In the blink of an eye, it was already late November, the weather was cold and freezing, and the earth was covered in white.
After several months of reconstruction, Yanhua Prefecture officials have fully demonstrated to us what it means: incompetence.
After a few months, the city wall was still in a dangerous state. They just added a layer of fence on the outside that could not stop even dogs.
No new residences have been built in the city, and most of the ruins were cleaned up by people's voluntary organizations.
To say that it is useless is not true. At least the houses and gardens of various wealthy families have been almost repaired.
Countless people are freezing to death and starving to death every day.
For example, in front of me, several beggars in thin clothes had frozen to death on the roadside. Not far away was the home of a rich man.
This family is having a banquet to entertain relatives and friends to celebrate the completion of their new home!
Miss Wen originally agreed on a whim to go out with Ye Ming to watch the snow scene.
After seeing such a scene, Miss Wen sighed softly:
"Ming, there's nothing to see in this snow scene. Let's go back."
Ye Ming looked around at the scene, didn't say anything, just nodded in agreement, and went back with Miss Wen.
As soon as I returned, I received news from Chenghuang Division.
Next door, there is another action in Shunhua Mansion.
It turns out that since Shunhua Mansion was taken over by Qian Mu, the leader of the third generation rebel army and a businessman, he did not dare to come to Yanhua Mansion and started doing business.
As a result, the wealthy households in Yanhua Prefecture began to contact Qian Mu.
The two parties secretly reached a cooperation and continuously betrayed the interests of the Shunhua Prefecture rebels to satisfy the personal interests of the Yanhua Prefecture masters and Qian Mu.
This matter has been going on for several months, but recently, a newly emerged rebel leader discovered the matter and questioned Qian Mu. Qian Mu was afraid that the matter would fail, so he killed the man.
In the end, this man's brother still found out.
Later, the rebels were informed of the matter, and the rebels were so excited that they captured Qian Mu and chopped him alive, and jointly elected the new leader.
This person is Liu Pingyan, the leader of the fourth generation.
After Liu Pingyan took over the rebel army, he found that most of the rebel army's food, clothing, gold, silver, jewelry and other items had been resold by his predecessor Qian Mu, who had been covering up with false accounts before.
Now in the middle of winter, when it is time to use these things, everyone has nothing to use.
At this time, the rebels were so anxious that they no longer cared about their fear of Mr. Bai. Under the leadership of Liu Pingyan, they attacked Yanhua Mansion again.
The rebels who were suffering from hunger and cold did not know that as they acted, countless resentments gathered and turned into a new resentment ghost.
The body of this resentful ghost is covered with dense frost, and anything that comes close to it, whether corporeal or incorporeal, will feel the pain of hunger and cold.
Moreover, when it attacks all those who have no worries about food and clothing, there will be a damage bonus!
The first place the rebels attacked was Songping County. Due to the terrain, the collapse of Songping County was not very serious in the previous major earthquakes.
After simple repairs, the four walls are still usable and have a certain degree of defense.
This time, the magistrate of Songping County was a student Lu Yuanwai was more optimistic about.
This person has always been bold and unafraid of death, and has a stubborn personality. When facing the rebels, he did not fight and run away like the previous two.
Instead, he chose to climb the tower in person, intending to fight the enemy to the death.
As a result, due to the snowy weather and slippery road, when I was going up the steps, my foot slipped and I fell directly from the steps, causing him to become paralyzed.
Seeing this, all the subordinate officials were in chaos. Without the person in charge, no one dared to stay.
A group of people fled directly with the county magistrate, and Songping County easily fell into the hands of the rebels again.
Soon, member Lu heard the news and lamented:
"God's will, God's will!"
Later, knowing that the current Yanhua Mansion could not stop the rebels, Lu Yuanwai decisively ran away with his family and went to Changming Town again to join Mr. Bai.
Of course, the main reason is to ask Mr. Bai to take action to eliminate the rebels.
But how could Mr. Bai, who had long been disappointed with those in the officialdom of Yanhua Prefecture, agree? He just arranged for Yuanwai Lu and his family to stay, and then began to arrange the defense of Changming Town. Now he just wants to keep this place.
The officials and wealthy households in Yanhua Prefecture finally regretted that they did not think of ways to get rid of the last bit of food from those mud-legged people, so that they still have the strength to rebel now.
It's useless to regret. Knowing that the rebels are coming, they also plan to defect to Mr. Bai.
But this time, they were all rejected by Mr. Bai.
Accepting Lu Yuanwai was for the sake of his late father.
As for these people, if he dares to let them in today, the people in the town may be forced to rebel by them tomorrow.
The officials had no choice but to leave their homes and escape to Lingbi Mansion.
As for everything here, take whatever you can.
If you can't take it away, burn it with fire.
Anyway, they won't leave anything for those mud-legged people.
Therefore, before the rebels arrived, these people set fire to the city first, intending to burn down Yanhua Mansion, which had been rebuilt with great difficulty.
At this time, Ye Ming couldn't sit still.
The total number of these officials and wealthy households is not very large, and if they are lost, they will not lose many believers.
But if the people are forced to die again, too many believers will be lost.
At that time, the City God Division will face the problem of shortage of willing power again.
Ye Ming asked Taoist Priest Jin Guang to act secretly to incite the people and prepare to attack these officials and wealthy households.
At this time, he discovered that those scoundrels who usually looked down on him actually had a miraculous effect.
Because the resistance of ordinary people has been almost wiped out due to long-term oppression.
Only when you are really facing death will you resist.
But those rogues are different, they are not good people.
Although I am afraid of things like law and authority, I also hate them.
Under the deliberate instigation of Taoist Priest Jin Guang, everyone knew that those gentlemen wanted to burn the city.
No one could sit still at this time. The people's emotions were finally ignited. Under the excitement of the crowd, under the leadership of a group of ruffians, everyone rushed into the homes of officials and wealthy people and started robbing whatever they encountered.
Of course, it is inevitable that things like adultery will happen.
But in these troubled times, this kind of thing is really insignificant.
Many officials and wealthy people who were usually hated were beaten to death on the spot.
This incident caused officials and wealthy households to almost escape from Yanhua Mansion with their tail between their legs.
Not long after they left, Liu Pingyan arrived with the rebels.
This Liu Pingyan also came from a poor family, but he was not dazzled by the sudden power and still maintained his true heart.
After entering the city, he announced that only the rich households would be eliminated, and their food, clothing, silver, and land would be distributed to everyone so that everyone could survive.
Under his control, the rebels did not do many evil things.
Among the people of Yanhua Prefecture, more people survived after the arrival of the rebels.
After all, the gentlemen who stood over them were almost driven out and didn't have time to take away too many things.
It was also this year that everyone discovered that without these people, the number of people who would starve to death and freeze to death would really be much, much fewer.
In less than three days, Liu Pingyan had the support of almost all the people in the city. Everyone wanted him to be king, and lead them to continue to eliminate dog officials and big households, so that everyone would have food and clothing.
Liu Pingyan refused at first, but as everyone called him that, he became a little lost. He felt that there seemed to be nothing wrong with being a king for a person like himself who cared about the people.
So, on the fifth day, Liu Pingyan became the new king.
He is also smart and knows how to avoid offending both sides, so he calls himself "King of Hue". This can make the people return to their hearts.
After "King of Hue" Liu Binh Yen came to power, he acted vigorously and resolutely and began to lead the people to conquer Yan Hua Prefecture.
When people in many counties and villages heard that he was coming, they took the initiative to kidnap local wealthy households to wait for the "Master Wang".
In this way, by late November, the entire Yanhua Mansion had fallen into Liu Pingyan's hands.
Except, Changming Town.
It's just that Liu Pingyan is also sensible and doesn't want to deal with Mr. Bai just because he easily captured the Quanyan Hua Mansion.
First of all, Mr. Bai's reputation is still there and everyone is afraid of him.
In addition, Mr. Bai's reputation in Yanhua Mansion is too good.
Although the people of Yanhua Prefecture support him now, if there is a war with Mr. Bai, it is hard to say who the people will help.
Moreover, in Mr. Bai's Changming Town, only Yuan Lu, who had fled, could be considered an official and wealthy household, while the others were all civilians.
There weren't many good things for them to share.
Therefore, Liu Pingyan decided not to invade each other with Mr. Bai.
Liu Pingyan was very concerned about the people. After taking power, he began to organize a large number of people's livelihood restoration work within the Yanhua Prefecture.
The people finally seemed to have hope, and this one seemed to be the "true king"...
In the sky outside the City God's Office, Ye Ming and all the ghosts were observing the changes of the resentful ghost.
This resentful ghost was extremely powerful when the rebellion first started and they were completely hungry and cold.
It reached its peak after the rebels occupied Yanhua Prefecture.
But then, Liu Pingyan's actions were inconsistent with the resentful ghost's own interests.
After everyone could survive the hunger and severe cold, the power of the resentful ghosts began to decline.
At this time, as a ghost, it began to show its true nature.
It helped the rebels before because it was born out of the dissatisfaction and resentment of the rebels.
Now, the rebels are abandoning it, and it will naturally not accept such a fate.
It wants to bring disasters and keep everyone hungry and cold, so as to continue to maintain its existence.
At this time, this resentful ghost is gathering a large amount of ice and snow clouds in the sky, intending to bring a heavy snowstorm and bring harm to the people below.
Seeing this, Ye Ming gently waved his hand, asking the undercover men around him to prepare to take action to eliminate this resentful ghost whose foundation was shaken.
Just as the two sides were about to take action, a ball of golden flames as dazzling as the sun suddenly flew from far away in the sky.
The flame was wrapped in a terrifying pure yang energy, and even the underworld warriors who had the power to protect them felt a wave of heart palpitations.
The flames came straight towards the resentful ghost. The cold and hungry air around the resentful ghost melted instantly when it encountered the flames.
A flash of fear flashed in the resentful ghost's eyes, and he opened his mouth and spewed out a large amount of cold air.
Everyone can see that the cold attack should have a damage bonus.
In other words, there was someone inside that flame, a well-fed person.
The next moment, the flames directly melted the resentful ghost's strengthened attack and hit the resentful ghost.
The resentful ghost let out a shrill scream and disappeared in the raging flames.
The sky suddenly became less cold and even a little hot.
All the ghosts were surprised when they saw that the flames could easily eliminate the resentful ghosts that they had spent so much effort on. Only Ye Ming could see everything clearly with his extremely yang eyes.
As the resentful ghost died, all the ghosts saw the golden flame disappear, and a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old emerged from it.
This man has a handsome face, carries a sword on his back, and his eyes are like stars, shining with brilliance.
When all the underworld servants saw this person, they all thought he looked familiar, but they couldn't recognize him for a while.
Only Yao Jiandong said: "This is the young master of Yuan Lu's family."
After hearing this, all the underworld messengers understood why they thought this person looked familiar.
It turns out that it's because they look quite similar to "Mrs. Cheng Huang", but they're just a man and a woman. They don't stand together, so it's hard to associate them with each other.
At this time, the young man opposite also smiled and saluted:
"I'm Lu Zhaoyang. I'm going back to my hometown to visit my relatives."
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