Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 184 The Dilemma of Huguang Governor
The location of Du Yinxi at this time is Jiangxia County, which belongs to Wuchang Prefecture and has been a prosperous place since the Han Dynasty.

However, what is presented to Du Yinxi now is still nothing but ruins.

"Governor Du Yinxi of Huguang has seen Jianning Bo Liu Zongbing. Because the city is overgrown with weeds, it has become a place where dogs and wolves live, so Du Yinxi can only welcome you in this ten-mile long pavilion."

Du Yinxi could not help but smile wryly as he spoke.

Liu Fangliang also saluted Du Yinxi.

Du Yinxi in front of him had been an official in Huguang before, and he was still a civil servant, so Liu Fangliang naturally had never heard of him, but seeing Du Yinxi's humility now, he also suddenly became fond of him.

"Zhitai's eyes are full of worries. Although Liu is a rough person, he can guess a little bit. The Japanese nobles have also been to Huguang in the past, but they have never seen such desolation!"

As Liu Fangliang said, he turned and pointed to Chen Zilong behind him: "This man is Chen Zilong, a famous scholar in the south of the Yangtze River. He is now the commander of the third infantry battalion under the third army of our guards. Busy, of course, if there is something useful for the platform, please feel free to say hello, Your Majesty has issued an order, and you are fully responsible for this matter. Although I am an earl, I have to obey the order of the platform, and I will never shirk. "

"Uncle Jianning understands righteousness and admires Du Mou. It's not too late. We should hurry on our way as soon as possible. Now that the Qing army is overwhelming the border, the sooner the Chuang army will return to the court, the sooner they will prepare to resist Jiannu!"

Du Yinxi also nodded to Chen Zilong as he spoke: "Maozhong's talent and name, Du has admired him for a long time, and now he is really handsome and extraordinary. Fan Gongye has become a generation of Confucian generals, and will do his part to revive the Ming Dynasty!"

"Taiwan-making is absurd!"

As soon as Chen Zilong finished speaking, he saw a sentry riding in front of him planting a flag. As soon as he got in front of Du Yinxi, he got off his horse and replied: "Back to the platform, by your order, the first batch of [-] stone grain has arrived!"

Du Yinxi could not help but smile when he obeyed, and when he was nodding his head, he saw the food team escorted by Changsha guards appeared in front of him.

However, what surprised Du Yinxi, Liu Fangliang and others was that there were actually a large group of civilians following the food team!

These common people even had quite a few gentry wearing square scarves and Confucian robes.

But also because of the presence of these gentry, although the people who followed were staring at the grain team with bright eyes, they marched in a rather orderly manner.

There are groups of wild dogs and wolves behind this group of refugees. These beasts who are used to cannibalism stare at the refugees with glowing eyes.

The officers and soldiers guarding the rations had ready guns and even gunpowder, so of course they dared not approach them, but for the refugees, they would go up and bite one when they saw the opportunity, drag it back and start eating.

At this time, Du Yinxi saw with his own eyes that the first-class people were dragged out of the food team by several wild dogs and began to be swarmed up and bitten by more than a dozen wild dogs.

As for the other refugees, except for holding their sticks tightly and looking around vigilantly, no one was willing to come up to help this companion.

After all, they were either hungry and exhausted, or did not dare to leave the brigade, so they could only watch the tragedy of dogs eating people or wolves eating people indifferently.

The officers and soldiers guarding the food also looked at everything in front of them numbly, because they had to be alert to these refugees who might go crazy and rob food because of hunger.

Du Yinxi, governor of Huguang, saw this scene, and could immediately imagine what it was like for these grain protection teams to be on the road.

And because of this, the refugees couldn't attack the army guarding food, and the army couldn't attack the man-eating beasts.

The gentry in the refugee team had no choice but to lead the refugee team along with the official army, not to conflict with the official army, and even begged for protection and alms from the official army, hoping to get a chance to live.

In addition to Jinyiwei Town Fushi Wang Peng leading hundreds of Jinyiwei escorts, Du Yinxi also had his own escort of a thousand pacesetters.

At this time, Du Yinxi naturally couldn't tolerate the wild dogs eating the people in his jurisdiction at will, so he ordered his pacesetter Qianhu: "Yu Qianhu, kill those man-eating beasts first!"

Yu Qianhu immediately rushed over with more than thirty riders, slashing wildly at the wild dogs that were biting the people.

The wild dogs were frightened away, but the few people who were bitten by the wild dogs were also dying. In this era without first aid measures and penicillin, they could only die in pain.

The food guard officer came to Du Yinxi on horseback: "Make the platform!"

Du Yinxi slapped the grain guard officer on the spot: "You are also the commander of a guard, and you just sit back and watch the people get bitten by wild dogs!"

"To appease the anger, it's not because the lower officials are cruel, but because the lower officials can't leave their posts without permission. After coming all the way, the lower officials don't dare to slack off for a moment, otherwise the [-] stone grains would have been looted!"

The food military officer hastily explained a few words, and told Huguang Governor Du Yinxi the scene along the way.

"These people followed along the way. They are a group of extremely hungry people. The officials boldly promised that you would distribute food to them, and said that this batch of food was transported to the front line to fight against the Tartars. They That's all."

The grain guard looked up at Du Yinxi as he spoke, he was afraid that Du Yinxi would blame him for throwing the burden on him, the governor.

However, Du Yinxi was not angry, but nodded approvingly.

At this moment, some refugees near Jiangxia City began to crawl out from the heaps of grass and ruins, looking at the [-] shi of grain with bright eyes.

Because of the appearance of humans, there are more and more wild dogs and wolves who are used to eating human flesh.

Seeing this, Liu Fangliang hurriedly ordered Chen Zilong and other officers and soldiers of the accompanying guards to keep vigilant.

Based on Liu Fangliang's experience as a refugee in the past, the scale of thousands of refugees is already a big threat. Once someone takes the lead, it will lead to major changes in an instant.

What's more, there are so many beasts.

Liu Fangliang knew that the governor of Huguang, Du Yinxi, brought the food to support his former brothers who broke into the army, so he naturally had to help protect it.

Jin Yiwei Zhenfu Wang Peng also led the Jin Yiwei to pull out their knives. He didn't care whether the food would be robbed by these people. What he cared about was the safety of Huguang Governor Du Yinxi.

Because whether Du Yinxi can successfully arrive in Wuchang means whether the recruiting can go smoothly.

"Duzhitai, these people are pitiful, but I'm afraid that my brothers who broke into the army are also pitiful. They are all waiting for your batch of food. What do you think about today's situation?"

At this time, Liu Fangliang asked Du Yinxi first.

However, at this time, an old man wearing a square scarf also knelt down from among the refugees, and knelt down towards Du Yinxi, who was wearing a first-rank crown belt: "The student is Hu Hourun, a student from Jiangxia County, who has seen this old man before." Please save us hungry people!"

The court officials, the army, the common people and the wild dogs and wolves surrounded Huguang Governor Du Yinxi at this moment, and they all looked at him to see how he would deal with the matter in front of him.

For a moment, Du Yinxi couldn't help but feel that the beam crown on his head weighed a thousand catties. Naturally, the [-] stone grains had to be transported to Wuchang to support the invaders who were about to surrender to the imperial court, but they couldn't ignore the people who were starving for food.

At this time, Chen Zilong whispered to Liu Fangliang: "This blocking station seems to be in trouble now, maybe I can help him!"

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