Hearing his words, Chen Wu didn't continue to ask.

Su Mo wanted to change his appearance, so he let him change his appearance.

The two walked to the street, and Su Mo pointed to the small merchants and vendors on the side of the street and explained, "Look at these people, are they familiar?" Many of them came from Lingnan. ”

Chen Wu looked at it for a moment, and his eyes suddenly turned red.

Many of them are dressed in Lingnan service, and at first glance they are natives of Lingnan.

These people are still the same skinny and bony as when they fled.

All complexions are rosy and look extremely moisturized.

In his image, there were more than 300,000 people who fled from Lingnan back then.

He looked at Su Mo and asked, "Have those people gone to the border?" ”

Su Mo shook his head.

"Where there are so many lucky people, more than 10,000 people have come to the border alive!"

"It's all in Tai'an City."

When Chen Wu heard this, he immediately bowed slightly, and the corners of his mouth trembled and said thank you.

Su Mo didn't mind, accepted a salute with peace of mind, and helped him up.

As the two walked along, they saw a small vendor in front of a stall.

Chen Wu stopped, looked at Su Mo and asked, "Can you invite me to a meal?" ”

Su Mo took him and just sat down, and the old man stepped forward and asked, "What do you two want to eat?" ”

Chen Wu trembled and said, "A red oil bun, a corn bun!" ”

The old man echoed and asked, "The little brother is also from Lingnan?" ”

Chen Wu paused and asked rhetorically, "Is the old man also from Lingnan?" ”

The old man said while he was busy: "Yes, I can't live anymore, so I can only come to the border to try my luck." ”

"Who knows, this trial, try out a blue sky master!"

"If you want me to say, don't go back when you come, I don't know how many times better here than Lingnan!"

Hearing this, Chen Wu asked with a puzzled expression, "Why?" That Su Mo is a rebel, and His Majesty is crusading against him. ”

Hearing this, the old man immediately turned around and refuted him angrily.

"What nonsense?"

"The general is not a rebel."

"Don't talk nonsense on the sidelines, or you'll be beaten to death."

Chen Wu was still puzzled and asked, "I'm tired of the old man, give me a solution!" ”

Hearing this, the old man also picked a seat and sat down, and explained bitterly: "The general is not a rebel, he is all for our good!" ”

"When the exiles came to the border, not only did everyone settle a house, but one person was given ten taels of silver."

"If you are short of food at home, you can also go directly to the General's Mansion to receive it, you can't be hungry at all!"

Hearing this, Chen Wu was still quite puzzled.

Can that alone make them change their ways?

He looked at the old man and continued to ask, "If that's it, it shouldn't be that you can't talk about the general." ”

Seeing that he was still obsessed, the old man continued: "The general opens a private school, please teach Mr. Scholar, and the children of every family can study for free." ”

"No, do you see the medical office not far away? That's also opened by the general, and it's all free. ”

"Except for some medicinal materials, you need to pay a little cost price, and it doesn't cost you to see a doctor at all!"

Hearing his words, Chen Wu shook his head again and again.

"How is that possible? Private schools, medical offices, these are all expensive to get. ”

"That Su Mo, where did the general get the money?"

The old man said with great disdain: "Sky-high? ”

"If you don't want to make money, how much will it cost?"

"The teachers are all willing to stay, and the doctors are all willing to stay."

"Where's the money?"

Before Su Mo could refute, Zhao Wuji behind him scolded angrily.

"Put your mother's bullshit in every penny, Lao Tzu has been in the border army for fifteen years, which year will you pay food and money on time?"

"The border army brothers can only survive on hunger in winter, where will they get the military rations?"

Looking at Zhao Wuji's figure, Chen Wu was stunned for a moment.

According to his seniority, Zao Wou-Ki is his elder.

The latter has been guarding the border for more than ten years, and he can't refute it.

Seeing that Chen Wu no longer refuted, Su Mo continued to ask: "Three years ago, there was a great drought in Lingnan, may I ask how much grain Your Majesty has allocated?" ”

This heart-wrenching question made Chen Wu choke up suddenly!

Three years ago, when there was a severe drought in Lingnan and millions of displaced people were homeless, the Chen family and his son hurriedly wrote 63 letters, just to beg Xiao Xuan to allocate food for disaster relief.

However, Xiao Xuan refused on the grounds that the treasury of the Great Zhou Dynasty was empty, and left millions of victims to fend for themselves.

The Chen family scattered all their wealth, but they only saved more than 10,000 victims!

Chen Wu watched tens of thousands of people starve to death that year.

Everyone took out the valuable things in their homes in exchange for food.

A seven- or eight-year-old doll can only be exchanged for one stone of grain, and a female doll is even less, and it is almost free to those large families.

Those who are lucky can exchange two mouthfuls of food, and those who are unlucky can't even exchange a bark.

The three thousand miles of mountains in Lingnan, even the roots of the trees have been eaten clean by everyone.

A major drought has caused nearly 300,000 families in Lingnan to die, and the remaining 500,000 have become homeless!

Now, three years later, Lingnan has only eased more than 300,000 people, and it is still vast and sparsely populated.

Absurdity is absurd, claiming that the treasury has no food and no money, Xiao Xuan gave the Dawu Dynasty millions of taels of silver as a dowry the following year to marry the concubine!

For several years, Chen Wu was obsessed with this matter, and whenever he asked his father why His Majesty did this, he was still rejected by a sentence that he was not in his position and did not seek his own politics.

Considering the persistence of his family for several years, Chen Wu could only keep this matter in his heart.

Now that Su Mo mentioned it again, he only felt that there seemed to be a thorn in his heart, and he couldn't accept the persecution.

Seeing Chen Wu like this, Su Mo continued to ask: "After I tore the decree, have you ever occupied a city in the south?" Taken a town? ”

Chen Wu was stunned: "No! ”

Su Mo still maintained a light tone: "Have you publicly proclaimed that I want to be the emperor?" ”

Chen Wu: "No! ”

Su Mo: "Now that the autumn harvest is imminent, do you know where this million army came from?" ”

"Are they all strong men in the family?"

Chen Wu nodded weakly.

This year's autumn harvest is approaching, but His Majesty suddenly issued a conscription order, allowing the vassal kings in various places to levy troops.

For a time, the Great Zhou Dynasty suddenly fell into an arms race.

The vassal kings everywhere are crazy recruits.

If there are strong men in the family who do not join the army, they will be charged with collaborating with the enemy and treason.

As a result, millions of armies have been formed but are incapacitated.

Most of them are recruits, and they are trained on the road to the battlefield.

They had thought that thousands of Grandmasters would be able to settle the battle.

I never imagined that the situation would be the way it is.

Seeing that his mind was almost finished, Su Mo immediately stepped forward and untied his shackles.

"No matter how much you say, you might as well see it with your own eyes.!"

"I'll ask someone to change into ordinary clothes for you, and you and I will go to Tai'an City to see how the people at the border are doing."

"Do you dare?"

Chen Wu's face turned pale, and he said coldly: "What don't you dare!" ”

Seeing this, Su Mo immediately ordered someone to unshackle him and change into civilian clothes.

Su Mo asked all the lieutenants to wait in the barracks, and only took Chen Wu out of the city.

On the way, Chen Wu looked at Su Mo with a puzzled expression.

"Why do you have to be disguised and dare not see people?"

Su Mo smiled and said, "You'll know later." ”