After the rebirth, the empress took the tragic script of Meiqiang

Chapter 190 Refugees

On the tenth day of October, He Qingchang sent a secret report back to the capital from the front line, saying that Gu Haiwang had been rescued from the Beidi Army and that he had been picked up by the emperor's personal guards. He also stated in the secret report that Lu Yanchen should take the lead in this battle.

, asked for credit for him.

Arriving in Beijing at the same time as this secret report was news about Tao Yuan that Li Baoquan had brought back from Huisheng Pawn.

The day before He Qingchang led his army to the expedition, Ye Qinghuai asked Li Baoquan to give Tao Yuan three tasks.

First, if He Qingchang could rescue Gu Haiwang, he would immediately take the imperial decree and escort Gu Haiwang back to the capital as the emperor's personal guard.

Second, investigate why Chu Boliang defected to Beidi three years ago.

Third, keep an eye on Lu Yanchen's whereabouts. If you find that he has ulterior motives, immediately capture him and bring him back to the capital. If you cannot capture him, you can execute him on the spot.

What Tao Yuan sent was a report on Lu Yanchen's whereabouts, and the news that Eagle Guard had secretly detained Gu Haiwang on his way back to Beijing.

According to Ye Qinghuai's request, Eagle Guard reported Lu Yanchen's whereabouts in detail.

Therefore, she saw in the report a detailed description of how Lu Yanchen chopping melons and vegetables in the midst of thousands of troops.

After reading it, Ye Qinghuai sighed sincerely: This Lu Yanchen was born for the battlefield.

A bitter feeling came up, like a heavy stone weighing on Ye Qinghuai's heart.

And there are still an unknown number of people like them who have been displaced by the war.

Ye Qinghuai felt a fire in his heart.

Ye Qinghuai's face suddenly turned cold. She frowned and asked, "What is your county called? How many families' land has been expropriated for farming?"

Perhaps because he is a soft-spoken cannibal, after taking Ye Qinghuai's pancake, the young man's attitude softened greatly. While eating, he replied: "We are from Shuohe, Yunzhou. Our family's land was requisitioned by the army for farming. My eldest brother

My second brother and I were arrested as young men. My father and the villagers went to the county government to argue. He was found guilty of obstructing the implementation of national policies and was beaten to death in public. After my father died, my mother contracted tuberculosis. Before she died, she asked me to bring my two sisters.

We were looking for our aunt in the capital. But my little sister had a high fever on the way and the fever disappeared. We finally made it to the capital, but we couldn’t find our aunt..."

With that said, she handed the remaining cake to her brother.
The young man hesitated for a moment, then took it, and after taking only one bite, he couldn't hold it back anymore and ate it quickly. The way he ate it was even worse than his sister's.

The old man shook his head and said nothing, but sighed heavily again.

If there had been no war, these two children would not have ended up here. Even if their original lives were not very stable and happy, at least they still had families and at least they could survive.

The old man looked at the refugees on the roadside, sighed, and said: "Well, most of them are refugees from Yunzhou and Yizhou. The imperial court was at war with Beidi and Xirong, and they were captured by the tyrants and could not pay the autumn rent.

They came to Beijing to seek refuge with their relatives, and some were living on the streets before they could seek refuge with their relatives."

After Ye Qinghuai took it, she handed the cooking cake to the boy. The boy looked at the cooking cake in her hand and was obviously a little moved, but still did not reach out. But the little girl he was protecting really couldn't resist the temptation of the steaming things.

, stretched out his hand from behind him and took the cooking cake in Ye Qinghuai's hand.

She understood that even if she could help them for a while, she could not help them forever. As long as this world remains like this, children like them will be everywhere.

The young man turned around with a stern expression and was about to scold her, but he was stunned for a moment when he saw the little girl gobbling down the food.

Li Baoquan quickly bought a thick stack of cooking cakes, enough for five or six adults.

Ye Qinghuai frowned and walked to a young man squatting on the roadside. The young man looked about twelve or thirteen years old. There was a shabby straw mat spread under him, and there was another boy who was younger than him.

Girls, in this season when passers-by are wearing cotton silk and thin coats, both children are in ragged clothes, with sallow complexion and thin skin, and their bodies exude a rancid smell.

If what this young man said is true, then there are people in the area who are using the name of the imperial court to bully the people and dominate the land.

The girl chewed the cake vigorously and made an inarticulate sound: "Brother, this is delicious."

"Old man, do you know where these people come from?" Ye Qinghuai asked an old man at the door of a store.

Ye Qinghuai asked Li Baoquan to give the two children some broken silver.

Ye Qinghuai turned around and said to Li Baoquan: "Go buy some hot food."

She patted the young man's shoulder gently, remained silent, forced a smile, smiled encouragingly at him, then stood up and left.

"Batian captures Ding?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

The imperial court did issue an order to recruit troops and increase farmland in Yunzhou, but the conscription was to draw one out of every three men, and the farmland was to reclaim wasteland, not to occupy civilian land.

It has been almost half a year since the first northern expedition in the capital. From the beginning to the end, Ye Qinghuai was an unswerving leader.

Now that the Beidi army is approaching and the country is facing a national crisis, these people are still thinking of finding ways to profit from it!

"Is Tao Yuan still in Beijing?" Ye Qinghuai asked Li Baoquan.

"We are in Beitun Township, Shuohe River. Half of the households in the township have had their land expropriated. Some have had all their land expropriated. Some families have some left over." The young man replied.

Seeing Ye Qinghuai coming over, the young man's eyes showed a wary look. He subconsciously hugged the girl next to him tightly, as if he wanted to hide her behind him.

Ye Qinghuai looked at them and felt sour in his heart. It was obvious that he had not eaten for a long time.

Ye Qinghuai thought about it and decided to take a trip out of the palace.

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The capital was much more crowded than what she had seen the last time she left the palace. From time to time, scattered refugees with luggage could be seen sitting or lying on the roadside.

It wasn't until this moment that she felt a little shaken for the first time.

The matter of recruiting soldiers in Beitun Township must be investigated later.

This time, Ye Qinghuai's face not only turned cold, but also darkened.

It's good that he has no objection now. If he turns the tip of the knife and points it at the Dajing court like Chu Boliang, the consequences are really unimaginable.

The young man didn't answer.

"Where are you from? Where are your parents and family?"

Looking at the two children, Ye Qinghuai didn't know where to start the question. After a long time, she tentatively asked: "Are you from Yunzhou?"

"Back to Your Majesty, you are still in the capital."

At the end of the sentence, the boy started to cry with some remorse. When he cried, his sister behind him also started to cry. But the little girl still had some biscuits chewing in her mouth, and she was afraid that the biscuits in her mouth would fall and be wasted.

So I chewed harder while crying, looking weird and pitiful.

The young man pulled his sister and knelt down behind her and Li Bao, and said from a distance: "My benefactor! My name is Jiang Ting, and this is my sister Jiang An. May I ask if my benefactor respects your name? If my brother and sister have success in the future, they will definitely

Come and say thank you!”

Ye Qinghuai stopped, paused, turned around, smiled lightly at the two of them, and said: "If you have a future, don't thank me, just devote yourself to serving the imperial court. By then, I will

Can you see me again."

Happy Chinese Valentine's Day to everyone~

(End of chapter)