Chapter 522: Hunger is everywhere

The mountains of wealth in the Fuwang Mansion, the countless fields, want to point out an accurate number, no ten days and eight days is not enough, of course, these things have a large number of hands to do, Chang Wei should be a hands-off shopkeeper, if you have to bow down, you must not be tired to death. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

After concentrating on writing the Wealth of Nations for three days, the will of the imperial court arrived on the fourth day, and it was not surprising that King Fu was deprived of his title, and all his descendants were demoted to concubines. The Zongren Mansion and the Ministry of Rites are discussing follow-up matters, and it is estimated that they will arrive in Luoyang in ten days to deal with the aftermath.

Seeing that everything was going on in an orderly manner, Chang Wei wanted to go to the nearby Shaolin Temple. Not for fun, but for the big and small Cheng'en Temple, after the monks of the two temples were cleaned up, it was necessary to choose another senior monk to serve as Zuo Jueyi, Chang Wei has the right to speak in this matter, because, this earth-shattering case was handled by him from beginning to end.

Tantric monks can no longer serve as the presiding officer, and the eight major sects of sexuality, phase, Taiwan, sage, Zen, purity, law, and esotericism, whether it is a close relationship or a strong entanglement, Chang Wei will choose Zen Shaolin.

I asked the ten Arhats if anyone would like to go back to see it, and they all said: I want to go back, but there are still a lot of things to do here, so I can only endure it.

These twelve lay disciples from Shaolin, with Chang Wei was relied on as a confidant, last year was his disciple, the most outstanding Ma Yuan not only martial arts progress, more reliable, the aftermath of the large and small Cheng'en Temple is handled by him, it can be seen that Chang Wei relies on them.

"I didn't want to go back, so the young master went out single-handedly, and I also experienced the pleasure of breaking through the rivers and lakes. ā€

Lian Zhen Wuqu was supposed to protect him, but Chang Wei said proudly: "In addition to the extraordinary top masters in the rivers and lakes today, who can help me? Besides, the top masters are not cabbages, how can they be seen at any time?"

Think about it, Henan Wulin is the sphere of influence of Shaolin Temple, except for the Shaolin monks, there are no top masters at all, and there is not even a decent big force, with Chang Wei's wisdom and ability, it is trivial to destroy a faction by himself. Moreover, he is in a high position, and as soon as he shows his identity, the local government immediately respects him, and there is nothing to be afraid of at all.

Luoyang to Dengfeng Shaolin Temple is only a hundred miles away, and it only takes half a day to get to the horse by the reins of the slow run, but this road is different from the rich Jiangnan and the prosperous land of Beijing.

In recent years, the Henan Plain has been plagued by drought and locust plagues, coupled with the blood sucking of the vassal kings, natural disasters and man-made disasters, many rogues and horse thieves have been bred, and the land of Zhongzhou is really full of devastation, and it is not too much to say that the people are not living well.

Now in the spring season, it is the time when the green and yellow are not connected, and there is no surplus grain in the people's homes, but a hundred miles away, and from time to time I see the homeless people passing by, as few as seven or eight people, and as many as three or four hundred, and there are many young and strong men and women, and there are few old and weak.

The crowd was like locusts passing through, and after several groups of displaced people passed by, the trees on the roadside were gnawed away from their young branches and leaves.

Grass roots and young leaves can be satisfied, and the most nutritious voles, birds, insects and snakes, of course, are not spared. When encountering the displaced people in towns and villages, they poured into it to beg for food, these homeless people were unkempt, their faces were yellow and thin, their expressions were numb, the local residents were afraid in their hearts, and their own food was not enough to eat, and from time to time there were the miserable wails of the homeless, the angry scolding and scolding of the local residents, and the screaming of children.

Seeing Chang Wei riding a tall horse and wearing a brocade robe, many people wanted to come up and make up their minds regardless of the sword on his waist, and Chang Wei couldn't do anything to these poor people, but they took out a pile of broken silver, and they were not satisfied, they just wanted to get Chang Wei's horse to eat.

In desperation, he flashed his musket to drive the crowd away, and when he came to a fork in the road where there was no human population, Chang Wei didn't know where to go, and returned to find a group of young homeless people to ask for directions.

The leader of this group looks quite capable, his name is Li Da, nineteen this year, he is the eldest son in the family, and there is a sixteen-year-old brother Li Er and fourteen-year-old sister Lan Lan.

The clan has lived in Luoyang Mianchi County for generations, the family rents 20 acres of land from the landlord of the same clan, and can lay 6,000 catties of grain when the year is good, the Dongren is the elder of the same clan, and the rent is less than half, in addition to a family of five people who stay to eat a full meal, the rest of the brothers and sisters who changed cotton cloth can also make a dress at the end of the year, and cut two or three catties of oil and fat pig fat in the market, and the family has a lively New Year.

The old couple has been thinking about the next year, as soon as the little sister gets married, there will be one less person to eat in the family, and then they beg the owner to rent a few more acres of land, and they can get an ugly daughter-in-law for Li Da by gritting their teeth.

But in the past few years, God hasn't opened his eyes. There was a light snow last winter, and I heard that the whole Luoyang Mansion was like this. The prefect of Luoyang went to the doctor for illness indiscriminately, and chose the eastern place as an altar on the first and second days, took the soil to make a green dragon, fasted for three days, and drew water from the place of the dragon, set up incense cases, tea fruits, and bait, and led the group of officials and village elders, and then came to the feast on the day, and did not use music and witchcraft.

It lasted for more than ten days, there was a little snow and nothing, the government and the local gentry, open porridge sheds for relief, barely able to mix half full, but it is not every day, at the beginning of the year, the weather is still dry, fortunately, on the sixth day of the first month, it rained a little bit of ground can not be watered.

Taking advantage of this little water, Li Da's family was preparing to seize the spring sowing in the agricultural season, but they did not expect that a group of god-killing rogues would make a riot and attack the Li family's village. Li Da's parents naturally couldn't watch the only property in the family, the old cow being robbed, picked up a kitchen knife, and the wooden fork fought with the thief, and as a result, the thief cut off his head alive and poked it on the branch in front of the village.

Some of the neighbors were frightened and handed over the small bag of grain seeds, only to be cut down anyway. Those rich families were burned clean by a fire, and the daughters were also ruined by those thieves who killed a thousand knives.

Li Da's eyes were cracked, seeing that there was no way to live, relying on his strength, he fought for the injury, but fortunately it was only a skin injury, otherwise he would have died without medical treatment and medicine. rushed out desperately to protect his younger brothers and sisters, and since then he has joined the ranks of the homeless, wandering around begging for survival.

On the same way, Li Da met a few kind-hearted young people, if it weren't for the wild vegetables they often dug up from the begging dry food, Li Da alone would not be able to support his younger siblings.

As more and more displaced people from all over the country, all the cities in Luoyang Prefecture have eaten up everything that can be eaten on the ground. In the only city where there was food, the officers and soldiers were not allowed to enter, and Li Da and the others walked all the way with the crowd. At first, they could still beg for food, but there was a great drought in the world, and the landlords' families had no surplus food, but on the contrary, more and more hungry people joined the begging army.

The frightened gentry landlords invested in the garrison of the guard to drive the displaced people out of the country, and the prefect naturally did not dare to offend these real ruling foundations, so they took advantage of the situation.

Outside of their hometowns, the hunger of the homeless people has reached the limit, and in order to survive, for a bite to eat, stealing chickens and dogs, fighting and robbing, and even killing people have become a common phenomenon.

The city of Luoyang is richer, but this place is already a foreign country, ten miles of different sounds, and a hundred miles of different customs. The locals have no pity for the outcasts and are very disgusted. When encountering a small group of homeless people, the local villagers drove them away with a stick, looking at the chaotic people with yellow faces and thin muscles, and the local people who still had a bite to eat had a sense of superiority in their hearts, and the contradictions became bigger and bigger.

The people who have no food to eat are ruthless to sell their older children to the gentry in exchange for a few days of rice and grain, and those who really have no way out can only do the miserable thing of 'changing children and eating'.

The discordant ranks of displaced people spontaneously divided into more than 100 large and small units, most of which were gangs that were familiar with each other in their own villages and counties, and each unit used force to settle rations. Li Da and more than 40 young men in the same county formed a group, because of his outstanding courage and courage, Li Da was promoted as the leader......

After hearing these words, Chang Wei felt a relative, "Natural disasters and man-made disasters, starvation is everywhere, and chaos is gradually becoming a reality!"

He took out a few ingots of silver from his horseback bag, took out pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, wrote a warrant on the spot, stamped the letter and handed it to Li Da, "Take this letter and go to Luoyang City to find Gao Wencai, the Jinyi Guard, and the soldiers guarding the city will not dare to stop you! In a few days, I will take you to Jingshi!"

Li Da and his gang have heard the name of Jinyiwei in the past few days, and people near Luoyang are saying that they are good people, and they have taken away the good land and bullied people.

"Great official, my lord!" a group of people lay on the ground excitedly and kept kowtowing, "The lord left a name, so we can know who took us in." ā€

Chang Wei turned over and got on his horse, "My name is Chang Wei, go ahead! You will be able to see me in a few days!"

"Chang Wei, good people, let's go, brothers, we have met a great good man this time......" (To be continued.) )