Chapter 499                                                             

Many people have seen how strong the ice wall Li Yu has condensed is.

But these small stones can be deeply embedded in the ice wall. It is easy to imagine how powerful it is.

Everyone came to the center of the yard together.

The ground here was blown up a small pit half a meter wide, and all the scarecrows placed around had flew out.

Pick up the scarecrow and look at it carefully. The armor was covered with pits of different sizes.

In some places, the iron sheet is thin and has been penetrated by stones.

After seeing this, everyone took a breath. What a domineering power! What a domineering firecracker!

Lu Fang nodded thoughtfully, his Highness was right, and the power of adding stones inside was indeed doubled.

He pulled a small stone from the armor and said quietly: "What if the firecrackers are not filled with stones, but iron sand?"

Everyone looked at each other and shivered at the same time.

If the stones were replaced with iron sand, then the power of firecrackers would be stronger than they are now.

Once it explodes in the crowd, no one around will be spared.

Liang Ping asked with his eyes shining: "Zhengren Lu, can such firecrackers be made in large quantities?"

Lu Fang nodded.

As long as there is enough gunpowder, iron sand, and bamboo, it is not difficult to create such amazing firecrackers.

Seeing Lu Fang nodding, Liang Ping slapped his hands excitedly and said to Li Yu: "Your Highness, if we have a large number of firecrackers in our hands, even if there are many enemy troops coming to attack the city, we will not be afraid!"

This is much easier to use than rolling wood, rock, and arrows.

A small firecracker is easier to use than dozens or hundreds of wooden and rocks!

Li Yu said to Lu Fang: "It seems that I will have to work hard again during this period!"

Originally, Li Yu planned to let Lu Fang accompany him to stroll around the city, but now, seeing all the generals surrounded Lu Fang and asking around, he couldn't call Lu Fang away again.

Liang Pi noticed Li Yu walking outside the courtyard. He quickly chased after him and asked, "Duoyu, where are you going?"

“Sit around the city!”

"It's just right! I'll go with you!"

Liang Pi murmured, "My father wouldn't let him wander around the city, saying that the city is too chaotic now."

Li Yu asked, "The city is too chaotic?"

Speaking of which, although he had lived in Huaian City for many days, he had never been to visit the city.

Liang Ping said that the city is too chaotic now, and it is really not to scare Liang Pi.

At present, even if the population in Huaicheng is not as big as one million, it is not far apart.

The defenders in the city alone had more than 300,000 people.

There are more than 100,000 indigenous people in the city, and more than 300,000 refugees who fled from other counties.

When everyone adds up, the total population in Huaian City must be above 800,000.

Walking on the main street of Huaian City, I saw that there were people on both sides of the road.

Most of the refugees with more than 300,000 refugees have no place to live and can only stay on the streets.

If you have better conditions, you can also build a floor or set up a tent. If you don’t have the conditions, you can just lie on the street, using the ground as the bed and the sky as the quilt.

Li Yu and Liang Pi both wore casual clothes.

But even if the two of them were casual clothes, they were also boutique clothes and jade belts, which were much more gorgeous than ordinary people.

Seeing them dressed in bright clothes, beggars on the street flocked to them, and one by one, with broken rice bowls reaching in front of them, "Young Master, give me some money!"

"Young Master, enjoy the food!"

Looking at these beggars with pale faces and skinny faces, Li Yu frowned secretly. Isn’t the state capital serving porridge every day?

Why are there so many beggars in the city?

He turned his head and whispered: "Golden Crow!"

Li Yu doesn't carry money, and the golden crow is his money bag.

Jinwu approached Li Yu and whispered: "Your Highness, you can't give it to me. After giving it to me, we can't leave!"

As long as you give someone money, all the beggars on the entire street will come around and ask you for money.

Li Yu had seen such a thing, and he sighed and didn't say anything more.

Jinwu squeezed into front of Li Yu, and while pushing the beggar blocking the road, he shouted impatiently, "Get out! Get out! Get out!"

The scene on the street made Li Yu feel unintentional to continue wandering around. He said to Liang Pi: "Let's go! Let's go to the prefecture to take a look!"

He wanted to see if the state capital had served porridge.

Qinzhou Prefecture has moved to the county government of Huaian County.

Therefore, the current county government is both a county government and a prefecture.

After Li Yu and Liang Pi arrived near the prefecture, they did not go in immediately, but sat in a nearby tea shed, drinking tea while watching.

Wait until noon.

The gate of the prefecture is open.

The people gathered on the streets all surrounded them.

Looking around, there are three floors inside and three floors outside, and there are crowds of people, and I can't tell the numbers.

Soon, several servants in the prefecture worked together to carry large wooden barrels and walked out of it.

A yamen runner pinched his waist with his hands, stood on the steps, shouting at the crowd below, "Line up! All are in line! Come one by one!"

After a stick of incense, the porridge finally began.

The so-called porridge distribution means that the yamen runners put a spoonful in a large wooden barrel to the people who came to ask for porridge.

This spoon can probably fill half a bowl.

Someone just got the porridge and couldn't wait to drink it all. After someone got the porridge, they held it with their hands and left quickly.

There was a twelve or thirteen-year-old child holding a bowl of porridge and was passing by the tea shed when he was stopping him by two young men.

"Hey! Baby! Hand over the porridge!"

The tall young man looked at the half-grown child with a bad look on his face.

The half-aged child was so scared that he took a step back and said stammeringly: "This... this bowl of porridge is for my mother!"

Another young man was ruthless and didn't talk much. He started to do it directly, grabbed the ears of half-aged child, twisted them hard, and said ruthlessly: "I'll ask you to hand over the porridge!"

Blood can be seen oozing out of the earlobe of the half-aged child.

Seeing this, Liang Pi was furious.

He stood up and walked out of the tea shed with great strides, clasping the young man's wrist that grabbed the child's ear.

He didn't see him stolen force, and the young man felt that his wrist was clamped by a pair of iron clamps, and the pain was about to break.

He couldn't help but scream, let go of the old child's ears, and looked at Liang Pi with a fierce look on his face.

"You're looking for death!"

He pulled out a dagger from his back and stabbed Liang Pi in the face.

What a cruel boy!

The other party is the first sword, and Liang Pi is the second feet.

But his foot kicked the young man in the chest first.

Bang!

The young man's body flew backwards so far, and the dagger fell to the ground with his hands.

He covered his chest with his hands, and the ground was rolling in pain.

Seeing this, the tall young man didn't even dare to let go of any farts, and he didn't even care about his companion who fell to the ground, so he turned around and ran away.

Liang Pi looked at the back of the tall young man who fled in panic, sneered and said ruthlessly: "Dog bastard!"

Li Yu walked to the half-child, first looked at his ears, which were torn apart, and then his eyes fell on the bowl of porridge in his hand.

The half-aged child instinctively shrank back, holding the porridge bowl tightly with his two black and thin hands.

Li Yu stretched out his hand and asked, "Can you give me this bowl of porridge?"

The half-old child was stunned for a moment, without saying anything, and ran away.
Chapter completed!