Chapter 292: Man-made disasters are more terrible than natural disasters
"Is that our grain cart?" Zhou Zhiquan was pushed aside by them and almost had his head broken. He felt extremely regretful.
Although the food is for disaster relief and will eventually reach the hands of the victims, there is a big difference between giving and being robbed.
I give it to you because I am helping you.
If you rob, it means you are a gangster and not worthy of help.
Zhou Zhiquan, Zhang Jinglu, Chen Ruanruan and Chen Lao all regretted deeply and kept saying "scholars are good for nothing" and they couldn't even keep what they had.
Xie Yanyan smiled faintly and said, "Aren't they all back?"
Several team leaders had mixed feelings.
They didn't know how Xie Yanyan did it, but they thought that Emperor Yan might have made arrangements for it long ago.
Could you have guessed how wise His Majesty is?
The more than 1,000 Zhou family soldiers were still mainly responsible for protecting Xie Yanyan, but they also took care of the grain and medical carts.
Xie Yanyan and his group were too eye-catching.
Grain truck!
Almost without knowing what was going on, someone shouted, "There's food!"
Men and women emerged from alleys, firewood piles, and snow caves.
Even from under a few dilapidated sheds, an armed team of more than a hundred people emerged. Their weapons were basically wooden sticks, iron pestles, goose-feather knives, and even bows and arrows.
All the miscellaneous people added up, there were no less than a thousand people, surrounded by a pack of wolves, approaching step by step.
Zhou Shui shouted, "We are here to rescue you. We are the rescue team of the Jiuzhou Empire. If you dare to rob us, we will kill you without mercy!"
Their confrontation attracted the attention of the people at the garrison. Soon a head popped out from the high wall of the garrison, and it was obvious that the man was climbing on a ladder.
Looking out at them, he suddenly shouted, "Are you from the Kyushu Empire?"
"Yes, you are?"
"I am Li Sankui, the governor of Suzhou."
Xie Yanyan looked at him: "Li Junshou, has Emperor Chen been here?"
"Emperor Chen was here before the earthquake, but he left and went to the sandbar." Li Sankui suddenly realized, "Are you Emperor Yan?"
Xie Yanyan: "I am here in person, why don't you open the door?"
Li Sankui fell off the ladder with a thump.
Xie Yanyan and his companions waited for less than half a quarter of an hour before Li Sankui had the heavy gate of the garrison opened and welcomed Xie Yanyan and his companions in, then had the door locked again.
Xie Yanyan: "What's going on? Where are your guards?"
Li Sankui said evasively: "Guards, go and rescue them. They have all fallen into the glacier."
Yu Shanhe frowned upon hearing this and said, "Li County Magistrate, are you sure? There must be tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the place, right? Did they all fall into the river?"
"More than half of the people in this city have died. The soldiers were stationed in the barracks outside the city. When the earthquake happened, most of the soldiers were transferred to the border..."
Li Sankui couldn't continue speaking, and Xie Yanyan heard the wailing in his heart.
[Where are the guards? They have all been transferred to the eastern border by the King of Liang]
[The King of Liang failed in his attack on Chang'an County. Fearing that Emperor Yan and Emperor Chen might attack Liang at any time, all the soldiers were transferred to the eastern border.]
[The Suzhou garrison had less than 2,000 soldiers, and the earthquake killed hundreds of them]
[An earthquake occurred, and there was no rescue team]
[The common people rebelled and robbed, and the government could do nothing about it]
[My life is in danger]
Xie Yanyan understood why those people were looting, this place had become unattended.
"Li Jun Shou, this earthquake is very serious. The King of Liang is dead. What are your plans?"
Yu Shanhe said, "The King of Liang attacked Chang'an County for no reason, and was originally looking for him to settle accounts, but he rushed to die."
Li Sankui didn't know that the King of Liang was dead yet. He asked in surprise, "How come he's gone?"
"The ground is shaking, I'm dying!"
"What about Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess?"
The King of Xiliang had no son, only a daughter, Guo Xiang. It was said that he married a son-in-law named Chen Jingzong, who was a doctor.
Xie Yanyan heard what Li Sankui was thinking and told him, "Guo Xiang is not dead. Her husband Chen Jingzong seems to be dead. He was also killed by the earthquake."
As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Chengyan suddenly asked with trembling lips: "Your Majesty, what did you say? Chen Jingzong is dead?"
"Well, I received news that he died in the earthquake." Xie Yanyan gave Chen Jingzong a look, "He tried to save the Prince of Liang and the Princess and protected them from the disaster, but the beam of the house fell on his head and he is gone."
Chen Chengyan cried and said bitterly: "He deserves to die. It's a clean death."
He actually died for his father-in-law and mother-in-law for wealth!
Why doesn't he think about his old father?
Chen Ruanruan also cried silently. In order to become a royal consort, her father abandoned her mother, herself and her grandfather, and even risked his life to please the stepmother.
Li Sankui knelt down and begged Xie Yanyan, "Your Majesty, the king wants to go back on his word. I am just a small official and cannot influence the king's mind at all. Now that the King of Liang is dead, please take care of it quickly. I think the whole Liang Kingdom is in chaos now!"
The common people have all become bandits.
They were talking when a deafening "bang, bang" sound came from outside.
Xie Yanyan heard someone knocking on the gate of the garrison and asked Xie Lingyu to go and take a look.
Xie Lingyu came back after a while, and came back with Zhou Shui.
"Your Majesty, there are about 3,000 hungry people outside, carrying a tree stump and banging on the door." Zhou Shui reported, "Should we kill them?"
"Tell them to leave immediately or they will be killed without mercy."
Zhou Shui went out and shouted a few times, and the banging on the door stopped.
Xie Lingyu climbed up the wall along the ladder that Li Sankui used to peek outside.
But he saw that those people had already climbed up the nearby tall trees and broken walls, and were watching the yard.
Xie Lingyu hid beside the corner tower that had not collapsed and peeked at what those people were doing.
I saw those people carrying bundles of firewood to the outside of the yard of the military station where they lived and pouring oil on them.
Xie Lingyu came down immediately and said to Zhou Shui, "Shall we pour water to put out the fire?"
Zhou Shui said: "Let them burn it. The wall is made of bricks and stones anyway, so it can't be burned."
The two stood on the wall and secretly watched their movements.
The oil sticks were several meters away from the city wall.
It was discovered that they were not setting fire to the city wall outside, but were shooting rockets made from firewood doused in oil into the military station.
Many houses in the garrison also collapsed, and the ruins were filled with wooden beams, purlins and other wooden strips that caught fire easily.
Zhou Shui asked everyone to hide in the house first.
He ordered everyone: "Wait until they finish shooting arrows, then rush out and kill them all."
The rockets were counted, and when they had almost fired them, Zhou Shui and Xie Lingyu took the lead and charged out.
Those people are a mob. Their fighting ability is very poor, but they are very tenacious. If you kill one of them, they will run away and come back again after a while. It’s so annoying.
When it comes to killing someone, I feel a little scared the first time I kill someone, but after killing many times, I won’t feel anything anymore.
It's no different than killing a chicken.
Xie Lingyu chased after them on horseback and killed more than a dozen of them in one breath.
"Put down your weapons, we are here to help!"
"Don't rob. As long as you don't rob and receive the supplies in order, we won't kill you."
The group shouted confidently: "We want food, clothes, blankets, and medicine now... Hand over the things!"
While the negotiations were still going on amidst the shouting and screaming, someone had already dug a hole into the garrison from behind.
Grab something!
Looking at Xie Yanyan and the others, just pick up the knife and chop them!
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