Eagle-eyed and wolf-watching

Chapter 1466 No grass will grow for ten thousand years!

Fanjia Town, 30 miles south of Yijing City
Seventy years ago, Fanjia Town was not called Fanjia Town, but Liujiaji. The reason why it was changed from Liujiaji to Fanjia Town was because seventy years ago, the Luobei people went south to plunder, burning, killing and looting all the way, and used war to support war before they attacked the city of Yijing!
Zhao Changgui, the then general of Yijing, also adopted the strategy of clearing the countryside and taking in the people and food from the surrounding areas of Yijing into Yijing City in advance, leaving no supplies for the Luobi people. Since Liujiaji was only thirty miles away from Yijing, the people of Liujiaji were also the first batch to enter Yijing City!

The battle to defend Yijing seventy years ago was extremely tragic. Yijing City was besieged for thirty-nine days, and the casualties among the soldiers and civilians defending the city were close to 30%. The city gates were nearly breached by the Luobi people several times. In the end, with the help of several reinforcements from the Great Zhou, the city was able to defend this important northern city.
The reason why the city was able to hold on at that time was not only because the defending soldiers and civilians united and fought bravely, but also largely because of the proper command of Zhao Changgui, the general of Yijing at that time. At the beginning of the war, he built a strong defense and cleared the countryside, which increased the difficulty for the Luobei people to obtain supplies. He also recruited the people in Yijing city very early to maximize the defense force!

In this war, Liujiaji was burned to ashes by the Luobei people who gained nothing, so the people of Liujiaji had to integrate into the city of Yijing.
Later, famine broke out in Hebei and Henan, and several brothers with the surname Fan fled from Hebei and Henan to the vicinity of Yijing, and eventually rebuilt their home on the original land of Liujiaji. After decades of development, it gradually developed into the scale of a village.
A few years ago, Fanjia Village was still a small village with only dozens of households, and most of the villagers were descendants of the Fan brothers who fled famine.

However, as Ye Mingsheng led the Fengwu Army into the pass and continued to carefully manage Yijing, Yijing was transformed from a military stronghold in the north into the political center and economic center of the north. More and more people were attracted to Yijing, which also greatly promoted the development of the surrounding areas of Yijing.

Fanjia Village, which is only more than 30 miles away from Yijing, has also taken advantage of this favorable situation to rapidly expand from a small village with dozens of households to a small town with 3,000 people today!

Although it has grown into a town and was officially named Fanjia Town by the Yijing government a year ago, many old Yijing people still prefer to call it Fanjia Village because it is still a short time ago.
In Yijing under the rule of Ye Mingsheng, many opportunities have emerged due to the good economic development. Therefore, while attracting the influx of outsiders, it has also pushed up the housing prices in Yijing. Many people find it difficult to buy a place to live in Yijing in their entire lives!
Among those who cannot afford to buy a house in Yijing, most of them eventually choose to return to their hometown to work hard, but there are also some who want to stay in Yijing for various reasons, so they have to settle for the second best and buy a house in Fanjia Town.

There are quite a few people who make such a choice. It is precisely because of the existence of these people that the development of Fanjia Town has been driven, making the housing prices in a small town like Fanjia Town comparable to big cities like Jinzhong, Jinyang, and Dongning...
But at this moment, countless people, with their families, were scrambling to escape from their houses, which they had spent a lot of money on, and fled in all directions without looking back.

These people's faces were filled with fear and anxiety, as if a ferocious monster had appeared in their once happy home, causing them to panic and lose their way!
At this time, on the road from Fanjia Town to Yijing, a young father was driving a donkey cart towards Yijing, while his wife was holding their infant son.

Their five-year-old daughter was sitting beside them. Although the girl was very quiet, her young face was full of confusion. It seemed that she didn't understand why her father took the whole family out so late!

As time passed, the sky became darker. Although the man kept whipping the donkey to urge it forward, the family of four on the cart was too heavy for the skinny donkey.

Not long after they started walking, the donkey began to breathe heavily and its speed became slower and slower. No matter how hard her husband whipped it, the donkey was unwilling to move forward. The wife sitting in the cart could not help but persuade her husband:
"Stop hitting the kid! If you keep hitting him, he'll be killed!"

Faced with his wife's admonition, the young man looked at the little donkey that was really unwilling to run, and put down the whip helplessly.

This young man named Wang Kui was a peddler. He usually collected some agricultural and sideline products around Yijing and then sent them to Yijing city to sell. Because both the collection and sale of goods depended on the transportation of this little donkey, Wang Kui usually took good care of the little donkey, fearing that it would be damaged...

The reason why the little donkey was whipped so many times today was because although Wang Kui loved the little donkey, he loved his own life and that of his family more!
At this time, Wang Kui's wife, Wang Liu, looked at her helpless husband and hesitated for a moment and said:
"Dad, are you overthinking this?"

Wang Kui waved his hand and said:
"It's impossible to overthink it! I've heard the storyteller tell it countless times!"

"Back then, Qin Shi Huang was cruel and ruthless, so a meteorite fell from the sky as a warning, with the words 'The Emperor will die and the land will be divided' written on it!"

"After Qin Shi Huang saw the meteorite, he was furious and ordered that all women, children, old and young, pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep within a radius of 100 miles be killed and burned. The area within a radius of 100 miles was turned into scorched earth, and no grass would grow for ten thousand years!"

"The rock fell near our Fanjia Town yesterday. If we don't run now, the army might arrive tomorrow. By then, my family and this useless beast will all be dead!"

After saying that, Wang Kui couldn't help but kick the little donkey. The little donkey, which was gasping for breath, cried out again after being kicked.

At this time, Wang Liu said:
"You said the child's father was Qin Shi Huang, not our emperor! Qin Shi Huang wanted to kill everyone within a hundred miles, but our emperor didn't want to kill everyone within a hundred miles!"

"Humph! You are just a woman's opinion!"

"Our emperor is the same kind of person as Qin Shi Huang, even worse than Qin Shi Huang. He said he would always be a minister of Zhou, but in the end he still bullied orphans and widows and usurped the throne of Zhou. His hands are stained with blood!"

"People like this will be punished by God. God will not let him off!"

“He will end up like Qin Shi Huang…”

Looking at her indignant husband, Wang Liu curled her lips and said:
"I think the current emperor is pretty good. You have also been allocated land and the world is peaceful. I think Daqian is much better than Dazhou!"

Listening to his wife's words, Wang Kui was speechless for a moment. After a long while, he said:
"None of this can change the fact that he is a thief who stole the country! A great traitor!"

"Look, now God has sent down a meteorite as a warning. God can't stand it anymore. The storyteller said that Qin Shi Huang died the year after the meteorite fell. What do you think will happen to our emperor?"

Before Wang Kui finished speaking, Wang Liushi heard the sound of horse hooves ahead and immediately interrupted Wang Kui and said:
"The child's father is coming!"

As soon as Wang Kui said this, he turned around and looked ahead. As the couple watched, the sound of horse hooves became clearer and clearer, and then a horse team of dozens of people appeared in front of the couple.

Suddenly facing such a cavalry, the couple was somewhat at a loss. What frightened them even more was that a sturdy man in the cavalry was looking at them viciously. Seeing this, Wang Liu was frightened and subconsciously hugged her little son tightly in her arms, and her action seemed to hurt the child! The child, who was just born less than a year old, had no idea what his parents were facing, so he burst into tears.

Hearing the child's crying, the couple, who were already at a loss, became even more at a loss.

Seeing the embarrassing look of the couple, Ye Mingsheng looked at Zhang Hu beside him. Feeling Ye Mingsheng's gaze, Zhang Hu turned his head aside and no longer stared at the couple fiercely...
After doing all this, Ye Mingsheng turned around and asked the couple:

"Are you from Fanjia Town?"

Faced with the question, Wang Kui subconsciously agreed, but before he opened his mouth to speak, he realized something. As a peddler, Wang Kui often brought agricultural products collected from the countryside to Yijing City to sell, so he had also seen the world.

So even though he didn't know who the people in the cavalry in front of him were, he could feel that these people were definitely not ordinary people!

Thinking of this, Wang Kui couldn't help but recall what he had just said, such as kill them all, kill and burn them, and leave no grass alive for ten thousand years. He immediately looked a little panicked!
Ye Mingsheng, who noticed Wang Kui's expression, was also a little confused. He just asked them if they were from Fanjia Town. Was it necessary to be so scared?
Although he didn't know what Wang Kui was afraid of, Ye Mingsheng still comforted him:
"We are not bad people! We won't hurt you!"

After hearing what Ye Mingsheng said, Wang Kui felt a little relieved, but he still looked at Ye Mingsheng with some fear.

Seeing that this family was silent, Ye Mingsheng was speechless. He didn't know what this family was afraid of. However, since they were unwilling to speak, Ye Mingsheng was unwilling to force them, and immediately continued to lead the team towards Fanjia Town.

Half an hour ago, after Ye Mingsheng learned about the meteorite from Liu Sheng, he immediately decided to go out of the city tonight to go to Fanjia Town to see what the meteorite was all about...
So after notifying the palace, Ye Mingsheng led Zhang Hu and dozens of other guards and rode towards Fanjia Town!
Ye Mingsheng has seen more than ten similar situations along the way. Everyone was in a hurry, as if there was some danger chasing them from behind.

So when he saw the family stopped on the road just now, Ye Mingsheng went up to ask curiously, but he didn't expect that he didn't get anything out of his question. But this also made Ye Mingsheng even more curious about what happened in Fanjia Town.

Just as Ye Mingsheng was thinking about the answer to the question, Zhang Hu rode up to Ye Mingsheng on horseback and asked in confusion:
"Your Majesty, that man was so disrespectful to you just now? Why didn't you let me chop off his head?"

Ye Mingsheng, who was riding a horse, smiled when he heard this. When he passed by just now, he vaguely heard what the man said, "the thief who stole the country, the treacherous minister, Qin Shihuang" and so on. Although he only heard the general idea and did not hear it very clearly, this did not prevent Ye Mingsheng from understanding that the man was talking about him behind his back!

If Ye Mingsheng had heard such words when he first started his incognito tour, he would still be quite angry and feel that his efforts were wasted!

But over the years, Ye Mingsheng had heard such words too many times when he was on incognito visits, so he had become accustomed to it and numb to it!

He gradually realized that in the traditional feudal HQTZ, the common people did not have much ability to be the Z leader and SK, and most people just followed the crowd.

Although Ye Mingsheng felt a little sad about this, he also knew that this was a phenomenon created by thousands of years of traditional culture and it would be difficult for him to change it on his own...

So Ye Mingsheng finally felt that a journey of a thousand miles can reveal a person's true character!

Although Ye did do some immoral things in order to seize the world, overall he has a clear conscience!

He, Ye, is not Emperor Qianlong, and he does not engage in literary inquisition!

Facing Zhang Hu's puzzled gaze, Ye Mingsheng pondered for a moment, then said leisurely:
“Who in this world doesn’t talk about others, and who doesn’t get talked about by others?

After saying that, Ye Mingsheng no longer paid attention to Zhang Hu, and immediately continued to run towards Fanjia Town.

Although Zhang Hu found it difficult to understand Ye Mingsheng's words and actions, he could see that Ye Mingsheng was unwilling to say more on this topic, so as a guard, he did not say anything more and followed Ye Mingsheng towards Fanjia Town!
An incense stick later, Ye Mingsheng arrived at Fanjia Town. He watched the people of Fanjia Town fleeing one after another with their elders and children under the bright moonlight. Especially when he saw that some people had even lost their shoes, Ye Mingsheng found it funny and even more puzzled.

However, with the introduction of an old man, Ye Mingsheng soon understood why the people of Fanjia Town were so panicked.

After understanding the reason, Ye Mingsheng looked at the people who were in a hurry to leave Fanjia Town. He felt angry and amused at the same time, and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

“No matter if they are women or children, old or young, pigs, dogs, cattle or sheep, kill them all and burn them. The area within a hundred miles will be turned into scorched earth, and no grass will grow for ten thousand years...”

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(End of this chapter)