Sure enough, early the next morning, Xiao Tianding wanted to leave for Bashu, but fortunately, it was not very far from Bashu, and it would take ten days to get there by carriage. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Tian knocked on their room: "Are you awake?" When you wake up, come down here, and I have something to tell you. ”

After a while, the big men came down from the upper floor.

"Does anyone want to go back with us?"

The big men glanced at each other.

"Engong, I don't understand what you mean, where are you going?"

Li Tian smiled slightly: "Of course it's going back to Bashu." ”

The big men shook their heads.

"No, we are ungrateful, that place is really not for people, I advise you to change to something else."

Li Tian frowned slightly, they went to Bashu and were not familiar with the place, they all had the heart to investigate and did not have the strength, so they had to find someone who knew the cause and effect of this matter and was familiar with the terrain.

Li Tian brought a bowl of porridge to each of them: "Do you see the people sitting over there?" I won't hide it from you, he has made friends with the officials of the imperial court, if you let him see the situation in Bashu, maybe you will be able to turn over. ”

Several people looked at Xiao Tianding, and then looked at each other, and the expressions in their eyes became firm.

"If what Engong said is true, then who am I willing to go with? I'll tell you everything I know. ”

Li Tian nodded, and took out a money bag from his arms: "Uncle, you take this fifty taels and let these relatives of your find a job, don't do this kind of business anymore, otherwise, it will not be good for the government to know." ”

Several people left tears in their eyes and solemnly took the money bag in Li Tian's hand.

"Don't worry, Engong, tomorrow I will let them go to the dock to carry their bags and never do this kind of shameful livelihood again."

Li Tian told Xiao Tianding about this.

"I didn't expect you kid to be quite sleek, since you deceived them in this way."

Li Tian took a sip of porridge: "What you said is wrong, how can you call it a lie?" Don't you know the great members of the imperial court? ”

Xiao Tianding laughed and scolded.

"I will never be able to tell you, eat, eat and leave."

Xiao Yong gave Li Tian a look of admiration, admiring Li Tian from the bottom of his heart, and asked himself, if he went by himself, he would definitely not be able to think of such a way.

After eating, I went to buy three horses, Xiao Tianding and Xiao Yun sat in the carriage, and Li Tian and the three of them rode horses.

On the road, God knows that the young man who came with them is called Da Zhuang, and the three generations of ancestors and grandchildren all live on Huyue Yin, and they are very familiar with the entire Bashu.

The next few days stopped and rested, and they were on the road, the closer they got to Bashu, the more victims they saw, one by one, they were hungry and skinny, which was very distressing, and some older people fainted because of the long journey, there was no way, the juniors could only drag them with a cart.

Xiao Tianding saw this scene, tears flowed, if he didn't go out of the capital, he wouldn't know that the people lived so hard, which also made him determined to prepare for the rule of Bashu, Li Tian divided half of all the dry food he brought with him to those victims.

Finally, ten days later, they arrived at the provincial capital of Bashu, but they were so shocked by what they saw that they were speechless.

This is still a city, and the people who were at the gates of the city were everywhere, and the bark of the trees was stripped of and cooked for them to eat, and some of them were so hungry that they grabbed a handful of soil on the ground and ate it.

There are many people crying loudly and shouting the names of their relatives, and it has reached the point where people are starving to death.

Everyone's heart hurts when they see that scene.

Li Tian couldn't wait to tighten his teeth, rushed to the city and beat Taishou Chuan severely, and then asked him to open a warehouse to release grain, and reason told him that he couldn't do this.

"Let's go in first, and we can only know the details when we enter the city."

Li Tian had to be careful when he walked, for fear of stepping on it.

After entering the city, the time was not early, and I planned to find a place to eat and come to an inn.

As soon as I entered the door, a shopkeeper-like person greeted me warmly.

"How many guest officers are eating or staying in a hotel?"

Li Tian threw two taels of silver: "Both." ”

After the shopkeeper got the money, he smiled.

"A few guest officers, please wait a moment, the meal will be ready soon."

Li Tianhuan was in the customer stack, and found that there were not many people serving the food at all, they were all stunned, it was green, and there was almost no meat to be seen, Li Tian took a bite and swallowed it with a frown.

Except for Da Zhuang, everyone else spit out the contents of their mouths.

"Can this be eaten? Why is it so unpalatable? Xiao Yun couldn't help complaining.

"Shopkeeper, don't you have salt in this dish?"

The shopkeeper immediately ran over and smiled.

"Guest officer, you have to bear with me, I think you also know our situation here, don't say that it is the same anywhere I am here, no one wants to come to this place now, and I won't tell you that these dishes are also top-notch here."

Xiao Yunxiu's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"You bullied me for not going out, aren't you, where is this a good dish, there is no meat at all, and there is basically no salt, so how can we eat?"

"Okay, Yun'er, don't say it, shopkeeper, you can do it, we want to hear the specific details."

The shopkeeper thanked him and sat down.

"Listen to your accent to know that it's a foreigner, I advise you to get out of here quickly."

Li Tian smiled slightly: "Don't hide it from the shopkeeper, we are businessmen, I heard that Bashu is rich in products, let's see if we can make a fortune?" ”

"What you said was before, and now it is described here as birds don't, it's not an exaggeration to say that you just didn't say why there is no salt in this dish, and the land and land can't go through the heavy rain for days, and if you want to transport the salt here, you can only take the dry road, but the people in the green forest are robbing when they see the government's salt trucks during this time, and after one or two times, the salt is basically cut off here, and we can eat a little, but the people in those remote areas can't eat at all."

Xiao Tianding was furious.

"Shouldn't this kind of government think of a way? If you really can't do it, can't you just send troops to serve these thieves in one pot? ”

The shopkeeper sighed: "I heard that this gentleman is a big dealer, and he doesn't know the situation here at all, our Taishou is very strange, saying that he should make some achievements in the last two or three years, but he has no achievements at all, and he is still wandering around the land of fireworks Some time ago, he had an upright official, and he couldn't stand it anymore and sued him, and it was conceivable that the person was beaten and carried back." ”

At this time, Da Zhuang spoke.

"I know that person is our prefectural magistrate."