On the ninth day of October in the fifth year of Chongzhen, Qin Feng led his team to leave Huazhou City and then headed northeast.
On the tenth day of October, the team left Huazhou and entered Tongzhou.
The strange thing is that after entering Tongzhou, Qin Feng immediately slowed down, only traveling a dozen miles a day before setting up camp to rest.
Such behavior made the accompanying soldiers very puzzled, but no one asked the reason. They just followed the order, because the soldiers all knew that their general had always been full of tricks... No, he was very resourceful. This move must have deep meaning!
On October 15th, Qin Feng ordered the team to stop advancing and rest where they were to recuperate their energy.
The soldiers obeyed the orders, ate and drank enough, fed the horses, and then got into the tents to sleep.
In the afternoon, Qin Feng gave another order: The entire team gathered and prepared to set off.
"Whoosh... whoosh... whoosh!"
The soldiers were well-trained and prepared quickly. They boasted energetic horses and lined up neatly.
Xiong Da and Xiong Er stepped forward to report: "General, our brothers are fully prepared and ready to go at any time!"
"Okay, let's set off and hurry up to Huazhou City!"
"Hua...Huazhou City?"
Six days after the team entered Tongzhou, they were about to arrive at Tongzhou City. Why did they suddenly return to Huazhou City? Hasn’t the disaster relief work in Huazhou been inspected... Xiong Da and Xiong Er were very puzzled and even suspected Did his general make a slip of the tongue and refer to Tongzhou City as Huazhou City?
"That's right, we are going to Huazhou City. What, you don't understand?"
"You humble men are stupid, please ask the general to clarify your doubts!"
"Haha, in the opinion of you two brothers, what kind of person is that Ding Zhizhou?"
"Returning to the General, Ding Zhizhou is a rare and upright official who fulfills his duties, is not greedy or possessive, and loves his people like his own son. This is what we have seen with our own eyes!"
"Hmph, there is a saying that painting a dragon or a tiger is difficult to paint the bones. You know people, their faces, but not their hearts. Remember this sentence: people and things in the world, those who hear them are false, and those who see them may not be true!"
"What do you mean, sir?"
"Kill a horseman and return to Huazhou City day and night. I want to see if Ding Zhizhou is a human being or a ghost. I respect him and express my gratitude to the Governor. If he is a ghost, I will Kill him and let him never be reincarnated!"
"ah?"
"Set off immediately to Huazhou City!"
"As you command!"
Following Qin Feng's order, the team immediately changed direction, sped up and headed straight for Huazhou City.
And avoid the main roads and stick to the trails to avoid exposing your whereabouts!
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Long story short.
At noon the next day, the dusty team arrived at the foot of Huazhou City, and then went straight to the Kou Gong Temple.
The porridge shed in front of the ancestral hall is still there, but the contents cooked in dozens of large iron pots have changed. From corn porridge with full grains and fragrant aroma, it has become a bitter and astringent wild vegetable soup, not to mention rice. , not even a handful of chaff.
This kind of food may not even be eaten by livestock, but it has become the food rations for the victims.
Seeing the sudden appearance of Qin Feng and his party, the junior officer in charge was dumbfounded. He thought he had seen it wrong. He rubbed his eyes and twisted them again to make sure he had seen it right. Then he stammered: " Qin...Qin...General Qin, why are you back?"
"I ask you, general, where are the grains for disaster relief? Why are you giving wild vegetable soup to the people?"
"I don't know, but the things distributed from above are wild vegetables. I can only make wild vegetable soup for the people to drink."
"Hmph... bang... clatter!"
Seeing this situation, Qin Feng became furious and kicked over the wild vegetable soup pot in front of him. Then he got on his horse and led his team into the city gate, and soon arrived in front of the granary.
The junior official responsible for guarding the granary was also startled. His face turned pale and he asked tremblingly: "Qin... General Qin, why are you back?"
"Stop talking nonsense and open the warehouses quickly. I, the general, want to go in for inspection!"
"Returning to the general, this is a big granary. Without orders from Lord Zhizhou, the little ones dare not open the door. Why don't you come back tomorrow, little man..."
"Hmph, come here, tie me up...Xiong Da, open the door!"
"As you command!"
The junior officer guarding the granary tried to stop him, but was immediately pushed to the ground by the soldiers and tied up with a rope. Then they found the key and opened the granary door.
The situation inside the granary looked the same as the previous few days, and the villages were filled with all kinds of grain.
Qin Feng took an iron prod and poked it into a grain pit. When he pulled it out, he saw that the groove was not grain at all, but white sand.
Insert another one, pull it out and see, sand!
Third, sand!
Fourth, sand!
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"General Qin, misunderstandings are all misunderstandings. You listen to my excuses. No, you listen to my explanations!"
There was a shout at the door of the granary. It turned out that Ding Zhizhou got the report and hurriedly led people over.
Compared with the past few days, Ding Zhizhou has changed a lot. The old official uniform and old official boots are gone, and he has put on brand new clothes. There is a strong smell of alcohol on his body, and there are messy rouge marks on his face.
It is obvious that Ding Zhizhou was drinking wine just now, and he was accompanied by more than one woman!
"There is no misunderstanding. Come here, tie them all up!"
"I am the magistrate of Huazhou and an official of the imperial court. Who of you dares to tie me up!"
"Pfft...swish...ouch!"
Ding Zhizhou used his official power and tried to resist the arrest, but it was of no use.
The soldiers were all trained by Qin Feng. With just one order, not to mention a small magistrate, even the King of Heaven would dare to tie him up.
Soon, Ding Zhizhou and a group of officials, big and small, were tied up.
The rest of the matter is simple, just use a little bit of tricks, and everything will come out through interrogation.
It turns out that Ding Zhizhou is a greedy guy. After seeing the allocated food for disaster relief, he immediately wanted to embezzle it and turn it into white money for eating, drinking and having fun.
I was also worried that it would be troublesome if someone from above came to inspect and find out the problem, so I decided to put on a play.
First arrange all the things, then put on an old official uniform, and look like an upright official who does his duty and loves the people like a son.
Because he had done enough homework, when Qin Feng came to check, naturally nothing could be found.
But as soon as Qin Feng and his men left Huazhou City, Ding Zhizhou immediately revealed his true colors. He contacted several local female businessmen, exchanged the grain from the warehouse for sand, and then secretly transported it to Shanxi, preparing to sell it at a good price.
What is even more irritating is that Ding Zhizhou not only stole and sold the grain for disaster relief, but also asked the female businessmen to take away the hundreds of orphans and prepare to sell them to the eight major Shanxi merchants who had already contacted them.
Once these orphans fall into the hands of the eight major Shanxi merchants, they will basically have three endings:
One is to sell yourself into slavery and work as a cow or a horse for the rest of your life, but this ending is relatively the best, at least you can survive.
The second is child labor, working in deep, dark and dangerous coal mines, digging and carrying coal every day until they die from exhaustion.
The third is the cook.
What is a dish man? As the name suggests, he is a person who is eaten like a dish.
When people are extremely hungry, they will lose their humanity and reason and eat the flesh of the same kind to satisfy their hunger.
Some psychopathic dignitaries, tired of eating all kinds of delicacies, wanted to taste human flesh, so they secretly bought back some children at high prices and cooked them into dishes to satisfy their perverted psychology!
Such behavior is outrageous!
And the corrupt officials, corrupt officials, and female businessmen who sell relief food and children deserve death!
"Come here, the Legislative Ground, this general is going to go on a killing spree today to vent his anger on the victims!"
"As you command!"
