Early the next morning, news came from Jiajia Grain Store that a batch of grain was being shipped.
However, some of the victims seemed to know that food was coming, and they were rushing to get there in groups.
Wen Qingzhu's heart sank. There were only two people who could do this, either Prince Ning or Jiang Yuancheng.
"Yuanhan, leave Master Tan's affairs to Mingxuan. You can go to Prince Ning yourself and see if there is anything going on there?"
Jiang Yuanhan immediately asked: "What about you?"
"I'm going to take a look at the disaster relief site. The situation at Lutao should be pretty close." Wen Qingzhu stood up, called Beidou, gave a few instructions and left.
Watching her back slowly disappear, Jiang Yuanhan turned around and asked Wen Mingxuan: "What did you say to your sister yesterday?"
Wen Mingxuan looked calm: "Your Highness thinks, what else can I say?"
Jiang Yuanhan's eyes darkened, he no longer struggled with this topic, and handed over Master Tan's matters to Wen Mingxuan one by one.
At the southern city gate, an inn facing the street has been temporarily rented.
It is now managed by people from the yamen. It is now breakfast time, and the victims entering the city have formed a long line to receive today's breakfast.
Add a handful of pickles to a bowl of porridge.
Wen Qingzhu stood at the entrance of the alley in the distance, looking at the crowded group of people there. Most of them were naked and looked very bad.
Perhaps there were too many people gathered together. Although the weather was very cold, most people seemed to be able to bear it.
After a while, the sound of green pottery appeared from behind the alley.
"grown ups!"
Wen Qingzhu turned around and saw that she had also changed into men's clothes, and her face had become thinner and pointed.
She went up to him, shook Lu Tao's hand, and found that his hands were cold.
At that time, Wen Qingzhu's face showed a look of pity: "It's been a hard life these days."
Lu Tao pointed to the front: "It's not hard. Come with me, sir."
The two of them walked forward, turned a corner and entered the house through the back door of the inn.
When they arrived on the second floor, Lu Tao handed a stack of rosters to Wen Qingzhu: "Sir, you can take a look. This is the situation these days."
Wen Qingzhu took it over and took a look. With the cooperation of Kangcheng Daying, Lu Tao recorded the information of all the victims.
A total of 1,335 victims entered the city.
So far, 360 people have found work. Although they can't make much money, they can still afford food and clothing.
In addition, seventy-one women and children were sold into slavery and were guaranteed to survive.
Finally, four to five hundred people, under the arrangement of the yamen, began to clean the streets and repair the yamen city walls. They could eat brown rice for lunch three times a day.
There are still more than 400 people who don't want to do anything and collect gruel at this disaster relief site twice a day.
After putting down the booklet, Wen Qingzhu raised his head and asked, "Are the remaining people who don't want to work not causing trouble?"
"Of course there is trouble!" Lu Tao had a headache thinking of this, but she quickly added, "Fortunately, Brother Yu is very experienced in dealing with these scoundrels. There are people arranged by him, and there are also the first batch of troublemakers caught by the adults. People, they don’t dare to go too far.”
"Brother Yu? But Yu Fan?" Wen Qingzhu looked at Lu Tao in surprise. When did she have such a good relationship with Yu Fan
Lu Tao quickly explained: "Yes, don't think too much, sir. Brother Yu is a good man, and he also has a fiancée."
"Oh." Wen Qingzhu laughed, "I didn't ask so many questions."
"Miss! Stop teasing me!" Lu Tao was helpless.
Then, Wen Qingzhu walked to the window and looked downstairs.
I found that some people were still asking when the work would be reassigned in the Yamen.
Most of them were anxious and left with disappointed faces after asking.
After looking at it for a long time, Wen Qingzhu found that there was not even a slightly younger woman here.
"Lu Tao, have all the women among the more than 1,300 people been sold?"
"Well, some people didn't want to sell it originally, but after the people who sold their wives got the food, they started to prey on the wives and daughters of other victims. Brother Yu helped me many times, but we can't keep an eye on them all the time. So some of the remaining people still sold their wives and daughters, at least they didn’t have to worry about being insulted.”
When Lu Tao said these words, his face was full of solemnity and a little self-blame.
She had tried hard to think of a way before, but it basically had no effect.
"Is that so?" Wen Qingzhu looked at the porridge that the victims received, and it seemed that he had to reduce the amount of rice used to cook the porridge.
At least you won’t be full and think about other things.
After seeing the situation in the city, Wen Qingzhu went to the city wall again.
Looking from top to bottom, under the wall, there are corpses piled up in various directions. Most of them are beyond recognition.
Many people even had their clothes taken away, and the tragic situation was shocking.
Wen Qingzhu turned around and closed his eyes, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Although she had received the news a long time ago, but seeing such a tragic situation with her own eyes, she felt that blindly closing it down was definitely not an option.
Wen Qingzhu turned to look at the captain of the guard guarding the city: "How have things been in the past two days?"
"There have been more and more victims coming here in the past few days. Every morning and evening when the shift changes, the victims will try to climb the wall to get in. But with the corpses below, they don't dare to rush over at will."
"What exactly happened that day?" Wen Qingzhu looked serious. This method of using people to build human ladders was not something ordinary disaster victims would think of.
The captain of the guard thought about it for a moment, and his face showed some unbearable expression.
But he quickly recalled what happened that day.
In the evening, victims came one after another, but they did not dare to stop them casually.
Just let them line up, check their identities and directions, and let them in one by one.
It was getting dark soon, the queue was getting longer and longer, and the guards guarding the city gate had to change shifts.
The team couldn't move for a long time, and the people behind were a little anxious.
But he didn't expect Prince Ning's men to come back from outside the city and forcefully break through on horseback, knocking past the two guards blocking the way.
This created a gap. Someone behind saw this and shouted loudly: "Maybe we won't let anyone in tomorrow! Let's rush in first!"
When one person moved, the others began to panic. Everyone no longer obeyed the order and began to rush in violently.
How could the guards at the door stop thousands of victims
The crowd surged forward, pushing the guards towards the inside. The people behind became more and more panicked, and there were more and more people.
Fortunately, the soldiers on the tower saw something was wrong and came down early.
Two weapons were used to cut off the arms of two people on the spot, and at the same time, someone was sent to forcefully close the door.
This temporarily stopped the chaos.
As the sky darkened, more and more people gathered under the city wall. Everyone was crying and frightened, and some people's voices were rising and falling.
Half an hour later, a large group of people suddenly came outside, and they heard that the city gate was suddenly closed.
Everyone didn't know what they had heard, so they started looking for people and trying to build a ladder.
There is a group of people who are doing it, and the rest of the victims also want to survive, and many people are starting to follow suit.
The gatekeepers on the tower felt something was wrong and immediately sent people to the camp to invite people over.
Sure enough, in less than half an hour, no one succeeded at all.
Instead, many people were injured one after another.
Five or six people failed again, and there was a lot of noise underneath. Suddenly someone stepped on their bodies and climbed up the city wall.
Victims swarmed in and a strange stampede officially began.
About two to three hundred people participated in this wall climbing, and suddenly one person actually climbed to the top of the wall.
The soldiers could not drive the people away, and more and more people began to come, but death began to spread, and miserable cries for help began to come one after another.
Finally someone realized something was wrong and started shouting: "Climb up! You will die!"
But people kept coming. King Ning's people came first. Seeing this situation, they shot and killed the victims.
This aroused the anger of the soldiers and started a dispute with King Ning.
More and more people are dying, and the piles of corpses are getting higher and higher.
A few decades ago, Kangcheng was a small city, and the city wall was only about five feet high.
Someone discovered the hill where the corpses were piled up, which gave them the opportunity to rush over more and more.
People began to climb up one after another, and the scene was chaotic for a while.
Not long after, King Ning rushed over in person and led his men to kill the victims directly.
Under the light of the fire, the bodies and heads continued to roll down as they almost splashed.
This calmed down the crazy victims.
Later, Yu Fan arrived and personally guarded the area. He moved away the pile of corpses and moved half of the corpses away, which allowed the victims to calm down.
At dawn, there were corpses everywhere under the city wall.
After listening to the captain of the guard's words, Wen Qingzhu felt keenly that something was wrong.
"Have you caught the person who came up in the first place?"
The captain of the guard was stunned, thought for a long time, and finally shook his head.
Wen Qingzhu sighed: "That person is indeed gone!"
She turned to look at the bottom of the city wall and calculated the height. If the human body was set up according to a certain number of people, it would not be impossible to climb up the wall.
Even from what the captain of the guard said, Wen Qingzhu could clearly see that someone among the victims was indeed causing trouble.
King Ning's handling was decisive, and a greater disaster was avoided.
If she were here, I'm afraid she would do the same thing.
Just as he was thinking about it, Yu Fan's voice suddenly came from beside him: "Sir, Miss Ye."
Wen Qingzhu turned around and saw that Yu Fan was bringing people over, including two people who looked like accountants.
"they are?"
Yu Fan immediately explained: "They came to roughly estimate the number of victims outside the city. The data we have obtained so far seems that there have been about 50,000 people here."
Wen Qingzhu looked at the two people, holding a booklet in one hand and looking at the victims outside the tower with the other, counting them one by one.
She looked back with some confusion: "How did you estimate it?"
Yu Fan didn't know what to say: "This..."
Green Tao, who was beside him, came over immediately and helped Yu Fan explain: "This is a sampling method. Disaster victims like to act together. Groups of people are different. To be more detailed, they have their own calculation method. It may be necessary to Talked for a long time."
"Forget it over there." Wen Qingzhu didn't intend to dwell on this issue for too long.
Yu Fan then handed over his hands and led the two people to start calculations.
Wen Qingzhu watched them concentrate on calculations, especially when Yu Fan was still giving instructions, as if they knew a lot about these things.
"Lv Tao, have you found out the identity of Yu Fan?" Wen Qingzhu really felt strange, how could such a talent be discovered at this time
Lu Tao understood what she meant, thought for a while and said: "Actually, King Rui also had doubts. He is still digging into Yu Fan's origins, but his origins are very clear, but his experience is unique. He was not a good person at the beginning. Those who joined the army planned to take the imperial examination, but a few years ago, adults also knew that the imperial examination was a situation."
Wen Qingzhu sighed slightly: "Then he is also a talent who was delayed by the previous imperial examination?"
"Well, you can say that." Lu Tao responded.
Hearing her trusting tone, Wen Qingzhu couldn't help but stare at Lu Tao carefully.
Does Lu Tao really have no idea about Fan
"Sir!" Lu Tao was so anxious that he didn't know where to start.
Wen Qingzhu smiled: "Forget it, I won't tease you anymore, it's time for the news from the grain store to come back."