Pingyuan County to Jinan is less than 200 miles, and the cloudy and cool weather is a good time for the horse to hurry, but it is the heaviest part of the road for Chang Yu and his party.

It is not that the roads are muddy after the heavy rain, but the epitome of the most miserable scene of the people who witnessed the darkest period of the Ming Dynasty.

A few years ago, Jinan Prefecture was plundered twice by the Qing army, and the losses were extremely heavy, even after two years of multiplication, it was still ten rooms and nine empty people.

The fortunate thing in the misfortune is that a few months ago, when the thief army marched east to the north and the Qing army entered the south, they passed by it twice, and they were spared the suffering of the military disaster, and only suffered a little when the thief army went north.

But is this really lucky?

Not necessarily.

It was originally in the territory of Jinan Mansion, which was ten rooms and nine emptiness, but at this time, refugees from the surrounding dramas could be seen everywhere, the people in the counties in the west who were plagued by the thieves, and the people in the prefectures and counties in the northeast who were affected by the Qing army in the south all went to Jinan Mansion to beg for a living.

There are many refugees who are unclothed, hungry, and sluggish, and there is no hope or despair in their eyes, because they have been completely numb and accept their fate for life and death.

Wu Zhong, who has always liked to play cheap and fight with a Taoist priest, had a solemn face and was silent all the way, while Li Muxian was expressionless, maybe he had traveled to the rivers and lakes for too long, and he had long been numb to seeing too much of this scene.

Monk Haihongda was silent all the way, but he couldn't help but ride to Chang Yu's side with his hands folded: "The donor is the governor of Dongchang, the lord has a high position, can you petition the court on behalf of the people for disaster relief and soup kitchen, you can't watch them starve to death."

Chang Yu glanced at him and exhaled a long breath: "Great monk, this natural and man-made disasters are endless, do you guess that the imperial court now has food relief?" He said: "Even if there are some, it's not enough for the disaster relief in the capital to consume the turn."

Haihong sighed, and said in a low voice: "Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are dogs."

Chang Yu couldn't help but say: "The monk still recites the Tao Te Ching."

Haihong smiled bitterly: "In this world, no scripture can survive the suffering of the people."

"This is the governor agrees, reciting the scriptures and believing that God is useful, and I want the soldiers to fight bloodily, the war is ......" Chang Yu was just about to continue, Haihong clasped his palms together: "Isn't the donor going to debate the Dharma with the poor monks?" ”

Chang Yu was stunned, shook his head with a wry smile and waved his hand: "Ben Du is stupid, he can't distinguish you, if the monk wants to find a Taoist leader, he is good at it" said and pointed to Li Muxian not far away.

Monk Haihong glanced over there: "What can be distinguished by a Buddha, and Fei's tongue has not been able to distinguish the ugly man for thousands of years."

Chang Yu laughed: "What is the Tao and what is the Buddha, the so-called avenue has the same origin and the same path, and the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism are just one and two doors, so there is nothing to argue with" said a slight pause: "But if you distinguish a Tao Te Ching, you may not have argued with him, such as the sentence just now, heaven and earth are not benevolent to all things as dogs, you go and ask a Taoist leader, the meaning of this sentence is definitely not what you and most people in the world understand."

Haihong naturally didn't go to Li Muxian to discern the scriptures, he didn't have that mind or interest, and now he wanted to fight with the dignified Wu Zhong.

True, I don't know why he really wanted to fight.

It's not good to fight, so I quickly recited a mantra to clear my heart.

At noon the next day, Chang Yu and his entourage entered Qihe County to the Yellow River in the evening, separated by a river from the Yellow River and Jinan City, and ran around for days and was slightly tired, and ordered to repair and repair the river at dusk, and went down dozens of miles to the south of the river when it was dark to Xiaoqing River to the outside of Jinan City.

Jinan, named after the south of Jishui, although Jishui is not there, the city is increasingly famous and re-led 26 counties in four states, and is an important town for the soldiers of all dynasties.

The cool breeze on the bank of the Xiaoqing River, the soldiers washed the horses and drank water and lay on the ground, Chang Yu stood with his hands behind his back and looked due south, but he couldn't see the lights of Jinan City, but there was a bonfire not far away, guessing that it should be a place where some refugees gathered.

In addition, Ren crossed the river to inquire about the information and came back to inform the nearby people that they saw the army crossing early yesterday morning, and it should be Liu Zeqing's men and horses returning to the city, Li Muxian proposed to call the gate to enter the city tonight, and not give him a chance to prepare to deal with it.

When Chang Yu hesitated, someone came from the other side, but it was Tu Yuan.

Soon after leaving Beijing, Chang Yu ordered the Black Wolf Battalion and the Black Tiger Battalion to go to Xuzhou to take care of the grain and grass first, and the other followed Liu Zeqing to Jinan first to occupy a good position.

The two battalions were lightly armed and fast, although Liu Zeqing was marching with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses for a day ahead, but he was soon caught up by the two battalions, but Liu Zeqing was suspicious in his heart, and made some small actions that excluded him, until the two battalions indicated that they were ordered to go south to Xuzhou to supervise grain, Liu Zeqing relented a little.

But after arriving in Jinan yesterday, Lao Jiu's black wolf battalion had a military order not to enter the city, and Tu Yuan wanted to purchase grain and grass to enter the city, but was blocked by the defenders outside the city and was not allowed to enter.

Fortunately, Tu Yuan was still sensible, keeping in mind that Chang Yu's order should not easily clash with Liu Zeqing, so he wanted to enter the city in the name of Dongchangwei, and heard that it was the emperor's own soldiers, and the defenders were arrogant, so they delayed on the grounds of notification.

"It must be Liu Thief's intention, otherwise how dare the guards stop it...... Tu Yuan was so angry that he scolded Liu Zeqing in front of Chang Yu, and the rest of the people echoed and encouraged Chang Yu to go and call the door immediately, to see if Liu Zeqing had the courage not to open the door, if he opened it, he would be slapped in the face, and if he didn't open it, he would have an excuse to pinch him.

If it was in the past, the vigorous Chang Yu immediately led his troops to earn face for his subordinates, but now his mind is becoming more and more mature, he doesn't care about it, and sweeps away the indignant people and smiles slightly: "Aren't you tired after running for several days, wouldn't it be nice to take a cold shower and sleep at night."

"Master Changgong, Liu Thief's move is really ......" Jia Waixiong and Tu Yuan had a very good relationship, seeing that he was holding back and wanted to help him breathe, Chang Yu waved his hand to interrupt him, looked at the night sky in the south and sighed: "Jinan is Liu Zeqing's territory, and it will embarrass him if we hit other people's faces when we go to other people's fields, of course, it doesn't hurt if it is on weekdays, but we are still here to beg for food this time, and you hit other people's faces and beg for food...... Hehe, what will happen to you, it's not cost-effective to go hungry for the sake of breath."

Everyone was stunned, and then relieved, too, oh, so can you wait until you finish begging for food and then slap your face?

At the same time, in the General Military Mansion of Jinan City, Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie, and Huama Liu had just had dinner, drinking tea and listening to music in the pavilion by the lotus pond in the courtyard.

As for the tail sent by the little eunuch outside the city, he is not a bird at all, what happened to Dongchangwei? Chicken feathers are arrows! As long as the little eunuch doesn't call the door in person, no one can fucking come in.

It's just that why did the little eunuch send a tail to follow him, and what did he want?

Liu Zeqing couldn't guess it, in his opinion, whether it was with the court or with the little eunuch, he was playing a clear card now, and the past grievances should be punished and the punishment was almost written off, as long as they didn't make any big mistakes in the future, they had no excuse and no reason to rectify themselves, not to mention that now when they go south to use troops and people, they won't be too forced.

"Didn't you come to supervise the army?" Hua Ma Liu raised his eyebrows and said.

The little eunuch was determined to rectify military discipline, and there were people in the team of Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji, Li Yan and others who were watching it openly and secretly, and it was very likely that they were using this tail to monitor whether they were disturbing the people on the way south, after all, the reputation of the three of them was too bad.

"Perhaps" Liu Zeqing nodded slightly: "What does General Gao think?" ”

But he didn't hear the echo, turned his head to look at Gao Jie staring at a woman with a teacup and was stunned, and couldn't help laughing: "It seems that Mr. Gao has been hungry recently."

Gao Jie reacted at this time, but he was not embarrassed at all, wiped his mouth and looked at the woman again: "I haven't eaten meat for more than a month, I am indeed very greedy, but I don't know if I can eat meat in Mr. Liu's mansion."

Liu Zeqing laughed: "How can someone Liu be a stingy person, if the guest doesn't prepare meat, he is too petty, and Mr. Gao eats it to his heart's content."

"If that's the case, then someone Gao is not welcome!" Gao Jie laughed and got up, picked up the woman and left, scared the woman to scream and struggle, but Gao Jie laughed more and more high-pitched.

"Brother Liu won't favor one over the other," Huama Liu swallowed and smiled.

"How can it, Brother Liu also please take care of himself." Liu Zeqing sighed secretly, these two are ...... Hey, I'm tickled too.