Yu San locked He Wangchun up for two whole days.

He Wangchun comforted the two Mengtongs, and did not complain at all about Yu San's invitation to the city and neglect.

Yu San did not treat He Wangchun harshly in terms of food and clothing, why Wangchun sent clean clothes, and three meals a day were delivered on time, and the two children who followed He Wangchun were still frightened at first, and two days later, they wished that Mr. He had been a guest at Lord Yu's residence.

Compared with being frightened and fleeing from the famine hungry, such a day is too good!

In the past two days, He Wangchun has not moved at all, and Gu Hongtai's interrogation of a group of old and weak women and children has also yielded results.

The origin of this group of people can be investigated.

First of all, they all spoke with a Mengcheng accent, and they were several villages fleeing the famine together, marrying each other over the years, and they were neighbors and in-laws.

The surname He is a big surname in the local area, and He Wangchun's family moved to the countryside to live in seclusion, and he has been a teacher in the country school for several years, and he is not a foreigner without heels.

fled all the way, He Wangchun took everyone to hide in Tibet, tried his best to avoid thieves, and took everyone to collect food, and never left everyone's sight for a moment-

Anyway, Jin Yiwei interrogated such a result.

Gu Hongtai was a little shaken by He Wangchun's suspicions: "Hundreds of old and weak women and children, the caliber is unified to the surname He to lie, it's unlikely, right?" Unless these hundreds of old and weak women and children are spies sent by thieves, each of them has rehearsed countless times in advance, so that they can withstand the interrogation of Jinyiwei. ”

That's even more.

The old man and the woman may be spies, and the children can also lie in front of the brocade guard?

Gu Hongtai didn't believe that a rebellious scarf thief with mud legs could cultivate such a powerful spy in a few months!

- It would be terrible if anyone could really raise such a group of spies.

Yu San was noncommittal when he heard it.

Little children won't lie?

When he was a few years old, he was able to lie and deceive adults, but later he was recognized by Uncle Yu Qi, and Uncle Yu Qi taught him a hard lesson, and he relented - although Yu San also felt that there were not too many people who had been smart since he was a child, he still did not completely relax his vigilance against He Wangchun.

If you can't ask anything from a group of old and weak women and children, then start with He Wangchun.

Yu San felt that He Wangchun could let him see Cheng Qing, but Cheng Qing couldn't get out of the air.

The condition of the fifth prince has been alleviated a lot, and he can not only walk on the ground, but also be able to deal with disaster relief affairs with good spirits.

The imperial doctor said that the epidemic of the five princes had not yet healed, and there was still a possibility of infection if they came into contact with the five princes, but Cheng Zhixu did not dare to take charge of his own affairs, so he asked the five princes to sit in the hall and report the urgent matters to the five princes through the screen, and hand them over to the five princes for decision.

Cheng Qing and Cheng Zhixu stood at the foot of the steps, listening to the orders of the five princes.

The five princes spoke weakly, but their tone was calm:

"The thieves have 100,000 troops, occupy Huainan, and do not destroy the enemy, how can they help the people affected by the disaster? Now, although some displaced people have gathered in Wuhe County after getting the news, the ratio to the total number of people affected by the disaster is only a minority, is it possible that only 20,000 or 30,000 displaced people outside the city have died in the entire Huainan area, except for the scarf thieves? ”

Great Wei has a population of more than 70 million, which is the official figure.

Taxation is based on the number of people, and in order to evade taxes, there are many hidden households among the people, and the real number of people has exceeded 100 million.

One Beijing and fifteen provinces, the population of Beijing is large, and the population of Anhui Province, which is close to the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou, will not be small, and the total population is at least several million.

The drought has lasted for a long time, the disaster has expanded, and only a few prefectures and counties near Jiangsu have not been affected in the entire Anhui Province.

The fifth prince was dumbfounded.

Cheng Qing thought for a while and comforted the five princes: "In the past few days since Your Highness was recuperating from his illness, the number of displaced people outside the city has been increasing one after another, and now there are more than 30,000 people. There are also displaced people who fled from Huainan, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of people in total! ”

Just going south along the canal, Cheng Qing has seen many displaced people, since some displaced people have gone to Shandong Province, there will be displaced people fleeing to other provinces.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people have emerged in the same place, and no state government has the ability to provide relief, but they have fled from multiple directions, and have a better chance of survival.

The fifth prince slapped the table behind the screen, "There is also a possibility that you forgot to say that the homeless people wanted to come to Wuhe County, but they were blocked by the scarf thief!" ”

If you don't get rid of the thief, how can you help the disaster?

Wuhe County is already the closest to Huainan and has not yet lost a stronghold.

Because of the heavy guards, the scarf thieves did not dare to attack easily.

The scarf thieves did not dare to come to Wuhe, but they could stop the affected people from coming to Wuhe, and the five princes could not sleep at night when they thought of the mountains of grain piled up in Wuhe County, but they could not deliver the disaster relief grain to the affected people at the first time.

Will the scarf thief take care of the victims?

It won't care!

Unless the victims dare to kill and surrender, tie a blood-stained scarf around their waists, and become a member of the scarf thieves.

How many people have been forced to join the thieves in this way, taking a wrong step and taking a wrong step, from the victims of the disaster to be relieved by the imperial court to the thieves and rebels that the imperial court wants to crusade against?

Every day of delay, more victims trapped in Huainan starved to death or surrendered to thieves, and it is no wonder that the five princes can sleep.

"Disaster relief and suppression of bandits have become a thing, Your Highness just needs to wait for the holy decree."

Cheng Zhixu persuaded.

The five princes clenched their fists.

He can't transfer troops without a will, because he doesn't have the right to fight.

Lord Shi, the governor of Caoyun, can transfer troops, because Governor Shi has the right to fight.

Just like Cheng Qing stubbornly guarding Hongxian County, he can capture the magistrate of Hongxian County, but he can't touch thousands of households.

Cheng Qing is a passive enemy in Hongxian County...... Now there are so many soldiers guarding Wuhe County, and there are turban thieves to attack the city, these soldiers will fight back, but if they want to take the initiative to attack, the five princes can command and not move.

Mobilize tens of thousands of troops without a holy decree, and it is not only the scarf thief who wants to rebel, but also the five princes!

Cheng Zhixu persuaded the five princes to wait for the holy decree, and the five princes thought of Cheng Qing's statement that they would make public the news of the "epidemic", and were about to speak, when someone came to report that Lord Shi, the governor of Caoyun, and the envoy of Commander Qi had arrived outside the city.

"Your Highness, Lord Shi with a holy decree!"

The five princes stood up at once, and they couldn't wait to rush to the gate of the city to receive the order.

Cheng Qing stopped him, "Your Highness, your illness—"

At this time, running all the way to the city gate is not spreading the epidemic?

If Governor Shi and Commander Qi knew that the fifth prince was sick to greet them, they would be afraid that they would be frightened and retreated.

After thinking about it, the five princes could only hold back their eagerness and invite Cheng Qing and Cheng Zhixu, the two adjutants of disaster relief, to go to the city gate.

Cheng Qing was so busy that he left the matter of seeing He Wangchun behind.

When she appeared outside the city gates, she always felt that many people were looking at her.

It's a homeless person from outside the city, right?

These people were in a hurry to enter the city, and every time they saw someone coming out of the county town, they were full of hope.

Cheng Qing was sorry in his heart, dismounted and walked to the convoy.

…… In the corners she didn't know, there were people who looked at her with burning eyes, reluctant to miss their eyes.