It took Jiang Shangyan almost half a month to travel around Jinghu County. Everything he saw made him depressed. He always believed that his hard work and fearlessness of death could allow the people to live a happy and healthy life, but reality gave him a heavy blow.

The people's lives are not better, but worse.

Why is this happening? He couldn't understand. During the Ming Dynasty, every time the soldiers captured a place, the following was the Great Administration of that place. The lives of the people were growing higher and higher like sesame seeds blooming, and began to change at a speed visible to the naked eye. Why is it not possible in Da Chu?

In the Ming Dynasty, when he entered Kaiping County, Kaiping County had just been recovered from the Qin people. At that time, Kaiping was poor and almost all the people were struggling on the brink of life and death. In just one year, when he was transferred from Ping County to Yongping, Kaiping County had undergone earth-shaking changes. At least the people there were no longer worried about food and clothing.

Jiang Shangyan always took this for granted. Things should have been like this, but now, the situation in Chu State has taught him a cruel lesson.

Not every place is like the Ming Dynasty.

Something went wrong?

During this period, he was not only watching, but also listening. From what he learned, the current situation in Jinghu County was actually quite good in Da Chu. At least as Wei Li said, he could still survive. In more places, even living became a luxury. Countless people who could not survive rose up and began to rebel.

In the past, Jiang Shangyan hated those rebels extremely, believing that if these people had not caused trouble, how could Da Chu be so difficult? These people should have been defeated by the eighteen levels of hell. But now, he suddenly realized that when a person even became a luxury to survive, why would he not rebel?

Over the past year after returning to Chu, Jiang Shangyan has been buried in the army, either training the army or fighting outside, basically turning a blind eye to other things. But now, he suddenly realized that if people like Wei Li were not working hard and not working hard, and if they were not full or warm in food or clothing, they were still supplying the front-line army, how could they have been able to support it until now?

Without these people, the army will become water without source and tree without roots. How can it survive for a long time?

Many places in Dachu are already in chaos. How long can Jinghu County last for this?

Jiang Shangyan was completely messy.

He walked back with his war horse in a little confused way. In Jinghu, he had no place to go except the military camp.

Maozhen, a military squad that blocked the Qi army's military front back then, was now prosperous again, but with the stability of the Jinghu War Zone, the destroyed city walls here have not been rebuilt, but houses rose from the original ruins.

Now this is a place where merchants gather. The merchants here almost only do one kind of human business, that is, soldiers. As a key place connecting Jinghu County City, almost all those who return to the County City or leave the County City will rest in this small city about fifty miles away. This is also a transit station for all kinds of materials transported to the front line. However, with Wanzhou City being taken down, its importance has dropped significantly. Jiang Shangyan knew very well that more profit-seeking merchants would leave this place, and this place would inevitably be depressed.

Because there are few indigenous people here.

Walking on the street, without leaving the river, the lively markets in the past were already deserted. Although every shop and restaurant were still open, there were not many people entering and leaving. There were carriages parked at the doors of many shops, and some people dressed in men were busy loading things on it, as if they were about to move.

"General Jiang!" A shout woke Jiang Shangyan, who was a little confused, and he looked up and saw a black and thin middle-aged man looking at him at the door of the store with some surprise expression.

The other party looked very familiar. Jiang Shangyan frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly realized who the person in front of him was, and his face changed a little. The man was named Tian Kang, the deputy commander of the Daming Eagle Nest, a guy holding great power hidden in the dark. Others may not recognize him, but Jiang Shangyan had seen this man.

How could such an important figure in the Ming Dynasty appear here? And it appears in front of him in his true face? Jiang Shangyan knew that another important figure in the Eagle Nest of the Ming Dynasty was best at disguise. The mask he made was almost as good as being able to be real. If Tian Kang did not have other purposes, he would never show his true face in front of him.

Jiang Shangyan suddenly realized that the other party was waiting for him here.

"Why are you here?" He lowered his face. Any place that the important figures in the Eagle Nest focus on is not a good thing for the people in this place itself.

Tian Kang smiled slightly: "General Jiang, it's been a long time since we saw each other. What a coincidence. If you come one day late, I'll leave here. Why don't we sit together for a while?"

Jiang Shangyan snorted, obviously waiting for him here deliberately, and wanted to pretend to meet someone else. He thought about it, threw the reins in his hand to an ordinary guy next to him, and walked inward.

Since Tian Kang was standing here, these ordinary guys were afraid that they were not ordinary at all.

The house was filled with things, and it seemed that it was really going to move. Tian Kang took Jiang Shangyan into a small house inside and closed the door gently. The noise outside immediately disappeared from the ears of the two of them.

"Sit down, I'll make tea!" Tian Kang said with a smile.

Jiang Shangyan didn't talk nonsense, and sat down directly, staring at Tian Kang, "You shouldn't be here."

Tian Kang smiled and made tea for Jiang Shangyan to serve it to the coffee table beside him. He also sat down and looked at Jiang Shangyan and said, "General Jiang, why can't I appear here? Now we Ming Chu is an ally. Besides, I have not done anything to harm Chu when I am here."

The genius believed it! Jiang Shangyan snorted coldly in his stomach. Cheng Shuai Ke told him that the Ming Dynasty had no good intentions towards Chu. He was strongly supporting Chu on the surface, and secretly stabbing Chu in the face. Even the current support was just to allow the Great Chu to consume more of the strength of Qi.

"General Jiang has seen a lot of things along the way, right? He is very haggard, probably not much money left in his purse!" Tian Kang looked at Jiang Shangyan, "But General Jiang, now Jinghu County is like this, how many people can you help alone? How many people can you help in Da Chu now?"

Jiang Shangyan suddenly changed color: "Tian Kang, are you following me in the Eagle Nest?" He stared at Tian Kang angrily.

Tian Kang looked very calm and nodded directly: "Yes, General Jiang, we have always paid attention to General Jiang. We have spared no effort to collect the matters of General."

"What do you want to do?" Jiang Shangyan asked in annoyance.

"General Jiang, although we have not fought side by side on the battlefield, for our Ming Dynasty, you, General Jiang, will always be our brothers. You have returned to Da Chu, but in Da Ming Dynasty, there are still many brothers who are obsessed with you, especially the brothers in Baoqing Camp." Tian Kang said solemnly.

Jiang Shangyan's expression gradually calmed down, her head was slightly raised, but what flashed through her mind was the years of the Ming Dynasty. Before she knew it, a smile actually appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Those years were indeed his happiest days.

"Is this why you followed me?"

"Of course not." Tian Kang spread his hands: "It is mainly because His Majesty is obsessed with the general. Let us report to him about General Jiang's current situation at any time. You must know that if His Majesty hadn't seen you kneel outside the palace for too long, you might have been frozen and disabled. You, come back to rest."

Jiang Shangyan sighed. His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was indeed a wise ruler and had always been excellent to him.

"Thank you for me!" he whispered.

Tian Kang looked at Jiang Shangyan and said for a while: "General Jiang, you have been wandering around all over the past period of time. I'm afraid you don't know some news yet, right?"

"What news?" Jiang Shangyan sat up straight and looked at Tian Kang's expression. He felt something was wrong inexplicably.

"Marrior Cheng is gone!" Tian Kang said word by word.

Jiang Shangyan's body suddenly froze. After a while, she said tremblingly: "There is no news coming from Jinghu. Don't talk nonsense."

Tian Kang looked at Jiang Shangyan with a hint of pity.

"There is no public one, but if General Jiang, you go to the county town and meet Bian Wushuang, Suqian and others, you will naturally know. The news that Cheng Damao Cheng has no more, and you should know everything you should know. And in the public residence newspaper, the news is that Cheng Damao Cheng has been worried and exhausted in the past few years, and he fell ill after returning to the capital. In fact, the Grandmao was gone before he even entered the city gate of the capital. Tian believes that in the following days, the news that Cheng Damao Cheng became worse and worse, and the medicine stone was ineffective and the illness was severe, will slowly be released one after another."

Jiang Shangyan straightened her body, with no expression on her face, and stared at Tian Kang. "Why didn't the Grand Marshal?"

"Fifty miles away from Shangjing City, the emperor's secret envoy met the Grand Marshal with Luo Liang, with a verbal analogy and a pot of poisonous wine. The Grand Marshal and his wife were both killed. In fact, the only bodies of the Grand Marshal and his wife were only there." Tian Kang said.
Chapter completed!