Yang Qiuchi drank to the political envoy of Quan Bu and the prefect of Tan: "Do you know what it means to be forced by officials to rebel against the people? You have embezzled all the relief food and pushed tens of thousands of hungry people to a dead end, and if you cut off their way of life, you are forcing them to rebel! ”

He pointed in the direction of Yamen Square: "Do you know how many hungry people have starved to death in and outside Wuchang City these days?" Now you listen, listen! Tens of thousands of hungry people outside the yamen are like a torrent, and a riot is about to break out! Now you only have to confess truthfully, find out the whereabouts of the grain as soon as possible, and release the grain for disaster relief, otherwise, the official will immediately show the two of you to the public and appease the people! ”

As soon as he heard that he was about to cut off his head, Governor Tan shouted in a trembling voice: "My lord, spare my life, I know where the food is!" ”

"Speak quickly!" Yang Qiuchi shouted.

"It's in the granary of Mi Yuanwai's house, a few hundred steps behind the yamen! Millions of catties of rice from the two disaster relief efforts are there! ”

No wonder, the granary of Mi Yuanwai's house is next to the yamen, and it is also very convenient to secretly cross the Chen Cang.

At this moment, the noise outside the yamen has become louder and louder, and the shouts of grabbing grain have come and gone! 100,000 urgent, must be made immediately.

Yang Qiuchi didn't care about being polite, and gave an order as a special envoy, and first said to Master Shi, the criminal envoy: "Mi Yuanwai colluded with the political envoy of Quan Bu and the prefect of Tan's mansion inside and outside, embezzled disaster relief public grain, set fire to extinguish traces, and has violated the king's law, please send someone to Mi Yuanwai's house immediately, there are already a hundred brocade guards I sent to control the Mi family, you go and arrest Mi Yuanwai and bring it." I'm going to interrogate myself later. ”

"Obey Lord Yang's orders!" Master Shi bowed his hand and immediately organized people to arrest Mi Yuan.

Yang Qiuchi said to the commander again: "Master Wu, please take someone to push the back wall of the yamen to a section, and transport the relief grain from the granary outside the rice staff to the front of the yamen as soon as possible, and we will immediately open the warehouse and release the grain." ”

"In addition, please send someone to build a control passage from here to the north gate, and after a while, the hungry people will receive food, and immediately transport the hungry people to the north gate. In addition, a large amount of firewood was sent to the village, where bonfires were lit for the hungry to keep warm overnight, and a porridge factory was set up for porridge relief. Then send troops to maintain order there. ”

Seeing that Yang Qiuchi was commanding and calm, he admired it very much, and hugged his fists and said, "Obey!" Just as he was leaving, Yang Qiuchi shouted again: "Wait, Master Wu, if you have bows and arrows, please find someone to send a few bows and a pot of arrows immediately." ”

Master Wu didn't know what Yang Qiuchi wanted the bow and arrow for, so he didn't ask much, agreed, and hurriedly took people away.

Yang Qiuchi hurriedly walked to the second hall bookcase, picked up the brush and hurriedly wrote a few lines on a piece of paper, then walked to Nangong Xiong's side, handed him the note, and then lowered At this time, Master Wu had already sent someone to send a few bows and a pot of arrows. Yang Qiuchi said to Song Yun'er: "Yun'er, are you accurate in archery?" ”

Song Yun'er smiled, picked up a bow, took a sharp arrow from the quiver and put it on the bow, looked up at the door, and saw two rows of columns on both sides of the corridor leading to the lobby of the front hall outside the gate of the second hall, with big red lanterns hanging on them, and said, "I'm going to shoot down the second lantern on the right!" ”

Yang Qiuchi raised his eyes and saw that the lantern was at least sixty or seventy meters away, and it was so far away that it hit the rope hanging from the lantern, it could be said that it could be said that it would take hundreds of steps to pass through Yang.

Song Yun'er stepped in a T-shaped step, concentrating, squeaked and pulled out the bow and arrow, and shouted softly: "Medium!" ”

The arrow was like a meteor, lightning flashed out, faintly heard the sound of dang, the arrow nailed to the head of the second column, the big red lantern hanging on the pillar fell in response, fell to the ground, slowly ignited, and a servant ran over to extinguish the fire.

"Good archery!" Yang Qiuchi praised, "You can go to the martial arts test!" ”

Song Yun'er smiled proudly and asked, "Brother, what are you doing with me in archery at this time?" ”

"I'll tell you to shoot right away!" Yang Qiuchi said, "Wait a while, we will be outside the door, you listen to my orders, if anyone dares to incite the robbery of grain, you will give me an arrow to kill him!" ”

Everyone immediately understood, and Zuo Bu's political envoy Master Qian praised: "Your Excellency's trick is good!" Inciting food robbery is a crime that deserves death, not to mention the suspicion of plotting rebellion. ”

After receiving the affirmation of the political envoy, Yang Qiuchi became more down-to-earth in his heart, and instructed Song Yun to change into a brocade Wei Feiyu suit. Let Nangong Xiong and the other Jinyi Society guards also change into Jinyi Wei Feiyu suits.

Nangong Xiong and the others' costumes are easy to handle, and the brocade guards who stayed behind took off more than ten sets for them to wear, but Song Yun'er was in trouble, these hundred brocade guards are all big men with big shoulders and round waists, and finally found a slightly thinner one, took off the flying fish suit and put it on Song Yuner, or it was loose and loose as if Sun Wukong was wearing an official uniform, so he had to roll up his sleeves to facilitate archery.

Yang Qiuchi said to Zuo Bu's political envoy: "Lord Qian, let's go, let's go and announce the opening of the warehouse and release the grain!" ”

Seeing that Yang Qiuchi arrested the right political envoy and the Tan prefect on the spot, the left political envoy was frightened for fear of affecting himself, and now he heard Yang Qiuchi say to himself that he wanted to go with him to announce the opening of the warehouse and release grain, only to know that his problem was not big, and his heart suddenly widened, and he said incoherently: "Thank you, thank you...... No, okay...... Lord Yang, let's go. ”

Yang Qiuchi pulled the political envoy of Zuo Bu, and the two walked out side by side, and the deputy Qianhu of the brocade guard followed closely behind with a hundred brocade guards.

On the way from the second hall to the lobby of the front hall, Yang Qiuchi said to the political envoy Zuobu: "In the past, how much grain was released for disaster relief?" ”

Zuo Bu's political envoy Qian replied: "There is no fixed number, it depends on the time and size of the disaster and the amount of surplus food for the people. ”

"Is this a standard?"

"It should be decided, but in the past, disaster relief was the responsibility of the political envoy of Quanbu, I don't know."

"Then have you been in charge of disaster relief and grain distribution before?"

"Of course," Qian Bu smiled, "Natural disasters [***] happen from time to time, and this disaster relief and grain release is something that almost every parent official has to go through, and the amount of food that has passed through my hands in the past is too much to count." ”

"Very good, is the relief food allocated by the imperial court enough for the hungry people in the city to release food?"

"The imperial court has allocated disaster relief food twice, and it is enough."

"That's good," Yang Qiuchi had a bottom in his heart, "When we get to the front hall, the specific affairs of disaster relief will be arranged by you, and I will take people outside the yamen to stabilize the order first." ”

"Yes, yes," Lord Qian nodded again and again, he was also worried that Yang Qiuchi would assign him to appease the hungry people, in the face of tens of thousands of agitated hungry people, he couldn't think of a way to appease them, and he was afraid that it would cause chaos and the hungry people would lose control and grab food. Now that the envoy himself went to appease him, he was immediately relieved.

In the front hall, those two-level yamen officials heard the crowd outside the yamen, not that they could hear someone shouting to rush in to grab food, and a few leaders entered the back hall and never came out, they were frightened, and they saw Lord Qian and others coming out, so they were relieved, and found that the other adults were gone, and muttered in their hearts.

This disaster relief and grain release is something that political envoys often do, and they are familiar with the road, and Lord Qian immediately began to organize specific grain release affairs. Arrange for an adjutant to participate in politics from Sanpin, accompany Yang Qiuchi out to appease the hungry people, and announce the release of grain.

Under the protection of Nangong Xiong's guards, Yang Qiuchi went out of the yamen, and heard that the outside of the yamen was like a boiling pot, some fences had been pushed open, and all the officers and soldiers and the people were lined up in several rows of human walls, desperately blocking the push of the hungry people.

Someone in the crowd kept shouting: "Rush in and grab the food, if you don't grab it, you will be burned again!" ”

"Grab food! Otherwise, you will starve to death! ”

"They won't put food, these dog officials want to see us die before they are happy!"

"Kill these officers and soldiers, and the dogs will bully the people! Rush in and grab the food! ”

…… The human wall formed by the officers and soldiers has been receding one after another, and in some places it is no longer able to resist it. The faces of the officers and soldiers and the officers were all frightened, like a about to collapse in the midst of a raging sea.

Yang Qiuchi saw the high platform next to the yamen at a glance, and hurriedly ran up, Nangong Xiong and other guards and Song Yun'er, who was wearing a brocade guard costume, followed closely on the high platform.

Deputy Qianhu took a hundred brocade guards to block under the high platform, and pulled out his waist knife to guard. Deputy Qianhu already knew that Yang Qiuchi was the commander and envoy, and if there was any mistake, he would lose his head if he didn't protect him well, so he gave a death order, and if he dared to get close, he would be killed immediately.

He also wanted to follow Yang Qiuchi to the stage from Sanpin's participation in politics, but when he saw tens of thousands of hungry people, his legs trembled and trembled, and he wanted to go up, but he couldn't move.

Yang Qiuchi shouted loudly to Nangong Xiong: "Begin!" ”

Nangong Xiong took the note written by Yang Qiuchi, glanced at it, and then shouted loudly: "The emperor's grace is mighty, open the warehouse and release the grain!" ”

More than a dozen brocade-clothed guards shouted: "The emperor's grace is mighty, open the warehouse and release the grain!" He shouted several times.

Nangong Xiong's voice was loud, and the more than ten brocade-clothed guards were also loud, and they shouted in unison, and at a high place, the sound suddenly overwhelmed the noisy sound of the crowd below.

The crowd was suddenly much quieter, but at this moment, someone in the crowd shouted, "Liar! Rush in and grab food! Then many people also shouted:

"The dog is a liar, rush in and grab it!"

"Rush in, get out of the way if you're afraid of death!"

"Grab food, or you'll starve to death!"

"It's burning food inside!"

…… More people in the black oppression of the hungry people clamored for a great uproar, and the order was suddenly chaotic.

(To be continued)