Chapter 108: Finally a Way to Survive the Winter
With Su Mo taking the second stronghold.
Eighty percent of the 50,000 sheep and cattle in the first batch were transported back to the border.
For a time, the meat of 40,000 cattle and sheep eased the food shortage at the border.
Seeing the beef and mutton, Zhuge Liang immediately ordered someone to issue an announcement.
The content is extremely simple, roughly because of the lack of grain on the border, the general could not bear the suffering of the people, and the Yiying trading house opened by the general's palace sold beef and mutton at a low price.
Not long after the announcement was issued, in the east of Tai'an City, a quarrel broke out in an ordinary family.
Zhao Chunsheng looked at the bow and crossbow that his son raised, and reprimanded angrily: "Bastard, who let you go out hunting?" Winter hunting is the most dangerous, and if you are not careful, there will be no bones left! Put the guy down for me! ”
Zhao Nian was not stunned at all, twisted his neck and retorted: "But, there is already a shortage of food at home!" ”
"Just this amount of food, it's enough for our two to eat for another ten days, if we don't hunt, will we starve to death!"
Looking at his disobedient son, Zhao Chunsheng immediately scolded: "Lack of food? When I was short of food, I went out to buy it, and if I couldn't buy it, I borrowed it! ”
"I can't let you go out hunting!"
Zhao Nian was quite puzzled by his father's persistence, and still carried the bow and crossbow and said: "Where to buy it, all the grain stores are closed!" ”
After speaking, he walked up to his father and said proudly: "Dad, I have grown up, I can help you share a little." ”
"I don't want to watch you go out and beg anymore."
For a while, Zhao Chunsheng's eyes were suddenly filled with tears.
Looking at the son who was already tall with him in front of him, he snatched the bow and crossbow in the latter's hand, and said earnestly and dissuaded: "Dad is such a son as you!" ”
"Your mother had a difficult birth when she gave birth to you, and she desperately stayed for you!"
"You are not only the only seedling of my Zhao family, but also the lifeblood of your mother!"
As he spoke, he wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, touched his son's forehead, and said with a relieved face: "According to your mother's words before leaving, I let you study and let you go to private school, why?" ”
"For you to have a good time, so that you can get ahead!"
"So that you are no longer like us, a farmer for generations!"
With that, he took out a package, a handkerchief with a red peony and a bracelet wrapped in emerald green.
Zhao Chunsheng stroked the bracelet with a nostalgic look on his face and handed it to Zhao Nian.
"This is what your mother left for you, saying that it was for your future daughter-in-law!"
"Now that you have just reached adulthood, you are finally going to marry a daughter-in-law, how can your father let you go out on an adventure!"
"Nian'er, be obedient, the general won't ignore us."
Zhao Nian took the bracelet in his father's hand, felt his mother's temperature, tears involuntarily shed from the corners of his eyes, he hugged his father, whimpering and crying.
"But I just don't want my dad to beg again, I don't want to watch my dad whisper!"
"I'm growing up, and I want my dad to live beautifully."
Zhao Chunsheng hugged his son in his arms and said with relief: "What is the low voice? That was all in the past. ”
"Since the general came to the border, Dad doesn't have to keep his voice down."
As he spoke, he pointed to the houses beside him and said, "Look, these are all given by the general." ”
"Originally, in this area, just a thatched house cost dozens of taels of gold, how can there be a reason to give it away for free!"
With that, he stood his son in front of him and wiped the tears from his eyes.
"You're a man, you can't cry like before, what are you like!"
"Even if it's hunting, it's your father's go, it's not your turn!" Zhao Nian was about to insist, but suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside the house.
Zhao Chunsheng opened the door and saw that the person who came happened to be his neighbor Wang Shan!
The latter said happily: "Lao Zhao, a good thing, a good thing." ”
Zhao Chunsheng gave up his position and let Wang Shan sit and talk, but the latter did not enter the house, but said at the door: "The general has issued a notice to benefit the people, and every household can buy low-cost beef and mutton according to the number of people in the family!" ”
"The Huimin notice also said that there will be more beef and mutton shipped in the future, so we don't have to worry!"
Hearing this, Zhao Chunsheng asked with a happy face, "Really?" ”
"Of course it's true, can there be a fake if the notice for the people is issued?"
Inside the house, Zhao Nian walked out of the door when he heard the movement, looked at Wang Shan's figure and said hello: "Uncle Wang, the notices of the people are not necessarily true, maybe the general comforted everyone." ”
When Zhao Chunsheng heard his son say this, he turned around and scolded angrily: "What nonsense? ”
"The general never lightly issues notices that benefit the people, and once it is released, it is an absolute good thing!"
Wang Shan on the side also echoed: "That's it, you are still young, and you don't know this." ”
"Six years ago, the general issued a notice to benefit the people, saying that everyone didn't need to spend money to see a doctor, but I didn't believe it at the time!"
"Later, I was sure that it really didn't cost anything"
Zhao Chunsheng also nodded in agreement, this notice is a person who has benefited a lot.
He had some minor problems before, and when it came to winter, he had weakness in his limbs, especially his knees, which were like pins and needles, and the pain was incomparable.
In previous years, he relied on some traditional Chinese medicine to alleviate one or two, and then carried it through the winter.
It wasn't until Su Mo issued a notice to benefit the people, saying that the people on the border could see a doctor for free, and they would all be paid for by the general's government.
At that time, Zhao Chunsheng also went to the medical department with the idea of giving it a try.
Originally, he wanted to ask if it was true.
Unexpectedly, the medical department actually took care of his knee.
For more than ten days, all kinds of medicinal materials were used on him.
If it had been placed before, it would have been at least two hundred taels of silver, but the medical department would have confiscated a penny from him.
Since then, more and more people have become aware that the medical department does not need to spend money, so they believe the notice of benefiting the people.
Even Zhao Nian went to private school.
Soon after the announcement of free medical treatment, Su Mo issued a notice of free schooling.
At that time, Zhao Chunsheng was still looking for a private school for his son, he wanted his son to be taught by a famous teacher, but his family couldn't afford that expense.
It was also Su Mo who issued a notice to benefit the people, and in the border, every household can let their children enter a private school for free.
All of a sudden, children across the border began to have books to read.
One by one, the real implementation of things in front of us, the border people's trust in the notice of the people has reached 100%.
Now I can't help but be overjoyed to learn that the General's Mansion sells beef and mutton at a low price.
Finally, there is a way to survive the winter.
Zhao Chunsheng asked Zhao Nian to wait at home, and together with Wang Shan, he went to the place mentioned in the notice to see if there was any beef and mutton for sale.
As the two of them rushed to the announcement office, the people in Tai'an City had already surrounded the place.
A scholar stood in front of the notice and explained to some people who could not understand it.