On the day the empress ascended the throne, my body was hung at the city gate

Chapter 5 You have never experienced hunger
This time I left the palace for a private visit incognito.

Now that Wu Mingyue has become the king of a country, naturally he cannot be as casual as before.

She never liked those complicated etiquette, so she traveled in disguise this time.

Of course, in Wu Mingyue's memory, there were very few opportunities to leave the royal city.

The southern wilderness in front of us is no longer as desolate as it once was.

The last time Wu Mingyue came to the Southern Wilderness, it was during troubled times and encountered a severe drought that was rare in a century.

Starving people are everywhere, wars are raging, and people are in dire straits.

Now, the place has regained its former prosperity.

Look at the scene of the people around you living and working in peace and contentment.

Wu Mingyue's heart suddenly surged with deep pride.

This is the great country that her father left for her.

My father's past achievements are known to everyone in the world.

Suppress the troubled times, build the territory, and turn the Great Zhou Dynasty into the richest country in the world.
But Gu Changsheng, that despicable person, was slandered in every possible way in his notes and described in such a bad way.

Unfortunately, facts speak louder than words.

Wu Mingyue randomly found a few common people and asked them their opinions on the old Emperor Wu and the former prince Fengtian.

The result was the same as she thought.

When talking about her father, the people were full of praise.

When it comes to Gu Changsheng, everyone is scolding him.

Call them treacherous ministers, evil ministers, and sinners.

At this point, Wu Mingyue had no intention of continuing to explore.

I randomly found a place to rest and prepared to return to the royal city with the answer the next day.

into the night.

Wu Mingyue was suddenly awakened by the sound of hurried footsteps outside the window.

He glanced outside curiously.

Unexpectedly, she found that the people she asked questions about during the day were cautiously moving towards the suburbs.

It's so late, what is the other person doing in the suburbs?
Women's curiosity is always innate.

And with her martial arts skills, apart from those otherworldly immortals, there are few people in the world who can rival her.

She naturally has no inhibitions.

He jumped up and followed him.

"This is... an incense temple."

After following the people for a long time, Wu Mingyue finally saw the building in front of her clearly.

The overall look is extremely crude.

The location is very remote.

But it was kept extremely neat and tidy, and it was obvious that people often came to worship it.

When the man came to the Incense Temple, he looked around carefully for fear of being discovered.

Then the worship began.

The common man in front of me was in such a hurry at night just to burn a stick of incense at this small temple in the suburbs.

Wu Mingyue's doubts deepened, and her curiosity was aroused to the extreme.

I was about to get closer and take a closer look, but I forgot to hide my figure.

"Who! Who is there!"

In the Incense Temple, the man who was kneeling down to pray devoutly turned his head warily.

"Don't be nervous, I don't mean any harm."

Seeing that her whereabouts were exposed, Wu Mingyue simply stood up openly.

From this distance, we can see the scene in the temple clearly.

When she saw clearly the rankings in the Incense Temple, she was suddenly startled.

Because she saw that above the ranking, it was clearly written, Gu Changsheng, the spiritual position of the Immortal General.

This incense temple belongs to Gu Changsheng.

But the people in front of them clearly looked down upon them during the day.

He scolded Gu Changsheng as an unprecedented treacherous minister in the history of the Zhou Dynasty.

"Nizi, let me tell you the truth."

But the man hesitated in place for a long time, and then he spoke as if he had made some kind of determination. "General Changsheng is a good man. He saved all our people in the Southern Wilderness."

"Without him, I might have starved to death in the drought that year."

"I'm sorry for General Changsheng. Even after he died, I didn't dare to say a kind word for him."

As the man spoke, his eyes turned slightly red.

"Good man, Gu Changsheng, do you know that when there was a severe drought, the court allocated 20 loads of white flour for disaster relief, but when it finally reached the victims of the Southern Wilderness, it turned into [-] loads of chaff."

"That's not even human food."

Wu Mingyue retorted instinctively.

From 20 dan to [-] dan, it seems to be twice as much, but in fact the value of the two cannot be generalized at all.

The chaff is not food that can be eaten by humans, but is used to feed livestock.

There was a natural disaster, and countless innocent people starved to death in the severe drought. Under such a situation.

Gu Changsheng still had the heart to do anything. His humanity was really lost, and his evil deeds should not be exaggerated if he was cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.

"But we victims are not "human". Without the chaff of General Changsheng, how could we survive this severe drought?"

"He is our benefactor."

The man is passionate and full of righteous indignation.

Wu Mingyue was even more confused when she saw this scene.

She really doesn't understand.

I don't understand why the man in front of me would describe myself as someone other than a human being.

I really don’t understand why they should be grateful when Gu Changsheng obviously took away the white noodles that the victims deserved.

At this time, the man fell to the ground as if he had exhausted all his strength. When he raised his head again, his eyes were filled with tears.

"Nizi, you will never understand what it feels like to be so hungry until you have experienced it."

"A hungry person is no better than an animal."

As the man told it, the truth of the cruel history that had been sealed for many years and that no one who experienced it was willing to mention was revealed bit by bit.

That year, the Southern Wilderness suffered a severe drought that was rare in a century.

No grain was harvested, let alone chaff, even bark on the roadside, weeds, and even earth that could be swallowed.

They have all become the talk of the disaster victims.

What's more, they exchange their children...

And it was in such an environment that the court's disaster relief team arrived belatedly...

"Grain, give me grain."

"Get away from the untouchables. You want food. Who doesn't want it? Come one by one and wait until it's your turn."

"Master Jun, it's our turn now."

Looking at the well-dressed and potbellied "disaster victims" in front of me.

The soldiers responsible for disaster relief were in trouble.

These days, there are more than one fake "disaster victim" just like the man in front of him, fishing in troubled waters.

It is actually not difficult to tell the difference, but each of them cannot afford to offend.

Most of these fake disaster victims were servants in the houses of local tycoons.

I don’t know which big shot in the court the people of Southern Wilderness offended?

They have also received pressure to turn a blind eye to these actions of local gentry.

That means.

All the shares that should have fallen into the hands of the victims were occupied by these local tycoons.

How dare they, little people, interfere?
"What happened?"

At this time, a warm voice came into his ears.

The soldier looked up and was stunned.

"General, why are you here?"

He quickly told the man in front of him what he had encountered.

The man pondered for a moment and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he motioned for the soldiers to come over.

Later, the white flour originally used for disaster relief was replaced with coarse chaff mixed with sand.

And you can only leave after eating.

At the beginning, could those "fake disaster victims" still persist?
The following days never came again.

(End of this chapter)