The first batch of relief grain from the Americas was not delivered to central Sichuan, nor even to Chongqing, but was directly unloaded in Changshou, Fuling, Zhongxian, Wanzhou, Yunyang, Fengjie and other counties in eastern Sichuan. In particular, Fuling is a large disaster-stricken county, and countless hungry people are waiting for food to save their lives.

The people of the counties in eastern Sichuan have already gnawed off the bark and grass roots, and they have to dig up and eat white mud to satisfy their hunger. These white muds, also known as "fairy rice" and "Guanyin soil", are often mixed with grass and wood ashes and mixed with water to make cakes and eat, which can make hungry people feel the happiness of being full.

After eating the white mud, the stomach is full, and the rest is to wait for death. Because the white mud can't be pulled out at all, it is clogged in the intestines, and it kills people alive.

But even so, the hungry people who went crazy regarded the white mud as a treasure, and even broke out into a large-scale fire because of the grabbing of the white mud. The people of the third district of Fuling County dug up the white mud and hollowed out the foot of the mountain, causing the mountain to collapse, and more than 50 hungry people were stoned to death by rolling stones. The surviving companions turned a blind eye and continued to dig and eat next to the bloody corpses, and some people ate too much and too violently and died on the spot.

Leng Yindong, the commissioner of Yibin, wrote a letter to consult scientists on the nutrition of white mud, and a professor from Shanghai replied: "White mud contains minerals needed by the human body, and you can get 300 calories from eating 100 catties." ”

Leng Yindong immediately reported to Liu Xiang excitedly, and also invented a scientific way to eat white mud for this purpose. One way is to eat white mud with grain, which accounts for six or seven percent, and its harm is less; Another way is to use straw stalks or cucumber roots and boil water to help digestion after eating white mud.

When Liu Xiang got the news, he immediately instructed the provincial government to send a letter to inform all cities and counties, and use official channels to widely publicize it.

Is Liu Xiang a fool?

Of course not.

For the hungry, eating white mud is a kind of drinking water to quench their thirst. And sending a letter to promote the method of eating white mud is that Liu Xiang is drinking water to quench his thirst, and he has no other way to think of it.

Liu Xiang must have money and food, but it is not enough for the army and civil servants, in order to ensure his warlord rule, he can only keep the money and food for later use, and watch the victims of the whole Sichuan die!

The first batch of relief grain delivered from the Americas immediately gave a respite to the hungry people in various counties in eastern Sichuan, and now there are relief associations everywhere and the county government setting up porridge farms for disaster relief. As for the construction of factories with work for relief, Zhou Hexuan did not dare for the time being, judging from the current situation of the victims, it is easy to tire people to death if they are allowed to work.

The news about Zhou Hexuan's huge amount of money spent on disaster relief spread far and wide, and even the strange rumors that he killed Liu Congyun in public trial and the sudden fall of Ganlin in Chongqing spread to all counties in eastern Sichuan. Countless ordinary people who were able to survive spontaneously set up immortal tablets at home, and simply worshiped Zhou Hexuan as Guan Erye.

The second batch of American disaster relief grain also arrived soon, this time Yin Changling knelt down in front of Zhou Hexuan, and transported the grain to Suining, Ziyang, Jianyang and other counties, and the name of Zhou Shenxian also spread to all parts of central Sichuan.

At this time, major news came from the northwest that Lao Jiang was detained by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng.

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The 1,000 quintals of grain transported by Wang Er, Yuan Wujiu, and Zheng Rentong were unloaded in Fengjie County and handed over to the local relief committee for distribution. They continued to sail upstream, and soon arrived at the main city of Chongqing, and the disasters they saw along the way made the three of them chill in their vests.

In the original words of the ghost operator Zheng Rentong: "I have traveled all over East and South China, and I have witnessed all kinds of disasters, but I am not as terrible as Sichuan." The land of Bashu is anointed, starving and dying, the dead are carrying the road, and the children are eaten, and they are almost ghosts. ”

It was not until he entered the jurisdiction of Chongqing Municipality that the situation changed dramatically, and there were few corpses on both sides of the river, and there were almost no starving people, as if they had returned to the world from hell.

Zheng Rentong sighed again and again: "If you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world." Mr. Zhou can shelter the people, and there are countless surviving creatures, which can be described as a great sage in the world! ”

"Lao Zheng, don't take up the sour water, the boatman said that the front is the Zhou Mansion." Yuan Wujiu reminded.

"Ahem, it's just two sentences of emotion." Jung Ren used a cough to relieve embarrassment.

These two have been old partners for many years, before taking refuge in Wang Yaqiao, Yuan Wujiu was a mountain king who robbed his house, and Zheng Rentong was a dog-headed military advisor in the village.

When Yuan Wujiu was more than ten years old, he followed his fellow villagers to make a revolution, and before he was twenty years old, he had already become the head of the local (county) security regiment. As a result, because he couldn't get used to seeing the county magistrate corrupt and bending the law, he slaughtered the county magistrate in a fit of rage, and could only take a few brothers to go into the Lingnan mountains to become bandits.

Zheng Rentong is not a good product, this guy was born in a remote place, and he is still reading the Four Books and Five Classics when he is more than ten years old. finally opened his eyes to the world, and was admitted to school to learn Western knowledge, but he was still addicted to traditional reading materials such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin". He sighed that he was born at the wrong time, and it was rare to meet talents, and he met the bandit Yuan Wujiu on a hurry, and people thought he was too lazy to rob, but he followed him to the bandit's den with a dead face, and Mao recommended himself to be a dog-headed military advisor, and gave himself the nickname of "ghost operator".

Later, Zheng Rentong came into contact with books related to the French Revolution and encouraged Yuan Wujiu to go to the capital to make a revolution every day. Later, he met Wang Yaqiao and experienced the anarchic Anarchism, Zheng Rentong immediately became a believer in Anarchy, and even dragged Yuan Wujiu to join Wang Yaqiao's Axe Gang.

Among these three people, two bandits, a thief, committed countless crimes, and deserved to be shot, but they boasted of acting for heaven, and said that they had never harmed good people.

In a blink of an eye, they arrived at the private dock of the Zhou family, and the three of them walked up the stairs, and saw someone burning incense and kneeling down in the middle of the slope, and there were many burned paper money ashes around.

Zheng Rentong asked curiously, "Old lady, what are you doing?" ”

The old woman pointed to the Zhou Mansion in front of her and said, "I'm burning paper money for Zhou Shenxian, my granddaughter is sick, please bless Zhou Shenxian." ”

I also heard a lot of rumors along the way, knowing that Zhou Shenxian was Zhou Hexuan, Yuan Wujiu said rarely: "Mr. Zhou is not dead, he is alive and well, how can you burn paper money for him?" It's better to just give him the paper money. ”

The old woman explained: "Zhou Shenxian is a god who descends to earth, and he will always ascend to heaven, so I will burn some for him in advance." ”

Wang Er laughed: "The paper money you burned, Mr. Zhou only received it after he ascended to heaven, how can he bless your granddaughter now?" ”

The old woman was stunned and hesitated: "Then I'll send paper money directly to Zhou Shenxian?" I'm afraid it's not good. ”

The three of them were so happy that they didn't talk to the old woman anymore, but quickened their pace and walked towards the gate of the Zhou Mansion.

Zheng Rentong sighed again: "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou, he has been born and sanctified in Chongqing, which really makes Zheng fascinated!" ”

Wang Er tapped on the big iron door, and the old man from the porter He asked, "What's the matter with the few of you going to the Zhou Mansion?" ”

Wang Er said proudly: "My name is Wang Tianliang, and I am Mr. Zhou's fellow prisoner. You go and report to Mr. Zhou, just say that Yanzi Wang Er is visiting, he must know. ”

He Gatekeeper was confused, he knew his fellow villagers, classmates, and comrades, but what the hell was the same prisoner?

Finally, He Menfang expressed his doubts.

Wang Er laughed proudly: "Being in the same prison is squatting in the prison together, and when I was in the cell, I also talked and laughed with Mr. Zhou!" ”