Chapter 120 Appalling (3 more)
Something else?
The reason why the relationship was found early this morning was completely different from what he thought.
Someone feels a little lost.
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
Seeing the solemn appearance of Honeysu, Murong Yusu gave the door a look outside, Changkong understood, looked around with a look of alert, and then took the door with a calm expression.
The door was closed, and Angelica could only stand obediently and dare not move around. She was secretly surprised that the lady and the prince had anything important to say in the door.
Fortunately, there are no people here, otherwise this lonely man and widow are covering the door...
"Criminal, Yuanzhou is the fief of Prince Jing's Mansion?" If I remember correctly, it should be.
Far continent? "That's right." Is what she is going to say related to the fiefdom of the royal palace? She is becoming more and more confused.
"There is a Qinghe City in the Far Island, a small border town. Has the prince heard of it?"
Qinghe City? Murong Yusu shook his head. Dayuan's territory is vast and the distant continent is relatively remote. It is not vast in the west of Dayuan's territory. Therefore, if the place mentioned by Yandong is really a small border town, it is normal.
"The prince must not know that in this small town, there was a family guarding for generations, regardless of the dynasty, and they would be there. In name, the family would be incorporated, but they would never give military pay, nor would they have issued any serious official documents, because there had never been any turmoil in this place for hundreds of years. In addition, it was a small place, and no one paid attention to it. Prince Jing's mansion should be clear that the army's food and grass and military pay were handed to the guards of such border towns. There were probably only a few families who had to rely on the court and were basically self-sufficient. The local people called it the Nine Army and regarded the Nine Army as guards. Anyone with more than two males in the family would definitely choose one to join the army. The three words "Nine Army" are a kind of belief in their hearts, because the ancestors of the locals were once robbed and migrated to Qinghe after the defeat. After the war, they migrated to Qinghe and abandoned their names."
In other words, the people of Qinghe City are their own, and the nine armies are their leaders.
"Continue!"
Murong Yusu's expression gradually became serious, and she would never come to tell him a story for no reason.
Outside the door, Changkong was secretly shocked when he heard the Honeysuckle mentioning the fiefdom and military affairs.
"The Farcity is the fief of Prince Jing's Mansion, and the Crown Prince should know that the West Land was drought and the Farcity was also a severely affected area four years ago."
Honeysu quietly looked at Murong Yusu with a solemn look, without any jokes.
"Four years ago, there was a large-scale drought in the western region, and the faraway continent was particularly serious. My father asked the court to allocate grain to the disaster relief. The royal family was exempted from the faraway continent for three years. This is the prince who remembers this clearly."
"Captain can you tell that the disaster relief food allocated by the court has not been in the hands of the people? How many more has it been? Or what are you getting? The royal palace has not been able to provide for three years, but the remote continent is remote and the news is not clear. Can the local people know?"
Murong Yusu's eyes became colder and colder after a series of questions.
There have been many greed in the court since ancient times, and many people have taken disaster relief funds. However, Yuanzhou is the fief of Prince Jing's Mansion. Therefore, four years ago, his father specially condemned his subordinates to go to Yuanzhou to check the distribution of disaster relief food, for fear that someone would deceive his superiors and conceal his subordinates, so he personally posted a list of exemptions from annual payments.
Honeysuckle sighed softly and continued, "Go back to the Qinghe City I started talking about. Due to the drought, the nine army could only take out all the grain storage and distribute it to the people. However, the grain storage was limited but only a drop in the bucket. I couldn't watch the people in the city who trusted them starved to death. In desperation, they took the official lord from decades ago to ask for military pay and food. The nine army knew that it was not much, but for so many years, they had not eaten a grain of rice in the imperial court. It happened that they were not too much to ask for food and food. But they handed over the documents layer by layer, but there was no reply. The nine army could only find the government office of the governor of the Far Ocean.
But after seeing the officials, they refused to admit that they were the regular army of Dayuan, and said that the certificates were all old Huangsheng, so they were sent away... The people were unable to eat, and the disaster was getting worse and worse. For the people of Qinghe City, the nine soldiers could only continue to search. If they could not get military pay, food and grass, thinking of such a big drought, the court would not ignore it. There were always disaster relief food, and they asked for it one after another as the people, but in the end they gave it. Although it was not much, it could solve the urgent problem. Who knew the food transported back? When they opened it, they found that it was either moldy rice or sand mixed with sand. In order to survive, they could only make do with it..."
"This is serious?"
Murong Yusu listened seriously from beginning to end, without saying a word. He did not ask Yandong where he learned it, but only asked if it was true.
Seeing honeysuckle nod, she slapped her hands on the table, and the teacup was broken all over the floor. She pulled the wound that had just been scabbed with excessive force. She was covered with sweat beads of pain but she was completely unaware of it.
"Crown Prince!"
The noise was too loud, and Changkeng pushed the door open and walked in. Angelica was so scared that she turned pale with fear.
"go out!"
Murong Yusu lowered his head, and his anger made Changkong dare not ask too much, so he quickly withdrew and closed the door.
"The prince is injured, so don't get angry. If the wound is pulled open, it will not heal."
"It's okay, you continue to say that I want to listen to it. What else is there besides these." In fact, I probably knew it in my mind, it was nothing more than just those bastards who were doing the annual offering.
"It is said that the sky is high and the emperor is far away. Those local officials have already been in a mess. Officials protect each other and deceive their superiors and hide their subordinates and have their own pockets. In order to deal with the supervision of the court and the royal palace, they have issued disaster relief grains. Each transaction has a number of certificates for receiving signatures and seals. However, the things sent out have been tampered with. It's fine. People don't have to eat enough, and they have to collect taxes as usual. It doesn't matter if they can't afford it. You have decided on the way and use people to pay, and they are very generous. You can pay for women for five years and men for three years!"
Speaking of this, Honeysuckle smiled coldly, and when she first heard it, she also had a similar reaction to the prince.
It is unheard of to pay taxes by people.
"People are tax-deductible? What do they want these people to do? What are these bastards doing?"
"What are you doing? The women are trained and sent to the brothels in various places, and the outstanding ones are sent to the superior officials' mansions, and the men are sent to the official kilns, mines, and fortifications."
"Bastard!" The royal palace exempted the people from paying their respects for three years, but let these things that were worse than animals be used for fish and meat to the people.
If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, he would never dare to think that the world is so great that there is such a ridiculous thing, and the key is that it will happen on the fiefdom of Prince Jing's Mansion.
"Isn't there anyone with a little conscience in the entire continent? Then the people of the continent are not in dire straits?"
Thinking of this, Murong Yusu felt that his chest was so stuffy.
"Of course there is, but the documents they exposed cannot be found in the Farcity. Not only that, they did not end well after the incident. The nine armies were one of them. They wanted to seek justice, but were ordered to be arrested as grasshopper bandits. The rebels were punished on the spot for the crime of disturbing the people! But the nine armies were quick and capable. Since they had no place to make any arguments, they simply became bandits and punished corrupt officials, princes, officials from Farcity, ranging from the governor to the magistrate, to the magistrate, had many deaths in the past few years, all of whom died of illness. Did the court not have any doubts at all?"
That's right, this matter has been hotly discussed for a while. It is said that the land and soil in the distant continents do not nourish people, and the nature of natural disasters is evil.
"Is that nine army killed?" It should be killed! But the court has its own laws. If they all follow suit, wouldn't it be a mess?
"Yes, but the local authorities dare not report it in real life, for fear that the court will investigate. Can the prince want to meet the current head of the Nine Army?"
"What?"
Chapter completed!