The crowd was surging, and people wanted to squeeze forward to see how the Taishou in a place, who was once a powerful and powerful court official, was taken off his black gauze hat in an instant. And Liu Yu, who took off Kang Taishou's black gauze hat, is also like a god high above him in the eyes of ordinary people, with indescribable majesty.

"Everyone, go home."

Kang Taishou was escorted into the carriage, and Liu Yu stood on a high platform and shouted with a "megaphone" rolled up in thick paper, "Go back to your hometown, let your separated relatives have a place to live in peace, the government will give you relief food, you must take up arms to defend your fields, guard Nanyang Gan, Nanyang Gan is about to be harvested." ”

Liu Yu stood up in public, and the words he said also had some effect, and he could share the hardships with ordinary people and help poor family members. But after all, he has suddenly changed from a friendly face of the people to a hostile official in the government, and there are many doubts from the crowd.

"Can you eat Nanyang Gan? I can't eat it, and I can't find you in the future, so those officials don't still oppress us? ”

"It's the other way around! It's just the other way around! ”

All kinds of voices still appeared in the crowd, which was also the result of the long-term grievances between the people and the government. The people have been oppressed for a long time, and they have finally been stimulated to blood, and it is difficult to suppress it.

Liu Yue knew that the best way to control the situation was to come up with something effective, such as food, and there were not a few money and grain embezzled by local officials such as Kang Taishou, so it was better to confiscate them and help the people. Although it may cause inequality, it is also the best way to calm the people's hearts, and that is to help the people to "rob".

"Ladies and gentlemen, you wait here first, the imperial court is about to distribute money and food."

It's already halfway through the afternoon. It's almost dusk. Liu Yuben was also worried that the money and food would not be distributed in time. Who knew that all the money and grain embezzled by Nakang Taishou and others were stored in the big warehouse in the city. Nominally, it was still a tax levied by the imperial court, but in fact it would be sold by them in the name of a private person.

"It's time for the payout!"

At dusk, the sound was everywhere outside the city, and everyone would go to the city with a sign in their hand to receive grain and copper plates, and those who received the food could return to their hometown and continue to live their own lives.

It was a long night, and the noise outside the city continued until dawn. Liu Yu obviously underestimated the strength of the masses, starting from the evening. The refugees around Lucheng rushed over when they heard the news, and many of the duplicate receipts could not be taken care of, in short, Liu Yu's purpose was to let the silver in the grain depot and the money treasury be distributed at one time. These are the crystallization of the blood and sweat of the people, Liu Yu just did it and became rich to the people, and he didn't feel much pity.

This is a bold adventure, and Liu Yu has a bit of a meaning of robbing the rich and helping the poor. It wasn't until the next morning that the surging crowd outside the city calmed down, and the rest of the city's stock of money and grain had been distributed except for the relief grain.

The people were surging and wanted to ask for more, but after all, the money and grain depots were empty.

After posting the list. Liu Yu also asked the officers and soldiers guarding the city to observe the movements of the people at any time, fearing that they would continue to loot if they felt that it was not enough. But the people were content. After all, Diao people are a minority, and many people who have received money and food even kneel at the gate of the city to bow and thank them, and some want to make trouble, some people will persuade them, and some will even take out part of themselves to compensate for the less.

They are all people in distress, and the people also know that they share hardships and hardships, which makes Liu Yu very moved.

Liu Yu didn't expect that such an accident would occur when passing by Lucheng, and the cause of this change was just thinking that he was playing with a spinning top. Yesterday, the old man brought his granddaughter over to thank Liu Yu, thanked him for his kindness, and repeatedly offered to give his granddaughter to Liu Yu as a cow and a horse. Liu Yu refused to give it yesterday, and today he will not be strong.

"Old man, go home, guard your own one-third of an acre, don't come out again. I also hope that in the future, the wind and rain will be smooth, and there will be no more disasters today. ”

The old man smiled respectfully and said: "What the official said is that in the future, the people who are in good weather will live in peace." ”

Looking at the back of the old man leaving with his granddaughter, Liu Yu didn't ask them who their names were. He always felt that although the old man seemed to be cowardly and incompetent, he spoke very methodically, and was also full of some life insights and philosophies, which was not the temperament that an old farmer should reveal. However, Liu Yu didn't have the energy to investigate the family's background again.

"Just let them go?" Huo Yi was originally supervising the release of grain outside the city, but when he came in, he looked at the back of the old man and his granddaughter leaving in surprise, "You are the big wrongdoer, right?" ”

Liu Yu glanced at him and sighed: "You kid, you just don't want to eat at all, sooner or later something will happen because of this." ”

Huo Yi is the kind of person who must be compared, and he refuses to suffer, and he is also very tricky. However, his courage is appreciated by Liu Yue, which is the reason why Liu Yu kept him by his side.

The group continued to the north and entered Chang'an City on the afternoon of the second day.

It's low-key when you go, and it's even more low-key when you come back. Everything in Chang'an City is as usual, prosperous as before, but Liu Yu saw the crisis of slaughter from this prosperity and liveliness.

Liu Yu and Xu Xuanzhu didn't care about going home, so they went to the palace first to report to the emperor on the progress of the counterinsurgency.

In the Yaqian Palace, Su Yan saw that Liu Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, according to himself, he had not closed his eyes for many days, because the war in the Jianghuai region was becoming more and more prosperous.

"Where are the envoys of the vassal kings to Beijing?" Liu Yu asked after reading the latest battle report from the front.

"Stopped." Su Yan said, "They stopped outside Tongguan, did not enter or return, as if they were waiting for the will of the imperial court, Yuan Xiang and those ministers said so." ”

Liu Yu thought about it in his heart, and said with a wry smile: "Where are they waiting for the will of the imperial court, I'm afraid they are persuading the general of Tongguan to surrender." Since the new emperor ascended the throne, Mu He, the general of the Southern Yuan Dynasty who guarded Tongguan, has never submitted any official documents and letters of allegiance to the imperial court. ”

Tongguan is the eastern pass of Guanzhong, once Tongguan is lost, the land in the Guanzhong will be a horse Pingchuan without danger to defend. The vassal king's trick was also very clever, nominally to let the envoys enter Beijing to congratulate him, not to make trouble with the court, but secretly he had begun to fight with the court. This is a trick to hide from the sky and cross the sea, so that the court is unprepared, especially when the court is weak, it will think that there is still room to turn around, and it will be paralyzed by appearances.

And the purpose of this envoy group is not only to confuse the new emperor, but also to plot the natural danger of the land in Guanzhong. Liu Yuzhi said, Tongguan said that it could not fall into the hands of King Huai or other vassal kings. Once Tongguan is lost, Chang'an is in danger.

"Master, what should I do then?" Su Yan also knew the importance of Tongguan, and asked nervously.

"No way, I heard that Yuan Bolang has a very personal relationship with the general of Nanyuan, and this time I will ask him to surrender in person no matter what. As long as we support the imperial court, then we still have a glimmer of life. ”

When Su Yan heard Yuan Bolang, his face showed a little embarrassment. Liu Yue asked carefully and realized that Yuan Bolang had always come to see the new emperor in the past few days, but he had been turned away many times. And the relationship between Liu Yu and Yuan Bolang is very rigid, so Su Yan is not sure whether Yuan Bolang will help him in the end. (To be continued......)