Pick all the cold branches

There are Japanese pirates raging outside, and officials and businessmen colluding inside. Few ordinary merchants dare to come to the southeast coast.The richer the wealth and background, the more they think that the gain is not worth the loss, and they can avoid it if they can. On the contrary, some reckless businessmen who are licking their blood dare to take risks and take advantage of the chaos to carve out a way under the eyes of the government to smuggle salt, iron and rice at high prices. .The local government was too tired to deal with the Japanese pirates, so they turned a blind eye and turned a blind eye, as long as there was "filial piety" to take, they would not interfere.

As a result, the local people are in dire straits.

Zhen Xian followed Jia Fei all the way, but when he saw broken tiles and ruined houses, there would be starvation deaths within a hundred steps, and most of them were old and weak, especially women, many of them were naked and even had bones.Those bones were not rotted after death and eaten by wild dogs and vultures, but were chopped with sharp tools and the flesh was cut off, just like a butcher in a market slaughtering pigs and selling meat.

And besides those who have died, there are still many who are alive, but they are worse than dead.Those young women were either abandoned by their fleeing family members, or left on their own initiative because they refused to drag their family members down. Everyone had grass marks on their heads, and they were picked by the roadside like cattle. The guests tried their best to sell themselves at a low price. They didn't need money at all. As long as they had a mouthful of soup to survive, they were willing to be slaves and handmaids to be manipulated and trampled at will. Among them, there were many virgins aged eleven or twelve.

All kinds of scenes, like an endless hell, are even more shocking than the last time they went south, it is really appalling.

There was always a depression in his chest that was hard to relieve, pulling the wound from time to time, so that he couldn't tell whether it was the pain or the heartache.He could only try his best to endure, lest His Highness find out and worry about him again.

Zhen Xian finds it really hard to understand, as a human being, he also has parents, relatives, brothers and sisters, and perhaps wives and weak daughters, how cruel and cold-blooded are those so-called "parents and officials" to deal with such Turning a blind eye to the miserable scene in the world, and even cruelly peeling another layer of flesh on top of the bloody mess?And those who are real husbands and fathers, how can they safely leave these terrified women behind and let them fall into such a desperate and desolate situation...

He asked Jia Fei what he planned to do when he entered Nanjing City in the future.

After several days in succession, His Highness Prince Jing's expression was also very unkind.

Flipping through the newspapers and listening to people's stories are just a few words, far less than what I saw with my own eyes.

Today's Zhejiang and Zhizhi, the closer they are to the coast, the less human-like they are.

The first reaction was to arrest the local magistrate, change his official robes, remove his black yarn, and behead him as a sacrifice to the souls of the dead.

But there was another voice in his heart telling him clearly that if he really wanted to kill him, he would have to drag out all the officials, big and small, from the whole Zhejiang province up to the governor down to the county magistrate, and none of them would be killed unjustly.

But he can't do that.

The chopping off of so many heads at once would not only shock the government and the public, but also lead to chaos.

Moreover, if all these people were killed, there would be no one in the whole Zhejiang province to use. In a short time, where would he find enough suitable people to help him manage the military and government?

So I can only press this death penalty for the time being.

He only needs to beat one person, and that is Hu Jingcheng, the majestic governor of Zhejiang Province.

The lower beam is not right, the crime of upper beam, as an important person in charge of the military and political affairs of the entire southeast, the chief official of the frontier, can make the rule into such a mess, even if Lu Shiquan and the weaving bureau are in it, it is absolutely unreasonable.

Whether or not Hu Dutang was corrupt can be discussed separately. The crime of dereliction of duty is hard to escape.

But after all, Hu Jingcheng is an important minister trusted by his father, and he has controlled soldiers and horses in the southeast for many years, and he has the merits of fighting against the Japanese. However, he is just a newcomer, even if he is a prince, he can't just pat the table in person.

It is true that his father gave him a Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, but compared with Hu Dutang, who has worked hard in Zhejiang Province for many years, his Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is nothing more than a false name.

And back when he went to northern Xinjiang to pick up Xiaoxian, Hu Dutang once helped him break Lu Shiquan's siege.He couldn't ignore this favor.

Therefore, he couldn't just go to Hu Jingcheng to make trouble.

He wanted Hu Jingcheng to come to him on his own initiative.

Jiafei ordered the accompanying guards to distribute some food to the refugee women, and told them to disperse to ask questions about the local guards and Japanese pirates' harassment.

The guards came back not long after, and they got the same story. They all said that the officers and soldiers in the guards were weak and were often beaten by Japanese pirates and fled in embarrassment. , but never relentless when encountering Japanese pirates, and even took the initiative to drive the Japanese pirates who came ashore back into the water, and even bombed and sank the Japanese pirates' boats.Most of the local men who did not escape also joined this group of thieves.

A group of underworld thieves who murdered, smuggled, and smuggled contraband actually did the work of expelling foreign enemies and defending the country for the officers and soldiers. Ordinary people might applaud and applaud, but His Royal Highness Prince Jing had complicated emotions and could only smile wryly.

Since ancient times, there have been tyrants and heroes in troubled times, and the heroes of the green forests are like water and Liangshan. Those who gather together and rise up, there are nothing more than three endings: Zhao'an, extermination, and founding the country.

Of course, the founding of the country must never be allowed.As for Zhao'an or extermination, you have to see it with your own eyes before you know.

Jiafei gradually had a plan in his heart, so he ordered Yuqing to personally investigate the place where these thieves had fallen into the stronghold, led his own dozen or so people, rode lightly on horseback all the way, and knocked on the door in person.