From Quwo to Xia County, close to two hundred miles, it is okay to arrive in one day, but from morning to night, it is on the road, and there can be no delay, including the time to eat, after all, it is out to practice, there is no need to hurry, after Su Tiancheng and Qu Qingze discussed, they still decided to go slowly, don't worry, and rush to Xia County in two days.

Early in the morning, after everyone had breakfast, they set off directly.

Su Tiancheng's adaptability is very good, and his self-control ability is not ordinary, which makes Qu Qingze a little surprised, it is said that the scholars who go out for the first time are very curious when they see everything, and there are inevitable delays on the road, and the randomness is also very large, and the interest comes, staying in one place for a few days is also an uncertain thing, especially many pretentious scholars, whenever they go to a place, they always like to go to the Qinglou to linger, or to the academy to make some students.

Su Tiancheng has no such hobby at all, and the purpose is also very clear, try to go to more places and see the customs and customs of various places, before going to bed last night, Su Tiancheng asked a lot of Quwo's customs and customs, and some questions, Qu Qingze couldn't answer, and along the way, Su Tiancheng focused on the situation in the fields.

Qu Qingze felt more and more interesting.

During the busy farming season, there should not be many people on the official road, and most of the farmers should be busy in the fields and busy with production.

But Su Tiancheng found a problem, there were groups of people on the official road, unclothed, with a dish on their faces, and the expression on their faces was numb, no need to explain, he also knew that these people were homeless. Before leaving, Qu Qingze had already taken care of him, and he would meet some homeless people on the way, so don't be soft-hearted.

What does it mean to be a displaced person, that is, a peasant who has lost his land and has nothing, who has no means of livelihood, because they cannot afford to pay taxes, or because they have no food, they cannot survive, and they are forced to leave their homes.

The peasants' homeland complex is the most important, and they will not leave their homeland as a last resort.

In the busy farming season, you can see the homeless people on the road, and I don't know what the scene will be like in the second half of the year, or a month later.

Shanxi has suffered disasters in the past two years, and there have been displaced people, which is not a big deal, and it is impossible to require the government to always love the people like children, but what Su Tiancheng does not understand is that the governments in various places are strictly defensive, and they are not allowed to enter the city, and even to prevent the exiles, they cannot do this step, let alone come forward to compensate.

What is the consequence of this, that is, to force these displaced people to the opposite side of the government, to the ranks of the peasant rebel army, so that the rebel army has a continuous supply of soldiers.

Su Tiancheng thought a lot.

When I was a child, I read a book, and when I talked about Li Zicheng, he was the leader of the peasant army uprising, and he was a great hero, but when he grew up, he read a lot of historical materials, and realized that Lu Dao was not like this, and the peasant rebel army did many despicable things in the process of conquest, and after gradually growing stronger, he lost his original faith, and the same was the pursuit of pleasure, and there was nothing more than that, and the leaders of the rebel army were suspicious of each other, fighting for power and profit, which led to failure.

Such an army, which lacks persistence and faith, is destined to not last long.

This is the limitation of history, and it is also the best embodiment of the good and evil of human nature.

Seeing these displaced people, Su Tiancheng was faintly angry, this is the official forcing the people to rebel, the displaced people have no way to live, if they don't raise the flag to rebel, what else can they do, because of the war, because of the famine, the peasants were forced to stay away from their hometowns, in order to save their lives, but there was no government to accept them, what did they eat, they were forced to a desperate situation, they didn't smash and rob, could they starve to death.

Seeing that Su Tiancheng's face was not very good, Qu Qingze slowed down.

"Brother, there are a lot of such situations, some squires and wealthy families, seeing the poor people, relieved some food, and set up porridge shacks everywhere, but this is not a long-term solution, these homeless people, it seems that they have received relief along the road, so they are in order, if no one helps them, they will have made trouble a long time ago."

"This kind of thing, the government still has to take care of it, after all, they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, if the officials everywhere don't help them, won't they be forced to a dead end."

"It's not that the government doesn't want to take care of it, it's that there is no silver, and there are some situations that you don't know."

Qu Qingze shook his head when he said this.

The peasants have no way to live, what can they do if they don't rebel, to put it mildly, the government is the biggest accomplice in the growth of the peasant rebel army.

Su Tiancheng is a little strange, such a simple truth, those who are officials, can't they know, effectively improve the lives of the peasants, where will there be so many rebel troops, if it is said that the back road of the rebel army is cut off from the root, whether he Li Zicheng or Gao Yingxiang, it will not last long, no matter what, the people are still very in awe of the imperial power.

The main force of the peasant rebel army during the Chongzhen period was actually the rebellious imperial army.

The reason is the same, the sergeant cannot get the money, he cannot support his family, and he is waiting to starve to death.

What is ridiculous is that officials at all levels are corrupt, and they don't care about the life or death of the common people, the emperor's relatives, lords and nobles, a large number of land annexations, a large amount of wealth, and the affairs of the court have a monthly relationship with them, and some officials, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, turned themselves into the Manchu Qing Dynasty and still lived a comfortable life, which cannot but be said to be a kind of sadness.

As soon as he arrived in Youyou, Qu Qingze decided to rest, and the place to stay was in a town, only two miles away from the official road.

He was familiar with the road, and as he went, there was no good place to stay.

The shopkeeper of the inn rarely receives so many guests, and these people seem to be either rich or expensive, he seems to be extremely attentive and cautious.

Stay, the first thing, of course, is to eat, the inn is already preparing, in such a town, it is difficult to have a decent restaurant, so the meal is in the inn.

Su Tian thought about it and went to the town to have a look, but Qu Qingze disagreed, citing safety issues.

Think about it, too, if you are not familiar with the place, you rashly go to the town to see, or go to the farmer's house, people think that you are doing something, and you are not from the government, do you still want to do research and research?

After washing up a little, Su Tiancheng still walked out of the inn and walked around the open space in front of him.

Qu Qingze has not come down yet, but Wang Dazhi is close to him.

There was a smell of meat coming from inside the inn, probably because the kitchen was busy.

In just a few minutes, a situation that surprised Su Tiancheng appeared.

A group of children came over, probably smelling the smell of meat coming from the inn.

Su Tiancheng didn't know how to describe the situation of these children, the clothes they wore were tattered and obviously ill-fitting, it seemed that Lu Dao was an adult's clothes, there was dirt on his face, his hair was also unkempt, the weather was not so cold, but it was still a little chilly, most of these children were barefoot and did not wear shoes.

When the children saw Su Tiancheng, they all looked a little afraid.

"Go, go, don't hang around here."

The innkeeper came, probably because he saw these children, for fear that they would affect the mood of the guests.

"Shopkeeper, these children are all children from the town."

"Guest officer, some of them are from nearby villages, they have suffered disasters all these years, and they can't eat enough, and these children are even more pitiful, they often come here, but we are also a small business, and there is no way."

Wang Dazhi, who was behind him, had already lowered his head, he probably thought of the situation in his own house, as well as the situation in the village, if there was not such an opportunity, wouldn't it be the same with these children.

"The shopkeeper, give them some rice and fine meat, they can eat well, and I will pay for the silver."

After saying this, Su Tiancheng shook his head, turned around and went back to the inn, Qu Qingze said that the situation was right, and he had no way to help, there were too many such situations, and he couldn't manage it at all.

Qu Qingze was waiting on the first floor of the inn.

As soon as Su Tiancheng came in, he spoke.

"I've already said that you can't save it, and there are quite a few such situations I've seen."

"It can't be regarded as a rescue, but if you can do something, you can do something."

"Brother, if only rich people think like you, it would be good, there will definitely be a lot less such a situation."

"Big brother, don't say that, I'm not a rich man."

"Hehe, Pingyang Fucheng, who doesn't know the Su family, do you have silver, I don't know about the road, but there are so many nurses in the house, and the people are not bad. I told you that you are soft-hearted, but fortunately you didn't go to the village to see it, but if you go, I'm really worried about whether you will be able to come out. ”

Su Tiancheng smiled and didn't speak, he really didn't plan to go to see it, he followed Wang Dazhi to the village to see, and there were more than 120 people in the house.

"Brother, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and Shandong, have suffered from several years of famine, at the beginning of the year, Yansui area, a large-scale famine broke out, the emperor has allocated money for relief, if you go to Yansui, see the situation there, I really don't know how to do it, the route we take, the situation is not much better, along the way will meet such a situation, I advise you to be hard-hearted."

"I really don't know about these situations, but I still know a little about the situation of the Su family's tenants, and I couldn't survive at the beginning, and it's like this when it's close to Fucheng, let alone below."

"It's good that you know the way, I still hope that you can take the township high school exam, participate in the guild exam and the palace exam, and be named on the gold list, and after becoming a court official, you can help the people."

Su Tiancheng blinked, looked at Qu Qingze, and didn't speak, could it be that Jin Yiwei also cared about the lives of the people, which made him a little confused.