Chapter 365 is just starting all over again

Shaanxi in August.

There is a business that is so good that it is booming all over the territory, and that is the business of selling livestock.

The news from the government that 200,000 head of cattle will be slaughtered for sheepskin rafts is an exciting news in this respect, not to mention that a large number of victims have a way to live, and it has stimulated the livestock trade and slaughtering industry in Shaanxi. At least more than 2,000 heads were slaughtered in every state and county, and for a time, there were people everywhere buying sheep and livestock, and the business of selling livestock was so good in an instant that it was bursting, and even those crooked melons and inferior dates that no one cared about before were also snapped up.

There is a person who has benefited a lot from this crazy "money" incident in the imperial court.

Gao Yingxiang is a leader of horse sellers, and he has a team specializing in horse sales, and there are many people who can fight and kill, otherwise, he would not dare to sell horses, sell horses, and have to deal with the grassland, and there is no real ability on the grassland, which is unreliable.

Gao Yingxiang has been in Yan'an Mansion all the year round, and he knows the situation in northern Shaanxi very well, and he understands the rumors on the "rivers and lakes", and the legend is that on July 23, there will be people in northern Shaanxi who will raise the flag to rebel, and the whole Shaanxi is ready to come to a beacon fire everywhere, he also has a thought, thinking that maybe he can also make a move, this Shaanxi this territory, people really can't live, don't want to do something, except for waiting for death, there is no other way.

But it didn't take long for the rumors to be wrong, the twenty-third had already passed, and even if it was climbing, the news of the rebellion should have climbed to Ansai, and Ansai was not far from Fugu.

At the end of July, his livestock business immediately became so good that it exploded, and the old, weak, sick and disabled, crooked melons and inferior dates that he had sold were all gone.

The news that came with it was that the imperial court was going to slaughter 200,000 head of cattle for the relief of the people, and each state and county needed to slaughter at least 2,000 heads, and it had to be done as soon as possible.

Outside the city of Ansai, a huge livestock slaughterhouse has been spontaneously formed, there are too many livestock to be slaughtered here, in the past, the entire county town of Ansai, can slaughter a few heads, more than a dozen animals a day, that is a great thing, now, every day has increased several times, the livestock will never be enough to slaughter, those immigration officers will take the silver, buy cattle on the spot, especially sheep, do not bargain. Once purchased, they were sent to this slaughterhouse, where they were skinned by a special slaughterhouse, and then dried the sheepskin fetuses in the wide territory outside the city of Ansai, ready to be used as sheepskin rafts to transport the victims.

Gao Yingxiang's days have been quite "prosperous" recently. He was famous in the whole Yan'an Mansion, doing livestock business, so the government had to look for him, so he personally sat in Ansai, set up a large slaughterhouse outside the city, and sent his brothers, disciples and grandchildren to various ravines to catch sheep, not only this Ansai, other states and counties, all of them are in a hurry, it is said that the Qincha Xu Bodhisattva of the Si Nong Division ordered that enough sheep must be slaughtered in the fastest time, and enough sheepskin tires must be made for making leather rafts, so, for a while, Everywhere the sheep are in distress.

Gao Yingxiang calculated, the whole of Shaanxi will slaughter 200,000 head of livestock, counting, he is afraid that there will be more than 20,000 heads in Yan'an Mansion, and he will account for most of the slaughter of the entire Yan'an Mansion, so this time, there is no problem at all in slaughtering 10,000 head of livestock, the price of each head of livestock is different, and the sheep is three taels of silver each, and it will cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, which is a lot of money.

Gao Yingxiang looked at the disciples and grandchildren who were in full swing, looked at this lively scene, and then looked back at the immigration officer who was "refreshing" spending money to buy livestock, Gao Yingxiang sighed, now there is a rare saint of heaven, willing to spend money, take 10 million taels of silver to smash into Shaanxi, this Shaanxi is so drought, almost no harvest year, seeing that it is about to catch fire, seeing that it is about to bloom everywhere, now there is no shadow, and I have not heard of any news anywhere, there is news, It's just some bandits, bandits, robbers or something that already existed, these are all common in Shaanxi, and they are not a big deal.

Gao Yingxiang pondered, whether he should tell his brothers about it, say it, if before, he still has a great certainty, there are many victims, he takes his disciples and grandchildren to kill the victims, he can coerce tens of thousands of people, to say that it is possible to attack the county seat, even if the attack on the county town fails, the officers and soldiers do not dare to chase him, but now, his brothers, disciples and grandchildren, one by one slaughtering livestock and slaughtering oily faces, eating meat and eating meat when I see the meat I want to vomit, now say it, I am afraid that the brothers do not have the heart to rebel. ,

Many people heard early in the morning that they could find a settlement point along the river, they could immigrate to the south, and they had someone to eat, so they could avoid the suffering of the natural disaster in Shaanxi...... Thinking of this, Gao Yingxiang didn't know whether to praise the emperor, praise the court, or scold the emperor and scold the court, he was also interested in rebellion, and he also had contacts, and he also had a share in the incident, and now, if he is a thief, it is okay, if the officers and soldiers really pursue it, he can't run a ...... of rebellion, Gao Yingxiang was irritable again, and the officers and soldiers suddenly seemed to get the news last month, and began to be alert, and the city gate would be closed during the day, and it was only a little relaxed in the past few days, but obviously, There are more soldiers patrolling on the city wall, and the weapons look much brighter, and now that there is an incident, I am afraid that there is little chance of success, Gao Yingxiang sat in the shade, looking at the hot slaughterhouse, drying the sheepskin fetus, looking at the tall city wall in the distance, and his thoughts were full of emotion.

Yang Reform would never have expected that Xu Guangqi's bold decision to buy livestock would have a big impact on history, and the money spent was finally not spent in vain.

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Shaanxi Fugu in August.

Shi Kefa was happy all day long, originally there was news that the 23rd would be the day of rebellion, but now it is August, and there is no news of the rebellion, the news received a few days earlier made Shi Kefa scared out of a cold sweat, Fugu County, where he is located, is the place where the victims rebelled, this is not the most critical, the key is that someone is watching to see if the immigrants are powerful, whether there is really food, if there is food, there is food, there is no food to rebel, which makes Shi Kefa frightened, and secretly sighs that he insisted on going out of the city on the 23rd, Otherwise, I am afraid that this people's change will be in their own Fugu County.

Fugu County is on the edge of the Yellow River, opposite Baode Prefecture, and the migrants have settled in the open area outside the city, where many victims have gathered.

Originally, the victims were relatively numb, panicked, and even had deep resentment, but now, the mood has stabilized a lot, and the reason is weird.

In the past two days, some people came, saying that they were from the capital, and they came to Shaanxi to do a condolence performance, and the emperor sent them down. Sing to the victims? This is strange, are the victims not hungry after listening to the opera? The emperor of Shi Kefajue is really naïve, and he should send food here, not a few people to sing. But since the emperor wanted to do it, Shi Kefa didn't stop him, and asked those few people from the capital to teach people to sing in the disaster pile.

However, later, Shi Kefa praised the emperor's approach, without him, after these people taught to sing for a few days, the mood of the victims has changed a lot, and people have become more cheerful, and the pile of victims is no longer sighing, numbness mixed with despair, and there are some laughter.

Shi Kefa stood on the river beach, looking at the people in the "choir" in the capital in the distance arranging those children to sing, and felt very warm, the audience was the adults of those children, some men, some women, some old, some young, some old men who lost their teeth and smiled from ear to ear, and there were mothers who watched their children sing with a silent smile.

The man of the "choir", quite amiable, with a smile on his face, directed the children to stand in several rows, the smaller ones squatted in front, the slightly taller ones stood, and then the taller ones stood on the mound, so that there were several rows.

The man in the "choir" smiled and said, "Okay, 'all the ...... from yesterday' ready... Singing ......"

The children had already mastered the song, and when they heard the command, they immediately began to sing in their young voices.

"All the ...... yesterday has become a distant memory......"

"I have spent half my life ...... hard work, and tonight I will go into the wind and rain again......"

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"No matter how hard it is, you have to be strong, just for the look of expectation......"

Singing together, watching the mothers and grandfathers of those children singing, the smiles are still there, but there are more tears in their eyes, which is clearly singing themselves.

"If the heart is there, the dream is there, and there is true love between heaven and earth......"

"Look at success or failure, life is heroic, it's just a matter of starting from scratch......"

Singing this, some of the old men couldn't stand it anymore and sang along with the children. The whole scene is deeply touching and moving. ,

By the time the second time the song was sung, countless victims of the entire river beach had spontaneously started singing along with the children.

The scene became spectacular.

"If the heart is there, the dream is there, and there is true love between heaven and earth......"

"Look at success or failure, life is heroic, it's just a ...... from the beginning" The singing voice has changed from a young children's voice to a thick chorus.

Shi Kefa has long been familiar with the lives of the victims, and when he heard the victims singing emotionally, he also roared along, but fortunately, this song does not pay attention to any rhyme, as long as the inner voice is shouted.

"If the heart is there, the dream is there, but it is just a ...... start all over again", the victims sang over and over again, this song written in their hearts, only by singing it continuously, can the sourness in the heart be expressed.

The people of the "choir" saw that the victims sang these two lyrics over and over again, and seemed reluctant to stop, knowing that this was the emotions of the victims, although it was a good thing to vent their emotions, but the time should not be too long, so they thought of a way to immediately clap their hands and interrupt the singing of the victims.

"Papapa......" A few applause rang out, and the victims recovered from their bitter hearts and followed the beating, although this rule was strange, but on the river beach, they quickly remembered a burst of "violent" applause. Some secretly wiped their tears, some had red eyes, and some blinked and squeezed their tears down......

When the leader of the choir saw Shi Kefa coming, he hurriedly shouted: "Folks, shall we ask our Master Shi to say a few words?" The people in the choir can be regarded as having seen the formation, knowing the importance of sensationalism and momentum, and seeing that the victims have been emotional, it is a good time to sensationalize, so they immediately pulled out Shi Kefa, who the victims trusted more.

As soon as the victims heard that Shi Kefa, a good official, was asking for a speech, they all shouted: "Okay, good......"

Shi Kefa sighed, these people really have a few brushes, a few simple songs, and a few simple words to mobilize people's emotions, which is really powerful. When he heard that he was going to speak by himself, he was not ambiguous, so he stepped forward and prepared to speak.

"Folks, this song is sung to the hearts of the officials, but also to everyone's hearts, Your Majesty said, 'Don't abandon, don't give up', as long as everyone believes in Your Majesty, Your Majesty will definitely save everyone, this, there is no doubt about it, now, Your Majesty has prepared 10 million taels of silver to help Shaanxi, in order to transport everyone to the south, to start life again, that is, in this song, 'If the heart is there, the dream is there,...... It's just starting all over again', as long as everyone firmly believes that there is a future, as long as everyone sings in the song, no matter how hard and tired you are, then a good life must belong to your ......, you see, those sheepskin tires over there, are specially prepared for you, and when these sheepskin tires are dry, you can sit on these sheepskin tires down the river, at a speed of 400 miles a day, as long as a few days, you can go out of Shaanxi, out of Shaanxi to Henan, over there, Your Majesty has prepared a big boat to pick you up, You will be assigned to Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake, these lakes are quite large, and can enclose countless fertile fields for you to cultivate, and in that land of fish and rice, you will never worry about this drought again...... Remember, if the heart is there, the dream is there, between heaven and earth, and His Majesty's true love; Look at success or failure, life is heroic, everything is just starting from scratch......" Shi Kefa became more and more excited, while loudly cheering for the victims, and pointed to the field of drying leather tires not far away, where all sheepskin tires were used, all used to make rafts, with rafts, Shi Kefa was not afraid that the victims would not leave, which was the source of his confidence.

"Start all over again, start all over again," I don't know if one of the victims suddenly shouted, and the victims shouted along.

"Start all over again, start all over again." The shouting could not be calmed down for a long time, and this impassioned sound from outside the city of Fugu County shook Fugu County, shook the ditches and ditches of Fugu County, and shook the water of the Yellow River flowing through Fugu County.

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"Okay, children, today you sing very well, you all have a reward...... come, line up, come to your uncle to receive the prize......" A "choir" person announced something in front of the children, and then the group of children happily lined up and received the prize from several "choirs", some were a piece of candy, some were a piece of jerky.

Watching the children's "crazy and happy" play, the adults on one side watched with relief, and some shouted at the children not to rob, and the scene was warm. ,

Shi Kefa sighed again, these "choir" people are really powerful, a song, just settle down these disaster victims, a few words, a little thing, will pull the hearts of the disaster victims to the emperor's side, the mood of the disaster victims has now become very stable, even if someone calls these people rebel now, I am afraid that these people will not follow, now, these people, are all bent on going to the south to start their new life, it is really powerful, Shi Kefa to the emperor, that can only be a deep admiration.

Shi Kefa looked towards the east alone, bowing deeply and bowing far away.

There is still a distance between the officials and the common people, although Shi Kefa is already very "close to the people", however, the victims still have a sense of distance from him, and when they see him, they can't help but leave a certain distance.

An old man looked at his grandson and got a small piece of candy, smiled from ear to ear, and saw that Shi Kefa was by his side, so he bowed deeply and asked crampedly, "Master Shi,...... Little Lao'er has a question for adults, is there really so much land in the south waiting for us to go over? And then

An old man's face was cramped, and he asked himself embarrassedly, Shi Kefa bowed slightly and returned the salute, and said, "Uncle, are you asking about the fields in the south?" ”

The old man who asked was very cramped, talking to such an official master, he had never done this in his life, seeing this official talking to himself kindly, he was even more cramped, his dry and dark face was flushed, and said: "Back to the adult's words, yes, the little old man wants to ask, is there really so much land for us to cultivate in the south?" As soon as the old man's question was asked, the people around him automatically watched, which had a great relationship with them in the future, and they were naturally very concerned.

Shi Kefa smiled slightly, this was a question he had heard countless times in the disaster pile, and almost every wave of disaster victims would ask him these questions.

"Don't worry, there will definitely be fields, but you still need to reclaim them yourself, have you heard of the phrase 'eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake'?" Shi Kefa tirelessly popularized knowledge to the victims of the disaster.

"Back to the words of adults, Xiao Lao'er has also lived a handful of years, and I have heard this sentence, it is about Dongting Lake." The old man replied crampedly.

"That's right, old man, this time Your Majesty is going to transport you to Dongting Lake by boat, eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake, it is possible to reclaim millions of fertile land, then Dongting Lake will not have a drought, the water source is sufficient, it is no problem to grow twice a year, be diligent, it is not impossible to grow three times, in addition to Dongting Lake, there is also Poyang Lake, hehe, old man, or that sentence is sung well, if the heart is there, the dream is there~ Everything is just starting from scratch, it depends on your willingness to follow Your Majesty Wow" Shi Kefa explained with a smile.

"When the adults say so, the little old man has the bottom in his heart, we croppers have nothing else, but we have a strength, as long as there is land for us to plant, we croppers are not afraid of hard work." Although the old man was cramped, he was also very satisfied, and this time, he was completely relieved.

The surrounding victims who were "observing" were also satisfied, and this time, they had heard what this senior official said, so it should not be a lie.

If the heart is there, the dream is there, but it is just to start again from the beginning, and the victims are ready to start a beautiful new life with their dreams.