Han: The witchcraft disaster begins, I fight against Emperor Wu of Han

Chapter 76 I don’t want such a big man!!
Although Liu Jing knew that this Majesty had a rich treasury left by Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing when he ascended the throne.

Over the years, the construction of palaces and the salt and iron dictatorship were a way to spend money and make money.

But seeing his reaction at this moment, I was still a little surprised.

"Do you think it is eaten by cattle and sheep?"

"What else?" Liu Che looked over immediately.

He seemed to remember that he had been disrespectful to himself during this period.

Just about to speak.

But Liu Jing had already spoken, "If Your Majesty encounters disaster victims on the road, why not ask them, if you have no food to eat, why don't you eat meat?"

Liu Jing knew that "Why not eat meat porridge" came from the Western Jin Dynasty.

Now that he had said it himself, Liu Che would definitely not be able to react immediately.

Next to him, Huo Guang was stunned at first, but then he quickly understood and his face changed slightly.

At this time, he is still mocking Your Majesty?

"Liu Jing!"

Soon, Liu Che, who had already understood, looked over coldly. If it were someone else, he would probably be scared to the ground, but Liu Jing felt the change of the lucky coin and immediately looked back.

"Your Majesty, have you figured it out?"

"Are you making fun of me?"

Liu Che looked around and saw no one was around. He angrily said, "Let me ask the victims why they don't eat meat. Don't I know that they can't afford meat?"

Liu Jing shook his head.

Only then did Liu Che's anger subside.

But the next moment, Liu Jing quickly said: "Although it's not that outrageous, it's not far off."

Before Liu Che could get angry, Liu Jing continued, "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that in this year of famine, except for the truly wealthy families, people don't even have enough food to eat, so how can anyone raise livestock?"

Liu Jing pointed to the dilapidated village in the distance and said, "Your Majesty, are you saying that the people living there are the wealthy people in the capital?"

Liu Che had just seen the dilapidated village. At this moment, he first looked in the direction Liu Jing pointed, and then looked at the series of bare dead trees in front of him.

An incredible idea gradually emerged in his mind.

next moment.

His voice was a little out of tune.

"You mean, people eat these tree barks?"

Liu Jing didn't say anything, just looked around. He had never seen anyone eat trees or soil. Even in his previous life, the older generation had told him about this.

But now that I see it with my own eyes...

Still can't hide my touched heart!

When Liu Che saw that Liu Jing did not answer, he simply looked at Huo Guang and Jin Midi beside him.

"You said that people ate the bark?"

Huo Guang bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, it should be good."

"How can a person eat these? I have heard of grass roots and leaves, but tree bark? How can you swallow it?"

He seemed to suspect that everyone was deceiving the emperor, and shouted loudly: "It must be eaten by livestock!"

"Your Majesty, the people not only eat tree bark, they can even eat soil."

Seeing this, Liu Jing said again: "The book says... eating dirt is not the worst."

As soon as these words came out.

Liu Che was stunned on the spot. He looked around again. Those peeled trees looked like bloody figures with their skin peeled off, staring at him.

He murmured in a trance, and then he remembered the short words he had seen in memorials before.

"How can people eat these? Dirt and tree bark... Why would they eat these?"

The carriage stopped here for a full half hour, until Liu Che finally said to set off, and the wheels rolled forward.

This time, after just a few dozen miles, the number of disaster victims on the road gradually increased.

Even as the night passed and they were about to leave the capital, the number of hungry people increased.

Some are in groups of three or five, and some are in large groups.

From time to time, you can see hungry people lying on the ground, begging for "something to eat".

If they were not pulling some broken wooden boards, looking at the looks of those hungry people, it seemed that they could have robbed them.

Inside the carriage, Liu Che watched all this in a daze.

Because he had read the memorials a long time ago, he was very clear about the details of many things.

The disaster victims we see now are only from the capital area!
The imperial court had long ago issued an order to strictly guard the area around the capital and not allow disaster victims to enter the capital area. But now, at a glance, there are so many people here...

What about outside Gyeonggi Province?

What about the whole world?
The wheels rolled on the road, but it seemed more like they were rolling on Liu Che's heart.

At this moment, his eyes were confused and he was thinking about what Liu Jing had said before again.

Just now on the way, he saw with his own eyes that these people were actually peeling tree bark and eating it, and some even swallowed it with clods of soil.

They have thin limbs and round bellies.

Some were naked and exposed to the sun.

Every time he looked at it, he felt confused.

Is this still my great man?

Natural disasters?

Yes! They are all natural disasters!

When Liu Che was trying to convince himself, he saw the carriage stopped, and Huo Guang suddenly said, "Master, Duyang County is ahead."

Liu Che looked up and said, "I see, let's go."

Huo Guang showed a complicated expression, "I can't go any further..."

Liu Che frowned immediately.

Seeing that Huo Guang seemed to be hesitant to speak, Liu Che immediately stood up and looked forward.

For a moment, he froze in place.

In front of us was a county town that looked small. There was only a two-meter-high wall separating the inside and the outside, and the city gate was not open.

Because below, there was a dense crowd of heads.

There was a large open space outside the city, and at this moment it was filled with people sitting or lying on the ground, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.

Some people lay on the ground and were soon covered by other figures.

Some were the ones he had seen before, with thin limbs, round bellies, sunken eye sockets, and skinny bodies, like hungry ghosts.

At a glance, there were at least several thousand of them.

Most of them are elderly people, women, and children, and there are very few strong and healthy people.

On the other side, there were guards on high alert, aiming their bows and arrows downwards at any time, as if those arrows would be fired as soon as the victims made any move to rush towards the city gate!
"Why did it turn out like this? Why did it turn out like this?" Liu Che murmured.

"Your Majesty... Master, I'm sure many of the victims have crossed over from other places. After all, the barriers in the capital can't guard all the entrances and exits."

"That's why I'm asking! Why are there so many disaster victims?"

"Get in!"

Liu Che roared, and Huo Guang could only nod.

Immediately, the carriage continued to head towards Duyang County.

The closer Liu Che got to the city gate, the more noises he heard.

"Open the city gate quickly, open the city gate quickly..."

"I'm so hungry, please give me something to eat, kind person..."

"Who can buy my child, woo woo woo... Who wants to buy my child..."

"Buy my baby now!"

After hearing the last sentence, Liu Che could no longer bear it.

He lingered in famous mountains and rivers for a long time, either looking for sages and hermits, or practicing Fengshan and asking questions from heaven.

Either he spent the summer in Ganquan Palace, or he built his own fairy palace in Jianzhang Palace...

Have you ever seen these?

At some point, he felt the blood in his body speed up and rush to his face, making it extremely hot. The blood flowed into his eyes, and even his eye sockets were hot.

Is this my capital?
This is just Gyeonggi Province!
"Huo Guang!"

Huo Guang approached quickly. "Send a message to Tai... No! Send a message to King Huaide, and summon all officials immediately. First, allocate relief grain, set up porridge stalls at the gates of each county in the capital, and comfort the victims as soon as possible!"

"Immediately send my embroidered envoys to supervise everything, but anyone who embezzles money and grain at this time will be killed!"

"promise!"

When he heard Huo Guang's agreement, Liu Che closed his eyes.

"Also, once you enter the city, send a message to the county magistrate in the name of Jingzhao Yin as soon as possible. What are you waiting for? Rescue the victims as soon as possible!"

"Do you really want me to kill him?"

When he said this, Liu Che's voice was almost like a growl.

He wanted to hear Huo Guang's immediate reply from outside.

However, Huo Guang hesitated for a moment and said in embarrassment for the first time: "I'm afraid..."

"Ok?"

"I'm afraid we are not strong enough. The magistrate of Duyang County sent a message not long ago that disaster victims from outside Duyang County have gathered. The disaster victims from Liangzhou almost filled up the road."

"The porridge stalls outside the city were closed three days ago. The treasury in the entire city of Duyang County is probably empty, otherwise this place would not be like this."

As soon as these words were spoken, Liu Che felt his heart suddenly tighten.

He looked around.

The faces of every disaster victim seemed to be engraved in his mind.

"What should we do now? Open the city gates and let the people in first!"

After a lot of effort, Huo Guang finally thought of a way to negotiate with the people guarding the city. However, after a while, Huo Guang came to Liu Che.

"Your Majesty, there is no way to get in..."

"They said that the city is also full of disaster victims who poured in earlier... Now the entire Duyang County is at its limit. They said that if the city gates are opened, the consequences will be disastrous!"

Liu Che stood there in a daze.

"This is the capital, can't I go in? How many disaster victims are there? Why didn't I know about it before?"

Huo Guang did not answer.

Just at this moment, Liu Jing came over, and everyone he saw along the way made him tremble with fear.

"Can we enter from some other place? Or go directly to the Yin Secret."

They were originally heading to Yinmi County, Anding County, Liangzhou.

The safety of the entire Hexi Corridor depends on the four counties of Liangzhou, which directly lead to the Western Regions.

Liu Che set up many military garrisons here, and beacon fires were set off to transmit urgent military intelligence!

Right now, the situation around Gyeonggi Province is like this, and it is hard to imagine what the victims outside will be like.

"We can go directly to Yinmi, as long as we don't take the roads through the main cities. Speaking of which..."

When Huo Guang said this, he looked around and saw that there was no one around. In fact, because there were too many disaster victims around, the embroidered messengers dressed as "starving people" had already surrounded Liu Che.

Huo Guang also looked at Liu Jing at this moment, "This is all because of Emperor Jing's grandson."

As soon as these words were spoken, Liu Che, who was sitting in the carriage, also looked over immediately.

Liu Jing was confused at first, then he thought of something and his face was filled with shock.

"Won't……?"

"Exactly!"

Huo Guang said: "Although there were droughts in the past few years, most of the victims were basically in various places. Some became bandits, or gathered together to rebel."

"But since the news of the rain from heaven spread, all these people have been rushing to the capital... like people looking for an oasis in the desert, like desperate people making a pilgrimage..."

"Did you see the direction they were heading along the way?"

Liu Jing thought of the disaster victims, and the direction they were heading in!
——Chang'an!
"But there are so many... and now we are only in the direction of Liangzhou?"

Before this, Liu Jing heard what Bao Shengzhi and Tingwei Bing Ji said.

I really feel it’s “troublesome”!
At first he didn't think much of it because he had never seen it before.

But now...

When they saw so many victims, most of whom were old people and children, although there were some strong and healthy people, they would become starving corpses unable to walk after being hungry for a few days!

These thousands of people are just in Duyang County here.

How many people are there outside Duyang County?

In all directions of Chang'an...for a moment, Liu Jing even felt that there seemed to be hundreds of thousands or even millions of people rushing towards Chang'an!

Such a natural disaster is no longer a natural disaster.

The slightest mistake will lead to a man-made disaster!
Not starving to death on the road.

It was a sudden riot!

Then I thought that Li Guangli, who was leading the army, and the eight captains of the Northern Army, were probably already ready for battle!

Liu Jing knew that there was one thing he had to do immediately! Soon!
"Are you still going to Liangzhou?"

Suddenly, Huo Guang looked at Liu Jing with great seriousness.

He really wanted to hear the word "no" from him.

Because, it is obvious that he cannot persuade the current emperor, and perhaps only Liu Jing can persuade him.

now.

Jin Midi, Sang Hongyang and other inner court ministers also watched from the side.

At this moment, their emotions were so complicated that they had reached their limit.

If I had known this, I shouldn’t have come!
"go with!"

Suddenly, Liu Jing spoke.

At this moment, his eyes were firm and he had made up his mind!

"You have to go now! You have to go even if you don't want to!"

“Grandson Jing!” Sang Hongyang had already taken a step forward and stared at Liu Jing intently, “Don’t let His Majesty take risks with you!”

"Then Your Majesty, please stay here." Liu Jing said.

"What's the point of staying here? I want to go too. I want to see... I want to see the world!"

"The elderly have left their homes, not knowing whether they are alive or dead, and the young and strong...the young and strong have starved to death."

"A mother who wants to sell her own child..."

"You little kid, you're going to starve to death!"

Inside the carriage, Liu Che's voice trembled.

"Is this still my great man?"

"I once said that I want to make the Han Dynasty strong and prosperous! I want to see the heavenly soldiers of the Han Dynasty guarding the four ends of the earth! My territory must encompass the four seas..."

"But it's not finished yet. Everything is not finished yet... Why has the Han Dynasty become like this? This is my capital!"

"I... don't want to see a big man like this!"

"Why do you want me to see such a big man?"

Liu Che roared, and everyone fell silent!

And Liu Jing saw this.

He said silently: "Your Majesty has built a large palace and transported huge trees from Lingnan. The money spent is incalculable! The labor cost is tens of thousands!"

"As for the palaces built by other alchemists, they used wood from Shangshan, and they also cost tens of thousands of five-zhu!"

"The money spent on an ordinary palace can buy enough food to keep the disaster victims here alive for a month."

"Your Majesty, you hired a Taoist priest for an unknown amount of money. Perhaps he is a cruel official..."

Liu Jing's voice paused slightly.

Because he knew that the next sentence would definitely deal the biggest blow to Liu Che!

"From what your majesty has seen, the victims are being extorted from their children!"

boom!
Inside the carriage, Liu Che's hands were tightly tied in his sleeves, and blue veins could be seen on his old palms!
At this moment, every time Liu Jing spoke a word, he could feel the bright golden light of the lucky coin!
Lotus flowers light up!

The flowers are in full bloom!

This moment... is different from the previous one. He listed Liu Che's faults one by one by "offering auspicious signs" and even "writing a "vow fulfillment letter".

The current accumulation speed is almost several times faster than before!
At the same time, Liu Che, who was sitting in the carriage, no longer had the fury he had before, and there was no so-called rebuke or rebuttal.

The silence is terrifying!
But that’s why…

The sound of silence is becoming more and more deafening!
(End of this chapter)