The long day is coming to an end, and there is only the afterglow of the sunset at dusk.

On the official road of Shangyun Town, the officials and requisitioning officials were leaving Shangyun Town with a load of food, preparing to rush to the next post station before nightfall.

The requisition order of the central government has an irresistible temptation to the local officials. One year of floods and one year of locust plagues, although the impact on the people was great, they barely survived by virtue of past prosperity. Local officials have amassed very little money in the past two years, but they have also passed.

The fatal thing was the three-year drought, and the families of officials were miserable, and they were so poor that they couldn't get a little oil and water. Now I finally got this opportunity to make a fortune for the people of the county and make up for the shortfall.

The original requisition order of the central government was to requisition the granaries of various government offices in Ansan County, and if it was insufficient, to purchase a small amount of grain from the people at the local grain market price.

The original decree of the imperial court center was good, but no matter how good the decree was, once it reached the end of the country, it was implemented by local officials in different ways.

The local officials immediately tampered with the original intention and issued an official document stating that the imperial court would collect grain from the people, and each household would be compensated with copper coins at the market price.

It has been repeatedly emphasized that this is the emperor's will, and whoever dares to disrespect it is to disobey the holy decree and disrespect the imperial court, and will be exiled at least and beheaded for public display.

As for the market price, it is not set according to their meaning, one pound and one penny copper coin, this is the market price.

Dare to rebel against the Imperial Levy! I don't want to live anymore!

Directly arrest and convict you of resisting law enforcement and sabotaging military supplies, and by the way, you will be arrested and put in prison, tortured if you do not cooperate, and then exiled from your home.

As a result, this decree became a matter of local officials looting the local people's food and plundering the people's wealth in a cloak of legality.

For local officials and families, it was a joyous and crazy feast.

In just one day, 50,000 catties of rice were scavenged from Shangyun Town, and if it weren't for the lack of manpower, more could have been scavenged.

According to the current market price, it is a full 300,000 copper coins, and they only pay 50,000 copper coins.

Selling in the blink of an eye is a return of several times, which is a good fortune.

As for the Imperial Requisition Order, come and loot it again, just hand over some grain. Anyway, the center knew that the three-year drought in Nanyang Mansion did not expect to hand over much food.

Due to the overabundance of grain, the carts carrying the grain were a little overwhelmed, and they walked very slowly, and at this speed they had to travel overnight to barely reach the next station.

The grain collector was obviously in a good mood, grinning, this time he had gained a lot, thinking about how to use this wealth to make his official position go further, or buy a beauty for himself and his guests to have fun.

At this time, Xiao Er of the restaurant on the side of the road also grinned, the news was correct, there was indeed a grain transport team today, and he immediately signaled to the boss, preparing to ambush and snatch the grain.

After receiving the news, the boss of the Longshan thieves also grinned, snatching this sum of food was enough for the brothers to eat and drink for a while. In recent days, many young and strong homeless people have joined in, and the ranks have expanded.

But the food in the mountain became scarce, and he was worried about it for several days, and the day before yesterday there were still people who fled down the mountain because they did not have enough to eat, and once someone took the lead in escaping down the mountain, it would be out of control, so he personally led the team to catch the escapees.

In front of everyone, cut off the heads of the people who escaped, and carried the bloody heads, and surrounded them, which shocked these little rabbit cubs.

But if there is no food, the hearts of the people will be scattered sooner or later, and the surrounding villages will have long run out of surplus food because of the drought. If they rob again, the villagers will definitely fight with them, and the thief boss immediately vetoes this idea.

If you really can't rob food, you will rob larger villages and towns and caravans, although the other side has militia and dart divisions, there will be some casualties, but it is better than starving to death.

When he got the news of the grain transportation team from the official road winery, the thief boss was excited, and the sorrow of the past few days dissipated. The surrounding thieves also laughed when they saw that the boss was so happy. After all, the bloody human head is still hanging on a high place to show the public, which is terrifying.

It was getting dark, and there was a lingering glow of dusk.

More than a dozen officials and catchers walked lazily on both sides of the official road, with carts full of grain in the middle, and the grain collector who took the lead rode a horse and still fantasized about beauty and money. I want to come to Shangyun Town again to requisition, anyway, the requisition is not over yet. The imperial court requisitioned food for this group of untouchables, but he didn't know what to do, and he didn't care about the lives of the untouchables.

The grain collector lamented that the three-year drought was really hard, and there was no oil or water at all.

The Longshan thieves looked at the slowly approaching grain transport team.

The two sighed surprisingly in unison.

"Fortunately, this time it was just in time."

In the dense forests on both sides of the official road, a pair of blazing eyes looked at the piles of grain, and suddenly heard the sound of heavier breathing, one after another.

When the grain convoy came to the ambush circle, they looked greedy, breathed heavier, and looked like hungry wolves, silent and fierce, and their eyes glowed faintly red in the darkness.