The two took a carriage through the streets and alleys to cross two ring rivers before arriving at the fifth ring road, and walked half a mile before getting out of the city wall, which was already outside Mingyang City.

Only then did I see the crowd in front of me, and although the victims were embarrassed, they were all lined up and moved towards the tent of almsgiving.

The two of them did not come forward, but watched from afar. Cangguo is rich, and there has been no war in recent years, so the people naturally live and work in peace and contentment. So if it weren't for natural disasters, there would not be such a large flow of refugees.

Most of these refugees are also some people outside the city, who used to make a living by helping some large grain households farm the land, but this year, in the ripening season, they suffered a severe drought for three or four months, and the land was naturally not harvested.

The grain can't keep up, the merchants have to take the opportunity to raise prices, and it is a common practice for the court to pluck the goose for disaster relief, so these people will gradually linger outside the city.

Suddenly, a small group of people in the crowd shook their heads and jumped in the neat line, shouting: "Today, tomorrow?" What about the day after tomorrow? Do you come here every day to queue up? Don't you know when the next harvest will be? We want rice! We want food! Enough for us to have a harvest next time! If we don't give it to us, we won't leave here! This is the national capital, and if you have the ability, you can kill all of us! I see how you explain to the rest of the world! ”

The crowd gradually began to mess up, and many hungry and scared people also coaxed: "Yes! We want food! To rice! "At this time, two teams of guards came out from behind the tent, stopped the refugee team outside the tent, and then began to maintain order to avoid a stampede.

It's just that the refugees are still pouring up, and at this time two people came out, one with a pen and a delicate white jade abacus hanging from his chest, and one of them shouted: "Presumptuous! Today's almsgiving is my family's Bai Gongzi Li'er and other poor old and weak women and children, if you don't know what to do, we can pack up and leave at this moment, you will either starve to death, or rebel, or be suppressed, what do we have to do! ”

Only then did the refugees slowly calm down and stop squeezing forward. The person with the abacus on his chest picked up the abacus and snapped and said: "My son-in-law has recently spent more than 10,000 taels of silver for you, if you coax again, don't blame us for feeling sorry for the silver and not for you!" ”

Lingxi and the others had already walked to the vicinity of the tent at this moment, and seeing that the crowd had slowly begun to form again, Lingxi asked, "Master, who is this white boy?" On the boat back, I heard someone mention this person, and it seemed to be very powerful. ”

"This person has only become famous in recent years, and no one knows who he is, only that he has a business all over Cangheng and Cangheng, with a wide range of business scope and rich business content, which can be called the first person in the two countries."

Saying that, Gu Chaosheng, the national master, smacked his lips without being detached at all, "It's good to be rich!" ”

If the Kongkong Dao people knew that their only disciple was so fond of money now, and they didn't look like a master in the world, I don't know if they would regret that they went out early and didn't discipline him.

Lingxi really likes the appearance of his master, he saw a white dress in the rain that day, holding an umbrella and standing in front of him, although he is very handsome, but it is more reassuring when he says that the umbrella is very expensive in the next second.

"Master, the person who just started the coaxing, although it is unreasonable, what he said is not unreasonable. Now that winter is about to begin, these victims have no food, how to survive. ”

"As a teacher, as a national teacher, although it is all about the rain, but the people's livelihood, I have to care about it occasionally. I will report to the imperial court when I go back, and there should be someone who reacts, but there is no corresponding countermeasure, which delays the siege of the refugees. The words were also quite helpless.

Lingxi asked, "Master, it's not yet October, and it rained heavily a few days ago, isn't this a good time to sow wheat?" Why don't they go back to farming? ”

"If there is no harvest, where will the seed come from? Even if there are one or two stones of grain now, do you care about filling your stomach at this moment, or do you care about harvesting it next year? ”

Ling Xi said: "Master, the grain in the rich landlord's house is piled up there, rotten and rotten, Chen's Chen, even if the price is high at the moment, there will always be a day when the price will fall." Why, why don't you rent the grain from your home to these people, and contract the land to them by the way? When the harvest arrives, the proportional commission will be recovered. In this way, the peasants have land to grow and grain to harvest. It seems that these landlords have suffered a loss, but they don't have to pay money to hire people to farm the land, look at the land, and collect grain. Besides, when it comes to their own profits, farmers will only be more diligent and serious, right? ”

"This year's drought has caused the people to live without food, so they can give more to feed their stomachs and grow seeds. As long as it lasts for the next year's harvest, but it must be paid more next year, the two sides sign the contract documents, and the specific proportions are all kinds of distribution, I don't understand, there must be people who are proficient in this way. I'm just talking about such a direction, and finally give these businessmen and landlords a reward, won't this difficulty be over? ”

What Ling Xi said was actually a very ordinary land contract system in her previous life, and she naturally took it for granted, but at this moment, it was unbelievable to others.

It is ridiculous to plant your own land for others and provide seeds. But her master is a national teacher in the end, and her vision is extraordinary, so she just listened.

"Xi'er, you have been in the Central Plains of Hengguo for a few months, and you have grown up! I could have thought of such a clever plan. He was about to boast again, but he heard someone applauding.

"The girl is amazing, the two of us have been racking our brains for many days and have no clue about this matter, but we have been penetrated by you." After saying that, the man had already come to him.

"Under Zhen Jin, under the silver, thank you girl." The two of them said in unison.

Ling Xi's heart is not good, he was careless, he was in the limelight, he was still the female devil in the mouth of the rivers and lakes at the moment, if he was discovered, wouldn't he have to run again. The master can't be by my side all the time, in case I get beaten again...... Thinking of this, she couldn't help but step back and lean her face behind her master.

Of course, Gu Chaosheng knew what Ling Xi was thinking, glanced at her, and then said to the two people in front of him: "The two must be the most capable judges under Bai Gongzi." I've admired the name for a long time! ”

The person holding the pen and the book was called Zhen Jin, he stood up, and gave a big salute to Gu Chaosheng and said: "The national teacher has won the award, and the villain is just a little more clear in accounting, and those false names should not be true." I'm ashamed to say that the two of us are not as good as the girl in front of us! The girl's plan is too clever, and I will tell the two of us truthfully when we go back that I don't dare to be greedy. ”

"Oh? Since you recognize me as a national teacher, you must also know that I am the valley master of Yunling Valley, and this person next to me is my little apprentice? ”

After a pause, he said, "Do you know that now anyone who has a little strength wants to be the enemy of my Yunli Valley, I, others can't handle it, my big apprentice, and his whereabouts are ethereal, only I, a stupid apprentice, looks easier to bully, do you Bai Gongzi also want to intervene?" ”

"The national teacher is too worried." Abacus Zi Baiyin said, "It's not a secret, our son's eyeliner is all over the place, from the time the girl left Luoyang to Mingyang City, he has always known your whereabouts." It's just that Gongzi never seems to believe in any secret treasures, but secretly helped the girl solve the crisis several times, otherwise, how could it be so easy to go out of Osmanthus Town and return to Cangguo. Do you really think that tavern proprietress can get away with it? ”

Ling Xi remembered that when they came out of the customs, Old Man Liu pretended to interrogate them, but in fact, he blocked other people's exploration of them, so that when he thanked them later, the old man did not reply. At this moment, she realized in her heart, and sighed even more, this white boy is really a long hand, hey, it's good to be rich!

"That being the case, the little woman thanked Bai Gongzi for his great kindness." Lingxi bent down and said.

The two dodged: "Don't dare to accept the courtesy, the girl doesn't know how many Li people she has saved today, and she has been kind in the world." If the two of us make a mistake, the son should punish us. ”

"I am fortunate to meet a girl today. It's better to give the girl a favor. Zhen Jin took a step forward and said, "Lin Qianshan has already arrived in Cangguo. Take care, girl. ”