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Chapter 319 Chapter 329: Chaotic Dingzhou

Chapter 319 Chapter 329: Chaotic Dingzhou
In the Cui family of Boling, in the Cui residence, the head of the family, Cui Wentai, was playing chess with the old master Cui Chongzhi in the backyard. Cui Wenjing suddenly rushed into the courtyard and said solemnly: "Old master, master, it's not good."

Cui Chongzhi was very displeased to see that he barged in without notifying him, and asked with a frown, "Why are you so flustered?"

Cui Wenjing said: "The crown prince failed to control the group of victims, and caused a group of victims to flee to our Anping County to make trouble, but Li Hao bumped into them."

"What!" Cui Chongzhi and Cui Wentai exclaimed after hearing all the words.

Cui Wentai slapped the table angrily: "Alas! This prince is nothing but a fool! Insufficiency and conspiracy! Father, what should we do?"

"Don't panic." Cui Chongzhi raised his hand to stop him, and said slowly, "Wen Tai, send a message to Qin Miao quickly to make him make a big noise in Dingzhou City. Be sure to lure Li Hao back to Dingzhou. Also, send a letter to the prince, asking him to take good care of the victims, and not allow the victims to do things again in the near future, and also, ask the prince if there are any experts around, this Li Hao will always be a disaster."

"Yes!" Cui Wentai got up to accept the order, and walked out of the yard with Cui Wenjing.

It was the fourth day in Dingzhou, and Li Hao was constantly leading people to search the nearby villages, because he learned about a terrifying conspiracy from that Wang Ergou, that someone was going to rebel.

That’s right, it was a rebellion. According to Wang Ergou’s description, the snowstorm came and crushed their house. They all fled to the county seat. There were many refugees outside the county seat, more than 7000 people. Although the government provided porridge every day, They also distributed cotton clothes and quilts for tents, but some people still died of starvation or freezing to death. There was no way. There are not many people who are weak or already sick. Among the thousands of victims, there are only [-]. In such a severe cold weather, it is normal for the elderly to die, but they are all concentrated in one place. They will be a little panicked.

The victims didn't know the truth and thought they were starving to death. After all, they couldn't get enough to eat. Then some people among the victims began to instigate, saying that the court officials were too dark-hearted, greedy for money and food, and didn't want to really help the people. I am afraid that they will all starve to death outside the city. They also said that in a mountain, there is a rich family with a lot of grain. If you are full, you can also distribute cotton clothes.

Such nonsense was originally believed by no one, and it sounds very false, but when people are in despair, even if they see a glimmer of impossible hope, they want to try it. This is the desire to survive.

Ignorance is terrible. Sometimes, ignorance can be fatal. They think that court officials are greedy for the people, and that the government will never really help them. They also think that they will starve to death in the end. Gradually, some people believe the rumors. I followed those who spread rumors, but those who spread rumors wanted to blindfold them and take them into the mountains. In order to have food to eat and to survive, the victims were willing to be blindfolded and taken away. They appeared in the deep mountains. There is no big family here, only a military camp. However, there is food here, a lot of food, and each person can eat two meals a day, and there are cotton clothes to wear. Although they are all worn-out cotton clothes, they are very cold-proof good.

Then a leader told them to let them recruit other victims. As long as they could recruit enough victims, they would have meat to eat. In order to eat meat, Wang Ergou and the others went back outside the county and continued to encourage other victims. , Many of the victims in this group knew each other, so the credibility of the rumors was high, and they spread quickly, so all the victims quietly left the county seat at night and were taken into the city blindfolded. In the deep mountains, there is food and drink.

Then, they gradually realized that something was wrong. There were more and more victims. Including the original victims, there were already nearly 10 people. The number of people exceeded [-]. The concept of [-] is very scary.

And after asking, they learned that some victims were from Yizhou, while others were from Dingzhou. Yizhou and Dingzhou were separated by four to five hundred miles. They didn't understand that two victims who were so far apart How could they gather together, and with so many people, they faintly felt that the purpose of this so-called "big family" was not simple.

Sure enough, after they ate and drank here for two days, some people began to assign tasks to them, some joined the military camp for training, some were responsible for continuing to recruit victims, and some were responsible for going out to loot everywhere, and Wang Ergou was one of the people who looted everywhere one of.

Li Hao once asked Wang Ergou that since he found something wrong and came out, he could find an opportunity to escape and not rob. Besides, even if he robbed, he didn't need to kill people.

Wang Ergou was also very distressed. At the beginning, they only talked about looting and not killing people. They thought that looting was not a big deal, as long as they could eat enough. Anyway, there are so many people, this is the herd mentality, but after the first looting, hiding A few people among the victims actually killed seven big households in a village without leaving any traces. It turned out that these victims were fake.

Then the leader threatened them. Now they are bandits who murder and set fire. If they are caught by the court, they will definitely beheaded. If they want to live, they will overthrow the court with them. They have enough money, food and weapons. The army is also training, and it will take a few months. As long as Dingzhou and Yizhou are disrupted by the famine, they will be able to raise their flags and rebel.

After all, this group of disaster victims has little knowledge and is easy to bluff. Coupled with herd mentality, they became bandits and started looting everywhere. However, they are used to common people and don't like to kill people, but they have to. If they don't , someone would whip them to death. Wang Ergou once saw two people being whipped to death because they refused to kill.

After listening to Wang Ergou's narration, Li Hao sorted out his thoughts, and he can basically determine that someone wants to rebel, and this rebellious force should be related to the Boling Cui family, because judging from their posture, it seems that they want to snare 10,000+ disaster victims, trained into an army, and to support such a huge army, it needs a huge amount of money and food, which is not something ordinary forces can afford. Looking at hundreds of miles away, only the Cui family has this strength.

Li Hao also suspected that the one who wanted to rebel was the Cui family, but he rejected it in the end. Although the Cui family has a strong background and great influence, but in terms of military affairs, no one from their family has been involved, because Li Shimin did not allow them to do so. This is Li Shimin's bottom line, so the Cui family does not have the ability to rebel, at most it can only be regarded as a logistics department, so what kind of force is responsible for the rebellion.

It's a pity that Wang Ergou is just an idiot, he only knows so much, Li Hao really wants to find the deep mountain camp that Wang Ergou said, but the enemy is very cunning, he will blindfold the victims when they go in and out. Knowing where their lair is, maybe they are not in Yizhou at all, because Wang Ergou said that they plundered all the way, and they arrived in Anping County in four days. impossible.

According to Wang Ergou's description, Li Hao took out the map and circled it, and finally locked the area at the junction of Dingzhou and Yizhou, [-] miles northeast of Anping County, where there are big mountains and many mountains.

This puts Li Hao in a difficult situation. With his current manpower, it is impossible to search the mountain, and the other party has nearly 10 people. Their 500 people are really not enough, so he wrote the memorial immediately and sent it to the Chang'an, report this matter, and at the same time start wandering around the villages in the northeast of Anping County, to see if we can capture some more mobs, preferably to catch a leader or something, and ask for some more valuable clues.

However, after running around for three days in a row, he saw looted villages and towns one after another, but he didn't see even a single mob. Li Hao began to suspect that the other party might have found him.

A gentleman does not put himself under a dangerous wall. Although Li Hao has five hundred left guards by his side, the opponent has thousands of troops after all, and the strength is very different. In the end, he decided to go back to Dingzhou first. He did not see Li Zhi for five days. I am very worried about Li Zhi.

As soon as Li Hao was about to return to Dingzhou, Chen Bin brought twelve Xuanjia soldiers to find him, and reported solemnly: "Master Hou, the disaster relief food in Dingzhou has been burned!"

Li Hao was taken aback when he heard the words, and even if he rectified his troops, he hurried to Dingzhou.

As soon as he entered Dingzhou City, he saw several Zuo Xiaowei standing at the gate of the city, those Zuo Xiaoweis saw Li Hao, and immediately stepped forward to salute, Li Hao asked anxiously, "Where is King Jin now? "

"At the posthouse."

"Go to the posthouse!" Li Hao hurriedly rushed to the posthouse with everyone.

I finally saw Li Zhi. When Li Zhi saw Li Hao, he was fine at first, but suddenly his eyes were red and wet, and he stepped forward and said, "Sir, the relief food has been burnt, and it is gone. The refugees will suffer." gone."

Li Hao's heart was heavy, he patted Li Zhi's shoulder lightly, and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness, everything is up to me."

"Sir, you must save the refugees outside the city." Li Zhi raised his sleeves to wipe away his tears, his tone almost pleading.

Li Hao said: "Let's go to the house first, and we'll talk later." He took Li Zhi into the hall and waved everyone away, leaving only Lu Yun guarding the door, and Chen Song was responsible for settling the Jin family sisters.

When Li Hao entered the room and closed it, he asked, "His Royal Highness, please tell me carefully what's going on."

Li Zhi finally stabilized his mood, and said: "At noon the day before yesterday, [-] shi of grain and [-] guan of disaster relief money finally arrived. Qin Miao took the food and disaster relief money and sealed them all in the warehouse, waiting for the next morning to be used to distribute porridge. Unexpectedly, the grain depot In the middle of the night, a big fire broke out and burned up all the [-] shi relief food."

Li Hao narrowed his eyes when he heard the words, and a cold light bloomed in his eyes. The fire in the granary was obviously caused by someone deliberately. Such a big anger at once.

Li Zhi continued anxiously: "Since yesterday, the major grain merchants in the city have suddenly raised the price of grain by more than 20 times. Come on, [-] guan is only enough to buy [-] shi of grain, and there are already nearly [-] victims outside, and [-] shi of grain is only enough for the victims to eat for more than ten days. Moreover, this [-] guan is the disaster relief fund for all counties in Dingzhou , it is impossible to use all of them in Dingzhou City, and those grain shops probably don’t have that much grain... What should I do? What should I do, sir?"

(End of this chapter)

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