at noon made Kang Peng no longer able to pretend to be deaf and dumb, Zhao Yunlai reported to him that some of the victims outside the city began to go on a hunger strike! Kang Peng broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly asked in detail, "Zilong, what's going on?" You can go into more detail. ”

Zhao Yun was also full of sorrow, "Because the grain was burned last night, there is now a rumor among the victims, saying that the food is not enough to eat, Taishi, you can't help it, just wait for the food to be eaten, they will all starve to death, so those older victims refuse the food we give them, saying that they have lived enough, and give the food to the young people and children, so that they can live a few more days." ”

"Nonsense!" Kang Peng jumped up from the bed and shouted, "Xiu'er, change my clothes quickly, I want to go out." "Although there are many different kinds of bad students in modern society, he has one advantage from a farming family, that is, he respects the elderly.

When Kang Peng rushed out of the room, two people suddenly walked out of the hall and saluted Kang Peng, "I've seen the Taishi." Kang Peng took a closer look, it turned out to be Sima Lang and Sima Yi, the two of them risked their lives last night to remind Kang Peng to be careful of the disaster granary, although it was late, but Kang Peng still let them stay in Dong Zhuo's house temporarily, as a result, Kang Peng was stunned by the smoke of the fire, and when he woke up, he was angry and forgot about them, and they waited in the hall for a long time.

Kang Peng wanted to woo the two brothers, but he couldn't care about it now, and waved his hand at them, "No courtesy, go to the city with the prime minister first, and talk about other things later." ”

The fast horse rushed to the outside of Luoyang City, and there was already a mourning in the wilderness where the victims were settled, the old man was crying and the child was screaming, and it was a mess, Kang Peng saw Cai Wenji from afar with Sun Shangxiang, Zhen Mi and other little beauties there I don't know what to do, and Lu Su, who was already sweating profusely, came up, "Taishi, take a look, these old people don't want to get food, and some people have gone north, saying that they want to throw the Yellow River and save food for young people." ”

At this time, Cai Wenji also saw Kang Peng, and immediately brought her little follower over, her face was also covered with beads of sweat, and her hair that was scorched by the fire last night was also cut a lot, "Old ......, Taishi, are you better?" I heard Xiangxiang say that you were in a coma all night. ”

Kang Peng didn't notice the concern in her words, but noticed that she was holding a few steamed buns in her hand, "Are you going to persuade the old man to eat?" ”

A trace of anger flashed in Cai Wenji's eyes, but she forcibly suppressed it, and said angrily: "What? Can't you? ”

Kang Peng nodded, stopped talking, and strode into the victims, who also recognized him, and all knelt down, crying. Kang Peng asked an old man, "Old man, why don't you eat?" Is it because we don't give you good food? ”

The old man kowtowed and cried: "Master, you are too good to us, but we know that you have no food in your hands, and the thieves of heaven have burned your grain, and we have eaten up your grain, so you will no longer be able to fight the yellow turban thieves, and these children will also be starved to death." Master, you are the best person in the world, you let us old wastes die, and leave food for these children. After the old man finished crying, the other old men also cried, kowtowed, and begged Kang Peng to leave them alone and let them fend for themselves.

"Nonsense!" Kang Peng suddenly roared, those old people were so frightened that they stopped crying, Kang Peng's ugly face was almost distorted with anger, his eyes were rounder, and he had not seen the appearance of a child crying for a long time again, and he was so frightened that Sun Shangxiang, Zhen Mi and Wu Xin, who had never seen him before, went straight into Cai Wenji's arms.

Kang Peng yelled: "Isn't the old man a human being? Without the hard work of the elderly, where the prime of life? You starve to death, but don't your children grieve for you? Putting these aside for the time being, the original appearance is going to carry the black pot for you, and some people want to spread rumors that the original appearance forced you to death, and the original appearance does this to you, can you bear to see your children sad for you, and bear to see the original appearance to be infamous for you? ”

Kang Peng roared hoarsely, and was about to find a sip of water to drink, Cai Wenji had already obediently handed over a teacup, but Kang Peng didn't notice who was so careful, just took it and drank it all, and then said loudly: "If you still think that Benxiang is really good for you and for your benefit, go and eat for Benxiang, don't let Benxiang be infamous for you." As for the food problem, you can rest assured that the Prime Minister must have the idea to let you spend this winter, and next year, you will go to Yongzhou and Bingzhou, and the Prime Minister will prepare land, seeds, and ploughing cattle for you, so that you can eat and dress warmly in the future. ”

The victims burst into tears, kowtowing and shouting, "Long live the Taishi, long live the Taishi." The elderly victims also gave up their hunger strike and slowly lined up to receive food, but they all received half of their usual amount......

The victims were temporarily pacified, but the road in front of Kang Peng was even more difficult, the Luoyang granary could not hold up for a few days, but the grain in Yongzhou and Bingzhou escorted by Niu Fu was still on the way, and it was difficult to reach it in ten days and a half, while the Yellow Turban Rebel Army was advancing rapidly, and the refugees in Jizhou were also flooding into the pass......