Chapter 50 Notice (seeking a monthly pass)
The next morning, the Kunshan County officials sent a notice at Shenmingting and posted a notice in the densely populated areas in the city.
The people gathered in the rain to watch, and those who knew literacy chanted loudly:
"The new magistrate of Kunshan Zhao, urgently reported to the whole county's elders. Since the plum blossoms entered May, the rain has been raining for months, Taihu Lake has soared, and the flood situation has not happened for many years. Kunbei has become a country of marina, and the Wusong River Dike is in danger.
Once the river embankment is lost, the whole county will suffer a disaster, the houses collapse, the particles will not be harvested, and those who starve to death will die and drown will not know how many times!
This official and his colleagues couldn't bear to see the people suffering this disaster, so they vowed to guard the dike for Kunshan to the end. The flood would not retreat for a day, and we would not go down the river dike for a day!
Alas, Kunshan is the Kunshan of the people. Everyone has the responsibility to defend the land. We are united as one, and the flood cannot invade!
From today's hour of Mao, the county has entered a state of emergency. For the sake of the whole country and the whole country, nine special bans have been issued. I hope everyone knows:
One is prohibited from raising prices and hoarding goods! Two is prohibited from spreading rumors and causing trouble, bewitching people's hearts! Three is prohibited from fighting and fighting, and lawsuits are often taken!
The fourth prohibition of stealing and scams, looting supplies! The fifth prohibition does not report the information and colludes with one another! The six prohibition of leaving the post without permission is careless!
Seventh bans shirking responsibility and perfunctory responsibility! Eight bans extortion, corruption and bribery! Nineth bans fail to obey orders and escape at the last minute!
Those who violate these nine prohibitions, regardless of whether the officials and the people are severely punished by the national laws, they will be shackled for ten days, and a monument of shame will be erected in Chaoyang Gate, which will be despised by the hundreds of generations!
The magistrate of Kunshan, Zhao Shouzheng; the county magistrate He Wenwei; the chief clerk Bai Shouli; the joint signature of the dictionary Xiong Xiasheng."
This stern and decisive notice immediately caused the already panic-ridden Kunshan County to explode.
The people in the county were completely alert from their paralysis and started to talk in panic.
"So cruel? How can you be a human being?"
"Yes, it's both a shackle and a monument of shame, don't show up in Kunshan."
“Is the flood this year so severe?”
"Absolutely, the people from the south fled into the city so early."
"Didn't you see all four masters signing? If it weren't for being serious?"
"Yesterday, the county magistrate took Mr. Gu, Mr. Zheng and others to inspect the dike. Today, he took all the victims and the countrymen to repair the dike."
"We are soon, our village chief has issued a notice and we will go to the dike tomorrow."
"What should I do now..." Many people couldn't help but think of the flood ten years ago.
Although people were not drowned due to the protection of the county town, they were trapped in an isolated city for two consecutive months, and they were starved to death.
There was even a scene of cannibalism in which people even had the end of the world...
Fear surged from the bottom of my heart and was out of control. Some people ran home, carried hoes, and picked up dustpans, and wanted to support the construction of the dike.
Some people went home to pack up their things and prepared to escape to Suzhou City for refuge.
Some people rushed to the shops on the street to buy food, firewood, tea, salt, etc., and prepared to stock up to prevent famine...
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However, Mr. Zhao could no longer see this messy scene in the city.
Early in the morning, under the protection of Gao Wu and twenty Caijiaxiang men, he quietly left Kunshan County by boat, and went down the Lou River to embark on the road to begging for alms.
Zhao Shouzheng and his subordinates really lived on the dike last night, and started the intense flood control work this morning. Naturally, they couldn't see it or control the county town.
Now the one who has the final say in Kunshan County is two out-of-inspection executives - Xu Wei and Wu Chengen.
Standing inside the gate with an umbrella, looking at the chaos in Yaqian Street, the mature and persistent writer felt a headache.
"Hey, so are you." The writer glared at the painter and said, "If you don't persuade the young master with me, you will support him in posting notices. Is it necessary to let the people know the truth?"
"One hundred thousand victims have entered the city, and tens of thousands of people have gone to the dike to work today. How can they not understand the truth?" the painter asked back.
"Maybe many people don't want to know." Wu Chengen sighed and said, "Ignorance is also a kind of happiness."
"It's shameless to pretend to be ignorant!" Xu Wei sneered, "I don't like those shameless faces who pretend to be confused and selfish! Of course, they must be completely unable to pretend. This notice is the demon-sighted mirror of the King of Tota. Once it is looked at, all the ghosts and monsters will appear."
"Oh, this will cause trouble." The writer sighed again. "If this is a big deal, 80% of people will use our identities to attack the boss."
"What are you afraid of? If something happens, it will be put down." The unruly orphan painter said calmly: "Before the real flood has not arrived, kill all the demons and monsters that pop up, so that the whole country can work together to fight the flood."
"What if it can't be leveled?" Wu Chengen asked in a muffled voice.
"What's the matter that cannot be settled?" Xu Wei sneered and turned around and entered the county government.
"Oh, this guy." Wu Chengen shook his head helplessly.
The scene that happened when he entered the city the day before yesterday and the reminder Feng before leaving all made Wu Chengen deeply worried.
Those lackeys from the Xu family are afraid that they will not miss this excellent opportunity...
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Although Yaqian Street is prosperous, it is born with the entire street under the county government, so it seems a bit deformed. It is all about the service industries such as teahouses, restaurants, hotels, clinics, pharmacies, bathhouses, etc.
If you want to buy things seriously, you still have to go to Banshanqiao.
Dongtang Street and Xitang Street on both sides of the bridge are full of shops and the market is prosperous.
It was raining today, but there were much more people on Dongtang Street than usual.
Especially at the entrances of those grain shops, people crowded together and rushed to buy rice, and a long line lined up to the bridge.
"I want one stone!"
"Alla Badou!"
"Five stones!"
The customers shouted loudly, slapped the counter, and urged the busy shopkeeper and the client.
The black-hearted store owner naturally took the opportunity to keep increasing prices.
It was the season when the weather was not met. Last year, Chen Mi could have sold one or two liang, seven or eight stone.
I didn’t get rice yesterday. As soon as it opened this morning, several rice shops rose to 2 taels per stone.
After seeing the notice, I wiped off today's quotation and instantly changed it to two liang 5.
At this moment, they simply stopped wiping it and added a horizontal line to the second head, which turned into three or five stones!
But the more the price continues to rise, the more customers want to buy it. For fear that they will rise to 5 taels per stone, they will really starve to death.
Looking at the common people who are rushing to grab the old days, the rice merchants who make a lot of money are so happy that they can't stop.
In fact, there is no need for ordinary people to rob them. Seeing that these rice merchants entered the plum blossoms early this year, they had long expected that Kunnan would be flooded.
Therefore, they all tried their best to replenish the goods. The cargo ships that delivered rice from the overpass were connected to the head and tail, and all blocked the traffic in Hetang.
Although I didn't get rice yesterday, the store has sufficient stockings. People should buy it.
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On Dongtang Street, there is a restaurant called "Xinghuahong".
On the elegant seat facing the street, several men in brocade robes were drinking wine while watching the messy scenes of snatching rice downstairs.
"You ordinary people in Kunshan are not strong enough." An old man with a white goatee picked up a piece of old duck and tasted it carefully. "They snatched them up and gave them money to the rice sellers."
"Didn't you just post a notice?" The middle-aged man with a big fur on his cheeks smiled and said, "Maybe he was a little scared."
"How did that happen?" The goatee spitted the duck bones out the window and ordered, "Go and light a fire for them."
Chapter completed!