Chapter 256
Ji Menghan said honestly, "I don't know what to do, I'm very confused now."
Although Shu Jinxi doesn't know what Ji Menghan has experienced? But a comrade who is confused about the way forward has an obligation to take care of himself. and show her the way forward.
Shu Jinxi didn't wait for Wang Wenwu to say anything, and was about to leave with Ji Menghan by the hand. Wang Wenwu hurriedly shouted, "What are you doing here? I'm not dead yet, I haven't spoken. Where are you going to take her?"
Shu Jinxi said: "She is now confused and needs to be enlightened. You're not a woman, you know how? I don't have to do this!"
Shu Jinxi really said what she said, only she can. The rest either don't know how to read, or they don't have Ji Menghanqiang. can enlighten Ji Menghan, that's a joke!
Sophora is a clever one. After Shu Jinxi left with Ji Menghan, he said to Wang Wenwu, "Ji Menghan, that stupid girl. Why does everyone bring it home? If anyone else finds out, our whole family will be doomed."
Wang Wenwu said, "What do you see?"
Huaihua said, "Look at the man's appearance. If they're not wanted, I don't believe anything! Just look at the way he eats, for fear that we will poison the food!"
"That's all?"
"Master, what more evidence do you want, this is really going to be found, we just can't tell it all over our mouths. I think it's better to get rid of that person sooner!"
"You also know that Ji Menghan has a brain. I don't know if that person contacted Ji Menghan behind his back. Didn't you hear him say to go find a friend? I'll talk about it when he comes back!"
Huaihua snorted and said, "I think you are heartbroken Ji Menghan, master, you can be careful, you say that there is a knife on the head."
Wang Wenwu looked at Huaihua with amusement and said, "What are you thinking about every day? You just do your own thing, and I'll take care of the rest."
Huaihua also has its own advantages, compared to Aiqin, Huaihua is more deeply involved in Wang Wenwu's private voice. Wang Wenwu also trusted Huaihua more.
Wang Wenwu was reading the newspaper to learn about the current situation in the whole country, and now the Central Plains War was fighting outside. The entire Central Plains was in a mess, and several commanders with an army of nearly one million were in a mess.
No one cares that since the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province has been in drought for six years, which is unprecedented in the historical records of Guanzhong.
Although Beiping is far away, and the victims in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province cannot go so far, there are more and more displaced people under the corners of the Beiping city wall. The biggest impact on Wang Wenwu is that food is getting more and more expensive.
Regarding the situation in Guanzhong, Shaanxi, Wang Wenwu had learned about it in the documents when he was in the central government.
In the beginning, when people had no food to eat, they could only feed on buckwheat skin, oil residue, and soybean cakes that livestock ate. When they had eaten all this, they went into the fields to search for grass roots, chaff, and bark to satisfy their hunger. Some people even go around collecting bird droppings, washing them with water, and then eating the incompletely digested grain grains. Later, there was really no choice but to slaughter the ploughing cattle, mules and horses, and dogs, cats, mice, etc. became the objects of capture and swallowing by the victims. In the end, there was really nothing to eat, and some hungry people began to devour white soil to satisfy their hunger (commonly known as Guanyin soil. A very fine soil powder), died of diarrhea shortly after eating.
At the beginning of winter, the disaster situation intensified, and a large number of desperate people were forced to leave their homes and flee the famine. At the beginning of the disaster, the price of food skyrocketed due to food shortages. When the victims were displaced, some people who had lost their conscience even began to ask for tolls, and the hungry people carried the way, crying and shaking the wilderness.
In the face of hunger, there is no dignity at all. For a bite to eat, he even sells his sons and daughters. The sale of women and children has become almost a legal business. On the streets of Xi'an, the provincial capital of SX, there is a public market. The women and children who are waiting to be sold have their heads marked with a clear price.
Prices range from two to three yuan per person for local women and lower for children. During that period of famine, the price of grain soared, with the price of wheat ranging from 5 to 8 yuan per bucket, while the price of wheat in the Fengxiang and Qishan areas had risen to 12 yuan per bucket
Yuan. The value of the women and children who were sold was less than one-third of the value of a bucket of wheat. In order to survive, many women have to sell themselves without taking a penny.
In order to stop this kind of human trafficking, local officials in Shaanxi put up notices strictly prohibiting human trafficking, but there was no follow-up after the notices were posted. Wang Wenwu has heard that the local government has gone so far as to collect a poll tax on traffickers in order to generate revenue. The SX province next door looked blushing, and also came up with a policy to make a fortune, and began to collect toll fees from these traffickers, five yuan per person, and actually earned nearly two million yuan.
Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the political situation in Shaanxi has been turbulent for a long time, with constant military disasters and warlords fighting in Guanzhong. It is almost rare for the Guanzhong region to go unaffected by disasters for three consecutive years. Paying grain and paying taxes is the responsibility and obligation of the peasants of all dynasties. Despite the difficult times, even the landlords who could live at that time knew in their hearts that if they did not have three years of surplus food at home, they would have a false family background, and once they encountered a famine, they would also starve. But in the midst of the war and chaos, under the heavy tax burden, even if they are rich and big, few families can store three years of surplus grain, let alone ordinary people.
According to the older generation, three years of farming in a normal year can save one year's grain, six years of hard work can have two years of surplus food, and two of the six years of drought and locust plagues occur, and most people, except for the extremely poor, will not starve to death.
However, since the Republic of China, in Shaanxi, especially in the Guanzhong region, the peasants have planted tobacco under the guidance of Chen Dashuai, and in the Meixian area in the western part of Guanzhong, the peasants have planted tobacco seedlings on paddy fields and fertile land, and the planting area of grain has been reduced on a large scale, resulting in a shortage of grain. And some farmers smoke ***, resulting in weak physical strength, in the event of a drought, that is, they are tied to death. The varying degrees of influence of these factors are also one of the reasons for the famine in Shaanxi.
In addition, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Shaanxi's water conservancy construction and farmland construction fell into disrepair for many years, and even the famous Baiqu, a water conservancy hub in Guanzhong, has been abandoned for a hundred years.
The completion of the Baiqu has made a large area of land in Jingyang and Sanyuan improve the soil and fertilizer conditions, promote the development of production, and compile a song and widely praised: Tian Yu He Suo Chiyang Gukou. Zheng Guo is in front, and after the white canal rises, it is a cloud, and the ditch is rain. Jingshui is a stone, and its mud is several buckets. And even if it is dung, it will grow my corn. Clothing and food Jingshi, the mouth of hundreds of millions ("Hanshu Gou Xizhi")