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After Su You said goodbye to the Wen Yanbo brothers and Li Chen, he left Langya County.

The journey from Langya County to Jiangdu County is obviously much easier than the road from Jimo to Langya, the key is that Langya County has a convenient water flow, and Su You can directly follow Yishui to Xiapi.

Xiapi can be said to be an ancient city of history and culture, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Song Xianggong built the city wall here, and during the Warring States Period, King Qiwei sealed Zou Ji as the marquis in Xiapi, and was called "Xiapi" at the beginning. Zhang Liang was dissatisfied with the rule of the Qin Dynasty and recruited assassins to assassinate Qin Shi Huang, but due to the failure of the attack, he hid in Xiapi; Xiang Liang crossed Huai, and the army went down; Han Xin was renamed the king of Chu and was all under Pi

Xiapi can be described as a battleground for soldiers.

After entering the Han Dynasty, Tao Qian made his career here, Sun Quan was born here, Liu Bei stationed troops here, Cao Cao captured Lu Bu here, and Guan Yu's thousand-mile solo ride was also the first stop from here

Xia Ziwei watched the boat slowly sail down to Xiapi, and couldn't help but say happily, "Finally arrived at Xiapi, sir, let's have a good time here for two days, right?" I want to go to the White Gate to see. ”

Su You shook his head a little absentmindedly and said, "Next time, I'm a little bit of an arrow now, I don't know how the dock in Yangzhou is repaired." ”

Xia Ziwei looked unhappy, but Su You's words were obviously not unreasonable, they had already delayed too much time on the road.

Before you know it, the season has entered February; In the land south of the Yangtze River, spring is already blooming.

After Xiapi, it is Shanyang, and when you arrive in Shanyang, even if you enter the jurisdiction of Jiangdu County, if there is no accident, Su You can take office the day after tomorrow.

As the sun set, Su You's boat slowly approached the wharf in Shanyangdu, Su You planned to spend the night in Shanyang County tonight, and then rush to Yangzhou tomorrow.

When he arrived at the dock, Su You looked at it and found that although there were many people coming and going on the dock, there were not many boats in sight, so Su You returned to the boat when he came and paid more deposit to the owner.

The people of this era are still far simpler than the people of later generations, and they received Su You's deposit, so naturally they will not leave rashly.

Su You crossed the front and back, and then led the horse to the city gate, he originally thought that tonight was about to use the privilege to enter the city, but when he arrived at the city gate, there were hundreds of people gathered there.

"What's going on?" Su You frowned and stopped depressedly.

"I'll ask." Lu Sheng was lively by nature, and immediately handed over the horse to Xia Ziteng, and he rushed to the gate of the city, and returned sweating profusely after a while.

Su You looked at him very sincerely, but he didn't urge him.

Lu Sheng straightened his breath, and then said worriedly, "Most of these are refugees, and the county order of Shanyang County has issued an order, saying that refugees are not allowed to be put into the city, and the city gate has been closed for half a day. ”

"Refugees? Where did this refugee come from? Su You snorted, he had already heard it from Lu Sheng's words.

The people at the gates were clearly refugees, but not all of them were refugees.

So the question is, where do these refugees come from?

At this time, it is the time when the green and yellow are not connected, and if it is not handled properly, the world will not be far away.

Su You couldn't understand the source of these refugees, so he immediately led his horse to the city gate, Wang Bodang and the others naturally knew that this was extremely dangerous; How could Su You not know about this disaster of refugees? When they are hungry, let alone the horses in their hands, they dare to eat even human flesh.

Su You approached the city gate, and those who were blocked out of the city gate turned to look at Su You one after another.

They may have taken a fancy to the mount led by Su You and others, or they wanted to take advantage of Su You's potential to enter the city, or they might weigh the strength between themselves and Su You and a few others

Su You watched everyone turn around one after another, and he was also a little flustered in his heart, for fear that they would rush up and grab the horse, so that Xiucai would encounter soldiers, and it would be unreasonable. No, hungry refugees are a more terrible existence than soldiers.

Su You stood still, and then asked, "Why are you waiting to gather at the city gate?" Do you want to rebel? ”

Su You asked, he didn't use a megaphone, but within a radius of half a mile, everything could be heard, and after his words fell, the noise at the city gate was quiet for a while, and then almost everyone turned to the source of the sound - Su You.

Immediately, all kinds of pleas rose and fell, and the crowd didn't know who took the lead, and they knelt down to Su You one after another.

"Shangguan, poor people, I'm so hungry that I really don't have half the strength."

"The guards in this county town are really hateful, we came out in the morning, but we can't go back at this time, you come to administer justice."

"I'm from Yangzhou, and I originally borrowed rice from my relatives here, but I can't even enter the city."

They knelt down and kowtowed to Su You, perhaps because of the momentum of Su You's shouting just now, or maybe because Su You's five people were holding horses in their hands; In these years, riding a horse is about the administrative level, and Su You and the others are obviously either rich or expensive.

"From Yangzhou?" When Su You heard the word Yangzhou from the noisy voice, he couldn't help but have a bad premonition in his heart, could it be that Yangzhou was waiting for him such a mess?

Su You wanted to ride to Yangzhou on horseback, but when he thought about it, he was not an envoy to Yangzhou, but an envoy to the southeast.

Yangzhou and Shanyang, the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat. It is more likely that there are refugees in various counties around Yangzhou, right? Su You thought of the words he heard in the Yangzhou Wharf Tea Shop at the end of last year, those people wouldn't be proverbial, right?

"This official is a strategic envoy of the Southeast Economy, don't be impatient when you are a little calm, let's get up first!" Su You immediately showed his official position, and said sincerely to the people who were rising one after another, "This official has just returned from other places, and I didn't know that such a major event had happened in Shanyang, and this official promises that he will give you an explanation soon." Before that, who will tell the official what the situation is? ”

At that moment, a clever person volunteered to stand up and tell Su You the ins and outs of the matter one by one.

It turned out that the source of refugees really started in Yangzhou.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, the price of grain in Yangzhou was adjusted three times a day, rising from 20 to 30 Wen for doumi, and then successively rose to 120 wen for doumi; After the rise in food prices, the price of salt also soared.

The skyrocketing prices immediately caused panic among the people, and all the grain stores and salt shops were crowded with people rushing to buy, but the merchants closed their stores one after another on the grounds of 'lack of stock', and the intention of hoarding was obvious.

Unable to knock on the door of the store for a long time, the people's emotions were very excited, and some rangers took the opportunity to break open the door of a grain store, entered the store and robbed it on a large scale.

Who is the Yangzhou County Shoumai Iron Staff? He immediately used iron-blooded means to suppress the situation, while the people in Yangzhou began to speculate in every possible way, of course, some people thought that maybe the grain in the surrounding counties would be much cheaper.

As a result, they used ships to purchase grain and salt from the surrounding counties, which made the prices in the surrounding counties rise wildly.

There is indeed a special reason for the sharp rise in rice prices during this period, from October last year to the present, Liang County, Pengcheng County, Jiangdu County, Yuhang County, Wu County and Danyang County, for more than four months, there has been no rain; One winter, before the snow fell, the rivers and rivers dried up, and the winter wheat did not grow, and a large area died

What's more, it's probably some people who have a heart to add fuel to the fire.

Otherwise, why did Su You's people just leave Yangzhou during the Lantern Festival, and the price of food in Yangzhou rose?

"They're going to drive me out of Jiangnan." When Su You heard the origin of the matter, he couldn't help frowning, but now is obviously not the time to consider these deep reasons, but how to appease these refugees in front of him.

After Su You thought of this, he immediately said to Uncle Wang, "I want to see the county order of Shanyang County." ”

At this time, there happened to be soldiers guarding the city walking to the city to check the movement outside the city gate, so Wang Bo shouted to the city head, "Listen to the guards above, when Su You, the imperial historian and the envoy of the southeast economy, is here, quickly call the county order to come out to greet you!" ”

Wang Bodang shouted to both sides, and the guards guarding the city said that they heard it, and then walked down the city.

After Wang Bodang finished shouting, he looked at Su You with some embarrassment, he seemed to be a little pretending to be a fox just now, and more importantly, he also called out Su You's name in a hurry.

Su You naturally didn't take this matter to heart, as far as he was concerned, didn't he just make people call him by taking a name? What's the shy away from saying?

After the crowd blocked at the gate of the city saw the momentum of Su You and Wang Bodang, they slowly calmed down again, and they were obviously aware of the huge thighs of Su You now, and Su You casually pulled the hair of his legs, and they didn't have to worry about food and clothing.

A moment later, a goateeed official in his fifties walked up to the city and used his presbyopia to look around for Su You.

Lu Sheng really couldn't stand it anymore, and immediately shouted, "Su Yushi is here, why don't you open the city gate soon?" ”

At the same time, Wang Bodang shot an arrow at the head of the city; Naturally, this is a Ming Di with Su You's seal on it.

After reading the seal on the arrow, Lao Zhixian immediately believed in Su You's authenticity, but said to Su You in embarrassment while saluting, "It turns out that Shangguan has arrived, and the next official is Xue Mao, the county magistrate of Shanyang County, who should have immediately ordered the door to open the door to greet Shangguan; But once the gates were opened, the outcasts were."

Before Xue Mao's words fell, he had already caused an uproar, after all, the homeless people at the city gate did not account for the majority.

More people are still people who go out early and return late, but now their desire to go home has become a luxury.

Su You naturally understood his dilemma, after all, there were too many of these refugees, what would they end up doing after they entered the city? No one can say for sure.

The problem is that Shanyang County is about the same size as Jimo County, and there are not even twenty servants available.

Can more than twenty people deal with these hundreds or thousands?

Su You nodded, immediately bowed to the people at the city gate, and then said in a loud voice, "Everyone, how about listening to what this official says?" ”

Everyone was quiet again, so Su You said again, "How about you let me enter the city first?" I promise to give you an explanation, and you only need to give me a quarter of an hour to get to the city. ”

Su You's tone was very sincere, and he claimed to use "I", which was obviously very sincere.

Then, Xue Mao saw the refugees under the city slowly retreating out in the city, and Su You bowed to them again, and then walked towards the city gate with four guards.