Distressed Young Woman Transmigrates: Wangfei Who Defies the Imperial Edict Chapter 245: Yecheng (3)

"Shopkeeper, let's go out of the city towards Lingzhou. Is there a small town or village nearby?" Yan Chi asked the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper asked curiously: "My lord, are you going to Lingzhou?"

"Yes." Seeing his strange expression, Xiao Yao couldn't help asking: "Is there anything wrong?"

"Miss, you are from other places. You don't know. The road from Yecheng to Lingzhou is very dangerous. Passing merchants deliver goods to Lingzhou and go north by detour. They will not take this road even if they make a big bend. The road is dangerous."

Feng Luoxuan frowned: "How dangerous?"

The shopkeeper sighed again, and Fang said: "The road leading to Lingzhou has long been occupied by rogue victims, and the victims of the floods in Lingzhou in recent years are all along the way, and they are entrenched in groups At the intersection at the top of the mountain, they only robbed the money and food of passing caravans, and some time ago, they even robbed the food and grass escorted by the imperial court."

Even robbing the imperial court of food and grass is a serious crime of beheading. Xiao Yao could imagine the tragic situation that those victims had been forced to take risks, and they did not hesitate to fight against the imperial court to survive.

Feng Luoxuan asked in a deep voice: "Do you know how many victims there are on this road?"

"I heard that there are as many as 100,000 people, floods occur frequently, and homeless people flock to Lingzhou City. A few years ago, the government drove them out of the city, and they occupied the road leading to this place from Lingzhou. Poor people, their homes and fields were destroyed, they were expelled by the government, some died of illness, some died of starvation, and those who survived could only fall into the ranks of grassroots bandits.”

The shopkeeper kept shaking his head when he talked about the tragic situation of the refugees, and his words were full of compassion, which made everyone feel very sad.

Feng Luoxuan's eyes were filled with chills: "The imperial court sends a large amount of relief food and money every year, and there are hundreds of thousands of refugees. Are the officials in Lingzhou all idiots?"

Every time the inspecting officials came back to report that the disaster was not serious, the government opened warehouses for disaster relief, and the refugees were resettled properly. He naturally knew that the numbers in these memorials were reported in a small number, but he did not expect that the number of refugees was so huge that they even formed bandits to occupy one side.

"So what if there is relief food, it doesn't fall into the hands of the people. The mountains in Lingzhou are high and the emperor is far away. It's not just a matter of a day or two. Not all of them were stuffed with a lot of silver by the state officials, anyway, the common people can’t tell their sufferings.”