Xia Qi, the Great Xia Emperor who was about to go out to appease a wave of people's hearts, just walked out of the main hall, and had another urge to turn around and come back.

Without him, it's too cold!

The sun was shining brightly overhead, but it didn't provide a trace of heat, like a lamp in a refrigerator, and it didn't do anything but provide a little brightness.

Xia Qi left the palace with a group of guards and walked on the street.

There are few people on the streets of Great Xia City, and on such a cold day, unless there is something important, otherwise, no one wants to go out.

As he was walking, Xia Qi suddenly heard a commotion not far away.

It turned out that unconsciously, Xia Qi came to a soup kitchen.

"Let's go, go over and have a look."

Since some time ago, Xia Qi ordered the opening of a soup kitchen on the side of the commercial street, and no one can come to receive a bowl of hot porridge every day for the people who live in poverty and have no food to sustain.

Just as Xia Qi approached the soup kitchen, the quarrel became louder and louder.

The staff in charge of distributing hot porridge at the stall looked at the down-and-out man in front of him and said, "This is the second time I've seen you today, and a person can only get one bowl of porridge a day!" ”

"Your Excellency, you must be mistaken, this is the first time I've been here."

The man held an empty bowl and kept arguing with it, as if he didn't give him porridge, he wouldn't leave.

But the attitude of the staff was equally tough, and they said loudly: "No, I remember it very well, this is the second time you have come here." ”

Then, the staff clicked the sign on the side with his hand and said, "According to His Majesty's will, under this special circumstance, a person can only receive one bowl of hot porridge a day, and you have already received a bowl, leave quickly!" Otherwise, I'll have to call the patrol! ”

"Your Excellency...... Your Excellency, you really remember wrong. ”

Facing the righteous and strict staff, the man showed a sad expression, but he had no intention of leaving the porridge shed at all. It was also because of the dispute between the two that the hot porridge could not continue to be distributed.

Everyone was cold and hungry, and they had been waiting impatiently, and they all spoke out to urge.

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Xia Qi walked over in time with a group of guards, and the originally chaotic scene was quiet for a moment, and then became more lively.

"Your Majesty, it's Your Majesty who is here!"

"Your Majesty!"

There was no need for the guards to open the way, and the people gathered together instantly retreated to the sides, with expressions of respect and awe on their faces.

Xia Qi walked to the front of the porridge shed, and his eyes swept over the staff who sent the porridge and the down-and-out man in turn.

"What's going on?"

"Your Majesty, here's how it ......"

The staff member quickly explained the whole thing.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the other party finished speaking, the down-and-out man hurriedly shouted.

"Your Majesty, he's lying!"

In the face of the man's accusation, the face of the staff member who made the porridge changed significantly.

"Your Majesty, it was he who lied, and he didn't lie!"

Both the staff who delivered the porridge and the down-and-out man who came to receive the porridge accused each other of lying. All of a sudden, the scene became chaotic again.

Xia Qi, who was a little impatient with the quarrel, directly interrupted the quarrel.

"Alright, stop arguing!"

He raised his hand to calm the somewhat agitated staff, and then turned his head to look at the down-and-out man who was kneeling on the ground.

Xia Qi looked directly into the man's eyes and said, "Tell me, have you ever come to receive porridge today." ”

In the face of the huge eyes, the man's eyes showed horror, but after hesitating for a moment, he still insisted: "No, no, Your Majesty, I ......"

Looking at the down-and-out man who spoke, Xia Qi understood in his heart, and then chuckled and said to the staff member in charge of distributing porridge: "Give him a bowl of porridge." ”

And the staff who heard this was immediately anxious, didn't this mean that he was lying?

"Your Majesty......"

"Alright."

Xia Qi waved his hand and reassured him: "Your work has been done very well, Great Xia needs someone like you who works hard." Listen, though, give him another bowl of porridge. ”

As an emperor, what can he do if he speaks to him in an almost consultative tone?

The staff took the bowl in the man's hand, scooped a bowl of porridge and handed it to the other party.

This matter came to an end, and Xia Qi left with the guards.

After walking for a while, one of the guards couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, that man is obviously lying, even his subordinates can see this, why do you still give him hot porridge?" ”

Xia Qi smiled and said, "It's okay, I already have a solution." ”

"Besides, it doesn't matter who the two of them are lying."

Xia Qi paused, and then continued: "Blizzards, severe cold, and food crises, these things have made the hearts of the people in Great Xia City unstable. And that man happens to be on the weak side, whether she is right or wrong, she can always arouse the sympathy of a group of people, and under this premise, even if I kill that man, the consequences will only make the situation more turbulent. ”

The guard understood, and said, "In the current situation, the important thing is stability, and there is no need to make trouble because of this trivial matter." ”

Xia Qi was noncommittal to the guards' words, but now that food is limited after all, this trend of violating the rules and receiving more hot porridge must definitely be curbed in time.

It's just that the means can't be drastic, otherwise it can only be counterproductive.

After that, Xia Qi lost the interest of patrolling, and turned around and returned to the palace.

After returning to the palace, he has been thinking about this question.

I don't know how long it took, Xia Qi suddenly had a flash of inspiration!

He could have temporarily issued something similar to a grain stamp, and let the people go to collect the stamps first, and then use the stamps to receive the porridge after receiving the stamps.

When Xia Qi told this statement to the people around him, someone said: "But Your Majesty, it's still useless, those people can still line up to get two food stamps and exchange them for two bowls of hot porridge." ”

In this regard, Xia Qi joked: "Otherwise, get another kind of bill, first get a food stamp, then receive a food stamp, and finally receive hot porridge with a food stamp." ”

"Huh?"

Hearing Xia Qi's words, except for Zhang Liang, everyone present was dumbfounded.

Xia Qi smiled at this time: "I'm joking!" ”

If you really do that, isn't it the same as Da Ming?

Supervise hundreds of officials with Jinyiwei, and then set up the East Factory to supervise Jinyiwei, and then set up the West Factory to supervise the East Factory. If it weren't for the fact that some emperors were not in the court, Xia Qi believed that there would definitely be the North Factory, the South Factory and the like, all the way down the nesting dolls.

"It seems that Zhang Liang has understood." Xia Qi looked at Zhang Liang with a smile on his face.

In this regard, Zhang Liang also arched his hand with admiration.

"Your Majesty is wise, and Weichen admires it."

Looking at the behavior of the two, the others were completely stunned.

Xia Qi looked at Zhang Liang and motioned for him to explain.

I only heard Zhang Liang explain: "The focus of Your Majesty's move is time. ”

"When?"

"Yes, time."

Zhang Liang smiled and nodded.

"It takes time to queue, if a person can queue up twice a day, that is, to receive two bowls of porridge. But once you have to queue up to get food stamps before queuing up to receive porridge, then it is equivalent to having to queue twice to get a bowl of porridge. Time is limited, and hot porridge is also limited, if a person is greedy and wants to receive two food stamps and drink two bowls of porridge. Then the final result is likely to be that by the time he received two food stamps, the hot porridge had already been distributed, and this person would have to go hungry today. ”

Some people may say that this person can make two food stamps, and even if there is no porridge to drink that day, then the next day, won't this person still be able to drink two bowls of porridge? In this regard, we can write the time on the food stamps, and the food stamps issued on the same day can only be used on the same day, and they will be invalid directly after expiration. ”

"I see, Your Majesty is wise!"

After listening to Zhang Liang's explanation, everyone finally sorted out their thoughts, and then made a look of sudden realization and began to praise Xia Qilai.

After that, Xia Qi issued an announcement to the entire Great Xia, asking the printing houses in each city to regularly print the food stamps of the day every day. If you want to receive hot porridge, then you must first get a food stamp, one food stamp for a bowl of hot porridge, and there will be no hot porridge without a food stamp.

The refugees didn't say anything about it.

As for the place where the food stamps were collected, it should not be too close to the soup kitchen, but it should not be too far either.

On the first day of the issuance of food stamps, there was a long queue outside the collection of stamps in Great Xia City.

The down-and-out man who had just received a food stamp had a flickering eye, this location was quite far from the porridge shack, and it was too time-consuming to run back and forth on both sides.

With a strange thought, the down-and-out man stuffed the food stamps into his arms, pretended to leave, and then after walking a little farther, while no one was paying attention, he turned around directly, and lined up at the back of the line as if nothing happened.

In order to control the time of queuing, Xia Qi deliberately did not open a few more ticket offices, in the case of only one ticket collection office, in the face of so many refugees, even if they didn't look at it, they would give one ticket when they came, and it would take a lot of time to send them all.

By the time the down-and-out man received the second food stamp, the sky had already begun to turn yellow, but he didn't feel half tired when he touched the two food stamps in his arms.

Walking quickly all the way to the porridge shed, she first quietly glanced at the staff who made the porridge, and after confirming that it was not the previous one, she was obviously relieved.

He took out one of the food stamps, walked into the porridge shed with an empty bowl, and said, "A bowl of hot porridge." ”

The staff standing in front of the cauldron glanced at the food stamps handed over by the down-and-out man, and instead of taking them, he tapped the already empty pot with the big spoon in his hand.

"No, today's share has been fully distributed."

"Huh?"

Faced with this situation, the down-and-out man couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.

"How can it be sent? How could it be sent?! ”

"It's sent out is sent out, hurry up, I want to drink hot porridge, let's hurry up early tomorrow, we have to call it a day!."

The staff urged a few words with a little impatience in their tone, telling the down-and-out men not to hinder them from closing the stalls, and they stood outside for almost a whole day on a cold day, and their mood can be imagined.

However, after almost a whole day of queuing, how could the hungry and down-and-out man let them go?

The whole person lay directly on the table of the porridge shed and began to splash.

"No! You are not allowed to go! I haven't eaten anything today, you're gone, what should I do?! ”

looked at the down-and-out man who played a splash, and at this moment, the staff laughed.

Then I saw one of them sneer and said, "It's okay, didn't you drink a bowl of porridge more than others a few days ago?" Just drink today's portion in advance. ”

As he spoke, the staff member who was about to close the table directly let go of his hand.

"You can hold this table if you like it, let's go, let's eat~"