Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Nanban Who Lacks Food
readx;?“ That's right, these people are going to be sent to the port of the East. Shen Bin nodded, and said to Liu Xiu beside him, "You are all clerks of the civil affairs department, you must know how big the labor gap is now, although these people are from Annan, and the language is also varied, but they can understand our words, so it is still very suitable to be used as a laborer."www.biquge.info ”
Liu Xiu nodded, "But chief, we don't have enough food." ”
Shen Bin smiled weakly and bitterly, "The Senate must know, but since they have already sent a message to these people, there must be a way to solve this food problem." He can only fool around like this, it has been a few months since he arrived in this time and space, and the high-yield detoxified potatoes planted are all lush at this time, but before the time of harvest, other sweet potatoes or anything are also in the growing season, and there is no hope at this time, the Senate can only choose to buy from the outside for the time being to solve the current food shortage.
"Chief," Liu Xiu's eyes were full of admiration, "you scared me to death when you walked over to that pistol just now, what if that shot fired?" But speaking of which, you are really wise and powerful, why don't the chief go to the troops? ”
"The senators of the Senate are all performing their duties, and now almost one-tenth of the senators are in the army, if they all go to war, will the production in the rear be carried out?" Shen Bin patted Liu Xiu on the shoulder as he spoke, "Look, you are now an important part of the Senate system, if it weren't for you, there would be fewer people in charge of registration here, then there would be a long delay here, and then something unexpected might happen." The strength of a country is not only the sufficiency of a warlike army, but also the full operation of the entire state apparatus. ”
Seeing Liu Xiu's eyes blinking, Shen Bin knew that his words had been thrown into the water, and he didn't explain much, so he patted him lightly on the shoulder again, "Trying to do your own thing is to contribute to the Senate and the country." ”
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Liming was holding the bowl of porridge with tears flowing down at this time, his whole family was arrested in the south of Wenshan Port, his wife and children, parents and brothers, and a family of more than ten people were driven north, there was neither food nor rest along the way, and his parents died on the road not long after crossing Wenshan Port, and they didn't even have a chance to bury, and they were directly lifted by a few barbarians and thrown to the side of the road to expose the corpses to the wilderness. The child was killed by the brute at the beginning of the fight, and was thrown into his old house and burned down, and his wife was captured by the brute to be a little wife, and she didn't know whether she was dead or alive at this time. One of his two younger brothers was killed because he resisted the barbarians, and he was disemboweled, and the other was directly hacked to death by the barbarians because he had nothing to eat and walked slowly during the siege just now. Some relatives were scattered and lost contact for various reasons, and at this time he was left alone, skinny and choked on this bowl of porridge and couldn't drink it, although the aroma was tangy, but it couldn't arouse his appetite at all.
Shen Bin skimmed for a moment, and saw this thin man holding a bowl of porridge crying there, he felt a little strange, and couldn't help but walk over and ask, "Don't you have something to eat?" How? Not to taste? Without waiting for him to answer, he took out a small cloth bag with a 500-gram package from his pocket, handed it to him, and said, "Why don't you try this?" ”
Dawn took it indifferently, and before he opened it, a more fragrant smell poured into his nasal cavity, making his saliva flow, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, looked up at the man in strange clothes and asked, "May I ask the master, what is this?" ”
He had heard this person speak before, and knew that he was speaking official language, so he also used official language to talk to Shen Bin at this time. However, his official speech had a thick Annan accent, which made Shen Bin think for a while before he understood what he was asking. "This is fried rice, which can be put in porridge or eaten directly."
Curiously, Dawn opened the small bag, and it slowly contained yellow and clear fried rice, which seemed to make him feel very delicious, and he couldn't help but take a small bite.
The smell was fragrant and delicious, and the fried rice was fried just right, melting in his mouth, filling his mouth with the fragrance, and his tears immediately gushed out, startling Shen Bin. "What are you doing here? Crying with porridge and crying when eating fried rice? ”
Dawn knelt down and kowtowed to Shen Bin with a puff and said, "The little one didn't mean this, but I felt very sad when I thought that my deceased family could no longer eat such delicious food." ”
"Get up," Shen Bin helped Liming up, "Living well is the greatest comfort to the deceased, do you still have a family?" ”
"The little one also has a wife, but she was snatched away by the brutes, and now I don't know if she is dead or alive." Dawn wept aside.
"These damn Nanban brutes," Shen Bin couldn't help but scold, "Don't worry, as long as your wife is still alive, you will definitely be able to find it." He turned to Liu Xiu, "You go and prepare, set up a file of missing relatives, register all those who have lost contact with their relatives, and contact the civil affairs commissioners of several other resettlement sites, so that they can make a list of the missing relatives of the refugees, so that the separated relatives can be reunited." ”
Liu Xiu couldn't help muttering, "Isn't it okay this late?" I've just finished it......"
Shen Bin patted him on the shoulder, "Thank you for your hard work, you must know that if you work hard, they may be able to find their lost relatives through this, this is a great event with immeasurable merits!" ”
Liu Xiu nodded, he also remembered that his family disappeared after sending him out, and later went back to find his family, but he was separated from him, if only someone could collect information about his relatives. He used to be in charge of carpentry in the shipyard, but because he was thin and weak, he couldn't keep up, so his output was not high when he worked, which caused his companions to complain. Because he used to be an advanced element in the cultural study class, and Yu Sha was anxious to get civil affairs workers, he was recommended by Jiang Yan to work in the civil affairs department. He likes this job very much, don't do too hard things, that is, you have to write often, arithmetic, I heard that now the chiefs have been implementing the skill rating system, if they can write will calculate, but there is a skill allowance, according to the spread of the saying, their salary plus allowance a month can really be a lot of money. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be full of motivation, and immediately went to take his satchel and rummaged through the pen and paper to start registering.
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Bogdan was already in a dead heart at this time, and the three-way siege launched by himself invested a total of almost 6,000 Dingkou, plus 5,000 soldiers, but in the process of moving forward, he was continuously attacked by the defenders of Zhancheng Port, with heavy casualties, and finally broke up directly, not only killed and wounded more than 2,000 soldiers, but even the 6,000 Dingkou in the front line also took the opportunity to run behind the wall of Zhanchenggang. This kind of stealing chickens and rice made his heart ache, and he still had about 5,000 soldiers left under his command, at least 1,000 barbarians have now been scattered everywhere, and they can't be found, but it's okay, otherwise the extra thousand mouths will have to eat him to death. But even with so many mouths, he still couldn't feed them, and now he was completely out of food.
The ships promised by the Medeno to carry the grain had not yet arrived at this time, and when they did, they could not use the port facilities of the port of Champa for unloading. At this time, if he unloaded food on the beach, he had no more labor to work on, and Ding Kou fled to death, and now there were only a few hundred women left, and now he would kill and eat them all? But how many days can you eat it? These dings can't be killed in one go, although the weather is cold, but if it's **, you can't eat it. And at this time, there are many people under his command who are having diarrhea, I heard that many people are prostration, and there are those who vomit non-stop, and the witch doctor who accompanied the army did not know what was wrong with this, only said that it was a precursor to the plague.
"Or," said a tribal leader beside him softly, "there are still quite a few dead soldiers and Dingkou on the battlefield, so let's eat them first." ”
"Leader, the south gate of Champa Port is open!" The herald came running to him and reported that Bogdan was now quite afraid of the tent, for fear that the strange bird would fly over and throw something that would burn and explode, so he would rather go into the tent in the open than in a meeting or something else. At this time, he stood up and hurriedly ran over with a few leaders to see the situation.
In the distance, the gate of the port of Champa was opened, and out of it came a group of soldiers dressed in red, these soldiers carried what looked like it should be made of iron pipes, and a short sword was stuck diagonally underneath, they searched for something in Ding Kou's corpse, and from time to time they could find one who was not dead, and then the people in the back came forward and carried the dead Ding Kou on a stretcher into the city.
"What are they doing?" The tribal leader asked curiously.
Bogdan couldn't help but be a little depressed, "I'm not from Annan, how do I know?" ”
"Looks like you're carrying someone who was injured but didn't die?"
"What do they want the wounded for? Can't work? ”
"It's just, it's useless to save the injured, how happy is it to go straight to the knife?"
Bogdan suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "These Annan people seem to want to live, we still have a few hundred women here, let's see if we can exchange something with them, let's go back." ”
"Can you?" The tribal leader on the side asked, "What's the use of them asking for women?" Is it used to cultivate land? ”
"I don't know, they even want the wounded, and the women will definitely want it. You must know that the Dingkou we sent out today are all people who are dying of starvation, and if they can still rescue them, then they will definitely want women as well," Bogdan said, pointing to a herald beside him and ordering, "You go find an Annam woman and bring it here." ”