Boling Cui's family, in Cui's mansion, the head of the family, Cui Wentai, was playing against the old lady Cui Chongzhi in the backyard, Cui Wenjing suddenly broke into the courtyard in a hurry, and said with a solemn expression: "Old lady, master, it's not good." ”

Cui Chongzhi was very displeased when he saw that he broke in without reporting, frowned and asked, "Why are you so flustered?" ”

Cui Wenjing said: "The prince failed to control the group of victims, so a group of victims fled to our Anping County to make trouble, and was bumped into by Li Hao. ”

"What!" Cui Chongzhi and Cui Wentai exclaimed when they heard all the words.

Cui Wentai slapped the table angrily: "Alas! This prince is simply a straw bale! Deficiencies and conspiracy! Father, what are we going to do? ”

"Don't panic." Cui Chongzhi raised his hand to stop him, and said slowly, "Wentai, you quickly send a message to Qin Miao, let him make a big move in Dingzhou City, be sure to lure Li Hao back to Dingzhou, and send a message to the prince, let him take good care of the victims, and don't let the victims act anymore in the near future, in addition, ask the prince if there are any masters around him, this Li Hao, it is always a disaster to keep it." ”

"Yes!" Cui Wentai got up to take the order and walked out of the courtyard with Cui Wenjing.

On the fourth day in Dingzhou, Li Hao was constantly leading people to search the nearby villages, because he learned from that Wang Ergou that there was a shocking conspiracy, and someone wanted to rebel.

That's right, it's a rebellion, according to Wang Ergou's description, the snow disaster came, crushed their house, their family all fled to the county seat, there are many refugees outside the county, there are more than 7,000 people, although the government gives porridge every day, and also distributes tent cotton clothes and quilts, but there are still people starving to death or freezing to death, no way, the weather is too cold, and the daily soup porridge is also more water and less rice, barely able to survive, freezing to death and starving to death are those who are old and frail or already sick, not many, among thousands of victims, It's just thirty of them, and in such a cold weather, the death of the elderly is a normal thing, but they are all concentrated in one place, and the victims will be a little panicked.

The victims did not know these truths, thinking that they were starving to death, after all, they were not enough to eat now, and then some people in the disaster group began to agitate, saying that the court officials were too dark-hearted, greedy for money and food, and did not really want to help the people, they were afraid that they would all starve to death outside the city, and they also said that in a mountain, there was a large family, very rich, and the family was piled up with a mountain of grain, and the big family was very charitable, generously helping the victims, as long as the victims went, not only could they eat enough, but also distribute cotton clothes.

This kind of nonsense was originally believed by no one, and it sounded very fake, but when people are desperate, even if they see a glimmer of impossible hope, they want to try, this is the ** of survival.

Ignorance is very terrible, sometimes, ignorance can be fatal, they think that the court officials are greedy for the people's fat and people's ointment, and think that the government will not really help them at all, and they also think that they will starve to death in the end, and gradually some people believe the rumors, and follow those who spread rumors, but the group of rumors spread their eyes and take them into the mountains, in order to have food to eat, in order to live, the victims were willingly blindfolded and taken away, and finally they appeared in the mountains, there is no big family here, There is only one barracks, but there is food here, a lot of food, two meals per person a day, and there are cotton clothes to wear, although they are all shabby cotton clothes, but the ability to keep out the cold is very good.

Then a leader told them to let them recruit other victims to come, as long as they can recruit enough victims, they will have meat to eat, in order to eat meat, Wang Ergou and they returned to the county seat, continue to agitate other victims, many of these victims know each other, so the credibility of the rumors is high, and it spreads quickly, so all the victims quietly left the county at night, were blindfolded and taken into the mountains, eating and drinking.

Next, they gradually found that something was wrong, there were more and more victims, plus the original victims, there were nearly 100,000 people, more than 10,000 people, a sea of people, what is the concept of 100,000, it looks very scary.

And after they asked, they learned that some of the victims were from Yizhou, and some of the victims were from Dingzhou, and Yizhou and Dingzhou were separated by four or five hundred miles, they didn't understand how two disaster victims who were so far away could gather together, and there were so many, they faintly felt that the purpose of this so-called "big household" was not simple.

Sure enough, after they ate and drank here for two days, some people began to assign tasks to them, some joined the military camp for training, some were responsible for continuing to recruit disaster victims, and some were responsible for going out to loot everywhere, and Wang Ergou was one of the people who went around.

Li Hao also asked Wang Ergou, since he found out that something was wrong and he came out, he could find an opportunity to get out and not loot, besides, even if he robbed, he didn't have to kill anyone.

Wang Ergou was also very distressed, he only said robbery, not killing, they felt that robbery was not a big deal, as long as they could eat enough, anyway, so many people, this is the herd mentality, but after the first robbery, several people hidden in the disaster actually killed seven big households in a village, it turned out that these victims were fake, mixed with them to kill people, and caused them to bear the crime.

Then the leader threatened them, now they are already murderous and arson bandits, if they are caught by the court, they will definitely be beheaded, if they want to live, they will follow them to overthrow the court, they have enough money and food, enough weapons, the army is also training, it will be completed in a few months, as long as Dingzhou and Yizhou are disturbed by the famine, they can raise the banner and rebel.

After all, this group of victims has no knowledge, it is easy to bluff, coupled with the herd mentality, they just fell into the grass and began to loot everywhere, but after all, they are used to being the people, and they don't like to kill, but they must kill, if they don't kill, someone will whip and whip to death, Wang Ergou once saw with his own eyes that two people were whipped to death because they refused to kill, so this group of victims fell deeper and deeper, and finally could not extricate themselves.

After listening to Wang Ergou's narration, Li Hao sorted out his thoughts, and basically could already be qualified, this is that someone wants to rebel, and this rebellious force should be related to the Boling Cui clan, because looking at their posture, it seems that they want to gather more than 100,000 disaster victims and train them into an army, and to support such a huge army, it requires a huge amount of money and food, which is not something that ordinary forces can afford, and within a radius of hundreds of miles, only the Cui clan has this strength.

Li Hao also suspected that it was the Cui clan who wanted to rebel, but in the end he vetoed it, although the Cui clan has a strong background and great power, but for the military aspect, no one in their clan is involved, because Li Shimin does not allow them to get involved, this is Li Shimin's bottom line, so the Cui clan does not have the ability to rebel, at most it can only be regarded as a logistics department, so what kind of force is responsible for the rebellion.

It's a pity that Wang Ergou is just a little minion, he knows so much, Li Hao really wants to find the deep mountain camp that Wang Ergou said, but the enemy is very cunning, and he will be blindfolded when he takes the disaster people in and out, and he doesn't know where their nest is, maybe he is not in Yizhou at all, because Wang Ergou said that they plundered all the way, and they arrived in Anping County in four days, and they wanted to go from Yizhou to Anping in four days on foot, which was simply impossible.

According to Wang Ergou's description, Li Hao took out the map for a circle, and finally locked the scope at the junction of Dingzhou and Yizhou, two hundred miles northeast of Anping County, where there are big mountains and many mountains.

This made Li Hao difficult, with his current manpower, it is impossible to search the mountain, and the other party has nearly 100,000 people, and their five hundred people are really not enough, so he wrote a song as soon as possible to send a fast horse to Chang'an, report the matter, and at the same time began to wander around the villages in the northeast of Anping County to see if he could capture some more mobs, and it was best to catch a leader or something, and ask for some more valuable clues.

However, he ran around for three days in a row, and saw one after another looted villages and towns, but he didn't see the shadow of half of the mob, Li Hao began to suspect that maybe the other party had discovered himself.

The gentleman does not care about the wall, although Li Hao has five hundred left Xiao guards by his side, but after all, the other party has thousands of troops and horses, and the strength is very different, and finally he decided to go back to Dingzhou first, and he has not seen Li Zhi for five days, and he is also very worried about Li Zhi in his heart.

As soon as Li Hao was about to return to Dingzhou, Chen Bin found him with twelve Xuanjia soldiers, and reported solemnly: "Master Hou, the disaster relief grain in Dingzhou has been burned!" ”

Li Hao was taken aback when he heard this, and when he straightened out the people, he hurried to Dingzhou.

As soon as he entered Dingzhou City, he saw a few Zuo Xiaowei standing there at the gate of the city, and when those Zuo Xiaowei saw Li Hao, they immediately stepped forward to salute, Li Hao asked urgently, "Where is King Jin now?" ”

"At the inn."

"Go to the inn!" Li Hao rushed to the post house with everyone in a hurry.

Finally saw Li Zhi, as soon as Li Zhi saw Li Hao, he was fine, but suddenly his eyes were red, and his eyes were moist and he stepped forward and said: "Sir, the disaster relief food has been burned, all of it is gone, and the refugees are going to suffer." ”

Li Hao's heart was heavy, and he patted Li Zhi's shoulder and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, everything has me." ”

"Sir, you must save the refugees outside the city." Li Zhi raised his sleeve to wipe away tears, and his tone was almost pleading.

Li Hao said: "Go into the house first, enter the house and talk about it." He said that he took Li Zhi into the hall and waved everyone away, leaving only Lu Yun to guard in front of the door, and Chen Song was responsible for settling the Jin family sisters.

Li Hao entered the room and asked, "Your Highness, what is the situation, you can tell me carefully." ”

Li Zhi finally stabilized his mood and said: "At noon the day before yesterday, 50,000 stone of grain and 10,000 pieces of disaster relief money finally arrived, Qin Miao received the grain and disaster relief money, all of them were sealed in the warehouse, waiting for the next morning to be used to distribute porridge, but I didn't expect the grain depot to catch fire in the middle of the night, and all the 50,000 stone disaster relief grain was burned. ”

Li Hao's eyes narrowed when he heard this, and the cold light in his eyes bloomed, this granary fire was obviously deliberately done by someone, and the people who set it on fire were so vicious, it was simply outrageous, Li Hao was angry, very angry, since Tingzhou, Li Hao was so angry for the first time.

Li Zhi continued to say anxiously: "Since yesterday, the major grain merchants in the city have suddenly raised the price of grain by more than 20 times, I was originally going to let Qin Miao use the 10,000 guan disaster relief money to buy grain with the grain merchants first, but now it is calculated, 10,000 guan is only enough to buy 5,000 stone grain, and the victims outside have nearly 70,000, 5,000 stone grain, which is only enough for the victims to eat for more than ten days, and this 10,000 guan is the disaster relief money of all counties in Dingzhou, and it is impossible to use all of them in Dingzhou City, and those grain shops are estimated to not have so much grain...... What to do? What should I do sir? ”