Diji Cultivation Manual

After all, Liu Chunian is a person who has experienced many things. She is very clear about those court battles, and she is very familiar with the intrigues between officials and officials. "Nanliang Chaozhong didn't know anything about Longyou's disaster so far. If it was said that no one of them was doing something secretly, she definitely wouldn't believe it.Nan Qiao is also very aware of this truth, that's why he stayed here and sent people to the North Camp to borrow troops. After all, Nan Qiao had no trust in Longyou's county guard for a long time.

When she was still Emperor Ji of Yuanxi, she had dealt with many disasters. Although they had never been as serious as those in Nanliang Longyou, they were pretty much the same.Liu Chunian didn't need to think much to know that this place was not as simple as it seemed. She trusted Nan Qiao's vision, but she had to go and see the situation in Taoyuan County with her own eyes.

After breakfast, Liu Chunian asked the maid for a few words. Knowing that Nan Qiao was going to the north with Taoyuan county magistrate for inspection, she might not be able to return until late at night, so she asked Bao Hong's residence again and went alone. Find Bao Hong.Bao Hong was ordered to send her to Longyou this time. Now that she has seen Nan Qiao, there is no need for Bao Hong to stay and suffer together. Anyway, she must be with Nan Qiao on the return journey. There is no need for Bao Hong to drive again.

She wrote another letter to Qi Zhu, asking him to assign people to investigate the situation here in Longyou immediately after taking care of Liao Jiuniang's affairs, and took Bao Hong back with her.

After Bao Hong left, Liu Chunian took off his unpretentious but exquisite clothes, and put on worn-out coarse cloth.She undid her hair in front of the mirror, took off all the hairpins and jewelry, and then found dirt and pot ashes to make herself dirty.After she cleaned herself up very skillfully, the well-dressed and graceful Liu Chunian had completely disappeared, replaced by a disaster victim in ragged clothes.

In terms of physique alone, she was already very thin, so there was nothing wrong with wearing this outfit, and even the maid who served her couldn't recognize her.

Liu Chunian groped his way out of the county magistrate's mansion according to his memory from yesterday.The clothes on her body were very thin, and she almost shrank under the cold wind, but she was a little closer to the victims.Liu Chunian had suffered a lot, so naturally she wouldn't take the cold wind to heart, she curled up slightly, and walked on the street with her arms folded.

Taoyuan County has already begun to give out porridge, and a long line was formed in front of the government gate, almost reaching the end of the street, but there are still more disaster victims gathering here.

Looking at this scene, Liu Chunian couldn't help but sighed, and then went to the end of the line, wanting to hear what the victims had to say.But in fact, most of these victims have been hungry for a long time, and they don't even bother to say a few words, their faces are full of numbness and despair.They can't see the hope of life. Even if Taoyuan County provides porridge day after day, who knows that it will be gone by that day?Longyou suffered natural disasters one after another, but the imperial court never sent anyone to rescue them. Even if they wanted to save themselves, they were powerless to struggle, and could only follow the waves and resign themselves to fate.

"I didn't expect Taoyuan County to actually give out porridge. If I had come here sooner, my granddaughter would not have starved to death on the way." A gray-haired old woman said to herself while wiping her tears, "But even if you come here, so what? Even if you survive today, who knows if you can survive tomorrow? This cannibalism is really forcing people to die..."

"Grandma, aren't you from the local area?" Seeing no one to talk to, Liu Chunian could only lean forward and ask, "Where are you from?"

The old woman looked at her with tears in her eyes, saw that she was thin and small, she was very pitiful, she couldn't help but feel close to her, and she barely stopped crying: "I'm from Lin County, and I wanted to escape to see her. Is there a way to survive? Who knows that my young granddaughter actually starved to death on the road. I thought that my old bones would not last long. Who knows, I just heard that Taoyuan County started to give out porridge, so I hugged Hope to have a look..."

"Is there no porridge in your county? Does the county magistrate just ignore it?" Although Liu Chunian knew this, he still couldn't help asking.

The old woman spread her hands, shook her head and smiled wryly: "She doesn't care, she is too busy to take care of herself, so how can she control us? Speaking of which, it is not easy for her to reach this point. I heard that some county magistrates even at this time , I wish I could take some money out of the hands of the dead and send it to the sheriff!"

Liu Chunian thought that Taoyuan County was like this at the beginning, only after Nan Qiao came, he started giving porridge, and spread the news widely in order to save more victims. If Nan Qiao didn't come in person, he might They still have to blame each other for a while.

"Is the sheriff of Qinzhou so rampant?"

The old woman looked up at Liu Chunian in surprise: "Aren't you from Qinzhou, how could you not know about the sheriff?"

Before Liu Chunian answered, she seemed to have thought of something, immediately changed her expression, and pushed Liu Chunian away fiercely: "Could it be that they sent you to cheat us?"

Liu Chunian was caught off guard for a moment, and was pushed back two steps by her, and then explained: "Mother-in-law, don't misunderstand, I am not a bad person. I originally came to Qinzhou to find my relatives, but there were robbers on the way. They snatched all my clothes. I can't find my relatives, and I have no money to leave, so I can only wander here."

"If I was really a villain, how could I have fallen into such a state?" Liu Chunian stretched out his hand to show that he was not deceiving.

The old woman looked at her suspiciously for a long time, seeing that she was also very thin and not like a high-ranking official who was busy with fish and meat all day long, so she was a little relieved.

"It's not that mother-in-law is suspicious, it's just that those villains are too vicious." The old woman took Liu Chunian's hand again, tears rolling down her cheeks, "We also believed those villains before and expressed all our grievances , and listed all the faults of the county sheriff, but who knew that those who kept claiming to avenge us would turn around and confess us, and the government could put us in prison and torture us to death for any reason. .My poor daughter died because of this, why don't you make me suspicious?"

Liu Chunian looked at the old woman with complicated eyes, and then reached out to help her wipe away tears: "Mother, don't cry, as long as you survive, there must be hope."

She didn't disclose any news about the imperial court's disaster relief, and she didn't promise her that Longyou would be fine, because she knew that the county guard had already used that method to completely destroy the hearts of the people.No matter what she said, the old woman would not believe that the imperial court would do anything, so she could only comfort the old woman with this vain "hope".

Liu Chunian has dealt with countless corrupt officials. Those who are not greedy enough to swallow the elephant and only know how to squeeze the people blindly are not scary. What are really scary are the people who can destroy the hearts of the people without making a show.While oppressing the people, they completely destroyed the hope in the hearts of the people, leaving them with no choice but to accept their fate.

People's hearts are easily lost, and Liu Chunian was suddenly not sure how much effort Nan Qiao would have to spend to restore the ruined hearts of people.