On whether Ganzhou should implement the cultivation of ash worms, Chongzheng Hall intermittently argued for more than a month, after several repetitions, the left Cao, the right Cao two departments continued to pull the skin, to the later, the dispute is not only the ash worms in Ganzhou.

Yang Kui fought for several years, forced himself to return to Beijing, and quarreled with Fan Yaochen upside down, but he failed to get the prize and pension back.

He was depressed in his heart, causing the old injury to recur, Rao is as strong as iron, and he couldn't hold it anymore, and he fell ill all of a sudden.

Chen Hao had long wanted to kill Fan Yaochen and eat him, but there was no way to do it on weekdays, but now he seized the opportunity to take a group of courtiers to tear up with each other.

The two sides are making trouble, and they have long been out of their original intentions, whether the ash worm is good or bad, whether it should be implemented or not, no one cares about it, but it began to fall into party disputes, and they each search for each other's mistakes every day, and attack each other in the court.

Zhao Rui didn't feel anything at first, but was very relieved, feeling that although Yang Kui was not there, Chen Hao and Fan Yaochen fought, even if they were one or two points weaker, they didn't retreat at all.

Later, however, he realized that something was wrong.

Locust plagues, droughts, wars, and displaced people, it seems that no one has paid attention to them, and every day there is a miasma of smoke and smoke in the court, and there is no end to the noise.

He had no choice but to beat a few courtiers who made the most trouble, the ones who were released, the ones who were fined, the ones who were demoted, and the reprimands of Chen Hao and Fan Yaochen before the matter could be suppressed.

After that, Zhao Rui finally made the decision and decided that ash worms should be tried in Huichang and Shengning counties, and Ganzhou should also strictly abide by the middle acres of the state, and do not make all farmers abandon the fields to raise insects.

The matter came to an end, and the fire of the two factions was forcibly extinguished by Zhao Rui, but the smell of gunpowder did not disappear at all.

Zhao Rui couldn't, so he had to forcibly recall Sun Xiang, who had already invited the county, back to Beijing and ask him to reinstate, while Fan Yaochen was turned into a second minister, and in addition, the official positions of each person in the political hall and the Privy Council were also adjusted.

And Gu Yanzhang and Ji Qingling, who were far away in Ganzhou, didn't know at all, because a letter from the two of them, as well as some things that were presented, became the fuse of the two factions' party dispute, and the court was almost turned upside down.

When the servants of the Son of Heaven in the capital galloped all the way to Ganzhou with the holy decree, tens of thousands of victims in Fuzhou, Jizhou and other places had arrived one after another, one step ahead of him.

***

Ganzhou is located in the south-central part of the Great Jin Dynasty, and as soon as the beginning of winter passes, it begins to blow a clammy cold wind.

The leaves on the side of the road are not falling too much, and they are still green, but I don't know if they were bitten by insects or what, they look cranky and scattered.

Ye Sanchang shivered and walked on the official road.

He was on crutches in his hand, his clothes were ragged, and the soles of the cloth shoes on his feet were almost worn out.

Behind him, the 113 people in the village, scattered on the road in groups of threes and threes, were quiet in the crowd, and there were few people who spoke, except for the occasional faint cry of an ignorant baby.

It's not that the villagers don't want to talk, it's that they're so hungry and tired that they don't have the strength to chat.

The baby's voice is intermittent, and there is a moment of silence, unlike the cries of the people who are rich in food and rice, and the first people in the family are almost shaking the sky, and hearing the cries of their biological parents wanting to beat people, but they are still waiting for him to cry, and he has already lowered again.

The crowd walked numbly, with yellow and thin faces, hunger, dazedness, and helplessness written on their faces.

In the distance, a figure walked three steps and two steps towards this side, and when he got closer, Ye Sanchang saw the other party's deeply sunken cheeks.

It was a man in his thirties, who had not eaten for a long time, his steps were vain, and although his cheeks were sunken, his stomach was bulging - this was eaten by eating Guanyin soil.

"Third uncle, there is Ganzhou in front, there is a family in front, and it is said that if you walk for half an hour, you can see the city wall." There were still three or four zhang away from Ye Sanchang, and the man didn't want to go any further, he just wanted to save some strength, so he shouted.

His voice was not loud, and when he heard it, he looked like he was lacking in energy.

Ye Sanchang coughed twice, turned his head, and said to the person behind him: "Tell everyone, we will go to Ganzhou in front of us, see if there is any porridge in that official mansion, if there is, we will stay for two more days." ”

As soon as he gave the order, the crowd passed on the words one by one.

Everyone in the village dragged their families with their mouths, and there were many luggage, and they walked slowly, inevitably slower than ordinary people, and after more than half an hour, they finally saw the city wall of Ganzhou City.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and quickened their pace, wanting to enter the city earlier.

However, there were still several miles away from the city gate, and Ye Sanchang and the others were stopped by a checkpoint.

A dozen or so officials and thirty or forty soldiers stood aside, inquiring about passers-by one by one.

Ye Sanchang and his entourage naturally didn't do anything to guide them, only lit up their household registration, and said that they were from a village behind them, and they all fled here.

When the first official asked a few questions kindly, Ye Sanchang, as the patriarch of the only clan in Yejia Village, answered them one by one.

Soon, he and the village names behind him were taken by the official to a barracks not far away.

The other party took a few soldiers and registered the hundreds of people one by one, and then each person was given a preface plate with the number A written on it, and another person was given a bowl of steaming porridge and water, and a cooking cake that was not big or small.

After Ye Sanchang drank all the porridge, the official asked, "Uncle Ye, do you plan to live here permanently, or do you plan to go to another place?" ”

Ye Sanchang fled with his clansmen all the way, and he had already traveled through dozens of states and counties, and the first time he encountered it, someone from the government came to answer him, and he was a little cramped for a while. However, he was also the head of the clan, and he had also done the right thing, and after a while, he asked honestly, "What is the difference between these two?" ”

The official said: "This is Ganzhou, our state has its own rules, if you pass by here, the government will take care of food and accommodation for three days, and when the time comes, please leave yourself." ”

"If you live permanently, this is where you lodging, and a man who is over eighteen years old, but forty-five, can manage three people for a day if he works for two hours a day, and if he works for three hours a day, he can take care of three people's food and lodging for a day......" The official explained with a very good attitude, "If you are old and weak, women and children, you can also help in the camp to cook, carry water, sprinkle and sweep, or go to the fields to catch locusts, and exchange them for grain and rice, or for food and shelter." ”

Ye Sanchang listened very seriously, and couldn't help asking, "What does a man do?" ”

The official said, "Now the culvert is being built in the city...... and explained in detail.

Before Ye Sanchang could speak, many people had already stood up, gathered around, and listened to what the official said for a long time.

"Third uncle, let's stay here, isn't it just work? Which one is not done? Jianzhou and Zhangzhou are all people, and I don't know if there will be anything left for us to pick up? ”

"Third uncle, I don't know if there is any grain and rice relief in the previous state and county, so why don't you save some rice and noodles here first! Seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, if you go on, adults can barely support it, and children can't hold on! ”

"If I stay here, I can pick up the water!" A woman with a child in her arms said.

Another old woman also interjected: "I can't pick up water, but I can cook on a fire." ”

Ye Sanchang was also moved, he glanced at the people in the room, and saw that they were all holding bowls, looking reluctant to go, so he nodded to the official and said, "We live permanently." ”