After passing the Lianglang Valley Road, Daizhou is Daizhou. Daizhou is located in the north of the Central Plains and has four prefectures and seventeen counties, namely Daizhou Prefecture, Shuozhou Prefecture, Yangquan Prefecture and Xuanhua Prefecture. Among them, Daizhou Prefecture is naturally Daizhou Prefecture, and close to Lianglang Pass is Daizhou Prefecture. Daizhou Prefecture is two hundred miles away from Lianglang Pass, and it takes five days to ride a horse and drive a car. Everyone is not in a hurry and walk along the Guan Road.

But after entering the pass, Zhang Xiaowu and others felt very different. Logically speaking, the deserts and Gobi in the northern part of the pass should be even hotter than in the pass, but unexpectedly, when they arrived in the Central Plains, they felt that the Central Plains were even hotter. Everyone rode their horses for a while and then sweated heavily. Zhang Xiaowu hurriedly asked Jas to find a place to buy an umbrella for shade.

"The closest to Guanlu is Shangyi County, but Shangyi County is not on Guanlu. When Guanlu was built, there were three rivers between Shangyi County and Guanlu. In order to avoid the trouble of building bridges, Guanlu did not connect to Shangyi County. However, the three rivers washed away the Guanlu. The county magistrates in Shangyi County did not want to spend money, so they did not build a Guanlu road split." Ruan Qingwen shook his head and said, "Maybe the officials are only concerned about making money, and they didn't think about building a road for themselves."

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Corrupt officials and officials everywhere, and they will be killed and destroyed."

Ruan Qingwen said: "It seems that the general supports some officials to embezzle?"

Zhang Xiaowu thought for a while and said, "You must know that everyone in the world is selfish, only saints are noble. However, how many saints are there in the world? Who can say that they are saints? I can't guarantee, and you can't guarantee that since there are more ordinary people in the world, ordinary people will have to be selfish. If you don't allow others to take advantage of some small advantages, others will take your words as farts, and even stab you in times of danger. Naturally, I don't agree with corruption. I just acquiesced to everyone to take advantage of some small advantages. I don't think the emperor doesn't want all the officials under his command to be saints-after all, saints can only educate ideas, but cannot do the facts."

Ruan Qingwen smiled and said, "What I fear most are those officials who embezzle gold and silver but refuse to do things for the people at all."

"That kind of dog officials will naturally kill each person." Zhang Xiaowu smiled and said, "It's a pity that I am not the censor of the Supervision Bureau, and I can't control them. If you can be corrupt, you will be corrupt, but if you are corrupt, you deserve to be killed."

Ruan Qingwen shook his head and said, "General should still set high standards and strict requirements, otherwise everyone will think that the general encourages corruption."

“That’s true.”

While the two were talking, Jas also returned from Shangyi County, but his face was strange. Zhang Xiaowu asked about the reason. Jas also said: "There is no one in Shangyi County, and the streets are very empty. Several scattered families hid after seeing us."

"But you scared them?"

"No, we only have five people, how can we scare others."

Zhang Xiaowu looked at the sky and said, "It will be dark in one hour. Why not live in Shangyi County, rest early tonight and set off early tomorrow morning."

"Here."

When I arrived at the gate of the county town, it was indeed extremely desolate. There was not a single guard at the gate of the city gate. When I looked at the dust and spider webs on the city gate, everyone was laughing and crying. I never expected that a county town would be so desolate, let alone the people in all fields. When I entered the county town, I saw that there was no one on the road, and there were a few wild dogs on the street. After seeing this group of people, I was frightened and scattered.

Bao Yin took out his bow and arrow to kill a few wild dogs. Zhang Xiaowu said: "The Central Plains plague is rampant, how can you know if the wild dogs here are carrying plague?" Bao Yin was so scared that he hurriedly took the bow and arrow.

Everyone came to the station in Shangyi County. Jas also came forward to knock on the door. Suddenly he heard the sound of answering. There were actually postmen in the station. Everyone was very happy. After a while, the door of the station finally opened. A thin old man walked out tremblingly. When he saw everyone, he was stunned at first, then knelt on the ground and said in a hoarse voice: "The old man, Wu Shihan, the postmaster of Shangyi County, has seen all the generals."

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Give him a mask before talking."

Jas also threw a mask over and ordered, "Wear it, just like us."

The postmaster took off his mask, looked at everyone, then put on the mask, and said, "All of them are dying, so what's the use of wearing this or not?"

Jas also asked, "Master Wuyi, why is Shangyi County so desolate?"

The head of Wuyi replied: "Shangyi County originally had few people, and it is one of the poorest counties in the country. Today, there is a severe drought and plagues are rampant, so the people will naturally run away."

Jas also said: "Why is the county government empty?"

The head of Wuyi said: "The county magistrate died of the plague and the other officials in the yamen also ran away. Everyone is for the sake of life, and who can care about whom. Now most of the people in the county are old people like me and some orphans. Everyone cannot escape, or they are worried that they will be eaten on the road, so they stay in their hometown."

Everyone exclaimed, "Eat people?"

"Yes, eat people." Wuyi Chief said helplessly, "Shangyi County is a poor county. The local area is mostly stones and less land. People cannot eat enough every year. When they escape, it is inevitable that they eat some similar people on the road. Even if there are people who change their children in the city, alas..."

Everyone was speechless. Everyone knew that the Central Plains was poor, but they didn't expect it to be so poor. Bao Yin said that perhaps it was because of the special case in Shangyi County, and other places might not be necessary, so everyone could only hope. Chief Wu then said that the post station had no food for a long time, and the last time he ate three days ago, he lived by eating tree bark these days.

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Give the old man twenty breads."

"Here."

After receiving the dough cake, Wuyi was so surprised that he couldn't speak. He had always been a post station to receive officials, so there was no official to help the post station. Then he thought of asking about the other party's identity. When he learned that the famous ghost general Zhang Xiaowu of Tsubasa was Zhang Xiaowu, Wuyi knelt on the ground and cried and said: "General Zhang is the reincarnation of a saint. If it were not General Zhang, the Saint Han Wei."

Shangyi Post Station could not accommodate the nearly 120 people. In addition to the eighty personal guards, there were fifteen coachmen who drove the car. However, these fifteen coachmen were not ordinary people, but elites selected from the Ghost Guards' supplies camp. The postmaster Wu opened the door of almost everyone next to the post station, saying that they had all fled to the famine and had no one at home, so they could move in freely.

Seeing that the station was dilapidated, it was better to live in the neighbor's house, so they cleaned it up and then settled in one after another. Zhang Xiaowu lived in the main bedroom of a large family. Apart from some dust, it was still clean. In fact, there was nothing valuable in this family. The most valuable thing was a bed, without a quilt.

How hungry is in Shangyi County?
Chapter completed!