Seeing the old man's serious expression, Hou Guoxing was stunned and asked:

"Uncle, you said that dozens of miles away from here, someone is better at disaster relief than the imperial court?"

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"It should be true that no one has come back in the past few days......" the old man began.

It turned out that five days ago, a group of refugees came here, and after drinking bran water for a day, they scolded the government for being mediocre and ignoring the lives of the victims. If you wait like this, you will die sooner or later.

Later, I told everyone a piece of news that Chen Dashan people in Chenjiazhuang, fifty miles to the east, opened a shed for disaster relief, and the porridge was full every day, so that everyone could try their luck together.

Under the temptation of two porridges a day, many victims left with them at that time, and tens of thousands of victims have left one after another in the past few days.

"Uncle Liu, this must be this bullshit official mansion, coaxing us. I hope to coax us as far away from Yanzhou as possible, so as not to dirty the eyes of Lord Qincha. This time, it will be almost a hundred miles away from Yanzhou City, and when the time comes, who will have the strength to walk back, and die on the road will be just like the wish of this group of dog officials. ”

After the young man finished speaking, he seemed to think of something, hurriedly lay on the ground, and whispered:

"No, I'm talking too much, I'm already hungry, Uncle Liu, you also hurry up and lie down, don't think about any two porridges." When we got through the time and left, we went to the city to beg for food, and after this famine, we went back to the countryside. ”

"Go back? Can't go back! After listening to Erdan's words, the old man, who had been happy after drinking two bowls of bran water, sat on the ground and began to cry.

After a while, he looked at the second egg lying on the ground waiting for death, and suddenly became angry and scolded:

"You... You rabbit cub get up for me and go to Chenjiazhuang, since Chen Dashan can feed so many people, the family business must be not small, go there to find a long-term worker, and there will be a way to live. Get back? There's still land ...... back there."

It turned out that the old man and Erdan had escaped from a small village more than 500 miles away from here. There was a large-scale drought in Shandong, and the victims could not see a single relief grain from the government.

In desperation, the victims could only sell their fields to the local squires at a low price. How low, twenty or thirty catties of grain per acre of land, five taels of silver for a girl.

In the end, after selling the small amount of land in his hand, he had no choice but to flee to the city.

As for the way to escape the famine, it is naturally a hell on earth where corpses are everywhere and children cannibalize each other. The old man originally had three sons. But on the way to escape the famine, the three sons could not even support their wives and children. Where can you take care of the elderly.

Looking at the guilty eyes of his sons, the old man secretly left by himself in order not to disturb them.

Along the way, thanks to the bachelor who met Erdan, he helped him all the way, otherwise the old man might have been dry bones on the side of the road.

"What are you going to do when I'm gone?" Erdan looked at the old man and said.

"Otherwise, let's go and see first, if we can really have two bowls of porridge a day, I'll come back and inform you when the time comes." Hou Guoxing said on the side.

…………………………..

After getting out of the abandoned military household, Hou Guoxing took Yang Wu and Yang Liu, and rode directly in the direction pointed by the old man towards Chenjiazhuang. In these years, the benevolent elders who are willing to fund the support of tens of thousands of disaster victims, Hou Guoxing has no reason not to meet him.

The distance of fifty miles is not too far, and it doesn't take an hour for a fast horse to travel, but along the way, Hou Guoxing can always meet the victims who rushed to Chenjiazhuang from other places.

Because the road is sometimes crowded, it is inevitable to delay the effort, and when you arrive at Chenjiazhuang, the sun is about to set.

Outside Chenjiazhuang, Hou Guoxing saw mountains of refugees from afar. A rough estimate of the number is at least more than 50,000.

Hou Guoxing sighed in his heart, at this time of national disaster, if it were not for such a character, I don't know how many people would become dry bones on the roadside.

Just as Hou Guoxing was about to accelerate into Zhuangzi, Yang Wuyi on the side grabbed Hou Guoxing's reins and said:

"My lord, something is wrong."

Yang Wu turned the horse's head as he spoke, led Hou Guoxing's horse, and went to the hidden place on the side.

"What's wrong?" Coming to the back of the small hill, Hou Guoxing asked in a low voice.

"Your Excellency, look?" Yang Wu pointed to the victims who had entered Chenjiazhuang one after another and said:

"The victims entered in an orderly manner, and there were still people on the roofs on both sides of the village entrance to observe......"

Hou Guoxing looked in the direction of Yang Wu's finger one by one, and sure enough, there were several high-rise buildings at the entrance of the village, and there were people inside who were watching in the distance.

YANG Wu. Yang Liu, as Yang Feng's righteous son, has been in Mobei with Yang Feng for many years, so he has developed the instinct to detect the enemy's situation at all times. Always be aware of your surroundings.

"With so many victims, it's not too much for this Chen Dashan to be cautious?" After Hou Guoxing finished speaking, he shook his head and said again:

"Nearly 100,000 victims, which rich family in the countryside can have such a hand, according to today's rice prices, tens of thousands of people's disaster grain, today, I am afraid that they will go bankrupt."

Yang Wu frowned, stared at the victims in front of him, and continued:

"Looking at this person's coordination with the victims and the practice of guarding posts all over the place, it seems that he is a man who knows how to fight!

When Hou Guoxing heard this, his heart jumped and he exclaimed:

"Gathering nearly 100,000 disaster victims, spending tens of thousands of taels of silver, or a person who knows soldiers?"

After Hou Guoxing finished speaking, beads of sweat were already slightly on his forehead, and he walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, and said to himself:

"If this Chen Dashan has other plans, it will be terrible."

"Do you want to go back first, and the secret agents in brocade clothes come to investigate?" Yang Wu, as Yang Feng's bodyguard assigned to Hou Guoxing, naturally put Hou Guoxing's safety first.

Hou Guoxing shook his head and said:

"Jinyi Wei Xu Xianchun has asked him to rush to Liaodong to investigate the local disaster relief situation. The secret post of the Fusi Division in Beizhen, without him, the official has no clue and cannot be mobilized. It's just that this time ......."

Jinyiwei's Beizhen Fusi spies are indeed powerful, but the composition of the personnel is too complicated, and the secrecy is very good, and it may only be in the filing cabinet of Jinyiwei's Jingluo Division that I know how many secret agents there are.

Even among the hundreds of households in Beizhen Fusi, they don't know each other's secret agents.

When Xu Xianchun left, he only left a secret agent for contact, and if he waited for Xu Xianchun's order to come back, it would be at least three days later.

Now that tens of thousands of victims of the disaster have gathered like this, if they really have bad intentions, they will cause a catastrophe at any time. It is not possible to ensure that the person has other intentions.

"My lord, do you want me to go in and investigate, and let Yang Wu send you back first and recruit the Jinyi Guard?" Yang Liu, who was on the side, said to Hou Guoxing.

"If this person really has intentions, do you know the danger...... Hou Guoxing was stunned, and pulled Yang Liu and said.

"My lord, along the way, my lord does not distinguish between high and low, and does not ask about identity. Brotherly to us. Humility is kept in mind. is saying that as a subordinate of adults, it is natural for us to be anxious about what adults are anxious about. ”

Yang Liu paused, smiled and continued:

In fact, my father-in-law respects you and your lordship, otherwise he wouldn't have asked me and the other four to protect my lordship. Your father-in-law often boasted to lowly people that you had the style of a general, and if you could lead the troops, it would definitely make the aliens fearful.

Yang Liu may have known the risks of this trip, and before leaving, he told Yang Feng's evaluation of Hou Guoxing.

"I'll go, you escort the adults back." Yang Wu pushed Yang Liu aside and said to Hou Guoxing:

"Don't worry, my lord, this is just to find out the situation, and there will be no danger." Speaking of this, Yang Liu paused and said with a smile:

Although the father-in-law's behavior is a bit old-fashioned, it is only because of the face of Lord Tian Ergeng. I hope you don't be surprised.

……………………..

Yanzhou Mansion, inside the inn.

"Sibeile, in such an old age, my Jurchens can't eat enough, why do they still bring a lot of silver and grain to feed these Han dogs."

A man in sackcloth, who was dragging his tail of money behind him, hunched over to Sibeile, who was sitting at the table, asked resentfully.

Sibeile sat at the table, holding a copy of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in his hand, glanced at the man standing on the side, shook his head, and ignored it.

"According to me, with my Dajin's current strength, I can't just kill it."

Sibeile looked at the man in front of him, closed the book in his hand, got up and patted the man on the shoulder and smiled:

"Hu Erhan, how do you say that my Dajin's current strength compares to the Ming Dynasty?"

"Daming is vast and rich, which is not comparable to my big gold." After Hu Erhan finished speaking, he added:

"However, my Dajin warriors are one hundred, and in the first battle of Salhu, my Dajin broke the Ming Dynasty with 60,000 people, and the casualties were only thousands. Now those bright dogs look at me, my big golden warrior, that one is not running away from the wind. ”

Huerhan clenched his fists and became more and more excited, until at the end he burst out laughing.

"You, let you read more books, and the man will know how to fight and kill." Si Baylor patted the excited Huerhan and continued:

"In the battle of Salhu, my Dajin warrior really made Daming frightened. After that battle, the entire Liaodong is now also overwhelmed. Speaking of this, Sibeiler let out a long sigh, looked at Huerhan and said:

"It's just that how many thousands of people in my Dajin can die?"

(Note: Battle of Sarhu)

The Battle of Salhu was a counterattack battle in February and March of 1619 (the 47th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the 4th year of the Later Jin Mandate), in the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin, Nurhachi defeated the Ming army in the vicinity of Salhu (near the Dahuofang Reservoir in the east of Fushun, Liaoning), and was a strategic decisive battle in the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Liaodong.

In this battle, the Houjin army used the policy of concentrating troops and breaking through each in the operational command, and broke the Ming army in three ways within 5 days, annihilated about 50,000 people of the Ming army, and captured a large number of military supplies, and the battle ended with the defeat of the Ming army.

This battle was an important turning point in the history of Ming and Qing wars, a decisive war in the history of the rise and fall of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and a typical example of winning more with less