On 20 August, Li Zhi's relief station for the victims of the disaster in Shandong was fully opened. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In every township and every city in Shandong, Li Zhi has set up relief stations. With the wooden waist card issued by Li Zhi, the people received sweet potatoes every three days to survive the disaster.

In July and August, Li Zhi had already hired tax collectors to collect commercial taxes in advance. However, the first thing the tax collectors did after taking office was not to collect taxes, but to go deep into the grassroots villages and city streets to register the identities of all the people, and make a unified book. In addition, Li Zhi also hired local carpenters to make waist tags for the heads of each household for the farmers, which corresponded to the registered account books.

With these registration measures in place, Li Zhi was able to accurately distribute relief food to the people. Each person has a daily quota of sweet potatoes of one pound and eight taels. In the Ming Dynasty, one catty and sixteen taels, one catty and eight taels were one and a half catties. The people went to the relief station every three days to receive sweet potatoes, and each time they received four catties and eight taels for each family member.

With waist cards and account books, there is no such thing as fraudulent and over-claiming. Everyone gets their share of the relief food. Although one and a half pounds of sweet potatoes are only equivalent to half a catty of rice, which is far from being full, it can also ensure that the people will not starve to death. Moreover, after September, crops can no longer be planted in Shandong, and farmers do not need to work. On the premise of reducing the amount of exercise, one and a half pounds of sweet potatoes can allow the victims to survive this period of time.

When Li Zhi gave potatoes to the people, he repeatedly emphasized that sweet potatoes should not be eaten raw, otherwise they would be extremely difficult to digest. Generally speaking, in order to get the highest calories, sweet potatoes are best eaten cooked or roasted.

Sweet potatoes are not a good food, eating too many sweet potatoes will not only make people bloated and burp constantly, but also stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and cause acid water to pour into the esophagus. However, for the people of Shandong, after a year of drought, the free sweet potatoes distributed at this time are life-saving treasures. It doesn't matter if he's comfortable or not, at least he won't starve to death, right?

Some peasants thought that they would not survive this year, and they were ready to flee the famine. At this time, they suddenly heard that Li Zhi, the prince of Jinguo, had begun to distribute sweet potatoes for free, just like a dying person saw the hope of life, and they were all very excited. After the people got the waist card, they all flocked to the relief station to line up to receive sweet potatoes, and praised the people who gave the sweet potatoes as living bodhisattvas.

Li Zhi took advantage of the situation and hung a high banner of Jinguo Gong on each relief station, so that the people knew that this life-saving favor was given by himself.

Knowing that Li Zhi was carrying out disaster relief in Shandong, Cui He also volunteered and followed Li Zhi to Jinan Mansion to distribute sweet potatoes to the victims of Jinan Prefecture.

Cui He took off the crown of the Duchess of the Kingdom, changed into coarse cloth clothes, and took a carriage to the relief station in Hedong Township, south of Jinan Prefecture. She first looked around to see how the workers at the relief station distributed sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes are very simple, the person who cuts the sweet potatoes has already cut the sweet potatoes one and a half pounds one by one and put them aside, and the people who distribute the sweet potatoes come up and ask the names of the people loudly and check the waist cards. Then a person in charge of registration next to him found the names of the people in the account book and marked a tick on the account book, indicating that the family had received it today. The people who distribute the sweet potatoes will hand over a number of sweet potatoes to the people according to the number of people in the households who receive the sweet potatoes.

The staff of the relief station are all citizens of Fanjiazhuang recruited by Li Zhi. In recent years, Fanjiazhuang has vigorously promoted literacy classes, and these citizens are literate, and it is very easy to do these things.

Today is the first day of sweet potato distribution, and the people who received the sweet potatoes are very excited. After receiving the sweet potato, these people couldn't forget to say: "Thank you for the sweet potato that the official saved his life!" ”

The citizens of Fanjiazhuang, who distributed sweet potatoes, corrected them: "Wrong! Thank you so much! ”

"That's right! Thank you so much! ”

Cui He watched it for a while, and felt that this matter was also simple, so he broke up a potato worker and went up to distribute sweet potatoes himself.

Cui He was dressed simply, but the heavily armed guards around Cui He still betrayed Cui He's identity. Twenty guards in chain mail stood to the side with swords in their hands, staring at the people who had come up to receive sweet potatoes. Behind these guards were thirty Tiger Division soldiers armed with rifles, on high alert.

The momentum frightened the people who received the sweet potatoes one by one, and they were respectful when they came up to receive the sweet potatoes.

Cui He's maid Ju'er stood aside in satin clothes and said to everyone who came up to receive sweet potatoes: "Take it!" This is a sweet potato that the Duchess gave you. ”

At first, the two ignorant people were fine, but they didn't understand what "Duchess Guo" meant. They are illiterate, and they know the Duke of Jin Guogong who benefits the people on weekdays, as for the four words of Mrs. Guogong, they can't react to what it means at once, they take Cui He's sweet potato with a bow, shout "Thank you Grandma" and leave.

However, the third man who received the sweet potato from Cui He's hand had heard the newspaper and knew what the four words of the Duchess meant, and as soon as he walked in front of Cui He, he knelt down with a puff and kowtowed: "Thank you Duchess for saving the sweet potato!" We will never forget the kindness of Grandpa Guo and Duchess for the rest of our lives! ”

This kneeling was unbearable, and the hundreds of people behind them reacted one by one, and figured out how old the official grandmother of the Duchess was, and they all knelt in front of the relief station.

"Xiaomin has seen the Duchess of Guo!"

"The Duchess is so kind, God will bless the Duchess of the Kingdom!"

"The fairy-like character of the Duchess of the Kingdom is a perfect match for the Grandpa of the Kingdom!"

Cui He was blushed by the people who knelt down in Hulala, and stood there stunned for a while. Cui He's maid Ju'er reacted faster, and shouted, "Get up!" Get up! Don't talk about these gossips, it's the right thing to come up and get sweet potatoes to save your life! ”

Hearing Ju'er's words, the people gradually got up. They became more and more respectful, and one by one they walked up to Cui He to receive the sweet potatoes.

Sent to the seventh, the sweet potato was received by a little girl dressed in tatters. The little girl held up the waist card in her hand to show Cui He, and then said: "Grandma Guan, I am the fourth family of Huan Lao in Huanjia Village, Hedong Township, and I receive nine catties of sweet potatoes." ”

Cui He looked at the girl's big eyes and was very cute, but she was skinny, and couldn't help but feel a little pity for her. Cui He handed her nine catties of sweet potatoes and said, "Are there only two people in your family?" How do you get to pick up sweet potatoes? ”

The little girl blinked and said, "Grandma Guan, my father and mother died of illness last year, and only me and my brother are left in my family, and the adults in the village gave us some leftovers to eat." Since a few days ago, there has been no food left in the village. We haven't eaten for three days. If it hadn't been for Grandma Guan's sweet potatoes for me, we would have starved to death today. ”

Hearing the girl's words, Cui He's nose was sour, and his eyes were moist.

Cui He took out three catties of sweet potatoes and stuffed them to the little girl, and said, "This is the ration of the Duke and the Duchess of the State today, we don't eat today, we will eat for you and your brother." Today is a good day to talk about. ”