Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 451

Yingdu.

Standing on the military chariot, Qingji inspected the situation of feeding the hungry people in Yingdu and several nearby cities.

The accompanying people, besides Zhi Su Nei Shi Fan Li, was the original Chu State Grand Lady Meng Ying, and a nine-year-old boy.

The boy's name is "Fan", Wu Fan.

This is the illegitimate son of Qingji and Meng Ying, but after all, he can recognize his ancestor and return to his family. After Meng Ying remarried Qingji, he became Qingji's concubine. fourth son.

Having not seen Meng Ying and Wu Fan's mother and son for so many years, Qingji felt quite guilty, so when he stayed in Yingdu, he often stayed with the mother and son to make up for it.

"Wannian King! Wannian Wu Guo!"

When Qingji's patrol team appeared at the gate of the city, all the soldiers and civilians present shouted like a tsunami.

The hungry people looked at Qingji with complicated eyes.

It stands to reason that the Wu people were invaders who destroyed their capital, destroyed their country, and made them subjugated slaves.

Chu people should hate Qingji and Wu.

However, now Wu Jun can take out his own military rations to help the hungry Chu refugees, which makes the Chu people feel grateful for Wu's kindness.

This makes the hearts of every Li Shu of the Chu Kingdom very contradictory and full of mixed feelings.

Qingji immediately got off the military chariot, surrounded by a group of old guards, and walked to the side of the crowd step by step.

At this time, thousands of old and weak women and children are queuing up, forming a long queue at the gate of the city, just like the victims of the disaster, all of them are sallow and emaciated, and their clothes are ragged, looking very pitiful.

The chief culprit for this situation is naturally Qing Ji, and naturally Wu Guo.

"Your Majesty..."

Seeing that Qingji wanted to get close to these hungry people, Zhisu Neishi Fan Li couldn't help reminding him.

"It's okay."

Qing Ji waved his hand, not paying much attention.

He wanted to get close to these Chu people, even if there were assassins in the crowd, Qing Ji would not be afraid.

Now that the state of Chu has been reduced to such a state, the only way to target Wu Jun is to assassinate Qing Ji.

If Qingji died, there would be no civil strife in Wu State, but at least he would have to withdraw from Chu State as a last resort.

"Old man, can you eat now?"

Qingji came to an honest-looking old man with gray temples and asked.

Beside the old man was a seven or eight-year-old child, one old and one young, who seemed to be grandparents.

At this time, they were all holding pottery bowls filled with porridge. There were a lot of rice grains in the bowls, and some pickle leaves were mixed in, which could barely be eaten.

When the old man saw that Qingji actually stepped forward to ask himself, he couldn't help being flattered and said: "Repaying the king's favor is all due to the king's kindness, just like me and the hungry people in the Chu country can have food and will not starve to death."

It is impossible to eat this bowl of porridge, at most it is half full!
"Is it possible to work in the fields?"

Qingji asked again.

"Although the grass-roots people are over sixty years old, they still have a lot of strength. They are growing stronger and stronger, and it is no problem to do farm work."

Just eat this little food, but also go to the fields to work?
In this way, wouldn't the elderly be in danger of being starved to death?
Qingji felt a little heavy.

After years of wars in Chu State, not only was there a serious shortage of food, but even young and strong men lost their lives in the battles.

The lack of young and middle-aged labor means that the harvest of the land this year is likely to be halved, or even failed.

Such consequences are taken into consideration.

"Your Majesty, can Cao Min take the liberty to ask me a question?"

At this time, the old man asked cautiously.

The Wu Wang Qingji in front of him looked approachable, but no one could guarantee whether Qingji was pretending.

Qingji laughed lightly and said, "The old man has something to say, but it's okay to say it."

"Your Majesty, I don't know when this battle between Wu and Chu will end?"

This question was indeed very presumptuous, but Qingji didn't take it seriously at all.

"If nothing else happens, the war will end after the end of the year."

"Will Chu...will perish?"

"Whether the state of Chu will perish depends on the Chu people themselves, on God, not on the widows, nor on the state of Wu."

Qingji's answer was very ingenious.

In the end, Qingji still did not forget the grandiose way: "This time I attacked Chu and sent my troops into Ying. What I did was not to destroy Chu, but to do justice for the heavens!"

"..."

Who can believe it?

But Qingji's words have already been uttered, and I believe they will spread to various places in Chu State in the near future.

No matter what Qingji's real thoughts are, his attitude is just like this.

Afterwards, Qingji went to the porridge shed again, ordered someone to scoop out a bowl of porridge, took a sip himself, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

Not to mention the taste, this bowl of porridge is really impossible to fill people's stomachs, not even half full.

"Shao Bo (Fan Li Biao characters)."

"The minister is here."

"Send someone to urge the grain transportation team in the rear to speed up and transport the grain and rice to Yingdu. In addition..."

Qingji drank the bowl of wine in his hand "gullulu", then put down an empty bowl on the table, and said slowly: "It's not right for Li Shu to drink porridge and water for two meals a day."

"Although it is the slack season of farming, farmers still need to work in the fields. It is not allowed to drink porridge, but to eat rice. The widow has now established a rule that if you stand (chopsticks) on the pot of rice without falling down, the hungry people can eat it."

"promise."

Fan Li immediately agreed.

Qing Ji is so kind-hearted and generous, so naturally it is not for gaining some false fame.

In a few months, it will be the autumn harvest season, and ordinary farmers will inevitably be busy for a while.

Now, farmers need to work in the fields, weed and grow vegetables, or do other manual work.

If even the most basic food problems are not guaranteed, many people may not be able to survive this period of time and will starve to death and die from exhaustion.

This is not what Qingji wants to see.

It was precisely because of this consideration that Qingji ordered Fan Li to increase the intensity of food and rice relief, so that the hungry people could have enough food.

It's not that Qing Ji is slapping his swollen face to pretend to be fat.

At this time, the food stored in the Wu army was indeed enough for this expense.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

Just then, a hurried voice came.

Qingji looked around and saw that it was Tingwei Botong of Wu State.

Bo Tong's figure was quite bloated, with a rich face, he jumped out of the carriage in a hurry with a big belly, and trotted all the way towards Qingji.

With Bo Tong's appearance, he must have come to inform Qingji about something urgent, otherwise he would not have lost his composure.

"Uncle, what's the matter?"

Qingji frowned and asked.

"My lord, something is wrong."

Bo Tong was sweating profusely and said, "Doctor Yushi...Wu Zixu...he is searching for the tomb of King Ping of Chu everywhere. Wu Zixu claims to take revenge on King Ping!"

"I'm worried that he won't be able to think about it for a while, and he will do something like digging graves and flogging corpses."

"..."

Qingji was a little stunned.

Could it be that Wu Zixu really wanted to do such a treasonable thing?

You know, with Wu Zixu's violent character, he is indeed able to do it.

(End of this chapter)