Helanzhou, in the tent where the Imperial Envoy Minister Mu Zichuan and his deputy Daan stayed.

"Brother Zichuan, the latest news is that hundreds of hungry people from Yingkou County, eighty miles away, rushed to the county government office and destroyed it."

"The county magistrate ran away with his family, and now Yingkou County is in chaos."

Da'an rushed into the camp and told Mu Zichuan the latest news he had just learned.

Mu Zichuan was standing in front of the desk, his hands clasped behind his back, looking down at a map of Helanzhou spread out on the desk in front of him.

Hearing this, his brows knitted together slightly.

After thinking for a moment, he said: "Da'an, please pass on the order and immediately break camp and set off, retreating to the place where it meets Changhuaizhou a hundred miles away in the south."

"Okay, I'll go deliver the order right away!" Da'an turned around and hurried out of the camp.

…

The suburbs of Yingkou County.

In the night, a team of five or six riders, with guards all in black, escorted a black carriage in the middle and drove slowly towards Yingkou County ahead in the night.

Suddenly, a figure rushed out from the grass on the roadside in front.

"Protect the master!"

The guard on horseback at the front of the team roared, and with a flash of cold light, the sword at his waist was already in his hand. His sharp gaze locked on the moving figure on the road ahead, and his murderous intent suddenly arose.

The figure on the road ahead had not even taken two steps when he fell to the ground with a thud.

"Help...help..."

The figure groaned in pain on the ground.

"what's the situation?"

A man's low voice of inquiry came from the carriage curtain.

"Reply to the master, there is a man lying on the road ahead, calling for help." The leading guard said.

"Go and have a look." A faint command came from the carriage.

"yes!"

The guard dismounted and swept forward, then quickly turned back, "Let me tell you, Master, judging from his clothes, he must be a disaster victim, but it seems that he has a lot of sores on his body, and they are all festering!"

"All festered?" The man in the carriage pondered for a moment, and then the curtain of the carriage was opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a black robe and a large black gold cape got out of the carriage.

Under the moonlight, half of his face was hidden in the shadow, and half was exposed in the moonlight.

The half of his face exposed in the moonlight looked exactly like the current Ninth Five-Year-Old Emperor Qi.

The middle-aged man walked in front of the victim who fell to the ground with a steady and calm step, leaned down slightly and looked at the victim on the ground.

"Fellow? Do you hear me?" he asked with a smile.

The victims on the ground opened their eyes and saw the middle-aged man in front of them, as if they had found a savior.

He struggled and stretched out his hand, trying to grab the middle-aged man's trousers, but the middle-aged man took a step back, keeping a faint smile on his face.

"What's wrong with you, fellow? Are you hungry or sick?" the middle-aged man asked.

The victims on the ground said with difficulty: "We are hungry and sick. Several people in our village... are sick just like me. They are all dead. They are dead..."

"Master, save, save me..."

He struggled and tried to grab the middle-aged man's trousers, but the middle-aged man stood up straight.

"Okay, I'll save you!"

He turned around and winked at the guard beside him.

The guard understood, and stepped forward and slapped the victim on the back, causing the victim to faint before he even had time to grunt.

The guard brought a sack, put the victim in the sack, and threw him on the horse's back.

At dawn, the middle-aged man and his party arrived outside the city wall of Yingkou County.

The middle-aged man ordered the guard: "Just find a place with the most traffic and dump the plague victim there."

"yes!"

The guards picked up the sacks, took advantage of the darkness, tiptoed, and quickly climbed up the city wall and entered the county seat.

Here, the middle-aged man put his hands behind his back and looked at the direction where the guard disappeared, with a sneer on his lips.

Then, he turned around again and looked in the direction of the capital, his sharp eyes like an eagle narrowed slightly.

"Brother, you've been sitting on that dragon chair for too long. It's time for you to come down and change your stool, hahaha..."

…

Yang Ruoqing didn't know if Da'an and Zichuan had received the letter she asked Shunfeng Escort to send.

However, new news came back from Helanzhou.

This time the person who brought back the news was none other than Yan Huaian, who was traveling all over the country.

Yan Huaian is almost seventy years old, but the old man has good health, a red face, and good teeth. He likes to eat meat and drink wine in large quantities.

Although he gave birth to three sons, they were also engaged in business like him and had long ago asked him to return to Daliao to live in peace and happiness.

But Mr. Yan Huaian couldn't sit still, and every year he personally led a caravan to Changping Village to visit Tuoba Xian, and by the way, he sent a batch of things from the north to Tuoba Xian.

No, even though there was a famine at this time of year, Yan Huaian's caravan still arrived at Changping Village.

"Drought and insect plagues, the most common thing we see along the road are the large-scale fleeing victims."

In the room, Yan Huaian was holding a bowl of tea in his hand and was talking to Tuoba Xian, Yang Ruoqing, Na Risong and Xiao Yaxue about what they had seen along the way.

"In many places, the government is almost unable to suppress the violence, smashing and looting."

"When our caravan first entered the border of Helanzhou, we saw that all the wild vegetables on the roadside had been dug up."

"The bark of the trees has also been peeled off, and in some places, people are digging up a kind of soil called 'Guanyin soil' and eating it."

"When a caravan passes by a market town, the most common thing you see are those with straws in their heads, selling their children and girls..."

"On the roadside, no one has picked up the bodies of those who died of starvation, and wild dogs are eating them,"

"A place in the Netherlands called Yingkou County is experiencing a plague again. It is similar to the plague in Mianniu Mountain a few years ago. I heard that in just three days in Yingkou County, several villages, whole villages, died."

"Those infected villages were all sealed off, and people and houses were all burned down,"

"Perhaps there are a few people here who were not infected and were burned to death. Hey, walking along this way, what I saw is really a hell on earth, it's too miserable to look at!"

When Yan Huaian said this, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly and sigh.

Tuoba Xian and Yang Ruoqing also frowned slightly when they heard this. Tuoba Xian said: "Such a chaos, if we don't suppress and appease it quickly and effectively, big chaos will happen soon."

Yang Ruoqing said: "It's already out."

Tuoba Xian looked at Yang Ruoqing in surprise, "How do you say that?"

Yang Ruoqing said: "Da'an said in his letter last time that the victims of the disaster in Yingkou County gathered more than a hundred people and rushed to the county government office and smashed it. The county magistrate even ran away."

Yan Huaian said: "It does happen, I've heard about it too."

"Also, I heard something when I came here. I don't know if it's a rumor or if it's true. If it's true, then as Mrs. Xian said, there might really be a big trouble."

"What's going on?" Tuoba Xian asked.
Chapter completed!