Knowing that the chaos brewing in the capital might involve him, Li Buqi was not in a hurry to return to Beijing. Zhang Yingniang stayed for two days before letting Zhang Yingniang go back. As a result, before Zhang Yingniang left, there was urgent news from the capital, saying that four Maitreya disciples including Guan Yanxiu entered the forbidden middle in the middle of the night and were killed by the palace guards.

This capital is really lively. Li didn't give up so that he didn't go back to wade into troubled waters, so he slowly dealt with the affairs of Beizhou, and also had the leisure to give advice to Kochi Prefecture, so that Kochi Prefecture could use work for relief, gather the people who had lost their homes in one place, and organize them to dig ditches.

In order to resist the possible invasion of the Liao Iron Cavalry, Hebei Zhulu has always dug a large number of ditches, and even flooded the fertile fields to create pits, so digging ditches is also one of the compulsory courses for magistrates. It's just that Li Buqi definitely won't dig a ditch for the sake of digging a ditch, but let the people of Qingyuan Academy make a plan, and the ditch dug can be used as a trench to hinder the cavalry, and can also be used as a canal for irrigation and drainage of farmland.

There are things that time flies, and in the blink of an eye, leap January to February, the situation in the capital has become relatively clear. Now the call for the establishment of the crown prince is not loud, but even the officials of Sichuan and Guangnan have written to ask the three princes to live in the palace for the sake of the country, and several opposing voices from the government and the opposition are easily drowned out in a carnival.

Although most of the small and medium-sized officials are playing soy sauce, they came out to intervene when they saw that the three princes were about to lose power, and they were afraid of missing the support for the four princes, but this is also a voice that makes a statement, isn't it? When the Manchu court demanded that measures be taken against the three princes, the pressure of the cowardly emperor could be imagined, and his depression could be imagined.

Li Buqi estimated that the emperor was also very depressed, that is, when Wang Ze was escorted to Tokyo for trial, he confessed that he proclaimed himself emperor because he saw Li Yuanhao succeed in claiming that the emperor and wanted to learn from Li Yuanhao. With the emperor's knowledge, he would definitely believe what Wang Ze said, and would never have thought that Wang Ze said this just so that someone promised him to drink a bowl of strong wine before he died, and burn paper for him to sacrifice after death.

Probably because of these two things, the emperor was depressed but no one could ask for advice, and if he didn't give up the order to let Li Buqi return to Beijing, it was time for him Li Buqi to play. However, another holy decree that the emperor came at the same time made Li Buqi disgusting.

In this holy decree, the emperor ordered that the name of Beizhou be changed to "Enzhou". That means that when the king is extinguished, the rebellion is "a favor to the people." Li Buqi was really defeated by the emperor's thick skin. However, the envoy who came to deliver the decree told him that the idea was made by Wen Yanbo and other civil officials. Well, Li Buqi has once again deepened his understanding of the shamelessness of literati.

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"Phew, phew!" Smelling the salty smell, Du Meng couldn't help but spit out two mouthfuls of saliva. As someone who grew up inland, he really wasn't used to the smell.

Since they were sentenced to exile to Salmon Island, the first batch of more than 300 people were escorted by the soldiers all the way to the east to Dengzhou. Although the soldiers were ordered not to abuse them prisoners along the way, they ate and drank a lot, and wounded people like Du Meng were able to sit in the car and receive treatment from the doctors, but when they thought of the terrifying Salmon Island, everyone was extremely heavy, especially those families who gave them Salmon Island, and they secretly cried several times.

Because there were too many of them, the prison in Dengzhou could not fit them, so Dengzhou had to make a quick place next to the dock to watch these prisoners. From the mouths of the people in Dengzhou, Du Meng learned that Salmon Island was not on the seaside, but in the depths of the sea.

After waiting for a day, they were taken to Dengzhou Wharf, and they only saw the vast sea water as far as their eyes could see. Two boats were parked on the dock, and when they saw the prisoners and jump off the boats, a military attache came with a few soldiers, and when they saw so many prisoners, they let out a cheer. Du Meng was very strange, the eyes they looked at him were the same as the eyes of the brothers who saw the gold, silver and satin when they opened the treasury of Beizhou.

The military attache immediately ordered the soldiers to escort a group of men onto the ship. But the ship was not big, and it could not carry more than a hundred people at a time, and the rest of the people could only continue to wait at the dock. Several people in Dengzhou fetched water for them to drink, and an old man whispered: "Alas, drink some, if you don't drink it, you won't be able to drink it." ”

Seeing the old man coming to him, Du Meng hurriedly whispered, "Uncle, why did you say that if you don't drink again, you won't be able to drink?" Is Salmon Island so sinister? ”

The old man didn't answer at first, but Du Meng asked a few words in a row, and the old man finally told the truth, and at that time, an old man looked at them and shook his head: "Alas, the little old man has lived so much, and he has never seen a prisoner from Salmon Island, so don't think about it." Evil, so many people are distributed at once, how can the drinking water on Salmon Island be enough for so many people? Alas! ”

The faces of those who heard it changed at this moment. The old man's meaning is very clear, that is, these people will not live long, which makes them all feel cold in their hearts. At the beginning, I knew that it was just a distribution, not a fluke when I cut off my head, and I had already flown out of the clouds, and someone immediately scolded: "Li Buqi is so vicious." pretended to be a good person, but he put us to death with his backhand, and he will not let him go if he becomes a ghost in the next life. ”

Now I can only curse a few words, all with heavy flails, and there are large armies around to watch, even if I want to resist, I can't do it, so in the end, everyone was escorted to the ship and sent to Salmon Island.

Once on the island, Du Meng's heart completely fell into the abyss - even the dark, damp and musty-smelling cell was not enough, and it couldn't fit so many people, let alone food and water. And when Du Meng was stuffed into a cell that was originally holding prisoners, the prisoner suddenly burst into tears.

It took a long time for the man to stop crying, and a prisoner who was a small official in Beizhou asked the original prisoner: "This big brother, what are you crying about?" ”

The prisoner whimpered and said, "They are all dying people, and it doesn't matter if you hear them." There is never a lot of access to this Salmon Island, but it is said that there is a fixed amount of water. Therefore, as long as there are more people, they will leave some people as a façade and kill many people. You have so many people here today, and I am afraid that my life will not be delayed tomorrow. ”

After listening to the old prisoner's words, Du Meng and their hearts were as dead as ashes.

The only death through the ages. Don't look at these fighting men on the battlefield, you won't back down, but it's another thing to let people die in front of your eyes. I don't know how many people were able to sleep this night, anyway, Du Meng didn't fall asleep, not only because the cell was crowded, but also because his mind was full of questions about how to live. Although reason told him that it was really difficult to live, he just couldn't help but think about it.

There was no breakfast in the morning, just some water. Then they were escorted to the seashore by the soldiers who were eyeing them.

"Is it about to kill people right away? Too fast, right? Du Meng's heart was sad.

Unlike the gloomy mood of the prisoners, the Su Zhai Lord and his soldiers on Salmon Island were happy today. Hundreds of people, one person for one and a half horses of silk, that's hundreds of horses, get rich!

In the morning sun, two large ships stop in the sea pond and lower the small boats, and the cranes on the large ships lift the goods onto the small boats, and then the small boats dock. The owner of Su Zhai walked up to the dock with a smile: "Don't come to the Zhou officials." ”

Zhou Qing jumped on the pier and also hugged his fists and said, "Su Prison is fine." ”

The price has been negotiated a long time ago, with one hand on silk and one hand on people. Du Meng and the others stupidly watched as these people were replaced with silk by the soldiers, and then drove themselves to the small boat and then transferred to the big boat. By the time everyone had boarded the boat, it was already past noon, and the two large ships set sail north, and when they reached an island, they were taken to the island by small boat. On this island, a group of strong men crossed their arms and watched them come ashore with amusement. In this group of men, Du Meng suddenly saw a person he knew, and he quietly touched another veteran: "You see that person is not the one who followed Li Buqi when he was not in Beizhou?" ”