After the rebirth, the queen took the Meiqiang tragedy script

Chapter 190 Refugees
On the tenth day of October, He Qingchang sent a secret report back to the capital from the front line, saying that Gu Haiwang had been rescued from the Beidi Army and that he had been picked up by the emperor's personal guards. He also stated in the secret report that Lu Yanchen should take the lead in this battle. , please take credit for him.

Arriving in Beijing at the same time as this secret report was news about Tao Yuan that Li Baoquan brought back from Huisheng Pawn.

The day before He Qingchang led his army to the expedition, Ye Qinghuai asked Li Baoquan to give Tao Yuan three tasks.

First, if He Qingchang could rescue Gu Haiwang, he would immediately take the imperial decree and escort Gu Haiwang back to the capital as the emperor's personal guard.

Second, investigate why Chu Boliang defected to Beidi three years ago.

Third, keep an eye on Lu Yanchen's whereabouts, and if you find that he has ulterior motives, immediately capture him and bring him back to the capital.If it cannot be taken down, it can be executed on the spot.

What Tao Yuan sent was a report on Lu Yanchen's whereabouts, and the news that Eagle Guard had secretly detained Gu Haiwang on his way back to Beijing.

According to Ye Qinghuai's request, Eagle Guard reported Lu Yanchen's whereabouts in detail.

Therefore, she saw in the report a detailed description of how Lu Yanchen chopping melons and vegetables in the midst of thousands of troops.

After reading it, Ye Qinghuai sighed sincerely: This Lu Yanchen was born for the battlefield.

It's good that he has no objection now. If he turns the tip of the knife and points it at the Dajing court like Chu Boliang, the consequences are really unimaginable.

"Is Tao Yuan still in the capital?" Ye Qinghuai asked Li Baoquan.

"Return to Your Majesty, still in Beijing."

Ye Qinghuai thought about it and decided to take a trip out of the palace.
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The capital city was much more crowded than what she saw when she left the palace last time. From time to time on the streets, refugees with bags on their backs could be seen sitting or lying on the side of the road.

"Old man, do you know where these people come from?" Ye Qinghuai asked an old man at the door of a store.

The old man looked at the refugees on the roadside, sighed, and said, "Well, most of them are refugees from Yunzhou and Yizhou. The imperial court was at war with Beidi and Xirong, and they were captured by the tyrants and could not pay their autumn rent. They came to Beijing to seek refuge with their relatives, and some were living on the streets before they could seek refuge with their relatives."

"Batian captures Ding?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

The old man shook his head, did not speak, but sighed heavily again.

Ye Qinghuai frowned and walked to a young man squatting by the roadside.The young man looked about twelve or thirteen years old. He had a shabby straw mat spread under him, and was accompanied by a girl who was younger than him. In this season when passers-by were all wearing cotton silk coats, both children were The clothes are in rags, the face is yellow and the muscles are thin, and the body exudes a rancid smell.

Seeing Ye Qinghuai coming over, the young man's eyes showed a wary look. He subconsciously hugged the girl next to him tightly, as if he wanted to hide her behind him.

Looking at the two children, Ye Qinghuai didn't know where to start the question. After a long time, she tentatively asked: "Are you from Yunzhou?"

The boy didn't answer.

Ye Qinghuai turned around and said to Li Baoquan, "Go and buy some warm food."

Li Baoquan quickly bought a thick stack of cooking cakes, enough for five or six adults.

After Ye Qinghuai took it, she handed the cake to the young man.The young man looked at the pancake in her hand, obviously a little moved, but he still didn't reach out.But the little girl he was protecting couldn't resist the temptation of steaming things. She stretched out her hand from behind him and took the cake from Ye Qinghuai's hand.

The young man turned back with a stern expression and was about to scold her, but he was stunned for a moment when he saw the little girl devouring the food.

The girl chewed the cake vigorously and made an inarticulate sound: "Brother, this is delicious."

With that said, she handed the remaining cake to her brother.The young man hesitated for a moment, then took it and took one bite. He couldn't hold it back anymore and ate it quickly.His eating habits were even worse than his sister's.

Ye Qinghuai looked at them and felt sad in his heart.It was obvious that he had not eaten for a long time.

"Where are you from? Where are your parents and family?"

Perhaps because he is a soft-spoken cannibal, after taking Ye Qinghuai's pancake, the young man's attitude softened greatly. While eating, he replied: "We are from Shuohe, Yunzhou. Our family's land was requisitioned by the army for farming. My eldest brother My second brother and I were arrested as young men. My father and the villagers went to the county government to argue. He was found guilty of obstructing the implementation of national policies and was beaten to death in public. After my father died, my mother contracted tuberculosis. Before she died, she asked me to bring my two sisters. The capital is looking for our aunt. But the little sister had a high fever on the way and the fever disappeared. We finally made it to the capital, but we couldn’t find our aunt..."

At the end of the sentence, the young man cried with some remorse. When he cried, his sister behind him also began to cry.But the little girl still had some biscuits in her mouth, and she was afraid that the biscuits in her mouth would fall and be wasted, so she chewed harder while crying, looking weird and pitiful.

Ye Qinghuai's face suddenly turned cold. She frowned and asked, "What is your county called? How many families' land has been expropriated for farming?"

"We are in Beitun Township, Shuohe River. Half of the families in the township have had their land expropriated. Some have had all their land expropriated. Some families have some left over." The young man replied.

This time, Ye Qinghuai's face not only turned cold, but also darkened.

The imperial court did issue an order to recruit troops and increase farmland in Yunzhou, but the conscription was to draw one out of three, and the farmland was to reclaim wasteland, not to occupy civilian land.

If what this young man said is true, then there are people in the area who are using the name of the imperial court to bully the people and dominate the land.

Ye Qinghuai felt a fire in his heart.

Now that the Beidi army is approaching and the country is facing a crisis, these people are still thinking of finding ways to profit from it!

The matter of conscription in Beitun Township must be investigated later.

Ye Qinghuai asked Li Baoquan to give the two children some broken silver.

She understood that even if she could help them for a while, she couldn't help them forever.As long as this world remains the same, children like them will be everywhere.

It has been almost half a year since the capital's first northern expedition.From beginning to end, Ye Qinghuai was an unswerving leader.

It wasn't until this moment that she felt a little shaken for the first time.

If there had been no war, these two children would not have ended up here.Even if their original lives were not very stable and happy, at least they still had their families and at least they could survive.

And there are still many people displaced by the war like them.

A bitter feeling came up, like a heavy stone weighing on Ye Qinghuai's heart.

She patted the boy's shoulder gently, remained silent, forced a smile, smiled encouragingly at him, then stood up and left.

The young man pulled his sister and knelt down behind her and Li Baoshen, and said from a distance: "My benefactor! My name is Jiang Ting, and this is my sister Jiang An. May I ask if my benefactor respects your name? If my brother and sister become successful in the future, they will definitely Thank you at the door!"

Ye Qinghuai stopped, paused, turned around, smiled lightly at the two of them, and said: "If you have a future, don't thank me, just devote yourself to serving the imperial court. By then, I will Can you see me again."

　I wish you all a happy Tanabata~

　　
　
(End of this chapter)