Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 318 Chapter 328: Chaos
"You don't know where the victims have gone?" Li Hao frowned and sneered, "Magistrate Fan, you are a good magistrate."

"The lower officials are guilty." Fan Chao had nothing to say, he could only admit his mistakes, cold sweat dripped down his forehead, none of the officials below dared to speak, and all of them were silent.

Li Hao smacked his lips, and said leisurely: "Since you don't know where the victims have gone, then what do you know, tell me what you know."

"Yes." Fan Chao nodded and said, "When the snow disaster first appeared, there were indeed many victims outside the city, about ten thousand people, and the officials opened a warehouse to help the victims, but for some reason, after a few days, the officials It was found that there were many fewer victims, and the officials didn't pay attention at first, but two days later, all the victims outside the city were found overnight."

"All gone?" Li Hao lost his voice in surprise.

"Yes, all of them are gone, none of them are gone." Fan Chao nodded.

Li Hao looked at him suspiciously, then turned to look at other officials, and asked coldly: "Is everything Master Fan said true?"

All the officials nodded their heads in agreement, proving that Fan Chao had never lied.

Li Hao also felt that Fan Chao didn't look like he was lying, so he frowned and thought for a while, then asked, "Then did you ever send someone to look for it?"

Fan Chao said: "Back to Lord Marquis, the lower officials naturally sent people to look for them. There were nearly ten thousand disaster victims. The matter has been reported to Lord Qin, the governor of Dingzhou, but Lord Qin has not responded yet."

"Oh? You reported it?" Li Hao looked at Fan Chao with bright eyes.

Fan Chao nodded: "Yes, the officer has already reported it."

Li Hao stroked his chin and thought about it. Things became more and more strange. Ten thousand disaster victims suddenly disappeared. Fan Chao had already reported the matter to Qin Miao, but Qin Miao did not report the matter to him. It's not a joke, do you want to ask Qin Miao when you go back...

Li Hao pondered for a long time, and decided not to ask Qin Miao. If Qin Miao deliberately concealed it, he would naturally have an excuse to evade it. He could say that all the disaster victims had come to his Dingzhou City. Anyway, there were five or six people outside Dingzhou City. As for the victims of the disaster, even Li Hao couldn't find out.

While Li Hao was pondering, Fan Chao continued, "Master Hou, I still have something to report."

"Say."

Fan Chaodao: "It seems that mobs have appeared in Anping, because when the officials sent people to search for those victims, they passed by some villages and found that many villages were looted. All the rich and powerful households in the village were killed, and their homes were looted."

"There is such a thing?" Li Hao was shocked when he heard the words. Sure enough, the problem he was most worried about before appeared, the mob, the product of natural disasters, but he immediately discovered something strange.

Now that Fan Chao has already opened a warehouse to distribute food, why the victims of the disaster in Anping County would start a riot? This logic does not make sense, unless...someone fanned the flames.

Li Hao slowly closed his eyes, his mind turned rapidly, and began to imagine himself as a leader of a force who wanted to start a rebellion, how to use natural disasters to incite victims and start riots.

Li Hao thought for a long time, then suddenly opened his eyes and asked, "Master Fan, is there anyone preaching in Dingzhou or near Anping County in recent years?"

Li Hao's question was a little off the mark. Fan Chao was stunned for a moment, then thought about it carefully, shook his head and said, "There is no one preaching here."

"No one preaches?" Li Hao frowned and pondered. From his experience, the best way to incite the victims of disasters to riot is to preach. There are many examples in history of rebellion based on preaching, and some of them failed. Yes, there are also successful ones. The typical example of failure is the Yellow Turban Uprising, and the typical example of success is the White Lotus Sect. However, Mingjiao and White Lotus Sect were finally captured by Zhu Yuanzhang.

There is also a typical half-success and half-failure, that is, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Why is it half-success and half-failure, because their uprising succeeded, but only took half of the country, and it only lasted for 14 years.

Historical experience tells Li Hao that if you want to rebel, preaching is definitely a good way, but Fan Chao said that there is no preaching around, which makes Li Hao a little confused, and for a while he doesn't understand which link has gone wrong.

At this moment, Chen Song suddenly reminded: "Master, Shibao Village...is there any danger?"

Li Hao was shocked when he heard the words. Yes, Shibao Village was not looted when they came, and Chen Song's father-in-law and two brothers-in-law were still there. Li Hao hurriedly said, "Let's go to Shibao Village tomorrow morning." Village, first bring your father-in-law's family to the city."

"Okay." Chen Song nodded.

Li Hao ate dinner with all his thoughts, and then went to bed to rest. The next morning, he led his people to Shibao Village. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the village, he heard shrill and chaotic shouts from the village.

Li Hao was taken aback, got out of the carriage and shouted: "Quickly enter the village!"

Five hundred Zuo Xiaowei immediately rode out and ran towards the village, but a figure came behind him like a gust of wind, and ran to the front. It was Chen Song. The father-in-law's family is in danger, he rushed faster than anyone else.

The team rushed into the village and saw that the village was in chaos. The only five remaining families in the village seemed to be going through a catastrophe. Many people were moving things from indoors to outdoors. Anyone who resisted would be beaten violently. Wearing sticks and shabby clothes, they seem to be victims of disasters, no, they are already mobs now.

In the village, two big households hired some strong guards, adding up to a dozen or so, plus the men of the big households, a total of more than 30 people were waving farm tools to fight the mob at the moment. There were many people lying there, all bleeding from their heads, motionless, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.

The number of mobs is not large, about sixty or seventy, but this is definitely enough for the villagers of Shibao Village.

Chen Song had already charged up, pulled out his sword and waved it, a head flew up, blood sprayed like rain, Li Hao exclaimed: "Chen Song, don't kill people!" Common people, Li Hao really wanted to know why they became like this, that's why he asked Chen Song not to kill anyone. Anyway, five hundred Zuo Xiaowei had already arrived, and this group of mobs couldn't run away. It's better to keep alive than corpses.

Chen Song was stunned when he heard the words, and immediately gave up, returning the sword into the sheath, the action was very cool, the mob also found that a cavalry team of hundreds of people was approaching quickly, they were all frightened, and stopped their hands one after another.

Li Hao's carriage finally arrived, he jumped out of the carriage, walked up to him, glared and shouted: "Throw away all your equipment and kneel down!"

At this time, a well-dressed leader rolled his eyes and said loudly: "Don't listen to him, if you are caught by the government, you will only die! You have committed a serious crime!"

After hearing the words, the mob brandished their sticks again and charged at Li Hao.

Li Haonu pointed at the leader who shouted, and said loudly: "Chen Song! Kill him!"

Without further ado, Chen Song rushed over, drew his sword with a "clang", and the leader was split in half, and his internal organs spilled all over the floor. In such a cold weather, the heat continued to rise.

Chen Song's extremely cruel killing methods frightened all the mob, Li Hao strode forward and shouted in a cold voice: "Anyone who dares to make a fuss will end up just like him!"

All the mob dropped their sticks in fright, and fell to their knees.

Li Hao ordered them all to be tied up, and Chen Song had already rushed towards the old man Jin's house. After a while, Chen Song led the old man Jin's family over. As if they were too rich, there were only three mobs knocking on the door outside the house. The family hid at home and used tables and sticks to hold the door. The three mobs failed to break in, but Mrs. Jin and the two children were frightened. Not light.

Seeing that her parents and her younger brother were safe, Jin Ling'er was so excited that she hugged her parents and cried. She was also terrified, fearing that something might happen to her family.

After a while, all the five families in the village came over and kowtowed to Li Hao, Li Hao waved his hand and said: "You all get up, there is no need to do this, you should hurry up and clean up at home, bring the money and food, and come with me later You can't stay in the county town or in this village."

The five families were very grateful, and hurried back to pack their luggage.

The captain came to report that all the mob had been tied up. In the courtyard of Ding Dahu's house, there were 68 people, including seven dead, a total of 75 people.

Li Hao nodded, turned around and went to see the group of mobs with the captain, now he has to ask carefully why these people are going to be mobs, are they really desperate.

There were bloodstains all over the courtyard of Ding Dahu's house, and the mob was kneeling in the courtyard. Although the mob was captured, Ding Dahu's family members still shrank in the main hall, not daring to come out, only dared to look out secretly.

Li Hao walked into the yard and walked around the mob, and found that although the clothes on the mob were worn out, they were not very dirty, and these people had clean hands and faces, and all of them looked good, not like refugees at all.

Li Hao searched the crowd for a long time, and saw a half-year-old boy of fourteen or five years old, trembling all over his body at the moment, obviously very frightened, what Li Hao was looking for was a coward who was afraid of death, he pointed to the boy , said coldly: "Come here."

The half-grown boy was suddenly struck by lightning, his whole body trembled as if he was sifting chaff, and said in a trembling voice: "Guard, Guanye, I dare not... I won't dare anymore... Don't kill me..."

Li Haohan said in a low voice: "If you don't come here again, I'll let the one with the sword cut you in half!"

The young man hurriedly got up when he heard the words, but he was so frightened that he had no strength in his body, his legs were weak, and he swayed when he walked. Li Hao stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar, and held him in his hands, as if he was holding a chicken. In general, he was carried into the main hall. In the main hall, Ding Dahu's family members were all scared and hid inside. Li Hao threw the boy on the ground violently, turned his head and said to Ding Dahu's family: "You all go outside, I am here Interrogate the prisoner!"

"Yes!" Ding Dahu hurried out with his family.

Li Hao closed the door behind his back, walked slowly to the young man, and asked, "What's your name, where do you live? Who else is there?"

"Little... The villain's name is Wang Ergou. His family is in Lushui Village, Laishui County. There is also a father and an elder brother in the family. However, there was a heavy snowstorm, and now the family is gone. The father and elder brother are kneeling in the courtyard."

"Laishui County?" Li Hao was taken aback when he heard the words, then frowned, "Laishui County is in Yizhou, four or five hundred miles away from here, why did you come here?"

(End of this chapter)