"There was a severe drought in Gyeonggi Province the year before last. My family was a wealthy businessman, and I was a good daughter. However, a drought took the lives of almost everyone in my family."

"Those tax officials were just a bunch of jackals. They ripped my house clean. Even I fell into the hands of Ren Yazi. I came to this Ningyu Tower several times. Fortunately, my mother took me in."

"It would be better for such a country to die than to exist." As she said this, the girl picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then refilled it for herself and drank it all in one gulp.

"Sister, what are you saying? Aren't you making the gentlemen unhappy?" the woman in green shirt complained.

This woman seemed to have drank two glasses of wine and kept talking.

"The imperial court treated us Han people like pigs and dogs. After they left, we felt relieved. I heard that His Highness King Wu was very loved by the people. I often thought that if His Highness King Wu became emperor..." said

Tears suddenly welled up in the woman's eyes, and she quickly wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, "Maybe my parents won't die." As she spoke, her voice suddenly became choked with sobs.

Zhao Min couldn't help but feel dark when he looked at the woman who was covering her face and crying, her eyes were red and her voice was choked.

The imperial court of the Yuan Dynasty was indeed unpopular, and even the women in the brothel and Chu palace did not have a good impression of the imperial court.

The woman wiped the corners of her eyes and continued: "But the slave family is in ruins. I feel sorry for my younger brother, but he is a first-class hero."

"Reading poetry and books at the age of five and reading classics and history at the age of eleven, he was supposed to have a good future. However, God did not open his eyes. There was a severe drought and countless people were killed. The droughts continued, but there was no relief for the people."

"No relief?" Zhao Min frowned, "Didn't the imperial court already distribute relief food?"

The woman said sadly: "Sir, you know that the imperial court has already distributed relief food, but how did you know that this relief food had been exploited at all levels, and in the end it was distributed to the local victims without even a grain of rice left.

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"My mother starved to death. You think she can survive such a court? What will she do if she doesn't survive such a court?"

As the girl spoke, she covered her face and shed tears again, "In less than three days, my father also died of hunger." The girl smiled miserably, "In the end, I had no choice, so I sold myself to Ren Yazi for a bushel of rice.

A bucket of rice, I hope my brother can survive."

"I don't know where my brother is now." As she spoke, the woman's voice choked up again.

"Remembering that my Tang family has been a scholarly family for generations, when my father was dying, he said that my ancestors should not surrender to the so-called Yuan Dynasty along with those people."

"After all, the foreign rule did not regard us Han people as human beings. The land was bare for thousands of miles, there was a severe drought, starving people were everywhere, and corpses were everywhere. Who among those princes and nobles could understand the suffering of the people."

"This emperor is not the emperor of our Han people." As she said this, the woman suddenly started crying loudly and started to cry.

The woman next to me immediately said: "Sister, what kind of drunken talk are you talking about? Be careful that trouble comes from your mouth."

The woman wiped her tears with a handkerchief, smiled through her tears, forced a smile, looked at Zhang Wuji and Zhao Min and said: "I think the two young masters must have ambitions in their hearts, so I said it frankly, and I hope you don't laugh.

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"In fact, all the sisters in my brothel are poor people. As I said just now, the presence or absence of the imperial court has nothing to do with us."

"But we hope that the new king of Wu can be kind to the people and not be like my parents, who were destroyed by a natural disaster."

Zhang Wuji felt sour in his heart. He finally began to understand why Ying Wugu was so cruel to the Mongols. At the same time, he set up a prison in the south of the Yangtze River and imprisoned these officials, merchants and gentry one by one. The original reason was here.

The woman wiped away her tears and picked up the wine glass, "The two young masters laughed and listened to some of the complaints from the slave family. Please forgive me. I would like to offer you a drink. You should enjoy yourself in such a good time and beautiful scenery." She said.

He raised his neck and drank it all in one gulp, revealing his fair and slender neck. The woman next to him also repeatedly encouraged him to drink.

After drinking some fancy wine, Zhao Min and Zhang Wuji didn't find out any special news. It was just that the princes and nobles of the imperial court were packing up their gold and silver and preparing to flee the capital.

After the two drank the wine, they did not rest in the brothel. Instead, they walked under the flower gallery on the tall building of Ningyu Tower. Zhao Min held on to the railing and looked at the brightly lit street market outside.

But she was very confused in her heart. Zhang Wuji felt the depression in Zhao Min's heart and walked to her side and said, "You don't have to mind what the two of them said."

Zhao Min glanced at Zhang Wuji and said quietly: "Brother Wuji, is it really that we Mongolians did something wrong?"

Zhang Wuji could tell that Zhao Min wanted to do something, but back then, Zhao Min was the superior Princess Shao Min, and no one would tell her about the underlying things, and she didn't even care at that time.

It wasn't until she saw the suffering in the world that she had a little understanding.

Zhang Wuji sighed and said: "The imperial government is lenient in its policies, but most places implement a tax farming system."

"This tax package system actually provides the imperial court with a bunch of minions. Sometimes I don't understand why these Han people are sometimes more cruel to Han people than Mongolians are to Han people?"

"The Mongols sometimes just killed the Han people, but these Han people eroded and devoured the flesh and blood of the people inch by inch."

"These people who have already been eaten have to continue to work on the land and cultivate the land to provide them with a delicious meal of blood."

"I don't understand what is going on in this world. When I was young, my parents said that we should treat others with respect. In fact, everyone in the world is the same. That's what my father said. You must have justice and kindness in your heart."

But this world is obviously too cruel. The reason why the Ming Cult rebelled was probably because they were oppressed by them. However, the two of them could not have understood the purpose of Ying Wugou sending them here while walking around the capital city.

The first is to inquire about the news about the Yuan Dynasty court, for which Ying Wugou does not have much hope. The second is to let the two country people who no longer care about the world understand that there is still something in this world.

How much suffering there is.

The metropolis was once so prosperous, but it still remained so despite natural and man-made disasters, let alone other places.

Zhang Wuji pointed to the fire in the city in the distance and said, "Look, there are so many people who are opportunistic and even take desperate risks. It's going to be chaos."

Zhao Min followed Zhang Wuji's finger and looked over. There were already several fires in the city. The jade floors were quite high. They stood under the flower gallery and could see quite far.

There were several fires burning in the city in the distance. The fires lit up the sky red, and the shouts of killing continued.

But the rebels did not attack, why did the capital city begin to become chaotic? The breeze blew Zhao Min's face and lifted her hair.

Zhao Min looked at the fire with bright eyes, "It's not that the capital city is in chaos, it's that people's hearts have begun to be in chaos!"
Chapter completed!