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Chapter 014: Civil Chaos

Early the next morning, at dawn, Yang Tong woke up from his biological clock. When he opened his eyes, he saw Wei Fengwu resting on his arm and looking at him with a sweet smile.

"Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Yang Tong tightened his hand on Xiang's soft and delicate body, and brushed away the hair from her face with the other hand.

Wei Fengwu grabbed his hand and was astonished as if she had discovered a new world: "Husband, why is there a lotus in your palm? It's so beautiful."

"I don't know when it happened!" This wasn't Yang Tong lying, he really didn't know.

He looked at the palm lotus and was suddenly shocked. This independent space had grown countless times. The royal treasures that were originally full only occupied a small corner!

Wei Fengwu, who was lying down, saw Yang Tong suddenly startled. A trace of doubt flashed in her eyes. She couldn't help but stretched out her white jade hand and pushed Yang Tong gently: "Husband, husband"

Yang Tong turned to Wei Fengwu, his eyes filled with surprise: This space can actually grow, how does it grow? Why does it grow so much inexplicably?

"Husband, why are you looking at me like this?" Wei Fengwu was shy when Yang Tong looked at her and hid under the quilt.

"Hahaha!" Yang Tong laughed proudly. If he figured out the reason why the independent space grew up, he could make it grow infinitely. When the company was marching to fight, even the logistics troops would be saved.

"Husband, why are you laughing?" Wei Fengwu peeked out her little head and asked curiously.

"It's a happy event anyway!" Yang Tong chuckled and said, "It's freezing cold. Please sleep a little longer. I'm going to get up and practice martial arts."

As a time traveler, Yang Tong felt that in order to live well, he must first integrate into this era, completely position himself as a Sui person, rely on his own efforts to learn the strength to settle down, and then stand on the height of history and use some epoch-making

Knowledge changes things a little bit.

The knowledge brought by time travel can only be regarded as talent, not real talent. Talent is indeed very useful, but if you rely too much on talent, something big will happen sooner or later.

Therefore, Yang Tong has never fallen behind others in his own studies.

Wei Fengwu raised a pair of big moist eyes and said sweetly and shamefully: "My husband is among the best, and he studies hard regardless of the weather. How can I have the shame to stay in bed? From today on, I will also stay with my husband."

If you work hard together, you cannot hold your husband back."

Everyone said that Yang Tong seemed to have changed, saying that he was possessed by Wu Quxing, but how did those people know about their husband's efforts?

"Okay!" Yang Tong smiled appreciatively.

The two of them got up together and studied hard to improve their quality.

While enjoying breakfast, they suddenly heard loud noises outside the house. The two looked at each other in shock, subconsciously thinking that someone was rebelling.

"Don't be afraid!"

Yang Tong immediately rushed towards the main hall like a conditioned reflex

"what happened?!"

At this time, the housekeeper Yang Yi rushed over: "Your Highness, it was the refugees who vandalized and robbed Bei City..."

"Tell me the specific situation. How many refugees are there? Why are they vandalizing, smashing, and robbing?"

Yang Yi quickly introduced.

When Yang Tong heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked. There were actually millions of refugees near Luoyang. If they were included in the entire Henan County, there would be even more.

However, if you think about it carefully, you will feel relieved.

Hebei Province was the first to be in turmoil. People crossed the Yellow River and fled to Henan Province. Some scattered around Qingzhou, and some came to Luoyang. After that, Qingzhou was in chaos again, so they fled westward with the local people, all the way to Jibei and Dongping.

, after the development of Jiyin, Dongjun, Xingyang, and Wagangzhai, they all flocked to Henan County. It is normal for the people in this county to accumulate, and when the small number becomes large, it is normal for there to be millions of refugees.

That's not all. Due to the turmoil in the south, there are also a steady stream of refugees coming from the war-torn areas to Luoyang. The government has not stepped in to provide relief, nor has it opened warehouses to release grain. It would be strange if there was no big chaos.

Two days before Yang Tong's return to court, a large-scale food robbery incident broke out in Nanshi rice store. Dozens of rice stores were not spared. Livestock stores, horse stores, meat stores and other food-source businesses were also affected one after another.

During the impact, merchants' money and goods were robbed, shops were burned, clerks and shopkeepers were beaten to death, people were trampled to death and crowded to death. More than 500 refugees and merchants were injured, and thousands were injured.

Affected by this, not only the grain stores in Nanshi were closed, but even the private grain stores in Luoyang were closed. As a result, the price of rice skyrocketed to 600 yuan per pound of rice.

It was not until three days ago that Yang Guang's imperial edict came, instructing Changpingcang to put 400,000 shi of grain and 400 wen per pound of rice on the market to stabilize grain prices. It was the 400,000 shi of grain that was put on the market, which alleviated the turbulent public sentiment to a certain extent.

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However, only the local people can barely afford the price of 400 wen per pound of rice. However, for the nearly one million impoverished refugees, this is an astronomical figure that is difficult to reach, and the government provides very little porridge to the refugees every day.

The common people in the capital starved to death in the ice and snow, and Yuan Wendu's suggestion that rich households should provide relief to the victims was almost a dead letter. No wealthy households were willing to give free rice porridge to the victims.

Coupled with the military's suppression during the Nanshi Smashing Incident and the hatred of the locals in the capital for the refugees, the dissatisfaction of the refugees accumulated day by day, and finally broke out in the early morning due to hunger and cold.

The Nanshi incident happened again in Beishi!

The rice-grabbing craze in Beishi became more and more intense. Originally, only 30,000 to 40,000 refugees rushed into Beishi. However, as the door of a grain store was opened, bags of grain appeared in front of the refugees... They suddenly went crazy and rushed into the granary regardless of anything.

.Soon more and more refugees came after hearing the news...

An hour later, hundreds of thousands of refugees had rushed into Beishi.

The situation began to get out of control. The refugees who could not rush in violently broke open the doors of all the shops and looted the items inside. All valuable things were taken away. Some shopkeepers who stayed in the shops were beaten to death.

An unprecedented looting began to sweep through Bei City...



At this time, the two thousand guards stationed at Xuanrenmen arrived first... They controlled the gate of Beishi and prevented the refugees who had grabbed food from escaping. Tens of thousands of refugees wanted to rush out of Beishi, but the soldiers defended desperately, and fierce bloodshed broke out on both sides.

conflict!

In an instant, screams continued, blood flowed into rivers, and corpses were piled at the gate.

Two thousand soldiers holding shields and swords resisted tens of thousands of refugees who were swarming outwards. The refugees' cries were loud... Among them were old people and children. They were wrapped and rolled outwards. The first few

Qian Qingzhuang used wooden sticks to fight with the soldiers. Because there were too many refugees, the soldiers gradually retreated and some could no longer withstand them.

A brigade marshal rushed to the front of General Mai Zhongcai, the tiger general, and loudly reported: "General! Brothers can no longer stand it."

Mai Zhongcai was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and shouted: "I have to hold back, and I am not allowed to let the rebels go!"

Once these mobs break out of the North City and sweep through Luoyang with looting, the residences of important officials and ministers will be the first to be attacked. The consequences will be disastrous, and the Holy Emperor will definitely hold him accountable.

Mai Zhongcai pulled out his sword and was about to rush in. At this moment, there was a large number of rapid footsteps behind him. Mai Zhongcai turned around and saw densely packed soldiers running towards him. He recognized Xiao

The soldiers of the Guo Army were overjoyed and shouted: "Brothers, our reinforcements are here, hold on!"
Chapter completed!
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