In Huitong Tianxia Qian Zhuang, Liu Ze, Guan Zhang, Jia Jian and others sat around the fire while discussing current affairs, the weather in February this year was extremely cold, and spring did not come for a long time.

Jia Xu sighed: "This move is very unwise for the court, in this way, the people's resentment is boiling, and it will definitely make these hundreds of thousands of refugees join the Yellow Turban, and hundreds of thousands of refugees are hundreds of thousands of rioters. ”

Liu Zedao: "Since ancient times, those who have won the hearts of the people have won the world, and those who have lost the hearts of the people have lost the world. ”

Zhang Fei drank wine and said: "This dog emperor doesn't care about the life or death of the people at all, in my opinion, the yellow scarf is good, the officials force the people to rebel, and the people have to rebel!" Zhang Fei's voice was so loud that several people wanted to plug his mouth.

Guan Yu frowned and said, "Third brother, be careful that the wall has ears, don't talk nonsense about such rebellious words." ”

Zhang Fei still kept shouting: "I have the ability to catch that horn back, and return the world to a peaceful and prosperous world, otherwise the king of heaven and Lao Tzu will not be able to stop my old mouth." ”

Liu Ze had no choice but to say: "Third brother, you can stop the meeting, it's nonsense to talk too much, let's talk about something practical." He turned back to Jian Yong and said, "Xianhe, how much grain do we have in Luoyang?" ”

Jian Yongyu said: "A year ago, a total of 200,000 pieces of grain were purchased from various places, and it was originally planned to be transported to Mangdang Mountain, but it was delayed for some time due to heavy snowfall, and it caught up with the Yellow Turban Rebellion, so it was still stored in the warehouse outside the city. ”

Liu Ze asked Zhang Feidao: "What do the hundreds of thousands of people outside Yuyuan Pass lack the most?" ”

"Then you don't need to ask, naturally the most lacking thing is food, the yellow scarf is coming, it's too late to escape, who has the time to bring food."

"What if people don't have food to eat, and they starve to death?"

"It's a big deal, it's the other way around, anyway, it's a death to be vertical, and it's better to rebel and cut off your head than to starve to death."

"Doesn't the lord want to use these 200,000 hu rice to help the refugees?" Jian Yong quickly guessed Liu Ze's thoughts.

Liu Ze smiled slightly: "That's what I mean." ”

Jian Yong said worriedly: "Now the price of rice in the market in Luoyang has skyrocketed to four or five hundred wen a stone, these 200,000 stone rice is 100 million yuan, and there are countless refugees outside the border, even these rice are also a drop in the bucket. ”

Liu Ze smiled indifferently and said: "Saving the people from fire and water is my Liu Ze's life's wish, if you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world, and if you don't save the refugees outside the gate in front of you, how can you save the people of the world?" I am willing to do my best to save one person and save one person, and I can save one time and save one time. As long as we have a good heart, we value human life and be worthy of our hearts. ”

Jian Yong was silent. Jia Xu stroked his palms and laughed: "The lord is wise, and he thinks this proposal is feasible." ”

Liu Zeqi said: "Wenhe actually supports me? ”

"The court is desperate for the people, but it is to lose the hearts of the people, the lord scatters food to save his life, and wins the hearts of the people, and what is scattered is just some wealth outside the body, and what he gets is the heart of the people of the world, as long as the lord raises his arms and shouts, there will inevitably be countless people, the people are attached, and it is easy to win the world." Jia Xu said leisurely with his short beard.

Liu Ze shook his head and smiled bitterly: "According to Wenhe's words, am I buying people's hearts by doing this?" ”

Jia Xu smiled slightly, but did not speak, seeing that look was indeed a rhetorical question.

Speaking from the heart, Liu Ze really didn't think so much, with the thinking of modern people, Liu Ze naturally cherishes every life, and every disaster relief donation Liu Ze never fell behind, until he was reborn, he also took out money from his small salary every month to send it to children in poor mountainous areas to help them complete their studies. Seeing with his own eyes that so many people will starve to death on the road, how can he be indifferent, not to mention that he is not short of money at all now.

He did not refute Jia Xu's words, and ordered Jian Yong to load dozens of carts of rice and personally escort them to Yuyuan Pass. Liu Ze decided to use the method of porridge to help the refugees, rather than distributing food directly to the refugees. This is why I thought of this method, or I thought of it from the incident of Jin Shang Qiao's family in the third year of Guangxu to save the disaster victims and build a porridge shed. The advantage of the porridge is that every refugee can eat a bowl, and if the food is distributed, it is inevitable that the bully will snatch it from it, and as a result, some people will still starve to death, especially women, children, old and children.

It is said that businessmen are mercenary and forget their righteousness when they see profit, but what the Qiao family can do, why can't Liu Ze do it?

As soon as the convoy arrived at Yuyuan Pass, it ran into trouble, and the soldiers guarding the pass were not allowed to pass, and the hot-tempered Zhang Fei almost beat up the forbidden soldiers. Liu Ze stopped Zhang Fei and stepped forward and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, can you please see your commander." ”

While he was talking, a man who looked like a general came over and looked young, and asked, "What's the noise?" Shi Changyu reported: "Captain Yudu, these people forcibly wanted to break through, but they have been stopped by their humble duties. ”

The general glanced at the convoy and said to Liu Ze and the others: "By the Holy Decree, the passage of a qiē idle and miscellaneous people is prohibited, although you are a caravan and there is a trade festival, but at this very moment, it cannot be accommodated, please go back." ”

Dare to love him for treating Liu Ze and the others as businessmen, but Liu Ze saw that the general's attitude was kind, not as arrogant as ordinary officers, and he had a good impression in his heart, so he bowed his hand and said, "Dare to ask how to call the general?" ”

The general saw that Liu Ze was extraordinary and polite, and he also replied with a salute: "Lieutenant Chen arrived at Xiayuan Pass." ”

Liu Ze was slightly surprised, he didn't expect that he was Chen Dao, a figure with the same name as Zhao Yun in the Three Kingdoms, who had been the commander of Liu Bei's guard army for a long time.

"Liu Ze, the shopkeeper of Fuyuanzhuang in the lower capital city, but this trip is not for business, but for the hundreds of thousands of people outside the customs."

Chen Zhi was slightly stunned, not knowing what Liu Ze meant, Liu Ze smiled and said: "Hundreds of thousands of people outside the gate are all fleeing, with no food and clothing. ”

Although Chen Zhi is fully committed to the order of the peak, but looking at the refugees who are pouring over like a tide, he is also frightened in his heart, although these refugees are unarmed, but there are more ants can bite the elephant to death, although there are thousands of people under his hands, but hundreds of thousands or even millions of people riot, but he can not stop it, and the public sentiment in the past two days is like an unstable active volcano, there is a possibility of eruption at any time. Those hundreds of thousands of mouths are really hungry, maybe they will become hundreds of thousands of hungry wolves, rushing to the gate and tearing him and thousands of soldiers alive. Chen Zhi secretly scolded the boss who conveyed the order in his heart, but if he knew that this order was issued by the emperor, would he dare to scold again.

"Shopkeeper Liu means ......"

"I have been doing business for many years, and I still have some surplus grain in my hands, so I am willing to build a shed porridge outside the customs to relieve the refugees and relieve the danger of the pass."

Chen Zhi was overjoyed when he heard it, there were people who were willing to give food to help the refugees, this is a great thing, as long as the refugees have food, they will not riot, but after thinking about it, Shangfeng ordered that no one should enter and leave the Yuyuan Pass, as a soldier, it is his duty to obey the order, and he did not dare to let Liu Ze and his party go out of the customs. Chen Zhi hesitated for a moment and said: "It's just that the court has an order prohibiting anyone from entering and leaving the Yuyuan Pass, and even if you have the courage to do so, you don't dare to disobey the military order." ”

"The military order is dead, the person is alive, the reason why the court issued such an order is also to prevent spies from getting in, when giving up porridge, Chen Duwei can also send soldiers to supervise the same group, and wait for ten people to leave the city in the next group, and ten people will return, and one more person will never be brought back." Seeing that Chen Zhi was still hesitating, Liu Ze said again: "If these refugees provoke a civil uprising because of a lack of food, once the pass is lost, the general will not be able to escape the blame." ”

Chen Zhi is most afraid of this, once the Yuyuan Pass is lost, his head will be difficult to protect, and he no longer hesitates at the moment, and said: "Okay, just follow the words of the shopkeeper Liu." It's just that there are a large number of refugees, and if you give up porridge, you will definitely consume a lot of food, what is the intention of Shopkeeper Liu's move? ”

Liu Ze laughed and said: "The wealth under the sea is originally taken from the people, and now the people are in difficulty, and it is natural and righteous to use it for the people." ”

Chen Zhisheng paid respect, and bowed his hand as a courtesy: "Shopkeeper Liu seeks happiness for the common people in the world, which is respectable and admirable, and he has thanked hundreds of thousands of people outside the border on behalf of him." Kaesong! ”

The gate slowly opened, and the refugees outside the gate were surprised and delighted, and rushed up to rush into the gate. But the forbidden soldiers guarding the pass raised their spears in unison, advancing step by step, forcing the refugees back again.

Chen Zhi and Liu Ze passed side by side, and Chen Zhi said loudly: "Fathers and fellow villagers, Chen Dao, the commander of the Xiayuan Pass, was ordered to guard the Yuanyuan Pass, and did not dare to bend the law for personal gain, and let you enter the customs." This is the Liu Ze Liu big shopkeeper of Fuyuan Village in Beijing, knowing the suffering of the fathers and elders, building a porridge shed outside the gate, giving porridge to help the people, if there is a need to receive relief, please line up in front, and wait for the porridge to be distributed in order. “

As soon as they heard that there was something to eat, the ragged refugees became excited and immediately went to the designated place to line up. Liu Ze smiled knowingly, he didn't expect Chen Zhi's organizational skills to be quite strong, and in a few words, the chaotic refugee team was gathered and lined up. At that moment, the men were arranged to unload rice from the car, set up a few simple sheds, set up more than a dozen cauldrons, and make a fire to boil porridge.

Chen Zhi sent dozens of soldiers to maintain order, and the refugees were already dizzy with hunger, but looking at the hot steaming in the pot and smelling the tempting aroma of corn, their saliva almost flowed.

Half an hour later, the porridge has been boiled, and according to Liu Ze's requirements, the consistency of the porridge must be inserted into the chopsticks without falling. Zhang Fei personally took a big scoop and scooped porridge for the refugees. Finally, when the porridge was served, there was a commotion in the queue, and many broken bowls were stretched out in front of Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei glared and shouted, "All the queues, otherwise no one will want to eat!" The sound was like thunder, and the timid even threw the bowl on the ground, and after Zhang Fei's voice, the refugees were much more honest, and they lined up to receive porridge in an orderly manner.

Liu Ze ordered more than a dozen porridge mouths to be served at the same time to speed up the progress, and the guys in the back continued to boil porridge in the cauldron, but looking at the crowd of black pressure, Liu Ze estimated that it would be difficult to complete it until dark.

Zhang Fei scooped for a while, was interested, threw the big scoop to the guy behind him, and came to Liu Ze's side with a smile. Liu Ze didn't laugh at him for being impatient, and said, "There seems to be a market ahead, let's go over and have a look." ”