For the emperor

The day after throwing Zhang Ge, who was very well-behaved after some beatings, or at least behaved very well-behaved, to Zhao Liu, Cang Tiansu took three thousand soldiers and left Jingjing City.

Cang Tiansu just received the secret decree from Emperor Jing yesterday. The flood disasters near the border between Cang Kingdom and Yue Kingdom have been very serious this year. In the past month or so, emergency documents have been sent to the capital three times. Emperor Jing also approved a large amount of relief money to go down , but after much deliberation, let the eldest son go for a walk in person.

The emperor really had a fresh memory of the disaster relief porridge they drank when they fled to Chengguo four years ago. The small broken bowl the size of a palm was only filled with half of the bowl. A few grains of rice.

If it is the so-called rice porridge similar to clear water, the emperor can bear it, but the problem is that there is no rice in it, but the content is still rich. Emperor Jing couldn't even forcefully pour it into his mouth with his eyes closed, because the sand all over it would Scratches the throat.

The reason for the presence of sand is not only that a large amount of sand was put in the rice for disaster relief, but also to satisfy the rigid rule that chopsticks should not fall over in the bowl.

Damn it, it might as well be full of clear water. Emperor Cang Jing had never suffered such a pain. At that time, he really swallowed blood and tears in his stomach, and he just managed to survive it. Looking back at this moment, he still feels scared for a while.

A lesson from the past, a guide for the future, the disaster relief officials sent by Chengguo played tricks, and Cang Jinglan didn't feel good about himself enough to believe that the officials of his country would be fine, especially after the century-old disaster that he encountered this year In rare cases, people across the country tighten their belts to transport disaster relief money to disaster-stricken areas, and relevant officials will naturally take the opportunity to make a lot of money.

However, it is difficult to find out this kind of thing by deceiving the superior and concealing it, and the officials and officials protect each other. Emperor Jing thought it over and over again, so he simply sent Cang Tiansu to the past.

Of course, as usual, the emperor still had a little selfishness. Firstly, the marriage could be delayed for a while. Although it is impossible to delay for a long time, at least one or two months is still possible; secondly, The emperor himself thought about it later, and found that he was on the way to escape, and somehow saw the right eye for his eldest son.

For a person like Cang Tiansu, sharing adversity will add more points than sharing joy. A similar scene may remind his eldest son of the life and death, sharing the same bed and living together on the way to escape to Chengguo.

So Cang Tiansu embarked on the official road of going south.He didn't stop much, and went straight to his destination - Pei County, which was the hardest hit in the south.

In fact, it’s not even in Pei County. As soon as you enter the southern half of the territory, you can feel that the state of the people is not right. The further south you go, the more and more ragged, yellow and thin people. Correspondingly, you can see the bright green on the road. There are fewer and fewer, and in the five days before driving into Pei County, all the eyes are gray and yellow.

Even the willow trees beside the road, whose juice was so bitter that it was hard to swallow, had been gnawed to pieces, and their roots had been dug out, leaving only solitary rotten branches lying sideways on the ground.

After leaving Beijing for a month, and walking forward, he entered the boundary of Pei County. Cang Tiansu temporarily ordered the troops to rest for a while, and the scouts who were sent out to investigate returned soon.

"My lord, the situation in the town ahead is very bad. There are people starving and dying everywhere, and the people have to change their children for food. It is extremely miserable." The scout looked around and lowered his voice, "I asked dozens of people, and they said that the disaster just started. At that time, they still had some money for disaster relief in their hands. Later, the disaster became more and more serious. Not to mention the money for disaster relief, even the food for disaster relief disappeared. I even went to have a look, hey, good guy, the money you want is quite a lot, just at this price, we have so many people here this time, you don’t have to worry about not being able to open the pot if you eat such precious rice every day.”

After hearing this, Cang Tiansu's face was very ugly, he closed his eyes and thought for a while, waved his hand to let the scouts go down, called Zhang Kun himself and asked, "How much of the supplies we brought are left?"

Cang Tiansu made adequate preparations for coming here. There were a total of [-] soldiers, and each of them carried half a sack of food, but it was almost all distributed when passing through the first few hard-hit areas.

Zhang Kun walked back to the place where the soldiers were stationed with a bitter face, shook his head, and also lowered his voice: "There are less than a hundred bags——My lord, we still need to save for our own food Woolen cloth."

"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that there will be no food when you arrive in Pei County?" Cang Tiansu sneered, shook the dirt on the hem of the prince's clothes, and asked, "How many brothers are left now?"

They have encountered many attacks along the way, and it is inevitable that some troops have been lost. Cang Tiansu left some people in the towns along the way to help the victims escape. Two thousand is good enough.

Zhang Kun knew the answer to this question in his mind, so he didn't need to go down and ask one by one. He sighed and said helplessly: "There are more than [-] people, but there are not many people who died, and most of them were scattered in the first few counties. , if you think it is necessary to gather up the scattered people, then our number should be at least [-] or more."

He could tell that Prince Yong was planning to attack by force. Zhang Kun also felt that the landlords in Pei County were too powerful. They were so courageous that they dared to send people to attack the regular military troops who were armed to the teeth. After all, they failed to catch them. There is solid evidence, seeing that the prince's frame is about to drive to the door, and he still doesn't know how to restrain himself. It's really too long, and the meaning of provocation is too strong.

Cang Tiansu glanced at him sideways, shook his head and vetoed: "There is no time left, I can only set aside an afternoon for them to rest. They hurried away for more than a month, and they didn't have a day to rest, and they still had to fight. To deal with the sneak attacks from time to time, this king knows that it is not easy for you. If you fight this battle with all your strength, thousands of people are grateful to you."

Zhang Kun was still a little hesitant. The little corrupt officials in Pei County dared to put on such a stance, obviously they had been prepared for a long time. What kind of traps and vicious battles were waiting for them in front of them. Naturally, the more prepared the better.

So he whispered: "My lord, the scattered brothers are the most disciplined and restrictive, and it only takes three or four days to gather the troops."

"Three or four days?" Cang Tiansu repeated it slowly, chewing in his heart for a while, before he said calmly, "Do you know how many people were starved to death after only an hour's delay?"

Where they passed before, thousands of people died of starvation in small and medium-sized towns every day, and the number of casualties in slightly larger cities easily exceeded [-]. Pei County, as the most serious disaster area, the number of people will only rise like a triple jump , definitely not less.

Zhang Kun's heart tightened, he didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly bowed his head in response.