Chapter 68

Ge Liuyuan and Wang Jing were very trustworthy, and the national grain began to be distributed the next day, and the two of them were still guarding the city tower with their old bones, obviously they were fulfilling their promise to ensure that the grain allocated by the imperial court was distributed to the displaced people.

Three hundred cartloads of grain seemed like a lot, piled up like a hill, which could be distributed to thousands of displaced people, and each person had a handful of grain.

This time, only three days' rations were distributed, which is what Tang Xiaoshi meant. The rest of the food was distributed later.

I don't know what Tang Xiaoshi's calculations were, Ge Liuyuan was stunned in his heart, opening a warehouse to give food relief was a good thing, but if it was too little at a time, it would be like a drop in the bucket, not only would it not play a role in appeasing the displaced people, but it would swell their rebellious hearts.

Because people are greedy, after eating a full meal, they will naturally want to eat a second meal, and now the imperial court has only issued rations for three days at a time, and the displaced people will be dissatisfied with the stinginess of the imperial court.

Either let them be full and have no heart to rebel, or let them be hungry and have no strength to rebel, so that half-starvation is the most risky.

But Tang Xiaoshi just wants to take risks, she just wants the displaced people to incite the tension in Chang'an City, in her eyes, rebellion is not a bad thing, it is a good thing.

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Three days later.

"Sir, the atmosphere in the city is getting more and more tense, I heard that today two homeless people went to the Wu family's rice shop to grab rice, and their heads were cut off alive, and some of them rushed into the tavern to grab food and their legs were discounted...... Compared with before the imperial court distributed food, this homeless people seem to have become more rampant, and now there are many homeless people gathered together on the street. Han Shiniang reported carefully.

"I didn't have the strength before, but now that I have eaten the imperial food for a few days, and if I have the strength, I will naturally be irritable." Tang Xiaoshi was not surprised at all, and continued, "Let's talk about the grain shops in Chang'an City, in addition to the increase in grain prices, what else happened? ”

In the year of famine, those who can still sell grain in Chang'an City are most likely not simple, for example, the grain shop with the Liang family brand as a gimmick is actually the shop of Su Wangye, and his fief is in Bashu, which is known as the granary of the world, and there is no year with a bad harvest.

The grain he transports from Bashu to Chang'an every year is much less than the granary of the imperial court.

Han Shiniang replied: "Nowadays, led by Prince Su's grain shop, the amount of grain sold every day is limited, and the price of grain is three times a day, and many ordinary people in the city can no longer afford to buy food and have become refugees. Also, from this day on, all the grain shops began to mix sand into the grain, and the old slave ordered the people to buy some grain and come back, and they could pick out four taels of sand out of a pound of grain. ”

After listening to Han Shi Niang's words, Tang Xiaoshi became more determined about what she was about to do.

In feudal society, peasant tenants are the least likely to rebel, they are set up in the concept that grain grows in the field, and the field belongs to the employer, so the grain belongs to the employer, and once the employer rewards them with a little food, they will be grateful to Dade and bow their heads.

They did not think at all that the food was poured by their sweat.

On the contrary, the rich and noble families were the most ruthless and stingy people, and the more the peasant tenants retreated and cowardly, the more they had to advance and press forward step by step.

Tang Xiaoshi now wants to force those homeless people and farmers who can't eat to ignite their hearts of rebellion, only when they resist and build momentum, can she have the opportunity to rely on forcing the nobles to exile a large amount of grain from their private collection, otherwise, even if the court has more food, it will not be enough.

Tang Xiao calculated, the grain of the imperial court and the food of the nobles combined, almost enough to allow the displaced people to survive for three months and wait until the next season's grain is ripe.

"Now that the outcasts have formed a group and have a rebellious heart, and those insatiable nobles refuse to retreat at all, but are even more reckless, I think it is time for the gods to appear." Tang Xiaoshi said with a smile.

Tang Xiaoshi does not believe that there will be immortals in the world, which does not mean that others do not believe it, in fact, the theory of ghosts and gods in the Chu Dynasty is very popular.

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On the second day, the warm spring sun was a sunny day, but there was a spring thunder in Chang'an City!

"Boom!" The thunder came out from the mountains and forests in the north, deafening, from the north of Chang'an City to the south, and the babies of the rich and noble families were so frightened that they couldn't stop crying.

When people thought that this spring thunder was just an accident, there was also a "rumbling" thunder in the west, and many people saw the wine glasses on the table shaking.

When thunder also sounded in the east, in the teahouses, on the streets, in the alleys...... Everyone began to feel frightened, and they discussed whether they had offended Lord Thor.

If you don't offend the god of thunder, on a sunny day in spring, there is no rain, no clouds, and no lightning, how can there be thunder for no reason? And it sounded thoroughly in the four directions of southeast, south, and northwest.

There was also a vision in the west river, and now that the ice had just dissolved, many women wanted to go to the river to get water to wash their clothes, and suddenly they saw the splashing of water in the river, and there was a huge column of water more than ten feet, which seemed to be accompanied by a roar to the sky, and frightened them to collapse on the riverside.

They felt as if they had seen the Dragon Lord come out of the water.

These two things quickly spread throughout Chang'an City, and the more they spread, the more evil they became, saying that Chang'an City angered the Thunder God and the Dragon King, so they came down to earth, some people said that they saw the Thunder God flying in the mountains and forests with a pair of wings, some people said that they saw the Dragon King's tail bigger than the ship, and some people said that they saw the Thunder God fly into the Liang family's mansion, and the old lady Liang died the next day......

But what is it in Chang'an City that offends Thor and the Dragon King?

I don't know who started to spread it, and rumors began to spread among the homeless people that it was the nobles and the royal family who offended the divine realm, they were rich and unkind, defrauded the people, and watched the homeless people starve to death on the road, the crime was unforgivable, and the thunder god and the dragon king went down to earth this time to help the homeless people punish the nobles.

Rumors began to brew, and the more they brewed, the stranger it became, and the homeless people began to get excited and began to gather, waiting for the Dragon Lord to take them to capture the imperial city.

And those nobles began to recall the turmoil a few years ago, which was also a year of famine, and it took only three days from the beginning of the folk rumors that the thunder god descended to the exiles who invaded Chang'an City and arrived at the foot of the imperial city.

The turmoil was won by the imperial court, but many people died, many homeless people died, but many rich and noble families who did not have time to escape also died, and the whole family was killed by the homeless people who invaded it.

The aristocrats have rarely been on the streets these days, and when they see the homeless people, they always feel that their gaze is not good.