In the middle of the night, the moon is on and the streets are silent.

From time to time, a few thin gray shadows clinged to the ground and scurried quickly.

or burrow into the hole at the foot of the wall, or walk through the wall to invade the window lattice of the wall, occasionally making a slight squeaking sound, and carrying out a night of stealing food and food.

Luzhou County has the Yangtze River flowing through it, and is at the junction of Shu, Guizhou and Chongqing, which is a rare rich county in Shu.

The so-called rats are hidden because of the food, and the dogs are poor and sleeping, and most of the families in the county are full of food and worry-free, so there are often rats.

No matter how wide the sun is, there will always be a dark shadow of the gutter, and many dirty pickled things are hidden in it.

After eating a bowl of noodles in Niuxin Village, Jiang Yichen settled in Luzhou County that night.

For three days, he spent his morning on the inn bed.

At night, under the cover of night, relying on the foot strength of the black general, he went to kill more than ten miles away.

Of the thirteen people who cornered him three months ago and jumped off the Yin-Yang Bridge, only three of them are still alive today.

Ironically, the number of people who died at the hands of Jiang Yichen in three days was only eighteen people from five factions, but there were rumors of eight gangs and thirty people on the rivers and lakes.

Those extra black pots naturally had to be carried by Jiang Yichen.

Gang leaders such as Zi Yexuan died unexpectedly, all of them fell and scattered, or found another attachment, or scraped together to build a new door, taking advantage of the turmoil of the killer night owl, the martial arts pattern in Shu and Guizhou has quietly undergone a lot of changes.

Jiang Yichen, who saw everything in his eyes, couldn't tell the changes for a while, but the day of his departure was undoubtedly getting closer and closer.

The reason why he uses Luzhou County as a foothold these days is to solve a puzzle for squatting, in addition to the safety considerations of darkness under the lights.

A doubt that arose three days ago after eating intestinal noodles.

- Where did the county sanatoriums get the funds and manpower to feed and control the number of beggars who should be small?

This doubt can be subdivided into three.

Where did the beggars on the streets go?

What is the real reason why the beggars, who used to be huge, are now declining to become infamous?

What is the role of the almshouse?

Every afternoon, Jiang Yichen took these three questions to explore in the nursing home in Luzhou County.

In order to flaunt the rule of benevolence, the successive dynasties of Zhongzhou have introduced corresponding relief policies and specific measures to arrange care for the homeless and begging people in the country, and the measures of each generation are varied and different, but they do give great help to the outdated people, so that many people can survive hunger and cold winter.

By the time the Zhu family arrived, the system of nursing homes was relatively mature, and those who were lonely, disabled, and unable to live were allowed to be admitted to the hospital.

In order to ensure the implementation of the pension policy, the Zhongzhou Law even stipulates: "Those who are widowed, lonely, and sick, who are poor and have no relatives to rely on, and who cannot survive on their own, and who should be adopted by the lawsuit where they are located but do not adopt them, shall be given 60 rods; ”

As for those who are lazy and lazy and have the ability to take care of themselves, the nursing home will manage their food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they need to contribute to the work of the nursing home.

Even if there is a system like this, it still has not been able to completely solve the problem of beggars.

The number of beggars in the land of Zhongzhou has never decreased sharply, and the beggar gang has been prosperous for a long time.

After one war after another, there will only be more beggars, not less.

But since the outrage twenty years ago, when the imperial court was short of funds and could not guarantee the supply of the almshouse, the beggars in the streets and alleys have become less and less.

Are people living richer?

No way!

So how can there be fewer and fewer beggars?!

Today's beggars exist in name only, and they are not as attractive to those beggars as they used to be.

Kyushu, where there are thousands of gangs, can digest some of them according to their personal qualifications and abilities, but it is difficult to reduce the scale of beggars.

It is possible to contain these beggars in large numbers, or to restrain them, but only the almshouses.

Behind the almshouse is not the imperial court itself, but the people behind the scenes who have the ability to use the resources of the imperial court.

There are no very strict precautions in the nursing home.

At least under the blue sky and white sun, Jiang Yichen can still come and go freely in this nursing home in Luzhou County and is unknown.

He squatted through the study and searched through the "Personnel Register", "Worker Register", "Food Procurement Book", "Supplies Procurement Book" and other information record books of the nursing home one by one.

Observed the daily behavior of the official staff and incubation personnel in the hospital.

The intention is to discover the clues in order to uncover the truth behind it.

But it backfired, and for three whole days, nothing was found.

Today is the fourth day and the fourth night.

He could stay for two more days.

If there is no more gain, he will leave.

For several days, he had not severed his ties with the shadows of the Moral League.

The situation in the north-east is said to be tense.

The second confrontation between Zhongzhou and Warat after 20 years is about to break out.

It's just that whether this confrontation is a bloody battle with real knives and guns, or a big drama used by conspirators to disrupt the audio-visual cloth, remains to be verified by time.

The Northland Rangers have been dealt with quite a bit, but not all of the dead are Warats.

The large increase in merchant ships along the southeast coast has been confirmed to be the action of the Cardinals, and it can be determined that those merchant ships did not bring many people over, but a large number of foreign goods obviously had a great impact on the trade in the coastal and inland areas of Zhongzhou.

It is not known whether there is another mystery hidden in it.

There is a shortage of manpower on the old man's side.

In the southeast coastal area, Jiang Yichen now has enough ability to break through and explore.

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Creak!

A rat seemed to suddenly notice the figure following behind, and in a panic, he passed through the gap in the gate of the house and disappeared at the door of the nursing home.

In fact, this rat wronged Jiang Yichen.

It is precisely because there is nothing to be found during the day, so every time in the dead of night, as long as there is still time to kill people, Jiang Yichen will rush over to stare at it to see if the nighttime nursing home will reveal its true form.

It's just that judging from the observations of the past few nights, everything is just Jiang Yichen's whimsy.

Looking at the little mouse that disappeared into the crack in the door, Jiang Yichen lost his mind for a while.

It must have taken a while to recover.

The little mouse can pass through the door, but he can't.

But just as he was about to climb over the wall and enter, the squeak sounded again!

Jiang Yichen's heart tightened.

The voice seemed to be the little mouse that had just entered the courtyard door in front of him.

Sure enough, a moment later, the small gray shadow came out of the same gap again.

Seeing that the previous tail was still standing at the door, the little mouse's tail stood up, his hair stood upside down, and he shivered.

Within a breath, the little mouse fell straight to the ground, not knowing whether he deliberately pretended to be dead or if he had scared himself out.

The doors of the sanatorium were never moved.

The people who were going to go in outside the door didn't get in.

The man in the door who tried to sneak out slipped out.

Whoever sneaks out will not go through the main door.

Jiang Yichen explored for a while, only to find the trace of the sneaker and chased after him.

Not long after, Jiang Yichen came within ten zhang of his people.

He didn't come any closer, and used some True Qi to open his eyes to confirm the situation.

It was a thin middle-aged beggar, and Jiang Yichen remembered that this person had come to the nursing home by himself yesterday afternoon to receive relief.

He had also looked closely at the beggar, but found nothing to be suspicious of.

It's only been a day, and I can't stand the coarse tea and light rice in the nursing home, so I ran out at night to open meat for myself?

Jiang Yichen sniffed the aroma of roast chicken in the air, his stomach roared angrily, but his feet got a little closer.

He swallowed as he watched the thin beggar feast.

When he saw that the beggar actually took out an egg from his arms and smashed it open, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he could already determine the identity of this person!