Two thousand cavalry accompanied him, and Liu Wei knew that although the number of people was not very large, it was also dark and overwhelming on the road, and it was impossible to see the true situation of the officials along the way. Therefore, he did not enter the city along the way, lest the officials from all over the country know that he was coming, and make the city bright in advance, so that not only could he not investigate the people's feelings, but would set off a wind of fraud.

On the way east, Liu Wei only followed the place where the villages were concentrated, and advanced in the direction of Luoyang. His act of not entering the city made many officials in the city along the way breathe a sigh of relief, and some officials who had arranged for personnel to wipe even a single wall tile in the city bright and clean in advance felt a little lost, lost the opportunity to show their merits in front of Liu Wei, and became a talking point for folk tea and tea as a laughing stock after dinner.

The closer you go to the boundary of Yin in Henan, the more prosperous the villages of Hongnong County become. In the countryside, the fields are intertwined, and the fields are full of millet.

Although the millet is not yet ripe, the yellow and green ears of grain in the field are swaying in the wind, rippling like a yellow, yellow, green and green blue wave, which is also very beautiful.

"It's going to be a good year!" Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to Henan Yin, riding a horse on the official road, Liu Wei raised his hand and pointed to the fields on both sides of the road, and said to Guan Qing beside him: "When the grain is harvested, the people will no longer have to be hungry, and the grain of the army will also be settled!" ”

"Although Qing'er said that she has been fighting with her brother since she was a child and has never planted grain, she has never heard of a place like His Highness, where the people farm the fields, but they do not collect taxes, and if the harvest is good, they will give copper coins to buy seeds!" Riding along with Liu Wei, Guan Qing looked at the grains on both sides of the road, smiled slightly, and continued: "But judging from the villages passed along the way, His Highness's move has cost the people a little more effort to farm......"

"One acre of land can produce so much food!" While walking forward slowly, Liu Wei looked at the valley waves swaying in the wind in the field, and said to Guan Qing: "People farming, to change farm tools, to buy clothes, to repair housing, but also to raise children, with a few acres of thin land, food and clothing is not easy, how can they live a prosperous life." ”

"Food, clothing, housing and transportation have always been the things that the people are most concerned about!" Turning his gaze to Guan Qing's face, Liu Wei said to her with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth: "Only stupid people will exploit them at the root of these people's livelihoods." If you don't have enough food, you can't wear warm clothes, you can't even afford a shack, and the people want to rebel! Favoritism and irregularities by local officials have long been a common practice, and no one can avoid them. It is precisely for this reason that when the king distributes the seed subsidy, he will take Luoyang to allocate it, and each county will distribute it to the county, and the county will directly distribute it by household. In addition, there are two levels of secret visits, the accounts are drawn at any time, and the strategy of visiting the countryside to ensure that all copper coins can fall into the hands of the people, and not be detained by local officials! ”

Listening to Liu Wei's words, Guan Qing nodded thoughtfully. Although she can't think as thoroughly as Liu Wei, the truth in it is understandable at all. It was also Liu Bian's words that made her understand why Liu Bian, in addition to providing preferential treatment to the local management in the three places, the management of local officials was almost harsh, once favoritism was discovered, the first evil beheaded, all the family property was confiscated, and the family members were reformed into commoners, leaving them almost no chance to turn over.

Along the official road, leading this team of more than 2,000 cavalry, Liu Weizheng looked at the gratifying growth of grain on both sides of the road with joy, while talking to Guan Qing, and suddenly a soldier's voice came from behind him: "Your Highness, there is someone ahead!" ”

Liu Wei, who was talking with Guan Qing, heard the soldier's shout, hurriedly turned his head to look forward, and sure enough, he saw two people dressed as civilians, a man and a woman, who were panicking into the valley next to the road.

"I looked panicked, I ran away when I saw the officers and soldiers, there must be a reason!" Liu Wei raised his hand and pointed forward, and said to the soldier who shouted at him: "You bring some people over, and you must capture these two people!" ”

"No!" The soldier clenched his fists in response, raised his hand and waved behind him, shouting: "Come brothers!" ”

Several fast horses rushed towards the valley that a man and a woman had just entered, and when they reached the edge of the field, the soldiers on horseback jumped off their horses and burrowed into the valley, searching for the two civilians who had just taken refuge.

"Found it!" Seeing that the soldiers had drilled into the valley, it didn't take long for Liu Wei to hear a soldier shouting from afar.

Not long after the soldiers' shouts fell, several Luoyang soldiers who had entered the valley to search for them walked towards Liu Wei with two civilians, a man and a woman.

Perhaps because they were too afraid, the two people, a man and a woman, were escorted by the soldiers, and when Liu Wei approached, before the soldiers who held them could speak, the two of them had already knelt on the ground with a "poof", lying down, and did not even dare to look at Liu Wei on horseback.

"When you see the army, why do you flee?" Riding on horseback, Liu Wei was straight and straight, looked down at the two people kneeling on the ground, and asked in a very flat tone.

The two of them knelt on the ground, trembling uncontrollably, but did not answer Liu Wei's question.

"Your Highness is asking you!" The two of them did not reply, and a soldier standing behind them raised his foot and kicked the man's pouting buttocks, and scolded angrily, "Are you two deaf? ”

was kicked on the buttocks, and the man leaned forward, his head just rubbed on the dirt on the side, and he fell and gnawed on the mud, and the situation was very embarrassing.

First, he kicked the man's buttocks, and the soldier was about to walk behind the woman and stomp on it, when Liu Wei waved his hand at him and motioned him to step back.

Seeing Liu Wei's gesture, the soldier clenched his fists with both hands, took two steps back, and stood aside.

"This king asks you, why did you flee when you saw the army?" lowered his head, looking at the man who was lying on the ground after falling, and didn't even dare to get up, and the woman who pouted her buttocks on the side and didn't dare to raise her head, Liu Wei asked again.

"Back to the king!" Liu Wei asked again, and the man lying on the ground supported the ground with his hands, resumed his kneeling posture, and said in a trembling voice: "I...... The two of us are going back to the insider...... Insider's family saves relatives ......"

"Nonsense!" Before the man's words fell, Liu Wei suddenly became angry and yelled at him: "I don't want to torture you, you refuse to tell the truth!" ”

"Someone!" After drinking the man's words, Liu Wei turned his head and said to Guan Qing on the side: "Let people drag him down and beat him with three hundred military sticks!" ”

"No!" Guan Qing responded with a fist clenched and beckoned behind him.

The two soldiers turned and jumped off their horses, walked quickly to the man's side, lifted him up from the left and the right, and dragged him to the side of the road.

"The king spares his life!" As soon as the two soldiers dragged the man to the side of the road, the woman who was kneeling on the ground suddenly shouted, knelt up straight, ripped off her clothes, her face was full of tears, and she looked up at Liu Wei on horseback and shouted: "I beg the king to spare my man, the slave family is willing to follow the army and sleep with the generals!" ”

The woman ripped open her shirt, revealing two white tits. Although her face is only average, and her skin is quite rough, you can tell at a glance that she is a villager who has been working in the fields all year round. But the skin and flesh on the body are very delicate, especially the two soft balls of meat, the two red dots at the tip are flushed with peach, ordinary men see it, I'm afraid most of them can't help but want to go up and take two bites.

"Put your clothes on!" The woman's actions made Liu Wei frown slightly, he first whispered to the woman, and then waved his hand to the two soldiers who were dragging the man, and said to the two soldiers: "Bring him back!" ”

Everyone in the army knows what the concept of three hundred sticks is. The military stick is extremely heavy, even if it is a strong soldier, if he eats thirty military sticks, half of his life is gone. Not to mention that the person who was dragged was just an ordinary villager, let alone three hundred, I am afraid that he would be hit with twenty or thirty sticks, and the man who was dragged to the side of the road by the soldiers would also die.

was dragged back to Liu Wei by two soldiers, the man knelt on the ground, kept kowtowing to Liu Wei, and kept shouting: "Thank you for the king's grace not to kill!" ”

Glancing down at the man, Liu Wei waved his hand at the woman whose clothes were still open, and said to the woman: "Put on your clothes, and answer the king's question!" ”

Seeing that Liu Wei didn't blame them, the woman's demeanor was much calmer than that of her man, she put her clothes on the placket with both hands, knelt up straight, looked up at Liu Bian, and waited for Liu Wei to ask her questions.

"Why did you two run away when you saw the officers and soldiers?" After the woman put on her clothes, Liu Wei asked her again, "Didn't you do something bad?" ”

"We are all ordinary villagers, what evil things have we done?" Before Liu Wei's words fell, the woman looked up at him and replied: "The nearby village has been looted by the officers and soldiers recently, and if the woman escapes slowly, she will be abused by the officers and soldiers......

"Don't say it! Don't say anything! The woman answered Liu Wei's question, and the man kneeling on the side trembled in fright, and hurriedly turned his face and whispered to her: "Shut up!" ”

The man spoke, but the woman really didn't dare to say more, she lowered her head, and the moment she bowed her head, two tears actually fell into the dirt in front of her knees.

"It's you who want to shut up!" Seeing that the man was obstructing the woman's speech, Liu Wei frowned slightly, whispered to him, and then said to the woman: "Your man is afraid of being frightened by those people, don't pay attention to him, just tell the truth, this king will not blame you!" What kind of armor were those officers and soldiers wearing? Do you know where they are stationed? Who else but you can testify to this? ”

"This is the boundary of White Horse County!" The man was stopped drinking, and seeing that Liu Wei had no intention of blaming, the woman raised her face, wiped the tears on her cheeks, hesitated for a moment, and then continued: "Along Luoshui to the east, is the boundary of Yiyang, those officers and soldiers are wearing red armor, not the Xiliang Army, they should come here from Yiyang......"

"Oh?" Listening to the woman's words, Liu Wei's brows furrowed slightly, and he asked her, "Do you know Yiyang?" ”

It's no wonder that Liu Wei asked so much, the women in the countryside mostly work in the village on weekdays, and rarely go far away, Yiyang is still a lot away from Baima, this woman knows that Yiyang is indeed a little weird.

"The people's daughter is the Yiyang people!" Liu Bian's expression showed a little suspicion, and the woman hurriedly lowered her head again, and said to him: "Earlier, the Xiliang army moved the population to Chang'an, and in order to avoid military disasters, the people's daughter came here with her father, so that she could marry here, and she didn't want to ...... I still can't avoid ...... after the worst."

"When did you two flee the village? Are the rebels still in the village at the moment? Hearing what the woman said, the rebels should be wearing Luoyang army clothes and armor, Liu Wei frowned, and asked the woman again.

"The officers and soldiers who escaped from my husband and wife last night and entered the village to loot should have left at this moment!" Seeing a hint of anger on Liu Wei's face, the woman who had almost forgotten her fear just now because of anger hurriedly lowered her head again, trembled again, and responded tremblingly.

"Order the scouts, go and find out!" Beckoning behind him, Liu Wei shouted to an officer nearby: "If you really find troops wearing our army's armor and find out that they have looted the village, report it to this king immediately!" ”

"No!" An officer who followed Liu Wei answered, and walked towards the back of the team, and after a while, more than a dozen fast horses rushed out of the team, in a loose formation, and ran towards Yiyang.