Please ask me to be the emperor

Zhang Shun led the people all the way north, passing through Yijun County, Central County, Yanzhou and Ganquan to Yan'an Fucheng.

Along the way, the further north you go, the worse the situation becomes, almost like hell on earth.

Not to mention other things, the most conspicuous thing on this road is the heads hanging on both sides of the road.

That was the head of the hungry people who tried to rob the grain and grass transported by the rebel army to Yulin Town but failed, but were beheaded by the rebel soldiers who were guarding the grain team.

In order to frighten the hungry people who took the risk, Wei Zhiyou deliberately ordered his soldiers to hang the heads of the hungry people who had been chopped to death on both sides of the road as a warning to others.

It is a total of four hundred miles from Jinsuoguan in Tongguan County to Yan'an Fucheng, and there are countless heads hanging along the way.

When the hot summer wind blows, the heads move together, making people feel horrified even in the dog days of summer.

However, even if the punishment was so cruel, it still could not scare those hungry people.

Not only did they not scare them, but those abandoned corpses became delicacies that some people relied on for a living.

Zhang Shun originally thought that heads hanging on the road and bones left on the roadside were already a hell on earth.

As a result, the further north he went, the more Zhang Shun found that he exceeded the bottom line of his imagination.

At first, there were still many bones on the roadside. As I walked, all the abandoned bones on the roadside were black.

"What's going on?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but ask.

"It's burned!" Shi Moxi suppressed his nausea and said, "Have you never read a book?"

"Eat the child by changing it, break the bones and cook the food, that's what you're talking about!"

I've heard that it's not about changing the bones and cooking them. What does it mean to break the bones and cook them?

Aren’t bones made of calcium? Can they be burned?

You didn't bully me for not knowing scientific knowledge, right?

Soon Zhang Shun discovered that he did not understand scientific knowledge.

About twenty miles past Yanzhou, Zhang Shun and others encountered a group of hungry people "cooking" on the roadside.

"He and the others are...eating people!" Mo Tingxi couldn't help but said with a trembling voice.

"How do you know?" Zhang Shun looked at her strangely and asked.

Being so far away, besides seeing them cooking, what else can you see?

"They are all grown men, and they are openly cooking on the roadside. They must be cannibals!" Mo Moxi couldn't help shouting.

Zhang Shun was stunned for a moment before he reacted.

Due to the severe drought in northern Shaanxi for eight or nine consecutive years, food has become the most precious commodity.

If normal hungry people cook food in the wild, they must hide it in a remote place to prevent others from discovering it and coming to rob it.

These people actually dare to cook in such a blatant manner, they must be cooking food that others dare not snatch.

"Xian Zuo Guang, please bring some people over to see what kind of food is cooked? If it is human flesh, kill them all!" Zhang Shun hesitated at first, and was ready to let Zuo Guang drive them away first. .

But then I thought, since these people dared to cook corpses, they would definitely attack living people for food, but they were not allowed to do so.

Zuo Guang nodded when he heard the words, and then led more than 20 cavalry to rush forward.

After only a few words of conversation, Zuo Guang was heard giving an order, and then he slashed at him with his sword.

Those people were also ferocious. Seeing that they couldn't escape, they actually picked up the simple weapons around them and started fighting with Zuo Guangxian and others.

So how could Zuo Guangxian be able to capsize in the gutter?

He quickly gave an order, and the cavalry distanced themselves from these people, and then charged forward.

This cavalry charge, not to mention the dozen or so unarmored thugs, but also the ordinary elite infantry, was at a loss. How could they withstand it?

After charging and killing several times in succession, Zuo Guang first eliminated more than ten people cleanly, and then returned to report: "His Royal Highness, these people are indeed cannibals, and the general has been ordered to kill them all!"

"I'll go take a look!" Zhang Shun refused to give up. Is there really such a cruel person in the world?

Zhang Shun had never been in the rebel army before. Those people burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of evil. He had already considered them to be the lower limit of human beings. He didn't expect that there was a lower limit below the upper limit in this world.

"Ugh!" Zhang Shun asked himself that he had always had a big heart and strong self-control, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he still couldn't help but feel a sore throat and vomited out all the food he had eaten in the morning.

Next to the simple stove was a body that had been killed not long ago.

Under the earthen jar, in addition to part of the firewood, there were also several tibia bones burning inside, emitting blue flames.

Outside the stove, there were seven or eight human bones placed, presumably to continue adding firewood to the fire.

"Change the child to eat, break the bones to cook! Change the child to eat, break the bones to cook!" The eight words Shi Moxi told him just now kept swirling in his mind.

Zhang Shun came back in a state of despair. The red lady quickly supported him and scolded him: "You know you can't stand it, but you still go to see it. Why bother?"

"How could this happen? How could this happen?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but muttered to himself.

"I only thought that the famine in Yan'an and other places was serious. I just passed by in a hurry last time and didn't take a closer look. I didn't expect it to be so unbearable to see!"

"Okay, okay, it's okay. Didn't you come here? You can definitely save them!" Seeing Zhang Shun's appearance, the red lady couldn't help but feel a sore nose, and she couldn't help but comforted her quickly.

"How can I save it?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but point to the bones on the roadside and the head on the tree, trembling and said, "Which one of them can I save?"

"Don't say that I am just a rebel leader. Even if the King of Hell is resurrected, I'm afraid there will be nothing you can do!"

"Where did he come from, a wealthy young man, and how could he be so kind and weak?" Seeing this, Mo Moxi couldn't help but turned to Ma Yingniang and asked when he saw the "easy-to-talk" Lady Hong comforting Zhang Shun.

"What time is it worth if a bunch of people don't die?"

Ma Yingniang originally wanted to ignore her, but she couldn't help but show off: "Maybe he really came from the sky!"

"People call him King Shun, thinking that he is a saint resurrected and Emperor Shun is still alive!"

"Qie" Shi Moxi followed his father Shi Changsheng to read the books of sages, and he most admired the three generations of Yao, Shun, and Yu.

Originally, she wanted to ridicule Ma Yingniang for saying "she has such a loud tone and dares to call herself Emperor Shun", but when she thought of what he had done along the way, she was afraid that the real Emperor Shun would be nothing more than this when he was resurrected, and she was immediately speechless.

After finally calming down, Zhang Shun led everyone to continue coming up.

But Zhang Shun, who originally liked to laugh, fell silent this time, with a cold face, as if he should keep away from strangers.

Along the way, under the guidance of Mo Moxi, Zhang Shun witnessed unimaginable human tragedies.

Some people sell their children in the city. Boys can be taken away as long as you can feed them; girls can be sold to you as long as they are willing to stutter.

There is a woman hiding in a corner who will give you her body if you give her some straw.

Instead of firewood, rice, oil and salt, what was being hawked in the busy market was the bark of weeds and trees for a thousand dollars a pound.

There are countless people with belly like drums and slender limbs.

These are not scary enough. What is even more scary is that in the cesspools outside the city, there are young children abandoned every day.

The children kept crying and calling for their parents, but to no avail.

Some children were so hungry that they grabbed dung for food.

Then the next day, they will be silent, and then new babies will be abandoned here.

These children are only one or two years old, about the same age as Zhang Huaji and Zhang Pingan.

Zhang Shun couldn't stand it anymore, so he personally fished one out of the manure pit.

As a result, he didn't have to worry about fishing. Seeing his kindness, the hungry people immediately stuffed him with more than ten children of various sizes.

Just walking and stopping all the way, we finally arrived at Yan'an City.

Zhang Shun was followed by thirty-four children, and several women around him also held four or five babies.