That night, Zhao Chen and others rested in the Zhongjing Palace.

Many of the soldiers of the army have also entered the palace! They have just come to Zhongjing City, and they have not yet built a military camp, and there is a vast area here, and they just live here! Of course, everyone knows that the palace is important, and no one dares to walk around it at will, let alone flip and destroy things!

Early the next morning, when the sky was just dawning, Zhao Chen took the generals of the army to inspect the situation in Zhongjing.

The snow outside was very heavy, and after walking for a long time, everyone's heads were already snow-white.

After walking for a quarter of an hour, they came to a porridge shed in the south of the city, and saw a few cauldrons placed there, the cauldron emitted heat, and more than a dozen soldiers stood in front of the cauldron to distribute porridge to the people of Zhongjing City.

There are a lot of people in the surrounding Zhongjing City, all of whom are ragged and hungry. Among them were old men, women, and young men, but the young men were also thin and weak, and they huddled together, pushing each other, and the scene was very chaotic.

There are also children whose faces are red from the cold, and they are also holding broken bowls in their hands, looking longingly at the big pot of porridge in front of them, and saliva is flowing from the corners of their mouths.

There are a lot of civilians, and there are soldiers around to maintain order.

Zhao Chen and the others had already arrived here, and the soldiers were on a mission, so it was just a simple military salute, Zhao Chen nodded, and the soldiers continued their work.

"It's been a long time since the people here had enough to eat." Qu Duan Dao.

"Don't say they're full, it's a great luck that they didn't starve to death." Liu Qi said.

"There will be food in Yanjing City soon, so let them spend this winter." Zhao Chen said.

While they were talking, a woman stumbled up to them and was stopped by the guards.

This woman was unusually thin, and her body was extremely thin, almost skinny, and there was not much hair on her head, and she looked like she was aging prematurely! Her face is yellow and her lips are chapped! When she came to the crowd, they found that she was still holding a baby of about two years old in her arms, this baby was also small, thin, skinny, and the baby seemed to be crying, but the voice was too small for everyone to hear.

"Ladies and gentlemen, can you please give me something to eat?" The woman knelt there, kowtowing incessantly, and her voice was weak. But listening to her voice, this is a Han woman.

Seeing such a scene, Zhao Chen sighed softly.

"Give them some of the food we brought!" Zhao Chen said.

When they came out of the palace, they brought out some of the general's meals, in order to cope with the situation.

At that moment, a guard took a few steamed steamed buns, which were still filled with fatty meat, and they handed them into the hands of the women.

The woman took the steamed bun and could see that her body was trembling, and it was because she was too excited!

She didn't have time to say more, so she hurriedly nibbled on the steamed bun in her hand, and after a few bites, she began to feed her child! The child was crying, but as soon as he got to eat, the crying stopped! After a while, a smile appeared on the child's face! Seeing the child's smile, the Han woman burst into tears, and she kowtowed to Zhao Chen and the others again to express her gratitude.

"Master, it's okay!" When the surrounding people saw the scene here, they rushed towards this place at the moment, and the guards tried their best to block these people, and then these people all knelt on the ground, constantly kowtowing to Zhao Chen and others.

"Distribute all the food we brought! Give more to the elderly and children! Don't mess around, don't rob! Zhao Chen said.

At the moment, the guards distributed the food, and the people of Zhongjing who got the food desperately stuffed it into their stomachs, and many of them had not eaten food for many days, and they were all excited at the moment.

After the people had finished eating, there were people lining up at the cauldron where the porridge was boiling, but most of them bowed down to this side and thanked them.

There are Khitans and Han Chinese, and the number of them is not very different. The Han people have lived in the northern grasslands for more than 200 years and have long been regarded as the aborigines here. Under such difficult conditions, there is no longer an ethnic barrier between the Khitan and Han people, which is very different from the situation in Yanjing City. Shangjing and Zhongjing belonged to the earliest places to be invaded by the Jurchens, and the exploitation of the Jurchens here was much more ferocious, while Yanjing City was conquered by the Jurchens before the fall of the Great Song Dynasty, and the sixteen states of Yanyun were originally rich lands, so there was not as hard as here. The Han and Khitan people in Zhongjing are at the bottom of society, and they can't survive, even if there were ethnic contradictions in the past, they have long since disappeared.

"Get up, I have something to say!" Looking at these people in Zhongjing City who knelt and bowed, Zhao Chen couldn't help but understand.

Some of the people stood up, but some of them were so weak that it was difficult for them to stand up, and they needed to crawl to get up slowly.

"I am Zhao Chen, Emperor Xuanwu of the Great Song Dynasty!" Zhao Chen said.

What the!

Hearing this, the people of Zhongjing stayed there all of a sudden, and then everyone hurriedly knelt down again! In ancient times, the emperor had supremacy, both in the Liao and Song dynasties! When these people heard that the person in front of them was the emperor, they felt both panic and surprise! Since ancient times, it has been extremely rare for the emperor to personally provide disaster relief, and it is generally just an official disaster relief. It is rare to hear of the emperor personally going to see the victims.

There were voices everywhere around, and the people of Zhongjing City, who were fighting for porridge, also hurriedly knelt down after seeing the scene here! Everyone knows what "long live" means, which means that the emperor has arrived.

"I want to ask you, how have you been doing all these years?" There was silence all around, Zhao Chen thought for a while, and said.

The surrounding people were stunned, they didn't know what the emperor meant, they didn't dare to talk nonsense, and after a while, the Han woman with the child before said: "Your Majesty, we are having a bad time!" When I was young, although the family was hard, I could still eat, but when I was ten years old, the Jurchens invaded, and until now, we are not as good as a dog before. ”

Hearing this, there was a burst of laughter around.

"Yes, the life of the people in the north is not as good as a dog in the past! I would like to ask you, do you hate war? Zhao Chen said.

This time, there were voices everywhere, and countless people were nodding.

"From the rise of the Jurchens, first the Battle of Jin Liao, and then the Battle of Jin Song, it has been more than twenty years in total! In the past twenty years, the people have suffered a lot, all because of the Jurchens! I came here today with a large army and defeated the Jurchens in one fell swoop! Moreover, in the Central Plains, I have defeated 200,000 Jurchens and captured the second prince of Jurchen alive! Now there are only 100,000 Jurchens left in Liaodong, but Wan Wan is not the opponent of my Great Song elite soldiers! I want to tell you that from now on, the world will be at peace, and there will be no more wars! Just like you did twenty years ago, you can live in peace! From now on, you will no longer have to suffer from war! Zhao Chen said.

The surrounding people were stunned, then incredulous, and soon after, a whisper was heard below.

"There will be land, there will be clothes, and there will be food, this is my promise to you from the Great Song Emperor! As long as you follow me and follow the Great Song, everything will be fine, just like twenty years ago, or even more than twenty years ago! Zhao Chen said.

No one had ever said such a thing to these poor people, and when they heard these words at this moment, the faces of the people were full of surprise, which was an expression of fantasy for a happy life in the future!

"Whether it is the Khitan people, the Han people, or the Xi people, they are all the people of my Great Song Dynasty, and under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, everyone can live a happy life, which is the responsibility of the court and the government!" Zhao Chen said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Finally, there was a burst of grateful voices below.

The porridge shack is still giving porridge, Zhao Chen, Qu Duan and others have left here and headed towards the next location, many corpses of people who died of cold and hunger can be seen in the alleys on the side of the road, there are no cats and dogs or other animals in the whole city, those animals have either been eaten by humans or have escaped from this desperate city! Not to mention cats and dogs, it's hard to find even a mouse in the city!

Zhao Chen once again saw what it means to make a living for the people, and what it means to live in misery! Historically, from the rise of the Jurchens to the southward movement of Mongolia, the people of the world were poisoned by war, and the Han population decreased by more than half. The Northern War has been going on for so many years, and now it's time to let it end.

They went from one porridge shed to another, constantly pacifying the people and using them to understand the situation in Beijing.

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When passing by another porridge shed in the afternoon, a girl in white in the alley quietly watched the scene here, listening to Zhao Chen and others talking to the people.

The girl had a pensive expression on her face.

"The people of the world have suffered so much, and now is the time for the suffering to end, and he is right!"

"Pharmacist Guo wants to assassinate him, if Pharmacist Guo really succeeds, the world will be in chaos again, and the people will suffer disasters again, so I must not let such a thing happen, I will stop Pharmacist Guo!"

The maiden stood here for a moment, heading towards the east of the city.