Chapter 677: Close the door and let the arrogance

The road leading to the south gate of Taiyuan is a muddy road. From time to time, snowflakes fall, and when it gets muddy and water, it immediately turns into mud and dirty.

Occasionally, carriages pass by, but at this time, heavy snow blocks the road, so it is absolutely impossible to travel far. In addition, there are refugees everywhere in Taiyuan Prefecture, and hungry people may turn into bandits and robbers at any time, so even wealthy families will never dare to leave the city.

The imperial envoy's headquarters didn't have to worry about this. The 1,500 horse-riding lieutenants were on guard all the way. Occasionally, they would encounter a few groups of thieves, but they were all about to collapse. The original five or six days of journey wasted ten days. This was the fastest speed. The river to Taiyuan had already frozen and the waterway was blocked, so I could only choose this road.

Chen Ao saw the dense refugees under the base of the city wall, and his face was already gloomy when he sat in the carriage. Such weather blocked people outside, which was not much different from being killed. Along the way, he had seen many abandoned corpses, which were crossed across the snow and formed ice and covered with snow. He thought it would be better to go to Taiyuan City, but who knew that the disaster here would be even worse.

This is not a disaster, or rather a man-made disaster.

Fortunately, it was cold and the ground was cold at this time, so I was not worried about the plague. However, if this continues, the tens of thousands of refugees under the city wall will know how many will be left after winter? These people's eyes are unconscious, some are dizzy, some are already stiff, and they cannot move. Only those gray eyes are slightly turning, showing some vitality.

When many people saw Chen Ao's group of people, they had already reached out and gathered over, just like every behavior.

The lieutenants were in a hurry to see it, and at this time they took out the dry food they carried with them and distributed it. Someone asked for food, so more refugees came over, and there were crowds of people, surrounding the horse and caravan.

Chen Ao, who was sitting in the car, couldn't help but smile bitterly. What's the use of giving them this little surplus? Besides, even if they were given enough food, the weather was getting colder and colder. Not to mention the charcoal fire, there was not even a place to shelter from the wind and rain. Only many people gathered together to keep warm, but they were afraid that it would not take many days to freeze these people to death.

"Why don't you let someone in the city?" Chen Ao's heart was filled with an unknown fire, he looked at the towering city wall coldly, and said, "No one is here to greet him?"

Tong Hu rode a horse and a straw raincoat next to the carriage: "Here you come."

The city gate was wide open, hundreds of border troops rushed out on horseback and drove away the refugees. First, a Du Yuhou released the horse, sat on the horse and bowed and said, "I have seen Your Highness, please invite Your Highness into the city."

The border troops have a sense of awe of King Pingxi. The deeds of King Pingxi's attacking treacherous slander, destroying pirates, and defeating 100,000 Jurchen Iron Cavalry in one fell swoop. Although the Taiyuan Governor's Office is not affiliated with the three sides, it has been famous for King Pingxi for a long time. When Du Yuhou sitting on the horse, he tries to be respectful and looks at the carriage, hoping that King Pingxi gets off so that he can see the legendary style of King Pingxi who is victorious in every battle.

The carriage piled up with snow in the tent did not move at all. The King of Pingxi obviously had no intention of getting off the car, so he just said slowly in the carriage: "Why didn't Wen Xianzhi from the Taiyuan Governor's Office come?"

Wen Xianggong was Wen Xianzhi. Chen Ao had some impression of this person. The court was very strict with the border army. Therefore, the border army was usually dominated by eunuchs and civil officials. Tong Guan Junjian, Daming Mansion and other places were also under the control of the big and small clans. Taiyuan was also an important frontier town. It was once the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty. After the demise of the Northern Han Dynasty, Song Taizu hated the Taiyuan military and civilians to resist desperately, so he asked someone to demolish the Taiyuan city walls, set up another place to build a city again, and set up the Taiyuan Governor's Office. The setting of the Taiyuan Governor's Office was different from other places. The local governor took the horseshoe soldiers, dismounted the horses to manage the people, and formed a way of his own. The power was quite large.

The reason for this is that the people in Taiyuan were strong at that time, and many people thought they were Northern Han people, so the resistance was particularly fierce. In order to suppress the resistance at any time, the general was ordered to guard this and give him full power.

But a hundred years later, Taiyuan had already been integrated with the Song Dynasty, and the resentment a hundred years ago had been forgotten. Although the establishment of the Governor's Office had not been abolished, it was usually sent to guard the military officers in the past. Now the governor of Taiyuan has been replaced by civil officials. How could Wen Xianzhi not have any ability to be the governor of Taiyuan? It is said that this person was also a Jinshi and was appointed as an official. When he was released from office, the merit exams of the Ministry of Personnel were all the same as the best, which was deeply trusted by the palace. When he arrived in Taiyuan, he had a hundred thousand border troops in his hand, and took into account civil affairs and criminal laws. He had been calling the wind and rain in Taiyuan for ten years.

When Du Yuhou heard Chen Ao ask about Governor Wen, he immediately said, "The Governor has important matters and cannot be welcomed from afar. I hope your highness will forgive you."

Chen Ao sat in the carriage and said, "Since that's the case, then go into the city."

Du Yuhou beat the horse and asked his soldiers to clear a way, and then said loudly: "Your Highness, please."

The carriage still did not move, and Chen Ao said in the carriage: "What I am talking about is to let the victims outside the city enter the city first!"

Du Yuhou's face changed, covered with frost. Qiqi Ai Ai Ai said: "Your Highness, the refugees are entering the city, I'm afraid..."

Chen Ao shouted angrily in the car: "What are you afraid of? Is it that Xianggong Wen and the prefect of Taiyuan, Wang Zhi, wasn't my Mu Shou of the Song Dynasty? Isn't my parents in the Song Dynasty? Now so many people are hungry and cold here, what else can I be afraid of? I won't say good things for the second time, now! Let the refugees enter the city immediately!"

Du Yuhou hesitated for a moment and said, "After the general is in charge, the refugees are not allowed to enter the city to cause trouble. Please forgive me."

He had already winked, and a soldier understood and immediately rushed back to the city to ask for instructions from the governor.

Chen Ao smiled faintly. His temper is rare today, but he said slowly: "Since that's the case, I will wait here. If the refugees don't enter the city, I will just be under the wall."

Du Yuhou's face turned pale, but he didn't dare to say anything. Although the King of Pingxi was arrogant, the county magistrate was not as good as the county magistrate. If he violated the general order of the Grand Governor's Office today, he would not be able to bear the military law to deal with it. So he simply pretended to be deaf and dumb, and waited for someone to ask for instructions before making a decision.

An interesting scene appeared on the edge of the city gate. Thousands of lieutenants were sitting upright in straw raincoats, surrounded by an exquisite carriage. Opposite were rows of border soldiers standing beside the road, and there were crowds of disaster victims on the outside. The crowds of people were crowded with snowflakes, and no one spoke in the floating snowflakes. But at this time, there was a little hope in the eyes of the thousands of disaster victims.

If you flow outside the city, you will surely die. Only when you enter the city will you have a glimmer of life. How can the victims not understand this? When the gate of Taiyuan City was closed, their hearts had already sunk to the bottom of the valley. When the border troops, like wolves and tigers, drove away the victims rushing at the city gate, they had already consciously no hope. However, the words of King Pingxi had quietly spread from some people with sharp ears.

The King of Pingxi, the imperial envoy, wanted to let everyone enter the city. After entering the city, even if there was no food, there was at least a place to shelter from the wind and rain. So everyone closed their mouths and waited quietly.

Chen Ao, who was sitting in the car, seemed to have time to spend with them, and actually lay comfortably on the cushion, picked up a Buddhist scripture to read. After reading it for a while, he couldn't help but leave it again. He thought to himself, put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha on his own, but when he put down the butcher knife, there were thousands of people making fish. If he didn't kill people, there would be thousands of people hungry and cold, and the world was unkind. If there was a killing star, then I, Chen Ao, would rather pick up the butcher knife and be this tyrant.

Chen Ao then discovered that the Four Books and Five Sutras had a bit more secular reality than the Buddhist scriptures. How could a family cry? This sentence seems cruel, but if you kill a family to save passers-by, then what's the point of killing someone? Killing someone can also save the world with a can of sacrificial pot.

Outside the car window was snowing, and Chen Ao's face seemed to be frozen, and he wanted to kill someone a little.

"I am a bad person, I have seven emotions and six desires. I am greedy for money, can be corrupt, blackmail, kill, and tease good women. I am a little selfish and use any means. But..." Chen Ao couldn't help but think: "But I am still a gentleman. A gentleman can be careless of trivial matters, but cannot ignore the righteousness. What is righteousness? These people at the base of the city wall are righteousness. As long as the righteousness is still there, I am a gentleman."

"A gentleman can kill people!" This is Chen Ao's final conclusion: "Perform the way for heaven!"

In this way... Chen Ao felt much more comfortable. His random thoughts just now were more like defending himself, because his hand was already on the hilt of Shangfang's sword, and he really wanted to find a reason to comfort himself.

After a lot of time, the sky was gradually dimming, and the snow had already spread to the horse's hooves. The captain wearing a straw raincoat was covered with layers of snow. When it shook gently, snowflakes fell. But the captains did not move. What were they thinking? No one knew. Their expression was dull, but their eyes were like a sword that was about to be unsheathed, and they wanted to break free from the shackles at any time and drink blood.

Finally, in the entrance of the city gate, several warm sedans appeared. The sedan was lifted very steadily and the speed was not fast. The shoes under the sedansman were stepping on the snow, carefully maintaining balance, for fear of accidentally hitting the noble person in the sedans.

The late sedan chair finally stopped not far away. The noble people sitting inside did not come out immediately. Instead, the soldiers who accompanied him carefully lifted the curtain of the sedan chair. The people inside coughed and slowly came out of the sedan chair. Then a thick fur coat was sent by someone and put it on his body. After the clothesline was tied, the people in front of him seemed to be alive, smiled, and walked towards the au carriage step by step.

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Chapter completed!