Chapter 392: The capital is in distress

"Fu Aiqing, please get up! I think Fu Aiqing's method is feasible, but what I can't understand is that Fu Aiqing is obviously in charge of literary compilation, why is she responsible for reporting the plague? "When Long Xingche reported the situation of the Shengzhou plague from Lord Fu, he already had questions!

After Prince Fu stood up, he looked back at Yin Li Ronghai of Shuntian Mansion and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is a long story......

So, Prince Fu told Long Xingche in detail why he reported it to Wen Xi in the court......

It turns out that this Shengzhou is a vast place located in the southwesternmost direction of Chenguo, and although it is remote, it is a good place with abundant products and beautiful scenery! However, the so-called "high mountains and far away emperors", although the products are abundant and the land is fertile, there is still a situation of "there is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death"!

Liu Yufu, a local governor in charge, is a big corrupt official who likes to deceive his superiors and subordinates and secretly swallow an unknown amount of money. Shengzhou is rich in products and is famous, and every year in order to save face, the things he pays tribute to the country every year are called by the whole country, so on the surface, it also creates an illusion that the people of Shengzhou are rich and happy. Behind the scenes, he is a corrupt official who cheats the court and the common people and makes huge profits from it!

Every year, under his strong suppression, the taxes here are the earliest paid in the country. Moreover, he also collected a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, all of which were used to enrich his own pockets. Zhengzhou's output ranks first in the country every year, but the people still live a life of not having enough to eat, and they don't have the next meal!

This time, there was an outbreak of dysentery and plague among the people, and there were many li chiefs (that is, equivalent to the current village heads), when the epidemic was reported through the county office, Liu Yufu was drinking and drinking with his wives and concubines in the back garden of the house, and he also sent out the people who came to report the epidemic!

Because the climate here is warm, it is suitable for the rapid reproduction of germs, and because Liu Yufu did not take any measures and precautions when he reported it, so that the dysentery plague spread rapidly. Shengzhou's large and small counties have spread all over the place, and it was not until hundreds of people died that this Liu Yufu tried to find a way to remedy it, but it was too late, and the situation was out of control!

Liu Yufu, who was in a panic, only knew that all the soldiers who had already contracted dysentery and plague were driven to a barren mountain, leaving them to fend for themselves, and not giving them any medical medicine and food. So that it didn't take long for the patients to die slowly when they arrived on the barren mountain, so that the patients who died of the plague were covered with corpses all over the mountain, and they couldn't bear to gamble!

However, the biggest problem was that when Liu Yufu asked the soldiers to get all the sick people to the barren mountain, everyone did not take any measures, many soldiers were infected, and some villagers who lived along the road to the barren mountain were not sick, because when the soldiers transported the sick along the way, they did not notify the villagers to take shelter, and as a result, more people were infected with the plague, and three or four hundred people died of illness in a few days!

At this time, many county orders in Shengzhou were proposed, asking Liu Yufu to report to the imperial court, and let the imperial court be responsible for managing this matter. However, Liu Yufu was worried that he would be condemned by Long Xingche and blamed him for mismanagement, so he bluffed them all, and no one was allowed to report it! Forced by Liu Yufu's obscenity, everyone had no choice but to remain silent!

At this time, there was a young magistrate named Dai Tianshun in Yuguang County, who had just taken office, and saw that more and more people were dying one after another because of dysentery and plague, and he couldn't bear it, so he lied that he was sick, and quietly took his servants to secretly go to the capital to report without telling Liu Yufu!

However, when he came to the capital with his servants with great difficulty, he was blocked by the newly appointed Shuntian Mansion Yin Li Ronghai, this Li Ronghai is the elder brother of Concubine Chu, who had just ascended to the position of Shuntian Mansion Yin through family relations two years ago. Moreover, Liu Yufu had long thought that someone would go to Shuntian Mansion Yin to secretly report the situation of the epidemic, and he had already quietly stuffed a lot of money and silver taels to Li Ronghai, just to prevent someone from reporting the situation in Shengzhou to Long Xingche!

In fact, when Dai Tianshun took the servant to report to Shuntianfu Yin here with a notebook, someone had already come to report it secretly, and he had already been secretly blocked by Li Ronghai, and then he put the person who reported it in the cell for fear of revealing the news. "Take people's money and eliminate disasters for others", Li Ronghai can be regarded as qualified enough!

Dai Tianshun is just a small Qipin county order, without the introduction of Yin Li Ronghai of Shuntian Mansion, he has no way to play, so he has to hide his identity and live in an inn in the capital!

Li Ronghai received so many benefits from Liu Yufu, but he didn't plan to let go of the person who reported the situation of the dysentery plague in Shengzhou so easily, he took out some hired killers from the huge amount of money Liu Yufu gave him, intending to kill Dai Tianshun!

Dai Tianshun held the transcript of the report on the dysentery epidemic in Shengzhou, but there was "no way to complain". He had been in the capital for two days, and he couldn't eat or sleep every day, so the servants who followed him to the capital persuaded him to go out for a walk.

Dai Tianshun is also considered to be fateful, with the playbook in his arms, he originally planned to go out to inquire, and by the way to see if there is any other way to go, so that he can hand over the playbook to Long Xingche. Not long after Dai Tianshun left the inn, the killer sent by Li Ronghai changed, and immediately killed Dai Tianshun's servants, but he didn't find Dai Tianshun, so he had to take Dai Tianshun's portrait out of the inn to find it!

Later, those killers finally met Dai Tianshun in the crowd of people coming and going on the streets of the capital!

Because Dai Tianshun was in a hurry to hand over the recital to Long Xingche, but "there was no way to vote"! His mouth and nose were so anxious that the killer hesitated when he didn't see him! , In order to confirm whether he was Dai Tianshun, he walked up to Dai Tianshun and asked, "Are you Dai Tianshun who came to the capital from Shengzhou to report dysentery and plague?" ”

Dai Tianshun saw them dressed in capable clothes, thinking that he had reported the plague to others, and it was the official government in charge of this matter in the capital who came to him and took him into the palace to give Long Xingche a recital, so he hurriedly nodded and replied: "That's right, that's right, I'm Dai Tianshun, are you people sent by the government?" ”

After the killers confirmed that he was Dai Tianshun, they took out the knife from their arms and said with a sneer: "That's right, we were sent by the government, and we were specially sent to ask for your life!" Who told you to meddle in your business and come to the capital to report the plague! Ahh

Say it! The killer raised his knife and stabbed Dai Tianshun in the chest, but because Dai Tianshun's chest was blocked by the book, it just saved his life. The knife went into his chest, but not deeply. The killer was unwilling to pull out the knife and continue to stab Dai Tianshun's body!

Dai Tianshun understood at this time that these people really wanted his life! I endured the pain coming from my chest, covered my bleeding chest and began to run back!