Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 502 Poor and White
When Liu Hongjian boarded the boat to Shandong, it was already three days later.

In three days, Liu Hongjian took the money given by Chongzhen and visited almost all the grain shops and commercial stores in the capital, and he bought less than [-] shi of rice grain.

There were already so many people in the capital that there was not enough food for the local people, and Liu Hongjian didn't dare to push too hard for fear of causing public anger, so he had to take what little food he had and set out on the road.

He selected 2000 soldiers from the Beijing camp, and even brought 5000 people from his own guard battalion. A total of [-] people became the team to rush to Shandong.

Liu Hongjian knew that the refugees were like a flood, easy to evacuate and difficult to block, and the more blocked, the more they would burst the dike, so he never thought of suppressing it by force.

From the mouth of the Tianjinwei Canal, board the boat, and travel southward via the Weihe River in only three days to reach Dezhou, the junction of Shuntianfu and Shandong.

Dezhou and the capital are separated by water, but Liu Hongjian immediately felt a different atmosphere.

No matter what happened to the capital, the court would definitely not allow the capital to starve to death. After all, that was the face of the court, but Shandong was different.

Liu Hongjian stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the ragged people on both sides of the canal, and the people also looked at him eagerly. They had no land and no food, and most of the hungry people drank water by the river to satisfy their hunger.

Liu Hongjian couldn't bear it, and immediately ordered the ship to stop in Dezhou to unload grain. More than 1 stones were unloaded.

Liu Hongjian frowned and said harsh words.

"This is life-saving food. We must control the intensity of the distribution. We can neither starve the people to death nor distribute it all at once. If you dare to greedy for a grain of food, I will punish you and your family!"

After informing the local Jinyi Guards of strict monitoring, Liu Hongjian boarded the big ship again and continued south along the canal.

When arriving at Jining via Linqing and Liaocheng, the rice grains on board had already been distributed. When they arrived at Yan (yan three times) state capital, a hundred miles east of Jining, Liu Hongjian had no more grain and rice to help the people, so he had to regroup the army here. disembarked.

Yanzhou is already the hinterland of Shandong. On the way to the government office of Yanzhou, the farmland is dry, the seedlings have been eaten up by locusts, and there are not even a few dead grasses.

Five or six half-grown children in tattered clothes were tearing the bark with a sickle by the roadside, and a lot had been torn off in the bamboo basket beside it, and two other children seemed to be arguing and pulling.

"Hey, little guy, what are you arguing about?" Liu Hongjian was puzzled, his eyes were starved from hunger, so why did he still have the strength to tear it apart.

If you have this skill, you might as well try to find a way to fish in the river.

The children were startled, but seeing Liu Hongjian was followed by a dozen soldiers with big arms, and the children who were tearing the bark picked up the bamboo baskets and ran away.

And the two children who were fighting and fighting were so frightened that they were stunned and didn't say a word on the spot.

"My lord is a good person and won't kill you two, so just answer honestly if you ask me anything!" Niu Dabangchui saw the two of them stunned, and explained.

"Don't listen to this idiot's nonsense, where's your family?" Liu Hongjian glared at Niu Dabachui, thinking what he said to kill or not, you might as well not explain it.

"Dead, I starved to death last month." The child on the left broke free and said, with indescribable stubbornness in his words.

Another child murmured and explained the reason for the fight between the two. One was Zhang Xiaowu and the other was Sun Datou. They were both sons of a tenant family and childhood friends.

The disaster in Yanzhou was severe. The local gentry Kong Huasheng opened a gruel to save the people. Both families received relief, but the porridge was barely starved to death. How could there be enough to eat.

Zhang Xiaowu's father left his family and joined the bandit brothers Liu Liu and Liu Qi in Fengshan, southeast of Yanzhou. These two brothers gathered more than a thousand people who were also hungry, and they went around looting and looting.

The day before yesterday, he directly robbed Kong Huasheng's grain store in Yanzhou, causing Kong Huasheng to stop giving porridge in a rage, and Sun Datou resented Zhang Xiaowu's father for being a thief, and then started fighting.

Liu Hongjian sighed, took out two scallion pancakes specially prepared for him by Sister Liu in the house from the ring, handed them to the two children, and taught them not to make friends because of this.

Then the army went straight to Yanzhou Mansion. The magistrate of Yanzhou was called Niu Chun with the same surname as Niu Dabangchui. He was terrified when he learned that it was a prince who came to relieve the disaster.

So what about the prince, the common people want to eat food, without food, even if His Majesty and his elders come in person, it is useless.

Yanzhou Mansion is the hardest-hit area for bandits. Fengshan and Lianqingshan in the southeast, Tashan in the west, and Nishan in the east, as long as there is a hill, there are looting refugees gathered everywhere.

Among them, Liu Liu and Liu Qi of Fengshan are the worst. A few days ago, they even robbed Kong Huasheng from his residence, which frightened Niu Chun.

This Kong Huasheng is not an ordinary person, he is the distant house of the Confucian family in Qufu, Yanzhou Prefecture.

"Where is Fengshan, you lead the way, and take me there to meet Liu Liu and Liu Qi!" Liu Hongjian felt a little disappointed when he saw Niu Chun's despondent face.

As a magistrate, instead of thinking about how to keep the hungry people under his rule, he thinks about how to please the Kong family. Can't you tell which is more important?

Niu Chun didn't dare to refuse, so he ordered seven or eight yamen servants immediately, and followed Liu Hongjian's army to Fengshan, forty miles away.

At the foot of Fengshan Mountain, Liu Hongjian couldn't help being stunned.

It was late autumn, but the leaves of the entire Fengshan Mountain had already been eaten by locusts and turned bare, and even the bark of many big trees by the roadside had been stripped off.

Several men patrolling down the mountain saw the officers and soldiers coming, so Sa Yazi ran up the mountain, but the hungry skinny ones couldn't run faster, and Niu Dabang gave an order, and they were caught in no time.

"Is the head of your family on the mountain?" Liu Hongjian asked while riding on a horse.

Among the four, two younger ones were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground. More than a month ago, they were all farmers who were farming the land. children are gone.

"Officer, we don't know anything. If you want to kill us, kill us without frowning." The older man said with a frown.

"Hey, he's still a tough one. Tough ones are good. I like it. Get up, I won't kill you." Liu Hongjian was not angry but happy. Judging from his speech and demeanor, this old man was indeed not afraid of death.

The four got up as they said, but whether it was the two older ones or the two young men who had been frightened before, no matter how Niu Dazhuel asked, these four people just said nothing.

Finally, the big stick of the bull caught fire.

"You four idiots, do you know who the person in front of you is? This is Daming Anguo County King! If you don't tell the truth, believe it or not, I will really kill you!" Niu Dabangchui's face was ruthless.

In his opinion, his master has been killing from inside the pass to outside the pass, from the north to the south of the Yangtze River for more than a year. He is regarded as a ruthless person who has changed the color of the common people, so he wants to use this to force the four of them to submit.

But who would have thought that the four of them were really frightened after hearing what Niu Dabanchui said, but it was obvious that the four of them were just shocked rather than terrified.

"The official is the old An Guobo of Shanxi?" The old man asked with a trembling voice, and Liu Hongjian nodded in agreement.

"Your Majesty, save me and other poor people!" The four of them stared at each other for a moment and then fell to their knees with a plop.

PS: I still owe the leader two big updates, hehe.

　Thanks for the 100 coins rewarded by the book friend who was drunk and looked at the axe.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)