Chapter 439 Natural Disaster or Man-made Disaster
Wugou Monk is gone, Yun Zheng can't do it if he wants to discuss it with someone, draft girl, to put it bluntly, is to take 10,000 points of hope to win a slim chance of 1 in 10,000.
Well, it is natural to be able to enjoy endless glory and wealth, not good, the fate of this life will be miserable, and it is the most stupid thing to pin your fate on the favor of men, especially on the favor of the emperor, which is ......
Yun Zheng shook his head as he walked in the snow, and unconsciously walked to the edge of the workshop, and saw a group of people eating around the fire pond in front of him, Yun Zheng woke up in shock, he actually fed so many people?
Perhaps staring at a woman aimlessly for too long, the woman put down her rice bowl tremblingly, and before she could speak, she cried first, pulled out the two children from the crowd, and sobbed and said that this was not her child, it was a relative's family, and the child was so hungry that she couldn't stand it, so she brought the child over to eat.
Looking at the two children with rice grains on the corners of their mouths, Yun Zheng frowned and said: "People have to eat when they are hungry, this is a helpless thing, but you can't spoil the food, you see, they have eaten on their faces, and they don't know how to clean." ”
The woman was stunned for a moment, and quickly took off the rice particles on the child's face and clothes and filled them into her mouth, Yun Zheng nodded, and continued to walk towards the edge of Huanhua Creek with his hands behind his back.
After repeated efforts by heavy snowfall, the heat in the earth finally dissipated, and now the ground can no longer melt the snow, and the whole earth is white and very clean.
Stepping on the inch-thick snow and creaking, he thought that such a scene should be able to recite one or two good poems, but Yun Zheng couldn't recite it anyway, and even copied the mountain dance silver snake. The original Chi wax elephant didn't have any thoughts.
Chengdu was caught up by itself for the first time when it snowed, and it was originally a spring city with all four seasons, and it should be green in winter. Now it's good, it's covered by heavy snow.
The sound of screeching bamboo breaking was constantly heard in the bamboo forest around him. It's like a man's wail at the end of his life......
The emperor is a good person, and he knows that when everyone is running out of food, he will take away the beautiful daughters of other people from the people, so as to reduce the pressure on the eunuchs to eat.
If he has the ability to stuff all the women who have nothing to eat in Shu into the harem, Yun Zheng will definitely perform the five-body bow, which is the supreme merit.
I'm scared to death. I was still angry about the Lanlan draft just now, but now I am starting to worry about the eating problem of a large group of people, and the four or five hundred mouths together are a huge bottomless pit, if it only needs to be filled for a few days. It doesn't matter, but it's going to kill them if they want to fill their mouths with brown rice for a winter.
The grain in the granary is decreasing at a rate that is visible to the naked eye, and if this continues, in a month the granary will starve to death of rats. Looking back at the women who looked at him from afar, he was even more worried, how could he give birth so much, everyone would bring at least one or two, and more than three or four. Some of them are still little girls, why do they bring two dolls back? Could it be that the big girl also gives birth to a baby? I don't want my own name.
The Yun family has money, but they can't buy grain when they get the money, and those grain merchants actually plan to store the grain until it is green and yellow and then sell it, because it will be sold at a good price at that time.
Yun Zheng is in favor of this kind of business operation method, a businessman is a profit animal, it is his duty to earn the greatest profits, and a businessman who does not squeeze the highest profits is not a good businessman, as for talking about morality with businessmen, this is simply talking about the piano to the cow, and the businessman who talks about morality is estimated to have been crushed by his peers long ago, or starved to death.
Killing the head is actually a good method, Yun Zheng also agreed to use such brutal means to deal with those merchants who live in strange places, but unfortunately Zhao Zixing, the prefect of Chengdu Mansion, is a soft temperament, and he can't afford to lift such a butcher's knife, although the Yongxing Army is under his control, he rarely uses those Qiu Ba, Yongxing Army spends most of its time in Chengdu Mansion for various performances, to win the favor of the people, one hundred and ten people can't even break the Yun family's army, perform a show, but it is the first choice of Chengdu Mansion.
Yun Zheng suddenly stopped and threw away the ice cubes in his hand, yes, there is food in the army, there is a lot of food in the hands of those Qiu Ba, every autumn harvest, Chengdu Mansion will give priority to supplying those Qiu Ba's military rations, and then the government treasury, now Chengdu Mansion's Changping position has been empty for more than half, and less than half of the winter has passed.
Everyone knows that after the beginning of spring, it is a catastrophe, this time it is the entire Shuzhong, not a place in Chengdu Province, if you want to transport food from Jianmen Pass, God knows when it will be, Yun Zheng only needs to think about the ruggedness of the Golden Bull Road, as well as the steepness of the plank road, and his scalp is numb.
Since ancient times, there is generally no food shortage in Shu, but once it happens, it is a situation of starvation everywhere, even if the imperial court is desperately rescued, but the steep mountain road can not only protect Shuzhong from harm, but also hinder Shuzhong from being rescued, there is no good thing in the world, think about the later generations when Zhang Xianzhong killed people, the sword gate was closed, and the people of Shu did not even have a place to escape.
Now the Shuzhong Basin has really become a big basin, and then the heavy snow that falls from the sky, I heard Zhao Zixing say that some states and counties near the north, some places have two feet of heavy snow, this is definitely the heavens punishing Shuzhong, there is a thunder in front of the sky to destroy the smoke view, and now there is heavy snow.
The academy was suspended, Zhao Zixing and Cui Da came to visit Yun Zheng with their classmates, it is estimated that there is no food in the academy, so Mr. Peng Li will do this, a group of people in the Yun family ate a large pot full of hooves, drank the wine steamed out of the two jars, and began to talk nonsense one by one, so they were satisfied.
"My dad is too unlucky, originally these things were Zhang Fangping's work, but he was trapped in Kuimen and couldn't enter Shuzhong, so my dad had to reluctantly take over this mess, don't hide it from Brother Yun, my dad has reduced the meals at home, you say, I am a Yanei, in the afternoon, I can always hear my stomach gurgling, my mother saw that I was pitiful, and secretly gave me a few pieces of mung bean cake, and before I ate it in my mouth, I was slapped on the back of the head by my father, and the mung bean cake also flew out. Poor thing, there's no place to reason. ”
"Zhao Gongnai is a good official who is honest and honest in the water, and sharing weal and woe with the people is his old man's virtue, you can say a few words, I am also worried about food now, and hundreds of people in my family need to eat."
Cui Da shook his head and said, "Don't think about it, I stole a few buckets of rice from home and planned to help my classmates, do you know how I stole it?" It was stuffed into the crotch of my pants and stolen it too many times, and my father found out, and my father, who had never moved a finger of me, took a bamboo board and slapped me hard, and the old lady who loved me the most didn't help me, so she knew that she was wiping her tears on the side.
I can't figure it out, my family is a grain store, a few buckets of rice is nothing, my father finally said that my classmate has no rice to eat, and I would rather give him some money than rice, I haven't figured it out until now. ”
Zhou Tong said with a gloomy face: "Of course the two are different, in the year of the catastrophe, food is human life, money is not valuable, your father is a grain merchant, he will definitely receive a notice from the tooth shop, how many meters are sold every day, they are waiting for the grain to be sold out, once the grain is sold out, they will sell the grain to a gold price."
You don't know, Chengdu Mansion has been ripe in recent years, last year Li Yuanhao wantonly attacked Yan'an Mansion Luzhou, Suide Prefecture, Baoan Military Road, I heard that the people in those places were all captured by the Xixia people, and the grain in our Shu was transported there, otherwise, just Chang Ping is enough for us to eat in Chengdu Mansion for two years. ”
Yun Zheng smiled and didn't say anything superfluous, although he was more anxious about his own affairs, he still maintained a calmness, at least in front of these people.
Other people's families can't take care of themselves, the only thing they need to worry about is whether the family can eat enough, whether the people in the workshop can eat enough, seeing Hua Niang looking at herself anxiously, Yun Zheng sighed, it seems that you still need to manage those prostitutes and turtles in the Lingxi Pavilion, what is this for.
Sent away his classmates, Yun Zheng instructed Han Niu to load two bags of rice from home, and some bacon, and send them to Mr. Peng Li.
Just after returning to the study and sitting down, Hua Niang and Lu Qingqing hurriedly walked in, Lu Qingqing's expression was very unsightly, she didn't borrow food from her mother's house, Hua Niang saw Lu Qingqing's expression, and her expression also dimmed.
In fact, there is no shortage of food in Chengdu, and the grain is in the hands of grain merchants, but people are unwilling to sell, so it will cause the illusion of food shortage, this year's summer harvest and autumn harvest are actually not affected, you see, those farmers are more calm, panicked are just weavers and these people in the city,
The ancestors are not willing to borrow grain now, the difficult time has not yet come, and the poor who cannot afford to buy food in April and May will starve to death, so this disaster is actually not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. ”
Hua Niang lowered her head and said: "The girls in the Lingxi Pavilion all go to line up to buy grain, but the grain that is often closed is only sold to the people, not to prostitutes, and some sisters are willing to exchange their bodies for nothing." ”
Yun Zheng smiled and said, "There is actually food, it doesn't matter, I will get the food back in a few days, maybe the movement will be a little big." ”
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