Faced with the second daughter's resentment, Zhao Gu had no choice but to cook a few dishes in the back kitchen of the county lord's mansion, which blocked the second daughter's mouth. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the following days, the weather became colder and colder, and the days of October were almost in time for the twelfth lunar month of the previous year.

Zhao Gu still cashiered in Baiwei Restaurant every morning, chatted or played with Su Xiaocheng and the Cheshire Lord in the afternoon, and either read a book in the small building at night, or drank with Ergouzi and the three of them, and lived a leisurely life.

But when the winter moon of Chunhua (the eleventh month of the lunar calendar) arrived, Zhao Gu's life couldn't help but become tense.

In fact, not only him, but the entire Kaifeng City began to become nervous.

There is no other reason, but because the weather is getting colder and worse, a group of displaced people really appeared outside Kaifeng City.

These displaced people first appeared in groups of three or five, and then became a group of more than a dozen people, and in recent days, hundreds of people have begun to enter Kaifeng City.

Quietly, the smiling faces on people's faces gradually decreased, and the food prices of various grain shops began to rise without a trace.

The people also began to slowly store food into their homes, and the people who entered the city found that the number of people who helped them gradually decreased.

Finally one day, people suddenly discovered that tens of thousands of homeless people suddenly poured out of Kaifeng Mansion!

After receiving this news, Li Fu, the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture (Yin of Kaifeng Prefecture, the right counselor, and a famous painter in the early Song Dynasty), hurriedly reported to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to send grain to appease the displaced people.

The imperial court quickly instructed that from now on, the displaced people were not allowed to enter Kaifeng City, so as not to cause crowding in Kaifeng, and at the same time, the imperial court would set up simple tents and porridge sheds outside the city for the needs of the displaced people.

Tens of thousands of displaced people were divided into several waves and entered the area designated by the imperial court to live temporarily, and everything seemed to be in order, but the faces of the Kaifeng Mansion catchers were full of sadness.

This is just the winter moon, and there are already so many homeless people, and when it comes to the wax moon, won't there be even more? At that time, did the imperial court still have the strength to provide disaster relief?

On this issue, Kaifeng City is full of discussions, people whispering curses about the damn weather, and at the same time taking out the surplus money from their families to buy food that is constantly rising.

This is the case with ordinary people, once panic is caused, it is always difficult for them to make the right choice, completely unaware that because of their coaxing, the price of food has increased and the panic has been amplified.

The business of the brothers' darts is getting better and better, and more and more merchants are looking for them to escort their goods.

Because with the increase of displaced people, when the goods of merchants are transported out, it is always inevitable that they will be stolen or robbed by people fishing in troubled waters, and the loss is not small, and the escort of the dart master is naturally indispensable.

It's not that the homeless people are thieves and robbers, but there are always some lazy people among the homeless people, who have no livelihood and can easily go down the wrong path.

Compared to the number of tens of thousands of displaced people, it is too normal for dozens of robbers and thieves to appear.

There are also some well-to-do merchants who have found their brothers through connections, hoping to send a dart master to protect their property.

In recent days, many of the displaced people who first entered Kaifeng have used up their savings, and there are people with unscrupulous intentions who do that sneaky thing, and the pressure on public security in Kaifeng Mansion is unprecedentedly huge, and these merchants do not expect the government to completely eliminate this kind of thing, but only hope that their shops can be safer.

But they don't have the money to support the thugs, so they can only set their sights on some darts.

As a result, the brother dart shop, which specializes in small merchants' dart business, began to become famous.

These days, Li Danran has been screened and recruited twenty dart masters again, but there are still some people who are not enough, and there are too many people who support darts.

Zhao Gu still runs back and forth between the restaurant and the county lord's mansion every day these days, listening to the people talking about the food shortage, listening to the Cheshire Lord's evaluation of the current situation, and he also makes suggestions from time to time, and his words are amazing.

Soon, halfway through the winter moon, the time came to the fifteenth day of the winter moon.

Early this morning, a large number of displaced people poured in outside Kaifeng City again, plus the scattered displaced people these days, 70,000 displaced people have gathered outside Kaifeng City.

With such a large number of displaced people, the amount of food to be consumed every day is amazing, although the Great Song Dynasty has always been rich and the imperial court has enough surplus food, but it can't withstand such consumption!

The Kaifeng government had no choice but to issue a ban prohibiting the people from stockpiling grain, and restricting the purchase of grain from large and small restaurants and restaurants in Kaifeng City, and not hoarding grain.

As soon as this news came out, the people suddenly became chaotic and speculated, is there no food in the imperial court?

Compared with the discussion of the people in Kaifeng City, the displaced people outside Kaifeng City really exploded.

Once the imperial court restricts the purchase of grain, doesn't it mean that there is not much surplus grain, and if it really comes to the time when the surplus food is exhausted, these displaced people will be the first to starve.

There are people with weak temperaments, who howl and cry when they hear the news, stimulating everyone's emotions.

There are even more grumpy people, cursing at the damn God loudly, and it doesn't work to stop them no matter how people around them stop them.

In this era, people are very respectful of heaven and earth, because of respect, so fear, even though it has reached this point, many homeless people still dare not disrespect the sky.

On the wall of Kaifeng, many officials of the imperial court looked at the homeless people here, many of them showed sadness, and some officials couldn't bear to see the homeless people suffering, leaving tears.

The new Tongzhimu Yiwen of Kaifeng Mansion sighed, walked up to a middle-aged official with an uneasy expression, and said, "Lord Li, Zhao Xiang is invited." ”

Yin Li Fu of Kaifeng Mansion was startled, hurriedly sorted out his clothes, got off the city tower, and went straight to the mansion closest to the imperial city on Xungui Street in Kaifeng Mansion, and knocked on the door of the mansion.

After a while, Li Fu walked out of the Zhao Mansion with a strange expression, stood outside the mansion gate for a long time, and then walked back to the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion.

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Zhao Gu also took rock candy and pear out of the city, looked at the six people in the crowd, sighed, Zhao Gu handed rock candy a hundred copper plates, and let her throw them into the donation box.

I heard that this donation box was placed here by a female Bodhisattva in the city, and the purpose was to get everyone to donate money to help these displaced people.

After the fundraiser, Zhao Gu took the rock sugar Sydney back to the restaurant, and the three of them did not speak along the way, even the always lively Sydney was very silent, and was shocked by the six people all over the city.

Baiwei Restaurant is now gradually crowded, and it is no longer lively a few days ago, not only because the imperial court has restricted its raw material procurement, but also because everyone is panicked and has no heart to spend money on eating.

Zhao Gu simply closed the door of the store, took the rock sugar Sydney pear into the backyard, and took a book out casually to teach the second daughter to read and write.

At about dusk, the three of them were working hard in the house, and they didn't want to be knocked on the door of the store, Zhao Gu opened the door and saw that it was a dart master from the brothers' dart company who knocked on the door.

"Oh no, the big darthead, the second darthead, they were arrested by the government." The person who came said.

The dart head is the name of the dart master for the leader of the dart line, Zhao Gu is called the big dart head because everyone regards him as the boss, the second dart head refers to the two dogs, and Hao Bai and Li Danran are called the three dart heads and the four darts respectively.

Hearing that the two dogs and the three of them were arrested, Zhao Gu was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Why did the government arrest them?" ”

The dart master replied: "It seems that it was because they had promoted and smeared the government before, and now they have been found out by the government." ”