Xiao Ruxun had imagined the scene of reunion with Ma Gui and Mei Guozhen countless times, but it definitely did not include such a scene, such a scene was something he could never have imagined, he couldn't imagine that Mei Guozhen and Ma Gui were actually in such a position.

He was reminded of a very difficult past.

Eight hundred years ago, in the Tang Dynasty, in a city called Suiyang, a group of hungry people fell into a situation of food and despair in order to fight against the rebels of the empire, and in order to keep the city, in order to be loyal, they had to make a cruel decision.

By that time, everything that could be eaten in the city had been eaten, and notice that anything, anything but masonry, mud, earth, wood, and wood had been eaten, but everything that could have been eaten.

Naturally, the level of security of the army was higher than that of the civilians, and before the army fell into a desperate situation of running out of food, the ordinary people in the city had run out of food for a long time, and were forced to embark on the cursed road that the Chinese people could not walk for thousands of years - cannibalism of the sons of Yi.

The ruler of that city is called Zhang Xun, before this, he has been fighting with the rebels of the empire for twenty-one months, transferred to three cities, from a small county order, with military exploits, in twenty-one months quickly promoted to the official position of Zhongcheng in the imperial history, Henan Jiedu deputy envoy, and became an indispensable member of the empire, which is not only his miracle, but also the miracle of this era.

However, at that time, the position of any official could not be compared with a mouthful of food in the soldier's bowl in his eyes, he knew very well that his army had reached its limit, had fallen into a desperate situation, the people in the city had begun to cannibalize each other, the army rations were about to end, once there was no food, the army was doomed to collapse, and it could no longer fight the rebels in front of it.

Although before this, he had achieved a brilliant record of destroying 120,000 enemies, but now, he has indeed reached the limit.

In that context, Zhang Xun guarded Suiyang City in the army cannibalism, is Zhang Xun allowed, he contributed his own concubines, his deputy contributed his own house slaves, in such an extreme way, Suiyang defenders in a desperate situation to the end, although the city was still broken in the end, but seven days later, the well-prepared Tang government army counterattack succeeded, the exhausted rebels were broken in one fell swoop.

Then, the Tang government army triumphed all the way and finally put down the Anshi Rebellion.

However, all this is something that Zhang Xun can no longer see.

Historical records record that Zhang Xun ate 30,000 people in order to guard Suiyang, so Zhang Xun's historical face has the dual identity of a national hero and a cannibal demon at the same time.

For thousands of years, there have been controversies, even in the Ming Dynasty where Xiao Ruxun is now, Zhang Xun is still an untouchable taboo topic, naturally, Xiao Ruxun knows that this is inaccurate, Zhang Xun did not eat so many people, and cannibalism is not so unforgivable in such an environment.

The full man doesn't know that the hungry man is hungry, and we who are full and clothed can't understand the situation of the Suiyang defenders at that time, and Zhang Xun did not eat up the whole city, Zhang Xun's cannibal demon is somewhat fueled by the Tang government.

As a county magistrate, he became a member of the empire in two years, and his record was so brilliant that he showed the mediocrity and incompetence of the rest of the Tang government officials, and his appearance exposed the cowardice and selfishness of the government bureaucrats.

This was unacceptable to the dignitaries who single-handedly caused the Anshi Rebellion, so they couldn't allow a living Zhang Xun to enter the court as an imperial hero and snatch a large piece of the cake that had been divided into the court.

Zhang Xun must die, this is the reason why Helan Jinming insisted on not saving Suiyang, and it is also an important reason why the rest of the friendly troops did not save when they saw death, after Zhang Xun's death, they marched together with a tacit understanding, and recovered Suiyang after ten days, followed by Luoyang and Chang'an, and began a strategic counteroffensive.

Zhang Xun's incident had extremely strong political significance at the time, and the officials tried their best to slander Zhang Xun and exaggerate his cannibalistic side, in order to weaken the public anger after his death, most of the people in Suiyang City were undoubtedly starved to death in despair, to that point, "cannibalism" was already an inevitable result of the desire to survive, not deliberately.

Even so, cannibalism is also something that cannot be accepted and unbearable by those dignitaries and nobles who have never had to worry about their lack of food, and it is unacceptable to the openness of the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the Song Dynasty, which paid attention to morality, and the Ming Dynasty, which paid attention to morality to a sick level.

You can be corrupt, you can be drunk, you can enclose land, you can resist taxes, but you can't be without morality, and the standard of whether you have morality or not is not in your own hands, and it is not the general public who has the final say, but the "scholar" who has the final say.

Countless historical events tell us that the eyes of the masses of the people are not bright, not to mention that no matter how bright their eyes are, it is useless, and if their brains cannot be turned around, they can only become accomplices of the black hands behind the scenes.

The literacy rate in the Ming Dynasty was outrageously low, can you expect people who don't even know words to be able to tell right from wrong? Everyone has worked very hard to live, and doing their best to live is everything, can you still have the spare strength to distinguish between right and wrong?

To put it bluntly, the common people can only watch strongly, and then shout 666 in solidarity.

Xiao Ruxun could almost imagine how angry those sanctimonious guys would be after this matter reached the court, and how they jumped up and down to impeach Mei Guozhen and Ma Gui.

What's even worse is that Mei Guozhen and Ma Gui defended Datong, and did not have the same strategic position as Suiyang, and Zhang Xun guarded Suiyang to protect the land of Jianghuai, which bought very valuable time for the Tang government to use the tax revenue of Jianghuai to carry out a strategic counteroffensive, so that the Anshi Rebellion could be successfully pacified.

His results were so brilliant that the Tang government and his descendants could not kill Zhang Xun with a stick.

But Datong is different!

They held Datong, but it still led to the expansion of the war situation, and the stubborn defense of Datong City did not change the fact that Datong Town completely fell, which is irrefutable.

In addition to loyalty and spirit, Xiao Ruxun couldn't find any reason to excuse them.

Looking at Ma Gui, Xiao Ruxun really didn't know what to say.

After thinking about it for a long time, Xiao Ruxun could only ask slowly: "Is Governor Mei okay?" ”

Ma Gui nodded.

"Governor Mei is still alive, but he hasn't eaten for too long, his body is too weak, and he can't move while lying on the bed."

"This ...... He's not ......"

Xiao Ruxun really didn't know how to ask, did he have to ask if he didn't have human flesh to eat? Why are you still hungry?

Ma Gui knew what Xiao Ruxun wanted to ask, and his face turned even more gray.