Chapter 187: The Year of the Calamity
There is still half of the pasture grass in the Yelu family, and even if there is any leftover in the future, it will not be too much, because the snow melts late, and the grass grows later.
"I'm glad I have a son this year, otherwise it would have been miserable," Jerry said to his wife.
"Of course, the son was specially given to us husband and wife by God, and of course we are blessed
Jerodan suddenly remembered something,
"Dad, will the price of food and spices rise?",
"Not now, because so many animals died, they just ate meat, no one buys it, and when the grain is eaten up, the air-dried meat is gone, and the grain will grow wildly, but everyone understands, so as soon as the snow melts, some families will buy and store it, and then it will start to rise",
"Dad, can I ride a horse on this day?",
"Only your pony king can, because it's a wild horse, but it's going to be a lot slower",
"Then I will buy grain and spices tomorrow, and save my rations for another two years, so I will not be afraid of price increases in the future",
"Good". Because the road was too difficult to walk, Yeluduan went for five days in a row to buy all the wine, and there was no need to prepare the wine, and people were going to starve to death, who was still in the mood to drink?
It will be cheaper then. The herdsmen are very helpless, they can only leave a part of the mother livestock that must be had, and all the others are killed to make air-dried meat, otherwise, if they starve to death, there is not much meat, basically the family is bleak, in March, the snow began to melt, melted for a month, but the grain has doubled, the rest of the livestock are so hungry that they will not be able to walk, people began to cut last year's dry pasture grass for the livestock to eat, this is regarded as the stubble starving and not dead livestock, the food is expensive and reluctant to buy, therefore, the dry meat is eaten fast, it should be eaten up in eight months of a year, and the next days should be sad, the grain can not be bought, the livestock are not willing to kill, the vicious circle appeared, the house leaks and the rain is partial, wild animals starved to death more, large beasts without food began to go down the mountain,,, Yelu's family was fully stocked, but because they didn't go out, the outside news didn't know at all, until Yelu Duanweizi was drinking, I heard that the emperor borrowed 500 million catties of grain from the Great Song Dynasty, and Yang Jiulang, the Ping'an King of Langzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, gave 100 million catties of grain to Liao for free, and it will arrive in two days, and each family can borrow it, and pay it back after three years, but the price is twice as expensive, among them, each person can receive five catties of free food, which is sent to the disaster area free of charge by Yang Jiulang, the Ping'an King of Langzhou,
"Uncle, can I get it that day, and what should I bring?", Yeluduan asked a man in his forties,
"No one has received it, no one knows." Back home, Yelu went to the pasture, the snow has just melted, the grass has not yet come out, to grow, it is estimated that it will take a month, fortunately there is more grass in storage, otherwise, these more than 700 livestock, how small can be left no one knows, after feeding the livestock, back home, just when lunch is ready, the old couple while eating and drinking while listening to their son talk about what he has seen and heard on the polder, when everything is finished,
"These corrupt officials, not to mention the borrowed grain, just the grain sent by Yang Jiulang, the king of peace, is twenty catties per person in the whole Liao country, if only the north suffers, each person is sixty catties, and now, in the hands of the victims, there are only five catties left, look at it, this winter is not a small starvation to death."
"Dad, who is Yang Jiulang, the king of peace?",
Speaking of this person, he is really a big hero, back then, the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State went to war, Yang Jiulang taught the righteous brother Yang Wenguang and his four wives a set of joint killing methods, and the Liao State had to go to the Great Song Dynasty to negotiate, the negotiation team brought a total of seventy-nine generals, ready to fight back the initiative in the ring, as a result, Yang Jiulang and Yang Wenguang, not only killed 70,000 soldiers of the Liao State, but also took his friends and twelve sons, killed and disabled nearly 40 people, and lost four cities, just his nine youngest sons, captured two rings, killed and disabled nearly 20 people, and won two cities, and let his two sons lead Mu Guiying's army to break the Liuhe array, and the Liao State had no choice but to retreat to the north of the Black Mountain Pass, it can be said that he defeated the entire Liao State by himself, and he was a great hero."