Since it is just for the sake of the meal, then the Yellow River hero of the righteous Bo Yuntian naturally prefers the meal of the famous and better Wenxiang family.

What's more, Xu Shiyang has already bragged to brag about the cowhide and wants to make all the helpless homeless people in the city have a better life.

To do this, the first thing that is most needed is, of course, money and food.

This is also the reason why Xu Shiyang left the spherical fat man, he directly ordered ten soldiers to be drawn out, and united a few people from the Wen family to raid the fat man's home.

In the fat man's desperate eyes, Xu Shiyang and Wen Ji copied 100 taels of silver, 200 horses of silk, 3,000 copper coins, 8,000 iron coins, and 2,000 stones of grain from the fat man's house.

At the same time, two ledgers were copied, which recorded the donations made by all households, temples, and Taoist temples in Jiangnan to the displaced people, as well as the purpose of these donations.

Xu Shiyang just glanced at it casually and immediately saw what the so-called donation was all about.

Of course, the ball was so unscrupulous that he didn't hide anything in the ledger in the first place.

In layman's terms, there are two main sources of income for this city, one of which is the money from the sale of the homeless people, and about one-third of this money is for the mouths of the city managers - such as the ball, such as the thin man who has a strong mouth with Xu Shiyang, and the Yellow River hero and his apprentices.

The other two-thirds were handed over to several bigwigs of the dynasty, including but not limited to Gao Yu, the commander of the front division of the palace.

As for donations, hehe, it is appropriate to paraphrase that sentence - the money of the large households will be returned in full, and the people's money will be divided into thirty or seventy.

"Fun, right?" Xu Shiyang sneered and said: "So the people of Jiangnan donate a lot of property to the displaced people every year, and they can't get the money for the displaced people to sell themselves, so they give it all to the people, but dozens or hundreds of people still starve to death here every day!" ”

"It just doesn't make sense!" Wen Ji said angrily: "No wonder my father and brother donate thousands of dollars and thousands of stones and rice every year!" The homeless people are still starving to death so much! ”

It's just that a guy like Wen Ji who doesn't have officialdom doesn't know the unspoken rules here.

The Wen family didn't share the fertilizer in it, but Wen Xianggong may not know about this kind of thing.

He didn't take care of it, probably because the people in the wilderness didn't want to offend the lord and faction who made a fortune in it because of this kind of thing.

Well, in fact, in this way, Wen Xianggong didn't think about the homeless.

What is for the country and the people, and for the king is the same.

Of course, Xu Shiyang would not say this kind of thing in front of the Wen family.

He didn't mind mocking the Yellow River hero who also had a good reputation first.

Xu Shiyang glanced at Ma Yi, turned his head and said to the thin man:

"You just said you don't eat people here? I think you eat more people than anyone else, and you eat hundreds of them every day. ”

The thin man tilted his head, stubbornly unwilling to answer.

But Ma Yi, the hero of the Yellow River who was standing on the side, looked ashamed.

He is not stupid, he can hear that Xu Shiyang was actually referring to Sang and scolding Huai just now, after all, he Ma Yi was also an accomplice of this city before today.

If all the people who starved to death were eaten by their high-ranking lackeys, then each of them would have to eat three to five people a day.

Good appetite, right?

Fortunately, Xu Shiyang has no intention of chasing and fighting, and he still wants to use the reputation of the Yellow River hero.

"Forget it, I don't need you garbage to change your mind." Xu Shiyang turned his head and ordered: "Cut off the heads of these two guys, hang them on a high place, and warn everyone." ”

"You guys! You can't kill me! Realizing that the situation was not good, the ball man began to struggle desperately, while still shouting: "I am working for Captain Gao!" I'm working for Captain Gao! I want to see Captain Gao! I want to see ...... Yes! ”

The howl stopped abruptly.

After lifting the bloody head on a high place, Xu Er leaned over to Xu Shiyang and asked in a low voice, "Commander, what to do with so much money and food?" ”

"All the grain was kept, and all the silver silk was exchanged for grain and coarse cloth. Well, just that kind of Tianzhu coarse cloth will do, that thing is cheap. ”

Xu Shiyang instructed:

"Give all the homeless people a bowl of gruel each. Remember, don't make porridge rice that is too thick, they are too hungry to eat more than one at once. ”

"Don't worry, Commander, I have experience in this area." Xu Er replied.

Xu Shiyang patted his arm with a smile and continued:

"There should be discipline when dividing porridge, children under the age of 14 are assigned to a team, and over 14 years old, men and women are divided into teams, and every 100 people are a squadron, and they line up to receive porridge."

"It's important which team gets in line first and which team eats first! If you can't queue up, don't eat it! ”

Xu Shiyang is still emphasizing discipline, in his opinion, discipline is the hardest armor, the best weapon, and the strongest tactics.

A disciplined force, even if it has only sticks, is a combat-ready force.

Xu Shiyang ordered all the personnel of the New Army (except for the trapped soldiers) to be dismantled, and with the support of Ma Yi and his disciples, each of them managed a squadron.

According to Xu Shiyang's request, which squadron is organized first, and which squadron will have dinner first.

The people of the Wen family set up more than a dozen cauldrons in the market and cooked porridge on the spot.

After smelling the aroma of food, a commotion began among the homeless crowd.

In the past, beautiful boys and girls who were thought to be likely to sell for a high price had a place to eat alone.

Others are left to chance, and the able-bodied men can always grab two or more bowls of gruel, which is enough to keep them strong and live longer.

And those women or children who are thin and weak usually don't get anything, and if they can't grab it this time, they probably won't be able to get food next time.

Even if you can get it, if your body is even weaker, you still can't snatch those who are strong.

The so-called strong can still grab a full meal, and the weak can only fill the ditch, this is the truth.

This disorderly state of grain release is also one of the main culprits of the large attrition of people in the market.

The homeless people with this experience, when they saw the grain release, immediately rushed up desperately to snatch the porridge prisoners, and as before, the first to rush to the front were all the strongest young and middle-aged men.

Women and children were pushed to the back, and some were even accidentally squeezed down, there were many stampedes, and the crying of women and children was everywhere at the grain release site.

Xu Shiyang looked at all this coldly.

More than three years of blood have already cast his heart as hard as steel.

He sympathized with these displaced people, but he also knew that if he did not change all this, sympathy was meaningless and would only kill more people.

Therefore, what follows may not be in line with the usual morality of this era.

Xu Shiyang coldly ordered: "All those who did not line up and rushed to the front will come first." ”

"Wait, Ten Sticks?"

When the granddaughter of the Yellow River hero heard this order, she retorted loudly: "

"They're so weak, ten sticks!"

"Next time you don't obey, you'll get twenty sticks! The third direct decapitation! ”

Xu Shiyang said coldly:

"If you want more people to live, some people have to die!"

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