Chapter 1 People are not as good as dogs

Hengjiang City has always been known as the largest city in the Eastern Regions. The city has a population of several million. At its peak, it even has the trend of the imperial city in the Central Region. However, at this time, the Hengjiang city has lost its former prosperity. Even most people are naked and hungry, and the reason for all this is naturally the war that has lasted for hundreds of years.

A hundred years ago, the gods of the Yanhuang Dynasty, together with the Jianghu forces represented by the Temple of Origin, suddenly rebelled and directly overthrew the 5,000-year rule of the Yanhuang Dynasty with the momentum of thunder. After that, the four domain gods began to fight due to uneven geographical distribution. This infighting lasted for nearly a hundred years until the old generation of four domain gods passed away one after another. Their descendants began to sign agreements and stopped the war.

However, although such a war has made the people unable to make a living, they are extremely poor. However, Hengjiang City did not show signs of decline for a long time, but made it twice as majestic as a hundred years ago. Whether it is defensive facilities or street paving, good materials are selected, and some places are even mixed with precious mithril and crystals. Even if such a siege equipment is thrown into the boulders, it will not cause too much damage to the streets. As for the street itself, it is twice as wide as before, which is very convenient for the soldiers of the clearance camp to quickly carry and shoot the boulder that has just been thrown in.

The whole Hengjiang River seems to have been built into a huge war machine, which is amazingly powerful once it is operated. Of course, this is also the result of the imperial court raiding all the people's ointment for military construction.

This is a country's war. No matter how hard it is to the people, this country is still the authorities. And once it fails, the country will immediately change owners and the authorities will be killed. At that time, no matter how happy and satisfied the people were, they had nothing to do with him!

However, now that the war has ended, it is another scene. The new generation of Dongfang Yunzhi, the god of the Eastern Regions, has issued a number of decrees in a row to vigorously develop agriculture, industry and commerce, and even tax reductions and exemptions to make people quickly stabilize, so as to prevent people from going crazy and rebel.

"Xianghan sister, look!" On the Hengjiang Tower, the largest restaurant in Hengjiang City, a group of gorgeous teenagers stood on the wide terrace with paper fans in their hands and looked down. The speaker was a teenager in his early twenties, dressed in a blue shirt. At first glance, he looked like a woman dressed as a man, because he was too beautiful, and his figure was thin and white, like a beautiful jade. At first glance, he was a big family, a nobleman in a rich family. Such a young man is served by people every day, and his skin is simply tender and smoother than that of a girl.

"Well, Brother Yang De, what did you find interesting?" Responding to her was the only girl in the crowd. Her ten-year-old appearance was stunning, but her eyebrows were arrogant, as if everything in the world could not enter her eyes.

Although the teenagers who followed her were confused by her beauty, as long as they collided with her eyes slightly, they immediately felt ashamed and did not even have the courage to show their kindness to her.

Yang De shook off the folding fan and gently shook it twice before slowly saying, "Now all the newcomers are busy for the rejuvenation of this country and the city, but I have only found an idle person!" With that, Yang De stretched out his hand and pointed. Sure enough, not far away, a young beggar was half lying on the ground basking in the sun. His lazy and comfortable appearance is in sharp contrast to the busy and hard-working crowd not far away.

"How can there be such a person?" Xianghan frowned and said, "Brother Yang De, since you are the supervisor appointed by your uncle, your duty is to monitor the whole Hengjiang City to see if anyone is passively lazy. Now that this person appears, naturally you have to take care of it, otherwise as soon as the wind rises, I'm afraid the whole Hengjiang City will be damaged by him!"

In a few words, Xianghan listed all kinds of crimes for the beggar, and they were labeled down one by one, almost making the beggar a sinner for thousands of years!

"Miss Xianghan is right, Yang Shao, we can't ignore such a heinous person!" As soon as Xiang Han's words fell, a group of people standing behind them immediately echoed: "In the current city, there is no room for such idle people!"

"If it affects the hearts of the people, we must teach him a good lesson!"

"Throw him into the river and let him wake up!"

The reason why Hengjiang City is called Hengjiang City is that it crosses a river. Although it is only the narrowest part of the whole river, it is also thousands of meters wide and very majestic. Moreover, with this Jianghengjiang City, it has really become an iron bucket, and it is not afraid of others to besiege the city at all. Jiangliu is living water, and there is no possibility of poisoning at all. The river is clear and rich in water, which has become a natural grain depot in Hengjiang City. The Hengjiang Tower was built on this river, so someone casually said that they would throw it into the river for the beggar.

"Good!" Yang De patted his palm with a folding fan and made a crackling sound: "Don't mention that my father is the owner of this Hengjiang City. Even if an ordinary person sees such a situation, he has to take care of it!" Yang De waved his hand: "But although the other party is a beggar, we can't bully the weak, but reason with him!"

As soon as Yang De's words fell, the teenagers behind him praised Yang De's benevolence and morality, while giving up a channel to Yang De one after another, showing his noble status.

Several of these teenagers are not inferior to Yang De in terms of appearance and temperament alone, but Yang De's father Yang Xing is the owner of Hengjiang City, and the rest of them are officials under Yang Xing, so they naturally feel inferior when they see Yang De.

Yang De seemed to have been used to this situation for a long time and did not refuse. He just made a gesture of invitation to Xianghan around him. It was not until Xianghan came to him that he walked downstairs with Xianghan.

The group was vast and arrived at the place they had just seen by the river in a moment. At this time, the beggar who did not know the disaster was still lying there, wearing a shabby dress, half leaning under a dead tree, and seemed to be asleep.

"Oh!" Without waiting for Yang De to speak, two people around him automatically walked to the beggar. These two people are tall. Although their faces are young and tender, their figures are like pagodas, with a height of 1.8 meters. Standing among the group of teenagers, there is a feeling of standing among them. At this time, this group of teenagers has made up their mind to teach the beggar a lesson, and naturally it will be captured by the two of them. Otherwise, it would be bad if the beggar went crazy and hurt Yang De.

Both of them are people with kung fu, and they are different from others.

The legal system of the Yanhuang Dynasty has strict regulations on cultural and martial arts. There must be people in the family who have served in the army, and their descendants can practice martial arts. Otherwise, even if it is against the law, they will immediately abolish martial arts and be assigned to the frontier to death!

Those who have practiced martial arts will be uniformly managed and filed by the imperial court. They will be safe and do nothing in peace. Once there is a war, they will immediately join the army unconditionally and accept unified dispatch!

Now that the Yanhuang Dynasty has perished, this provision has naturally been abolished. Many poor people have sent their children to the Jianghu sect to practice martial arts. However, these noble children who have no worries about food and clothing do not seem to feel the changes in these laws. They still advocate literary style, and only those generals will practice martial arts.

The two teenagers snorted coldly and directly woke up the beggar who sank into the dream. The beggar opened his eyes and didn't expect that there were so many people standing in front of him, and he was immediately frightened and twitched all over.

"Get him up and talk!" The beggar's body twitched and immediately brought up a sour smell, which almost spit out Xianghan, who stood side by side with Yang De. Xianghan frowned and took a step back, but waved his hand to the two teenagers.

"Yes!" The two teenagers answered and crossed forward, one left and one right directly arrested the beggar. The beggar was weak and was pulled by the two tall teenagers and immediately pulled up into the air. Both feet are off the ground. At this time, the worn clothes on the beggar's body were also shaken off, and a stronger stench suddenly came out. Only then did this group of noble teenagers find that it was not the beggar who wanted to lie here, but because the beggar's feet were injured, and the wound had festered and ulcerated, emitting a strong stench.

"This..." Yang De frowned and didn't expect this to happen. However, at this time, he was surrounded by a group of party feathers and was already unable to ride a tiger. He immediately coughed dryly and said, "What's your name?"

"I... my name is Zhang Huang!" The beggar's dry lips trembled twice and finally said a name, but it seemed that he had not woken up and seemed to have been scared.

Do you know that the city owner has an order that everyone except children under the age of three and the elderly over 90 should participate in the revival of the city. Now is the time when the wind is gentle and the sun is beautiful, and you are lazy here!" Yang Deyang said a word of justice, but deliberately avoided the injury of Zhang Huang's feet.

"Lord!" Zhang Huang trembled and said, "I was a soldier in the clearance camp in the city, responsible for cleaning up the boulders on the street. As a year ago, one day while carrying the boulder, the rope broke, and I was injured by the falling boulder and lost the ability to move. Later, the army expelled me, and I had no money to cure me but to die here. Although I also want to contribute my own strength to the recovery of the city, I am really helpless!"

Zhang Huang seems to have read some books, but gradually he is no longer nervous and responds fluently. And what he said is reasonable. After all, his shocking wound is more convincing than any gorgeous words!

Yang De was stunned after listening to it and didn't know how to respond for a moment. Their group were originally aggressive to punish the lazy beggar, but when they saw it close, the beggar's feet were ulcerated, and it was reasonable not to work. What's more, the beggar used to be a soldier. Not only did he not get medical treatment, but he was kicked out. It was their loss. This calculation made Yang De feel a big head. He really didn't know what to say next.

Listening to the conversation between the two, a smile slowly appeared on the corners of Xianghan's mouth. She said interestingly, "You are obviously lying. You just said that your feet were injured a year ago, so how can you still live well until now?"

When he heard Xiang Han's words, even Zhang Huang was stunned. Indeed, Zhang Huang's feet were ulcerated, and he could almost see the blackened bones. Ordinary people may die in less than a week after suffering such a serious injury, but Zhang Huang said that the injury was suffered a year ago, and it was reasonable for Xiang Han to question it!

Seeing Zhang Huang's reaction, Xianghan seemed to be winning, but suddenly turned around and then said, "Secondly, even if what you say is not false. But according to you, isn't it possible for all people who are injured to be exempted from work? There is a nursing dog in our house, and his hind leg has also been broken by a thief, but after the injury, he is still loyal to our nursing home. According to your point of view, this dog would have been idle all day long ago and accept our worship with peace of mind!"

As soon as Xiang Han's words fell, a trace of light flashed in Zhang Huang's eyes, but then he disappeared in his submissive expression and was not noticed by anyone. He looked up at Xianghan and said, "You have also said that your dog will continue to look after the wound, but what about me? I have been injured like this now. How can I go to work again? It's lucky not to cause trouble to others. Or please let me go and let me die. I guess my body won't live for a few days. Why do you guys compete with me, a dying person?