The big problem at hand is that the manpower and material resources of Julu City are not enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people at the same time.

When Li Mengxi worked hard for two days and was almost exhausted, he found that this was not going to work.

As smart as Li Mengxi, he quickly thought of a solution.

The solution is nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

Since the carrying capacity is limited, we should expedite the flow of manpower.

The reason why this method was not used before was because if the news of the food requisition was leaked, it would cause instability in people's hearts. Now that the matter is coming, we can't control it so much.

Now hundreds of thousands of people have arrived in Julu, along with a huge amount of food.

To deceive people and food first, and then collect all the food, this is called "please put you in the urn".

Li Mengxi immediately issued an order to collect grain. He had already anticipated possible situations when collecting grain, so he brought a large number of soldiers to the market.

The soldiers opened the way and went straight into the camp.

"Pay the food, pay the food!" the soldier shouted from the front while driving along the road.

"Master, how much do you have to pay?" the people gathered around and asked.

"There is an order from above! All the grain we will meet this year will be handed over as much as possible, and all will be distributed according to need!"

After the common people listened to one sentence, they focused on the first half of the sentence, the key point was "all handed in", the crowd went crazy, the common people were panicked, and everyone looked panicked.

For a moment, some people's faces were ashen, and some older people shed tears on the spot. Some even sneaked into the tent, preparing to pick up the food and run away secretly.

No matter what the common people were doing, the soldiers who came with the order directly searched the accounts one by one.

When the soldiers entered the first tent, there were half a tent full of large and small bags of food.

"Move!" the leading centurion ordered to his subordinates.

The tall and powerful soldiers entered the tent, quickly picked up the food and left.

Outside the tent, there was already a convoy waiting outside. Bags of food were being loaded onto the cars. The people looked on with aggrieved eyes, their hearts almost bleeding.

"Master... Master," a farmer bravely walked out cautiously and stopped in front of the grain cart. He nodded and bowed with a flattering smile on his face, "Master, shall we leave a little? None at all."

, how can we live..."

The soldier was blocked and was very dissatisfied. He said angrily, "I said clearly that all the food will be collected and distributed according to need! Do you know what distribution according to need is?"

The farmer didn't dare to say, he didn't understand what distribution according to need was, but he didn't dare to ask.

At this time, Li Mengxi came. He saw the panic scene. He had several grain trucks unloaded and stacked on top of each other, and a temporary high platform was built. He climbed up the high platform, looked around, and shouted, "

Everyone, listen to something..."

Before he finished speaking, others saw Li Mengxi and recognized this amiable and easy-to-talk little military advisor. As if they had found a backbone, the people cheered and fell to their knees.

"Military advisor, please take pity on us. We have collected all the food, but how can we survive?"

"There's no way to survive! There's no way to survive! Ugh..."

"Leave two handfuls of food for us. We have a ration when we go out to beg for food. Leave some for us!"

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Li Mengxi's head was confused. He heard the buzzing of noisy voices. He was stunned there and opened his mouth a few times. "Listen to me! Everyone, listen to me!" He shouted with all his strength.

Crowd: Buzzing...

"Stop, stop, stop! Listen to me!"

Buzz buzz...

"Everyone stop for a moment!"

Buzz buzz...

Li Mengxi is so angry that he won't listen to reason, so he will be cruel.

Li Mengxi was about to ask the soldiers to pick up their swords and guns and prepare to violently shake up the scene, "Come here, give it to me..."

"Xi'er! What are you doing standing there?"

There was a rough shout that could penetrate stone.

It's Zhang Fei...

Li Mengxi turned around in surprise. He saw, hey, Liu, Guan, and Zhang are here, and there is an old man with a beard...

Looking at it more closely, the more I look at the old man, the more familiar he becomes.

When the person got closer, Li Mengxi stared at the old man.

The old man also looked up at Li Mengxi.

The two looked at each other for a long time, and Lu Zhi smiled, "What's wrong? Don't you recognize me, little friend?"

As soon as Lu Zhi spoke, Li Mengxi immediately remembered, "Oh! It's Teacher Lu Zhi!" Li Mengxi smiled, "The distinguished guest has arrived, and I, the giant deer, are shining brightly!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Mengxi jumped down from the high platform with a loud sound and landed in front of Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi was afraid that Li Mengxi would fall, so he stretched out his hand to help him.

This was not the time to talk in detail. Li Mengxi first bowed his fist to Lu Zhi and said, "I will deal with the matter first, and we will talk later!"

After saying that, he hurried forward.

In front, Liu Bei was surrounded by the people. When the people saw Liu Bei, they stopped kneeling and stood up. They surrounded Liu Bei and complained tearfully about their difficulties.

“Mr.

"That's right! Isn't this forcing people to live on the road to survival?"

"You have to leave some for us."

Liu Bei frowned when he heard this, "Is there such a thing?"

Just as Liu Bei was about to casually respond to the people's request, Li Mengxi finally squeezed in after exhausting all his efforts.

Their eyes met, Liu Bei's eyes were filled with questioning and confusion, while Li Mengxi slowly shook his head with a cautious expression.

The two of them had a tacit understanding and there was no need for verbal communication. Liu Bei only hesitated for a moment. He glanced at the people in Wuyangyang and said, "Everyone, let me go back and discuss a few things. I will have an answer soon. See you later!"

[To be honest, I have been using the Huanyuan app recently to read and catch up on updates. It allows me to switch between sources and read aloud with many sounds. .huanyuanapp is available for Android and Apple.]

After dealing with it with words, Liu Bei took Li Mengxi and squeezed through the crowd to leave first.

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In the city lord's mansion, everyone sat down.

Among them, the main ones are Lu Zhi on the left and Liu Bei on the right.

Below, Guan and Zhang, plus Jian Yong and Li Mengxi.

In the past, Li Mengxi was in charge, but now that Lu Zhi is here, Li Mengxi can only stay below.

Everyone listened to Li Mengxi describe what happened in a few words.

Liu Bei was puzzled, "Can't we keep going as usual? Can't we collect less? Do we have to collect them all?"

"No!" Li Mengxi shook his head, "We can't share it equally as usual. If we don't harvest everything, we won't know how much food we have harvested this summer and how many people we can feed."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Mengxi's method of collecting grain is very strange and unfamiliar to Liu Bei. Liu Bei always felt that Li Mengxi's method was unnecessary. Liu Bei opened his mouth to say something.

Suddenly thinking of the teacher sitting next to him, Liu Bei quickly raised his hands to the side, "I wonder if the teacher can give me some advice?"

The conversation led to Lu Zhi, and Li Mengxi below immediately looked at Lu Zhi. His eyes were firm, not evasive, expressionless, and a little bit like he wanted to roll his eyes.

"Well, if you ask me what I'm doing, just let little friend Meng Xi watch it." Lu Zhiqian smiled.

Lu Zhi had already said this, and Liu Bei couldn't say anything else, so he had no choice but to agree with Li Mengxi's idea.

There was no need to delay the grain harvest. If it were delayed for a while, the people would probably start to hide the grain secretly. Li Mengxi bowed his hands to everyone, "I'll go and get started first!" He stood up to leave.

"You can get busy after eating..." Liu Bei said to persuade him to stay.

"No." Li Mengxi went out without looking back.

Liu Bei, dumbfounded, pointed at Li Mengxi's back and said to Lu Zhi, "This kid is disobedient!"

Lu Zhi is not an ordinary guest. Logically speaking, as a member of the family, Li Mengxi should greet Lu Zhi first, no matter how busy he is. This is rude.

Fortunately, the problem was not serious, Li Mengxi was still a young man, and Lu Zhi was not a narrow-minded person, so he would not blame him.

Worried that Li Mengxi could not handle it alone and that he could not leave, Liu Bei looked at Guan and Zhang. His eyes first fell on Guan Yu and then on Zhang Fei, "Third brother, go and watch Xi'er."

"Ah?" Zhang Fei hesitated.

Zhang Fei was thinking about drinking and eating for a while. His banquet was delicious.

Zhang Fei stood up hesitantly and reluctantly, as if he didn't want to go.

How could Liu Bei fail to see Zhang Fei's little thoughts, "Forget it! Third brother, don't go, go find Xianhe and take a look. You go get some wine, and we'll drink first."

"Okay!" Zhang Fei immediately beamed.

Zhang Fei went out to look for wine first, and happened to bump into Jian Yong. He asked Jian Yong to help the military adviser collect food. Zhang Fei went directly to the military medical camp and asked the military doctors for wine.
To be continued...