Zhang Fushun couldn't restrain his subordinates, and watched helplessly as they came in with a grain bag in Kaicheng. You must know that once the soldier has no food and no salary, it is really more terrible than a thief, Zhang Fushun did not dare to forcibly use a military order to order them not to take this food, if it is not handled well, it will be a situation of mutiny and death, so he has to tolerate it. When the grain was moved into the city, Zhang Fushun sighed and said, "It's over, the hot potato has come in." ”

The soldiers came in with food, and the people who had read the arrow book immediately gathered around, and the cheers rang out wave after wave, and many people who were so hungry and weak also tried their last strength to cheer: "There is food!" We finally have food to eat. ”

"The thieves brought us food...... There's food......"

A man who was so hungry that he was holding a child with the same skin and bones, and said softly to the child, "Son, we will have something to eat soon." ”

Jubilant crowds crowded towards the gates......

But when he saw the officers and soldiers who led the army out of the city to carry food and came back, the officers and soldiers of Qianhu slashed their swords and said loudly: "Form a formation, block these stupid people for me." ”

There was a sound of "coaxing", a thousand officers and soldiers lined up a spear formation, and all the people were on the periphery, looking at the bright spear tips in front, the people did not dare to move forward, and an old man shouted loudly in the crowd: "Don't rush up in a swarm, how about coaxing and grabbing?" It is right for the soldiers to maintain order, and it is the right thing to receive food one by one. ”

When the people heard this, they all felt justified, and the surging crowd stabilized and stopped crowding towards the city gates. The crowd began to line up spontaneously and consciously, as if they were going to come up to receive food.

The Qianhu official who ordered the formation snorted coldly and said, "What are you doing here? Do you really think this food was given to you? Less damn naïve, these grains are given to our officers and soldiers by thieves. ”

"Huh?" The people in the front row were shocked, and those in the back row did not hear clearly, so they hurriedly inquired about the front, and the front turned their heads to pass the word, and the sound was transmitted to the back layer by layer, and the crowd began to be restless, and many people showed a look of shock and sadness on their faces.

The old man who maintained order squeezed to the front and said loudly: "Master Bing." You're not right. The thief king outside shot an arrow book and came in, saying that this grain is going to be distributed to our people......"

Qianhu Guan sneered: "Lao Tzu risked his life to go out of the city to resist the grain bags, why should he give it to you turtle kings?" ”

The faces of the people turned angry.

Qianhu Guan said: "It is the soldiers of Lao Tzu who protect you, so that you can speak here now." Otherwise, he would have been killed by the rogues outside the city. Now the thieves outside are saying to bring you food. It's clear that there are thieves lurking among you, trying to keep you fed and satisfied, and I ...... fuck"

The people were furious. Some bold people went out and scolded, and some people who were timid but couldn't get angry also shrank behind others and scolded: "The thief clearly said to give us food!" ”

"We don't dare to ask for it all, you soldiers leave half of it, and it's good to give us half of it!"

"You can't just ignore us, can you? It's our stuff! ”

The people did not dare to break into the spear formation, but they were not willing to retreat, so they scolded the officers and soldiers not far away.

The entire Xi'an area had a population of 500,000 at the height of the Ming Dynasty, but later due to natural disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population decreased sharply, and the people were not all in the city. The villages and small towns outside the city have diverted many people, so there are only about 100,000 people surrounded in the city. At this time the whole city was already in turmoil, and the rich people were huddled in their homes and could not come out, and the poor people all gathered at the city gates, and it was impossible to tell whether there were 10,000 or 20,000 of them, and these people were piled up in the streets, and climbed on the roofs of various houses, and some of them hung from trees, and the momentum was not weaker than that of the spears of the officers and soldiers.

Zhang Fushun complained bitterly in his heart, he stood in front of the outrageous Qianhu, glared at him, and then turned his head, intending to say a few words of comfort, and then discuss with the soldiers to distribute some food to the people, before he could speak, he suddenly saw a middle-aged man dressed neatly and neatly next to him, it turned out to be the housekeeper of the Qin Palace, and the housekeeper saluted Zhang Fushun and said: "Lord Zhang, our Qin prince heard that there is grain sent in from outside the city, let me come over and spread the word, since there is food, Of course, we must first honor the prince and give half of it to our palace. ”

"What?" Zhang Fushun was shocked: "How can the palace get half of it?" ”

The housekeeper said: "The scale of our Qin Wangfu is not small, there are nearly 100 concubines of the prince alone, plus the maids who serve them, and the slaves and guards in the palace, there are one or two thousand mouths, and the prince and the princess eat finely, they can't be the same as ordinary people, and half of it may not be enough." ”

When Zhang Fushun heard this, he only felt sweaty, and just now he wanted to say that he would give some to the people, but now he didn't dare to say it again. After a while, the governor's yamen, the political envoys, and the government came one after another, all of whom wanted to ask for a piece of food for their own house, and the city gate was really getting more and more lively.

When the people saw more and more of the great officials coming, they consulted there in a low voice, and then the guards of the royal palace came and took away a few bags of grain from the soldiers, and there was not a trace of the hearts of the people to be distributed, and they immediately protested loudly, and the sound shook the whole city.

Zhang Fushun's whole body was already paralyzed, if he was really a decisive and responsible general, or an out-and-out ruffian, he should raise his knife now, kill one or two civilian officials who came to beg for food, drive all the flies away, and then order the food to be distributed to the soldiers and civilians to eat together, maybe to protect the stability of the city. But he doesn't have the decisiveness, and he can't make this move, after all, he is a weak scholar in his bones, and it doesn't hurt to play with his mouth in the Donglin Party, when he encounters such a big thing, where can he make a decision?

After a while, the dignitaries and the army divided up the grain, and the common people did not even have a single ration of food.

Zhang Fushun didn't know how to face the critical eyes of the people in the city, so he had to go back to his barracks, bury his head under the pillow, be an ostrich, and let the soldiers and ruffians outside argue with the people themselves.

I only heard the noise outside getting noisier and louder, and after the noise, he suddenly heard a terrible scream from the crowd, he leaned to the window to look, only to see that the old man who spoke on behalf of the people had been slashed to the ground by a soldier with a knife, and a young boy next to him rushed forward, and was also stabbed in the stomach by another soldier, and was provoked into the air.

Blood flew cheaply, and everyone was in an uproar.

Zhang Fushun was dumbfounded, didn't dare to look directly, and wanted to go out to stop it, but his legs couldn't move as if they had roots, and he only felt that his head was spinning, as if he was about to fall to the ground.

The spear formation of the soldiers pushed forward, and frightened the people to retreat, because they retreated too quickly and too quickly, and knocked over the people behind them, and the ground fell to the ground with a bang, and the whole city gate was in chaos, and many people fled into the distance crying and shouting.

The leader of the Qianhu laughed wildly and said: "Let you fart people go against Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will kill you bandits and Diao people today." He gave the order, the army array advanced, rolling along the long street, just now in the crowd the most fierce people, were picked out by the soldiers one by one and stabbed to death, the rest of the people were frightened and fled in panic, the long street was stained red with blood, countless tragic appearances.

"Father, where are you, father......" A skinny child crawled on the ground, found a wounded man hugging and crying, it turned out that his father was also fighting with the soldiers just now, but he was recognized in the face, and now he has been killed by the officers and soldiers.

When the officer and soldier who killed his father saw a child coming, he immediately smiled and said, "It turns out that this Diao Min and his son are killed together, cut the grass and eradicate the roots...... His knife flashed, and the child fell on his father with a knife in his vest and died.

This is not the only situation, everyone on the street is in danger, people are burrowing into ditches, into shops, into tree hollows...... Lest they be caught by the fierce officers and soldiers, until the officers and soldiers collected their troops and returned to the camp, and it was completely dark, that people had the courage to go to the streets to collect the corpses, and after receiving them, at least two or three hundred corpses were collected, and the city was full of mournful cries, and the hearts of the people were mixed.

In the courtyard of the Ma family, Du Shan returned to the room with a sad face, and the gentle Miss Ma San hurriedly greeted him and said, "Xianggong, how is the situation outside?" ”

Du Shan shook his head and said, "It's over, that Baishui Zhu Ba is so powerful, he sent some food in casually, and he made the city look like this." The city is only broken in an instant, so let's hurry up and seek self-preservation. ”

Hearing the name of Baishui Zhuba, Miss Ma San's heart trembled slightly, she couldn't imagine that she would die, a cowherd baby in the family already had such a skill, and said hurriedly: "Didn't we disperse the grain as you said, can we protect ourselves?" ”

Du Shan smiled bitterly: "The eldest young master finally listened to the words of the second young master, and gave the grain to the officers and soldiers, but did not distribute it to the people...... Madame, listen to me, take off all the valuable things on your body, and you can't wear any jewelry or anything, and go to the maid and the servant and ask for some old and worn clothes. For now, we can only disguise ourselves as poor people and see if we can pick up a small life after the chaos is over. ”

Miss Ma San nodded softly and hurriedly went to prepare, while Du Shan hurriedly went to inform the Ma family's eldest young master, wanting the eldest young master to also disguise himself and escape with his life. He passed by the door of the second young master's house, but heard the second young master laughing in the room: "Those fart people, who don't measure their strength to fight against the officers and soldiers, were killed and bloodied, it's really a hilarious." ”

In the room, there was the voice of the second young man's ruffian: "Second young master, we took advantage of the chaos to kidnap a yellow flower girl in a small alley and came back, no one knows that this is our hand, the second young man might as well enjoy her, kill her afterwards and throw it on the street, everyone only thinks it was done by officers and soldiers." ”

The second young man was overjoyed: "Very good? What about women? ”

"In this bag!"

As soon as Du Shan heard this, his face suddenly changed. (To be continued.) )