Chapter 5: How to save the people [Part 1]

"You can release people! Give us two horses! Kill all the other horses! After we get on the horse, we will release people naturally!" The woman in the straw raincoat shouted in a sweet voice.

"Impossible!" Zhang Chong refused flatly, but the woman in the straw raincoat spoke again. Zhang Chong immediately said: "You let go first! We will let you go! Our Zhang family has a foothold in Tizhou, relying not only on money, food, soldiers, armor, but also on a convincing reputation! We will never slander ourselves. As long as you are willing to let go, you can guarantee that you can leave here safely, and within half an hour, no one will chase two of you! How about it!?"

"...Okay! You can let Brother Chen come first!" The woman in the straw raincoat thought for a while and agreed. When Zhang Chong saw the woman in the straw raincoat agree, he smiled on his face, hugged the woman in the strawcoat and then shouted to the guard behind him: "Distract! Let Brother Chen come over!"

As Zhang Chong's voice sounded, the Zhang family's guards immediately dispersed. For Zhang Cheng's safety, Zhang Cheng's guards immediately dispersed the encirclement immediately, and Chen Feng rode his horse toward the woman in the straw raincoat.

At this time, Zhang Cheng suddenly spoke, "Miss, I have a question below, please explain my doubts."

The woman in the straw raincoat didn't say anything at all, but moved the hand that locked Zhang Cheng's throat. Zhang Cheng immediately coughed a few times, and his face turned red. However, the woman in the straw raincoat also tried too much and immediately relaxed after wiping her hands.

"Ahem... Miss, I have never known each other. I would like to ask the girl to explain my doubts, why should I assassinate me?" Zhang Cheng insisted on asking.

"A traitor! Everyone can kill him!" The woman in the straw raincoat said coldly.

"...I didn't expect it to be this reason. So, is the girl from the court?" Zhang Cheng continued to ask.

"It has nothing to do with the court!" Chen Feng said this time, and then continued: "You Zhang family revolted under the guise of asking for the people. But together with the war, it was not the people who suffered. There was no disaster victim in Anmin City. However, looking at the entire Tizhou, it was said that the people were living in poverty! The one who caused all this was not the King of Tizhou! But the current Tizhou chief manager! That is, your father Zhang Jiao!"

"It's nonsense! My father... cough cough..." Zhang Cheng shouted excitedly. However, when he was excited, the woman in the straw raincoat immediately tightened her hands and immediately interrupted Zhang Cheng's words on the second floor.

"Yuhe, let him speak, I want to hear what else does this son of a rebellious minister have to make a quibble?" Chen Feng said loudly.

"Ahem... why should we make a quibble? Facts are better than words! There are four groups of rebel soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. Our Tizhou Zhang family is one of them. However, there are more than ten prefectures and counties of all sizes in the world, but how many are still obeying the court? The original Tizhou King had long been obeying the court but not the preaching, and he had a disagreement!"

"After the natural disaster in Tizhou, all officials in Tizhou asked the court for help. Has the court transported a piece of food? There was very little official grain stored in Tizhou, and it was impossible to save the disaster in the entire Tizhou. But the disaster has been alleviated now. Where did the food come from? "

"Those food! My father Zhang Jiao used all his relationships to borrow it from various states and places! He bought it all over the bank! If I had no Zhang family, what would Tizhou be like? I don't bother to tell whether my Zhang family was a traitor. This charity flag is not the same! But! You two are assassinating the traitors in the name of killing rioters, then I will ask!"

Zhang Cheng became more and more excited as he spoke. Finally, he pointed at Chen Feng and asked, "What have you done for the people of Tizhou Tizhou? Have you given the people of Tizhou a piece of food!? Or have you given the people of Tizhou a place to settle down!?"

"..." Chen Feng was not talking, his brows frowned tightly, and for a moment he was a little cold. The woman in the straw raincoat suddenly tightened her left hand and showed a look of pain on Zhang Cheng's face. At the same time, the woman in the straw raincoat said coldly: "Not to speak nonsense! Don't think that under the guise of pleading for the people, you can take off your hat as a traitor!"

"Please stop me." Zhang Chong hurriedly stopped the woman in the straw raincoat's atrocities against Zhang Cheng, and at the same time led his mount five steps away from the straw raincoat's woman. He hugged her fists again like the woman in the strawcoat and said, "Girl, the horse is ready, please let the girl release him."

The woman in the straw raincoat looked at Zhang Chong, then pushed Zhang Cheng forward a few steps, and Zhang Chong took a few steps back at the right time to show that he would not do anything. When the woman in the straw raincoat pushed Zhang Cheng to the foot of the war horse, she suddenly pushed Zhang Cheng and loosened the whip. Zhang Cheng seemed to be under great force, and the woman in the straw raincoat quickly turned over and galloped away with Chen Feng.

Zhang Cheng's martial arts skills are also quite good. After flying out, he quickly adjusted his body in the air. Then he was supported by Zhang Chong and did not look embarrassed when he landed on the ground.

"Cough, cough, cough..." After Zhang Cheng stood firm, he coughed a few times, touched the whip scars and finger marks on his neck, and there were blood stains of the woman in the straw raincoat. Looking at the direction the woman in the straw raincoat left, he sighed: "What a fierce beauty, she actually grabbed the sword with her hand, hahaha..."

Zhang Cheng's laughter was self-deprecating, of course it was more of a bitter smile. Zhang Chong patted Zhang Cheng's shoulder and said with a smile: "Second cousin, don't care. Today's humiliation will be retrieved from the next day."

Zhang Cheng shook his head with a wry smile, then clasped his fists at Zhang Chong and said, "Second brother, thanks to the second brother today, otherwise I would have died today."

"Don't be polite, second cousin, you should hurry up and comfort the people of the Tianjian Sect now. If you want to block them for half an hour and not chase the enemy, you may owe a favor." Zhang Chong pointed to the uneasy Tianjian Sect and others with his chin and said.

Zhang Cheng and Li Dong and others made a remark. In the end, the people of the Tianjian Sect had to stay there for half an hour. Until half an hour later, the two sides parted ways. Zhang Cheng and others continued to rush to Qingquan City, while Li Dong and others followed the horse's hoof marks of Chen Feng and the woman in the straw raincoat to continue chasing.

Zhang Yuan, Zhang Chong and Zhang Cheng and his group continued to rush forward. The journey in the next few days became much calmer. Although they met many heroes in the world, they did not have any disputes and even had a lot of chats with each other. They also made many friends in the world.

On the fourth day, Zhang Yuan, Zhang Chong and Zhang Cheng and his group finally arrived at the territory of Qingquan City. However, when they arrived at the city of Qingquan City, it was already midnight. The city gate had been closed for a long time. Although Zhang Cheng had a military token in his hand and could order the city gate guards to open the door, this military token should not be used lightly. If there is no military service, use the military card, which is a violation of military discipline, so Zhang Yuan and his group had to set up tents in Qingquan City and prepare to spend the night under the city.

Late at night, Zhang Yuan meditated and stopped, stretched, then went to the bedding and planned to go to bed, but the cry of a baby suddenly sounded outside the tent, which made him sleepless, so he put on his coat and walked out of the tent.

At this time, there were at least thirty or forty tents on both sides of the official road below the city gate, and there were more bonfires. It was obvious that there were not a few people who spent the night under the city gate. Ten meters south of Zhangyuan's tent, there was a bonfire, and the cry of the baby sounded from near the bonfire.

After catching the fire, Zhang Yuan saw many people sitting around the fire. One of the old women was holding a baby and constantly coaxing the baby, but the baby kept crying...

At this time, a thin man walked up to the old woman, reached out and handed it to the old woman something, and said softly: "Auntie, let me give it to the child. I guess the child is hungry."

"Thank you, thank you." The old woman said with a little excitement.

"Oh, let's give it to the child soon, otherwise you'll be hungry." The thin man said, then turned around and left, returned to his luggage, put on a worn cup, and his body was in a ball.

When Zhang Yuan saw this scene, he felt like he was touching a string. He felt sad. He suddenly remembered the scene he saw from the Zhang family and his group from Fengzhou to Tizhou. The scene he saw was in vain and beggars could be seen everywhere, and there were many children and daughters.

"Is the Second Uncle Uprising really right?" Zhang Yuan suddenly had a question in his mind. How can civilians make a living by natural disasters and unrest? After the Zhangjiao Uprising, the refugees in Anmincheng disappeared overnight, but the refugees in Anmincheng disappeared, so did the refugees in the entire Tizhou disappear?

It is obvious that Zhang Jiao cannot save the refugees in the entire Tizhou, and refugees outside Anmincheng are still in dire straits. In addition, there is another situation that has aggravated the disaster in Tizhou, that is, recruitment!

Regarding the recruitment, Zhang Yuan also heard from the road these days, but this incident shocked Zhang Yuan.

After the natural disaster in Tizhou, civilians fled everywhere, and the population in Tizhou was greatly reduced. In this case, where did the source of troops come from? Of course, it is forced to recruit soldiers, bringing all the strong men from civilian households into the army and expanding the soldiers.

However, in this way, there are few males in civilian families, leaving only the elderly, weak, women and children. How should we work? How to support our family? How to seek a way to survive?

The drought has stopped, but the famine escape has become more and more serious. Pieces of arable land have become wasteland, and no one has cultivated them. There are more wastelands, so of course there are fewer food, and more and more fugitives have... In a vicious cycle, Tizhou is becoming more and more desolate.

Zhang Yuan circled around the small camp, looking at the victims gathered around the bonfire not far away, and various scenes of people's miserable life flashed in his mind, and his mood was indescribable.

"When I come to this troubled times, should I do something?"

"Does it just look at the chaos in the world..."
Chapter completed!