Xu Wenliang nodded slowly and said in a calm voice: "Yi De, you should immediately inform the officials of the governor's yamen and counties under the jurisdiction of the governor's yamen and county officials, so that they can take care of their own words."

"Okay, I'll do it right now!"

"Yide, wait..." Xu Wenliang raised his hand and called Chen Yide who was turning around and about to leave.

"Sir, what else do you have to give?"

Xu Wenliang lowered his voice and leaned into Chen Yide's ear and said, "You ordered people to deal with the people who escaped from Jiaodong a few days ago. Don't leak the news, otherwise you will attack the imperial envoy..."

Jining Prefecture, Yongqing County, Beiyuanli.

In the empty wilderness, except for a huge ruin and scorched earth ashes, there is only a bleak look.

Not far from the ruins, there were a few horse-riding people constantly pointing at them.

Soon a few people arrived at the edge of the ruins. The leaders were Di Renjie, Li Yuanfang and Zeng Tai, and behind them were Di Chun, Zhang Huan, Li Lang and other eight military leaders.

Zeng Tai said to Di Renjie:

"Mr., this should be the ruins of Kitaharari Changpingkang."

Di Renjie nodded and sighed, "Beiyuanli is the largest Changping grain reserve in Qingzhou. It has as much as four million stones of grain storage, accounting for nearly 30% of all the grain storage in Qingzhou. It is one of the largest Changping warehouses in Beidi. Unfortunately, a handful of fire destroyed it and became the current sad and bleak look of this sect."

Di Renjie took a deep breath and looked at everyone and said slowly: "So we must find out the truth about the "Fire Dragon Burning Warehouse" as soon as possible, find evidence, bring those evil people to justice, and give an explanation to the tens of millions of people in Qingzhou so that Qingzhou can settle down as soon as possible, otherwise we will be careless.

There will be a 19 prefecture in Qingzhou that may collapse. At that time, the situation in the north is turbulent and foreign enemies will spy on it. The situation that has just calmed down in the Great Zhou Dynasty will be immediately broken...

When I arrived here in a sub-dress, I would like to learn about the situation at that time from the Yuhu people in Beiyuan, see what they said, and solve the case as soon as possible!"

Zeng Tai nodded and responded: "Yes, Master, this may be of benefit to us to solve the mystery of "Fire Dragon Burning Warehouse" as soon as possible."

Di Renjie nodded when he heard this.

Suddenly, Li Yuanfang next to him said, "Sir, look!"

Di Renjie turned his head and looked in the direction Li Yuanfang pointed, and saw a dilapidated small village standing there quietly beside the woods not far away.

Li Yuanfang said: "Sir, it should be the village where the Yuhus ​​live?"

Di Renjie nodded and said, "It is possible, let's go over and take a look."

...

When Di Renjie and his party arrived in the small village, they saw that most of the yards in the village were closed. It was noon, but there was no smoke rising at all. There was no figure on the village road, and there were no chickens crowing and dogs barking. The huge village was as quiet as if it was dead.

Di Renjie and his party slowly walked into the village with their horses. Looking at the extremely depressing scene in front of them, Di Renjie couldn't help but sigh.

Li Yuanfang, who was standing aside, said in surprise to Di Renjie: "Sir, how could this village be so depressed that you can't even see a figure?"

Di Renjie narrowed his face and said with some regret: "The Yu people here were born from the warehouse here. Now a fire has burned the warehouse cleanly. There is no work to do. The Yu people naturally have no food and clothing. This kind of scene is also conceivable..."

Zeng Tai shook his head and said, "What a sin!"

"Hmph! These corrupt officials really deserve to be killed. The crimes they committed have been completely destroyed, which is really abominable!" Li Yuanfang, who was standing aside, also snorted coldly and said hatefully.

At this moment, a scream suddenly came from not far away. Everyone hurriedly followed the sound and saw a few children in the village suddenly running out. In front was a very young child, holding a handful of things that looked like weeds in his hand, running forward desperately. At the back, several older children rushed up and threw the child running in front to the ground. He punched and kicked the child to the head and broke the blood, but the child still grabbed the weeds in his hand and refused to let go.

"Stop!" Li Yuanfang suddenly shouted loudly and was about to stop him. Unexpectedly, the children looked up and saw Di Renjie and others, and their faces showed a look of extreme panic. They ran to the village in panic. Even the beaten child got up quickly and ran behind him quickly.

Seeing this, Di Renjie and others hurriedly chased forward. After turning a corner, they came to a dilapidated thatched hut. At this time, the door of the thatched hut was wide open. At Di Renjie's instructions, Li Yuanfang quickly reached forward and knocked on the door, but after a long time, no one responded.

Seeing this, Di Renjie frowned and walked in. There were only two thatched huts. The outside house was covered with a stove, which seemed to be a place for daily cooking, and there was a broken cloth curtain in the inner room.

"Is anyone here?" Di Renjie shouted again, but no one answered. Seeing this, Li Yuanfang lifted the curtain of the inner room and walked in. After a moment, he walked out and said:

"No one inside."

"Strange, I saw that child run in just now, why was there no one?" Di Renjie said with some surprise.

At this time, Li Yuanfang suddenly came to the stove, raised her hand, raised her fingers to her mouth, signaling everyone to be quiet, and then she saw him reaching out and suddenly took up the big iron pot on the stove.

With a "Ah!", a woman's scream suddenly came from the bottom of the stove, which made everyone in the house jump.

At this moment, a middle-aged woman with a disheveled face and a gray face crawled out of the stove, knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly:

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm the only one who's left in my family is me and my child, and no one is rebelling!"

Di Renjie hurried forward and helped the middle-aged woman up and said:

"Don't be afraid, we are not officials, we are just passers-by."

When the middle-aged woman heard this, she looked up and saw that there was an old man with a very rich and kind face standing in front of her. She let down her heart a little and asked in disbelief:

"You... aren't you really a trooper?"

Di Renjie looked at the woman who was too scared in front of him, and looked pitiful, and couldn't help but feel a sense of sorrow in his heart. He nodded and said in a warm voice:

"This sister, we are really not a lieutenant, we are just passing by!"

The woman then stood up tremblingly and said in confusion:

"Old man, how could you come to our Beiyuanzhuang?"

"I accidentally got lost and broke into the precious land. I wanted to come here to rest for a night, but I didn't know that this would be the case in the village..."

At this time, the curtain inside was lifted up. The young boy Di Renjie had just seen ran out. The woman hurriedly pulled him to her side. Seeing that the child was still holding the handful of grass-like things in his hand, Di Renjie couldn't help but ask:

"Child, what are you holding in your hand? I saw you being chased by a few children just now, just to take away what you are in your hand."

The child's weak body shrank behind the woman and said softly: "This is the Ququ cuisine I picked. My mother is sick and hasn't eaten for several days. I just want to pick some Ququ cuisine for my mother to eat. Who knows that Shidaner and the others wanted to grab it when they saw it, but I haven't run away to them..."

Li Yuanfang was shocked, looked at the thing like grass in the child's hands and said:

"You guys, just eat this?"

The child nodded in confusion, not understanding why Li Yuanfang and the others were so surprised, while the woman hugged the child tightly and cried:

"Ergou, you stupid kid, didn't you tell you that your mother is not hungry and told you not to run around. If you have a few things, how can you live!"

"Mom, I think you haven't eaten for a few days, so I just want to pick some quiches and replenish your body..."

After listening to the conversation between mother and son, Di Renjie and others couldn't help but burst into tears. They never thought that the lives of the people were so difficult. Di Renjie couldn't help but move forward, patted Ergou'er's head, and said softly:

"After a while, will grandpa treat you to noodles?"

Ergouer could hardly believe her ears and asked, "Really?"

Di Renjie touched Ergou's head, nodded vigorously, turned around and ordered Di Chun:

"Di Chun, you and Li Lang went to Fuzhendian to buy some rice and flour, and you should buy more!"

Di Chun nodded quickly and said, "Okay, lord!" As he said that, he quickly left with Li Lang.

"Sister, how many people are there in this village?" Di Renjie asked.

When the woman heard Di Renjie's question, she hurriedly said, "I don't know. I only know that the men in the village committed serious crimes and all fled into the mountains. Those who did not escape were also captured by the officials from the county. Only some old women and children like us, as well as elderly people who couldn't run away. A few days ago, a group of officials came again, and they didn't say anything. They caught them when they saw them. My child and I hid in the kang hole, and then escaped the disaster..."

Di Renjie's eyes turned red in an instant, and he said warmly: "Sister, go to each house to see if there are any people, call them out, I'll treat them to noodles!"

The woman was stunned and said hesitantly: "Then...what if the officials and soldiers are coming?"

Seeing that the woman was hesitant, Di Renjie smiled and said, "Sister, don't be afraid, I'm here!"

The woman said unbelievably: "What's the use of you, an old man? Can you ever fight the government army?"

Before Di Renjie could reply, Li Yuanfang, who was standing beside him, interrupted and said, "Don't look at him as an old man, he can stand thousands of troops!"

The woman still hesitated and said half-believingly: "Really?"

Di Renjie smiled and stroked his beard, saying, "Of course it's true. As long as the official army dares to come, they will scare me away when they see me!" Perhaps Di Renjie's smile was too contagious, so the woman didn't say anything, but nodded and walked out of the house...

But in a short while, there were people standing in front of the thatched hut, with about twenty people, but they were all old, weak, women and children. Di Renjie sat among the people and asked:

"There are only you left in the village?"

At this time, one of the oldest old men sighed and nodded. Di Renjie asked in confusion:

"Old man, can you tell me what crimes the people in the village have committed? Why are they arrested?"

The old man sighed a few more times before saying:

"To be honest, we don't know what crime we committed. We were the officials of the government, saying... we set fire to the court's granary privately, and we were rebelling!"

Di Renjie's expression was calm and he asked calmly:

"I also heard about this on the way. I heard that there were seventeen granaries in Qingzhou burned by the sky fire. Could it be that you put the fire?"

"How is it possible? How can we spend our own jobs? You know, the thousands of people in Beiyuanzhuang are counting on Changping Cangchang. If we cook the Cangchang Cangchang Cang by ourselves, what will we eat?" The old man almost jumped up and said excitedly when he heard this.

Di Renjie nodded when he heard this. He agreed with this point very much, "The official grain storage place is called Changping, and the people are called Yuhu, or the warehouse households. The household has Yuding, which is responsible for construction and repair, and is complicated by fire prevention." The Yuhu and the warehouse are originally a relationship between flowers and stems, and they are interdependent, so it is naturally impossible to destroy their own jobs.

In the 49th year of Xuanwu in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Xuan ordered all prefectures and counties to be placed in the prefectures and prefectures, and the empty counties were placed in the open areas, and the official silver was used to store grain for relief. They borrowed loans from the people in the desert and repayed in the autumn. They set up grain supervisors to manage them, and they were booked and reported to the Ministry of Revenue every year, so they were customized.

"Then why not report to the official?" Di Renjie asked.

The old man sighed, shook his head, and smiled bitterly: "Why didn't you go to report to the official? The county's police said that we set fire to the warehouse, so everyone naturally quit. They found the county to argue. Who knew that the county officials would not give us a chance to speak at all, and arrested a few of the leaders and beat the board hard.

When everyone returned to the village, they became more and more angry as they thought about it. They recommended more than a dozen people to go to the vassal yamen in the state to complain. Unexpectedly, the vassal lord was even more cruel and said directly that we were troublemakers, gathering people to cause trouble, conspiring to rebel, and beheading them! The officials did not let us live, there was no money, and there was no land. Now there was no warehouse. What are we eating? Are we watching these thousands of people starving to death?"

Di Renjie shook his head and sighed, "This is the official who forces the people to rebel. Old man, don't worry, your grievances will soon be revealed!"

The old man sighed and said, "Oh! Hope!"

"By the way, father-in-law, is this granary really burned by the sky fire?"

"Sky Fire?" The old man was stunned, and after a while he came to his senses and said:

"Who did you hear from the old man? How could the fire burn the warehouse if it was really a fire? Could it be that God doesn't want us poor people to live? I don't know what's going on elsewhere. Anyway, our Beiyuan is definitely not a fire, but! The fire is strange, it's really..."

"Oh? What a strange method?" Di Renjie asked hurriedly.

"Old sir, you may not know that this warehouse is the most jealous. In order to prevent fire from occurring in the warehouse, there is a fire barrier between each warehouse. Moreover, when Yu Dings patrol at night, they can only walk the two-foot forbidden path in the middle. No one is allowed to step out of the forbidden path, otherwise they will be punished for the crime of conspiring to destroy the warehouse. Moreover, they are all in teams of three or five people to monitor each other to avoid accidents."
Chapter completed!