Chapter 87: Multi-faceted efforts
A young girl behind her walked up tremblingly, "As soon as their army came to the city, some people began to get sick, so Lord Hu sent someone to negotiate with them and asked who Cheng Xiang thought that the high-ranking official couldn't help but ignore and arrested Lord Hu, until Lord Hu was sick, he was put back in the house, and the high-ranking official also took over our city and ordered that whoever dared to talk nonsense would be killed and hung on the city wall!" ”
"So the gates are full of truth-tellers?"
"Not only the people who told the truth, but also the kind-hearted people who took us to store food were also killed," the more the woman spoke, the more excited she became, "There are more and more sick people in the city, we are naturally afraid, many people go out to buy rice and noodles, but the grain has long been snatched away by the army of the high-ranking official, we can't buy it, so we can only borrow it everywhere, the shopkeeper Hao of the grain store is a good person who gives us food for free, and he is also... ......"
Tang Meng slammed to the ground, "Is there any royal law here!" ”
"The high-ranking official is the king's law, whoever dares to talk nonsense will kill whom, and from time to time arrest people to go to the army for them to have fun, we really don't dare!"
A imperial doctor mustered up the courage to step forward and speak, "Niangniang, the people in this city are extremely resistant to the officers and soldiers, and this disease is very serious, if you don't control it in time, I'm afraid you won't be able to control it anymore." ”
"yes, yes, that's good," the other doctors were worried.
Tang Meng looked at the woman beside him, "You feel more about the crisis of the epidemic than I do, now are you willing to believe me to help me call on the people to fight the epidemic together?" ”
"This ......," the woman hesitated.
Tang Meng guessed her thoughts, "Don't worry, these are all upright and good officials this time, as long as you are willing to testify, Gao Nan will definitely be arrested and brought to justice!" ”
Seeing that the woman was still hesitant, the little imperial physician Yu Shu immediately jumped out, "Do you know His Royal Highness King Yi?" After many years of fighting to protect the peace of the country, this is Princess Yi in front of you, she will definitely not lie to you! ”
The woman was shocked when she heard this, and looked at Tang Meng several times in panic, and then knocked on the ground as if she had just woken up from a dream, "The woman doesn't know that it is Princess Yi, and she asks the princess to forgive her sins!" ”
"Do you have any concerns now?"
"His Royal Highness King Yi's name is known throughout the country, and the women believe in him, and they also believe that Princess Yi must be a good person, and I am willing to go with you."
Tang Meng was overjoyed and immediately got up and rushed to the prefect's yamen, but as soon as he went out, he saw Jiang Lie smashing the door on the opposite side, "Lao Tzu is here to save you, and he won't even say the reason for opening the door one by one!" Quickly open the door and let us in, human life is at stake! ”
"Jiang Lie!"
He turned around and saw that it was Tang Meng and his party, and immediately ran over excitedly, "Niangniang, how did you catch the living?" ”
When the woman's family saw his glowing eyes, they ducked back.
Don't blame them, Jiang Lie has followed Duan Jingyi to fight countless battles is notoriously hot-tempered, although he is not very old and handsome, but a long scar on the side of his face has long indicated that he has grown into an iron-clad man, and there are few people who are not afraid to poke at it.
"I have a way to get the people to open the door, you come with me!"
Tang Meng saw Duan Jingyi report all the situation to him, and as he was talking, someone from the other team of imperial doctors also came back in a hurry.
"Your lord, princess, the ministers found that the corpses in the city not only died of illness, but also some died of hunger."
Although this imperial doctor can't figure out the reason for this, Duan Jingyi already knows it, isn't this the best evidence that Gao Nan robbed the people of food.
"Someone! Bring me Gao Nan! ”
Soon after the Yongqing military tent was set up, Gao Nan was caught in front of Duan Jingyi, and after several confrontations, the human and physical evidence were all in Gao Nandeng, and his legs fluttered and knelt on the ground, "My subordinates did this when they were confused, please spare your life!" ”
"The army is in turmoil, abusing the people, and concealing the epidemic, Gao Nan, how many heads do you have!"
Duan Jingyi's eyes were full of murderous aura, Tang Meng hurriedly stopped him, "Don't kill him yet, only with him can the people cooperate with us!" Jiang Lie, take someone to the center of the city to set up a platform, the higher the better! ”
Tang Meng took advantage of this time to explain to Duan Jingyi, and it didn't take long for someone to report that it had been set up.
Duan Jingyi pulled Tang Meng to the center of the city, and the two jumped to the platform, and every family could see the two of them from the courtyard.
Jiang Lie tied up Gao Nan and threw it up, while Xu Yu took care of the woman's family and stepped onto the stage.
Duan Jingyi spoke, and his voice spread far and wide, "Everyone, this king is Duan Jingyi. ”
As soon as this statement came out, many people were in an uproar.
"The disease of Seoul is an unprecedented dangerous epidemic, Gao Nan's army oppressed and did not report the crime of knowing it, and now the saint sent the king and the princess to help Seoul survive this catastrophe, and I hope that all the people can believe that the king can open the door and cooperate!"
"You are all officials, and you are all raccoon dogs!" "His Royal Highness King Yi is a good person, he has been defending the border for many years!" "Officials protect each other, know people and faces, but don't know their hearts!" "Kill Gao Nan, we will believe you!"
For a while, various voices came from the courtyard.
Tang Meng glanced behind her, and the woman nervously pinched the hem of her clothes and pursed her lips and nodded.
Her voice was not loud, but the people didn't expect that someone they knew would come to the stage, and they all fell silent for a moment.
The woman took a deep breath, her voice trembling, "The princess is a good person, I saw her save my family with my own eyes!" She really came to treat us! Our family is closed, but every household is dead, and if it is closed like this, it will be consumed sooner or later, it is better to believe in the prince and the mother, this matter has alarmed the imperial city, and we will be saved immediately! ”
After she finished speaking, there was silence in the streets.
Duan Jingyi said in a deep voice, "Gao Nan is a criminal minister and has no way to live, but he still has other secrets hidden in him, and after all of them are found out, the people of Seoul will definitely watch him being beheaded!" ”
"Good! Then let's believe in the prince once and open the door! "Open the door, open the door!"
Tang Meng excitedly grabbed Duan Jingyi, and as soon as the two of them fell to the ground, they saw Jiang Lie baring a row of white front teeth, and there was childishness on his immature and iron-blooded face, "The princess really has you!" ”
"It's up to you next!"
"Well said!" Jiang Liefei got on the stage, and shouted by his neck while learning what Tang Meng had taught him before, "All the people learn from me, pull the cloth strips to protect their mouths and noses, and we will go door to door to count how many people have signs of fever and weakness, tell the truth!" ”
Tang Meng didn't care about resting at all, and immediately got up and took the imperial doctor to the patient's house to start a formal examination.
For a while, some people came to the door, and the many patients were just the tip of the iceberg, and Tang Meng and the imperial doctors were busy with their clothes, which were also dry and wet.
Duan Jingyi sent someone to take over the Yongqing Army while tracking down the whereabouts of the Bing Yi envoy, and after arranging it, he quickly wrote a secret letter and handed it to the secret guard to send to the palace.
The ministers who fainted in the imperial city that day were still isolated in the palace, Song Ming was afraid of causing panic and could only ask Dong Cheng for help, so he asked the household department to record in detail the situation of the people who had entered and exited the imperial city in the name of the census, and Emperor Duan was very satisfied with the performance of the two of them and secretly rewarded a lot of silver.
Compared to Seoul, the weather in the Imperial City is already cold.
Steward Chen frowned as soon as he entered the courtyard gate of Mojia Lane, and hurriedly took the clothes in the maid's hand and put them on the cub.
"Why do you wear so little, if you want me to say that you should go back to the palace to live, how can you live in such a place as a prince."
"He's lived here for several years, and no one is worried about him, why does Duan Jingyi want to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf now?" Bai Lingchen's disdainful voice sounded behind him, and Steward Chen was startled.
"Bai Shaoxia, don't talk about that time, don't give our son frostbite now."
As soon as the cub woke up, he let the maid put on his clothes, "That's it, Uncle Bai, you treat me better, otherwise my mother will entrust me to you." ”
Bai Lingchen was shocked, "Did you hear everything?" ”
"Well," the cub got up and put on his little shoes, and straddled the small schoolbag that was ready to go to the school, calmly, "My mother didn't grab pastries from me that day, so abnormal must have something to hide from me, so I eavesdropped." ”
Steward Chen tentatively opened his mouth, "Then do you know what Niangniang is doing?" ”
"Yes!" He said firmly, "My mother has done something brave and dangerous, and I have to be obedient so that she can't be distracted!" ”