Lin Feng met Lin Renzhao and Chen Fei at the gate of the city, not far from the city, and quickly divided into two ways:

Wei San led forty brothers and four brothers including Chen Fei to guard the wounded, carriages and property, quickly whipped their horses, went straight to Qingliu Pass day and night, rushed back to Jinling as soon as possible, and found Li Yu, King of Zheng, and Li Jingsui, King of Qi, as soon as possible to report the results of the trip, and truthfully reported what happened in Shouzhou; He led the remaining brothers and took the injured peddler straight to Anfengtang in the southwest of Shouzhou.

Lin Feng is a person who is familiar with history, and naturally knows that fighting corrupt officials and fighting evil forces is actually far more dangerous than fighting the enemy on the battlefield. Since he has completely fallen out with Liu Yanzhen, he must collect detailed and real evidence, bring down Liu Yanzhen in one fell swoop, and save the tiger from being injured instead of being injured by the tiger!

On the only remaining carriage, Lin Feng asked the vendor who had already been roughly bandaged about the reason for the incident.

The peddler struggled to kowtow to Lin Feng, and then lay on the carriage board, crying and complaining, telling a big secret about An Fengtang, commonly known as Shaobei.

Since the winter of four years ago, Liu Yanzhen led the soldiers of Shouzhou to Shaobi, gathered nearby villagers, and arranged for everyone to dig a deep trench in the name of dredging and strengthening the city defense of Shouzhou, so as to introduce the stagnant water in Shaobi into Shouzhou Chenghao.

In the spring and summer, when the spring and summer were not in order, Liu Yanzhen dispatched troops, on the grounds that the Northern Han attack needed to strengthen the city defense, and urged the payment of taxes in various places near Shaobi, and those who did not pay were taken away from the land, and the heavy ones were put in prison, and the nearby villagers had no choice, and many people were forced to sell their fields or abandon their fields. Liu Yanzhen collected all the good land in the abandoned fields and sold them at a low price to unsuspecting villagers or landlords.

After the summer, Liu Yanzhen sent people to block the ditch, and the pond water will slowly fill up again, and harvest a season of autumn grain; In the winter, the ditch was released again, the stagnant water in the peony was drained, and another "harvesting operation" was started, repeatedly harming the nearby people. In this way, tens of thousands of hectares of land either went into Liu Yanzhen's pocket, or it became a wasteland that no one wanted.

The land in Chen Ergou's village was originally far away from Shaobei, and it was not targeted by Liu Yanzhen a few years ago. But the year before last, their village also came into Liu Yanzhen's sight, and they also encountered such a scourge, and the villagers persevered for a year and had to run out of the city to avoid the disaster. Liu Yanzhen came with troops and declared that these ownerless lands belonged to the government, and anyone who wanted to buy them could buy them freely. Some villagers borrowed money to buy it, but last winter, there was no water to irrigate the land, and all the wheat and rice in the field died of drought, and seven people in the village starved to death at once.

Angry, Chen Ergou followed the villagers into the city to find Liu Yanzhen to discuss the law, but was beaten by Liu Yanzhen and killed two leaders on the spot. After that, some military men always came to him for trouble, and he was beaten twice in three days.

Lin Feng listened to this scene of human tragedy and tragedy, and he hated and angered in his heart, hated Liu Yanzhen for acting so shamelessly and recklessly, and was angry that there was no reason to talk about this world.

Lin Feng patted Chen Ergou on the shoulder and asked softly, "I believe you are telling the truth, but I am going to Shaobi to collect evidence, are you afraid?" In the future, you will go to Jinling City to sue the royal court, do you dare? ”

Chen Ergou wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said firmly: "Because there is no food, my old mother starved to death a few years ago, and my daughter-in-law ran back to her parents' house, and I am the only one left in the family, and I don't want to live for a long time. ”

Lin Feng comforted him a few words, and then heard Lin Renzhao ask outside the carriage, "Lord Lin, Shaobi has arrived." ”

Lin Feng got out of the carriage and walked to a accompanied by Chen Ergou and looked into the distance, in front of him was a slightly undulating open mountain land, and several slightly higher raised mountain beams were full of undulating land.

Chen Ergou pointed to the dam under his feet and said sadly: "Lord Lin, this is Anfengtang!" We are all used to being called Shaobei. The scholars in the village said that this was built by the Chu State more than 1,500 years ago, and the dam was built around it, enclosing an unruly square, and the shortest side was nearly 30 miles.

The water came from the Lu'an Youxue Mountain and the Wei River in the south, and after a rainy season, the low-lying places you see now should have been filled with water. Now, the water has been diverted away by a large canal over there, not only the land in the pond has been completely abandoned, but now the downstream Wantian fertile land has also basically been abandoned! ”

According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty? According to Wang Jingchuan, Anfengtang was built by Sun Shuao, the prime minister of Chu, during the Spring and Autumn Period (613~591 BC). According to the literature, from the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, all dynasties have repaired Shaobi.

Lin Feng curiously pointed to the middle section of the dam that was still slowly seeping water and asked, "What is the dam still leaking?" ”

Chen Ergou was sassy, and said uncertainly: "I listened to the reader, what is this called the dock flow method, the Shaobi dam body is built with a layer of grass and a layer of black cement, close to the top of the dam body, sometimes a permeable layer is stacked with trees, the old people say, this design can store a large amount of water on the one hand, and can make a small amount of water slowly seep into the waterhole in front of the dam through the grass layer, and flow to the downstream fields in a controlled manner to irrigate the farmland. ”

Lin Feng walked back and forth on the embankment and found that the depression inside the dam was basically free of water, and the waterhole under the dam was basically dry; When I walked to the canal on the right side of the dam, I found that the water in the dam was still bubbling into the canal.

It's the end of February, and this time should be the time when the wheat sprouts are green, but as far as the eye can see, there are not a few fields that are green, all of them are withered and yellow.

"Liu Yanzhen is really a great evil in the world, if this thief is not removed, heaven will not tolerate it!" Lin Feng scolded angrily, turned his head and ordered a group of brothers to come over, divide into seven groups, bring money, and go to seven nearby villages, in the name of the imperial court sending them to collect evidence of Liu Yanzhen's crime, ask the villagers to make bold accusations, and draw a pledge on the evidence.

Before these brothers set off, Lin Feng ordered them with a serious face, everyone only had one afternoon to collect evidence, and if anyone blocked or harassed them in the middle, as long as no one died, everyone would deal with it at will. This is also a clear thing, Liu Yanzhen has done all the evil things, and is naturally afraid that the villagers who have lost their land will complain, and they will inevitably install and buy many dog legs in this township to control the situation.

To tell the truth, most of the special fighters who followed Lin Feng were from poor rural areas, and naturally they were extremely resentful of these criminal acts of bullying the farmers, and they went away one by one with angry expressions.

After finishing the order, Lin Feng himself took Chen Ergou and ran towards Nangang Village, where he was.

Desolate and lifeless, this was Lin Feng's first impression when he saw Nangang Village, where Chen Ergou was. In the first row of five houses they saw, three of them had open doors and the yards were covered with weeds. Lin Feng's brothers followed Chen Ergou through two rows of houses, only to find an old woman squinting in the doorway at the door, I don't know if she fell asleep or fainted.

Lin Feng's heart ached, and he softly instructed a few brothers and Chen Ergou to go to the village to find some pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and squatted down beside the old woman, and called softly: "Old man, please wake up." ”

After a long while, the old woman opened her eyes, and two cloudy tears flowed from her dim eyes, and said with difficulty: "Am I not dead yet?" ”

Lin Feng gently helped the old man up, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said softly, "Old man, don't worry! I am Lin Feng, the general of the imperial court, who came to investigate the affairs of the Shaobi field. ”

The old man trembled, and suddenly shouted: "You dead old man, how good it is for you to hold on for two more days, the emperor sent Lin Qingtian here!" ”

After shouting this, the old woman struggled to get up, and shouted painfully on the ground: "Lord Qingtian, you must be the master for us!" ”

Tears fell one after another, fell on the loess, made a stain mark, and also hit the softest place in Lin Feng's heart, tears couldn't help but burst out of his eyes, he helped the old man up with both hands, choked up and said: "Please rest assured that the old man will not go back if Lin does not find out about this matter!" ”

Just as Lin Feng wiped his tears and listened to the old woman tell how his family lost his land and how his wife starved to death, Wei San led the convoy to be caught up by thousands of masked men on horses thirty miles away from Qingliu Pass!