Chapter 310: Wanderers
It is said that in the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters really rarely occurred in the Beizhili area. But in this year, Baoding Mansion was a year of great drought. At this time, it was the autumn harvest season, but all the seedlings died in the fields, and the people could be said to have no harvest. The people of Baoding Mansion were already living in a very poor situation, and they lived a hard life of half a year's grain for bran vegetables. Now, most of the people have no food left in their homes at this time.
Not only the surplus food, but even the grass roots and bark in the village were eaten by everyone. Baoding Mansion was originally next to the capital. It stands to reason that Baoding Mansion has suffered a catastrophe, and the imperial court should be the first to know about it, and it should hurry up the relief. To a certain extent, this Baoding Mansion is also at the foot of the capital, and it is a very important place.
Gao Jin, the prefect of Baoding, is a very upright and honest person, and he has already written four twists and turns in a row about the disaster in Baoding Mansion, and sent it to the capital quickly. But I don't know what's going on, no one in the capital pays attention to the disaster in Baoding Mansion at all. Even Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, the old man who had always been clear seemed to have suddenly disappeared, as if he had forgotten that there was such a place as Baoding Mansion in the south of the capital.
The people have nothing to eat, there is no way to live, there is only one way left, begging for the whole family.
Walking directly south from Baoding Mansion, although the drought in those places is not serious, the people are still living in dire straits, and they can barely survive.
You can't go to the south, you can only go to the north. To the north is the capital, after all, there are many rich families in the capital, and there is food. As a result, the mighty army of hungry people is to help the old and the young, all the way to the north.
Of course, there are bones along the way. It is no wonder that many old people, children, and emaciated people died on the way. If you don't eat, you can only get enough water every day. From time to time, I have to get some Guanyin soil to fill my stomach, who can stand this?
There was no surplus grain in the Baoding treasury, and Gao Jin watched many hungry people go to the capital together, and saw many hungry people die on the way. As the prefect, Gao Jin's heart is dripping blood, but dripping blood is useless, and no one cares about the court.
Qin Li: The group of displaced people they saw was about five or six hundred people. Apparently this is a very thin group of people who have little strength to move forward. They should be the last of the hungry people fleeing in Baoding.
said that since Qin Li crossed the Ming Dynasty, he has never met people in such hardship. Although Qin Li has been down, although he has been down, how can he say that he can still have a full meal every once in a while. But the homeless people in front of them don't know how many days they haven't eaten.
The sky was overcast, as if a rainstorm was about to fall. Qin Li and Gao Zhong, as well as Huang Tian and Zhou Fan, were all kind-hearted people, and when they saw the homeless people in front of them, they dismounted one after another and gave them all the few dry food they had brought with them.
Monks have more meat and less meat, so who will dry food give? Qin Li naturally chose those extremely thin children. After all, children are the future, they are the hope, their life has just begun, and they still have a long way to go! How could this young life die prematurely?
Just a small amount of dry food was almsged, and the children and mothers who received it knelt down and kowtowed to them.
"Thank you, uncle, thank you, if there is an afterlife, we are willing to be a cow and a horse to serve the uncle!" The voices of the people were miserable and miserable. In this world, in fact, the most simple and kindest are the people. As long as you give them a little bit of good, they will keep you in mind and be grateful to Dade for the rest of their lives.
The great ideal of crossing the Ming Dynasty and Qin Li is to be able to have a beautiful wife and concubine, and live a life of glory and wealth. But his life is good, and seeing many people living in dire straits, how can his heart be at ease? Therefore, while enjoying life, we must also do things for the people.
Today's people's kneeling did not make Qin Li feel the slightest satisfaction of vanity, but the previous feeling of being worshiped by the people and being complacent turned into an extremely heavy.
If there are so many displaced people, if they don't give them help, I'm afraid they will all die. Even if you don't die, there is a good chance that there will be a riot. Isn't every riot in history because of the rise of displaced people, or because someone seized the opportunity to fan the flames?
Such a thought only flashed in Qin Li's mind and passed away. At this time, Qin Li was not so noble, so noble that he was worried about the future of the Ming Dynasty and the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty.
"Xiao Lizi, didn't we hear that your hometown is Baoding Mansion? This time there was a disaster, should we go and see? Gao Zhong was also in a heavy mood.
Of course, Gao Zhong was deeply aware of the situation in the capital. There is no one in charge of the capital now. Sensei said that it was out of the homeless people, that is, there was a riot, and I am afraid that the court would not have time to take care of it!
The reason why Qin Li was persuaded was entirely because Gao Zhong was very optimistic about Qin Li. In his opinion, Qin Li is a very far-sighted person, and such a person can't be offended by anything. Although it is said that the emperor is very anxious to see Qin Li now, it is also an important means to bring the relationship between the two closer to Qin Li by comforting Qin Li appropriately and following Qin Li to his hometown to have a look, isn't this an important means to bring the relationship between the two closer.
After listening to Gao Zhong's words, Qin Li was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that the owner of this body was from Baoding Mansion. Fortunately, Qin Li fused the memories of the two people. He was just a little stunned and said, "Hehe! Xiao Zhongzi, it's really hard for you, you still remember my hometown. Baoding Mansion is indeed my hometown, alas! It's a long story. My ancestor was originally very wealthy, but it was swallowed up by the patriarch one after another. So I had to wander the world and go to Yangzhou.
Speaking of those days in the past, it was really bitter. ”
As soon as Qin Li said this, Gao Zhong's face suddenly turned slightly red, and he said, "We really don't know that Xiao Lizi has suffered so much!" Hum! Your patriarch is too hateful, Xiao Lizi, we should go to the house to see it, if nothing else, at least clean up your patriarch, right? ”
Gao Zhong is a eunuch after all, and when he says it, he is still narrow-minded, so he is flattering and instigating Qin Lidao.
How did he know that Qin Li didn't care about his own past at all, as for the original patriarch, he had indeed bullied the original owner of this body. But it's all over in the end.
Qin Li is just a traverser, where does he have the heart to find the bad luck of the patriarch? You know, don't look at Qin Li's official is not big, but the official he has seen is big. The emperor, the prince, the mother or something, Qin Li has seen it. Where would he still put a little patriarch in his eyes at this time?
Besides, Baoding Mansion is now suffering from a disaster, maybe the patriarch's family is also having a hard time!
You can't do everything, leave a line to meet in the future, so Qin Li shook his head lightly and said, "Little Zhongzi, I still don't want to go to the house, anyway, there is nothing at home now, maybe the whole family has long forgotten about me Qin Li!"
Xiao Zhongzi, now there are displaced people everywhere, if I wait, I will delay a little, see the prefect of Baoding, and see what is the specific reason why the people's disaster relief food has not been distributed. (To be continued.) )