The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Gai Nie quietly appeared beside him, his eyes filled with sadness: "The roadside starved to death, I just don't know if there is any smell of red dog meat!"

Yan Song snorted angrily: "If there is, I will let them try my Yan Song's Shang Fang sword, which is not good!"

Soon, the team set off again.

But the scene they just saw made the team feel heavy.

However, it was clear that Yan Song and the others had not made sufficient psychological preparations. Along the way, there were skeletons all over the place. Those corpses that had been dead for a long time turned into yellow-black bones earlier, and all kinds of inexplicable bugs crawled in and out of the skeletons. .

It's hell, it's shocking to watch.

Yan Song's heart trembled. If this scene were put in later generations, not to mention so many corpses, even a fallen corpse would cause a huge shock.

In this era, people really eat people.

"Since September last year, bandits and thieves have crossed each other, benefiting from starvation, and more than half of the people have died..." - Bao Zheng's memorial in October.

"In October, Liangji, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, and Huguang were dry without rain, and locusts covered the sky. In November, Huizhou suffered a severe drought, and the price of rice was fifty taels per stone. The bones are crisscrossed, and the pedestrians are cut off..." - Hu Zongxian remarked in January.

A few months ago, Yan Song was high in the court and ruled the world. He read too many memorials like this, but because he read too much at that time, Yan Song was numb, feeling that it was just a word and a number.

But now, when I came to Shandong and saw such a scene, these memorials floated in my heart, every word is so shocking, this is the turbulent times of the Ming Dynasty, and the people are miserable.There are many reasons for this. Natural disasters are part of it, man-made disasters, bandits, bandits, and military chaos are raging on this land.

It's just that the government does not care about the life and death of the people, and even the officials force the people to rebel, and the gentry are more self-sufficient, and even wish to be more chaotic, so that they can get more land in the future.

Yan Song looked around the surrounding fields, and the color was dry and yellow everywhere, and the ground was full of cracks caused by drought, even the fields near the river were no exception.

Yan Song sighed with unspeakable bitterness on his face.

"Bao Zheng is ashamed of Bao Qingtian's name, and I, Yan Song, are also ashamed, it's too late!"

Along the dry road, I walked all the way. On the way, I found a few mummified corpses, all of them in a hideous shape, and then I met a Zhuangzi who used to live in a tyrannical man, but at this time it was already broken......

Yan Song felt a little hungry, and at this time the sun had already set in the west, and it was almost dark.

“Check in here tonight!”

Several Jinyiwei entered Zhuangzi to explore, and soon gave Yan Song a result.Zhuangzi was swept away countless times by the refugees along the way, and all the useful things were taken away, even the wells and ponds could not be found.There are traces of fire in Zhuangzi, and some traces of battle can be seen. It seems that it was not Zhuangzi's people who left, but a foreign enemy attacked Zhuangzi and then destroyed everything inside.

Who is the foreign enemy?Rogues, thieves, soldiers and bandits are all possible, and even some Zhuangzi will fight each other to plunder rations and resources.

The team brought sufficient supplies, and there was a river not far away, so they could barely make a fire to cook.Fortunately, I didn't have a female family, otherwise I would really suffer, er... Except for Nie Yinniang, after all, she is an assassin and doesn't care about these difficult circumstances.

Soon it was night.

Just when Yan Song was about to fall asleep, a Jin Yiwei came in: "Elder Yan Ge, a horse thief is coming!"

Yan Song's eyes opened immediately, and his face was hideous.

"how many people?"

"There are about 100 people, there are more than 20 horse thieves, and more than 80 thieves. I was attracted by our fireworks."

"More than 100 people, let our people hide some of them, so as not to scare them! You go to arrange the formation, and protect our horses." Yan Song's eyes flashed a trace of anger!Since you're here, don't even try to escape!

"Yes, my lord." Jinyiwei Qianhu led the order out, and then ordered Jinyiwei and Dongchang to hide.

At this time, Gai Nie and Nie Yinniang also got up and walked out with weapons.

The three came to the gate of Zhuangzi.

More than a dozen Jinyiwei and Dongchang changed into ordinary clothes and stood with knives.

The sound of hoofs was getting closer.

Not long after, Yan Song finally saw the horse thief!

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Chapter 87: There Are Many Horse Thieves in Troubled Times [5]

Several bonfires were burning.

Illuminated the entire Zhuangzi, as well as dozens of meters around.

Through the firelight, Yan Song saw the horse thieves in the distance. These horse thieves did not attack immediately, but gathered together first.

The leading ones were dressed in strong suits with red scarves tied around their heads. I wonder if they followed the example of the red scarf uprising of the past.These leaders were discussing something, pointing at them from time to time, and bursts of wild laughter burst out, the laughter was full of cruelty and ruthlessness.

These horse thieves do not have the slightest human nature, and they simply use evil as their profession and trample on good for pleasure.

Soon after, Yan Song saw these horse thieves riding their horses, walking around Zhuangzi, and shouting after returning.

"Horse! There are horses! There are horses in this village, and I hear the sound of horses!"

With this shout, the entire gang of horse thieves was in an uproar, and their eyes were all red.

"Kill these people and grab the horse!"

"Grab a horse!"

In this troubled world, horses are very valuable, representing mobility, being able to fight and escape, and are very precious.

The leader of the horse thief shouted something in a high-pitched voice, as if to encourage a reward or something, which made the crowd of thieves excited.

Suddenly they shouted, and under the escort of the sword and shield hand,

Soon, these horse thieves began to divide into four parts, and then surrounded Zhuangzi from four and attacked in four directions.