Fengzhou City soon became quiet after the army entered the city.
Neither Cao Yu, Liang Wen, an official in the Fengzhou Yamen, nor Wu Jiang, or Deputy General Zhang Heyan who led his troops into the city this time, did not make excessive moves, and protected the country and the people without any offense.
Perhaps, they are also afraid that the anger of the people who have finally calmed down will be burned back to their heads.
During this riot, Xu Yanqiu, a young player who had nothing to do with Fengzhou City, became a major contributor to the solution.
"General Xu." said Cao Yu, a Sima of Fengzhou. "Hong Shi has investigated clearly. He died in his secret room."
Xu Yanqiu nodded, not much accident: "Mr. Cao, what are the casualties in the city?"
Cao Yu sighed deeply: "The situation is not very optimistic."
"The prefect died, and his family was in the yamen, so it was nothing serious. But Zhang Heyan's family was trampled into meat paste. His son was hung in front of the gate of the Zhang Mansion and beaten to death."
"As for other places in the city, there were many casualties. In addition to those who died of trampling and crowding, a rough count of innocent victims was more than 80. There were countless injured..."
"Luckily, I heard him." Xu Yanqiu said to herself after a moment of fear.
If he had insisted on not letting Liang Wen go out of the city for help, there would be no idea how many people would die in Fengzhou City.
"Mr. Cao, who is in charge of Fengzhou City at present?"
"It's Mr. Liang and General Wujiang who discussed it together." Cao Yu replied.
"I came from Zhulanhe Camp this time, and my purpose was nothing else, just to borrow food."
Xu Yanqiu said in a deep voice: "Now, the court's food supply is insufficient, and a new round of food will take ten days to be delivered. The Zhulan River camp has 18,000 people, and 50,000 stones of food are needed. I wonder if Lord Cao can give me the food?"
"That's natural." Cao Yu nodded and agreed, "The grain in the official warehouse of Fengzhou City is insufficient, but Hong Shi's Honglai Grain No. 100,000 stones have hundreds of thousands of stones of grain. Now that he is dead, all these grains must be confiscated. Not to mention 50,000 stones, even 150,000 stones, the general will just take them away if he wants to take them away!"
"This is the best!" Xu Yanqiu was overjoyed, "Thank you, Lord Cao!"
"General Xu is polite." Cao Yu smiled, "If General Xu had not come in time, I would have been defeated by the crazy people. How could I stand here and talk to the general?"
"Mr. Cao, has the situation in Fengzhou City been reported?"
"I'm preparing to send it to Shengzhou."
"Wang Jing and Zhang Heyan have done all kinds of evil in Fengzhou. This riot in the people is really venting their anger. Lord Cao, you are a loyal and courageous person, but you must explain the hidden truth clearly." Xu Yanqiu persuaded.
"General, don't worry, I will write everything I should write without saying a word." Cao Yu said in a deep voice, "but the result of the execution above may be unsatisfactory."
"For the people who were in this riot, they will definitely find some people to execute them. Moreover, Wang Jing has been entrenched in the northern border for many years, with wide connections and deep roots. It is difficult to guarantee that no one will plead for him. How many evidence of his crime can be revealed to the world?"
Xu Yanqiu's face was low and gritted her teeth and cursed: "Officials protect each other, all these people deserve to die! I really hope that I am Li Xin'an. Without my scruples of identity, I can eliminate harm for the people..."
"Who did you just say?" Cao Yu didn't hear it clearly for a while.
"Oh, nothing, I'm just talking to myself."
While he was talking, someone outside the door hurriedly ran in with a panic expression on his face.
"Not good...not good..."
"What are you doing? How can you be so panicked?" Cao Yu scolded, "What happened? Tell me slowly."
"Honglai Grain Number...Honglai Grain Number..."
"What's wrong with Honglailiang number?" Xu Yanqiu's heart suddenly flashed through his mind.
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The silk is not good.
"The two granaries of Honglailiang have caught fire!"
Cao Yu was shocked when he heard this: "Two granaries are 100,000 stones of grain! A big thing is not good, General Xu, let's hurry over!"
Xu Yanqiu said "um" and walked out the door with his head down, but muttered in his heart.
Ye Qinglan did not enter the yamen with him. Before they parted, Ye Qinglan said that he was going to find Li Xin'an, and the latter would most likely be in Honglailiang.
Now the Honglai Grain No. 100,000 stones of grain were burned.
"Li Xin'an, what the hell are you doing?"
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Honglai Grain No.
It is the dry and hot season now, with the fire surging, and thick black smoke comes out of the two granaries, which can be seen clearly several miles apart.
The people on the street ran around and told each other, and every household took out buckets, pots and bowls, or collected water from their own wells, or fetched water from the river outside the city, trying to use their insignificant power to extinguish the huge fire.
This 100,000 stone of grain should have been distributed to the people who couldn't eat.
Life-saving food is about to be gone, and anyone here has to worry.
"No, the fire is too big. Everyone, leave this street quickly and don't put out the fire anymore!" Cao Yu, who had just arrived, immediately ordered.
"Sir, that's one hundred thousand stones of food!" An old man in a worn-out dress and holding a broken basin in his hand begged, "It can't be burned like this, please, let us put out the fire again."
"No!" Cao Yu said, "This granary is about to collapse, and life will be in danger when approaching the granary. Besides, even if the fire is saved, the food inside cannot be eaten. What's more, there are eight other granaries in Honglai Grain, which are enough to distribute to everyone."
As soon as he finished speaking, a "boom" sound came from a granary and a dozen soldiers near the granary were pressed down below.
"I won't leave yet!" Xu Yanqiu shouted violently, "If you don't leave, don't blame me for driving people!"
The tragic situation was ahead. No matter how precious the food was, it was not as good as its own. The crowds who were putting out the fire retreated like a tide. For a moment, there were only Xu Yanqiu and Cao Yu on the street.
However, in the dark, there are still people watching all this.
"Would you be too impulsive to burn food directly?" Murong Bai said.
The fire shone Li Xin'an's face, he shook his head and said:
"I don't want to do this either, but the poisoned food cannot be eaten by people no matter what, and can only be burned."
"Brother Li, what do you think of Xu Yanqiu?" Ye Qinglan, who had found Li Xin'an and others and burned the granary with them, asked.
"He is a talented person." Li Xin'an smiled, "The master has such a general, and he is full of talents."
"Let's go, let's go and meet him for a while."
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The fire burned for two full hours, and it was barely controlled when it was dark.
After leaving the fire, Xu Yanqiu wanted to return to Fengzhou Yamen to rest, but was stopped.
"Little General."
"Ye Qinglan?"
Xu Yanqiu turned his head in surprise and saw that behind him was not Ye Qinglan, but five tall young men.
Xu Yanqiu was shocked and asked tentatively: "Blood Clothes Hall?"
Li Xinan smiled and bowed: "Let me, Li Xinan."
"You are Li Xin'an." Xu Yanqiu smiled, "I heard of your name very early."
"Haha, my senior brother has a big mouth and can't control his mouth." Li Xin'an smiled, "My identity is too sensitive, so it's better to try to avoid revealing that I am the master's disciple on the surface."
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Qiu waved his hand: "Don't worry, Brother Chang Yu only mentioned the matter of Bloody Clothes Hall to us six brothers, and others don't know about it."
"There are six people?" Li Xinan looked surprised.
"I have five sworn brothers, all of whom are the vanguard and the grain supervisor under Pei Shuai's tent, and they were brought out by Pei Shuai."
Li Xin'an nodded. Since he was Pei Min's confidant, he was his own person.
Xu Yanqiu turned over and dismounted, walked to Li Xin'an, looked at the ruins left by the fire not far away, and said:
"You burned this fire?"
“That’s right.”
"Why?"
Li Xin'an sighed: "This is not a place to speak. General Xu, please come with me."
Xu Yanqiu was not sure about this, so he followed Li Xin'an to a remote and quiet farm house. There was no arrangement inside, only a table with some letters and documents placed on it.
"Please look, General."
"This is... a letter from Hong Shi and Wang Jing..."
Xu Yanqiu opened a letter and looked on, his face becoming heavier.
There are seven letters in total, except for those from Wang Jing and Zhang Heyan, there are three letters left without knowing their identities.
After reading it, Xu Yanqiu could no longer suppress her anger and punched her resentful punch on the table.
"I actually poisoned the food... I also colluded with the Khitans. This is treason!" Xu Yanqiu said gritting his teeth, "I thought Wang Jing and the others were just bad, but I didn't expect that they were still traitors!"
"It's not just the Khitan." Li Xin'an said in a deep voice, "The relationship behind Hong Shi is extremely complicated. Compared with Wang Jing and Zhang Heyan, Hong Shi is the most dangerous one. Behind him is An Lushan."
"An Lushan?" Xu Yanqiu was puzzled, "What does it have to do with him?"
"An Lushan wants to rebel and collude with the Khitans." Li Xin'an said, "This is the news I found out in Chang'an. No one outside Chang'an knows."
"Then why don't you report to the official?" Xu Yanqiu said anxiously, "Aren't you the one of His Highness Guangping?"
"They all know!" Li Xin'an shook his head, "But the saint doesn't believe it. If he doesn't believe it, others can't move."
"This matter is still within controllable range. This time I went out to travel around the world. The ultimate goal is to go to Fanyang and kill An Lushan."
"But before that, I will go to see my master first. The Khitans are likely to have a big conspiracy, you must be careful."
Xu Yanqiu nodded: "Since that's the case, I will bring my food tomorrow and set off immediately and return to Zhulan River Camp."
"Where are my master and senior brother now?" Li Xin'an and his friends walked out and asked as they walked.
"Pei Shuai is patrolling the front line. Brother Chang Yu is currently in Zhulanhe Camp. He has just killed several wolf slaves from tribes recently. He is seriously injured and is recovering from injuries."
"Can the senior brother be injured, is it because the Witch God Sect took action?"
"have no idea."
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The next morning, he prepared 100,000 stones of grain. Xu Yanqiu and 500 Fengzhou soldiers set off for Zhulan River Camp.
When passing by Majia Village, the team stopped for a while, and Xu Yanqiu left the team alone and said goodbye to Mrs. Ma.
After he came back, Li Xin'an asked curiously: "Gen. Xu and Mrs. Ma have old age?"
"Not that." Xu Yanqiu smiled, "Madam Ma is the fiancée of my sworn brother Meng Guoliang. My sister-in-law has been widowed before. The two of them came to Fengzhou to supervise the grain. The two met and settled. With the relationship between her brother, the sister-in-law supported Majia Village."
"So that's it." Li Xin'an said, "Since General Xu is the six brothers who have become sworn brothers, I wonder if the rest are He Yingcai?"
"They..."
Xu Yanqiu smiled mysteriously: "When you arrive at the camp, you will naturally get to know each other."