In the darkness before dawn, San'er woke up. He wiped his eyes as usual and turned his head to look at his father. He saw his father lying motionlessly in a curled body.

He looked up at the sky, and there was a hint of dawn in the darkness.

My father must have woken up long ago, but he was lying there motionless today. He was scared and reached out to shake his father. His father was still motionless, and even his body was as stiff as a stone.

San'er sobbed quietly, not even crying, because they were just victims who fled into Jingzhou City. If they disturbed the officials in the city, they would be driven out of the city.

The six-year-old boy sobbed in a daze, not knowing what to do next.

He covered his torn jacket that his father had covered him last night on his head, and then knelt there and waited for dawn.

Dawn.

Pedestrians began to appear on Chengzhong Street in Jingzhou.

In the bleak autumn wind, everyone was in a hurry. Someone saw them on the corner of the street and just glanced at them.

Slowly, someone finally stopped beside him.

An old man asked.

Some people were asking if they wanted to buy a coffin, and some people asked him whether he wanted to sell his body to bury his father!

Someone directly offered the price.

Qin Lang took his personal soldiers to walk his horses in the city early in the morning, and it was also patrolling the streets and found the crowd gathering here.

The personal soldiers rushed away the crowd.

Qin Lang rode a horse to approach, and he saw the thin boy immediately. He was thin and thin, but his skeleton was quite thick. What impressed him was the child's eyes.

He still had tears on his face, but he had a sense of perseverance or a bit of hatred in his eyes.

Who is he hating? Or this ruthless society?

Qin Lang's eyes turned to the man on the ground. A ragged jacket was full of holes, so dirty that it could not tell the original color. The black half covered the man's head and upper body, but exposed the lower half of his body outside, with coarse cloth crotch and a pair of barefoots.

The exposed feet are dirty and thick calluses can be seen.

"Sanlang, I was probably starved to death by falling back. I saw that I died last night and everyone was hard."

Dugu Yanyun went up to check and came back to report.

Qin Lang sighed.

A poor victim, perhaps a farmer near Jingzhou City, was forced to flee with his children during the famine.

But the autumn night is long, and he couldn't wait for the warmth of the rising sun today and died in that long cold night.

"May I have your name?"

"San'er."

The boy was a little indifferent when facing Qin Lang who was dismounted.

"San'er, is this your father?"

The boy looked up at Qin Lang, looked at the tall horse behind him, and looked at the tall soldier beside him, "I am willing to sell myself as a slave, just change my husband to buy a coffin for me and bury my grandfather."

Sell ​​your body and bury your father.

This sentence came from the mouth of a thin child of six or seven years old. There were tears on his face and the body of his already stiff father.

Many people were watching, but more of them were just watching.

Qin Lang sighed.

"What's your last name?"

"My last name is Xu, can Alang buy me? I'm not expensive, I just exchange for a coffin and some paper money."

The child did not cry or make a fuss, but Qin Lang felt more and more distressed.

This seems to be another Li Turk.

The chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty have ended. Now the Tang Dynasty is in the world, and the people should not be suffering such pain.

"Xiaocheng, go to the coffin shop to find the coffin, pick up the coffin, and ask the team to promote the team, buy some paper money, and then remember to find another funeral shop to get the outfit of the old man on his body, so be decent."

After hearing this, Xu Saner stood up, knelt down solemnly at Qin Lang, and kowtowed again and again.

"Thank you Alang to bury your father for San'er. From then on, San'er will be Alang's slave. From then on, he will repay Alang for being a cow and a horse!"

The child's head was bleeding.

Qin Lang quickly stepped forward and supported him.

"There is no need to be so, get up quickly."

Qin Lang bought a coffin for Saner's father this morning, and invited a drum music class.

"All the officials in Jingzhou come to attend the funeral of Xu Dalang."

Duke Yi took Jingzhou officials to funeral a beggar, which made Jingzhou all confused and confused. He didn't understand why this happened. Some people said that Duke Yi accepted the beggar's son as his adopted son and gave him a name to his name, so he did this.

However, at Xu Saner's father's funeral, Qin Lang said something different to the officials of Jingzhou who came with orders.

"This year, drought was first and locusts were followed by locusts, and there was a Turkic army invading. Although the Turkic army did not invade Jingzhou, Jingzhou gathered troops twice, which also caused many delays in the farming period. In addition, Li Yi plotted against rebellion and rebellion, which delayed Jingzhou's capture of locusts and food to provide relief to the people."

"This Xu Dalang died last night and died of starvation in Jingzhou City. He was originally a good minister in Jingzhou. But this year, his mother died of illness, and then his wife and daughter starved to death. In the end, the remaining father and son fled to Jingzhou to beg for food, but they still died of starvation last night."

"And just last night, the officials in Jingzhou set up a banquet to greet the people and celebrated the removal of the rebels. When they were drunk, who would have thought about how hungry and hard the Xu Alang and his son were last night?"

"But, this torment has lasted for a long time, and it is far more than just the father and son."

"Xu Alang failed to receive timely relief before, which was the dereliction of duty by Luo Yi and you Jingzhou officials. He died of starvation last night, but it was my dereliction of duty. I came to Jingzhou and failed to pay attention to them in time and provide relief to them!"

Qin Lang's words made the officials in Jingzhou who had already felt that Qin Lang was doing random things secretly uneasy.

Is this going to settle accounts and hold them accountable after the fall?

Several officials were already sweating on their foreheads.

"But now is not the time to talk about these responsibilities. There are countless Xu fathers and sons outside. From now on, if Jingzhou is freezing and starving to death, it will be a serious dereliction of duty for you and me."

Open warehouses and provide relief for grain.

No matter what kind of military grain is, the grain is transferred to the warehouse, or even the grain in the public government, as long as it is grain, it will be used to provide relief to the people first. Whether it is a civilian or a beggar, as long as it is a person, he can collect the grain for three days in the government office according to the head.

Qin Lang asked Jingzhou to start the full operation of Chang'an's disaster prevention, often closing warehouses, collecting grain, and food coupons... At the same time, he called on the people to catch locusts with all their efforts and promote locust eating.

On that day, the people, victims, and even beggars in Jingzhou City received three-day rations distributed by the yamen, handprinted their handprints to collect the food, and then organized them to catch locusts and burn them.

The people who had eaten their meals were temporarily organized according to the military law, including three groups, three groups and one fire, five fires, two teams and one brigade, two brigades and one regiment, and cooperated to drive away and catch locusts in the fields.

Some people dig trenches, some people drive them away, some people are responsible for the net, some people are responsible for the drowning, some people are responsible for the sun, and some people are responsible for the shipment and storage.

The women and children dug up soil stoves in the fields, set up pots, and started boiling water and cooking porridge. The children pulled wild vegetables, millet, wild vegetables, and locusts in the fields, and boiled them into a pot.

If you are tired of doing it, eat it and then do it after eating it.

It takes until sunset during the day, light a bonfire and continue working overnight.

After the grain was exhausted, I first borrowed dried locust powder from surrounding Qizhou and others to respond to the emergency. The originally serious disaster in Jingzhou was quickly settled under Qin Lang's multi-pronged emergency response.

At least we have a life of fulfillment for the time being. No matter how hard we eat, we can eat enough for the time being, and we are not idle. We are all catching locusts and fighting disasters under the government organization.

Because they participated in the disaster resistance, everyone's food and drink were all collected by the Jingzhou Yamen. According to the instructions of Duke Yi, this is called labor-for-relief. As long as they work, they will be collected, including both men, women, and young and old.

There are even extra work points, which are different from the work done by men, women, young and old. Then according to the work points, you can also get locust meal and grain. Although it is not too much, the precious grain still makes everyone full of energy.

Jingzhou quickly stabilized, and soon the imperial court sent an envoy to come.

The captain of the Hundred Cavalry, Cheng Chumo, brought a team of cavalry to escort the new governor of Jingzhou.

"Why is Sanlang still tanned?" Cheng Chumo couldn't help but quip when he saw Qin Lang.

"I've been running outside every day recently, and it's normal to be tanned when the wind and sun are blowing."

The two brothers met and a simple communication allowed Qin Lang to understand some of the dynamics of the court in a timely manner, especially Cheng Chumo was the captain of the Baiqi and Qianniu, so he knew a lot of inside information.

When news of Luo Yi's rebellion came out, the court was startled and Chang'an was even shocked.

But unexpectedly, Qin Lang killed Luo Yi directly in Binzhou, and his rebels also collapsed. This news also attracted many ministers of the court to disbelief.

No one feels sorry for Luo Yi.

He was killed by his death, and the consequences of the leader Chang'an were reported to be the result of his wife and daughter being sent to the court as slaves. His brothers, children and nephews were beheaded and abandoned. Even the ancestors and grandchildren were killed. All the cousins, nephews and grandchildren were exiled. His wife and mother were also implicated.

Luo Yi's brother Luo Shou is now the governor of Lizhou and has been arrested and executed by the imperial court.

The new governor of Jingzhou was Gao Renbiao, the Duke of Bohai County. This man was of great origin. His father Gao Ying was the prime minister of the Sui Dynasty for nearly 20 years. Later, Gao Ying was killed by Yang Guang and his sons moved to the border. After the Tang Dynasty established the country, Gao Biaoren returned to Chang'an.

"I heard that Gao Biaoren is not capable," Qin Lang said.

Cheng Chumo also nodded, "He is an old playboy, but such incompetent people will not do anything randomly. Jingzhou is the most important thing to do now."

Zhao Ciqin from Binzhou was promoted to the governor of Binzhou this time because he was successful in assisting in quelling the rebellion. Yang Ji, the commander-in-chief, was promoted and rewarded.

"You kid went to Beijing and made meritorious service wherever you went. Qizhou made meritorious service to catch locusts and disaster relief, and the people invited me into the temple. What kind of Xuanwu wholesale demon king? Now I come to Jingzhou, but I killed Luo Yi in Binzhou halfway, quelled the rebellion, and came to Jingzhou to help the people here again......" Cheng Chumo said the more he was more envious, and even a little jealous.

The emperor was very satisfied with Qin Lang, so this time, he granted the title of 200 titles to 1,200 households in the previous 1,200 households, and gave 100 hectares of land in the two prefectures of Bin and Jing.

"After your Majesty asks you to accept the order, he will quickly hand it over to the next Beijing, saying that you have worked hard outside."

"Is there something wrong with the capital?"

"What can I do? The locusts are well controlled in various places now, and the food shortage is still barely controlled. Your Majesty missed you for your hard work outside, so he asked you to go back. After all, you are the governor and a bachelor of Chongxian Pavilion. He was originally in charge of locust and disaster relief in the capital. Jingzhou is not within the capital."

Qin Lang felt that Cheng Chumo was hiding something, but he refused to say it, so he had to give up.
Chapter completed!