The chariot finally began to accelerate. Before the collision, people only felt a faint rumble in the darkness. Even if the danger was approaching, people were indifferent and did not react.
Ordinary people never know that a great era of great changes has arrived. The book of life and death of the Lord of Hell has been opened. God knows how many lives will be taken away in the future.
But they couldn't care less. At this moment, the victims had only one goal in mind, food!
The disaster areas in the four provinces have been completely overturned. The household registration system and road guide system of the Qing Dynasty were ineffective. The hungry people ate up all the food in the village, including the bark, grass and roots.
They had no choice but to flee the famine in the whole village. No one dared to stop them. The county government, which usually showed off its power and power, had lost its prestige at this moment. The porridge shacks around the county town could barely maintain order, but the relief points further away Then he would be robbed every day!
Counties in the disaster-stricken areas of the four provinces are facing a formidable enemy. Officials in all prefectures and counties have only one thought: Don't attack my county seat, don't attack my yamen!
As long as the victims do not attack the government office or the county seat, it proves that there is no rebellion in the country, and I can explain it to the court later!
I don’t care how many people die, anyway, the county government and the county seat cannot be lost, and my official hat cannot be lost!
Yangqu, Shouyang, Pingding... all prefectures and counties in Shanxi Province have issued emergency martial law orders. No matter how many city gates there are, only one door can be opened every day, and it can only be opened for three hours a day, and it cannot be opened for more than a quarter of an hour!
There is a porridge shed outside the city, guarded by countless green soldiers and government officials. Facing thousands of victims, they can only yell helplessly!
"Each person only has one bowl... No grabbing is allowed in line... Anyone who robs food will be killed without mercy!"
"The imperial court's disaster relief food is on the way. The emperor has distributed millions of shi of food from the capital and is now transporting it out!"
"Don't panic... If you want to eat enough, go down the mountain to Zhili!"
Yangqu, Shouyang, Pingding... these places are directly connected to the Jingxing Ancient Road. You can go all the way downhill to Zhengding, Zhili, at the foot of Taihang Mountain.
These local officials in Shanxi are really bad. They just drive away the victims and trick them into going to Zhili to eat!
The county magistrate huddled in the city tower and carefully looked at the victims in the distance. His calves were trembling. "Find a way to defraud them. As long as you don't stay here, you can go wherever you like!"
"The emperor has food... We can only count on the emperor... let them go to Zhili and let them go to the capital!"
"Just don't harm me!"
The local officials in Shanxi think so, wouldn’t you think so when you are a local official in Zhili?
Over in Zhengding, Xinle, Huolu, Lingshou... local officials everywhere are also driving away the victims under their jurisdiction!
"Let's go... have a bowl of porridge and leave quickly. We have no food at home. You go find food elsewhere!"
"There is food in Taiyuan Prefecture in Shanxi Province... there is food in the capital... Go along Jingxing Road, along the railway!"
These are the local officials of the Qing Dynasty, and this is their disaster relief method. As long as you victims do not die under my rule or attack my yamen, you can go wherever you like, I don't care!
Southern Zhili, most of Shanxi, Henan and northern Shandong... the vast Central Plains were filled with waves of refugees, and the voices of crying fathers and mothers selling their children and daughters went straight into the sky.
There really were some conscientious local officials who looked at the crying children outside the city and the old people dying of starvation on the road. They couldn't bear to order the city gates to be opened to let the victims into the city to take shelter from the wind and rain. However, they received collective opposition from the master and his subordinates. .
"Sir! You must not, you must not open it... How can we have so much food in the city? We force rich households to donate food every day, and we almost kill them just to maintain the two porridge shacks outside!"
"If you let them in, just open an opening, and the tide will pour in by the hundreds of thousands!"
"Without food, they will eat people, and we won't be able to save our lives!"
"Can't you see clearly the current situation? The capital sent a telegram saying that it has allocated 200,000 shi of food in advance, but the railway is right in front of us. Why hasn't it been delivered for several days?"
"The train travels at a rapid pace, how come it takes so long? It means there is also a food problem in the capital!"
"Be careful not to open the Wannian Ship, sir, and you must not let the refugees into the city!"
The county magistrate only has a little conscience, so he naturally gave up after his subordinates tried to persuade him: "Hey...forget it, a gentleman is far away from the kitchen, I don't want to see this scene..."
Everyone is pushing things out, everyone is lying to these disaster victims, but walking consumes physical energy, and people without food can only walk and die along the way.
If the disaster victims in Shanxi go to the capital, they may not survive even one in ten!
Taihang Baxing, these are eight important traffic arteries in Taihang Mountain. The connection between Shanxi and Zhili relies on these eight small roads.
Among them, Jingxing is the most important trade route because it leads directly to Taiyuan Prefecture. Since the disaster became serious, Jingxing Road has been flooded with victims every day.
The victims in Shanxi were deceived into walking down the mountain, and the victims in Zhili were deceived into climbing up the mountain to go to Taiyuan Prefecture. The two groups of people stopped them on the road.
The hungry victims asked each other, "Fellow fellow...where are you going? Let's go to Baoding Prefecture and the capital to beg for food..."
"Ah! You have no food in Shanxi? People over there say there is food in Taiyuan, so let us come here to beg for food..."
"Wrong... There is no food in Taiyuan... And it's far away... If you can't reach Taiyuan... you will... you will starve to death on the way..."
Only then did people discover that there was no food in Shanxi and Zhili. The two groups of people were so hungry on the road that they didn't even have the strength to cry!
Adults and children found some grass seeds from the weeds to eat, but as the victims came and went, there was no green left on both sides of the post road, and the mountains were all bare.
"God wants to take people... God wants to take people... I will jump off a cliff and die, but I will not die here..."
"We have started cannibalism over there... We will eat every one who starves to death, and we won't even be able to leave a whole body behind... I don't want to be eaten, I will leave a whole body when I die!"
The old man, who was too hungry to walk, tried his best to climb to the top of the hillside. He wanted to jump off the cliff, but the fellow villagers who fled with his family held him back and refused to let him climb up.
Everyone looked at the scene in front of them with cold eyes. Everyone knew that in the eyes of the so-called villagers, there was no care for their relatives at all.
They looked at the dying man as nothing more than a piece of meat that was about to be eaten!
Jumping off a cliff is not okay. If you jump off a cliff, wouldn't the meat be wasted?
When a person is so hungry that his eyes turn blue, he doesn't call a person at all. The instinct of the beast will crush all humanity!
Everyone is numb, no one stands up to accuse or persuade, everyone looks at everything in front of them indifferently!
Maybe I will be the next one. Today I eat people, and tomorrow people eat me. God has opened the door to hell, and everyone is living like evil ghosts.
