Chapter 58 The steps of carrying the black cauldron

As mentioned last time, E Huan came back and told the story of himself and others in distress, and Liu Hou believed that the lack of embankments in the Yuejiang River this time was really a natural disaster, not a ghost caused by Buqi.

However, whether he was a ghost or not, he had a motive for committing a crime, and he also had a process of committing a crime, but it was just that the crime was terminated under the interference of the Shu army.

In later generations, sin ceases or does not lead to condemnation, but in ancient times, it was no different from sin. For example, rebellion, don't say that you have already raised troops and been defeated, even if you are still in the preparation stage, you are still recruiting troops and buying horses, privately storing dead soldiers, and privately making weapons, if you know about it to the emperor, then you will definitely be a dead end.

Liu Hou didn't intend to let Bu Qi go like this, he decided to plant the charge of the lack of embankment in the Yuejiang River on Bu Qi. This is very easy to implement, after all, Bu Qi really sent people to do this, or sent tens of thousands of people, as long as Liu Hou publicized it, no one would not believe it, even if Bu Qi himself, I am afraid that he thought that his plan was successful to lead the lack of embankments in the Yuejiang River.

As a result, Liu Hou ordered the simple printing workshop with the army to start work day and night to reformat and print new leaflets. The new leaflet mainly exposed the fact that Buqi was mad, excavated the embankment of the Yuejiang River, and led the Yuejiang River to lack an embankment, drowning hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

In fact, this flood only drowned tens of thousands of people, but in ancient times, tens of thousands of people could be called hundreds of thousands of people, at this time, where would Liu Hou be polite to Bu Qi, directly imitate the ancient army, and add a zero to the number of victims, becoming hundreds of thousands.

Hundreds of thousands, that's the population of a county, Liu Hou is not afraid of exaggeration, in this leaflet to slander Bu Qi's ability, write him as a hypocrite who is sanctimonious on the surface, but in fact wolf-hearted, a murderer who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, and disregard people's lives.

At the end of the leaflet, he also "broke the news", claiming that Buqi had no humanity and planned to burn all the grain stocks in Panyu City, and he would die with the people of the whole city and starve to death the people of the whole county.

When the hot air balloon sprinkled these leaflets on the streets and alleys of Panyu City, the Eastern Wu soldiers in the city were busy again, collecting these pieces of paper throughout the city.

Panyu City was also affected by the flood, although the water level in the city is not high, there will be no gasping water flow with the protection of the city wall, and there will be no drowning, but it also brings great inconvenience to the life and work of the military and civilians in the city.

This inconvenience is now directly reflected in the collection and collection of leaflets. The sergeants walked knee-high through the streets of the city, collecting leaflets and arresting those who were reading, spreading, and even talking about the contents of the leaflets.

However, after all, there are still many people who know the contents of the leaflets, especially some big families. They began to be vigilant, after all, this matter was in their vital interests.

In order to achieve his goal, Buqi must burn the grain stock of the entire city, and in addition to burning the grain in the official warehouse, he will definitely burn the grain reserves of large households. These big households have a lot of grain in stock, and once the Shu army enters the city and finds that there is no grain in the official warehouse, they will definitely collect grain from these big households.

If that is the case, Buqi's strategic purpose will not be achieved, and Buqi's act of burning grain will become meaningless. Therefore, these big households began to be careful to beware of Buqi burning grain. Not only beware of Buqi burning his own family's grain, but also beware of Buqi burning the grain of the official warehouse.

Because the grain in the official warehouse is burned, the people in the city will definitely be in chaos, and a chaotic city is obviously not in the interests of these big families. What if the hungry people storm their granaries and steal their own food?

Therefore, these big players are the last to want this kind of chaos. Under this situation, they have secretly gathered their families, ready to make moves at any time.

In the study of a mansion in the south of the city, an old man and a young man are talking:

"Dad, what the Shu army said in this leaflet may not be true, after the arrival of Master Bu, he has always loved the people like a son, persuading farmers to mulberry, promoting education, and repairing water conservancy, how can he be such a traitorous and evil person?" The young man in the room said.

"It may not be for my father, this thing is very reasonable, in order to delay the footsteps of the Shu army, Bu Qi deliberately created hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting to be fed, which is not completely impossible. People say that the step is majestic and strategic, and the wisdom is outstanding, what is the majestic strategy? What does it mean to be resourceful? It is to do whatever it takes to achieve an end when necessary.

The land of Lingnan was not originally the territory of Soochow, but it was just forcibly grabbed by Buqi, so Lingnan is not a place that cannot be abandoned.

Besides, Lingnan is a wild land in the eyes of these people, there are more barbarians here than the Han people, and the people here are not much different from ants in the eyes of the Dongwu people. As long as it can be conducive to the strategic purpose of Soochow, there is one more Lingnan, and there are hundreds of thousands of Lingnan people, I believe they are willing to give up. ”

The old one is the patriarch of a big clan in Panyu City, Master Wang. Mr. Wang is not the largest family in Panyu City, but his view represents the thoughts of most local big families.

"What shall we do, then?" The young man asked.

"I heard that the emperor and the crown prince of Shu were both benevolent and virtuous people, and Liu Xuande was defeated in Xinye, and refused to abandon the people, and crossed the river with hundreds of thousands of people. I inquired about the news outside the city, this flood, the Shu army stopped attacking Buqi, but instead searched for disaster relief people everywhere, not only to relieve the current disaster, but also to establish resettlement points to settle the future life of the victims.

It seems that this prince's benevolent style will not be worse than his father's. Such a person is the Ming Lord, and under the rule of such a Ming Lord, it is better than under the rule of Bu Qi, who treats the lives of the people as a mustard. Master Wang said.

"We all understand the reason, but now there are tens of thousands of horses in the city, and this guy doesn't know what's going on, so he sends people to keep an eye on our house day and night, I'm afraid that before we make any moves, his army will arrive.

In front of his regular army, we are really not enough to see. The young man sighed.

"Of course we can't rely on one of us, I guess, the rest of the family must be very anxious, as long as we get in touch with each other, when the time comes, we will definitely let Bu Qi take care of one or the other." Master Wang said.

"But how can we get out of the stalk outside the door and connect with the others?" Young man.

"For my father's birthday next month, it's better to have a birthday in advance. You go and invite the rest of the heads of the family over, and then we will have a chance to talk to each other. I think, no matter how unreasonable Buqi is, he won't allow us to drink Shou Bar? Master Wang thought for a while before he said.

"Okay, I'll go and place an invitation."

Not to mention that the city is in chaos, outside the city, Liu Hou is also very busy these days, a large number of victims have emerged, and there are too many things for him to deal with. But no matter how busy he was, he also found a little time to see Zhou Xue today.

He didn't come to see Zhou Xue today because he had any dirty intentions, but because he really had something to look for her.

"Xiaoxue, I have something I want to ask you for help." Liu Hou got straight to the point.

"What's the matter?" Zhou Xue was still doing a fierce ideological struggle during this time, and her spirit was relatively haggard.

"You also know what Bu Qi did, he is simply a man with a beast's heart, and he can do anything in order to drag us in Lingnan. We estimate that he will definitely burn the grain in Panyu City in the next step. ”

"This ......" Zhou Xue is very conflicted now, on the one hand, she can't believe or want to believe that Bu Qi will do those evil things, and on the other hand, the facts are in front of her.

"Once he burns the grain in Panyu City, the entire Panyu City, and even the tens of thousands of people outside the city, will fall into a crisis of food shortage, and at that time, I don't know how many people will starve to death."

"Uncle Bu, Uncle Bu, he shouldn't do that." Zhou Xue used the word "should", which shows that her trust in Buqi has begun to waver.

"I hope he won't do it, but it's here. He is not a person who cares about the life and death of the people. What I want you to do is to go back and return to Panyu City to stop Buqi from burning grain. ”

"Yes, I'll go back and persuade him not to do that." Zhou Xue clenched her fists and said with a very determined look.

"Persuasion? How do you convince him? Buqi is a well-read poet and eloquent, I dare say, you must not be able to speak of him. If you argue with him, in the end you must be persuaded by him, not by you. ”

"No, no, I'll be able to convince him." Zhou Xue is authentic.

"What if you can't convince him?" Liu Hou took a step forward and stared at Zhou Xue's eyes.

"Say you don't convince him, say you don't convince him...... So what to do? ”

"Then kill him." Liu Hou's eyes showed a fierce light.

"No, no, how can I kill him, how can this be ......" Zhou Xue was shocked and took a few steps back.

"You know, if you don't kill him, he will kill hundreds of thousands of people. Between hundreds of thousands of people and your uncle, how do you choose? Liu Hou pressed forward step by step.

"No, no......" Zhou Xuexin was already confused, and she didn't know what to say, she just said "no".

"Actually, it's best if you can convince him, he's a talent, and I've thought about recruiting him, but I know that he's a man of strong mind, and it's almost impossible to be recruited.

You can try to persuade him not to burn food, or even persuade him to surrender to me, and I will certainly not treat him badly. You have also seen my troops, and you should know that with those Eastern Wu soldiers in the city, they can't hold the city.

Since you know that you will be defeated, why do you have to resist, let tens of thousands of people die in vain, can you bear it? If he could surrender, then these tens of thousands of Eastern Wu soldiers would not die in vain. Your Uncle Bu won't die, not only will he not die, but he can continue to be an official, isn't this the best result? ”

Zhou Xue was speechless: "......"

"However, I am sure that your persuasion will be in vain, and in that case will you promise me that you will kill him as soon as he gives the order to burn the grain. The lives of hundreds of thousands of people inside and outside the city depend on you. ”

"I, I ......" Zhou Xue was shocked. If she wants to do something to Buqi, how can she do it, but if she wants to watch hundreds of thousands of people starve to death, she can't bear it.

To say that this Liu Hou is indeed too bad, he came up with this kind of idea to force Zhou Xue to this role. I'm afraid Bu Qiu didn't expect that the killer he sent was now being persuaded to kill him in turn.

"Is there no other way?" Zhou Xue asked.

"Something else? Now you have also seen what the situation is, Buqi, the harmful spirit, dug up the river embankment, the flood washed away a qiē, hundreds of thousands of people were homeless, and there was no food to eat. I was able to bring some food from other places, but it was a long way to go, and the roads and bridges were damaged, so it was very difficult to transport it.

Even if I bring food over, it will only be enough for so many people to eat in the short term, and it will not be able to support it in the long term. And if these victims want to rebuild their homes and resume production, it will take at least half a year before the crops will be harvested.

We can't afford to provide for such a long time. Besides, if I want to rescue my second uncle, it is impossible to stay here for too long, as soon as we leave, these people will do this?

Panyu City has concentrated on hoarding most of the grain in the entire Lingnan, which is enough for these people to eat until next year's harvest, so it is a very important matter to preserve the grain storage in Panyu City, which is related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people.

I ask you again, are you willing to do this in order to keep hundreds of thousands of people alive? ”