Fu Bao held Yu Wenyan's hand tightly on the way to the Chenghuang Temple.
The City God's Temple is located on the edge of Guifeng. The City God's Temple is much larger than those in other cities, but it is now overcrowded.
Yu Wenyan held Fubao and could see the Chenghuang Temple from a distance, so he didn't ask her to get closer. "Fubao, just take a look here."
Fubao didn't mind either. She had very good eyesight and could clearly see the City God's Temple from a distance.
Countless skinny, miserable refugees were jostling one another, desperately trying to squeeze into the City God's Temple, where they would at least have a place to protect themselves from the wind and rain. However, those who had already occupied their seats in the City God's Temple were very resistant to these people coming in. On both sides,
Pulling and pulling. But it seemed that there was no chance to get in. They could only sit or lie on the ground around the Chenghuang Temple. Everyone had a look of sadness on their faces.
There are so many of these people that they are not allowed to move around the city at will. Soldiers control the security here and prevent the refugees from fleeing. Only in this way can the local people in Guifeng City feel at ease and avoid conflicts with the refugees.
Fubao also saw several temporary porridge sheds set up around him. Fubao squinted his eyes and said, "Are these porridge sheds built by the county government?"
Yu Wenyan said: "Not entirely, some of them were built by the Guifeng County Government, and the Guifeng granary provided food to cook porridge for the refugees. However, this move aroused the opposition of many Guifeng people, saying that their hard-earned money was used to support them.
Others, they were unwilling. Later, it was Hou Hong who led people to do the work for the local wealthy families in Guifeng, which made the local wealthy families take the initiative to build porridge sheds, which eased the situation a little."
Tianqi Country is a farming country, and once the refugees lose their land, they really lose everything. They can't even return to their hometown. They only have a household registration, and they may die of illness at any time.
Fubao also learned that the disasters caused by refugees in ancient times, etc., would lead to various diseases.
She asked: "Are there any epidemics among these refugees now?"
When talking about this, Yu Wenyan also had deep eyes, "...if he is really infected with the epidemic, it is difficult to know in advance. At least it seems to be nothing at the moment."
While they were talking about this, a shrill scream suddenly broke out among the refugees.
"No! No! My lord! My lord! Let my child go! Don't burn him! Give him a rest, my lord! Please, my lord!"
A disheveled woman wanted to snatch the body of her dead child from the hands of the soldiers. After being pulled away by the soldiers, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed violently. She kept kowtowing as if it didn't hurt at all. She cried and howled: "All I have is
This child is dead! He is my life! Sir, please!"
However, the soldiers followed the orders and threw her away and took away the child's body. Most of the refugees around her looked numb. They were too busy taking care of themselves, so how could they feel sympathy for others?
The woman cried loudly, and then she stopped crying. It wasn't that she wasn't sad, but she just didn't have the strength.
The same thing happened in the Chenghuang Temple. Some old people who had managed to escape from their families died, and some young adults fell ill and died... All of them were taken away by the officers and soldiers. The leading officers and soldiers even said sternly: "Let me tell you first! If there is anyone in that family,
Anyone who dares to harbor a dead body will be executed on the spot! Shoot to death without mercy!"
After that, the faces of the refugees were panicked and numb. Assuming that they did not have the courage to disobey, the leading soldier waved his hand and asked the soldiers carrying the corpses to leave.
Fubao asked: "What does this mean? Why do you want to take away the dead body?"
Yu Wenyan's eyes were heavy: "... Since ancient times, whether it is livestock or human corpses, they may be the source of diseases... These refugees are seriously ill, injured, and starve to death... There are countless casualties. If not dealt with in time, any
Because refugees and corpses are together, it is very likely that diseases will spread."
Fubao asked again: "Then how should these corpses be disposed of?"
Yu Wenyan closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were filled with coldness: "Burn."
Fu Bao murmured: "Burn it..." She couldn't help but grasp Yu Wenyan's arm, and Yu Wenyan patted his hand reassuringly, "Don't be afraid."
In fact, there are some cruel things that Yu Wenyan did not say, that is, these corpses are not only to be burned, but also to be burned together in the same pit until they are all burned. When the pit is full, they will be buried. If there are new ones
Just change the pit and continue burning the corpse.
Although this method is cruel, it is done as a last resort to protect strangers.
Fu Bao stood with him for a long time. Fu Bao sighed: "...It's really pitiful. What about those seriously ill people? What should they do?"
Fubao could see many people dying, as if they were about to die in the next second, and heard many people coughing continuously. He knew that although spring had begun, the weather was still cold, and these people were sleeping in the open and running for their lives.
They couldn't eat well, couldn't sleep well, were frightened, and countless people fell ill and died.
If no one had taken care of those who were lucky enough to escape into Guifeng City, many of them would surely have died of illness.
Yu Wenyan lowered his eyes and said simply: "Fubao, since ancient times, more than half of the refugees have been killed or injured... Among them, death from illness is naturally included."
What Yu Wenyan has not yet told Fubao is that Guifeng City cannot bear the continuous flow of refugees defecting to the city now. Even if there are more than 30,000 people who have entered the city, Guifeng City has considered waiting for more than half of the dead and injured to leave the rest.
It's up to people to straighten it out.
Only when only half of the people are dead can Guifeng open the city gate and let some of the refugees outside come in again - but I am afraid that by then most of the refugees outside the city will have been killed or injured, and those who survive will be the lucky ones.
Lucky man.
At that time, Guifeng was barely able to try to stay, save the basic lives of these people, and then consider how to naturalize them...
This is all cruel, but the imperial court did not allocate relief food, and there was no imperial edict to ask the local government how to act.
Guifeng is a small town, so this is the only solution, there is no other way.
Fu Bao looked at the devastation in front of him, his heart was shocked and sad.
She had been beaten like that before, and she originally thought she had suffered all the pain in the world. However, there are too many injustices in the world, and even pain and sadness are like "there are people outside the world." These refugees cannot even say a word of hypocrisy about the bumpy journey of being homeless.
Deeply experienced.
If anything, Fubao just felt from the bottom of her heart that everything she had experienced was nothing. And with the Jiang family, she had stood up again and had a better life.
But, what about these people? What are they going to do? Do they really want to watch their lives run out and die here?
Fu Bao squeezed his hands tightly, and the grief in his heart slowly turned into another kind of anger.
A kind of anger towards the injustice of heaven.
Now Fu Bao can understand why the wet nurse was so angry and shouted that God was unfair.
It turns out that life and death cannot be controlled by oneself, which is the greatest injustice!