The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 14 Civil chaos
In the early morning of the next day, Yang Tong woke up with his biological clock, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Wei Fengwu was pillowing his arm, looking at him with a sweet smile.

"Sleep a little longer?" Yang Tong tightened his hands on her fragrant and soft body, and brushed off the hair from her face with the other.

Wei Fengwu grabbed his hand and said in surprise as if discovering the New World: "Husband, why is there a lotus flower in your palm, it's so beautiful."

"I don't know when I got it!" It's not that Yang Tong was lying, he really didn't know, he thought the original owner had it!

Wei Fengwu, who was lying down, saw that Yang Tong was stunned suddenly, a trace of doubt flashed in her eyes, she stretched out her small white jade hand and gave Yang Tong a gentle push.

"Husband, why are you looking at me like that?" Wei Fengwu was shy by Yang Tong's look, and hid under the quilt.

"Hahaha!" Yang Tong laughed, this daughter-in-law is too cute

"Husband, what are you laughing at?" Wei Fengwu asked curiously, secretly revealing her small head.

Yang Tong chuckled and said, "It's freezing cold, you sleep a little longer, I'm going to get up and practice martial arts."

As a time traveler, Yang Tong felt that if he wanted to do well, he must first integrate into this era, completely position himself as a Sui person, learn the ability to settle down with his own efforts, and then stand on the height of history and use some epoch-making Knowledge changes things a little bit.

The knowledge brought by time travel can only be regarded as talent, not real talent. Talent is indeed very important, but if you rely too much on talent, big things will happen sooner or later.

Therefore, Yang Tong never falls behind in his own learning.

Wei Fengwu raised a pair of big moist eyes, and said sweetly and shyly: "My husband is like a dragon and a phoenix, and I study hard no matter the weather. I don't have the face to lie on the bed. From today on, I will also be with my husband." A diligent effort cannot hold your husband back."

Everyone said that Yang Tong seemed to be a different person, that he was possessed by the star Wuqu, but how did those people know his husband's hard work?
"Okay!" Yang Tong smiled appreciatively.

The two got up together, studied hard, and improved their literacy.

While enjoying breakfast, they suddenly heard a burst of commotion outside the mansion. The two looked at each other in shock, and they subconsciously thought of someone rebelling.

"Don't be afraid!"

Yang Tong immediately rushed towards the main hall like a conditioned reflex
"what happened?!"

At this time, the housekeeper Yang Yi hurried over: "Your Highness, it was the refugees who smashed and robbed Beishi..."

"Tell me about the specific situation, how many refugees are there, why are you smashing and looting?"

Yang Yi quickly introduced.

When Yang Tong heard this, he couldn't help being shocked. There were actually several million refugees near Luoyang, and if they were placed in the entire Henan County, there would be even more.

However, if you think about it carefully, you will be relieved.

Hebei Road was the first to be in turmoil. The people crossed the Yellow River and fled to Henan Road. Some were scattered around Qingzhou, and some came to Luoyang. After the development of Wagang Village, Jiyin, Dongjun, Xingyang, and Wagangzhai, they all flocked to Henan County. The people in this county have accumulated, and it is normal to have millions of refugees.

Not only that, due to the turmoil in the south, there are also a steady stream of refugees coming from the war-torn areas to Luoyang, and the government did not come forward to guide them, let alone open warehouses to release food, so it is no wonder that there is no major disturbance.

Two days before Yang Tong's class teacher returned to the imperial court, a large-scale incident of food grabbing by refugees broke out in the rice shop in Nanshi. Dozens of rice shops were not spared. In the impact, the money and goods of the merchants were robbed, the shops were burned, the shopkeepers were beaten to death, more than 500 people, refugees and merchants were trampled to death, and thousands of people were injured.

Affected by this, not only the grain shops in Nanshi were closed, but even the private grain shops in Luoyang were closed. As a result, the price of rice skyrocketed to [-] yuan per bucket of rice.

It wasn't until three days ago that Yang Guang's imperial decree came slowly, ordering Changping warehouse to put 40 shi of grain on the market, and 40 yuan for a bucket of rice, in order to stabilize the price of grain. degree of relief.

But the price of four hundred renminbi for a bucket of rice is only affordable by the local people, but for the nearly one million impoverished refugees, this is an astronomical figure that is unattainable. People in the capital starved to death and froze to death in the ice and snow, and Yuan Wendu's proposal that the rich households would help the disaster victims was almost a dead letter. No wealthy household was willing to donate porridge to the living and dead for free.

Coupled with the suppression of the army during the Nanshi smashing incident and the hatred of the refugees from the locals in the capital, the dissatisfaction of the refugees accumulated day by day, and finally broke out in the early morning under the hunger and cold.

The incident in Nanshi is happening again in Beishi!

The rice rush in Beishi became more and more intense. Originally, only [-] to [-] refugees rushed into Beishi, but as the doors of every grain shop were opened, bags of grain appeared in front of the refugees... They suddenly went crazy, and rushed into the granary desperately .Soon, more and more refugees came after hearing the news...

An hour later, 10,000+ refugees rushed into Beishi.

The situation began to get out of control. The refugees who couldn't rush in violently smashed the doors of all the shops, ransacked the items inside, and robbed all valuables. Some storekeepers who stayed overnight in the shops were killed.

An unprecedented looting began to sweep through Beishi...

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At this time, the two thousand guards stationed at Xuanrenmen arrived first... They controlled the gate of Beishi, and the refugees who had grabbed food were not allowed to escape. Tens of thousands of refugees were about to rush out of Beishi, but the soldiers defended desperately, and there was fierce bloodshed on both sides conflict!

In an instant, screams continued, blood flowed like a river, and corpses were piled up at the gate.

Two thousand soldiers held shields and long knives in their hands, resisting tens of thousands of refugees who swarmed outward. Qian Qingzhuang sparred with the soldiers with wooden sticks. Due to the large number of refugees, the soldiers gradually retreated, and some couldn't stand it anymore.

A brigade marshal rushed to Huben Lang's general Mai Zhongcai and reported loudly: "General! Brothers will not be able to hold on anymore."

Mai Zhongcai was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and shouted: "I have to hold back, don't let the rioters go!"

Once these mobs rush out of Beishi and looting sweeps across Luoyang, the mansions of court officials and officials will be the first to be attacked, the consequences will be unimaginable, and the Holy Majesty will definitely question him.

Mai Zhongcai drew out his knife and was about to rush in. At this moment, there were a lot of hurried footsteps behind him. When Mai Zhongcai turned his head, he saw densely packed soldiers running towards this side. He recognized it as Xiao Xiao. Guojun soldiers were overjoyed and shouted, "Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived, hold them back!"

Seeing that the situation was still under control, Yang Tong heaved a sigh of relief, and ordered to his opponent: "Block the north gate, don't allow the refugees to come out, and shoot anyone who resists!"

(End of this chapter)