At this time, it was already noon, and the city gate of Taiyang City, which was about to open at three o'clock in the morning, was still closed at this time, and from a distance, Li Chengfeng and they could see a group of soldiers lined up on the city tower with bows and arrows, pointing to the bottom of the city tower, as if there was a large army pressing down below, and the soldiers were approaching the city.

But instead of a heavily armed army, they saw a ragged, devastated population.

They were surrounded under the city gates in darkness, and their shouts shook the heavens and mourned all over the wilderness, and they cried and shouted loudly.

"Let us in!"

"Let us in!!"

"I'm here to join the family, let me in!"

"I'm not a bad person, why don't you let me in!"

"We have a road guide and a customs clearance token, why don't we even let us in!!"

On the city tower, a man wearing a brocade robe, an official hat, a big waist and a round waist, and a fat brain was lying on the city tower and poking his head, looking panicked and frightened, and kept muttering to himself: "How is this good, how is this good?"

Next to him stood a master-like figure, of medium stature, about forty years old, he suppressed his voice and whispered: "My lord, this arrow can't be released, if it is released and it will cause death and injury, causing criticism, I'm afraid it will not end well!"

The other cloth-clothed master next to him was thin and small, with thief eyebrows and rat eyes, and a wisp of rat whiskers on his lips, he laughed sharply and retorted sarcastically: "There are tens of thousands of people here, if you don't drive them away, what if they storm the city gate in a while?

The middle-aged man was about to retort angrily, but suddenly he heard someone shouting loudly under the city tower: "Good manner, open the door, we are here to join our relatives!"

There was a boiling below, shouting for peace, and many people in the city also heard the movement and rushed in the direction of the city gate.

This Taishou looked back, but saw that the streets behind him were full of black and oppressive heads, and they were constantly coming, blocking them on the city tower and unable to advance or retreat.

It's too guarded and panicked: "What's going on?

The middle-aged master gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, it's better to take some of them in, and let the rest of them go to Wancheng!"

The thief-eyed master sneered: "Joke! Take in a part? How much? 10,000? 20,000? Which part do you take? The most important thing is that even if you only take in 10,000, hey, their rations, you will pay it?"

As he spoke, he approached Taishou, lowered his voice, and whispered, "My lord, don't forget, inside the granary...... But it's empty!"

Taishou's face immediately changed drastically!

Although the national war in the southeast was thousands of miles away from them, its impact was all over the entire Great Qi!

In order to win this battle, Long Tenghai not only squeezed out all the blood of the southeastern counties, but also began to frantically transfer the resources of other counties and states.

After all, tens of millions of troops and people are piled up on the battlefield, and it is a terrible expense for people to eat and chew every day, and the grain and grass that the entire Daqi has saved for many years are frantically transported to the southeast.

But this is still not enough for Long Tenghai's troops to eat!

In order to collect grain and grass, Long Tenghai began to purchase grain and grass at a high price at the suggestion of the military advisor Gao Shenghan, which was used to stimulate the large farmers who stored grain in the people, and at the same time Long Tenghai wrote a letter to the prince of the prison country, reporting to him the situation of this war, and pointed out that "the victory or defeat of this battle is between January"!

This sentence touched the prince, and he began to rebuke the local magistrates for collecting grain and forage, and severely cracked down on the hoarding of merchants.

At the same time, Long Tenghai announced a high price of grain and grass in the southeast, so that while cracking down hard, while reaping high, those big hoarders heard the wind and moved, they rushed to sell grain and grass to the southeast, and they made a lot of money.

Even some Taishou couldn't hold back, quietly opened the official grain reserves, and began to sell grain and grass privately, filling their pockets.

In their opinion, it is enough to replenish the grain collected in the next year, and no one may be able to check the grain in ten or eight years anyway, and as long as there is no natural disaster, no one will notice.

Therefore, this kind of granary is often misappropriated in various places, which is the unspoken rule of the entire Daqi officialdom, without exception.

can be like the Taishou Lord in front of him, who sells the granary cleanly...... But it's one of a kind!

But what this Taishou boss didn't expect was ......

There are really natural and man-made disasters!

And it's so big!

Indeed, what if these victims are let in, and there are so many mouths to be fed? The official rations are all empty! Who will provide the food?

Those big households? Their grain has long been scrambled to sell to the southeast!

In other words, if the whole of Taiyang does not receive food within a month, even the people of Taiyang themselves may starve to death! Not to mention feed these people!

Thinking of this, Lord Taishou's face was as pale as dirt, sweating profusely, and trembling all over!

The middle-aged master snorted angrily and said, "I said at the beginning that the official grain can't be moved, and even if it does, it must not be sold out!

The thief-eyed master said in a weird manner: "You don't have a backache when you stand and talk, you don't sell food, where do you get the money to feed those adults?"

The middle-aged master was furious when he heard this, but his face was dark, he lowered his head, and dared not speak angrily.

Who in the whole Taiyang doesn't know that the Taishou Li Tian and Li Daren in front of him don't know a single big character, and this official was bought with money?

He donated to the government for five years, and after waiting for three years, he finally made up for this shortage, and he came up and prepared to scrape the ground and get the money back, but he didn't think about it, Taiyang, a shabby place, is so poor that birds don't, just feeding the adults who help him cover up is enough for him to deal with.

Lord Li's heart is bitter, full of grievances and there is no place to say it!

It has become a common practice for Daqi to sell officials up and down, and it is also commonplace to buy and sell officials, which one buys an official not to bleed three liters first and then dig three feet into the ground, and in the last three years, the Qing prefect has 100,000 snowflakes of silver?

Why is everyone else making a lot of money, and it's their turn to be so hard?

This is unreasonable!

Could it be that the way you hand over the filial piety silver is wrong?

Master Li was in pain!

But what made him even more painful was the mess in front of him!

Just as he was scratching his ears and cheeks, desperately wiping the cold sweat in the winter, there was a sudden commotion below, and someone shouted excitedly: "Let us in! There is also our home here, why don't you let us in!!"

Yuanjin and Taiyang are quite close, there are indeed many people on both sides who have settled on both sides, and there are many relatives walking around with each other.

Taishou was so anxious that his forehead was sweating, his nose was oily, and he stomped his feet and said, "How is it good, how is it good!"

The thief-eyed master hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, give an order, once the city gate is broken open...... But I can't keep it!"

This last sentence is the final word!

Lord Li's heart was shocked!

What, the official hat can't be saved?

That's it!

Lao Tzu's money hasn't been returned yet!!

Lao Tzu spent money, if you don't let Lao Tzu earn a little, forget it, don't let it go back, is there still heavenly law?

Thinking of this, Master Li was angry and turned evil into his heart, he clenched his fists, and shouted with all his might: "Release the arrows! Quickly release the arrows! Get rid of these people!!"

The officer on the tower of the city was shocked, but he didn't dare to disobey the order, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "Release the arrow!"

The soldiers on the city gate were all terrified, but the military order was like a mountain, and they had to release arrows one after another!

For a time, arrows rained down on the city gates, and the victims below fell in pieces like wheat!

Seeing this, Li Chengfeng, Zhao Feiyue and the crown prince Zhao Hanqing all rushed into anger and shouted in unison: "Stop!!"