Civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty, begging me to ascend the throne

Li Yancheng caught a glimpse of Jiang Sile and Lu Zhi who suddenly appeared, hurriedly pushed away the entangled Ayi, and walked over quickly.

"Why is the princess here?"

Li Yancheng pointed at the group of refugees in embarrassment, and said: "The closer we get to Jiangzhou, the more refugees will be. Just now, the general wants to drive them away so as not to disturb His Highness, but he doesn't want more and more people..."

Ah Yishi followed closely behind General Li, put the long knife back on his waist, his brows were full of hostility, and his eyes turned to Jiang Sile.

When Jiang Sile ignored the disrespectful Ah Yi, he turned sideways to look at the refugees.This time Jiang Sile saw it more clearly.

In the modern age, she finally understands what is meant by 'the people are in dire straits' and 'starved to death'.

She originally thought that people were wearing darkened sackcloth, but it was not cloth, but bark.

Not far from the carriage, a little girl fell on the ground, and people around her crowded over her, stretched out their hands, and begged: "Give me some food... I beg your lord to take pity on us..."

"Why is this? Everyone thinks that Jiangzhou is a place of prosperity..." Jiang Sile questioned.

At this time, she was really puzzled and sad.

As a person who was born and raised in a peaceful era, she never expected that there would be such... such misery.

Even though she traveled to Daxia, she was blinded by the rich clothes and fine food in the palace, and she had no idea that someone was about to starve to death.

"Maybe they are some refugees who don't want to relocate..." Li Yancheng replied, "The relocation law requires the residents of Huaizhong to go to the northwest... This decree has been promulgated for five years, and the court officials will handle it properly. "

Li Yancheng was halfway through speaking, but he didn't want to say any more.Obviously unwilling to talk about it.

Jiang Sile knew in his heart that even General Li didn't want to get involved, it must be a major matter related to the government.

"Your Highness, hurry back to the carriage and send someone to drive these refugees away as soon as possible..."

"No need..." Jiang Sile passed Li Yancheng and the two of them, and walked towards the refugees surrounded by the carriage. Lu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed, pulling at the hem of her skirt.

Jiang Sile walked towards a thin woman who was screaming hard, and she desperately stretched out her hand towards the guards, the hope in her eyes was dimmed.

Jiang Sile looked at her carefully.It was only then that she realized that she was holding a bloody branch in her hair, and her hands were already a little twisted, and they were covered with scabbed black marks.

Seeing Jiang Sile approaching, the aunt quickly kowtowed, and her head hit the ground with such force that if the ground turned into slabs of stone, she might bleed.

"My lord! I beg my lord to give me some food... I beg my lord."

Jiang Sile pulled her up, but the aunt stepped back suddenly, her eyes were full of fear: "Your noble...slave, noble..."

Jiang Sile gave Lu Zhi a look, and Lu Zhi came out from behind her, and said forcefully, "My lady asks you a question, you just answer...the answer is good, let's not talk about food, there is money!"

The woman couldn't help but wanted to kowtow again, but was stopped by Lu Zhi.

"Stop! Don't kowtow again, you are older than me. If you kowtow to me, don't you frustrate me?" Jiang Sile couldn't help but said.

Seeing the woman's nervous expression, she began to ask: "Where are you from? Why are you stopping my family's convoy?"

"My lord...Your gentlemen didn't do it on purpose, it's just..." The woman bit her lips tightly, her face turned pale.

"It's just that there is really no food to eat. We can only beg. The people in the city drove us out and blocked us on this avenue...My lord, we really didn't do it on purpose."

Jiang Sile continued to ask: "Why don't you have a job?"

"Even if you don't have the skills, if you have land at home, you can farm it. If you don't have land, you can rent someone else's land to grow it. At least you can support yourself, and you won't be begging?"

After saying this, the woman burst into tears and cried, "I also have land in my family. The seven mu of land has been my own land for generations. The yamen servant who was beaten by the knife was forcibly confiscated the year before last."

"That's right, that's right! What a goddamn corrupt official!" An old man next to him continued, wiping away his tears.

Jiang Sile turned his head to look, and found that the refugees around him were all nodding their heads, and their eyes were concerned.

The woman continued: "Without the fields, we had no choice but to go to the city to find work. I went to the tea stand in the restaurant to serve tea and water to people and greet business. The man built a house for people with his strength. At that time, he could do it anyway." Life."

The woman's eyes were empty, as if she was thinking about something.

Luzhi couldn't help but interjected, "What about your man?"

Listening, the woman couldn't help crying, and a thin young man around said: "Sister-in-law Nan is a man, she was beaten to death! She was beaten to death in the yamen."

The woman wiped her tears, choked up and said, "I don't know what's going on. It's getting dark, and my man hasn't come back... I've been looking everywhere, and it's just... at the gate of the yamen. Give—— beat him to death! They said my man stole something, he deserved it!"

Everyone stopped, only the woman screamed and wailed, slumped on the ground, and kept patting the ground with her hands.

A middle-aged man nearby said: "Why do nobles ask these things? We are born lowly, and this God looks down on us. What a disaster! What a disaster!"

Li Yancheng also squeezed next to Jiang Sile, looked around, and whispered in Jiang Sile's ear: "Your Highness, we still have some food left, we can go to Jiangzhou to rest for one more day, and ask the people at the station to help buy it... "

Jiang Sile tilted her head and looked at Li Yancheng. She only knew today that this General Li is a benevolent person even though he always takes care of himself.

Jiang Sile nodded, and Luzhi said loudly knowingly: "Auntie, you have finished answering my lady's questions, and the food agreed to be given to you, the lady will not treat you badly."

The aunt quickly got up from the ground, and said in disbelief: "Really? Really give me food?"

Lu Zhi deliberately put on a straight face: "Why, if you can't say it, you won't regret it."

Then he said loudly; "If the rest of you can answer my lady's question, you will be rewarded with food!"

"Me! I know everything!"

"Me too! I know that the high official in charge of the city gate has married a new concubine..."

"I know too!"

The crowd kept coming, Jiang Sile asked Li Yancheng to call over the palace ladies and eunuchs in the last few carriages, and also brought a cart of grain, and some guards delivered the beams as required.

Most of the palace people covered their noses, using small papers to record the information from the mouths of the ragged refugees.Fortunately, most of them in Jiangzhou speak in an official accent, otherwise most of them would have black eyes.

Most of the refugees who received the food found the leaves of big trees or rotten wood to pack the food, and then left in a hurry.

Some ran to the woods, while others ran to the city.