Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 190
Knowing that he might be involved in the brewing chaos in the capital, Li Buqi was not in a hurry to return to Beijing.She stayed with Zhang Yingniang for two days before letting Zhang Yingniang go back.As a result, before Zhang Yingniang left, urgent news came from the capital, saying that four Maitreya believers, including Guan Yanxiu, entered the forbidden area late at night and were killed by the palace guards.

This capital city is really lively.Li Buqi didn't go back to wading through the muddy waters, so he took care of Beizhou's affairs slowly, and was free to advise Kochi Prefecture, let Kochi Prefecture provide relief with work, gather the people who lost their homes in one place, and organize excavation ditch.

In order to resist the possible invasion of Liao cavalry, the roads in Hebei have always dug a large number of ditches, and even flooded fertile land to create pits and ponds, so digging ditches is also one of the compulsory courses for local officials.It’s just that Li Buqi certainly didn’t dig ditches just for the sake of digging ditches. He asked the people of Qingyuan Academy to make a plan. The dug ditches could be used not only as trenches to hinder cavalry, but also as canals for irrigation and drainage of farmland.

Time flies quickly when there is something to do, and in the blink of an eye, January has passed and February has passed, and the situation in the capital has become relatively clear.Now there is not much demand for a crown prince, but even the officials in Sichuan and Guangnan have written to request that the third prince be allowed to live outside the palace for the sake of the country.

Although most of the small and medium-sized officials were soy saucers, they came out to intervene because they saw that the third prince was about to lose power, and they were afraid of missing out on supporting the fourth prince, but this was also a voice to express their opinion, wasn't it?When the whole court demanded to take measures against the third prince with one voice, one can imagine the pressure on the cowardly emperor, and his depression can also be imagined.

Li Buqi guessed that the emperor was very depressed about one more thing, that is, when Wang Ze was taken to Tokyo for trial, he confessed that he proclaimed himself emperor because he saw Li Yuanhao succeed in proclaiming himself emperor, and wanted to learn from Li Yuanhao.With the knowledge of the emperor, he would definitely believe what Wang Ze said, but he would never think that Wang Ze said this just because someone promised him to drink a bowl of strong wine before he died, and burn paper for him after he died.

It was probably because the emperor was depressed about these two matters but no one could ask him what to do. This was not an order to let Li Buqi return to Beijing, and now it was Li Buqi's turn to play.However, another imperial decree from the emperor at the same time disgusted Li Buqi very much.

In this decree, the emperor ordered Beizhou to be renamed "Enzhou".That means that the rebellion is "benevolent to the people" when the king is destroyed.Li Buqi was really defeated by the emperor's thick skin.But the envoy who came to deliver the decree told him that this idea came from Wen Yanbo and other civil officials.Well, Li Buqi once again deepened his understanding of the shamelessness of literati.

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"Bah, bah!" Du Meng couldn't help spitting twice when he smelled the salty smell.As someone who grew up in the outback, he was really not used to the smell.

Since they were sentenced to exile on Salmonella Island, the first batch of more than 300 people were escorted by soldiers all the way east to Dengzhou.Although the soldiers were ordered not to abuse the prisoners along the way, they ate a lot and drank a lot, and the wounded like Du Meng could still sit in the car to receive treatment from the doctor, but thinking of the frightening Salmonella Island, Everyone's heart was extremely heavy, especially those families who were allotted to Salmonella Island, and secretly cried several times.

Because there were too many of them, the prisons in Dengzhou couldn't fit them, so Dengzhou had to draw a lot of space beside the pier to detain these prisoners.From the words of the folk husband in Dengzhou, Du Meng learned that Salmon Island is not at the seaside, but in the depths of the sea.

After waiting for a day, they were taken to Dengzhou Wharf, where they could only see the vast sea from afar.There were two boats parked on the pier. Seeing the prisoners jumping off the boat, a military attache came over with a few soldiers. They cheered when they saw so many prisoners.Du Meng was very surprised that the eyes they looked at him were the same as the eyes of gold, silver and satin seen by the brothers when they opened the treasury of Beizhou.

The military officer immediately ordered the soldiers to escort a group of people onto the ship.But the boat is not big, and it can hold less than 100 people at a time, and the rest of the people can only continue to wait at the pier.Several folks in Dengzhou brought water for them to drink, and an old man whispered, "Oh, drink some, if you don't drink any more, you won't be able to drink."

Seeing the old man coming in front of him, Du Meng hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Old man, why do you say that if you don't drink it, you won't be able to drink it anymore? Is the Shamen Island so dangerous?"

The old man didn't answer at first, but Du Meng continued to ask a few words, and the old man finally told the truth. At that time, an old man looked at them and shook his head: "Oh, the little old man has lived so long, and he has never seen people coming out of Salmonella Island. Don’t even think about the criminals in the prison. Sin, so many people were sent all at once, how can there be enough water for so many people in Salmon Island? Sigh!”

Everyone who heard this changed their faces.The meaning of the old man is very clear, that is, they can't live for a long time, which makes them all feel cold.At the beginning, I knew it was just a distribution, not a beheading. The fluke mentality had already flown out of the blue sky. Immediately, someone scolded: "That guy Li Buqi is so vicious. He pretended to be a good person, but put us to death with his backhand, and turned into a ghost in the next life." Don't let him go."

Now I can only swear a few words, they are all wearing heavy shackles, and surrounded by a large army, even if they want to resist, they have no ability, so in the end, everyone was escorted to the island of Shamen.

Once on the island, Du Meng's heart sank completely into the abyss - there wasn't even enough dark, damp, musty-smelling prison cells to hold so many people, let alone food and water.And when Du Meng was stuffed into a cell where the prisoner was originally kept, the prisoner suddenly burst into tears.

It took a long time for the man to stop crying. A prisoner who was originally a Beizhou official asked the former prisoner: "Brother, why are you crying?"

The prisoner whimpered and said: "They are all people who are going to die. It doesn't matter what you hear. This Salmon Island has never been in and out, but I heard people say that there is a fixed number of drinking water. So as long as there are more people , They will leave some people to show off, and kill many people. You have so many people here today, I am afraid that my life will not last until tomorrow."

After hearing a few words from the old prisoner, Du Meng and the others felt ashamed.

Through the ages, there is only one death.Don't look at these gang of fighters who will fight to the death on the battlefield and will not back down, but it is another matter to let people die.I don't know how many people were able to fall asleep that night. Anyway, Du Meng didn't fall asleep, not only because the cell was crowded, but also because his mind was full of the problem of how to survive.Although reason told him that it was really difficult to live, he just couldn't help thinking about it.

There is no breakfast in the morning, only some water.Then they were escorted to the seaside by the army soldiers who were watching.

"Is it going to kill people immediately? Isn't it too fast?" Du Meng felt sad.

Different from the gloomy mood of the prisoners, the chief Suzhai of Salmonella Island and his soldiers are happy today.There are hundreds of people, and each person exchanges one and a half bolts of silk, which is hundreds of bolts, making a fortune!
In the morning sun, two large ships parked in the seawall, lowered the small boat, and the crane on the large ship hoisted the goods onto the small boat, and then the small boat docked at the pier.Zhaizhu Su laughed and walked onto the pier: "Your Majesty Zhou, you are safe here."

Zhou Qing jumped onto the pier and clasped his fists and said, "Su Jian will keep you safe."

The price was negotiated a long time ago, with one hand handing over the silk and the other handing over to the person.Du Meng and the others looked stupidly at themselves and these people being replaced by soldiers, and then drove themselves to the small boat and then transferred to the big boat.After everyone boarded the boat, it was already noon, and the two big ships set sail and continued northward. After arriving at an island, they were sent to the island by a small boat.On this island, a group of strong men watched them go ashore with folded arms.Among this group of men, Du Meng suddenly saw a man he knew, and he quietly touched another veteran: "Do you think that man was the one who followed Li Buqi when he was not in Beizhou?"

(End of this chapter)