"Then you just have to watch the people in the city starve to death?" Zhu Yunfei asked coldly with an angry look on his face.

"Where's the money? Didn't we seize a batch of money?"

"If that doesn't work, send someone to get the money and go to Wenshang and Yanzhou Prefecture to buy grain."

"Sir, what I'm saying is that I will arrange for someone to take care of my humble job." Zhao Yue did not expect that Zhu Yunfei would be so angry because of these victims.

When he was in Liaodong, Zhao Yue witnessed with his own eyes that Zhu Yunfei ordered the looting and massacre of the Jiannu people in Liaobin and Tieling.

He was really merciless at all, just like killing a chicken and a sheep.

It is precisely for this reason that Zhao Yue subconsciously believed that Zhu Yunfei did not seem to care much about the life and death of the people.

Therefore, although he sympathized with the hungry people all over Chengdu, he did not take any corresponding measures.

"Zhao Yue, remember, these are the people of my Ming Dynasty and our compatriots."

Zhu Yunfei saw Zhao Yue's expression was different, and he could see through Zhao Yue's thoughts at a glance, so he warned in a deep voice.

"As soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, we have the duty to defend the country, serve the country, and protect the people."

"In the past, Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty Liu Xuande, in order to save the people, was willing to take the people to escape regardless of his own safety. This was how the world returned to its heart."

"If we, the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty, cannot be loyal to the emperor and love the people, what is the difference between us and the traitors and bandits?"

Zhu Yunfei's heartbreaking words deeply touched Zhao Yue and the sergeants around him.

"I've learned a lesson from my humble position." Zhao Yue and others bowed their hands and replied respectfully.

"Immediately take some of our military rations, post notices, and set up porridge shacks at the gates of each city to provide relief to the people in the city."

"Invite Li Hu and Li Huajing to lead a team to help repair the houses of the people in the city, register them, count the population, the disaster situation, and take resettlement measures."

"Zhao Yue, you personally bring the money to Wenshang, ask Fan Jiren, the magistrate of the county, to buy a batch of grain and grass, and write a letter to Deng Fanxi, the magistrate of Yanzhou, in my name."

"Let him send officials, prepare a batch of food and grass, and come to take over the city. Otherwise, I will definitely impeach him to the Ministry of War for his inability to defend the territory."

"I humble my duty and obey my orders." If Zhao Yue had always obeyed Zhu Yunfei before because of Zhu Yunfei's life-saving grace, at this moment Zhao Yue truly admired Zhu Yunfei from the bottom of his heart.

The population of Shouzhang City before the rebellion was more than 60,000. After the rebellion, more than half were killed or injured, and now it has a population of less than 30,000.

Most of them were old, weak, women and children. Because they had no way to escape, these people could only linger in the city.

On the first day when the officers and soldiers entered the city, no one cared about their life or death.

The helpless people could only spend an unforgettable day in helplessness and hunger.

"Grandpa, I'm hungry." On the street, an old man with pale hair, wrinkles on his face, and calloused hands sat slumped on the ground, with three children sitting next to him.

Everyone in the family is in ragged clothes, with sallow complexion and thin skin. The little child has hollow eyes, chapped mouth, and is so thin that only a handful of bones are left.

But this is not the only one, it is the common situation among people in Shouzhang City now.

"Baby, go to sleep when you are hungry. You will not be hungry when you fall asleep." The old man's face was full of sadness, and he held the child in his arms with a sad look. Helplessness, helplessness, and despair enveloped his heart.

Because he knew that if the child slept like this, he would definitely starve to death.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

On the street, there was suddenly a sound of gongs, followed by a group of soldiers walking along the way.

While posting notices along the street, he shouted loudly: "The commander, Mr. Zhu, has ordered to set up a porridge shed inside the city gate to relieve the people. Please go and collect rice porridge in an orderly manner..."

"Master Jun, Master Jun, is this true?"

The people on the street asked in disbelief.

"Fellow, did you see it? This is a notice. The commander, Mr. Zhu, personally ordered it." The leader of the team raised the notice in his hand and replied loudly.

"Baby, baby, we can be saved, we can be saved..."

The old man with the child in his arms knelt down tremblingly on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Master Qingtian."

"Thank you, Mr. Qingtian, thank you, Mr. Qingtian..."

When the people who rushed to the city gate received the porridge and rice, they all cried with joy and praised Zhu Yunfei's benevolence.

Under Zhu Yunfei's powerful measures to calm the people, the living order of the people in the city was quickly stabilized.

As soon as order in the city was settled here, Zhu Yunfei received the news brought back by Cao Gui.

"Sir, the rebel general Ai Shuangshuang, leading 10,000 troops, is heading towards Shouzhang. It is expected to arrive outside the city at noon tomorrow."

"Generalissimo? Ten thousand troops? What a great official position." Hearing this, Zhu Yunfei smiled sarcastically, and couldn't help but think of a joke about Admiral Pan Feng.

"Li Huajing, who is this Ai Shuangshuang?" Zhu Yunfei looked at Li Huajing and asked with a smile.

"Sir, this man was born as a blacksmith. He is nine feet tall and has natural supernatural power. He holds a thirty-pound hammer and dances with such force that even a hundred or eighty people can hardly get close to him."

Li Huajing cupped his hands and replied: "This man is brave and has no plans, so there is nothing to fear."

"In this case, I will meet him at the city gate tomorrow. I want to see whether the hammer in his hand is stronger or the sword in our hands is sharper."

When Zhu Yunfei heard what Li Huajing said, a confident smile appeared on his face.

Early the next morning, Zhu Yunfei personally led a thousand men and horses, as well as two thousand rebels recruited under Li Hu and Li Huajing's tent, a total of three thousand men and horses, and formed a formation outside the city.

Zhao Yue led 300 soldiers and stayed to guard the city.

In front of us is an open terrain from east to west. Because it is dry land, it has not been cultivated in early spring.

This is also the reason why Zhu Yunfei chose to fight here, because winter wheat is growing in several other open areas outside the city.

If a war breaks out around wheat fields, countless crops will be trampled, which will cause devastating damage to the harvests of the people in the city.

Zhu Yunfei was a soldier in his previous life, and he did not have the foolish loyalty to the emperor.

But there is a belief engraved in his heart.

That is to protect our country from being bullied by foreign enemies, so that our loved ones and the weak and poor people can live a peaceful and happy life.

This is Zhu Yunfei's biggest obsession, and this is why he can massacre Jiannu without any scruples.

The reason why I feel deeply about the suffering of my compatriots.

"Report! Generalissimo, the army of three thousand troops has set up a formation on the edge of the official road in the south of the city to block our army's path."

Ai Shuangshuang in the military formation, riding a tall horse, holding a big hammer, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a face full of flesh, is really full of momentum.
Chapter completed!