The imperial court's relief for disaster relief is clearly stipulated, and if there is a large-scale famine, there is no talk of disaster relief, and the first thing to prevent is the gathering of chaotic people to make trouble.

It is only possible to talk about disaster relief if there is a disaster in a small number of localized areas, and the four neighbors are basically stable.

For example, famine, when a severe famine occurs in an area, hundreds of thousands of hungry people leave their places of origin and begin to flee the famine and become a wave of displaced people, if they cannot control the scope of their activities, these displaced people will eat up the land they pass through like a plague of locusts!

In addition, if there is a leader with super demagogic power, and the imperial court's improper disaster relief causes anger and resentment, then there will be a rebellion, then the rebellious homeless people will storm the county town and small city fortresses, squandered the materials inside, and the residents living here will form new homeless people and join the army of homeless.

Therefore, on the basis of history, the displaced people who can successfully revolt will quickly expand in scale when the imperial court does not do a good job of reacting, if the imperial court is bloated and corrupt, and the displaced people still develop and grow, then the empire is basically unable to be saved, and can only sit and wait for the empire to collapse.

In the aftermath of a famine, the best way to deal with the disaster is to resettle the hungry and provide them with a sustainable livelihood!

How to make the transition in this early stage? The imperial court also made corresponding rules and regulations.

For example, opening a warehouse to release grain is the most direct and effective means. Porridge shacks were set up in the affected areas to provide food for the victims.

This is reflected in the regulations of the imperial court, but in the actual action situation, there are "exquisite", like the storyteller preached that the Qingtian lord has a rule when giving porridge, and the porridge must be set up with chopsticks and not fall, in fact, it can only appear in the mouth of the storyteller.

When it comes to the real relief of the victims, it must be gruel, the kind of gruel that can count the grains of rice, and the porridge must be mixed with some sand, foreign substances, etc., even if it can continue to breathe a breath of the victims, but not to be full, that is, as the saying goes, "you don't care if you are full".

There is a reason for this, if you open your stomach to the victims, it will not be long before the people who hear such news will flock to this area, concentrate on this area, consume the limited amount of food, and if there is no effective control, another disaster area will be formed here! There may even be serious riots, and the situation will become out of control.

Others include severe punishment of corruption, cash-for-work, severe punishment of hoarding, tax exemption and reduction of labor, etc.

One of the most important of these relief measures is to control the movement of the victims, because with the movement of the victims, it is not only the victims who will be affected, but also the stability of the entire imperial system.

"An Idler's Miscellaneous"

It was only on the second day that Li Xiangfeng found that there were more "disaster victims", and the poor people rolling in the city were like swarms of locusts, rushing to the city gate under black pressure, and were blocked by the soldiers guarding the city.

For the safety of the city, the city gates have been ordered to be closed, and civilians are forbidden to leave the city in large numbers.

By noon, the mood of the civilians, who had been congested all morning, began to stir, and under the threat of the soldiers defending the city, no one had made any impulses out of the ordinary, and there was no physical confrontation.

This continued until the afternoon, when the first physical clashes occurred, with dozens of civilians besieged by soldiers, killing and wounding several others!

At this time, the emotions of tens of thousands of civilians seemed to have reached a critical point, especially the aroma of rice porridge wafting from outside the city, which was more like a catalyst, which made the resentment of civilians grow exponentially.

Just when things were out of control, an order came from Taishou.

No civilians who have left the city gates are allowed to return to the city.

The entire city of Beiyang is forbidden! Only allowed to go out, not allowed to enter.

The gate of Beiyang City slowly opened under the full armament of the soldiers defending the city, and the victims who lined up to receive rice porridge in front of the porridge shed outside the city quietly looked at the civilians in the city who wanted to leave the city, as if they were the real victims.

"Taishou, this is to eliminate those restless restlessness in the city!" Yu Yan looked at everything that happened with cold eyes.

"It's better to borrow our hands!" Standing on the city tower, staring at the civilians who were now swarming out of the city, Li Xiangfeng couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

I don't know if it's right or wrong for me to do this! Whether it will worsen the situation even further! But Li Xiangfeng still understands the truth that it is difficult to recover, and the matter has developed to such a point, and he can only resist it head-on.

I thought that this corn could be distributed to those victims, and each of them could get a few catties of corn to live, and then send some more coils, and then let them disband.

Now Li Xiangfeng looked at the new victims outside the city, plus the new victims in the city who were really starving to death, and the whole person felt bad!

This is a big deal! This corn will not be enough for these people to eat for long, and it will not take more than three days! It will be to the point of running out of food.

This is what Li Xiangfeng couldn't bear to say in his heart.

Li Xiangfeng gathered Adjutant Zhang, Lao Wu Tou and others together, and with Adjutant Zhang, the "direct prefect" in front of the merchants of Beiyang City, those grain merchants were more or less easy to say, and Adjutant Zhang sternly informed Qian Datou and Zhou of the situation that happened to the shopkeeper of Zhou, and after secretly revealing Li Xiangfeng's identity, these grain merchants also shed some blood.

However, in order to reduce the resentment of these grain merchants, Li Xiangfeng also paid the price of corn at the price of three silver coins per pound of corn, which was a full double that of yesterday.

The more than 50 thousand corn alone cost more than 150,000 gold coins, which naturally includes the commission of hired manpower and vehicles.

Thankfully, except for the civilians in the city, who really can't live in the city, all the other civilians who have a little way have not left Beiyang City, this is their home after all!

Once again, the motive of vehicles drove out of the city, and the civilians who wanted relief knelt on both sides of the road, all of them with thin yellow faces, apparently malnourished.

However, most of the civilians were reluctant to leave their homes, so they had to stay here, because Taishou had already issued an order, and anyone who left the city was considered to have left Beiyang City voluntarily, and their names would be ticked off from the Beiyang City roster.

Because of this, there were many civilians in the city gates, and the people who went out of the city were very rare, and those who went out of the city were either lonely people, or poor people who had lost their families, and people whose whole families fled for their lives, because there was no way to live if they continued to stay in the city, and porridge sheds had been opened outside the city, so that they could live for a few days.

The weeping crowd made the food delivery team very uncomfortable.

"Adjutant Zhang, what do you say?

I always feel like I am sent to the grave, am I too earthy, I have never seen such a big world!" "Old Wu Tou can be regarded as a self-familiar character, but he has not spoken a word to Adjutant Zhang in the past two days.

With the identity of Lao Wu Tou, he has no status and no money, so in normal times, Adjutant Zhang has no free time to pay attention to it, but he was sent here by the garrison to cooperate with them to deal with the affairs of the victims, and he also talked to him.

"After you die, so many people can kneel on the side of the road and cry to you, you can steal the fun!" Adjutant Zhang's words made Lao Wu Tou stunned for a long time before he reacted.

In the end, he is an official, and what he says is really level! Old Wu Tou's impression of Adjutant Zhang has always stayed before he met him, and he heard that Adjutant Zhang is that kind of brazen dog-legged character.

In my impression, this kind of character is generally equated with the mentally handicapped.

After Lao Wu Tou came into contact with Adjutant Zhang, he found that people who could think like this were mentally retarded.

Set up a porridge shack in the city!

This absurd and bold idea was brought forward by Li Xiangfeng, which immediately surprised Old Wu Tou! Even Adjutant Zhang sweated for Li Xiangfeng.

Although Adjutant Zhang thought that he and Li Xiangfeng were not the same trench people, and his purpose all along was to find out the purpose of Li Xiangfeng's coming to Beiyang City, as well as the details of these two Qin chasers, Li Xiangfeng's behavior in the past two days still made Adjutant Zhang secretly admire Li Xiangfeng in his heart.

No matter what the purpose is, it is obvious that the purpose of these two messengers is not to come to Beiyang City for disaster relief, but to be able to relieve the victims so recklessly! Not to mention anything else, but this kind of benevolence, Adjutant Zhang is also admired!

"It's just a pity that I'm too young!" Adjutant Zhang could only comment on Li Xiangfeng in his heart.

The porridge in the city was established as expected, and the people who gave the porridge were villagers who were allocated from outside the city, Li Xiangfeng took out another 300 copper coins and handed them to Lao Wu Tou today, but Lao Wu Tou did not accept it as readily as yesterday, but repeatedly refused.

The reason for Lao Wu's resignation was that he felt honored that the villagers were honored to be able to help such a disaster, and everyone felt an incomparable sense of accomplishment for what they had done, and they could no longer accept Li Xiangfeng's copper coins.

It's just that in the end, Lao Wu Tou failed to beat Li Xiangfeng, and those copper coins were still stuffed into Li Xiangfeng's hands.

Then things turned out to be both expected and unexpected.

"Unexpectedly" is from Su Hongcai, the Taishou of Beiyang City, and Ding Liang, the garrison of Beiyang City.

"Unexpected" is from Li Xiangfeng and others.

The accumulation of grain was quickly consumed more than half of it in just a few days, and the staggering consumption of each day forced Li Xiangfeng to make the decision to dismiss the victims in advance.

But how easy is it to dismiss these tens of thousands of disaster victims, plus to take care of the civilians inside the city? If nothing else, more than 100,000 disaster victims have been crowded outside the city in the past few days, and even if you count the civilians in the city, I am afraid that the number of disaster victims has already reached 300,000.

This porridge shack has been increasing in the past few days, and the villagers brought by those old Wu Tou are obviously not enough to use it, so they have found a lot of helpers from the disaster victims and civilians in the city.

The more people think about it, the more things will happen.

But these are all small things, and the bigger thing is that these disaster victims have become large-scale to the point that Li Xiangfeng can't control them.

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