Although the imperial court has been claiming that Luoyang is unharmed, there are still many merchants in Chang'an who have obtained the truth through pigeon letters, Luoyang has fallen, the news has spread throughout the city, many older people still remember that after An Lushan occupied Luoyang, a series of tragic situations occurred, 600,000 troops were wiped out in Shaanxi County, thieves entered the customs, the emperor fled west, and Chang'an fell, these not distant histories are still engraved in the memories of many people.

The panic and nervous atmosphere shrouded in the hearts of every family, the price of rice skyrocketed, overnight each bucket rose from 80 Wen to 500 Wen, but it is still maintaining an upward trend, almost every moment the price is jumping, not only rice, cloth, salt, medicinal herbs, tea, oil, almost everything related to life has begun to be snapped up, as refugees flocked into the Guanzhong, they brought a lot of facts about the brutality and blood of Cui Qinggong's army, but also caused panic in Chang'an.

On the afternoon of the 28th day of the first lunar month, the first vicious incident of thousands of hungry people looting rice shops in Xishi, resulting in the death of dozens of people, was from this incident, and the sky over Chang'an became a little more violent.

The day has just dawned, on the street of Yongle Fang, several carriages carrying more than 20 frightened orchids drove towards Zhang Huan's house, Jing Niang's face in the carriage was pale, she looked frightened, an hour ago, her persuasion farmhouse was robbed by hundreds of hungry people, the wine cellar was smashed, the grain depot was robbed and emptied, but this is not serious, there are bad people who take the opportunity to prevent fire, persuade the farmhouse to fall into a sea of fire, more than a dozen orchids were burned to death on the spot, Jing Niang escaped from the secret passage with the rest of the orchids, fortunately stopped a few carriages, they fled to Zhang Huan's mansion. ^^^^

The carriage stopped in front of the steps. Jing Niang got out of the car and told the soldiers guarding the door about the situation, and the soldiers immediately went in to report to his wife, and soon. Pei Ying came out to greet Jing Niang in person, although Pei Ying was a little dissatisfied with her husband's local behavior, but she couldn't care about Jing Niang's life and death in the chaos.

"They are like madmen. When I saw something of little value, I fought and robbed it, and killed my subordinates, so as to rob them of the gold ornaments

Jing Niang's voice trembled and told Pei Ying about the nightmare of the morning, two orchids were killed in front of her, and blood was splashed on her face, "Some of them are not hungry people at all, they don't want food." It is to rob money and things. ”

Pei Ying hugged her shoulders tightly. He kept whispering to comfort the frightened sister, "I know! I know! As long as the person is okay, you will be home when you get here. ”

Pei Ying also heard a little about the chaotic situation in Chang'an, and it is no wonder that the price of rice has skyrocketed, forcing many poor families to a dead end, and countless refugees have poured into the capital, and the people among them are complicated. Inevitably, the good and the bad are mixed.

Pei Ying sighed slightly, and then ordered Yang Chunshui to take Jing Niang to the inner house to rest, and called someone to find Steward Sun, at this time, Cui Ning ran in in a panic and said to Pei Ying urgently: "I just heard a news that a rice shop in Xuanyangfang was smashed last night, just next door to my mother's house." ^^^^Eldest sister. I want to go back and see my father. ”

Pei Ying hurriedly comforted him and said, "Sister Ning, don't worry, I'll send someone to find out the news." If the situation is serious, I will send a team of soldiers to protect Lao Xiangguo. ”

Cui Ning's heart slowly calmed down, thinking of the chaos in Chang'an, she frowned slightly and said: "The rebels have only captured Luoyang, there are still 108,000 miles away from Chang'an, and the government can completely stabilize the situation, how can you let the public security deteriorate?" ”

Pei Ying also smiled helplessly: "This is actually caused by the high price of grain, last time I heard that many hawkers set up stalls to sell things, and earn up to more than ten yuan a day, and now the price of grain has reached seven hundred yuan, they have worked hard for a month, and they can't even afford a bucket of rice, what does the whole family rely on to survive?" Therefore, many people are good citizens during the day, but at night they will go out to look for food, and maybe the person who robbed the grain store is the neighbor next door in the surrounding area! ”

"What about the government?" Cui Ning couldn't help but be indignant: "They can give porridge to appease the hungry, so that at least people can live and not be forced to be a mob." =STARTER=="

"I heard from my eldest brother that the imperial court has just transferred a batch of military grain to Tongguan, and there are only 100,000 stones left in Taicang, and the grain on the right side of Longyou can't come for a while, so the government is also difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice."

As soon as Pei Ying said this, the maid at the door said, "Steward Sun is here!" ”

There were footsteps outside the house, and I only heard Steward Sun asking in the outhouse, "Is there something wrong with Madame looking for me?" ”

"Let me ask you, how much grain is still in our house?"

Steward Sun thought for a while and said, "Originally, there were 5,000 stones in the library, but a few days ago, I sent 3,000 stones to the military camp next door, and now there are about 2,000 stones left." ”

Two thousand stones, Pei Ying groaned for a while, and then said to him: "If the people in the house are in Chang'an, you send someone to send one stone of rice and one catty of salt to each of them." ”

Steward Sun is overjoyed, many maids and subordinates have been complaining to him in the past two days! Madame is really a bodhisattva, "That's what I'm doing!" ”

He turned around to leave, but Pei Ying stopped him again, "You come back!" ”

Steward Sun hurriedly stopped, came back and asked, "Does Madame have any other orders?" ”

"You just let Steward Liu do this, and I have other things to do for you."

Pei Ying lowered her head and thought about it, then asked Cui Ning next to her: "I think our family still has some surplus grain, so I will help the villagers in the workshop in the way of porridge, so that the rich families in Chang'an can help the people." \\\\\”

Cui Ning hesitated, and said with some unease: "The idea of the eldest sister to give porridge is good, but I am worried that when the news spreads, everyone in Chang'an will flock to us, and we can't resist it." ”

"Okay, next to us is the barracks, I'll go and tell General Li and let the soldiers maintain order."

Cui Ning thought about it well, and her mind became active, so she pursed her lips and smiled: "I have another suggestion, on the one hand, we help the victims, on the other hand, we put up flags to collect grain, I think many rich people are worried that they can't talk to Zhang Shangshu, so that the food will continue to come, so we will simply make things bigger." Let the people of Chang'an remember the kindness of Huanlang. ”

Pei Ying glanced at her quickly, and said to Steward Sun: "You will do it yourself, besides." You go to the barracks next door again and ask General Li Dingfang to come to my mansion for a while. ”

In the afternoon of the same day, a huge tent was erected in an open space at the gate of Yongle Fang. More than a dozen cauldrons in the tent are boiling thick white porridge, and a flag is raised on a three-zhang high wooden pole outside the tent, with four big characters of Zhangfu porridge written on it, and a flag is also erected not far away, but it is written: Seeking righteous food. *****

In less than a quarter of an hour, the news of Zhangfu's porridge first spread all over Yongle Fang, and poor families in the Fang came in an endless stream from all over the place. Soon there were three long lines in front of the tent. After another hour, more and more people rushed to ask for porridge, countless hungry people came to help the old and the young, and two hours later, tens of thousands of people poured near the gate of Yongle Fang, and the army stationed next to Zhangfu was also dispatched to maintain order among the victims.

The grain for righteousness also had an effect, and at dusk, Luqi Mansion, the closest place to Zhang's Mansion, took the lead in sending three hundred stone rice noodles; Wang Baoji, the largest cabinet shop in Chang'an, sent 500 stone of grain; Yang Ji Silk and Satin Company sent a hundred stone rice and fifty catties of salt; Taibai Restaurant sent a hundred stone rice; Zhang Yansheng's mansion sent fifty stone rice and a carriage to deliver the grain to Yongle Fang. By the time it got dark, Zhang's mansion had already raised 3,000 stone of grain.

The news that Zhang's mansion began to give porridge soon caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, and the next morning, Pei's mansion also announced the porridge relief in Xuanrenfang, Li Mian's mansion began to give porridge in Dongshi, the Cui family opened a porridge shed in Pingkangfang, and many Li clans also opened porridge sheds of different sizes.

On January 30, 30,000 Longyou troops arrived in Chang'an with millions of stone of grain, and the price of grain quickly dropped to 200 wen per bucket. With a group of Xiliang troops began to patrol the various squares of Chang'an. A riot caused by Cui Qinggong's capture of Luoyang finally subsided.

But at this time, another shocking news suddenly exploded over Chang'an. Nearly 100,000 Hui and Khitan coalition troops took advantage of the opportunity of the Tang Pinglu army to fight in the Bohai State, lightning-like attack on Hebei, entered the pass from Miyun, occupied Yuyang, and went to the Bohai State to fight 40,000 Pinglu Army encountered the Hu army on the way back, because they were outnumbered, defeated and returned to the Bohai State, and the 60,000 Youzhou troops currently stationed in Fanyang Jiedu are fighting fiercely with the Hu people, and the situation is unknown.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, the hearts of Chang'an people were as painful as knives, and Datang was like a scarred weak tiger, besieged by countless wolves, and everyone knew that the only hope was that the Longyou Army that had recovered Anxi could shoulder the burden of turning the tide.

That night, the sky was drizzling, and many Chang'an people spontaneously came outside Zhang Huan's mansion, and they stood in the drizzle in twos and threes, looking at the mansion of the Tang Dynasty's military department, their eyes were full of worry and expectation, and they were silently praying for the Tang Dynasty. The drizzle in the night became denser and denser, the sky was dark red, the cold night began to envelop Chang'an City, the left silver gate of the Daming Palace slowly opened, and hundreds of palace guards escorted the carriage of the Queen Mother to the direction of Xuanrenfang

Pei Jun has been ill for almost ten days, the situation in the Central Plains is getting more and more serious, coupled with the war in Hebei again, Pei Jun's illness has worsened at home and abroad, and the imperial doctor has played Cui Xiaofu, if Pei Xiangguo's condition does not improve within ten days, it is very likely that he will not survive this winter.

Cui Xiaofu is worried, everything happens one after another, and they are all developing in a bad direction, the root of all this is starting from Cui Qinggong's split of the Cui family, but until now Cui Xiaofu still does not dare to declare Cui Qinggong a traitor, that is her own brother, once the court declares Cui Qinggong a rebellion, Cui Qinggong is very likely to be the emperor in Luoyang, so what kind of crime should she Cui Xiaofu bear?

This is really a thorny problem that is difficult for her to face, now that Zhang Huandi's army has arrived in Hejin, if it drags on like this ambiguously, everyone in the world will think that it is her Cui Xiaofu who colluded with Cui Qinggong to rebel.

And now Cui Qinggong's matter is not the most serious, just now Pei Mingkai entered the palace to report to her, Fan Yangjun could not resist the crazy attack of the Hui and Khitan coalition forces, and has retreated to the area of Suicheng County, at present, Pei You has led 100,000 Hebei troops to the north to support, this is the last new force of the Pei family.

The situation has become serious enough to threaten the life and death of the Pei family, Cui Xiaofu can no longer sit still, if Pei You loses again, it means that the Optimus Prime that supports the Tang Dynasty has collapsed.

Although she was unwilling, Zhang Huan's army had to be sent to Hebei to fight anyway.

In the drizzle, Cui Xiaofu's carriage stirred up a mist and disappeared into the dark early spring night. To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to .qidiancom, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading! )