Chapter 134: The Orphanage
Fortunately, Mu Baiyi was much luckier than those "beggars", she was selected into the interior of the White Lotus Sect, but what about the other children?
If they die, they will die, and who will care about them?
Maybe Mu Baiyi might still think that they were born and that the White Lotus Sect was kind and gave them a chance to survive
Yes, have you ever seen that evil sect openly and openly engrave the words on his face that he does not recognize the six relatives?
Even robbers will take a fancy name and rob the rich to help the poor.
"Bai Yi, wake up, take a sober look at the filth inside the White Lotus Sect." Li Yuan sighed.
In his position, seek his government.
Although the Incense Cult has been destroyed, the other sects are still stubbornly surviving. If you want to fight and destroy the White Lotus Sect, you have to Mu Baiyi.
He clapped his hands, and out of the aisle came a pair of jailers and some janitarian guards, behind whom were small children climbing with ropes.
A disabled child with a broken hand or foot has difficulty walking.
But under the dirty and fluffy hair, there are bright and clear eyes on the dirty face, and the eyes contain hope for life.
They knelt on the ground, moving forward like worms, their thin ragged rags faintly visible in their thin and tattered bodies, skinny as wood, no flesh and blood, just skeletons wrapped in skin.
"They were all cute children, and they may still be snuggled in their mother's arms now, but look at it" Li Yuan's nose was a little sour, and he couldn't say anything anymore.
It is absolutely unusual that there are too many crippled children in the city, and in ancient times, if they were disabled, they would have simply drowned or dug a pit and buried them. (There is no need to criticize the inhumane behavior of the ancients, it was difficult to maintain the food of a family in ancient times, let alone raise a waste, even modern families are very reluctant.) )
Sin often runs deeper than poverty.
Li Yuan was well aware of this simple truth, and directly sent people to track the whereabouts of beggars in various cities to see if anyone deliberately made a living from it.
Sure enough, there is no organization among the beggars, it is all some underworld forces in order to make money, so they use the remnants of these beggars to cheat money.
Don't underestimate this industry, it's huge profits!
After the money returned from begging is in the pocket, only give these beggars a rancid steamed bun, a bowl of water can be maintained, if you encounter illness, directly throw it in the barren mountains and mountains, let the passing beasts eat it.
The White Lotus Sect also occupies a large part of the market in this area.
Li Yuan then asked the government to send Shun Teng to touch the melons, and sure enough, he found a few dens of the White Lotus Sect and wiped them out.
"They just let the White Lotus Sect cut off their hands and feet, and took dumb medicine, so they became what they are now, I need you to help me, completely eradicate the cancer of the White Lotus Sect, and return the world to a peaceful and prosperous world.
You keep calling me a thief, but since I came to Jinling, I have been lightly relieved of my humble endowments, and actively reclaimed wasteland, so that the cultivators have their fields and the laborers have income, if such a court and emperor are still the evil world of your White Lotus Sect, then I have nothing to say! Li Yuan said.
"Can you show me the kids?" Mu Baiyi's tone was a little choked, and he felt extremely ashamed when he thought of the position of the head of the Incense Sect where he once sit.
"Unlock her and let her out." Li Yuan had no worries and looked upright.
"But Your Majesty, this demon girl is strong in martial arts?" The commander of the forbidden army hesitated.
"It's fine." Li Yuan shook his head slightly, the reason why he chose Mu Baiyi was because he took a fancy to her natural weakness and compassion.
Of course, he was not unprepared, under the wide sleeved robe, there was also a small crossbow machine, which was full of anesthetic, as long as the skin was slightly broken, the whole body would be weak.
After the lock of the cell door was opened by the jailer.
Dozens of guards stared at Mu Baiyi tightly and clenched their sabers.
Mu Baiyi did not choose to kidnap Li Yuan, fought her way out of the encirclement, slowly walked to the side of the group of children, squatted on the ground, and looked at their helpless eyes, how similar she was to her for many years.
Orphans, unfortunately, she too.
Carefully wiped the beggar's cheeks with his hands, revealing his dark face.
The beggar's eyes cast a weak gaze and a hint of hope, but it was soon replaced by fear, and they shrank in fear, like a puppy ruthlessly abandoned by their master, and could only curl up their thin bodies, hoping to retain a trace of warmth.
"What's your name?" Mu Baiyi asked with a smile.
"Babble." The beggar could not speak, and wrote on the ground with his fingers, but before he could write a word, he accidentally fell, and this word was written for a long, long time, and he fell down a total of five times.
The dust on the ground revealed three twisted handwritings.
Huang Man'er.
He remembered that this word was learned when he was listening to the people in the market, and the first word Huang was learned when he heard the Yellow Crane Tower, and that word he thought about in his heart for a long, long time, and it was imprinted in his heart.
The second word is barbarian, he can't write barbarian, and there won't be any restaurant in life that will write barbarian as a signboard, which he begged for with a scholar's shirt in his mouth, just passing by a group of sheep, bleating non-stop, Xiucai wrote the word baa, he shook his head, until the sheep cries off, brute~
He seemed to remember the call in the depths of his memory, and it was this voice.
The third word is when a group of street thugs asked him to drill his crotch, grabbed his hair and called his son, he bit the thug excitedly, begging to learn that word, the thug is also very righteous, maybe he can't help him.
Huang Man'er is his name.
It is also his only thought, he only hopes that he will have a chance to go home, look at his parents from a distance, and listen to a nursery rhyme.
"Under the iron tree, flowers and birds, there is a stupid yellow barbarian~"
"I'm going to raise them and let them live, so I'll help you." Mu Baiyi looked at Li Yuan seriously, and Huang Man'er snuggled in her arms.
Li Yuan nodded, instructed the eunuchs around him to bathe and change clothes for these beggars, and then left without looking back.
The next day, the morning dynasty.
Li Yuan promulgated a holy decree to establish the Datang Welfare Institute, and all children under the age of 15, who are physically disabled and abandoned, can enter the welfare home and be raised by the imperial court, and the corresponding welfare home must also be opened in each state.
As for the funds, Li Yuan did not take a penny from the state treasury, but chose to reduce the royal family's expenses and let this part of the money be provided to the welfare institute.
Li Yuan understood that if the treasury was asked to pay this money, according to the thinking of the ancients, even if he was sympathetic, what was the use of raising the useless cripples of society?
Widows and widows are lonely, and the disabled are all supported.
The ideal Datong society has not been realized in future generations, the society is developing, and the resources are abundant, but few people are willing to take a look at the poor people who are struggling at the bottom.
After all, who is not pitiful in the bustling world?
When the ministers in the court saw that since the Emperor Taishang voluntarily reduced the palace expenses to support him, they praised the ancient saint monarch one after another, and there was no follow-up.
Next, Li Yuan set up the Jinyi Guards directly under the imperial court, and Mu Baiyi was the commander of the envoy, aiming to find the whereabouts of other sects of the White Lotus Sect, as well as spy on other countries.
At present, Li Yuan has designated two small countries, Zhenla and Linyi.
His eyes were on Chang'an.
Everything is ready, only the prince is missing.