At this time, it is only the beginning of summer, and the weather is not particularly hot, even if you bask in a cup of tea under the midday sun, it will only make people feel a little burning on the top of their heads.

However, Xu Jizong, who was standing on the head of the city wall of the North Gate, felt that the clothes on his body were too tight, strangled his neck, making him unable to even breathe, and he was suffocated so that a layer of sweat was hot on his back and forehead.

Although he had already issued a decree, he was not in a hurry to return to Beijing, after all, he still had errands on his body, in addition to seeing the ash worms who were going to Ganxian and Huichang, he also had to wait for the displaced people outside Ganzhou City to be almost settled, so that he could go to the saint to return to his life.

Today, I was going to go to the camp outside the city to see if I could maintain the normal operation of the homeless camp after the new general judge took office, but when I was halfway there, I saw that the front was surrounded to death, and my own honor guard couldn't walk at all.

There are so many yellow doors in the harem, Xu Jizong can stand out from them and show his head in front of Zhao Rui, not only because he can observe words and feelings, but also because he is used to acting cautiously.

This time, after asking clearly that this was the people of Ganzhou spontaneously going to bid farewell to Gu Yanzhang, Xu Jizong immediately stopped the soldiers who were going to disperse the passers-by so as to separate a road, and stopped the soldiers who went out of the city, turned around and turned to the west gate, turned from outside the city to the north gate, showed his identity, and went up to the city wall.

Condescending, no matter what happens, he can see it clearly at the first time, and at the same time, even if something happens, it can't hurt him.

However, when he reached the top of the wall, he realized that something was wrong.

There are too many people!

Will it be chaotic?

Looking down, he only glanced at it again, and the moving human head, densely layered, immediately made his scalp numb again, and goosebumps appeared on his body.

It's not that I haven't seen a big scene.

Speaking of a large number of people, where in the world can compare to the night of Shangyuan in the capital, when it was comparable to the heel, the crowd of people, some people in the crowd spat on the heads of others, no matter who it was, they couldn't find which one the ghost who lacked virtue - let alone find, it was difficult to turn around.

When it comes to momentum, there is absolutely no occasion that can be compared with the Great Parade of the Forbidden Army.

Tens of thousands of soldiers lined up in the school field, wearing armor, holding blades, fierce and pressing, its momentum is like a mountain pressing the city, when the mountain shouts in unison, it is terrifying that people tremble, almost want to urinate.

Compared with the lively scenes and magnificent scenes he had seen before, the Pan Tao Road below could only accommodate one or two hundred thousand people at most, and the people who came were all civilians, dressed in a variety of ways, and there were not a few people who were not neatly dressed, and some people even had messy hair, and they didn't even have time to put on their heads, so they ran out with their shoes on.

It's a mess and it's not in place.

However, Xu Jizong looked at the scene below, but he was panicked.

Such a large number of people, according to common sense, should be extremely noisy, but although there are voices below, they are all low and extremely depressed, and only a few children's cries are occasionally heard.

On a sunny day, the sun was shining brightly in the sky, and the sun was shining all over the streets, but inexplicably, the streets seemed to be shrouded in a gloomy cloud that could not be dissolved, blocking the clear sky and the bright light outside.

He couldn't tell how he felt.

Emotions are contagious, and when he saw that everyone was jubilant at the Shangyuan Festival, smiling, and happy, he also followed suit; He was also excited when he saw the murderous, mighty and domineering soldiers and generals fighting in the parade of the forbidden army.

And now, seeing the people on the street, whether men, women and children, whether they are farmers and businessmen, everyone has anxiety, sadness, and disappointment on their faces, and even some old people are already full of tears, standing in front, wiping the tears on their faces again and again, Xu Jizong only felt that he was also very uncomfortable, as if he was going to shed two tears together.

If you knew you wouldn't be here!

He thought with hatred in his heart.

A servant next to him muttered: "With so many people, Gu Tong is afraid that he won't be able to leave......

Xu Jizong's face turned pale, and he hurriedly summoned a soldier and ordered: "Report my name, ride a fast horse, go to Zhang Sheren's mansion, quickly tell him about the situation here, and ask him to make arrangements, don't make trouble!" ”

Today is a retreat, and according to the custom, there will only be a few people in the state office in shifts, and it is not like usual, everyone is in their own positions, waiting to be transferred.

Xu Jizong still remembers that after the send-off banquet a few days ago, Zhang Zhi soon developed phlegm and cough, and he had been at home for two days on vacation. It seems that the little ancestor in the Sheren Mansion also fell ill, and only Zhang Hu took care of it at home.

Originally, when Yanzhang returned to Beijing, Zhang Zhi should have come to see him off, not ten miles, but five or six miles, which was the friendship of the same ya, but because of his illness, he seemed to have just sent someone to send some ceremonies to the Gu family early in the morning, and did not come to see him off in person.

Zhang Zhi's status is high, a general judgment, no matter if he doesn't give it away, even if he is rude, as long as the reason is slightly reasonable, no one will bother with him.

But if the people in the state city make trouble in order to keep people, he, as the governor of a state, can't get rid of this responsibility no matter what.

Xu Jizong is a eunuch, he can't and doesn't have to please the courtiers, even if something happens, it has nothing to do with him, at most he writes an excerpt and reports the ins and outs of the matter to the Son of Heaven.

But Zhang Zhi is not an ordinary courtier, but the uncle of the Queen Mother.

He can ignore Tian Jizu's life and death, but he can't ignore Zhang Zhi's good or bad, if he really stampede and died, he was obviously there, but he didn't send someone to inform him, and he would be known by the one in the palace in the future, and he would have his life!

When the soldier heard what he had said, he knew how powerful he was, and immediately he got down from the wall, rode on horseback, and galloped towards the house of the Sheren.

Seeing that the people had gone far, Xu Jizong breathed a sigh of relief, and when he looked back at Pantao Road, he gasped in fright.

The crowd, which had been relatively peaceful, had begun to move slowly and anxiously, squeezing forward one after another, and in the distance there was a group of people who were splitting the road and coming towards the city gate.

Although he couldn't see his face clearly, Xu Jizong guessed that nine times out of ten, Gu Yanzhang was with his family.

There were horses and convoys in that group, and they walked very slowly, and the crying gradually rose wherever they passed, not the crying of the earth, but the low and dumb crying, and the cries of many people gathered in one place and spread to the city wall, and the depressing meaning in it made Xu Jizong want to tear open his clothes, so as to breathe a breath of air.

Inexplicably, his heart was heavy, he turned his head and asked a soldier guarding the city: "Is this Gu Tongju so popular in Ganzhou?" ”

The soldier Ben also looked down, his eyes were red, and when he heard him ask, he choked up and said, "How many people have benefited from him...... Since the general judgment came, it was our soldiers who defended the city, and the monthly salary has increased by more than half. ”

These soldiers guarding the city gate did not belong to the Pingrong, Baoan and other armies, but were under the control of the state itself, and were levied on the spot, and the monthly salary was also paid by the state itself.

Meng Ling didn't care about anything in the past, he handed it over to his subordinates to toss around, and the officials and leaders profited from it, and there were not a few, although the soldiers could only get half of it, they didn't dare to talk at will.

Since Gu Yanzhang came, he really couldn't get used to it when he sorted out the affairs of the state, and it just so happened that Meng Ling was happy to be the shopkeeper, and he only threw things away, and he didn't worry about it at all.

The soldiers are nominally under the management of the state, but everyone knows that the matter is actually being done by the general judgment, and when they see the salary rise, they count it, which is the original small number, and they don't know the inside story, so they keep the benefits in their hearts one by one.

Hearing what the soldier said, Xu Jizong also sighed in his heart.

Gu Yanzhang's deeds of rectifying the state government, he heard people mention it when he came back last time, and when he returned to the capital, he also learned it from the Son of Heaven as an interesting story.

However, it was only then that he really realized that this was not a big deal for them, but it was so important to the soldiers.

What does it mean to be able to do things, that's it.

There is no extra half a penny in the state, but it makes these soldiers bow their heads and be grateful to Dade. And the officials are certainly annoyed, although they hate it so much, they are just helpless, and they still have to hold on to this "Gu Tong Judgment", after all, they have climbed his thighs, and since then they have been prosperous, but there is also a Huang Lao Er as a ready-made example.

The soldier continued: "Who doesn't have eyes? In the past, two or three hundred people did not freeze to death in the winter of any year, but the verdict came, and I never heard of any more dead people on the roadside in winter. ”

"Go to see Anjifang and Anle Lu in the west of the city, there are thousands of lonely and widowed old people living there, not to mention thousands, and there are only those who can be saved by the pharmacy in this year, and they can't be counted."

"The sentence has saved the lives of so many people, and it will not be ungrateful to ......"

"In previous years, there were disaster victims passing by, and there was always a good thing to do, this year, these hundreds of thousands of people, I didn't hear any letter of crime, all thanks to Gu Tong's blessing, and also repaired the Fushou Canal, it rained like that a while ago, in the past, the water had to accumulate a foot deep, and now there is nothing ...... at all."

"This canal has been repaired for so long, everyone only has some money and rice, and even the people who serve in the state don't have to draw ......."

As he spoke, his voice was a little astringent, and he was stuck for a while before he said in a low voice: "Why did you leave like this...... The officials on the side, to say the least, have to do it for three years, and if they do it for a long time, there are also four years...... Such a good official didn't know that he was picked up by that place where shit was lucky. ”

This soldier is not very old, his temperament is also simple, and at this time, everyone is holding back his strength, he simply does not shy away from it, and he is stunned when he speaks.

Xu Jizong originally knew all the deeds that Gu Yanzhang had done here, but whether he saw the report on the document or heard the introduction of others, it was not as moving as hearing the people of Ganzhou tell it themselves.

For a while, he actually had a feeling, as if he was born in Ganzhou, he would not want to ask such an official to leave.

Xu Jizong has been in the palace for decades, accustomed to flattery, and is accustomed to hypocrisy, only thinking that those are made up by people to coax fame, and it is not until now that I really believe that those are not all lies, and the words "parent official" are not deceitful.

He was sighing in his heart, but he suddenly heard that he didn't know why, it was terrifyingly quiet, and he hurriedly looked over - it turned out that Gu Yanzhang was almost under the city gate.

As if they had been spelled by the gods, the old people, women and children, strong men, and children all did not say a word, looking at the city gate with very pitiful eyes, and some of them couldn't help it, covering their mouths with their hands, and weeping silently, and they didn't even have time to wipe their tears.

Under the city gate, Gu Yanzhang didn't make a sound, let alone dismount, he just turned around and bowed to the thousands of people who came to see him off.

He was just a simple action, but the crowd couldn't help it anymore, and bursts of cries erupted.

At this moment, I don't know who suddenly shouted loudly and asked, "Official, do you want us anymore?" ”

There was a cry in his voice, vague, and his voice was sad and painful, and it was very uncomfortable to listen to it.

On the street, there was a lot of crying, and the suppressed cries of adults were mixed with the ignorant cries of children, which seemed even more disorganized.

One person shouted: "Official, now that the Fushou Canal has not been completed, do you really ignore the things you have worked so hard to do?" ”

"The general judgment is gone, who will take care of An Lelu, this is to make us useless clean and dead!" An old man with half his sleeves and half empty trouser legs was on crutches and cried silently.

"Don't go! Stay here! One shouted.

This sentence immediately aroused everyone's approval, and they responded together: "Don't go, officials!" ”

The cries came and went, and in addition to the momentum, it was more sad.

Everyone was still crying, but they heard the "buzzing" of the city gate, which slowly opened, and the officials of Ganzhou City walked in from outside with the soldiers.

It turned out that they were waiting at the camp outside the city, preparing to send each other off, but they didn't want to wait for half a day, and they didn't see the convoy come out, and because there were too many people here, they were worried about chaos, the city gate was closed, and the news was sent out a long time late, so they only came back at this moment.

"Don't go! Stay here! One shouted.

This sentence immediately aroused everyone's approval, and they responded together: "Don't go, officials!" ”

The cries came and went, and in addition to the momentum, it was more sad.

Everyone was still crying, but they heard the "buzzing" of the city gate, which slowly opened, and the officials of Ganzhou City walked in from outside with the soldiers.

It turned out that they were waiting at the camp outside the city, preparing to send each other off, but they didn't want to wait for half a day, and they didn't see the convoy come out, and because there were too many people here, they were worried about chaos, the city gate was closed, and the news was sent out a long time late, so they only came back at this moment.

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"Don't go! Stay here! One shouted.

This sentence immediately aroused everyone's approval, and they responded together: "Don't go, officials!" ”

The cries came and went, and in addition to the momentum, it was more sad.

Everyone was still crying, but they heard the "buzzing" of the city gate, which slowly opened, and the officials of Ganzhou City walked in from outside with the soldiers.

It turned out that they were waiting at the camp outside the city, preparing to send each other off, but they didn't want to wait for half a day, and they didn't see the convoy come out, and because there were too many people here, they were worried about chaos, the city gate was closed, and the news was sent out a long time late, so they only came back at this moment.

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