Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Plague
Huang Zhen and Du Lao were chatting about their respective topics, while Huang Qi was thinking about his own thoughts.
Now that Huang Qi has stored the jade liquid he gets every day, he is waiting for the opportunity to directly upgrade the remaining three martial arts to the cap, and then integrate his own martial arts in one fell swoop to achieve the only method, and the exercises he gets in the future will be used to continuously improve the only method.
It's just that even if there is a little evil who continues to produce jade liquid for it day and night, it will take a long time to store such a huge amount of essence.
Huang Qi silently clenched his fists.
This prefecture-level assassination is bound to be won.
Now the only thing to wait for is the location information that the Assassination Token will announce.
The boring journey is still going on, and Huang Zhen gradually loses the high interest he had at the beginning.
He suddenly spoke: "Big brother, we are so far away from Yunzhou, Sister Xian's sect is three times as far away as ours, she comes back every year for the New Year, how long should it take." ”
Huang Qi was thinking about it, and was shouted back by Huang Zhen, he smiled and said: "Do you think that every time she comes back, she takes the same carriage as us? Of course, the Xianwu Sect has its own extraordinary means, otherwise it will take six months on the way back and forth, why does Xiao Xian come back every year." ”
Huang Zhen nodded blankly.
Being interrupted by Huang Zhen like this, Huang Qi couldn't help but think of Huang Xian who was far away in the border city, and he didn't know how she was now.
At this time, Hu Dali, who was driving outside, suddenly made a voice: "Childe, you come out to take a look, it seems that there is something wrong." ”
Huang Qi walked out of the carriage when he heard the words and stood behind Hu Dali.
It turned out that the road that had been empty gradually appeared in twos and threes, all moving in the opposite direction to them, and as the carriage advanced, there were more and more pedestrians in various convoys in front.
Soon, the convoy formed a long line, and there was no end in sight.
Hu Dali said: "The road here is on the map, even the nearest town in front of it is at least five days away, which means that these people have also traveled at least five days, and most of them are ox carts, so the time spent on the road is even more." ”
Huang Qi knew what Hu Dali meant, these people were definitely not caravans, and they knew at a glance that they were migrated people.
Such a large-scale migration of people can only indicate that something important has happened in front of them, so that these people have to leave their homes.
Huang Qi said: "First find some people to ask about the situation and figure out what happened in front of you." ”
Hu nodded vigorously, he parked the carriage to the side of the road, took out some broken silver, and found a man driving an ox cart.
Huang Zhen's head poked out from behind and asked curiously: "Big brother, why are there so many people along the way." ”
Huang Qi shook his head and said, "I don't know what happened, so I stepped forward and asked." ”
Du Lao also walked out of the carriage, and he said worriedly: "Could it be that there is a natural disaster ahead? Then we have to turn back." ”
Hu Dali quickly walked back, and he frowned and said, "Eldest prince, it's trouble, we may have to turn around." ”
Huang Qi had just heard the conversation between Hu Dali and the man in the distance, and he also frowned.
"These people are all from Tongling Town, and according to them, the plague has broken out in Jinzhen, which is close to them, and all of them have been sealed off by the government at this moment. The two towns are on the same route, the path we are taking now. The whole town has been evacuated by the government, and if we continue to walk, I am afraid that we will have to turn back. ”
Hu Dali said what he had just learned.
Huang Zhen was dumbfounded, now that he turned around, wouldn't he have to walk for a few more days.
Huang Qi thought for a while and said, "You go and ask them how many days you have been on the road." ”
After hearing this, Hu Dali looked for it again.
"Childe, their ox cart is no better than our carriage, and they have been on the road for ten days. Hu Dali came back.
Huang Qi muttered: "According to the practice of the Great Song Dynasty, these people who left their homes due to natural disasters often need to leave their homes for three months before they are allowed to return to their hometowns. But it doesn't take so long for the court itself to clean up those calamities, and if we march on the road for another five days, I'm afraid it will be almost finished. As long as you get there, you can still get through smoothly with a little benefit. ”
Thinking of this, Huang Qi made up his mind: "Keep moving forward." ”
As soon as he said this, everyone had no objection, after all, he was the only one who did the Lord.
Huang Qi did not make a decision indiscriminately, because the Great Song Dynasty did a very good job in maintaining stability in the territory.
For example, when natural disasters such as floods and droughts break out in a certain place, the imperial court will organize rescue with the fastest efficiency, try its best to extinguish all disasters, and stabilize the affected people.
These are completely different from those dynasties in Huang Qi's previous life, and no one dared to hide it or wait for the opportunity to make a fortune as refugees, which led to the situation that refugees were all over the land and starved all over the wilderness.
And these are not made up in the books that Huang Qi reads for the sake of sycophancy, but the real situation he observed by himself through participating in several disaster reliefs.
The entire Great Song is like an extremely efficient machine, which can quickly deal with all sudden changes.
Just like the people along the way, although they have to be away from home for a while because of the plague, they don't have a trace of worry and trouble on their faces, just because they are full of confidence in the imperial court.
This court is too good.
Throughout the previous life, no dynasty has been able to achieve such a point.
Those ** are dead, what does it matter to them?
In the previous life, those dynasties were still worried about ordinary people rebelling, but ordinary people in this world are completely ordinary people, and the imperial court should not care about their thoughts at all.
Huang Qi has always liked to speculate on others with the greatest malice.
Last time, the blood wolf general told him that the imperial court and the sect maintained ordinary people so much in order to better screen their own seedlings for the sect to grow and grow.
Huang Qi thought in his heart that if it was only for this reason, the imperial court and the sect could completely raise ordinary people as animals, and directly select qualified people from them. They control the best combat power, and they don't have to worry about ordinary people resisting them by force.
How time-saving and labor-saving is this approach?
But they didn't, so there must be a very important reason for that.
After not paying attention and thinking far away, Huang Qi took a deep breath.
Looking at the continuous convoy on the road outside, Huang Qi had a lot of thoughts in his heart.
It's just that at this time, the secret capture token in his arms was warm again, which made him stunned.
Is there a new mission so soon? Or did you send a follow-up message about the prefecture-level assassination?
After hypnotizing Huang Zhen and Du Lao again, Huang Qi put down the curtain of the car and took out the secret capture token to check it.
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