Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 369 The Bigger Secret

Liu Yunxiang pulled Leng Yushang, and the two sat down beside the old woman.

"You were also arrested?"

The old woman nodded, pointed at the people in the alley, and said, "Everyone is."

Liu Yunxiang turned his heart around, and said: "The government said we had an epidemic, so they couldn't help but arrest us here, but we knew our bodies, and we didn't even notice that we were sick."

"You don't know what's going on?"

"I don't know."

"Hey, it's true that many people were caught here without knowing what happened, and those who really thought they were infected with the disease were actually lies by the government. Otherwise, they would have no reason to arrest you."

"Why are you arresting us?"

"It's not because of..."

When the old woman said this, she paused, and subconsciously looked to the side.

"The governor of Yuzhou, Xie Shengmao, forged his military registration and was paid for nothing. The court knew about it and sent a prince to investigate. Xie Shengmao was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he arrested us so that the court could not find any clues. .As long as you are caught here, there must be some family members who have been registered in the military. It is said that Xie Shengmao is eating the military salary of this empty head. It is said that there are tens of thousands of people! This person is one tael a month, and the 1 people are 1 taels Twelve months a year is 12 taels!" As she spoke, the old woman gasped.

Liu Yunxiang turned to look at Leng Yuxi, his face was cold and heavy.

He should really be annoyed that his Southern State garrison is stationed on the frontier, the conditions are difficult, and there are frequent wars.These soldiers who really fought for Beijin were starving because of the shortage of food and wages, forcing him to come to Yuzhou to grab food, for which he was severely punished by the emperor.

But the Yuzhou army guarded the granary of Yuzhou, there was no war, no difficult conditions, and they were still paid for it.

Just listening to one person's words, there may be deviations. Liu Yunxiang asked several people with Leng Yuxi, and everyone said the same thing.

Come out of the alley and come to the only street in the village, which is also full of people, one next to the other.

This Xie Shengmao is really courageous, he actually tried to hide such a big matter, and imprisoned so many people for this reason.

"We have understood the matter clearly, Your Highness..."

Before Liu Yunxiang finished speaking, there was another bang, her body swayed following the ground, subconsciously looked to the south, and saw thick white smoke rising there again, and the flames collided randomly.

"Here, what's going on?"

Such a loud noise shook the ground, she had never seen such a battle.

Leng Yuxi looked to the south, and a look of confusion appeared on Shen Leng's face.

The noise alarmed the villagers. The family opened the door, and a woman ran out to look. Seeing the flames in the south, she yelled, "Why is it erupting again!"

Liu Yunxiang hurriedly asked the woman: "Eldest sister, what erupted?"

"The volcano!"

"volcano?"

Liu Yunxiang glanced at the flames, then turned to look at Leng Yuxie.

"It's not like it?"

Leng Yulu shook his head, "It's really not like that."

"Hey, isn't this Wanwan!" The woman saw the little girl on Leng Yulei's back, and hurriedly ran a few steps closer, "It's really Wanwan!"

When Wanwan saw the woman, her eyes widened, "Ma'am!"

"Hey, where's your mother?"

Wanwan shook her head and said in a crying voice: "My mother is lost."

The woman quickly looked at Liu Yunxiang, "What's going on? Where's her mother? Why are you bringing this child?"

At this time, a group of patrolmen came here, Liu Yunxiang hurriedly said: "Sister, can we go into your house and talk about it?"

The woman hesitated for a moment, but opened the door anyway, "Come in!"

After entering the yard, an old woman came out. Seeing Liu Yunxiang and the others, she hurriedly picked up the shovel leaning against the wall.

"Mother, they are not here to grab food, don't panic!" The woman hurriedly explained.

"Then who are they?"

"Look who this is."

The woman hugged the little girl from Leng Yulei's back, and when the little girl saw the old woman, she cried out, "Grandma Xiang!"

Seeing Wanwan, the old woman hurriedly dropped the shovel, stepped forward and grabbed the little girl, "Oh, Wanwan, why are you back? Where's your mother?"

When she mentioned her mother again, Wanwan couldn't help crying.

The woman was afraid that there would be too much movement in the yard and attract the attention of the officers and soldiers, so she hurriedly invited them into the house.

There is also a little boy in the back room, about five or six years old, a little older than Wanwan.

After sitting down, Liu Yunxiang recounted how they met Wanwan and her mother from the beginning, but did not mention the discovery of the woman's body on the mountain.

After hearing this, the woman sighed, "Wanwan's family lives in Dongtou. We are neighbors on the same street, but no one in her family is in the village anymore."

"Where's her father?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

"Don't talk about her father, my baby's father, and our entire village, all the young and strong are conscripted away." The woman said helplessly.

"Then the government sealed off your village, isn't it because of empty pay?"

They were actually conscripted, so there was no such thing as empty pay.

"A group of devoid of conscience. According to the regulations of the imperial court, there is only one young laborer in a family. There is no need to join the army. Only two of them will go to one. But the year before last, Yuzhou issued a document to our village, not to mention the number of laborers in the family. Regardless of age, all those who can work in the fields have been recruited away. There are more than 100 people in total. Once these more than 100 people leave, there will be only old, weak, women and children left in our village. Shao left the village and became a beggar." The old woman said angrily.

"Then the government didn't pay you a monthly salary?" Leng Yuxi asked.

Those recruited by the imperial court to join the army will be paid monthly by the local government.

"At the beginning, there were some, but at the beginning of spring last year, people from the government came down and said that there was a war in the west, and the hundred or so people in our village were all sacrificed. Only a little sympathy money was paid, and nothing was left after that. "

"All sacrificed?" Liu Yunxiang was taken aback.

Mentioning this, the old woman was so angry that she slapped her thighs, "If we really want to sacrifice all of them, there is nothing we can do, but the truth is not like that at all!"

Leng Yulu frowned, "How do you say that?"

The woman told the old woman to relax, and she went on to say: "In the fall of this year, a young man named Yang Shu from our village came back suddenly. This scared the villagers of our village, and he should have died. The man came back alive like this! But the young man was seriously injured, and he only had time to say that those who were conscripted did not go to join the army at all, so he passed out. Afterwards, the officers and soldiers came after him, saying that he was a deserter, and just like that Stolen. But whether our people went to join the army, whether they are dead or alive, there is a general saying, our villagers will go to the government. Who knows that the government doesn’t care, and even arrested a few leading villagers. We were imprisoned for causing trouble. We saw that Yuzhou could not get justice, so we thought about going to Beijing to sue the imperial court, but before we could go, our village was closed by the government."

"After the closure, there was a shortage of food in every family, and many people starved to death. Wanwan's grandfather and grandmother were starved to death. Her mother saw that she had no way to survive in the village, so she took advantage of a few villagers to make trouble, and secretly took the children. Slipped out from the back hill."

Hearing this, Liu Yunxiang looked at Leng Yuxi.

"It seems that it's not just the case of empty pay. Han Lin attaches so much importance to it, and Xie Shengmao is so bold, maybe it's because they want to hide a bigger secret."

"A bigger secret?"

Liu Yunxiang shrugged, "I'm just guessing, too many people died after all."

At this time, there was movement outside, and the movement was not small.

Leng Yuxi came to the gate of the courtyard, looked out through the crack of the door, and saw many officers and soldiers running towards the south in a hurry.

He turned his head and looked to the south, where the fire was even brighter, and the mountains were on fire!

(End of this chapter)