710、The truth of the Northwest
After entering Shaanxi, every step I took makes people cry. Not only is there sand in the desert, but there are countless white bones. It takes not long to walk to see a dilapidated oasis, with many bones lying in it. These are the people who died of drought. Because their bones are very complete, they cannot see broken hands and feet, which means they are not dead by swords and weapons...
Yi Yun's brows were frowning very deeply and could not be stretched for a long time.
The girls' expressions are not very good-looking either.
On this day, the team came to an oasis called "Wufang Township". From a distance, it was not completely dilapidated. You could still see figures shaking. Yi Yun and the girls were energetic: "It's really not easy. I finally saw a living person!"
Everyone was in high spirits and rushed forward. After walking for a while, when they got closer, they realized that the atmosphere here was strange. It turned out that at the gate of Wufang Township, there were a large group of thin people gathered. They didn't speak, staring at each other with their eyes, occasionally shaking their heads, as if they were waiting for something.
Before Yi Yun could go over and ask what they were doing, he saw one of them that seemed to be unable to hold on and fell to the ground with a thud. The person next to him was immediately overjoyed and rushed up and held the falling person down. Then someone opened his mouth and bit the falling person, as if he wanted to eat him.
"Fuck! What are you doing?" Yi Yun was shocked and rushed forward with a quick step, protecting the fallen man, dragging him out of the crowd: "Are you crazy?"
The group of thin men looked at Yi Yun with their unscrupulous eyes, and said in a weak voice: "We are not crazy... The people in Wufang Township have made an agreement that whoever can't hold on to fall down first will let others eat it, so that other people can live longer."
"I..." Yi Yun wanted to curse, but he didn't curse. He felt a bitterness surge up from his throat: "Come on, give this person some food, cousin Dong Ying. Come and rain for them..."
Dong Ying ran over from a distance, carrying rain all the way. The men from Wufang Township were shocked to see Dong Ying who would rain. They knelt down to her and shouted: "Oh my God, the fairy who would rain? You must be a fairy!"
"Wow, my sister is indeed a fairy girl. Wahahaha." Dong Ying smiled proudly.
The soldiers were looking for dry food, but Zhao Yunxuan ran up first and handed a few meat buns. Although she liked to eat buns the most. However, whenever she saw the poor man starving, she would share her buns with others, which was from a super good person. The buns fell into the hands of men in Wufang Township. The guy who fainted from hunger and almost got eaten finally saved his life. The group of men squatted on the ground, holding the buns in both hands and stuffed them into his mouth.
"Don't panic, eat slowly! Don't eat too much, be careful to swell your stomach."
"No. You must eat more. You see, you are a high-ranking official from another place. It is impossible for you to always deliver food to us here. When you leave, we will be hungry again. We can only eat more while you are here to live a little longer." Several men cried.
Yi Yun looked at the dry oasis behind him. He felt annoyed. He waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, you can follow my army. After I finish my business, I will take you to the Jiangnan area. There is no drought there, and everything will be fine."
"Ah? That's great... wu... wu..." The group of men burst into tears.
Yi Yun counted and found that there were about a dozen men. There were quite a few of them. He couldn't help asking, "There are only a few of you left in Wufang Township? All the others are dead?"
"Well... not all died. Hundreds of people followed Li Zicheng to rebel." The men sighed: "When the drought first became more serious, Li Zicheng brought his army once and asked who in the village who was willing to rebel with him. Hundreds of brave ones followed her. The rest of us didn't want to be thieves. But we didn't expect the drought to get worse. If we had known we would have followed Li Zicheng too...ah...huh? Look at you as a high-ranking official in the court and you were carrying the army behind you. You wouldn't have come to wipe out Li Zicheng, right?"
Yi Yun nodded: "Yes, I'm here to deal with Li Zicheng."
"Ah? Ah..." The men exclaimed, and then they knelt on the ground together: "You gave us food, you are a good official, please don't deal with Li Zicheng... Everyone... were forced by drought, and they didn't want to..."
This is a situation that Yi Yun did not expect. Some people would protect Li Zicheng? It’s amazing!
In later generations, Yi Yun often read novels and often spent on forums. After repeated argumentation of many novels, book reviews, and a large amount of historical facts, it shows that Li Zicheng is a thief who is harmful to the country, so Yi Yun has no good feelings for Li Zicheng and his group. This time, he heard that Li Zicheng was also in trouble in the Dameng Kingdom, so he was determined to kill her.
I didn't expect these people to help Li Zicheng speak. This is really strange.
"Isn't Li Zicheng a bad guy who burns, kills, loots, and does everything he wants?" Yi Yun asked.
"Where did you hear this? Sister Li Zicheng is a good person..." said the men.
"Is he a good person and rebel?" Yi Yun asked again.
"Sir, look at the oasis behind us... Let's see that we have all started to eat people... If you encounter this situation, and there are corrupt officials who are asking you to collect heavy taxes, you will also be against you!" The men answered quickly.
"I'll just go!" Yi Yun felt that his IQ was suppressed. The men were right. If he had encountered this situation, he would have played a game of people here. His sister had already entered the capital: "By the way, what about the officials who collected taxes? I only saw you playing people, but didn't see anyone who came to collect taxes?"
"When Sister Li Zicheng came, she killed all the local officials, but she did not burn, kill, loot..." The men said quickly.
"It's strange!" Yi Yun felt a little strange. Although he knew a lot about the Li Zicheng uprising in the late Ming Dynasty in another world, because Da Meng Kingdom was still very different from the Ming Dynasty. So when he returned to his country, he inquired about the peasant uprising in Shaanxi and Xi. The news he got was that Li Zicheng burned, killed, looted, and did many bad things, just like the Li Zicheng in history.
But when I came to the scene, I felt something was wrong. The bones in the oasis were all starved to death. I didn’t see anyone being cut to death by a knife. These hungry men could not lie, right? Li Zicheng in this world should be a little different from the Li Zicheng in real history! Sure enough, it is necessary!
He suddenly thought of a key question and couldn't help but pull a man and ask, "What kind of officials are the officials who Li Zicheng killed?"
"It's... the tax officer of the Donglin Party..."
"I'll take it, the official of the Donglin Party?" Yi Yun finally realized: "I'll wipe your hot clove mother. I've been having it for a long time. It was the Donglin Party that forced the people to rebel, and then deliberately spread rumors and slander Li Zicheng..."
Tongguan is in the hands of the Donglin Party, and the main throat entering Shaanxi is equivalent to being controlled by the Donglin Party, and the other two roads entering Shaanxi must be the same. In other words, what happened in the northwest is actually under the control of the Donglin Party’s news. The Donglin Party wants to know something outside so that it can only know something outside. What the Donglin Party doesn’t want to say is all submerged in the yellow sand.
No wonder the Donglin Party has always blocked the country's use of troops to eliminate Li Zicheng in the northwest, but advocated the recruitment of pacification. The reason is very simple. Recruiting officials, and almost all civil officials are from the Donglin Party. As for the suppression, they must use military officers, but most of the military officers are not from the Donglin Party... The Donglin Party does not want military officers to enter Shaanxi to see the real situation here. They want to cover up the sky and cover up the fact that they bully good people here and force the people to rebel.
After all, if the tax officials in the northwest forced the ground to be covered with bones, the reputation of the Donglin Party’s honest officials would never be able to be picked up again, and the people of the whole country would treat them as traitors. Therefore, Qian Qianyi tried so hard to stop Yi Yun, but... Yi Yun came in after all! Seeing it!
"Damn it! I really want to kill all these officials of the Donglin Party!" Yi Yun said gritting his teeth.
"Then, you should join Sister Li Zicheng's army..." The poor man said seriously: "What she is doing now is to kill all the officials of the Donglin Party."
"Damn, I'll kill myself, so I won't do it with her." Yi Yun's face darkened: "And I have to stop her from continuing to make trouble. Now the powerful enemies around the Dameng Country are looking around. Not only are the Qing Tartars making trouble in the north, but also the southwestern rebels, and the European powers. It's not when Li Zicheng should make trouble... I have to defeat her and subdue her, so that she can stop making trouble. The right thing is to do to the outside world first."
The poor guys don’t understand!
Yi Yun was too lazy to explain, so he waved his hand and said, "Come on, put these men into our army and be orderly first. We must ensure their food and water supply."
"Yes!" Someone came over and took these men away.
"What are you going to do now?" Chen Yuanyuan asked from the side.
"Cold!" Yi Yun replied habitually with an unreliable sentence, and then a reliable answer: "I plan to kill Li Zicheng's old nest, Xi'an, defeat her dignifiedly, tell her not to make trouble, first and unanimously, then return to the army to Beijing, and kill all the bad people of the Donglin Party."
"Well! It's a very appropriate approach, I agree." Zhao Yunxuan actually inserted it.
"I agree too!" The god-level **Si Yu Dayou actually interrupted, and the girls gave him a look: "No one asked you for your opinion."
Yu Dayou was a little embarrassed and pointed to his nose and said, "You must believe me, I really know the Dugu Jiujian. I am full and have the strength to do it now. Let me perform for you to show it."
Chapter completed!