The bastard that Sun Xiangfu said in his mouth was the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, why did he give such an order? This is a good time to talk about what happened in Chang'an during this time.

In the eyes of most people, killing locusts will anger the locust god, and since the outbreak of the locust plague, those officials of the family line have been talking nonsense about killing 'locusts' in the court, which is equivalent to killing the emperor, and repeatedly advised the emperor to order that the people should be prohibited from hunting and killing locusts.

As smart as Li Shimin, of course he knew that these were those landlords who wanted to make a profit, so he never paid attention to it, however, the plague in Weinan County broke out at this time.

The plague is something that everyone talked about in ancient times, especially when the location of the plague outbreak was a prefecture and county near Chang'an, a bad control, the entire Tang Dynasty was in danger of extinction, and when many courtiers said that eating locusts was the cause of the plague, Li Shimin had to be cautious. In this period when medicine was not well developed, who could explain this.

For the sake of prudence, for some other purposes, Li Shimin issued this order, and when the imperial list was posted, the people who originally knew that locusts could be used to satisfy their hunger were also afraid, not only did not dare to eat them, but also feared them like tigers, which led to the scene of starvation everywhere now.

Sun Xiangfu had just finished scolding, when he saw a group of cavalry running over from outside the bazaar, and behind their team, on the carriages, Sun Xiangfu saw piles of corpses.

"The imperial court has an order that all corpses that die of starvation or illness will be handed over to the government for disposal, and those who are disposed of without authorization and concealed and not reported will ······be imprisoned for 3,000 miles."

Soon, as the sergeant's shouting spread, several corpses were carried out by the people on the small river market, and the sergeant only roughly counted the numbers, and asked his subordinates to throw the corpses on the carriage without asking about the identity of the deceased and the cause of death.

Sun Xiangfu, who saw the whole process, felt a tangle in his heart, stretched out his hand to stop the team and asked, "This military academy, what are you doing here?" ”

The officer at the head saw that Sun Xiangfu was wearing an official uniform, so he replied, "Lord Hui, the last general is on official duty, the new imperial physician ordered Sun Daochang to say that in this kind of weather, corpses are easy to perish, and decomposing corpses are easy to cause plague, so every day we have to inspect various villages and market towns, and the corpses that died that day will be incinerated in a centralized manner." ”

Sun Simiao's suggestion was correct, but seeing the corpse that was pulled away by a car, Sun Xiangfu didn't feel good in his heart, how did the rich land of Guanzhong become like this?

"How many corpses do you collect a day?" Sun Xiangfu asked in a heavy tone.

"When there are more than 30 bodies, when there are few, there are more than a dozen, the hotter the day, the more people die, just in our Xinfeng County, there are more than 30 groups of corpse patrol teams, and the last general is only responsible for the ten miles around Happy Village, the situation is good, and those who can live to Happy Village will basically not die."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand, motioned to the riding school to do his own business, and asked the guards to carry some rice on the boat, set up a cauldron by the river, and boiled porridge for those hungry people on the small river who couldn't walk.

In less than half an hour, Sun Xiangfu led Zhao Gang, Zhang Ke and others to Xingfu Village, which used to be green and full of various crops, and now it has become a little dry, but there is one thing that is better here than other places, that is, there are many fewer locusts flying in the sky, because the people live more densely, and master the effective method of exterminating locusts, in the village, near the reservoir, there is a little green field, and the branches and leaves of the grapevines are still lush on the eel loach pond in the back mountain.

Of course, this is just an embellishment, and what really makes the eye impossible to ignore is the population.

There are at least tens of thousands of people gathered in this part of Happy Village, because it is midsummer weather, pergolas are set up everywhere, and the big house of the public house is crowded with children.

Seeing Sun Xiangfu and his entourage squeezing in, Sun Deshou ran down from the podium with a surprised face.

"Big brother, you're finally back, our village can't hold it anymore."

Happiness as the foundation of Sun Xiangfu, food reserves and money reserves are very sufficient, however, in the face of tens of thousands of people who eat and drink in vain, it seems a little thin, not long after the outbreak of the locust plague, the reserve of food was eaten up by the victims who came one after another, and it is also a drop in the bucket to buy food with the money from the reserves, and the cost of a day is hundreds or thousands, tens of thousands of cash reserves, and it is almost used in a month.

"Don't worry, everything will pass, what about Brother Dali? Why didn't I see him? ”

At the mention of Sun Dali, Sun Deshou's face was gloomy, and he whispered, "There is a royal history in the imperial court that impeached us in Happy Village for violating the order to catch locusts, and Your Majesty asked Brother Dali to be imprisoned." ”

"What?"

Sun Xiangfu was stunned when he heard this, and then thought of the emperor list on Xiaoheji, and suddenly a wave of anger burned in his chest.

"Zhao Gang, you stay and organize people to unload grain at the wharf, Zhang Ke, you take someone to Chang'an with me."

Sun Xiangfu got down in the happy village, and then hurriedly beat his horse away, however, it was the process of rushing in less than two hours that gave him a specific understanding of the disasters of this period.

Patrols passed in front of him, and the corpses that had been piled up on the wagons were at least hundreds, and on both sides of the road, the men begging with clay bowls would be the bones of the wagons to be sent to the incineration site in the next few days.

Li Shimin's 100,000 army, except for most of it, was used to blockade Weinan County, and the rest were assigned to do such work, which may be the reason why he could not divide a few thousand people to exterminate the private soldiers of the family who blocked the road on the Luoyang Canal and the Shuzhong Mountain Road.

The world's ability to resist disasters is too low, and seeing the corpses piled up outside the incineration site and the ashes of an altar, Sun Xiangfu's heart aches greatly,

Proportional to the heartache was his anger at those who were in turmoil, if it weren't for them, these people wouldn't have died, and they succeeded in making Sun Xiangfu kill them.

"Enter the city, go to the palace."

Sun Xiangfu's tone was resolute, Zhang Ke could hear it, he must have made a major decision in his heart, yes, he felt that the appearance of him whipping the horse was very tragic, but this tragedy was so charming that he did not hesitate to keep up with the pace, as if his own life and death were not so important at this time.