Yu Xiaocao was confident: "The emperor is for his country for thousands of generations, and the king of Xiaojun is for the successful completion of his errand." Tell me what I'm for? Isn't it just to earn more money so that the family can be fed, clothed, and not poor? Our family has more than ten acres of land, and not a single acre of grain has been planted. How expensive is food now! The locusts in the field are still plagued, and if you want to grow food, you must at least start spring next year, and if you have a harvest, you must also have to harvest next summer. In the past year, we have to buy high-priced grain, although our family has earned some silver, it is not enough for the family to chew this year! ”

Liu thought that the coarse grain in the town had risen to more than 100 yuan, and it was still rising at a price every day. The food hoarded at home is good enough to be able to eat until autumn. Although the yield of these corn potatoes is quite high, they do not have the slightest control over it, and they all have to hand it over to the imperial court. Listening to the youngest daughter's analysis, the family's heart became heavy, and the originally fragrant potatoes lost their taste in their mouths.

Zhu Junyang saw the looks of everyone in his eyes, he ate a piece of potato in the braised pork, swallowed it slowly, and then said: "It makes sense!" You're missing a bit, though! ”

"Which point?" After Yu Xiaocao finished shouting, he was relieved and ate sour and hot potato shreds again. In her previous life, this dish was her favorite and she never got tired of eating it.

"You forgot that you still have a master!" Zhu Junyang saw that she was eating with relish, so he also put a chopstick into his mouth and continued, "Master never treats his subordinates badly!" See those two truckloads of goods in the yard? A cart of white rice and a cart of white noodles! If you don't say anything, you have to get 2,000 catties, which is enough for you to eat for a while, right? ”

When the Yu family heard it, more than 2,000 catties of fine grain! Based on the fact that a person eats 15 catties of grain a month, the current size of the family adds up to 12 catties, and they get nearly 200 catties of grain a month. More than 2,000 catties is enough for them to eat for more than half a year!

"The little county king is mighty!" Yu Xiaocao was so happy that she almost jumped up and took a few bites on his face. However, it would be shocking to think that this was an ancient time, and it would be shocking to do so. Let's keep it low-key!

Zhu Junyang looked at the little girl who looked like a dog, snorted, and said: "The master is the minister of disaster relief appointed by the emperor himself, and the imperial court has allocated money and grain, and it will soon be distributed to various state capitals." Ye has already investigated, Tanggu Town is the hardest-hit area, and it should be the first to respond to the hard-hit places. ”

Yu Xiaocao said worriedly: "However, the capital has also been affected, how much grain can the treasury come up with?" ”

"That's not something you can worry about!" Zhu Junyang took another bite of sour and spicy shredded potatoes, and fell in love with this sour and spicy taste, "The fleet has set sail, and the south has been in good weather in the past two years, and the grain warehouse is full." The food for disaster relief will not be unavailable! ”

When the Yu family heard this, they put their hearts at ease and thanked the emperor who loved the country and the people, and said a lot of good things.

With more than a dozen free laborers, the Yu family's corn was rolled out in three days and packed into uniform-sized sacks. Ten acres of land, a total of nearly 18,000 catties were harvested. That is to say, the average yield per mu is 1,800 catties.

You must know that the current grain yield is very low, and the harvest of 500 catties of wheat per mu is very high. The yield per mu is 1,080, what does this mean? For example, if the original income of one acre of land could support two people, then now one acre of land can support six or seven people! Calculate, with such a high-yield crop, why worry about the people not being able to eat enough?

Yu Xiaocao's family discussed it and decided to sell the corn and potatoes at the price of the improved seeds. One pound of corn is 100 wen, and 18,000 pounds of corn Zhu Junyang only received 15,000 catties, leaving 3,000 catties for the Yu family to make seeds and rations. In this way, the corn Yu family alone has an income of 1,500 taels. Potatoes are priced at 200 taels per catty, and 5,000 catties of potatoes are 1,000 taels.

Although for the current Yu family, two thousand five hundred taels of silver is not as much as Yu Xiaocao's annual dividends. But when I think about it, eleven acres of land actually have an income of more than 2,000 taels a year, which is definitely the first in the Ming Dynasty. Ahem, of course, except for the Yu family's early-ripening watermelons.

Now, in addition to the 2,000 catties of fine grain brought by the little county king, the Yu family also has 3,000 catties of corn and six or seven hundred catties of potatoes, plus the hoarded grain in the warehouse. Yu Xiaocao no longer had to worry about the money in her hand, and swished away from her because she was buying high-priced food.

The Yu family's corn and potatoes were not affected by the disaster, and they still achieved a bumper harvest, and the yield was so high! Zhu Junyang couldn't sit still, so he hastily arranged disaster relief, and pulled a few carts of corn and potatoes to the capital to ask for credit!!

The food for disaster relief arrived in the capital of Jinwei Prefecture three days later. The prefect knew that the Minister of Disaster Relief, King Yangjun, was in Tanggu Town, so he naturally transported the grain to Tanggu Town first. Five days later, truckloads of grain for disaster relief were transported to the county government in Tanggu Town.

Lord Zhao, the county magistrate, was also from a poor family, and he deeply understood what natural disasters meant to the people. He worked tirelessly to cooperate with the officials sent by the king of Yangjun to distribute the grain for disaster relief to every village, especially the four villages that were more severely affected, and the proportion of grain was larger. Dongshan Village is one of them.

On this day, the bronze bell of Dongshan Village rang again. The villagers gathered in the open space in front of the village chief's house, swept away the dullness of the past, and everyone was beaming.

Zhao Xianling personally sat in charge of the grain distribution in Dongshan Village. A few days ago, the Minister of Disaster Relief, Yang Junwang, ran to Dongshan Village every day, saying that he was investigating the disaster on the spot. The king of Yangjun attaches great importance to the Yu family in Dongshan Village, where does Zhao Xianling not know? After arranging the disaster relief in Dongshan Village, his work is more than half completed!

The smile on the village chief's face couldn't stop, and he said loudly to the villagers: "Your Majesty, sympathetic to the people in the disaster area, he has brought us relief food and solved our urgent needs." The emperor is really a good emperor who loves the people like a son! Long live the emperor, long live, long live! ”

As he spoke, he knelt down in the direction of the capital and kowtowed three times seriously. The villagers also followed behind the village chief, kowtowing sincerely and shouting: "Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!" ”

The village chief got up slowly, looked at the villagers and continued: "The first batch of disaster relief grain has arrived, and after Lord Zhao, the master of Qingtian, and the officials of the disaster relief in Beijing have combined to distribute the food according to the capitation. Adults each share 15 catties of grain, and children each share 10 catties of grain. Half of the size of the child eats Lao Tzu, and those over the age of thirteen are counted as adults! ”

The villagers burst into cheers. Fifteen catties of grain per person, if you save it, you can eat it for two months! If you buy it in the town now, you can't buy it back without two or three taels of silver for fifteen catties of grain! Although the villagers of Dongshan Village have some savings in the past two years, they can't afford to toss such a high price of grain!

The village chief asked Zhao County Order, "Lord Zhao, do you have anything else to say?" ”

Zhao Xianling stood up, his eyes like a torch glanced around the villagers, and the original whispers quickly quieted down. Zhao Xianling nodded with satisfaction: "Villagers! Difficulties are only temporary, and disasters will eventually pass! The imperial court attaches great importance to disaster relief, and sent the king of Yangjun as the minister of the Qin mission to supervise the disaster relief! The villagers don't have to worry, the fleet of the king of Yangjun has gone to the south to buy grain. King Yangjun said that the grain bought back will be sold to the people at the price of the capital, and he will not make a copper plate from it! If we persist for these two months, we will be able to put grain at a low price on the market in two months, and those profiteers who privately raise grain prices to make huge profits will not last long! ”

When the villagers heard this, they let out another thunderous cheer. The prestige of King Yangjun has reached an unprecedented height in Dongshan Village.

The village chief was also very excited in his heart, but he endured the turmoil in his heart and calmed the emotions of the villagers: "Folks, we are good emperors and good officials!" Below, everyone queues up to receive food! Don't fight, don't grab, there's something for everyone! One team for the elderly and children, one team for adults! Hurry home and get the guys! ”

The villagers dispersed in a hurry, and the rest of the family was also involved. Originally, according to Yu Hai's meaning, they didn't want to receive the food for disaster relief. However, I am afraid that this will be too eye-catching and make some people worry about it! Fifteen catties of food per adult for two months, it can only guarantee that he will not starve to death, and if he wants to eat a full stomach, it is impossible!

If the Yu family doesn't go to receive food, don't they tell the villagers that "I have food in my hands", and then the east family will borrow a few catties, and the west family will borrow a few catties. There are more than 30 families in Dongshan Village, and no matter how much food they have, they can't borrow enough!

After such an analysis, the Yu family decided to keep a low profile, went home and took the basket and pocket, and returned to the open space in front of the village chief's house. At this time, the distribution of food has begun, and the two teams are crookedly discharged!

Yu Xiaocao, the twin sisters, took her younger brother Xiaoshi, and Liu Yan'er led her younger brother Liu Fangping, and under the leadership of Lao Yutou, they lined up in the line of the old man and the child. Yu Hang hesitated on the side, he was thirteen years old, in fact, his twelfth birthday hadn't passed yet, if he was in the adult team, would anyone have a mouth? After weighing for a moment, he still came behind the little sister and joined the child's camp.

When the people in the village next to him saw it, they couldn't help but praise: "The Dahai family is really good at teaching children, Xiaosha (Yu Hang's nickname) is really a good child!" ”

There were also those who disagreed, the man pursed his lips and said, "They are all dying of hunger, so what do you care if you are honest or not?" One person has five pounds of less food! Five catties of food is enough for a family to eat for a few days! ”

The others were silent. In the face of natural disasters, nothing is important to save your life.

It was the people of the yamen who distributed the grain, and they held a utensil called a bucket in their hands, and they inserted it into the grain cart and smoothed the tip of it with a board, and one bucket was fifteen catties. On the side of the old man and the child, he also specially made a smaller bucket, and one bucket was ten catties. In this way, one person, one bucket, the speed of food distribution has been greatly improved.