Smoke billowed from Jiebei Mountain, hundreds of cauldrons were erected, soldiers were busy using their swords to disassemble the horses that had been stoned to death, the victims were gnawing on dry food in their hands and waiting for the horse meat in the pot, the only young people were also chopping firewood with all kinds of tools in their hands, each of them left saliva on the side of their mouths, children and old people were struggling to gather around the pot, and next to each pot stood two heavily armed soldiers, it was impossible to give them quick food at this time, let alone let them eat raw food.

Liu Fan took Ma Yuan to a relatively intact camp, a woman with a thin face knelt in front of Liu Fan, her rags and linen clothes were patched, her delicate face was completely devoid of a trace of brilliance, her eyes were already emaciated and sunken, and her body was even more emaciated with only bones left, but her whole body still revealed a sense of delicateness.

"Thank you for the general's life-saving grace, the little woman Wang Xiuer thanked the general for his great kindness, the general's great kindness and great virtue The little woman has nothing to repay, and she is willing to be a cow and a horse for the general in this life. Wang Xiu'er knelt on the ground, although she had already eaten the dry food sent by Liu Fan, her tone was still very low.

"Miss Wang, get up quickly. These are all things I should do, these people are the people of the Empire, and I can't watch them starve to death. Liu Fan helped Wang Xiu'er up from the ground, and at the same time a sense of helplessness rose in his heart, these victims in front of him had already consumed one-third of their military rations, and there were still two days to go from Qingzhou Mansion, and I don't know how many victims were waiting desperately on the roadside in the past two days.

"Miss Wang, didn't the empire just allocate a batch of grain to Qingzhou Mansion half a month ago? Why are you here if you don't go to the empire's shelter?" Liu Fan was a little surprised, when he left Beijing, the first batch of grain that He Muping drew from the major families had already been sent to the states, and there were still so many victims waiting for death in this mountain.

It's okay not to mention the disaster relief food, but when it comes to the disaster relief food, Wang Xiu'er snorted coldly, and the faces of the young people next to him also changed, Liu Fan looked at everyone's expressions a little puzzled, Wang Xiu'er looked at Liu Fan coldly, and he didn't have the previous gratitude at all: "Do you really don't know or pretend not to know?"

Liu Fan was confused by Wang Xiu'er's words, he had just rushed to Qingzhou from the imperial capital, how could he say this? Liu Fan asked a little puzzled: "Miss Wang, I have been rushing here from the imperial capital day and night since I received the holy decree, and I haven't received detailed information about Qingzhou yet, so I have this question." ”

"So, do you really not know the situation in Qingzhou?" Wang Xiu'er looked at the young officer in front of her with some disbelief, Qingzhou is the ancestral home of the great eunuch Zhang Rang, and the person who was sent to Qingzhou still doesn't know the situation in Qingzhou?

"You're not from Zhang Rang?"

"Presumptuous! How can my family be that eunuch person!" Hu Yanhu roared, and with a whoosh, he pulled out the war knife on his waist and pointed it at Wang Xiu'er, and the young man beside Wang Xiu'er also hurriedly put down the food in his hand and confronted Hu Yanhu with a variety of weapons, Ma Yuan sat aside very calmly, but his eyes were full of murderous energy.

Wang Xiu'er glanced at Liu Fan, quickly stood up, knelt on the ground again, and cried: "Please also ask the general to save my millions of people in Qingzhou, Wang Xiu'er is willing to be a cow and a horse for the general, and serve the general for the rest of his life." ”

"Please help us, please save us. Wang Xiu'er suddenly knelt down, which caught Liu Fan a little off guard, especially when everyone knelt at Liu Fan's feet in the tent, and Liu Fan hurriedly helped them up.

"Quick, all of you get up, all of you get up, and if you have anything to say, you will do it for you, as long as I can do it, I will do it for you." Liu Fan helped Wang Xiu'er up, Liu Fan signaled to Wang Xiu'er, Wang Xiu'er said a word to everyone, and everyone stood up. ...,

Wang Xiu'er saluted Liu Fan and said, "General, I offended a lot just now, please don't blame the general." The little woman was also forced to say this helplessly, but she was afraid that the general was the eunuch. ”

"The girl doesn't have to be like this, listening to Miss Wang's words seems to be something unspeakable?

Wang Xiu'er nodded and looked around, Liu Fan understood what Wang Xiu'er meant: "These people are my henchmen, Miss Wang can say everything, this time out of the palace, the emperor gave the official the right to cut first and then play." ”

"Half a month ago, the imperial court did have a batch of disaster relief grain transported to Qingzhou Mansion, originally half of these grains were left for Qingzhou Mansion to own, and the other half was to be transported to various county governments by Qingzhou Mansion, we were originally Linzi County people, the grain transported by the imperial court was indeed transported to Linzi County, but it was only three thousand catties, and the grain was mixed with a large amount of sand and gravel and dregs, we had no way to live, my father was the county commander of Linzi at that time took us to find the grain officer to know that all the grain was left in Qingzhou Mansion, and we were forced to wander all the way to Qingzhou Mansion。 ”

Wang Xiu'er's father Wang Chang took people to Qingzhou Mansion after hardships and hardships, only to find that all the food has been secretly converted into sand and gravel, and the only few relief points are also crowded with local victims in Qingzhou Mansion, and the daily supply of rice soup can clearly show the human figure, so the rice soup is still limited every day, only tens of thousands of people use it, and hundreds of thousands of victims gathered outside Qingzhou Mansion at that time.

The victims were so hungry that they had no choice but to start attacking the official warehouse of the government, wanting to grab some life-saving food, but they did not expect that the official warehouse had already been rented by an uncle of Zhang Rang's own family, and the victims who attacked the official warehouse were soon bloodily suppressed by the guards of the Zhang family.

Wang Xiu'er's father Wang Chang was also killed in the riot, Wang Xiu'er could only take these people to Yanzhou to wander, when they walked to Jiebei Mountain, these people were unable to walk, they could only hide in Jiebei Mountain to gnaw tree bark for a living, some young people went down the mountain to follow a man called what Catholicism rebelled, besieged Qingzhou City, and was also killed by the Qingzhou army into a river of blood, Qingzhou Army also took advantage of this to massacre some of the victims, the surrounding victims panicked and could only flee in all directions, so that there were more and more victims in Jiebei Mountain, and now there is no food on Jiebei Mountain, if Liu Fan and others do not appear again, they can only eat human flesh to satisfy hunger。

"Bastard, how unreasonable are these people who dare to privately swallow the relief grain of the imperial court!" Although Ma Yuan was calm, his face was full of anger after hearing what these officials had done.

Liu Fan had already guessed the general idea of the whole thing, so he was not surprised, there are only two times when officials can make themselves fat up, national disasters and famines, and there must be Zhang Rang's participation behind the private swallowing of disaster relief grain, otherwise absolutely no one from top to bottom of Qingzhou officials would dare to swallow all the hundreds of thousands of kilograms of disaster relief grain in Linzi County, and only allocate 3,000 catties, this is not eating people without spitting out bones, but directly forcing people to death.

"Is the disaster situation in Qingzhou serious now?" Bao Ren has not yet sent detailed information, Liu Fan does not know the situation in Qingzhou now, and can only inquire from Wang Xiu'er's mouth.

Wang Xiu'er shook her head and nodded again: "It's not a serious or serious thing, but there is no normal place at all, and some places are even uninhabited for thousands of miles, and the victims of the disaster can't live anymore." ”

"What did you say about that Catholic rebellion against Catholicism just now?" Liu Fan was deeply shocked after listening to Wang Xiu'er's words, it had reached this point, Qingzhou's Tiao Chen also said that the disaster situation had basically stabilized, but when it came to Catholicism, Liu Fan was a little puzzled, this name is quite a later Christian name, but I don't know what the current Catholicism and Christianity have to do with it.

Wang Xiu'er shook her head and said: "I don't know, these people have been secretly preaching in Qingzhou very early, and then as soon as something happened in Qingzhou, these things were revealed, occupying Qiancheng County and Bochang County, burning, killing and looting are all evil, these people are secretly arresting the victims to make dry food as military food, the last time Qingzhou City was killed by the Qingzhou Army Defeat, the corpses are all over the field, the blood is flowing like a river, the vitality is greatly injured, hiding in the county, arresting young people everywhere to join the army, arresting old and young women and children as military food. ”

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