Chapter 45:

As the days passed, it became colder and colder.
In November, the sky seemed to be shrouded in the snow. In the impression of Xiaohua, it seemed that the snow had not stopped outside in the past few days. But Tian Leng didn't leave the hall all day long, but she didn't have time to notice if Xue had stopped.
During this period, King Jing left the house again. After King Jing left, Xiaohua learned from the chat of the two eunuchs serving in the temple that the king was leaving the house because of a place under the snow. It was too big, there was a snowstorm, and it seemed a bit serious. King Jing went to see the situation in person.
Therefore, Xiaohua came to the conclusion that a King of Kings is a good lord.
Xiaohua has never seen what the snow disaster is like.
After she was sold as a child, she lingered as a girl in various households and could not appreciate the serious situation of ‘disaster’. When I was young, I had seen floods, but the impression was too far away. In my memory, except for the face of the father and mother and the young brother, there was only crying everywhere.
When Xiaohua concluded that King Jing was a good prince, King Jing was braving the snow to ride outside and rushed out. The Wangfu guards suggested that he take a carriage. But he felt that the carriage was too slow, so he abandoned the carriage for horse riding.
Jingzhou has always been a place of bitter cold. The so-called bitter cold is the common people who are not rich because of agriculture. The cold is that Jingzhou is located in the north. It has always been cold. In winter, it is cold and snowy.
Because this land is very barren, the Holy Land is also very generous today. The area of ​​Jingzhou is the largest among several lords.
The so-called vast and vast is nothing more than that.
In fact, this trip to King Jing is not used. There is no reason to govern the snowstorm in the next small county. A prince of the Prince has to come and see it in person. However, King Jing has always been serious in his work. In his last life, he didn't manage his own land carefully, and the land was always poor. When he came back in this life, he spent a lot of thought on his own land.
If farming is not possible, he specially collected an agricultural talent and promoted many suitable crops according to the geographical environment of Jingzhou, such as high-yield crops newly introduced from Fanbang, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes. There have been almost no cases of starvation.
If the business is not good, he will let his people go to other rich capitals to do business, and even sell good products such as fur ginseng under the control of specialty products, and then bring in other things.
King Jing's thinking is simple. If he can't even manage his own land, how can he qualify to change his destiny?
Over the past few years, the effect has been good. Not only has the tax bank collected more, but King Wang ’s personal pockets are also abundant.
And he came here for deterrence, telling ruled officials not to try to rule the people harshly under his eyelids. He didn't need to do anything. He just had to run back and forth for a few days. The result was that the following people wouldn't dare to carelessly freeze and starve to death. King Jing thought it was quite cost-effective.
King Jing's ideas have never been different from others, but in any case, at least the life of the people he ruled is not bad. In recent years, many people have said that His Royal Highness King Jing is a good lord.
When going out, the snow did not fall very much. When halfway through, the snow was getting heavier and the wind was rushing. The wind and snow could not see the road ahead.
An officer wearing a ceremonial armor and a black-faced scarlet lining cloak moved the horse closer to King Jing's mount.
"His Royal Highness, there is a village near here. Let's go there to avoid the snow first. The snow is too heavy." The guard's mouth was opened and he was scrapped by the snow foam.
King Jing didn't respond slowly this time, but nodded quickly.
This officer was also familiar with King Jing's character. With a wave of his hand, a urged the horse to lead the way.
A group of people ran for a while, and then they saw a village in the distance.
From a bird's eye view, the village is not large, and the houses are even small and humble, but in this weather, everyone is happy and in a hurry.
After riding a short distance, before entering the village, I heard the faint crying and screaming in the village along the wind.
King Jing's mount was at the forefront, he held back the reins, the horse ran for a while, and the guards behind him did the same.
Not only did King Jing hear that unusual sound, the guards behind him also heard it. The guards on the side waved a few people from the team and drove the horse into the village. King Jing and his entourage followed.
As soon as he entered the village, a tragic situation appeared in the eyes of everyone.
There is a lot of blood on the snow, and there are three or two corpses on the path between the villages. They look like the villagers in the village.
Seeing the dead, everyone was stunned. King Jing rarely spoke, "Go and see."
King Jing came out this time with dozens of royal guards, and he was not afraid of whatever happened. Hearing King Jing's order, a group of people trained and divided into several batches.
Here King King took the remaining ten guards and stopped on a cross road in the village. The guard in armor said again, "His Royal Highness, go to find a room and go first. Avoid snow and snow inside. "
King Jing nodded, dismounted, and found a room nearby to walk in.
In fact, they do not need to find them. They have long seen that many doors are open. People in Xiwu have good eyes, and they seem to see dead people in them.
Who is so brave to dare to slaughter the village? In sight, they have seen many dead people.
King Jing stepped into the hall, and there were already guards who had entered beforehand to deal with it. Two found a place where people could sit, and two were dragging their bodies to other houses.
The corpse is old and young, there is a woman, and a few years old baby, can be seen as a family of four, all killed. Unexpectedly, King Jing just picked a room, and some people died so miserably.
These guards were not afraid of blood or dead people, but some people dealt with a group of innocent people in this way, which made people resentful and could not help but witness.
"The is raised, this is such a cruel hand under that Wang Ba calf!" There are many rude men in the guards, who got angry and couldn't control the curse.
King Jing was sitting there, but his indifferent eyes were terribly cold.
After about a quarter of an hour, the guards sent out gradually came back.
Deputy Commander Lin Qingting, Deputy Commander of Jing Wang Mansion, went out to ask about the situation. After a while, he returned to report to King Jing.
It really is Tu Tu.
When the guards of King Wang's Mansion arrived, the men were chopping with a knife. The people divided the waves and went from door to door to kill.
"His Royal Highness, there are more than forty perpetrators. When we stepped forward to stop it, some people resisted and killed a few. The rest were and left outside.
"Are there any survivors?"
"Yes." Lieutenant Commander paused, his voice lowered. "It's less than a dozen people. We came a little late. Those people saw that someone came to stop it. They weren't afraid of not running. The guards only had time to save these ten people. "
It seemed that everyone in the village was outside this room, there were crying and scolding, and various voices were intertwined.
When King Jing went out, he saw several villagers dressed up, kicking the murderers who were tied up.
"You have lost all your conscience and inhumanity, we are guilty of you ..." An old woman who felt like an old woman kicked and felt uncomfortable, and she took a stone beside him and smashed it to a bound person. "You give back my son, give back my grandson ..."
The same situation happened to several villagers with ugly faces next to them, all holding various things to greet the perpetrators.
The guards outside did not stop it, because many of them saw the miserable situation just now and let themselves out of hatred. It wasn't until I saw King Jing and deputy commander Lin that I stepped forward to pull away the surviving villagers.
"Who come to you to talk about what is going on? Who knows why this group of people came to the village to kill?"
The surviving villagers shook their heads blankly. They didn't know why. Even when someone came to kill someone at the beginning, they didn't know it. They didn't run out until they heard the sound outside.
Some people who ran out to watch were directly hacked to death, and when someone saw someone killing, everyone hurriedly ran around. But there are too many bad guys. They are all unarmed and have no weapons. They can't resist at all.
This group of people went door-to-door looking for someone to kill. When they saw one killing one, the old and the young didn't let it go. Among them, the grandson of the crying old woman was still in her baby, and was directly killed by these people, which is truly terrible.
These villagers say what I know, sentence by sentence. They seem to have said a lot, but they are all very useless words. King Jing made a gesture, and Deputy Commander Lin asked his men to take the perpetrators down for questioning.
"If you know what happened, such as something unusual in the village before this happened, you can say it, so that you can help find the culprit." A guard said.
Among the surviving villagers, a 14- to 15-year-old boy cried and said, "It's useless to say that none of their group of officials are human beings, but beasts and beasts! You can't do anything to help, no one can help."
The guards around him looked at the young man with that weird look, and there was nothing wrong with it. But thinking that this village is indeed miserable, it is not good to show other looks.
Deputy Commander Lin said, "This little young man, if you know what you can say, this is His Royal Highness King, this is King Jing's confinement, do you think it might be impossible to help?"
The teenager looked at the person called King Jing with a surprised look, "Are you His Royal Highness King?"
King Jing came out in casual clothes this time, but the guards wore King Wangfu's Yiwei uniforms, but this teenager had no knowledge and could not recognize him. Change any official under the administration of Jingzhou. When he sees the guards of King Wang's mansion, he knows that even if King Wang is not on tour, he works for King Jing.
King Jing looked at the teenager's eyes and nodded.
The teenager murmured: "My father said that His Royal Highness King is a good person, how can you prove that you are His Royal Highness."
The guard next door scolded: "Your kid really has no eyesight on Mount Tai, and your highness still has to lie to you, a furry kid? Do you know the clothes on me? This is what the King Wangyi Guard can wear."
The young boy looked around at the large group of guards around him, thinking about seeing them martial arts strong just now, picking up those murderous villains are all between hands and feet, and seeing King Jing's expression is indifferent but full of prestige. .
But the expression was still hesitant. "This matter is very important. I don't know if it was because of this village that the disaster brought us on. At first, my father hesitated for a few days before leaving, and he didn't come back."
King Jing glanced at Deputy Commander Lin, then turned around and went into the room. Deputy Commander Lin followed the teenager with him.
"Speak."
The boy said what he knew.
It turned out that the young man's father was the righteousness of this village. This village is called Shangshan Village. It is a small village with dozens of families.
The village is backed by the Great Black Mountain and is remote. It used to be very poor. Until King Wang promoted the cultivation of high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, everyone slowly ate.
The men in the village are plowing and weaving, and their lives are very hard, but they are much better than in previous years. There is a good prince. Everyone who meets the snow disaster in the famine year cuts taxes, and everyone is getting better off.
It was also very calm. Who knew that one day a villager went up the mountain to pick up a stone pigsty.
As I said before, this Shangshan village is backed by the Great Black Mountain. There are few trees on the Great Black Mountain, but there are many stones. Many villagers build houses or pig pens and sheep pens, and so on, they go directly to the Dahei Mountain to pick up some suitable large stones and come down.
The stone used in the pigsty is not easy to bear when it is big, but not easy to use when it is small, so he took a lot of thoughts and picked a basket of stones to return.
When I came back to the pigsty, I found that a stone had the wrong color. How to say, it was silver. It is not all silver, but a large area of ​​silver.
The reason why Dahei Mountain is called Dahei Mountain is because most of the stones in the mountain are black. This suddenly picked a silver piece, which was really amazing.
Many villagers came to take a look at it lively, and this young man's father was also looking at it.
Li Zheng looked at it, how to think it was wrong, he took the stone away and took it back to see.
After going back, he held the stone and wondered why the black stone had silver in it, and it shone under the candlelight. Later, he didn't think enough, and he used the most primitive method to smash the stone.
Who knows, after breaking open, the stone is not silver, but the black stone contains a lot of broken silver objects.
Those who are able to be upright are always knowledgeable. There, hesitating at home for a long time, he still took the stone to find the county government in Guanshangshan Village ...
In fact, when it comes to things here, it is almost obvious. Nothing more, an honest thing is being discovered in an honest person and reported to Zhixian.
After listening to Lizheng's remarks, Zhixian saw the broken stone again, and sent someone to the mountain to investigate. The place I went to was the place where I picked up this stone. Zhixian also understood people. He brought with him a knowledge of the affairs in the process, and discovered a big thing. Zhixian knew that this matter was not to be ignored, but humanity was greedy, Only then will there be a slaughter of Tu Tu in the back.
Wealth and mercenary move people's hearts, and money and weeds also kill people.
The teenager here gave a rough idea of ​​what he knew, and the interrogation trial there was over. The thing is similar to what King Jing thought. Those who committed the crime were not ordinary people, but a team of people from the county government and the family members of the county government.
But the young man knew one-sidedly, including those who interrogated did not know much. Although there was already a general guess in his mind, King Jing did not ignore it and took his guard to Heishan County.
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Many things are due to chance. The villager picked up a broken stone because of the chance. This broken stone triggered a series of things.
Even more coincidentally, King Jing received the report from the following person that a snow disaster occurred and killed someone. The report of the snow disaster was actually the county of Heishan County, the messenger of the village.
It is estimated that Nazhi County was thinking about the heavy snow outside. It is not uncommon for snow disasters to occur in Jingzhou. The people who died in the snow disasters were reported to ambush afterwards, otherwise it would be difficult for so many people to die suddenly under the jurisdiction. Reported in the front, and sent someone to the village later. If King Jing didn't come this time, after this Blizzard, he might have let him hide. Who knows that King Jing actually came.
It can be imagined that the ending of Nachi County must be miserable.
Several years later, King Jing thought about it again, and it seemed that he was the only one who benefited. Of course, this is a later story.