Chapter 194: Old Scoundrel
After Han Yu took the "Fable" and stepped down, Li Kang fell into deep thought, Han Yu was right, Li Kang raised the status of women just to expand the labor force, and did not want to repeat the mistakes of the old world.
[In the future, we will pay attention to a degree!] Li Kang thought.
After nothing happened for a while, Li Kang decided to summon a wave of civilians first.
Who knows, the summoning has always been relatively smooth, but this time there was a little accident, not an accident in the system, but the reason of the summoned civilians themselves, which gave Li Kang a headache for a while.
Ma Zhou (Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty), director of the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, hurriedly asked to see Li Kang.
"What?" Li Kang thought he had misheard, and repeated Ma Zhou's words again, "You said that there is a family of new immigrants who are clamoring to go back?"
"That's true... The main reason is that the old man of their family is reluctant to leave his hometown, saying that he is a cheap person who leaves his hometown, and he will die in his hometown when he is old. Ma Zhou said with a straight face.
Li Kang's face is very ugly, for so many years, it is the first time that he has blatantly made trouble in front of the public like this, if this is not handled well, everyone will learn from it, will Huaxia still develop?
"Let's go, let's take a look!" Li Kang stood up and took the lead towards the outside of the marshal's mansion.
The summons of the new immigrants used to settle in the hall on the first floor of the political affairs hall, and later moved by Li Kang to the square in front of the entrance of the marshal's mansion, but the ministers all thought that it was too close to the marshal's mansion, which was not conducive to Li Kang's safety.
At this time, the scene has been cordoned off by the police, and the outside of the blockade line is surrounded by people eating melons.
As soon as the crowd saw Li Kang coming, they bowed down and saluted, and then quickly retreated to both sides, and very consciously gave way to an aisle.
When Li Kang saw the perpetrator, his nose was almost crooked.
It turns out that most of the new immigrants who are randomly summoned every time are homeless, low-puffs or the lowest level of society without a place to stand, and they are in a state of hunger all the year round, and their physical fitness is naturally not much better.
Therefore, in order to avoid the embarrassing incident of starvation as soon as people come, and in order to reflect the humanistic care of the Chinese family for new members, there is a porridge shed in the open space as the place where the new immigrants settle, so as to send warmth as soon as the new immigrants arrive.
Now the scene Li Kang sees is that the two cauldrons are steaming, during which the rice fragrance is overflowing, and a group of dozens of refugees in front of the pot look at the cauldron greedily, swallowing saliva, and reluctantly queuing up to receive porridge under the reprimand of the police, and in the team, the most eye-catching is an old man with white hair who glances at the cauldron from time to time and swallows spit, while shouting for heaven and ground, clamoring to go back, and also moving with the crowd, not forgetting to move his feet to keep up with the team, for fear that the people behind him will cut the line.
And, judging from the rice bowl he was holding in his hand, this guy had already eaten one or more bowls!
Li Kang's arrival attracted everyone's attention, including these new immigrants, from the attitude of the people around Li Kang, you can guess that Li Kang is a big man, now all the new immigrants showed a look of fear, silent, some even knelt on the ground with a "poof" and kowtowed to Li Kang.
Only that old man, after seeing Li Kang coming, shouted even louder!
[This is a scoundrel! An old scoundrel!]
Li Kang made a judgment in an instant.
If it is an honest farmer, since he wants to go back, he doesn't have the cheekiness to eat other people's things, at most he stands aside, and he is pitiful and addicted, and when others take the initiative to give alms, he is "embarrassed" but disrespectful, which is a normal performance.
It's not that there haven't been people who are reluctant to go home before, most of them know the sense of proportion, or recognize the reality, and a small number of stubborn people are at most sulky in life, and have no initiative, but after a period of time, they got used to it and found that the life in China was much better than that of their hometown, and they could eat and dress warmly, so they put out the thought of going home.
And unlike this guy now, he shouts louder than anyone else, obviously wants to make things bigger, so that others will be jealous, and he doesn't dare to come hard, but he doesn't let go of the benefits he deserves.
"Hmph, use the same methods to deal with the rich people in the countryside to deal with us?" Li Kang sneered.
"The small people in the countryside have never been out of ten miles in their lives, so they naturally have limited knowledge..."Ma Zhou responded.
Originally, Li Kang thought that he was an old stubborn who wanted to return to his roots, but he didn't expect to be a little clever scoundrel, but now he is much easier, and it is much more convenient to deal with a scoundrel than to deal with an honest person.
[It seems that Huaxia's attitude towards new immigrants is too kind, which makes him blackmailed. 】
"Didn't you say that it was the family that made trouble, why does it look like this old guy now?" Li Kang asked curiously.
Ma Zhou didn't know the situation either, he hurriedly grabbed a policeman next to him and questioned him, and then said to Li Kang: "Since the beginning of the soup kitchen, his family has not made trouble!"
"Oh?" Li Kang raised his eyebrows and said, "Then why is this old man still so jumpy?
"It seems that I didn't persuade you, but I was scolded by a stinking person!" Ma Zhou said.
"Hmm..." Li Kang nodded, then glanced at the old man who was still yelling in disgust, and he didn't even have any interest in going up to ask, so he turned around and left.
After taking two steps, Li Kang stopped and said: "When I came, I had one tael of gold per person, and since I didn't volunteer myself, I could not be held accountable, but when I returned, the cost was ten times greater, ten taels of gold per person, plus the porridge just now, I could compensate for one-tenth of the weight of meat myself... Since the old man was so homesick, he must not be stingy with ten taels of gold and two taels of meat. ”
After speaking, Li Kang glanced at Ma Zhou and asked him to handle it as appropriate, and then left without looking back.
And that old man is already stupid, his face is pale, where did he get ten taels of gold, if he has ten taels of gold, he won't be so miserable, and two taels of meat?
The spectators and the policemen who maintained order were all holding back laughter, and they could all hear that Li Kang was scaring him! Of course, if he was not interested, it would be more than a joke!
After Li Kang left, Ma Zhou deliberately shouted at the police team leader who led the team: "Team Leader Qiao, what are you waiting for? Why don't you send this old man on the road quickly!"
Ma Zhou is also bad, and deliberately accentuated the tone on the two words on the road, coupled with the cruel smile on Team Leader Qiao's face, the old scoundrel was instantly scared, and the crying father and mother were reluctant to get up on the ground, so that the old man and juniors who were ready to reach out to pull him froze in place, inexplicably embarrassed.
A farce eventually came to an end, becoming a laughing point before and after a meal, and two or three days later, it was quickly replaced by other news and forgotten by people without stirring up a single wave.
On June 2, the second day of Children's Day, Li Kang once again began to go south with a group of people, but this time he did not bring any women.
At noon, Li Kangdi reached Zhongni Town, the northernmost part of Zhongxian Road, a town named after the Holy Master Confucius, but the atmosphere of the whole town was completely incompatible with literature. [.]