When the army appeared in Fenggu County, all the refugees realized that this was the imperial government's disaster relief team.
Flags are flying, and everyone is wearing standard armor.
Gongs, drums, trumpets and singing lead the way.
Protected in the middle of the team were carts loaded with goods, leaving two deep ruts as they passed by.
The flag, which was several sizes smaller than the "Celebration" flag, and the jade plaques held by the surrounding guards of honor clearly indicated the identity of the leader.
"It is indeed a disaster relief team, and it is indeed Prime Minister Lou who has come personally."
"This kind of battle can't reverse the fate of the refugees... What on earth did Ji Qingzhi do to the refugees?"
Xu Chong looked around but couldn't find anything unusual.
The disaster relief team is here to save lives, which is different from the nature of the Golden Armor Pagoda.
So they could only disperse the crowded crowd and move forward slowly.
After a long time, the vanguard finally appeared at the foot of the city.
Right at this moment.
A shocking cry spread in all directions.
"——What is martial arts?!"
"!!!"
Xu Chong's face changed drastically, and he turned his head sharply to look towards the place where the voice came from: "Who is it?!"
This shout was extremely loud, the person was at least at the level of body cleansing!
Definitely not a refugee!
However, the refugees were so densely packed that there were at least tens of thousands of people suspected of this in the area where the sound came from, and it was impossible to pinpoint the exact individual!
Fortunately, even if Xu Chong couldn’t find it, someone else could.
A bolt of thunder suddenly struck, illuminating all directions.
——Snap!
Amidst the deafening explosion, the thunder and lightning contracted, lifting up a person from among the dense crowd of refugees who were still in a daze.
As expected, it was Lou Youzhi who took action and found the person who was shouting.
However.
A voice even louder than before came from another area.
"There is peace and justice, and there is no suffering in the world!!!"
As soon as the sound wave appeared, it quickly spread in all directions.
Although the same thunderbolt came down and captured this person, it was too late.
The moment all the refugees heard the eight words "Peace and justice, no suffering in heaven and earth", the trance on their faces was replaced by extreme hatred.
"There is peace and justice, and there is no suffering in the world!!!"
"There is peace and justice, and there is no suffering in the world!!!"
"There is peace and justice, and there is no suffering in the world!!!"
“…”
Roar.
Roars came one after another.
Regardless of gender, age, or level of intelligence, everyone started roaring.
Xu Chong clearly saw that in the arms of a woman not far from the city wall, the baby, who had no ability to love or hate or speak, also started to scream with a hideous look on his face! !
Xu Chong's heart beat violently as if it was hit by a huge hammer.
He already understood what the Taiping Dao Master wanted to do.
Inciting refugees to hate Daqing!
"There is peace and order, and there is no suffering in the world?"
The extremely cold words came out from between Xu Chong's teeth, "What a great world without suffering!!"
The refugees hate Daqing to the point of losing their minds, what will they do?
There's no need to guess.
As expected.
After nine consecutive times, the content of the roar suddenly became chaotic.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"Kill Bao Qing!!! Avenge Lord Jiang!!!"
“Hahahahahahaha, I wish all living beings in the world will not suffer from natural disasters or man-made disasters!!!”
“…”
The refugees, with tears of blood and extreme hatred, roared and attacked the relief troops.
They had no sharp weapons and no tough armor, but they relied on their flesh and blood to launch a fearless attack !
On the other hand, although the army was extremely long, it was obvious that each section had a leader to coordinate and they made appropriate responses in a moment.
Form a formation, defend, and counterattack.
The moment the two sides came into contact, tens of thousands of refugee corpses were left behind.
Xu Chong stood there motionless, staring blankly at all this.
"Is Xu Xiaoyou here?"
A noble old man who looked to be in his sixties came carelessly on the breeze and landed on the top of the city wall.
"Are you... Lou Xiang?"
Xu Chong woke up as if from a dream, and immediately revealed his figure, and said anxiously: "Please give an order quickly to stop the soldiers from killing!!"
"it's useless."
Lou Youzhi shook his head and sighed.
"How could it be useless?!"
Xu Chong was extremely anxious and said quickly: "This evil method will definitely not last too long. It will be eliminated by tomorrow morning at the latest..."
"Then what?"
Lou Youzhi interrupted Xu Chong without any hesitation, "I can indeed give orders to these officers and soldiers to only defend and not take action, even if most of them are killed, but then what?"
"I don't even know the details of this method."
"Do you think the imperial court will allow these millions of people who could be manipulated at any time to live?"
Dengdengdeng.
Xu Chong took three steps back, his face pale.
He knew that what Lou Youzhi said was right.
Even if this method of controlling people's minds can only last for an hour or even half an hour, and will never be effective again in the future, so what?
As long as there is no certainty, these millions of people will always be a time bomb for Daqing.
So, being manipulated just once is enough.
This time, is it only Emperor Qing who wants to kill these refugees?
No!
After this time, no matter if they are neutral, support Emperor Qing, or are sympathetic to the refugees, everyone in the court will only have one choice!
Let these people die!
"Hahaha, millions of lives..."
Xu Chong laughed and clapped his hands, "How cruel, how cruel!"
Among these millions of people were the Canglang people, Zhao Liu, and many familiar faces.
At the beginning, he was able to protect these people.
Even if it is packaged and sent to the Hua family, it is not difficult to arrange for only 10,000 people.
But now...
He can't do it.
It was simply impossible for him to find these people in the dense crowd.
"Whatever your mood is, put it aside for now."
Lou Youzhi stared at Xu Chong expressionlessly, "Tell me, what on earth happened here these days?"
"Okay, I'll tell you."
Xu Chong took a deep breath, "But you also have to tell me what you know."
Lou Youzhi's eyes narrowed.
Xu Chong looked at him fearlessly: "You must know more than me."
After a long while, Lou Youzhi nodded: "Okay."
At that moment, Xu Chong calmed down and told Lou Youzhi everything he had learned from Zhao Liu.
From beginning to end, Lou Youzhi had a blank expression on his face.
"That's all."
After Xu Chong finished speaking, he looked directly at Lou Youzhi.
"It seems that my guess was correct."
Lou Youzhi turned around and looked at the earth and stone houses that seemed extremely abrupt and unharmonious.
"What did you guess?"
Xu Chong asked.
"That day, when His Majesty appointed me as the relief envoy, he also issued another decree."
Lou Youzhi pointed at the soldiers below who were blood-thirsty and had taken the initiative to attack, "Let all the garrisons in the thirteen prefectures of Yongzhou assist in the relief work."
"The garrisons are all 10,000-man forces, each with 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers. The entire Yongzhou has 600,000 soldiers."
"The officers and soldiers at the garrison were a mixture of ordinary people and officials."
"When you reach the centurion level, you need a warrior to take on the position."
"If it's just disaster relief, 200,000 people would be more than enough. Sending more people would be a sheer waste of manpower and resources."
"Not to mention, I also brought 200,000 more elite soldiers from the capital."
“Is this disaster relief?”
Lou Youzhi waved his sleeves and sneered, "No, this is to ensure that all these millions of refugees can be killed!"
"you mean……"
Xu Chong narrowed his eyes.
"It's obvious."
Lou Youzhi said calmly, "In fact, when I saw these houses that shouldn't be there, I already knew that this was the work of the Taiping Dao, but I never expected that the leader of the Taiping Dao, Ji Qingzhi, would actually cooperate with Your Majesty so well."
"Why does he want to cooperate with Emperor Qing?"
Xu Chong's face was gloomy. "We don't know what Emperor Qing can get, but the Taiping Dao is just supplemented with a mere thousand warriors. Even if there are people with excellent qualifications among them, the two are completely unequal."
"Not equal? ​​That's right."
Lou Youzhi lowered his eyes, "This shows that the leader of the Taiping Dao is actually from the imperial court... or even your Majesty's man."
Xu Chong's whole body suddenly stiffened and his hands and feet became cold.
This way, everything makes sense.
From the beginning to the end, the natural disaster in Yongzhou was completely under the control of Emperor Qing.
Even with all the variables like Jiang Zhihong, Dou Tianyuan, Lou Youzhi, etc., they were still unable to escape from this control in the end.
Emperor Qing, is he so terrifying?
"Ha, I knew you would meet here."
Dou Tianyuan pushed the door open and came out.
The playful expression only lasted for half a breath before it immediately turned pale.
He saw the scene of 'disaster relief'.
A voice almost like a beast's growl came out of Dou Tianyuan's throat: "Lou Heizi, I need an explanation!"
"explain?"
Lou Youzhi sneered, "The explanation is that all of us were played around by that Majesty."
"His Majesty?"
Dou Tianyuan was startled and looked at Xu Chong.
Xu Chong woodenly recounted everything that the Taoist master of Taiping had done, and then said, "Prime Minister Lou speculated that Ji Qingzhi was Emperor Qing's man."
“…”
Dou Tianyuan's expression turned completely ugly, and his tone was filled with uncontrollable anger: "No wonder, no wonder they suddenly asked me to come to Yongzhou to supervise the relief..."
"It's obvious that you're getting too close to me, and that's made him a little unhappy."
Lou Youzhi said calmly, "It's called supervision of relief, but it's actually a warning to you."
Dou Tianyuan's heart sank. "It's just a warning. I have no problem with it, but you..."
Everyone said that Lou Youzhi had great power and was able to cover the whole country with one hand.
Yes, on the surface, that is indeed the case.
After all, that emperor ignored state affairs and left all military and national affairs to Lou Youzhi.
But looking deeper, this also represents that Lou Youzhi has never done anything to disobey His Majesty.
Only this time.
All officials wrote to the emperor in unison, requesting to be relief envoys, and An Guogong and privately raised supplies.
No matter which one of them, it is really an offense.
"Don't worry, he won't kill me."
Lou Youzhi said indifferently, "Unless he wants to see the court completely paralyzed."
The words came out lightly, but Dou Tianyuan felt something was even more unsatisfactory.
Because he remembered that what Lou Youzhi said before was 'he can't kill me', but now it is 'he won't kill me'.
There is a world of difference between the two.
"Before Master Jiang started to fight, he had a question."
Xu Chong suddenly interrupted, "If you want to kill people, why do you need a natural disaster? If a large army approaches and accuses people of treason, they can kill a million people in a day. Even if they slaughter the entire Yongzhou, how much effort will it take?"
"My answer at the time was that perhaps a simple massacre would not bring any benefits to Emperor Qing. It must be a natural disaster that caused the death."
"Haha, now it seems that all I have to do is die where the disaster strikes."
Xu Chong smiled coldly, "He didn't massacre them, it's just because he wanted to be a courtesy name and also wanted to establish a memorial archway."
Such blatant and treasonous words just came out of his mouth, and they came from the mouth of the "descendant of Taizu".
Lou Youzhi and Dou Tianyuan raised their eyebrows at the same time.
"I can see that you are not on the side of Emperor Qing."
Xu Chong raised his palm and said, "I don't know what you want to do, nor do I want to know what you want to do, but a side technique I created may be helpful to you."
As soon as he finished speaking, a white light emerged from Xu Chong's palm.
The rich spiritual energy aura on it made the two of them look shocked at the same time.
Control and condense spiritual energy...
Is there really such a side technique in the world?
Xu Chong didn't say anything, just waited.
Lou Youzhi and Dou Tianyuan's attention was quickly attracted and their expressions changed continuously.
Because they clearly saw that as time passed, the white light gradually shrank and dimmed until it disappeared.
"I tried it the other day in Binzhou."
Xu Chong opened his mouth and continued, "In Binzhou, this group of spiritual energy will continue to exist without any signs of dissipating. This situation will only occur in Yongzhou, or in the place where natural disasters strike."
"Normally, it would take a very long time for such concentrated spiritual energy to dissipate. And it didn't dissipate, it just attached to and merged into the people or objects around it."
Lou Youzhi looked solemn, "But just now, not only did it dissipate so quickly, but I couldn't feel where it dissipated to. It was like it completely disappeared out of thin air."
"What do you mean..."
Dou Tianyuan narrowed his eyes, "Is this what Your Majesty needs?"
“It’s not that simple.”
Lou Youzhi glanced at Dou Tianyuan and said, "As for spiritual energy, the royal family definitely has no shortage of it."
"I guess it should be the spiritual energy and life. The combination of these two can be transformed into something else in the disaster area."
Xu Chong said slowly, "And this kind of thing is what Emperor Qing really needs."
Lou Youzhi and Dou Tianyuan looked at each other and a look of sudden realization flashed across their eyes at the same time.
"What did you think of?"
Xu Chong asked.
"Lifespan."
Dou Tianyuan slowly uttered two words.
"Lifespan?"
Xu Chong raised his eyebrows, "As I recall, Emperor Qing is only less than sixty years old now, right?"
Sixty years old may be a hurdle for ordinary people.
But for an emperor who never cares about state affairs, it means nothing.
What's more, this emperor is the emperor of the Fantasy Dynasty.
"There's something I haven't told you."
Dou Tianyuan sighed and said, "People with Taizu blood, whether they are royal family, common people, or Taizu descendants like you, all have a unique advantage - there is no upper limit to their qualifications."
"You can't say there is no upper limit. Anyway, those with good aptitude are far better than the peerless geniuses among normal people."
"At the same time, this unique gift has a limitation - the better the qualifications, the shorter the life span."
"For example, the King Qian you met, looked like he was about to die of old age, but he was actually ten years younger than me."
Dou Tianyuan spoke in a low voice: "And the reason why His Majesty is His Majesty and not King Qian... is because his qualifications are better than King Qian's."
"I see……"
Xu Chong looked at the corpses strewn across the ground outside the city and nodded woodenly.
Come to think of it.
In the mundane world of the previous life, even though the emperor’s life span was no less than that of ordinary people, they would still tirelessly pursue immortality.
What's more, here?
An emperor with unparalleled strength and invincible power, but his life span is shorter than that of an ordinary person.
Then, no matter what crazy things this emperor did, it could be explained.
"and."
Dou Tianyuan spoke again, hinting: "Even the rules of immortality cannot change this."
“…”
Xu Chong's heart was shaken, and he pretended to be calm and said, "The rules of immortality? There is such a thing?"
"Back then, the imperial court and the Taiping Dao confronted each other in Canglong County for the fragment of the cave heaven that contained the rules of immortality."
Dou Tianyuan didn't care and continued, "If the rules of immortality were useful to Your Majesty, how could it be that only a few local Blood Robe Guards would take action? Even if they were wary of me embezzling the money, wouldn't they choose a few people who could check and balance me to go with them?"
After hearing these words, Xu Chong knew that Dou Tianyuan had probably long suspected that the fragment of Changshengtian was in his hands.
I tell myself this now to put my mind at ease.
"It is obvious that your majesty, or the successive emperors, have found a way to prolong their lifespan."
Lou Youzhi said calmly, "Unfortunately, we don't know how this method works."
"I advise you not to do anything stupid."
Dou Tianyuan's face became serious, and he said seriously: "At least in the next few years, don't mess around."
Lou Youzhi ignored him and looked at Xu Chong: "Where is Jiang Zhihong buried?"
"In the city."
Xu Chong replied, "A place where you can never see the battlefield."
"That's good."
Lou Youzhi nodded, took off with the wind, and headed towards a carriage behind the relief team.
Dou Tianyuan opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't know what to say, and finally sighed dejectedly.
Xu Chong suddenly said, "Sir, let's go back to Beijing."
"you……"
Dou Tianyuan raised his eyebrows.
"I have been guilty for a long time, and it is time for me to go to prison."
Xu Chong smiled.
Why……
Dou Tianyuan sighed and pushed the door open first.
Xu Chong took one last look at the battlefield and followed suit.
That last look, he still didn't find any familiar figure.
There are only avengers who use their flesh and blood as weapons.
Endless.