Great Ye Empress

Chapter 165
The refugees who did not grab it dragged the fallen but still alive to the side of the road, like beasts, dividing and scrambling, tearing and scraping the flesh from the bones, nothing anyone should have. appearance.

At that time, Ji Jingci was only 17 years old and was greatly shocked.

Understand the weight of the words "people take food as the sky".

I understand that people who can eat and eat are human beings, and those who do not have enough to eat... become beasts.

This time, Ji Jingci went to Qinzhou in order to find the divine doctor, and felt more deeply...

He felt that Xie Yunchu should come and take a look.

In the direction of Qinzhou, in addition to the refugees, it is more desolate, the birds are extinct, and no grass grows.

Xie Yunchu looked through the slightly open window of the carriage and looked at the homeless people with wooden sticks on their backs.

She only felt strange at first, but she hadn't thought about the direction of "human cannibalism".

When she first saw a human skull on the side of the road, facing her direction, Bai Sensen's empty eyebones had nothing, but seemed to be looking at her, Xie Yunchu's hair stood up.

She suddenly understood the reason why she didn't see the old, young, women and children, or the corpses of starvation on the roadside.

At the time of this great famine, the elderly and weak, women and children who were unable to protect themselves, and those who fell and could not move, were probably eaten by...

Xie Yunchu felt nauseated for a while, turned around, resisted the nausea, clenched his fists tightly, and looked at Ji Jingci.

Ji Jingci looked out the carriage window as usual, the deepness in his eyes made his heart feel heavy.

Xie Yunchu felt that maybe he understood why Ji Jingci asked her to come to Qinzhou.

At noon that day, the chariot and horse team settled in the neighboring county town.

Because Ji Jingci had planned to bring Xie Yunchu here earlier, he sent stewards and guards to prepare.

The yard steward bought it at a very low price from a wealthy family who wanted to flee to their relatives, and they were guarded with knives inside and out...

Before Ji Jingci came, there were hungry people who wanted to snatch food.

But in the end, I have been hungry for too long, how can I fight with the strong guards who are guarding the yard to eat enough!
Not a single one of them could leave alive.

And looking at the spirits of this family guarding the dragons and tigers, thinking that this family must have food, they volunteered to be slaves, just for stuttering.

But this yard is full of servants who do things for others, and nowhere can they be the masters to collect servants for the master's family.

At present, there are no hungry people who dare to come again, and occasionally one or two is not enough. After being injured, it will soon become someone else's meal.

Xie Yunchu followed Ji Jingci and sat in the main hall, listening to the old butler guarding the yard talking about these things, and felt a chill go down his spine inexplicably.

"Originally, we also wanted to help the victims, but as long as we help one, the others will come over. This old slave really doesn't dare! It's pretty good here, but the closer you get to Qinzhou, the worse it will be. The Qinzhou city is probably already in purgatory! The old steward said with a sigh and shook his head, persuading Ji Jing to resign, "Master, you can't go in the direction of Qinzhou."

The flickering candlelight made Ji Jingci's heavy eyes flicker and darken, and he said slowly: "How is the situation in this county?"

"No one dares to go out alone now. It's easy to be caught and eaten by others when you go out alone!" The old steward's eyes were full of grief.

"Does the government care?" Li Nanyu hurriedly asked the old steward.

"As far as I know, the imperial court has sent people to the disaster-stricken areas to deliver food and salaries several times, and the wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River have also raised donations to send food to the disaster-stricken areas in Qinzhou, let alone from the severely-affected areas. The refugees who go out, even if they are exploited and deducted, should not be in such a tragic situation."

The old steward shook his head: "The old slave has been here for so long, and I have never seen any food for disaster relief! Previously, the magistrates of two counties and a county judge jointly wrote a petition to discuss the situation in the severely affected areas. Report to Your Majesty, but later... the two magistrates and the judges, the whole family died, and the reported cause of death was the intrusion of homeless people..."

Xie Yunchu's fists tightened, and she understood the voice of the old steward.

The reported cause of death was because of refugees, but in fact... I don't know if someone killed someone to silence them.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that all three of them died?

"Later... the common people couldn't survive selling their sons and daughters," the old steward pursed his lips and slowly spoke, "The prefect who temporarily took over these three counties also dispatched disaster relief officials, but the disaster relief officials failed to The food for disaster relief was just opened overnight in the county seat."

"Cairen's shop?" Xie Yunchu frowned, vaguely guessing something.

"Now that the famine has caused the world to be like this, but people have to live, how can one's family bear to eat their own relatives, so they send their children, daughter-in-law, and old people to the restaurant, and exchange a few pieces. Go back and eat the meat!" The old steward said in a heavy voice, "There are also people who still have fields or valuables, or real estate, etc., and exchange them for meat, but one acre of land can only be exchanged for a few pieces of meat. Life is like a mustard."

"Then...the person who sent it to Cairen's shop?" Li Nanyu asked.

In fact, it's not that Li Nanyu can't guess, he just has a glimmer of hope for human nature.

"The people who are sent there can't be called people, they are cattle and sheep to be slaughtered." The old steward didn't seem to have the heart to go on.

Xie Yunchu clenched his fist tightly.

The two adults in charge of disaster relief this time are the eldest prince and the third prince.

Over the years, several princes of Da Ye have grown up one after another, and the rivalry between the first prince and the third prince has intensified.

And the emperor has been on the throne for so many years, the disaster relief is more than one or two times!

The emperor really doesn't know that the people from the first prince and the third prince will be greedy for ink among them?
The emperor knows...

Over the years, the two princes have used various festivals and birthdays to give gifts to the emperor and want to be extravagant.

Just relying on the salary and the emperor's reward alone, it is impossible to give the emperor so many precious treasures.

It's just that the two princes are the emperor's own sons, and they have always been respectful and filial to the emperor. As long as there is no major trouble, the emperor will not care.

It is precisely because of the emperor's connivance that the henchmen behind the two princes are more and more unaware of their restraint. Officials of both parties thought that the emperor's son was blocking them anyway.

For this disaster relief, the emperor originally elected people from two parties, and the original intention was to let the people from the two parties supervise each other and make the disaster relief work well.

Who knows, people from both parties are afraid that the other party is more greedy than they are, and they are desperately greedy to let the other party take advantage of the disaster relief.

This turned the disaster-stricken place into a hell on earth, horrible to see.

"It's ridiculous for the government to run a vegetable shop! It's even more ridiculous to send one's relatives to the vegetable shop and treat people like pigs, cattle and sheep!"

　Oh my God!Why didn't this pre-save update this chapter!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)