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

Chapter 77 The current emperor is getting old and confused
Liu Jing probably didn't expect that his words would deal such a heavy blow to Liu Che!
really……

The real experience is far better than talking nonsense in Ganquan Palace and Jianzhang Palace.

It is better to travel thousands of miles to read thousands of books.

It is better to experience it once than to say it a million times.

The ancients never deceived me!

After Liu Jing said that, Liu Che sat in the carriage, staring at the victims outside with almost dull eyes, as if he wanted to engrave them in his mind.

During this period, Huo Guang also hurriedly drove away the troops and prepared to leave the vicinity of Duyang County.

In just a short while, the victims had already turned their attention to the horses, cows, and mules that pulled their carts.

Some victims even wanted to come up to rob, but they were too hungry to have the strength. Plus, there were many people watching here on the city wall and in the dark, otherwise there would have been real trouble.

"Leave the cattle, mules and other animals to them..."

Suddenly, Liu Che spoke.

"There are only a few hundred people here, and maybe everyone can get a bite of meat and a portion of broth. Even if there are more people, we can't save them for now."

"Send an envoy in embroidered robes. Since Duyang County cannot open the city gate now, don't open it later. If people pour out of the city gate, cut off the head of the county magistrate."

"After all, when those people come out, whether they are strong enough or not, I'm afraid there will be chaos again..."

Huo Guang quickly said, "Yes!"

Livestock are extremely valuable property. If ordinary people can have a cow to help with farming, they can probably become a "small wealthy family" within a ten-mile radius.

In the past, livestock were protected by Han laws, and young and strong cattle could not be slaughtered at will. If cattle were killed openly in the market, the person would be sentenced to beheading according to Han laws. But now there is no time to worry about that.

"I hope we can hold out for a few more days, save more people, and ask King Huaide to speed up the efficiency of grain transfer and gather more grain from counties that are not affected by the disaster."

After giving these instructions, the team headed towards Yinmi County!
Since it is impossible to pass through Duyang County, we have to go through another official road and a very difficult mountain road.

Of course, it won’t work without a “road pass” at this time. When passing through some checkpoints, you will need to provide corresponding road passes.

Especially now, with the victims gathered together, defenses are tight everywhere.

However, these are nothing to Liu Che and others.

During this period, the "wood" they brought was no longer useful, so they just found a place to throw it away, and finally they traveled light...

really.

When we walked to the remote areas, the number of disaster victims seemed to decrease.

But this situation is even more worrying, because it further proves their previous view - the victims are naturally "gathering together" without any external influence!
Another two days passed.

The mountain road was difficult to walk on, so they walked and stopped many times, and finally arrived at the territory of Liangzhou.

From the remote and desolate mountains and fields, we once again walked onto the straight road to Liangzhou, and after passing the pass, the number of disaster victims increased.

Among them, there were some starving people who could not walk and fell on the roadside...

There were also some more figures who looked "young and strong". Although they also followed the direction of the victims, they walked with brisk steps, just like the group of people around Liu Che.

During this period, they even sent people to check out the other side of Duyang County.

It's not the gate facing the capital, but the gate facing Liangzhou...

There was a tide of people, one after another.

The figure on the road is like a long black dragon with no end in sight...

However, the direction of Liu Che and others was "opposite" to them.

But the further we walked, the more we saw the seemingly endless line of disaster victims.

The atmosphere among the crowd became increasingly depressing.

The sun is blinding.

It has been about six days since they left Chang'an City, and everyone, including Liu Che, has become tanned.

And just yesterday, they didn't even dare to lead the horses, and could only carry a small portion of the deeply hidden packages on their backs, and even Liu Che was walking.

The emperor had never experienced such hardship before, but he was so tired that he was out of breath after just walking for a day.

"You all are coming from Chang'an, heading to Yinmi City, right?"

at this time.

A man in his forties walked out from the hungry people who had been separated from the front, carrying an old man in his sixties on his back.

It was the old man who asked the question.

Beside Liu Jing, Shi De quickly stepped forward and asked, "How did you know, father-in-law?"

"Hey, aren't those who go in this direction heading to the Secret City?"

Shi De smiled awkwardly, "I've made my father-in-law laugh at me."

"Is this your first time going there?" After asking this question, the father-in-law seemed to be hesitant to speak.

But Shi De didn't notice it, and just said: "Yes, he was sent to Liangzhou to serve as a border guard..."

This was their excuse for coming all the way here. After all, they were all refugees heading to Chang'an. They were walking in the opposite direction, which made others curious.

"Are you really from Chang'an?"

When the old man heard this, he became very excited and immediately ordered his son to put him down.

As soon as he finished speaking, all the disaster victims who heard it hurriedly looked over. They crowded on the side of the road, and soon a large group gathered.

"I heard that Chang'an had two consecutive rains some time ago. Is it true? Did the heavens really show their power because of a royal grandson? I heard that the two rains were heavier each time, and the people of Chang'an were worried because the rain had washed away the land..."

As the old man spoke, everyone's eyes were filled with longing.

Shi De nodded, "It did rain twice."

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the disaster victims around them lit up.

"Did you hear that? It's true! The legend is true!"

"I was saying it, with so many people spreading it, it must be true."

"Haha, then we can go to Chang'an and get wet in the rain."

Shi De couldn't bear to interrupt everyone's joy, so he quickly said from another perspective: "But now to enter the capital, you need a pass. How can you leave Liangzhou without a pass..."

"Hehe, there are so many people, can they stop everyone? Besides, the government knows nothing, why don't we just not take the official road? We can just walk on our own and we're not transporting anything."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

The father-in-law's son thought of something and said, "By the way, you should be careful when you go to Yinmi. It's not peaceful there right now."

Shi De frowned, "Not peaceful? Can you tell me more about it?"

The old man hit his son, as if he was annoyed by his talkativeness, and then said bitterly: "Where is peace now? There are thieves and bandits everywhere!"

"Humph! Not long ago, those beasts even robbed the group of disaster victims. They robbed many girls and their families, and all the belongings they had on their backs were taken away."

"It's all the court's fault!" At this moment, an old man on the other side complained: "What kind of law did the court issue in recent years? Yes, it was a decree that told the government not to care about these thieves, allowing them to communicate with each other and bully us..." As soon as these words came out.

Liu Jing seemed to have thought of something and immediately turned to look at Liu Che.

As expected, the latter's face was extremely ugly, and he could only say coldly: "The court issued this for the good of everyone, in order to more actively quell the disaster!"

However, it would have been better if he hadn't spoken.

"What a fart!"

The old man immediately scolded: "From your tone, I think you are also a noble. I just heard that you were sent to the border... You must have committed a crime in the capital and were implicated by the high officials above?"

The old man chuckled, "Over the years, I have seen too many people like you in Liangzhou!"

"Hey, you obviously suffered, but you refuse to admit it. You keep saying that the court is doing this for your own good. You are sold out by others, and you still act like a fool?"

"Over the years, the high officials in Chang'an have been falling down like raindrops from the sky. I heard that even the crown prince has suffered! The grandson who can make the world rain seems to be the crown prince's son!"

"The reason why it rained this time is because we are angry and want to ask the heaven to punish those treacherous officials who deceived the emperor, right?"

Shi De didn't dare to answer.

The old man said in a way I understood very well:
"Speaking of our emperor, he is even more confused than me. He is not much older than me, so how could he be deceived? Those bastards must have confused the emperor. In the past few decades, the emperor was so wise!"

My father-in-law expressed his emotion, and he was sincere.

The current emperor has been on the throne for more than fifty years. For many common people, this emperor has been their leader from birth to old age.

Together they witnessed glory, together they saw the bravery and fighting ability of the Han army, and together they witnessed the Han Dynasty becoming increasingly powerful.

However, I don’t know since which day, he suddenly became listless!
However, when these words came out...

Beside Liu Che, Jin Midi, Sang Hongyang and others all changed their expressions.

The muscles at the corners of Liu Che's mouth twitched continuously, "Your Majesty, you are not necessarily confused."

"You are a foolishly loyal person! You will never admit it even until you die."

The old man sighed and said, "How can an emperor be obsessed with immortality? I have heard from my grandfathers that during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen, he did not seek immortality. Emperor Taizu Gao also founded the Han Dynasty, but he did not seek immortality either."

"At that time, hehe, to be honest with you, my ancestors were also well-known and wealthy people in Youfufeng. Unfortunately, as a child of a good family, I followed the army to the war. What was the situation back then? Although I was not lucky enough to follow the Marquis of Guanjun, I did follow General Wei. Wherever our army went, there were no rebels. The Huns were so scared that their souls flew away."

"And now...Alas!"

The father-in-law said this with a look of aftertaste on his face.

Someone beside him said indignantly, "Who said it wasn't? Liangzhou was a place that used to be the territory of the Xiongnu. After the Marquis of Guanjun drove the Xiongnu away, there was peace. But what about now? The Xiongnu come to kill us at every turn. I heard that they broke into Wuwei County not long ago and then left."

"And now, let alone the Xiongnu, there are more and more bandits and rebels in Liangzhou, and some people simply follow the Xiongnu! Humph, the current court asked everyone to serve on the frontier, but there are constant natural disasters and many man-made disasters!"

"This time we are going back to Chang'an, even if we die there!"

"Correct!"

It can be seen that many of the victims of this disaster were originally evacuated from various places. At this moment, many people responded immediately after he finished speaking.

however.

Liu Che looked at this scene, but what he was thinking in his heart was that more and more people were heading to Chang'an.

So...what if something happens?

Li Guangli will definitely give the order to suppress the victims!
"Don't go to the capital!" Liu Che said.

In the past, he never said a word of no in the court.

No one dared to say yes to his anger.

But at this moment.

"Gyeonggi isn't owned by your family, so you can just not go if you want to?"

"I said, don't go!" Liu Che's voice was cold.

Seeing this, Huo Guang hurriedly said, "My dear father-in-law, the master of the family means that if so many disaster victims go to Chang'an now, Chang'an will definitely not be able to accommodate them."

"Besides, if there are too many people, things will change easily. If something goes wrong, the imperial army will definitely suppress it!"

He thought he could scare everyone away.

However, the old man laughed and said, "We can make up our minds this time because we have already thought of this possibility. Even if there are soldiers blocking us in the capital, we have to charge forward."

"There's no point abandoning your home and career to die in a foreign land!"

"Yes! We would rather be drowned than die of drought!"

As soon as this sentence was spoken, everyone responded immediately.

Seeing this, Liu Che felt even more unbearable.

When the old man was about to leave, he seemed to remember something and quickly reminded:
"You advised us not to go to Chang'an, and we also advise you not to go to Yinmi City. If nothing unexpected happens, Yinmi City will be breached in two days!"

As soon as Huo Guang heard this, he remembered that the other party was hesitant to speak, and immediately realized that the other party could not lie to him. He was shocked and said in defense: "It is impossible. Anding County has a commander in charge..."

"Wuwei County also had the most elite Han army stationed there, but they were still defeated by the Xiongnu and fled." His son turned around and said, "It was because they followed orders from above and stopped too many disaster victims. In addition, there was a law that officials and thieves protected each other..."

"I heard that there are leaders among the starving people, and they have surrounded the city...it's only because my father and I ran fast."

The old man even muttered, "Why are you saying all this? The old man still thinks we are lying to him. If the decree is really useful, why didn't a large county discover it until it rebelled a few years ago? Didn't they have any officers and soldiers to guard it? In the end, the emperor had no choice but to send a large army from Chang'an, and they killed more than 10,000 people in that period..."

"Tsk tsk tsk... Brother, are you still worried about us? Worry about yourself! Don't go to the Secret City, you're going to die."

As he watched them leave, Liu Che's mind suddenly emerged with Liu Jing's criticism of "Shen Ming Fa"!

Is "Shen Ming Fa" really wrong?
For a moment, he became dazed.

Huo Guang said anxiously: "Your Majesty, we cannot go to Yinmi City."

"Go! At least we have to go and see if it's true or not."

Then, he looked at Liu Jing and said, "We can't go on like this. We have to stop the victims as soon as possible. We have already arrived in Liangzhou. What's your plan?"

"Yinmi City is the gateway from the capital to Liangzhou! The Hexi Corridor in Liangzhou is the only passage for the Han Dynasty to control the Western Regions! It is a strategic place for the Han Dynasty to influence the countries in the Western Regions and launch a joint attack on the Xiongnu!"

"Although Yinmi City will not be easily breached by the victims, even if they are entangled, it will be..." When he said this, Liu Che's face suddenly became more and more solemn, "The consequences are disastrous!"

Liu Jing was also in a trance.

In fact, he discovered very early that since he changed the "Witchcraft Disaster", a series of butterfly effects have all appeared.

However, he didn't have time to think about that now, and quickly said:
"There is only one way to solve this problem right now."

Liu Che looked over immediately.

"Since they all went to Chang'an because of Emperor Jing's grandson."

He immediately said: "Now, spread the rumor immediately..."

"Grandson Jing has arrived in Liangzhou!"

(End of this chapter)