Yue Guanchao sat in the high-backed chair and said unhurriedly: "Well, go and help your old acquaintance do something!" ”

When the old man heard his nephew speak like this, a trace of surprise flashed in his sharp eyes: "You know everything~"

"This place is not a place to talk, I'll take you to my yard, we have to have a good fight, and I just have to ask you about something."

"Cheng~"

Yue Guanchao knew that there were many people in the study of the outer house, so he had to take the second uncle back to the courtyard where he lived.

When the door of the house slammed shut, he took a long breath and asked curiously, "Second uncle, are you and Mrs. Zhang old acquaintances?" ”

After this incident, Yue Guanchao also felt that there was no need to hide it from Yue Erpao and Song Siyuan, and did not carry the two of them behind his back, seeing the three pairs of crystal bright eyes casting curious eyes, the old Yue Tou sighed: "Well, it's not just an old acquaintance, she is still your second uncle's old employer." ”

"The old club?"

"Second uncle, you have to take a good look at this, what's going on?"

Yue Guanchao knew that the second uncle had done a handbook long before he went to Wuxiang Town, and when he came back, he knew that it was the town god wind who deliberately set up a situation, and he had long wanted to ask the second uncle what grievances he had with Tang Dianrong, so that he was entangled with these juniors.

"Do you know about the Ding Wu Qi Famine?"

Yue Qingshan pondered it several times in his heart, since the old man had reappeared after many years, presumably the previous things were already paper that could not contain the fire, and since he couldn't hide it, he simply poked it out and said that it was happy.

"Although fifty or sixty years have passed, your second uncle is still trembling when I think about it, you don't even dare to think about the natural and man-made disasters of that era."

Lao Yuetou picked up the fire fold again, rubbed the Huanghuali pipe, lit the tobacco leaves and looked into the distance, the frowning brows gradually stretched, telling the previous experience.

In the first year of Emperor Xu, the arrogance of the Taiping Kingdom was exhausted, the remnants of the Heavenly King were completely purged, the Westernization Movement was in full swing, fruitful, Emperor Xu, who was only four years old, ascended to the great treasure for the first time, and the Zuo Gong, who was over sixty years old, was officially ordered to expropriate and restore the distant frontier......

This year, the whole empire seems to give people a new and thriving feeling, however, the quiet years on the surface can't stop the turbulent undercurrent, only a few months, the world suddenly changed - a drought broke out in Jingshi Zhili!

Man-made disasters are easy to dodge, natural disasters are ruthless, and what the people are most afraid of is the flood and drought year that will displace them.

The government of the former dynasty originally thought that the drought was only partially in the Gyeonggi area, and only set up porridge sheds and grain stalls in the capital area for disaster relief, but they did not expect that the north had already been shrouded in drought haze, but in a few months, Ludi, the Central Plains, Jindi, Shaanxi and Gansu successively broke out more serious drought, and then, the drought quickly devastated and decayed, like a fire that quickly swept the entire north.

At this point, this catastrophic catastrophe that lasted for four years and affected the entire north officially began

Wherever the drought goes, it will cause locusts to revolt, and from the north to the south of Jincheng, the locusts will eat the fields and seedlings like dark clouds, but wherever the locusts cross the border, they will be thousands of miles of red land, and the food will be cut off, and the day the people will be cut off, the white bones will be piled up like mountains.

There is a saying that after the catastrophe, there is a great plague, after the locusts cross the border, the roadside is full of fermented and rotten ownerless corpses, too many corpses can not be buried and burned, and finally caused a more serious plague source, and the epidemic began to run rampant among the victims.

The disaster here, not to mention how many people died and how many livelihoods were ruined, let's get back to the legend of Lao Yuetou.

The old Yuetou was not originally called Yue Qingshan, this is the name of the sect that he changed after entering the ancestral hall of the Yue family, his real name is Yu De'an, and he is the official of the Jiangning Mansion in the former dynasty who was responsible for transporting official grain and dredging the river.

These people bear the official errands, eat the official food, and only pounce on the luck, occasionally hear the news that the north is starving, and do not do any discussion, but when they gather to joke, they sigh that their lives are good, and they have made an iron errand, and they can not panic in the disaster year in the future, and they will not be hungry in the year of hunger, which can be regarded as satisfied.

In his opinion, Jiangning is far away from Gyeonggi Tiangao Road, and separated by rivers, and the drought in the north will not affect the south at all, but there are no eggs under the nest, and the world is turbulent, how can anyone be alone.

After the north could not accommodate the displaced people, the government of the former dynasty naturally wanted to dredge the victims, and after an official document came down, tens of millions of people in the north began to beg for orders, either going north to find a livelihood, or going south to Jianghuai to eat.

As a rich land in the south, Jiangning became a destination for the victims to go south to eat, and for a time, tens of thousands of victims flocked to Jiangning Mansion.

These victims did not belong to Jiangning City, and their sudden entry into the city will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the local people, and unkempt victims can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of the city, and their arrival not only makes the price of grain and rice several times more expensive, but also squeezes out the work that originally belonged to the people of Jiangning.

Lifu on the Caoyunhai River has at least ten copper plates a day before he is willing to do things, and these people only need five copper plates a day in order to survive, and in the end, they can even give food to eat, and they can not have a big son.

As a result, the bosses of the wharf are all goods that have fallen into the eyes of money, and these people are willing to hire local people, hoping that the more people in the disaster, the better, so that they can also make a fortune in the country.

These people are willing to work hard to survive and have taken the right path, and there are those who don't follow the right path to pick up broken bowls and become beggars in Jiangning City!

At first, these victims were willing to beg for money and food, but then they became more and more courageous, and whenever they saw someone dressed richly, they would go forward and beg for money.

If you don't give it, hehe, then we'll do it ourselves!