Chapter 275 is full of weirdness

Laojun Temple is in Lijia Village, seven miles outside the city of Baoding. Laojun Temple existed in the Sui Dynasty, but after repeated wars, now there is only a stone Buddha statue of Laojun left, which has become the stone grandfather in the mouth of the locals.

Out of Baoding Mansion, it became a state of black light and blind fire, and when they arrived at Laojun Temple, they didn't need to be guided at all, and a huge refugee camp with thousands of people gathered together appeared in front of them.

"Bai Han should be damned!"

Needless to say than Lu Xiangsheng, everyone felt that Bai Han was dead.

Thousands of homeless people take the Laojun Temple as the center and walk within a radius of more than one mile. The summer grain has been harvested, and the freshly planted grain and sweet potato fields have become their best place to live. Families gather around a bonfire, on which broken clay pots are used to cook young seedlings that have been snatched from nowhere.

"I'll let you eat! I'll let you eat! ”

As he spoke, a group of young men rushed directly to the middle of the refugees with wooden sticks and shovels, and began to frantically smash the refugees' pots and pans.

"Big brother, have mercy on us who have no home."

There are very few men among the refugees, and even if they are elderly and young children, most of them are women with children in their arms. Seeing these young men kicking their rice bowls and stepping on their bonfires, they didn't dare to go up to fight, so they could only drag their older children to the death, desperately protect the babies in their words, and sit there crying and begging.

"What's the matter, you guys still have a point. If you don't eat or drink, go to the government, what are you doing by coming to us? You see, you see. ”

A young man snatched a foot-tall seedling from the hand of a half-sized man.

"Look, everyone, this is the rice seedlings we have worked so hard to plant. starved to death and did not eat seed food. The people of our village tightened their belts and brought back this little seed of autumn grain from the hands of the government. Next year, all the men, women, and children in the village will depend on this. You're good! ”

The young man also looked very angry, and slapped half of the boy in the face with a slap.

"This year's drought has led to a drought in our village, and the walking dolls in our village are carrying water to the fields. It is good for you, like locusts, that there will not be a good seedling in the field that is full of villages. ”

"Black baby! What are you doing here? ”

When the young man was about to kick up, what he didn't expect was that an old man next to him walked up with a group of people.

"People have also suffered. The seedlings in your field are expensive, and these lives are still expensive. ”

"Patriarch Li, you are talking lightly. The lives of the victims are human lives, the lives of your Lijia Village are human lives, and the lives of our people in our village are not human lives? ”

The one called Heiwa didn't back down, and directly scolded the old man back.

"Your Lijia Village has filled our autumn food gap, and we will go back to sleep now."

"Hey young, I said Heiwa, your father didn't dare to talk to me like this, what's the matter, your doll is hairy? Or the ball hardened and dared to speak like that in front of me. ”

"I don't have to say, whoever moves the grain of our Heijiazhuang, we will fight with whomever we want."

"That's the disaster victims, you doll go and go hard. Go back and tell your father, just say that in the future, don't send out your brainless goods from Heijiazhuang again. I'm waiting for him in the front Grandpa Shi Temple, remember. ”

Heiwa still wanted to do it, but was stopped by several middle-aged people around her.

"Heiwa, I think it's better to go back and tell our uncles, there's something strange here. If you think about it, there are more victims in their village than we do, not to mention, if you still live with them, it's not too much to waste it than we are. That old man Li is also a food lover on weekdays, and his daughter-in-law cooks and burns the pot, and he can hang him on the beam of the house and beat him half to death. Tell me, why isn't he in a hurry? ”

"Hey, that's right, teach your baby a good lesson, hurry up and let your father come over, people from more than a dozen villages in the radius have arrived, and there will be no part for you when it's late." The patriarch of Lijia Village, who had walked a few steps, did not look back, and just said a few words.

"Second Brother Black, Second Brother Black."

Heiwa was erected on a half-beam, and she couldn't get off the stage at once, and she was still stunned there. Unexpectedly, a young man in his village ran over out of breath and shouted anxiously:

"Another disaster victim is coming, another disaster victim is coming, Grandpa Hei told you to hurry back and defend the land."

"Damn it, let's go back!"

Heiwa had no choice but to take this group of people and hurriedly run to her village.

Here, the struggle between the peasants and the peasants has not yet subsided. Over there, just in front of the Laojun Temple, I heard someone loudly manipulating the human trade.

Lu Xiangsheng and a few people walked out from behind the woods in the shadows, and the expressions on their faces were even more strange and confused.

"Zhang Jingtian, there is no guard between us and Hejian Mansion, you don't have to follow me, hurry up and mobilize the guards and go to the main road from Hejian Mansion to Baoding, and see what the specific situation is?"

Lu Xiangsheng has already realized that this may be a natural disaster, but it may be a man-made disaster.

For the homeless, he knew that now was still the time when the situation could be controlled, and if he really waited for the time when the number of homeless people exceeded 10,000, it would be really an indescribable scene.

Now it is the second year of the full implementation of sweet potatoes, potatoes and grain buns in Beizhili. Last year, several places in the pilot area had bumper harvests. This year, he put the planting of these crops after wheat and millet, if he can catch up with a second crop before the end of October, this is not only for Beizhili, but also for the Ming Dynasty, it is as big as the sky.

In the first half of the year, he spent almost all of his time in the countryside for this.

Beizhili spent 800,000 taels of silver and nearly 400,000 stone of grain on the construction of water conservancy alone. This time, the index of forced labor was not used, but directly in accordance with the intention of the imperial court, the method of exchanging work for relief and silver for conscription was adopted. In addition, there are seeds of various crops, and fertilizers are added by fermentation centered on the li. These costs are not small numbers.

He vaguely felt that some people didn't want him to succeed, but he didn't expect this situation to happen. At this time, human trafficking has become a minor problem.

Zhang Jingtian bowed down and got on the horse directly. Lu Xiangsheng asked suspiciously:

"Ning Yi, Liu Kuang, what do you say? Why don't these old farmers take crops seriously? He couldn't figure it out.

"I don't understand."

Lu Xiangsheng has been dealing with farmers lately, and he knows how these newly acquired farmers view their land and every grain grain. They are afraid of hunger, and they are afraid of poverty. They would not have done these things at all, if anyone wasted food and trampled on the green seedlings, they could put their lives on the line, how could this happen today.

"Zhongcheng, aren't these people giving the money for buying and selling people to the villagers?" Liu Guo scratched his head.

"How much money can you have?" Sun Ningyi directly denied it.

"It's just that we said that if the new crops don't grow well this time, the government will provide new seeds for each of them, Zhongcheng, will things be like this?"

"Replanting, I'll give them all."

Lu Xiangsheng was also irritable. He is not worried about the problem of seeds, and more than half of the first batch of seeds released by the imperial court in Beizhili this year have not been distributed until now. On the one hand, some of them did not accept it, and it was difficult to implement new crops, and on the other hand, it was also where the imperial court prepared more, that is, according to the two stubbles.

"It's a lot of work. Both sweet potatoes and potatoes need to be raised and transplanted. Even if there is enough time, it is a labor-intensive and labor-intensive matter, isn't it that they are connected to the villagers and are ready to blackmail themselves over this? ”

Lu Xiangsheng seemed to have a little realization in his heart.

"Liu Guo, you go back to the yamen first. One is to go to see Baoding Mansion Jinyi Wei Qianhu and inquire to see if there is any movement and news there. I also told the brocade clothes about the strange things we have here, and in my name, I asked them to find out about this matter. Second, you are familiar with the official documents, prepare an excerpt to ask for sin, and I will come back with the seal in a while, and send it to the palace overnight. ”

Lu Xiangsheng already vaguely felt that the matter in front of him was no longer as simple as a small homeless person.

"Zhongcheng, my subordinates think." Sun Ningyi also added next to him.

"If the imperial court can start from Shandong, it will also be a practice of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle."

When he said this, Lu Xiangsheng also said viciously to the guards beside him:

"Don't be idle, go to Lord Bai Han Zebai of Baoding Mansion, please come to the Yamen, I want to ask him, what did the academy teach him?!"