Chapter 710: Famine
The former third largest state of the Twelve Prefectures, located in a remote state 60,000 miles west of Gui'an Prefecture, now this ranking has long been out of reality, and the Fengliang City of the border city and county capital is also not the legendary granary abundance. Along the way, there is no stone road in the loess hills, and it can be said that it is a small town like a green plain in the fruity valley to patrol and practice medicine for half a month before arriving at Fengliang County.
A hundred miles southeast of Fengliang City, Yuxu, who had wandered around, was passing by the edge of the county capital, and the famine that should not have occurred reached the most serious situation. Approaching the border of Sihai County, the chaos of corpses and abandonment swept through the wilderness spontaneously by the monks, and the young men gathered in front of the temporary tents with hunger, and the doll's head cried out for hunger with powerlessness. Yuxu was upset when he saw it, and looked around to ask about the confusion outside the county city, but he was indeed unable to answer Yuxu's doubts.
It wasn't until the grief of the women crying and shouting in the distance came that Yuxu quickly stepped forward and came to the straw mat tent a hundred feet away. A woman of thirty-five or sixteen, holding her child, knelt in front of the two sweeps in pain, Yuxu is from the countryside and naturally understands what it is.
Seeing this, Yuxu had no choice but to summon the few remaining rations and put them down, but the women didn't need to eat them immediately like the rest, and Yuxu was helpless and just about to leave, and a haggard reply came from the side. It was also the first thing Yuxu heard in the morning when she entered the worst place of famine: useless, she will still starve to death.
After hearing this, Yuxu turned his head to look at the burly man pulling several rolls of carts on the side, the burly body of Zhangsan, his black hair was scattered, his eyes were full of gaze, he was as black as charcoal in tattered clothes, and his hands and feet were still wearing chains. Yuxu laughed helplessly when he saw it: Why?
After hearing this, Dahan didn't reply and prepared to load the car for the woman's family, and Yuxu closed his eyes and turned back: Fengliang County, the warehouse of the world, it is really a joke that there is such a big famine at the foot of the county government. What is even more puzzling is that there is rice without porridge, and there are people who collect corpses without porridge, whether it is a famine that famines Fengliang, or whether Fengliang famines the people of Li.
After hearing this, Dahan was indifferent to collect the corpse: if you have the ability, you will solve the root cause, and if you are incapable, even if you are a human being, you are a shadow.
After hearing this, Yuxu glared at all the edible rations, and walked to the pass to prepare to enter Fengliang County. All the way was a shocking abundance of misfortune, which made Yuxu grit his teeth and hate to come to the checkpoint where the gate was closed and guarded by guards. Yuxu came to see the closed door of the three doors, and knocked on the door with a hammer. A fat man guard on the city tower ate this wine and walked out, looked at Yuxu and turned back: This pass can't be opened to other places.
Yuxu saw that the soldiers were eating and drinking, and the outside of the gate was indeed hungry for several miles, but he was annoyed, and after slowing down: Which pass is open?
When the soldier heard that he ignored Yuxu and wanted to leave, Yuxu stood in front of the door with a glare and summoned his disciples. After the disciple saluted: Childe.
Yuxu summoned wine and took a sip: Why are the fields and gardens all good-mouthed, but how can there be so many villagers here who starved to death due to famine?
The disciple was helpless after hearing this: it was the rainstorm in January last year that caused the three lakes of Fenghu Lake in the west of the city to burst the embankment in series, and the water flooded thousands of miles and flooded several cities. These are all the people who have escaped, and they have become the homeless and fruitless people that Gongzi sees now. However, the city government shared that the materials and rations raised from all over the country were not enough to last for a year, and the porridge shop set up was also a trip to the cattle in the valley. Originally, the strong man wanted to go back to farming, but the city government did say that the hidden dangers were eliminated, and the people were not allowed to go back to farming, so that there was no land to cultivate, and there was grain and could not swallow. Usually, once ten copper is sold to the homeless people, once it is twenty copper, it should be useless to consider that the people have no rice. The county lord did ignore it, and the merchants moved again, dominating the rich granary and not producing grain.
Yuxu only knew what was going on after hearing this, and after thinking for a while: Do we have food here?
The disciple sighed: Childe, it's not that I don't give, we can't be the master.
After hearing this, Yuxu turned his head to look at his disciple: Do you mean that I want to send it personally?
After the disciple saluted: "Childe, the business name is the steward of the business, I am the informant and cannot interfere in the affairs of the business, I have replied to ask Zhang to send food. At the beginning, a large number of them were posted, but there was no sound in the follow-up, and there was no reply to the question.
After hearing this, Yuxu wondered: Take me to the store.
After hearing this, the disciple led the way, and entered the Fengliang Castle Mansion with a resident population of 600,000 at night. After entering the city, it is a peaceful and generous atmosphere, and the cloth clothes seem to be all subordinates here, which shows that there must be a behind the wealth. After entering the city to the small courtyard of Sanjin Courtyard in Xicheng Street, the disciple closed the door and turned around to salute: Childe, you freshen up first, and I will go get you some wine.
After hearing this, Yuxu was displeased to look at his disciple: How many people outside the city are starving?
The disciple was helpless: about 130,000, but the prince was going to Fuhua District, and the coolies in the housekeeper's house could not enter at night, and there were guards even during the day.
After hearing this, Yuxu thought for a moment and then turned around and walked slowly: Where is the steward's mansion?
After listening to this, the disciples followed: Xuefu West, Ding Mansion, steward Ding Lun, young steward Ding Xin, young lady Zhang Juan.
As soon as Yuxu heard this, he stopped and looked back at his disciple, and the disciple bowed his head to show helplessness, and Yuxu knew what was going on. After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, he took out his soul and gave it to his disciple: Okay, you go and get busy! Distribute it to him and send him home.
The disciple took the soul and bowed back, and Yuxu closed his eyes and went to the backyard to fetch water and wash and change clothes. Yuxu, who was accustomed to the streets of the city, walked around the city until late at night, and then came to the front of the mansion with six entrances, six exits and twelve auxiliary halls in Xifuhua, a school.
Ding's Mansion, the door is open, Yuxu really can't enter, Yuxu knows very well what he dares to come, so he walked to the street next to each other and found an inn to live in. It was late at night, and the street was asleep early, and only one man rested on the table, and the older shopkeeper was reading a book at the counter. After Yuxu entered the store and took a look, he stepped forward with a smile and saluted: The store.
The fascinated old man reacted at this time, put down the book with a smile and got up: sluggish, sluggish.
Yuxu smiled and took out a document and a small silver ingot: I disturbed the store, when I first arrived in your place, it was inconvenient to walk in the middle of the night, so I made trouble for the store.
After the old man took it with a smile, he returned the document to Yuxu, and looked at the snoring guy: three, three, take the son to live.
After the guy was woken up, he sat up and took a look, and hurriedly got up and smiled and saluted: Childe, please come here.
Yuxu smiled: Shopkeeper, don't talk so much etiquette when you go out, fill your abdominal muscles and burn a glass of wine, and wash with well water.
The shopkeeper smiled: Childe, please rest in the guest room first, and I will go to the kitchen to prepare it for Childe.
Yuxu smiled and went to the guest room with his buddy, and stayed that night Yuxu was inconvenient to ask in order to avoid suspicion, so he ate wine and sensed the night movement of the entire Fengliang City. In the south of Chengguan, the disciples sent tens of thousands of people home in the sky according to Yuxu's instructions, which made the city government a little puzzled. Liang Shiyuan, the elderly old city mansion, wondered about the staff after getting the news early in the morning: Is it really gone?
The eldest son thirty years away, with a shiny green shirt and a long shirt, holding a flower fan with a relaxed complexion. This person is a member of Liangyuan's staff, and he is also the advisor of the county government who is in charge of the warehouse of the world. Kwai Xian smiled: When I went back, there was a big man who didn't open the door yesterday, and the guards said that he didn't look good. After inquiring about the news, it was a Buddhist lay disciple who donated money, which was considered a good deed, and did not leave much to reply, and this morning the houses and food were also sent one after another.
Liangyuan thought for a moment and then sent someone over to investigate, a group of Diao people.
Kwai Xian got up with a smile: Okay, I'll take the title deed to others, and the money has been handed over to the Chamber of Commerce.
The next day, Yuxu went out of the city to take a turn around Fengliang City, and then returned to Nanguan to open the door to see, and then went straight to Fenghu Lake in the west of the city. The endless flat mountains, green waters, and rippling blue waves of the Quhu Lake, flowing calmly and nourishing the fertile land of Fengliang County. As soon as Yuxu turned around after observing, the Void Gate opened, and Zhang Kuo walked through the Void Gate and sat on the ground. Yuxu was helpless when he saw it: Why did you come over?
Pouted: I'm not running, I'm going crazy.
Yuxu smiled embarrassedly: How to say?
Zhang Kuo scratched his head in embarrassment, Yuxu knew what was going on, and turned around to look at the lake: Hey! How big do you think this lake is?
Zhang Kuo summoned a drink to eat: the three lakes in the north and south are connected for as many as 10,000 miles, spanning the narrowest 600 li and the widest 4,000 li from east to west, covering one-third of the land of Fengliang County. And the fish here is very fresh and fatty, but it is very popular.
After hearing this, Yuxu wondered, how could Zhang Kuo know so much about this and ignore the refugees. After thinking for a moment, he smiled: Why don't we go downstream and have a look?
After hearing this, Zhang Kuo looked around: Childe, don't, we can't go, this is a barren land.
Yuxu is incomprehensible: Oh! Let's hear it.
Zhang Kuo took a sip of wine: This is the grain capital, and all major prefectures have granaries here, how to go recklessly.
Yuxu frowned when he heard this: Why?
Zhang Kuo was helpless: Childe, the people in the south of the city were sent back by your disciples, right?
Yuxu turned his head in embarrassment when he heard this: No, how did you know?
Zhang Kuo was embarrassed: My informant asked you to withdraw, and I guess you let Wenyuan's disciple withdraw.
Yuxu glared after hearing this, and Zhang Kuo reluctantly took out the bill: Childe, you just got the bill this afternoon, you don't really believe that we have a granary here!
Yu Xuke sat down in wonder: What's going on?
Zhang Kuo reluctantly gave the wine to Yuxu: Childe, this is that, Fengle Zhou, don't you know what it means. As long as there is wind and grass, basically the first person to know is your senior brother, who is entrenched in these four types of various states here. I arranged for several batches of materials to be delivered on a monthly basis, but even the stewards and disciples who delivered the goods lost their footprints.
When Yuxu heard this, he suddenly realized that Zhang Kuo was forbidden to appear by the scale baby during the period. After taking the wine and eating and thinking for a while: So you know about it, but the food that was sent was stopped.
Zhang Kuo nodded: This land deed is eight hundred miles from the Six Cities, and it was also bought by me and Wen Yuan after urgent negotiation. After I also received the informant's report, Yinqiu asked me to hurry over to meet with Childe, for fear that it would be difficult for Childe to make his identity public.
Yuxu took a sip of wine and got up: I really almost forgot that this is the state of my teacher's master, and I am not afraid that others will know when I come. But this flat river seems to be as quiet as an undercurrent, and I wonder how he broke the embankment.
Zhang Kuo is fat now, and it is uncomfortable to get up, so he will stand up and look at the water: Childe, it is the downstream river that has burst its embankment and flooded several cities, and the hundred-year-old embankment was destroyed in the anthill and was caught off guard! But to put it bluntly, it is still a greedy and secret operation, taking living beings into anthill eggs regardless of it.
Yu Xucai smiled: Hey! Did you come to say hello to Min Yu?
Zhang Kuo immediately sneered: I said, I said that the son wants to find me, otherwise I will be faster than the little boy crazy.
Yuxu smiled helplessly and walked slowly: Then let's go! Go to the meeting and see your family.
After hearing this, Zhang Kuo wondered and kept up: No, son, family, family members are at home!
Yuxu wondered: Ding family.
Zhang Kuo was embarrassed when he heard it: Oh! Childe treats Mrs. Ding as my sister, and I said how to be weird.
Yuxu looked back in embarrassment when he heard it: No, it was the disciple who said it.
Zhang Kuo laughed: He is a native of the Zhang family, and he is now a member of the top ten households of the Fengdeng Chamber of Commerce. Ding Xin is an outstanding talent in the cold window for ten years, and he has been taught by Li Mu to become a talent, we just gave him the support of the cash cabinet. This Zhang Juan is a knife mouth, occupying his cousin's position in the city defense yamen, and he is arrogant and domineering, but he has offended many people.
Yuxu smiled: In this way, they all regard it as your family.
Pouted: Isn't it? I'm about to die. Today, the ancestral hall discussed the matter of Fengliang County, and also thought that it had something to do with my family, but it gave the old man a face.
Yu Xucai smiled helplessly: Okay, let's go to meet this so-called daughter of the Zhang family another day, I want to have a sister, but that is not there anymore.
Yuxu smiled: Okay, I'll ask my aunt to pick a few for you when I go back.
Zhang Kuoseya: Don't! I'm comfortable on the boat, don't trouble me, or I'll dig the ground and farm."