wife and king

Yan Cangling heard the sound and went over to take a look. It turned out that several people were arguing near the barracks, including civilians and city guards.When I asked the soldiers guarding the gate of the barracks, I knew that it was the days when the people in the city could not bear the torrential rain to flood the city and there was no fire to cook food. They wanted to flee with their families, but when they fled here, the guards stopped them.The Huan Dynasty had an order that in order to ensure timely tax collection, people were not allowed to move their homes to other cities. If they had to move their homes, they had to be guaranteed someone to pay taxes on behalf of the people who moved.Now looking at these hurried people, it is obvious that they fled in haste, smuggled out of the city, and did not arrange people to pay taxes on their behalf.

Yan Cangling lowered his face, seeing those guards' words excitedly persuading them to return to the city, it was obvious that they were afraid that the people would flee, so he followed them.The common people suffered from the natural disaster, and begged with tears, and the guards tried to persuade him, hoping that the common people could take care of his rice bowl.

The two sides formed a stalemate.

Yan Cangling stepped forward, comforted the agitated people a few times, and asked after he calmed down, "Why do you want to escape? It's just a few days of natural disasters, is it worth the effort to move?"

One of the skinny people wiped away the tears from his eyes, and lamented his bitterness. It turns out that natural disasters have occurred repeatedly in recent years, and there are many people who suffer from disasters. The houses built this year will be destroyed next year.However, due to natural disasters, the grain production has dropped sharply, and the people are struggling to feed themselves, and the food and salaries for the government's disaster relief have been collected by some corrupt officials. What really falls into the hands of the people is just a drop in the bucket. Out of town.

Speaking of this matter, the guard among them also sighed. He said that he had captured many smuggled people over the years, but in his heart he thought that he could let the people find another way to make a living. The rice bowl is gone, so how can I support a family.

Yan Cangling frowned, and asked where all the food and salaries for disaster relief went. The common people and the guards looked at me and I looked at you, but they all dropped two words in unison: Zhou Mu.

Yan Cangling led his men into the state shepherd's mansion, slashed his sword across the state shepherd's neck, forcing him to hand over the food and wages he had swallowed all these years.

Zhou Mu was so frightened that his face turned pale, his life was hanging on his neck, how dare he say no, he shook his hands and called for someone to hand over the money he had swallowed all these years.

Yan Cangling looked at the boxes of gold and silver, and became even more angry. The people and the guards all knew that the state herdsmen had embezzled food and salaries. It can be seen that his embezzlement was blatant. Now that the people are suffering, the state herdsmen have embezzled money and did not distribute it. Heartless!

After Yan Cangling ordered someone to count the box of gold and silver, he sent people to the bank to exchange cash for cash and distribute it to the people in need.

"Only so much?!" Yan Cangling asked with a sneer, "You have been greedy for more than a year, and the money is probably only your year's worth."

"Back... back to the prince, only... only so much..." Zhou Mu was frightened by the cold knife on his neck, trembling all over his body, and emphasized, "There are really only so many."

"Search!" Yan Cangling waved his hand to order, and the soldiers flocked to every corner of the state pastoral mansion to search for any leftovers. After searching the whole mansion for clinker, they could only find some valuable decorations, not a lot. gold and silver.Yan Cangling was furious, and he grabbed Zhou Mu and repeatedly questioned him. Zhou Mu kept saying the same thing every time, but later he couldn't help being frightened, and said that the imperial government's food and salaries for disaster relief these years were not much, and it was not easy for him to steal so much.

Yan Cangling suddenly thought that An Tianren must have invested a lot of manpower and financial resources in secretly cultivating his own royal army. It makes sense.

But this amount of money is far from enough to solve the problems of the local people. The houses of the people suffer from disasters and collapse every year because they have no money to build good houses. In the final analysis, it is all caused by lack of money.In today's chaotic world, there are frequent wars, and where do you get the money to compensate the people.Although the merchant is rich, but the merchant has nothing to do with the imperial court. If he is kind, it is acceptable to induce him to donate money.

Yan Cangling walked out of the State Shepherd's Mansion, looked at the displaced people outside, and turned to ask the Zhou Shepherd who was taken out, "Is there a granary nearby?"

Zhou Mu hurriedly nodded and pointed out that there is a granary in the neighboring city.

Yan Cangling asked again: "Has there been any grain in the granary in recent years?"

State Shepherd shook his head and said no.

Yan Cangling understood, and ordered the people to throw away the state herd, cut the knife across, and ended his life, and had his head hung above the city gate to comfort the people who suffered from natural disasters and could not make up for it.After that, he brought people back to the camp, unfolded the map to study the nearby cities, and decided where the army should turn, capture the city, and open the granary.

The army set off in a mighty manner, and circled to the nearby city.Although he traveled a long way and wasted food and grass, after capturing the city, Sheng could replenish military supplies locally and avoid the impact of natural disasters.

Therefore, with this impetus, after the Xingtian army rushed to the city, they were red-eyed, and rushed into the city, opened the granary, relieved the urgent needs of the local people, and took a large part of it to be transported to the disaster area.As for the local corrupt officials, they were also killed by the way. Some of the money they hid privately were distributed to the local people who could not bear heavy taxes, and some were taken to the disaster-stricken areas for disaster relief.

Maybe it was Yan Cangling who did a good deed, God blesses, when Yan Cangling led the army to return to the disaster area, he found that the place where they were stationed was eroded by heavy rain and wind, and the ground was in a mess. If they left the rolled dead wood here, there would definitely be disasters and casualties.Fortunately, they left, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

When we set foot on this muddy road, the storm had almost subsided, and there were only some small winds blowing unwillingly to be outdone, but they couldn't stir up any waves.Yan Cangling felt relieved, patted his heart, and secretly sighed that he was lucky, otherwise he would die here, Ji Linchuan came up to hold his hand, and smiled lightly: "What are you waiting for, this is a morale booster good time."

Yan Cangling understood, smiled back at him, and immediately jumped up to Ben Ye, drew out his horizontal knife and shouted sharply to boost morale, saying that he was a god descended from the earth, with the blessing of heaven, so he could avoid the disaster, he led the army to attack the capital, It is to eliminate harm for the people and do justice for the sky, which is for righteousness.

The morale of the army was greatly boosted, and they raised their weapons and shouted "Long live King Yan", with great momentum.

Then Yan Cangling brought some soldiers into the city to distribute food and salaries to the people, but he heard something by accident at the ferry.