Yu San locked He Wangchun up for two days.

He Wangchun comforted the two men and did not complain about Yu San's invitation to the city and neglect him.

Yu San did not treat He Wangchun with food and clothing, so He Wangchun gave him clean clothes. Three meals a day were delivered on time. The two children following He Wangchun were still panicked at first, but two days later, they wanted Mr. He to stay at Lord Yu's residence.

Compared to being worried and escaping famine while hungry, such a life is great!

In the past two days, He Wangchun did not make any changes, and Gu Hongtai's interrogation of a group of elderly, weak, women and children also had results.

The origins of this group of people can stand the investigation.

First of all, they spoke with a Mengcheng accent. Several villages fled together to famine. They had intermarried and married each other over the years, both neighbors and in-laws.

The He surname is a big family in the local area. He Wangchun moved to the countryside to live in seclusion. He has been a Mengshi in a rural school for several years, and is not a foreigner who has no followers.

During the run, He Wangchun led everyone to hide from the thief, and tried his best to avoid the thieves. He also took everyone to collect food, but never left everyone's sight for a moment.

Anyway, the Jinyiwei got such a result after interrogating it.

Gu Hongtai's suspicion of He Wangchun was a little shaken: "It is unlikely that hundreds of old, weak, women and children should be lying with the surname He, right? Unless these hundreds of old, weak, women and children are spies sent by thieves, each of them practiced countless times in advance, so that they could withstand the investigation of the Jinyiwei."

This is even more nonsense.

The elderly and women may be spies, and children can lie in front of the Jinyiwei?

Gu Hongtai doesn't believe that the long-scared thief who rebels can cultivate such a powerful spy in a few months!

——If anyone can really train such a group of spies, it would be terrible.

Yu San listened and refused to comment.

Will children not lie?

He was able to lie and deceive adults when he was a few years old. Later, Uncle Yu Qi saw it through. Uncle Yu Qi gave him a lesson and he was restrained. Although Yu San also felt that there were not many people like him who had been smart since childhood, he still did not completely relax his vigilance towards He Wangchun.

If you can’t ask anything from a group of elderly, weak, women and children, then start from He Wangchun.

Yu San felt that He Wangchun could meet Cheng Qing, but Cheng Qing couldn't escape it.

The fifth prince's condition has been greatly relieved. He can not only walk in the fields, but also be able to cheer up and deal with disaster relief affairs.

The imperial doctor said that the fifth prince's epidemic had not yet been cured, and contact with the fifth prince still had the possibility of being infected. Cheng Zhixu did not dare to take charge of the matter himself anymore. He asked the fifth prince to sit upright and report to the fifth prince through the screen to the fifth prince what was urgently needed and hand it over to the fifth prince for a decision.

Cheng Qing and Cheng Zhixu stood at the steps and listened to the orders of the fifth prince.

The fifth prince spoke weakly, but his tone was stern:

"The thieves have 100,000 troops, occupy Huainan and do not annihilate the enemy. How can they help the affected people? Although there are refugees who have received news and gathered in Wuhe County, they only account for a small number of people who have been affected. Is it possible that the entire Huainan area, except for the Changshaw thief, who died to only 20,000 refugees outside the city?"

The Wei Dynasty has a population of more than 70 million, which is the official statistics.

Tax payment is based on the population. In order to evade taxes, there are many hidden households among the people, and the real population has exceeded 100 million.

There are fifteen provinces in one capital, and Zhili in the capital has a large population, and the Anhui province is close to Suzhou and Hangzhou, with a total population of at least a few million.

The drought has continued for a long time and the disaster has expanded. Only a few prefectures and counties in Anhui Province have not been affected yet. There are so many people who have been affected. Could it be that before the court's disaster relief food was delivered, the victims starved to death?

The fifth prince's voice was hoarse.

Cheng Qing thought for a while and comforted the fifth prince, saying, "In the few days when His Highness was recuperating, the refugees outside the city have gradually increased. Now there are more than 30,000 people. Even if the refugees get the news, they can only walk to Wuhe with their feet. The time is still short, so the number is not large. There are also refugees who fled from Huainan. I guess there are hundreds of thousands of people in total!"

Just walking south along the canal, Cheng Qing had seen many refugees. Since some refugees came to Shandong Province, some refugees would flee to other provinces.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees emerged in the same place, but the prefecture did not have the ability to provide relief. Instead, they fled famine in multiple directions, and had a greater chance of survival.

The fifth prince slapped the table behind the screen, "There is another possibility that you forgot to say that the refugees wanted to come to Wuhe County, but were blocked by the long scarf thief!"

How to relieve disasters if you don’t eliminate thieves?

Wuhe County is already the closest stronghold to Huainan and has not yet been lost.

Because of heavy troops, the long scarf thieves dare not invade easily.

The thief of Changsha didn't dare to come to Wuhe, but could stop the affected people from coming to Wuhe. Whenever the fifth prince thought of the mountain of food in Wuhe County, he could not sleep at night when he could not deliver the disaster relief food to the affected people as soon as possible.

Will the long scarf thief take care of those victims?

Don't care!

Unless the victim dares to kill and surrender, he tied a blood-stained scarf around his waist and became a member of the scarf thief.

How many people were forced to surrender to the thief, making one mistake at a time, from disaster victims that the court wants to rescue, to thief rebels that the court wants to attack?

Every day of delay, more victims trapped in Huainan starve to death or surrender to the thief. It would be strange if the fifth prince could sleep.

"Disaster relief and bandit suppression have become one thing, your highness just wait for the imperial edict."

Cheng Zhixu advised him.

The fifth prince clenched his fists.

No order can be used to dispatch troops because he has no military power.

Governor Shi, the governor of the canal transportation, can mobilize troops because Governor Shi has the power of military power.

Just like Cheng Qing guarding Hong County, he could capture the magistrate of Hong County, but he could not touch the Thousand Houses.

Cheng Qing passively defended the enemy in Hong County... Now there are so many soldiers guarding Wuhe County, and there are long scarf thieves coming to attack the city. These soldiers will fight back, but if they want to take the initiative to attack, the fifth prince can't command it.

If there is no imperial edict, tens of thousands of troops will be mobilized. Not only will the Changshao Thief be rebelled, but also a fifth prince must be added!

Cheng Zhixu advised the fifth prince to wait for the imperial edict. The fifth prince thought of Cheng Qing saying that he would make the news of the "straight epidemic" public, and was about to speak up when someone came to report that the Governor of the Cao Transport, Lord Shi and Commander Qi, had arrived outside the city.

"Your Highness, Lord Shi brings the imperial edict!"

The fifth prince stood up and wanted to run to the city gate to receive the order immediately.

Cheng Qing stopped him, "Your Highness, your illness—"

At this time, Isn’t it spreading the epidemic?

If Governor Shi and Commander Qi knew that the fifth prince was ill, they would be scared to retreat.

After thinking about it, the fifth prince could only suppress his anxiety and asked Cheng Qing and Cheng Zhixu, two adjutants who were disaster relief, to go to the city gate.

Cheng Qing was busy like this, leaving behind the scenes of seeing He Wangchun.

When she appeared outside the city gate, she always felt that many people were looking at her.

Are you a refugee outside the city?

These people were in a hurry to enter the city, and every time they saw someone coming out of the county town, they were full of hope.

Cheng Qing was sorry in his heart and dismounted and walked towards the convoy.
Chapter completed!