The emperor always wants to promise himself

Chapter 304
"Should I let you see the miserable conditions of those people, and see what it looks like after being frozen to death?! I don't believe that after you have seen it, your conscience can accept it, and you can sleep with a quilt!"

Ning Zhao angrily scolded Cui Zhong, the voice spread outside the hall, and the group of strong government servants slowly lowered their heads.

Cui Zhong's lips trembled, and the corners of his eyes twitched for a while. He hesitated to speak, and then kowtowed heavily after a long while, lying on the ground and unable to get up, crying: "Miss, you are not small, how do you know the difficulties of being small? The younger ones are guilty, the younger ones admit it, but the younger ones are forced to do nothing!"

He cried bitterly, "The younger one has parents and three-year-old children. If the younger one disobeys Gou Buyuan's order, the younger family will also be kicked out, and it will be the younger family who will die! If the younger Alone, the little ones are not afraid!"

He raised his head, his face full of pain, "But the little people are soft-spoken, and they still drag their families with their lives. The little ones will die when they die. What should they do? People's hearts are made of flesh, so how can the little ones be willing to let them follow?" How about the little one die?"

"Compare your heart to your heart, miss, if you are young, what would you do?"

Cui Zhong burst into tears, crying very sadly.

Ning Zhao paused, wanted to say something and then closed his mouth. Seeing Cui Zhong crying into tears, thinking about his words again, he fell silent.

Indeed, if the matter didn't fall on my head, I could say something about it, but if it really happened to me, it might not be better to do it.

Xiao Yu lowered his eyes and said softly: "People's hearts are biased. It's true that they are towards their own family. You are forced to be helpless, but you are just waiting to die in this yamen all day long?"

"It's not that the little ones don't want to help the common people. It's because Mr. Gou doesn't allow the young ones to go out! He said that anyone who dares to go out to contact the common people without authorization will be thrown into prison... The little one guessed that he was afraid that people would spread the news here. Go to the capital and be held accountable by the emperor, just think about getting through this period of time."

"Heh—" Hearing this, Han Yi, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but snort coldly.

This Gou Buyuan is really stupid, no wonder Ning Guogong took a fancy to him.

Cui Zhong wiped his face with his sleeve, and when the wind blew, his face was very dry.

Xiao Yu felt that it was almost done, stood up and said to him: "Get up, you will still be the head of these yamen servants in the future, and you will all be ordered by the king, first gather the people in the city with the Xuanying Army, and immediately open the warehouse Food was distributed, clothes were donated for porridge, the gates of Yongcheng were all opened to accept the refugees, all the inns in the city were allowed to resume business, and the money was transferred from the account, and it was clearly recorded.”

Cui Zhong didn't expect that Xiao Yu would still use him, and he didn't say anything about punishment. He immediately kowtowed to Xiao Yu gratefully, "Thank you for your compassion, the younger one will be the king's saddle, and I will repay the king's grace of not killing!"

"Get up, hurry up and get things done, this king is going to visit Yuncheng now."

Cui Zhong got up from the ground and asked in a low voice: "Is the prince planning to go to Yuncheng to suppress the rebellion?"

Xiao Yu raised his hands to close the collar of the cloak, and smiled when he heard the words: "Suppressing the rebellion? No, this king is going to make decisions for the disaster victims."

"Make the decision?" Cui Zhong didn't understand why, he watched Xiao Yu lead a group of people away in a daze.

After returning to the Governor's Mansion, Xiao Yu divided the people into five groups. Feng Jiang followed her to Yuncheng to quell the civil strife, Qingyi stayed in Yongcheng to relieve the disaster, and the rest of the Xuanying Army went to Xuancheng, Zuncheng, and Gucheng with food and clothing. city.

Yuncheng is relatively close to Yongcheng, and it is only a day's journey by horse-drawn carriage.

Xiao Yu set off at noon, and arrived outside Yuncheng in the evening of the next day.

The walls of Yuncheng are towering, the city gates are closed, and on the towers stand guards in armor and armed with long spears.

A group of people were blocked at the gate of the city, and they were shouting and cursing loudly.

Feng Jiang raised his hand, and the team stopped. He turned around and drove to the car window: "Master, those disaster victims seem to be rioting, and they seem to be arguing."

Xiao Yu squinted her eyes, Feng Jiang backed away a little, and she looked out from the car window.

The people were in ragged clothes, and some were even wearing very thin clothes. Two people hugged each other to keep warm, both adults and children, holding sticks or stones in their hands, all of them looked angry.

"You bastards who eat but don't do anything! Why don't you let us enter the city? Why don't you open a warehouse to release food? Today we must seek justice for ourselves!"

"Stop talking nonsense, you won't open it if you can't do it. Where should you go? There is only so much food in the city, and we don't have enough food for ourselves. Why should we share it with you?"

"Bah, you guys are farting! All the food was sent by the dog thief surnamed Pan to curry favor with Gou. You think we don't know?"

"That's right, Gou Buyuan eats delicious food and drinks spicy food in the Governor's Mansion, but he doesn't even give out a mouthful of porridge to the people. People are starving to death all over the place. How can you bear it? Ah? Have you fed your conscience to the dogs? ?”

"What's the point with these bastards? Even if we risk our lives today, we have to break down the city gate!"

The people were so angry that they rushed up and smashed the city gate.

Originally, Xiao Yu thought that the people's riot was such a big battle, at least it had to be a cross-horse, right?
But when I saw it today, Xiao Yu felt that it was a little funny, but also full of sadness.

The poverty on the frontier is obvious. The common people did not have any decent weapons for rebellion. They also saw horses along the way. If they wanted to smash the door, they usually took broken sticks, kitchen knives and stones. What’s more, they had nothing and just punched and kicked. .

She looked at it for a while and understood that they were no longer simply smashing the door, but more like venting their dissatisfaction and resentment.

There was a sob in his ear, Xiao Yu turned his head, and saw Ning Zhao looking at them with red eyes, his lips trembling: "I used to think that my life experience was already miserable enough, my parents were still alive, but I never enjoyed it a day. The warmth of my parents, for which I used to feel sorry for myself, but when I came to Suizhou and saw all these things, I suddenly realized that the world is so big and there are so many sufferings, there are many people who are more miserable than me, even A lot of suffering is beyond my imagination..."

She took a deep breath, and pressed the corners of her eyes with a veil, "If they hadn't been cornered, how could they fight against the well-equipped garrison with flesh and blood?"

Xiao Yu stretched out his hand and touched Ningzhao's back, "All living beings have their own sufferings. There are high winds at high places and pits at low places. No one can have smooth sailing and a happy life. Since we are in our position, we have If it can, if you can pull it, just pull it."

Ning Zhao nodded, suppressed the melancholy just now, and suddenly became excited: "My lord, they are going to shoot arrows!"

Xiao Yu's eyes narrowed, and he said sharply: "Feng Jiang, tell them to stop!"

"Yes! Brothers, follow me!"

Feng Jiang clamped the horse's belly, and the horse neighed and galloped forward.The Xuanying Army followed closely behind, pressing towards Yuncheng like a black cloud.

"The regent is here, how dare you make a mistake? Don't hurry up and stop!"

Feng Jiang's roar with internal force was deafening, reverberating between the heaven and the earth.

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(End of this chapter)