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Qin Shuhuai and his entourage rode horses during the day, stayed overnight, and arrived in Dai County, which was more than 200 miles away from Taiyuan in the evening of the next day.

When I entered Dai County, I saw that my eyes were full of devastation and all industries were withered.

In the county town, many houses are still burning, emitting a trace of black smoke. Countless ragged people sat on the side of the street, staring at a place with empty eyes, motionless, as if they were dead.

Obviously, this is just past the Rogues.

Rogue rogues are robbers who move everywhere. They tend to concentrate their forces to capture a county seat, plunder it after entering the city, and then disperse before the arrival of the official army and go to the next station.

Qin Shuhuai and his entourage entered the county seat, and many yellow-faced and thin-skinned refugees rushed up and begged them for food. And many more are angry at them.

Qin Shuhuai understood the reason for their glaring. Because Li Jingting and others wore the official uniforms of Jinyiwei, these refugees regarded them as official soldiers.

As an official and soldier, if you fail to protect the people, you will naturally be spurned by the people.

As an official soldier, every time he waits for the rogues to leave, he will naturally be despised by the people.

As an official soldier, if you arrest and release these heinous criminals, you will naturally be hostile to the people if you don't avenge the law-abiding people.

To a certain extent, Yang He's policy of soothing and lightly suppressing has become an accomplice of the rogue.

If this continues, these refugees who are lying on the ground without food and clothing will soon join the exiles.

Because the price of obeying the law is far lower than the price of rioting!

After Qin Shuhuai dismounted, he immediately instructed Li Jingting to take down all the food he was carrying and distribute it to these refugees.

Li Jingting didn't say a word, and immediately called Jinyiwei's brother and began to move supplies. Seeing this, the Jianghe Gang and others also went up to help.

When the Jianghe Gang came out, they brought three cartloads of supplies, and everyone also hid a lot of dry food in their baggage. Qin Shuhuai meant to give everything that could be eaten, not a single grain of rice left, to the refugees.

So, everyone took out the dry food, and no one asked what they would eat next.

The refugees suddenly rushed up and surrounded several carts full of food and supplies from the Jianghe Gang, and the scene was suddenly chaotic.

Seeing this, Lai San'er, Meng Wei and others hurriedly dismounted and went up to command the Jianghe Gang and Jinyi Wei to form a human wall to maintain order.

Qin Shuhuai sat on his horse and saw that in the corner of the street, there were seven or eight people just sitting on the ground in a daze, and they did not come up to grab food.

Looking at what they were wearing, they were all silk and satin, and you knew that they were local squires. In order to maintain the dignity of the gentry class, they preferred to starve to death rather than grab food with the refugees.

It's also a bit iron-clad.

Of the seven or eight men, the oldest looked to be in his early sixties, with gray hair, but he sat upright, with a straight waist and a straight back. There were two middle-aged men beside him, who were supposed to be his sons, and they were also sitting upright, not messing up at all. The rest of the people have female dependents and children. The children kept shouting that they were hungry, and several women looked at the refugees who were grabbing food, and they wanted to say it several times but did not dare to say it, and they stopped talking.

Qin Shuhuai admired the family's temperament, although they looked a little stupid and pedantic.

I was about to get off the horse to visit, but I saw that several refugees had received food, and the family had their hands stuffed.

"Master Huang, you can eat some. It doesn't matter if the house is gone, we still have land. Let's continue to work for you, and the Huang family will definitely be able to make a comeback in a few years. ”

"Yes, Master Huang, even if you don't eat it, the child will eat it. ”

Master Huang didn't speak, but just threw his hand to these refugees, tears flashing in his eyes.

Qin Shuhuai said in his heart, presumably this old man Huang has a very high reputation in the local area, otherwise these refugees would not treat him like this.

At this time, the Dai County Commander Guishan came with a group of government officials and military service to hear the news, and when he saw Qin Shuhuai knelt down suddenly, he said with tears in his eyes, "The criminal Dai County Commander Guishan visited Lord Qincha. ”

The refugees were shocked, Lord Qincha came?

When Master Huang heard this, he couldn't help but cast a strange look at Qin Shuhuai.

Qin Shuhuai's face was extremely gloomy, and he said coldly, "Zhangshan Mountain, as the county commander of the county, you have the responsibility to defend the land, let me ask you, when the thieves entered the city and plundered, where were you as the parent official of the county?"

Zhangshan was dripping in cold sweat and said loudly, "Lord Hui, when the thieves attacked the county seat, the criminal duty and the guerrilla general Wang Zhenshan sat in command at the head of the city. The crime and General Wang defended for a day and a night, but there were many thieves and Kou, and the total number of defenders in Dai County was only more than 1,000, which was really powerless. General Wang was killed and martyred in battle, and under the escort of the brothers, he was lucky to break through the siege. However, after breaking through, the criminal duty led people to fight hard, and finally drove the thieves out of the city. ”

Qin Shuhuai looked at Charter Mountain carefully, and saw that his face was stained with blood, and his official uniform was also tattered, and it seemed that what he said was true.

But when he saw that the refugees around him were all angry at him, he looked like he dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak, and he felt that it was not right.

So he asked, "Charter Mountain, let me ask you, how many thieves are there?"

"About six thousand. ”

"From which gate did you enter the city?"

"North City Gate. ”

The charter mountain answers like a stream.

Qin Shuhuai took a closer look at his attire, but saw that the neckline of his official uniform was clean and almost spotless.

I can't help but be angry, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty have a set of deception!

said coldly, "Zhang County Order, please take off your official uniform." ”

The whole person was stunned, and the cold sweat flowed even more.

Seeing this, Li Jingting walked up with a few Jinyi guards, and shouted at Zhangshan, "Did you hear that your lord told you to take off your official uniform?

Zhang Zhangshan couldn't help but tremble, he had naturally heard of Jinyiwei's murderous name.

So he took off his official uniform tremblingly.

The white lining of the kaftan was revealed.

Qin Shuhuai said coldly, "Master Zhang, you said that you have been guarding the city for a day and a night, why is the long shirt inside spotless? Also, your official uniform has several holes, why is the long shirt inside as white as new?"

As soon as the refugees present saw this, they knew that Qin Shuhuai was going to punish this Zhang County Order!

This Lord Qincha is not here to protect the officials!

So the crowd immediately became indignant.

"Lord Qincha, this Zhang County Commander is in the county on weekdays, and the people are fished and fleshed. This time the thieves came, and he was not in the city at all, but with his concubine!" shouted one of the refugees.

At this time, one of the officials behind the charter mountain jumped out and shouted at Qin Shuhuai, "Yes, Lord Qincha is aware of it! General Wang died unjustly! In the past few years, many squires and wealthy families in our county have actively donated money and grain to repair the city wall, but they don't want half of this silver to be greedy for ink by this bastard, so that the city wall that he came out of is fragile, and it will fall down after a few bombardments!"

"My lord, what Li Er said is right, I can testify. Another servant came up and said.

Chartered Mountain pointed at these servants and said incoherently, "You, you, you ......."

As he spoke, his body went limp, and he sat on the ground.