In the Zichen Palace, Chu Rui listened to the battle of tongues of the many ministers under the throne, and couldn't help but shout angrily:

"Enough! You have one hour to discuss a plan to meet me! Stand down and let me be clean for a while! ”

The red-faced and thick-necked ministers hurriedly knelt on the ground to receive the decree and slowly withdrew from the main hall.

But this dispute has been arguing from inside the temple to outside the hall and has not ended.

"Lord Liu, I agree with you when you say that you want to put grain and porridge, but at the feet of the Son of Heaven, no matter how serious the disaster is, it will not be worse than the snow disaster in the north. The winter clothes prepared by Kuri are reserved for the west and north border passes, if they are reluctantly taken to the people affected by the disaster in Tongzhou and Fenzhou, they will also be made, but if they are given to the people in the capital, I am afraid that the army will mutiny! ”

"Jiang Shilang, I don't like to hear what you say. The soldiers are human beings, the people affected by the snow disaster are human beings, and the people affected by the disaster in the capital are not human beings. The people at the feet of the Son of Heaven will be in turmoil, and the chaos will not be smaller than the army. ”

"But there's always a priority. The imperial history of the inspection of the states has not yet been sent back, and the exact situation of the disaster in the two states is still waiting for verification there. In the event of a major disaster, on-site relief will not be enough, and there will be no cotton clothes in the wardro...... He paused and suggested: "The capital is the best place, so you might as well persuade the people to come to the rescue......

"Since the enthronement of the Holy Lord, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the treasury is abundant. Now if you want to persuade the people to help themselves, wouldn't that damage the face of the saint? Let the people laugh at the fact that they can't even take out a few cotton clothes in the court. ”

Jiang Daoyi smiled bitterly.

They just can't get much cotton clothes!

This year, the border was very cold, and the military department had already sent a letter to ask them to allocate cotton clothes a year ago. Later, Tongzhou and Fenzhou were affected by disasters, and the saints wanted to provide disaster relief, and there were not many of these cotton clothes, and now there are only more than 1,000 pieces left.

It's definitely too late to do it now. As soon as this Lord Liu's mouth touched, he wanted to let everyone in the capital who was affected by the disaster have winter clothes, how could it be!

'Lord Shangshu, you were injured by hail at this time, and you are pit me! ’

Thinking of this, Jiang Daoyi gritted his teeth and simply explained his words:

"Lord Liu, don't say it's the people of the capital, even if it's Tongzhou and Fenzhou, this year will be a serious disaster, and the household department can't allocate many cotton clothes. This year, tens of thousands of winter clothes have been transferred to the west and north, and all winter clothes have been transferred. Tobe didn't expect a snowstorm this year, because there was only cotton in the library, and there were no cotton clothes. ”

Cotton can only be grown in the south, and it has been stored in the household department for ten years, and there are only a few banks. It is not easy to get cotton, and it is even more difficult to make winter clothes, which requires countless people to do it.

The previous dynasty and the current dynasty have always been lightly served, and when the cotton clothes accumulated on weekdays are used, they are suddenly gone. Now they want charcoal, grain, and winter clothes, and they can't all change their households all at once.

"You said the border...... How can you transfer so many pieces? Lord Liu asked in a low voice, "Which adult's signature is it?" ”

"It is the signature of the Duke of Jin and the Duke of Xinguo, and it was approved by the saint." Jiang Daoyi is also very strange. Although the Duke of Jin and the Kingdom of Xin were not incompatible on the Fair Day, they were also distinct, and now they signed a joint sign together to strengthen the armament of the north.

In the winter, cotton clothes had already been allocated once, and later he was urging the household department, requiring the money, food, and equipment of the northern army to be in place before the spring warms.

"Is there going to be war in the north?"

"I haven't heard of it."

Not to mention how hot the discussion was outside, Chu Rui lost his temper in the study.

"Ask me if it's better to divide the charity or the household, if I want to divide the charity, I will say that the distribution is not good, and if I want the household, I will say that the household is not good; What the hell am I raising this group of household officials! Chu Rui was angry, but he ordered to scatter rice and porridge, and a group of people discussed whether to divide the circle according to the household or according to the person, whether to separate the relief from all places or to give relief together.

Even whether it's two meals a day or one meal a day has to be debated for half a day!

Since Zhang Xuan predicted that the cold outside the border would last until April, he naturally asked Li Mao to prepare some cotton clothes for use in the war. It is understandable that cotton clothes are nervous, but for so many years, they have been in a full year, and they have to be constrained everywhere to send food, and the head of the household department directly said that his arm was broken by hail, and he couldn't report his illness.

Why didn't he report his illness and don't come for the rest of his life!

"The Holy One is angry!" The big eunuch on the side was so frightened that he knelt down and pleaded guilty. "Please take care of the dragon! The people who were stricken by the disaster still counted on the Holy God to help the suffering! ”

"I want to save the suffering...... Chu Rui threw Jingzhao Mansion Yin's song to the ground.

"I see that they have lived too many good lives, and they don't even know how to help the disaster!"

West Town.

Qi Shao followed Li Ming around the Xicheng for a while, and soon hid his face and fled.

He couldn't stand it anymore.

He grew up with fine clothes and fine food since he was a child, and he never came to Xicheng on weekdays. Most of his classmates live in Guozijian, and even if they rent a house, there are houses for rent in the street behind Guozijian that are specially used for students to live.

He also corresponded with many poor students, but he had never been exposed to anything about the suffering of the people. Although these poor children are poor, they will not complain to him about difficulties and inconveniences.

He is not so good that he "why don't you eat minced meat", but he has the impression that the poor people are just people who live in smaller houses, eat poorly, have no money to study, and are illiterate.

He didn't know that once the disaster was affected, the lives of these poor families would be so miserable.

Qi Shao is an idealist, and his temperament is kind and does not like to fight, so he has been studying in the Guozi Prison, and he is neither willing to be a man nor only associate with the so-called world.

He often uses various names to fund the children of the poor family, and for him, it is just a few pieces of silver. He doesn't like to look at people and be grateful to Dade, such as pulling a stall at the Lantern Festival and guessing lantern riddles together, and he has done a lot of things before.

For example, let the restaurant opened by the family collect poems, and then encourage the poets to vote in the same year with poor family conditions to get some literary remuneration; Or when there is a need to copy books in the Guozi Prison, he takes the work from his father and distributes it to the poor students in the Guozi Prison to do, in exchange for some remuneration, etc.

But if he wants to unite the sons of the clan and the nobles to give porridge and clothes, he has never done it.

"Li Rui, although your family is not a wealthy family, you still have the money and food to do this alone, why did you suddenly think of letting the Tai students of Guozijian do it together?"

"First, I am afraid that the limelight will be too much and cause trouble to the house; The second is that my uncle is out of Beijing, and there are only grandmothers and aunts at home, and my younger brother and I are at this age, I am afraid that we will not be able to serve the public, but when the time comes, we will give money and food to our subordinates. ”

Li Rui and Qi Shao complained: "On the way, I met a few officials from Jingzhao Mansion who were willing to help. But the implication is that we will give them all the money and food in the house, and then they will come to help them......"

"Look at me, they look at me young and treat me like a fool, not to mention those officials in Jingzhao Mansion! When the time comes, one stone can be used for five buckets on the victims, and I will be thankful. ”

"What's more, so many people have been affected by the disaster, how many people will be taken out of my family to set up a porridge shack? I'm not afraid of Brother Qi's jokes, my family has a simple population, and there are more than 100 people even with the girls and mothers-in-law in the family, and there are many of my grandfather's old subordinates back then, who were crippled and raised in the house. We can't have so many people in our family. ”

He made a bitter face.

"You can't let all the girls show up on the street, right?"

Qi Shao couldn't help but sigh when he saw Li Rui's bitter face.

Indeed, in the case of his family, he was a widowed son, and his aunt was rumored to be unkind, so he relied on his grandmother to protect him. Mrs. Qiu intends to do good deeds, but the housekeeper is always his aunt, and I am afraid that she will use Mrs. Qiu's private money. This matter has to be done by the Xinguo Gongfu family, and it is really unaffordable. You can't dig up half of Mrs. Qiu's foundation.

Qi Shao remembered the old lady who threw the lamp at the Lantern Festival in order to train her grandson to "be angry".

I don't know if my uncle painted two more lamps for the old lady later.

Even in order to save more money for the old lady, he helped.

"Good. I'll do it for you. ”

In the Xinguo Mansion, five or six carts were full of cars heading out of the inner city.

At this time, it was time for dinner, because of the hail and rain during the day, most of the people had a lot of things to do, and they didn't care about the Xinguo Mansion for so many cars.

The cart was loaded with quilts, winter clothes, money, grain, firewood, charcoal and other items counted by the Xinguo Mansion, and more than a dozen soldiers and family members took a group of wrestlers to Xicheng with the car.

When they got to the ground, these family members were also shocked by the tragic situation in Xicheng. Not to mention the hail that smashed the house and injured people, the strong winds that blew in the middle of the way and the torrential rain that followed hit these homeless people even harder.

Many people huddled together in the ruins and roasted on fire.

A general stepped forward and asked for the address of the big family surnamed Wu, and looked at his car with a worried expression.

The road was full of broken bricks, pillars, thresholds, and other objects that had been swept into the road by the wind, and the car could not get in backwards. If you want to move in with people, they really can't move with such a small number of people.

The family will order the family to wait at the door, and they themselves will hurry in to find the messengers of Jingzhao Mansion to help clear the road.

At this time, the twelve large families in the West City were worried. Some of these people still carried rescued quilts, mattresses and other things, and some of them did not bring anything at all.

Although it has been the New Year, it is still very cold at night, these people stuff their homes, wrap all the things that can be used in their homes to avoid the cold, and spoil a lot of good things, not to mention, there are still many people who can't grab things cold, and they start to rob the sick and weak to cover their bodies.

Most of the people in Xicheng are poor households, and there are also homeless people who can't survive outside and flee to the capital to beg for food. There are a lot of scoundrels and idle rotten people.

Especially now that men and women are mixed, it is easier to cause trouble.

Li Dahu and Wu Dahu's family is okay, Li Dahu's family has Sihu and Sigong with general messengers to press the formation, Wu Dahu's family also has a few messengers left by Wang Youzi, these victims dare not make rafts, and many other people have already fought in their families.

If it weren't for the fact that these people still took care of some face, they were also afraid that the government would settle accounts after the autumn, and they were afraid that many large families would have to be robbed of their food, clothes, quilts and other things.

These large families have families in their homes, but at this time, the relationship between the victims and the owners who sheltered them seems to be antagonistic, as long as they show up with their families, these victims seem to take the opportunity to drive them out, but they are angry at the family members who maintain order.

These big families in Yixi City have scolded Jingzhao Mansion in their hearts, some have made up their minds not to do good in the future, and some have decided to sell their houses and move to Xicheng or Nancheng.

In the book, it is said that "Cang Liao knows etiquette and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing". That's not true at all.

At this time, Sigong Sihu had already instructed people to pick up the wood after the house collapsed, and built wooden sheds on vacant land in various places in Xicheng, and the pots and stoves that should be used to make porridge had also been erected. Just wait for the order to arrive, and put the grain to boil porridge.

The officials of Jingzhao Mansion commanded many strong men who were affected by the disaster to build wooden sheds, and this sent the strong men to work, firstly, to prove the determination of the imperial court to provide relief, and secondly, they were afraid that these people would have no goods in their stomachs, and they would be idle and cause trouble everywhere.

In order to be able to eat as soon as possible and have a house to shelter from the wind and rain, these strong men naturally work hard, and they dare not slack off once they do.

It's just that when the wooden huts are all erected, these people don't wait for the order to start putting grain.

The victims are now a little restless, and the owners of these big families also have signs of breaking out at any time.

When the family of the Xinguo Mansion came, Si Gong and Si Hu thought that the commissioner sent by the ministry had come to inform the grain release, and they all hurried out to greet them. Even Zhang Xuan, who had been changing the medicine for the injured person, showed joy.

As a result, as soon as they went out, they saw people who were not wearing official uniforms, and they couldn't help but feel disappointed.

The leader of the general family was very disappointed when he saw Si Gong Sihu, and he was a little unhappy in his heart. It's just that he is duty, but he still explained his intention and asked the people of Jingzhao Mansion to help.

As soon as Si Gong Sihu heard that the young master of the Xinguo Mansion had really asked his family to send something, he hurriedly sent a messenger to inform the victims of the disaster in Xicheng to quickly clean up the streets so that the car could come in.

They're stupid, they should have thought about the Qingdao in the afternoon! The firefighters put out the fires everywhere, and they forgot that they really wanted disaster relief, how did these cars get in!

Si Gong Sihu was happy and sad all of a sudden, first disappointed and then happy, his emotions fluctuated, his heart couldn't stand it, and even his smile was quite weird.

The family of the Xinguo Mansion saw that the two adults were so strange, and they couldn't help but feel guilty in their hearts.

In this world, a fool can be an official.

What!

When the people of Xicheng learned that they had food and clothing, they hurriedly opened the road together. There are many people, and the road is cleared in less than an hour.

The head of the family went back to direct the vehicle to enter the center of Xicheng, and drove straight to the door of the big family of Na Li, and then asked Si Gong Sihu to count things.

"This ...... There are only more than 400 winter coats and 140 quilts, where is enough! Si Hu looked at the list sent by the Xinguo Mansion and couldn't help but worry.

This general is not a stunned young man like Li Rui, who has been on the battlefield, followed Li Meng through wind and rain, and is a subordinate official in the Guogong Mansion, when he heard that this person had to look at Shu, he stabbed back coldly.

This is not a good man's words. During this year, even if you want to buy ready-to-wear clothes, you can't buy a few pieces, and it hasn't been a few hours since the hailstorm to now, and we have made up so many things in our house to keep out the cold, and we have done our best. The house heard that Xicheng was short of food and clothing, and from Mrs. Tai to the last people, they all donated a lot of clothes. ”

"If these winter clothes and quilts are taken to ordinary pawnshops, they will have to change into several sets of new cotton jackets, and many quilts will come, and when the disaster passes, this quilt and cotton clothes can also make them change into a good one."

"If the two adults are too few, I'll ask my subordinates to pull them back now."

When Si Hu heard that this was the whole of the Xinguo Mansion, he stared at him and said:

"Isn't this the winter coat that your house always has?"

"There are only a hundred people in our house, and the spring will be warm as soon as the year passes, what are we doing with so many winter clothes in our house.!" The general almost didn't roll his eyes when he heard this, "My lord, let's quickly count the number of people, and let the old and weak women and children come to collect it first." ”

Si Gong listened to his words, and did not let people notify him to receive the things first, but first arranged for someone to take the sign of Jingzhao Mansion to invite the Chinese soldiers guarding the capital to come over.

Jingzhao Mansion is in charge of the city's defense, and is very familiar with the Chinese army, and this matter involves materials, so it has to be cautious.

When distributing materials, it is most likely to cause chaos, and relying on these servants of Jingzhao Mansion, I am afraid that they will not be able to withstand the impact of the victims.

These charcoal fires and rice noodles are indeed timely rain. The people in Jingzhao Mansion immediately arranged for people to set up pots and make fires and boil porridge. The housekeepers were watching from the sidelines, making sure that not a single grain of rice would be greedily lost.

For a time, the affected families in Xicheng flocked to the porridge shed.

There are more and more people, but the people from the Chinese army have not come, and they are as anxious as ants on a hot pot.

Seeing the many victims of the disaster who roared like thunder in their stomachs looking at the porridge shack with burning eyes, the generals of the Xinguo Mansion had already pressed their hands to their waists.

This hasn't been a quilt yet, just started to boil porridge, it's already so messy, and when the porridge is ready, then it's not even the porridge pot overturned?

At this moment, suddenly a gong sounded, and a red-clothed official jumped onto the table of the porridge shed and shouted:

"Many people know me Wang Youzi! You are all my Wang's neighbors, people say that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, you are all my relatives! Wang has never cheated relatives and friends, and I hope everyone won't cheat me! Do you all line up for me according to the left and right of the men? The nobles finally sent a little rice, don't scare the nobles away! ”

"Wang Youzi, you mean what you say! We're lining up, you're not allowed to cheat us! My daughter-in-law still has a child in her belly, and this day is so cold and tired that she can't even stand up, let alone queue up! You've got to give me two bowls! ”

"Okay, good, Qian Mazi, you have two bowls, two bowls, I have written it down!" Wang Youzi took out a notebook from the back of his waist and began to write with a piece of charcoal.

"And me! I was building a porridge shed in the afternoon, and I promised that those who worked well could get food first, and I would get it first! ”

"Good! The old and weak women and children and the other who had worked in the afternoon stood in the other line! If you have someone at home who really can't move around and wants to collect it on your behalf, go to me and my colleagues to register! Wang Youzi struck the broken gong again, "Everyone knows my Wang Youzi's temper, and advises everyone not to lie, if I find out, it will be difficult to see each other in the future!" ”

"Wang Daxia, don't worry, we are not the kind of people who have no skin and no face!" There is the "little brother" of Wang Youzi, and he immediately cleverly followed the mouth.

"Yes, we are not Diao Min, we must line up well!"

Wang Youzi was very familiar with the voices of this group of friends, and secretly praised them in his heart, and was ready to give them a favor when he was making porridge.

"These things were sent by the nobles of the inner city for emergency relief, the people are kind-hearted, and we can't disgrace Xicheng! Many people have caused trouble in the big houses that have sheltered you, but we see that you are pitiful, and you have not done anything against the law, so we have endured it, but you troublemakers, we have already written it down, and if you do it again, it will not be a matter of beating the board! ”

Wang Youzi shouted in a loud voice, shouting that the eardrums of the leader of the family hurt.

is a talent, but it is a pity that he has already become a official, otherwise he can recruit for the national government.

"Now several adults in Jingzhao Mansion have asked people from the Chinese army to assist in the jurisdiction of law and order, and they will come over soon. I advise you to wait and wait, don't make trouble! It will take a while for the porridge to boil, and everyone has the kung fu to quarrel and fight, so I will find a pot and a bowl! ”

Wang Youzi had a playful expression on his face and shouted: "We only built a pot stove, at most we can find some people to borrow some pots to hold porridge, but there is no bowl for you to hold things!" ”

As soon as Wang Youzi said this, many people turned around and left, or asked their families to find containers, and those who had good friendships asked to borrow a bowl for use.

This is hot porridge, so you can't hold it in your hands!

With this Wang Youzi being persuaded and threatened, these restless crowds were calmed down. They are only hungry for one or two meals, so they will not take risks for a bite of food like the group of victims during the great drought and famine more than ten years ago;

At the foot of the Son of Heaven, I heard that the Chinese army was coming soon, and no one dared to do the birds, so they all obediently lined up with bowls.

After another half an hour, a group of Chinese soldiers with weapons and armor rushed to Xicheng.

Si Gong and Si Hu breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, you can make charcoal fires and quilts.

The author has something to say: those students who are about to take the college entrance examination, don't look at it, the exam is important! It's a sunny day after the exam, whatever you think, don't lose the big because of the small!

Qi Shao: Senior brother is waiting for you in Guozijian!