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Chapter 611 Good News

Facing the same victory, if the emotions of the people under the rule of Shandong Xuanfu envoy were overjoyed, the emotions of the people in Zhongdu can only be described as the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.

For them, Dinghai is an unfamiliar force after all, and it is really hard to guess how the leader of Dinghai, Guo Ning, will control Zhongdu in the future.For two consecutive days, there were more than a dozen Lifangs in the city, and the remnants of the people fled in terror, while many rebels and even the city's gangsters scattered around, and came out to commit crimes from time to time.

No matter how resourceful Zhang Rou and Miao Daorun are, many things are difficult to accomplish overnight. Moreover, both of them are smart people. After gathering the old troops, they will focus on the outside of the central capital, especially the military strongholds such as Qingbaikou and Juyongguan in the north of the city. The recovery and recruitment of soldiers above.

Chen Ran is now directly responsible for most of the public security and daily management in the city, and Guo Ning will ultimately be responsible for reassuring people's hearts.

Yongping square in the north of the city.

When Guo Ning first came to Zhongdu, he had been here before. At that time, Du Shisheng brought him in from Zhangyi Gate, turned a corner here, and went to Taiji Palace.

He still remembered that Yongping Square was not small in scale. It was divided into two north and south squares by roads. Both places were full of pedestrians, and the shops on the street were bustling with hawkers. There were at least thousands of residents in the square.

But at this moment, everyone entered the range of Lifang, looking at the desolation.Most of the square walls and buildings collapsed, and the simple sheds erected on the ruins showed traces of fire, and the ground was full of black ash and dried blood.Guo Ning continued to walk along the road, walked a hundred steps, but still saw no one.

"Where are the people? Did they flee and haven't come back yet? Or were they mopped up by the Mongols the night before yesterday?" Guo Ning asked.

Li Chunfu, Minister of the Zuo Division, replied: "Xuanshi, this place has been deserted for more than a day, and it is not the result of the fighting the day before yesterday."

"Oh?"

"Last year when the Mongolian army attacked the city, the defenders demolished the buildings in Lifang, thinking that they were rolling logs and stones. The main demolished buildings were Guangyuan, Fengxian, Ganquan, and Yongping four squares in the south of Tongxuan Gate. The people living here are mainly refugees from all over the world. This year, the Mongolian army besieged the city again. In order to distribute food and relief, Xu Canzheng specially counted the Dingkou of each Lifang. I remember that there were more than [-] refugees here. Naturally, many escaped, but there were still some left, most likely because we were so powerful that we dared not show our faces, and hid behind the hut."

This Li Chunfu's character is pure, he was born in Hanlin, his father Li Cai was the governor of Yidu Mansion, and he himself is a general of Xu Ding's family.These two days, although Xu Ding himself did not show up, he sent a few capable men to help Guo Ning rectify the order in the city.

Xu Ding himself is one of the Hanchens who attaches great importance to practical affairs, so he presided over the general affairs of the city twice in a row during the Mongolian siege.Most people in his faction are like this, but Li Chunfu's performance is particularly good.

Hearing what he said, Guo Ning thought for a while and said, "It's better to see it with your own eyes."

Li Chunfu also brought a few small officials with him, he turned his head and gave some instructions, and the two small officials turned into a rough fork in the road first.

"Emissary..."

"Let's go." Guo Ning lightly tugged at the reins, and followed.

The desolation of the central capital is not the same as the litter of corpses on the battlefield.It is clear that there are still some traces of the old prosperity, but there are only piles of collapsed shacks left, which makes people feel particularly desolate.

The two officials walked for a while, pointing to the dark ruins in front of them: "Xuanshi, there should be people in that area."

Guo Ning squinted his eyes and looked repeatedly, but he couldn't find where the person was.

Li Chunfu winked, and the little official went up and shook the board directly.I saw fragments of bricks and tiles and dust falling down, and under a burnt-down beam, a child pushed away the wooden boards and poked his head out to take a look.The child was about three or four years old, short and thin, with hands and feet like reeds; he was shirtless, and he could see two rows of skinny bones, but his stomach was very protruding and his head seemed big.

As soon as he stretched his head out, his vision was blurred by the sunlight. After rubbing it twice, he realized that there was a large group of people gathered in front of him. He screamed twice in fright, and burrowed into the ruins again.

Guo Ning pulled the horse over, lightly stretched his long arms, grabbed the little baby by the back of the neck, and picked him up.When he was about to ask a few words in a friendly manner, he could smell a lingering stench from his body.

Guo Ning had waded through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and he was too familiar with this smell.

He immediately turned his head and pointed to several servants: "Go in and have a look! I'm afraid someone is dead!"

The servants got off their horses in a hurry, stepped on the ruins with a clatter, and got into the crumbling shack.After a while, someone said in a muffled voice: "The envoys are all dead! There are dead people inside!"

The servants who lived in several other shacks also said one after another: "Many people died! All of them died!"

There were also some people who struggled to pull out one or two people who looked like evil spirits: "This one is still alive!"

Guo Ning turned to look at Li Chunfu.

Li Chunfu's forehead was slightly sweating, and he leaned over and said, "Xuanshi, since the army was sent to the city, not many officials in Daxing Mansion have died, so there has been no food distribution for three or five days. It is inevitable...cough cough, A lot of people will inevitably starve to death."

Guo Ning nodded.

He is a hard-hearted warrior, not a scholar.The death of a few people in front of him will not make him have any special emotions.He knew that people died every day in Zhongdu, and Xu Ding had done his best to maintain the general situation.He also knew that those high-ranking officials who were still well-fed in the besieged city were killed twice by the Mongols and the rebellious soldiers under Shuhu Gaoqi. They probably died earlier than these refugees, which can be called retribution.

But he really hoped that after he entered the central capital, the people would be able to live better. Today, he specially patrolled the city to see the real situation, not just to put on an appearance to appease people's hearts.

He took out a piece of scone from the leather pouch on the saddle, and before it was handed to the little doll, the doll's eyes turned green, and it bit it up, almost biting Guo Ning's finger.Guo Ning quickly let go and put him back on the ground.

The doll held the cake in its mouth, and crawled back into the ruins on its hands and feet. It didn't look like a human, but a skinny mouse.

"Mr. Jinzhi is in charge of the daily affairs of the Governor of Daxing, but no one said that Xu Youcheng didn't care about it, right? Zhichun, you still have to share Xu Youcheng's worries, don't slack off, and the relief and distribution of food must be resumed immediately. If there is a lack of people, go to recruit, and you can pick them from the troops in the south of the city. If there is a shortage of food, I promise you to open the granary in the north of Lizemen to use it first, and I will find other ways for the missing parts.”

"Yes Yes."

Guo Ning steered his horse back, and slowly came out from the ruins.

After walking a few steps, he reined in his horse in the street, and said loudly to Li Chunfu: "Anyway, so many officials died, and they all sent people to search their mansions. And those fellow gangster Gao Qizhi People, I don't believe that they didn't hide the grain at the bottom of the box! The people are going to starve to death, so what are you worried about?"

These words showed the tail of the traitor honestly and bluntly, Li Chunfu was taken aback for a moment, and quickly responded again.

The entire city of Zhongdu is still in a state of martial law, and people are prohibited from traveling.However, when Guo Ning and a group of people passed by, the bold residents lay on the windows or on the wall to watch.

After all, this Guo Xuan envoy, except for fighting a battle in the city three years ago, has never appeared again; when officials mentioned him, they either marveled at the ferocity of his actions, or complained about the obvious signs of rebellion.The vast majority of people are curious and wary of the name Guo Ning.

But at this time, I saw a tall young man riding a horse slowly, his brows were furrowed, but he was not vicious. He reined in his horse and yelled loudly in the street, saying that he wanted to collect food for the people.Everyone thought of the rice vat and noodle vat that was slowly bottoming out in their home, and they immediately had a good impression of this envoy Guo Xuan.

"He's thinking about raising food..." Someone said with emotion.

"I heard that the envoy Guo Xuan led an army of tens of thousands from Hebei to Zhongdu. He wiped out the Mongolian Qixue army along the way. The corpses blocked the Lugou River, and the severed Mongol heads piled up like a mountain. .I thought he was a killer, but never thought that he is a kind person?"

"What about good people, but what about evil people? If you have food, you can live; if you have food, you can live." A man with the appearance of a subordinate sighed: "We can't control many other things!"

Guo Ning ignored the row of looking heads on the courtyard wall across the road. He urged his horse to take two steps. With the food supply in the city, he thought of another thing: "Tongzhou, what should I say? Lushui Passage must Reactivate it as soon as possible, Wanyan Chenghui really dares to keep me waiting?"

(End of this chapter)