Chapter 65: Childe's Benevolence and Righteousness
Yuan No's original intention was to recruit more than 10,000 homeless people living in the nest first and implement Tuntian!
If it is only more than 10,000 displaced people, the pressure will not be very great, and the five thousand stone grain supported by Qiao Xuan is enough to support the first batch of paddy fields to be built, so that you can sell the paddy fields in exchange for more grain, and then you can recruit more displaced people to carry out larger-scale land reclamation, so as to enter a virtuous circle.
Unfortunately, things often don't go as you planned.
It has only been five days since Tuntian, and there have been displaced people who continue to pour into the nest.
This is also normal, the displaced people in the nearby four miles and eight towns heard the wind and rushed to live in the nest to eat, which is completely reasonable, Yuan Wei and Yan Xiang have also been mentally prepared for this.
But on the eighth day, more than 20,000 homeless people poured into the nest at once, and Yuan Wei knew that something was wrong!
If it were only based on the natural flow of news, the displaced people in the nearby towns and even neighboring counties would definitely not appear in such a concentrated manner, and there must be a driving force behind this matter.
Yan Xiang found Yuan Fu for the first time and said, "Childe, I'm afraid it won't work if it goes on like this." ”
Without waiting for Yuan to answer, Yan Xiang continued: "Right now, there are no less than 50,000 displaced people gathered outside Juchao City, which has exceeded our expectations, it was originally enough to supply 10,000 displaced people to eat a month's rations, but now it is enough to feed 50,000 displaced people, but it is only enough to eat for ten days, and after ten days, the fields have not been built, but the food is gone, what can I do?" ”
Jin Shang on the side also said: "It's not just that, there will be more influx of displaced people tomorrow and even the day after tomorrow, if you don't make arrangements early, I'm afraid you won't be able to survive even ten days." ”
Yan Xiang said: "What Yuan Xiugong said is extremely true, son, we must make arrangements as soon as possible. ”
Yuan said: "Make arrangements early? How is it arranged? ”
Yan Xiang said: "Treat it differently, we only need 10,000 displaced people, these 10,000 displaced people will be fed and worked, and the rest of the displaced people, old and young women and children, will only be provided with a bowl of gruel to continue their lives." ”
Yuan said: "Haven't you heard Ziyin, don't suffer from widowhood, but suffer from unevenness?" If you do this, you will inevitably provoke a popular uprising! Once the popular uprising is provoked, the Tuntian move will inevitably be wasted. ”
What Yuan Que said is the truth, if it is really according to Yan Xiang's method, the displaced people who are flocking to the nest will inevitably rebel, once a large-scale civil uprising is caused, Yuan Nuo can only transfer troops to suppress it, and at that time, where can he still take care of Tuntian? Moreover, once the civil uprising broke out, Yuan Wei couldn't even if he wanted to Tuntian.
Because the scholars of Lujiang will never come to Juchao to buy land again.
The displaced people have all been killed, and the Lujiang Shi clan can't hire tenant farmers to cultivate even if they buy the fields, so what do they do when they buy the fields? Throw it there?
As soon as Yuan Wei was saying that differential treatment might trigger a popular uprising, he saw Zhang Niucal hurriedly walk in and report: "Childe, a large number of displaced people have suddenly gathered outside Beiguan, and it seems that they are going to make trouble. ”
"I'm really afraid of anything." Yuan Wei immediately took Yan Xiang to Beiguan.
On the way, Yuan asked Zhang Niucal: "What's the matter, why do the homeless people gather in Beiguan?" ”
"I don't know." Zhang Niucal shook his head and said, "However, they seem to have heard some rumors that the food in the treasury of the Juchao Mansion is no longer enough, and the displaced people who came first still have food to eat, and the displaced people who arrived later can't even eat?" ”
Yuan Wei looked back at Yan Xiang, and Yan Xiang hurriedly shook his head: "Childe, I haven't told anyone else about this." ”
Yuan Wei said suddenly: "I understand, this must be someone deliberately spreading rumors behind his back to create chaos." ”
Zhang Niuqi said hatefully: "Childe, this must be Liu Xun's puppet who instigated the homeless people behind his back, and it was also this puppet who secretly spread the news to the eighteen counties of Lujiang, and I thought we didn't know, hum!" ”
Yuan said: "Calf, if there is no basis, don't talk nonsense." ”
While speaking, the group had already come to Beiguan, and then climbed to the top of the city to look out, only to see that no less than 5,000 homeless people had gathered outside Beiguan, a large area of black pressure, and the mood seemed to be quite excited.
I don't know who first discovered Yuan No, but the homeless people below suddenly became excited.
"Childe no!"
"Childe is here!"
"If Childe is here, we will be saved."
"Yes, yes, yes, Childe will never ignore us."
"Childe, we also have strength, and we can also work."
Seeing Yuan Wei appear above the city, the displaced people below immediately became excited, and they all rushed down to the city, if it were not for the presence of a soldier guarding the scene, it was very likely to cause a stampede.
But even so, less than a hundred armor soldiers were in danger under the onslaught of 5,000 displaced people.
Yuan Wei looked back at Zhang Niucal, Zhang Niucal understood, turned his head and shouted: "Everyone is silent!" ”
"All silent!"
"All silent!"
"All silent!"
The fifty armor soldiers who accompanied him responded with three calls, and the momentum shook the sky.
The homeless people below finally stopped the noise, and everyone stilted their heads and looked up at the city.
Only then did Yuan Nuo step forward and stand in front of the battlement, and shouted in his characteristic loud voice: "Fathers and fellow villagers, I, Yuan Nuo, have put my words here today, as long as I have a bite to eat, I will never starve you, no matter how many people you come, the homeless camp will always be open to you......
Yuan No's words were not finished, but he could not continue.
Because after listening to the first half of his sentence, the displaced people below were already so excited.
"Childe is benevolent, childe is benevolent."
"Childe is a good person, we have met a good person."
"It's okay now, it's okay now, we're saved."
"Haha, Ah Er, we have something to eat, we are saved."
In the chaotic crowd, the old, the young, the men, the women, all wept with joy, these simple people, they didn't even doubt whether Yuan could do what he said.
Immediately afterwards, I don't know who led the way, and these excited and tearful homeless people knelt down one after another and kowtowed to Yuan Fu at the head of the city.
"Childe is benevolent!"
"Childe is benevolent!"
"Childe is benevolent!"
At first, a few homeless people spontaneously shouted there.
But after Yang Hong heard the news and rushed to the city pass, he immediately began to add fuel to the fire, with a few small officials began to guide the homeless, under the efforts of Yang Changshi, the shouts of the homeless people finally converged into one voice, and there was only one voice left in the north gate of the city gate, and the slogan of Gongzi's benevolence resounded through the clouds and night, and it lasted for a long time.
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In a private house not far away, Liu Kai, Liu Wei's uncle and nephew took in this scene.
Seeing that thousands of homeless people at the scene knelt down one after another, chanting Gongzi's benevolence and righteousness, Liu Kai couldn't help but lament: "Mistake, mistake, this time we are stealing chickens and not losing a handful of rice, originally wanted to use this incident to hit Gongzi's reputation, but unexpectedly, it actually contributed to his reputation of benevolence and righteousness, and he made a mistake, a mistake." ”
Liu Wei also said hatefully: "Yuan Wei, a treacherous villain, a hypocrite, will really buy people's hearts, this time, his reputation of benevolence and righteousness is only afraid that it will spread throughout the eighteen counties of Lujiang." ”
Liu Kai said again: "However, the good name of benevolence and righteousness cannot be turned into real food after all, since Yuan has released his words to treat all the displaced people equally, then I want to see what he uses to feed these displaced people?" Is it just the 5,000 stone grain that Qiao Xuan lent him? But he couldn't survive for ten days. ”
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On the way back from Beiguan, Yang Hong, Zhang Niucal and other civil and military officials were very excited, because the crisis just now not only did not have a negative impact on the Yuan family, but instead contributed to Gongzi's reputation of benevolence and righteousness.
However, Yuan Wei and Yan Xiang had sad faces.
If you don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, Yang Hong and Zhang Niucal are not the people in charge, so they don't know the difficulties of the Yuan family, but Yuan Que and Yan Xiang are very clear, the current Yuan group is also the surface scenery, just wait for the treasury to be exhausted, these homeless people have nothing to eat, I am afraid that they will immediately turn around and scold Yuan Nuo for hypocrisy, deception and stealing fame.
Yan Xiang said: "Childe, it seems that the method of differential treatment really doesn't work. ”
Yuan Wei said: "Needless to say, this is definitely not good." ”
Yan Xiang said again: "But apart from this method, I really can't think of any other way." ”
Yuan said: "I really can't think of a way, so I will take it slowly, and don't make a decision in a hurry." ”
Jin Shang echoed: "What Childe said is extremely true, the more critical the moment, the more you have to calm down, you need to know that at the critical moment, a wrong step may be a catastrophe, you must not be careful." ”