The rising sun is rising, and the golden sunshine falls on an ancient city by the Liujiang River.

As the drought worsened, more and more victims flocked to Liuzhou City. However, now that the city gates have been closed, they have not been able to enter Liuzhou City, but have been arranged to a specific refugee area.

There were 40,000 or 50,000 refugees who flocked to Liuzhou City in these days, and refugees would come one after another. In order to survive, they could only come to the capital city to find vitality.

The Ming Dynasty is a country based on Confucianism and Taoism, so naturally it would not be possible to watch refugees starve to death in the suburbs of the city. Liuzhou Prefecture and Maping County Office jointly set up four major refugee camps, each with a total of 10,000 people. The local government governments matched the

This kind of disaster relief has long formed a process.

The government set out a camp near the four city gates, where bamboo and short wood are used to build sheds, creating a simple shelter for the refugees.

With Lin Pingchang's support, dozens of villagers from Huangshui Village successfully arrived at this Liuzhou City and were soon placed in the refugee area of ​​Jingnanmen by the government.

The refugees here are mainly from Maping County, but this drought that has a thousand miles of terrain involves a wide range. In addition to the refugees in Liuzhou Prefecture, there are actually refugees from Wuzhou Prefecture or Guilin Prefecture, and even refugees from the Tusi border in the west.

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Huangshuizhai is under the jurisdiction of Xiangzhou. After registering the clerk in charge of resettlement work, he was assigned to the refugee area of ​​Xiangzhou. He met the village chief and a group of acquaintances at this point of view.

However, in the villages, including the village chief, all their relatives starved to death during this famine escape.

The patriarch of Huangshui Village did not have that sentimental thought, but asked urgently: "Middleman, has the government released food?"

"Fart! If we had waited for them to release food and provide relief, we would have starved to death!" The migrant leader spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground, and said with resentment.

The old man looked up at the energetic inner length in confusion, not at all like he was eating rice, but he hesitated: "Then you..."

The village chief guessed what he wanted to ask, pointed to a house not far away and said, "Did you see the house in front? It was the private property of the United Restaurant, which stored 100,000 kilograms of grain, and all of them were used for the

We are giving porridge! You came to Liuzhou City to the right place. As long as you have this joint restaurant, we will not starve to death this month! You are late, the morning porridge has passed, and you have to wait to eat porridge if you want to eat porridge!

That afternoon's Shenshi game."

When the old man learned about the situation here, he finally let go of his heart. This situation was better than he expected.

Before going north to Liuzhou, he was actually most worried that the government was delaying the porridge supply, so that they had to work hard for a while. Although he guessed the government's approach, he did not expect a joint restaurant to come out.

He had a vaguely bold guess that this joint restaurant was related to Miss Lin, and it must be that the kind-hearted Miss Lin helped them.

"You find a utensil for serving porridge. You can start serving porridge in the afternoon. It's best to go and queue up early! I'll go to Liujiang to try my luck to see if I can get a fish to have a tooth sacrifice!" The inner child seemed to explain the situation enthusiastically,

It's a goodbye.

"The inner leader, walk slowly!" The old man bowed and watched the enthusiastic inner leader leave.

Seeing the inner leader walking towards Liujiang, the old man gave advice to his son and the villagers and started walking in the camp.

Tens of thousands of people gathered here, but several areas were subdivided. The refugees who did not belong to Maping County were arranged to be farther away.

Along the way, he saw many refugees repairing the sheds, not just to shelter from the wind and rain, but mainly to block the scorching sun above his head.

By June, there was still no rain in the Liuzhou area, but the weather was getting hotter and hotter.

"Where is there, don't let it run away!"

It was at this moment that a commotion suddenly occurred in front of him, and several men and women were holding sticks and surrounded a pile of firewood nervously.

When the old man saw this movement, he couldn't help but stop and looked at the men and women curiously.

After surrounding the firewood, a man carefully moved the firewood away, and a black shadow sprang out of the firewood pile.

"Stop it, hurry!"

The man in the lead reacted first and pointed at the fleeing black shadow and said loudly.

Facing the black shadow that escaped, the young man subconsciously jumped back, with panic on his face and the stick in his hand fell off to the ground.

squeak……

But he heard a scream, and the black shadow was stepped on by the young man. After being frightened, he changed direction and fled.

Bang!

A man showed a fierce look on his face, and the stick in his hand fell heavily on the black shadow, but he vomited blood and died without even making a sound.

Seeing this, the men and women surrounded each breathed a sigh of relief.

"Haha...Silly, thanks to you just stepped on it, otherwise you might have really run away." The man picked up the mouse that was shot in the head and said to the frightened young man.

The young man called Silly Duck scratched the back of his head and showed an awkward smile on his face.

"This mouse is so fat, let's stew it!" The man in the lead came over and swallowed his saliva and suggested.

After hearing this suggestion, everyone agreed. This mouse is a good source of protein and can satisfy their cravings.

"You can't eat this mouse, you have to throw it away! As the saying goes: after a major disaster, there will be a major epidemic, and the mice in this camp will never be eaten!" The old man heard that they were going to stew the mouse.

He hurriedly stood up and dissuaded.

"I think you're sour!"

"The crazy old man running there?"

"Don't pay attention to him, we're eating less mice in the village? When did something happen?"

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Facing the dissuasion of the old man, these men and women seemed to be provoked and even spoke ill of each other.

"Don't pay attention to him, let's go!" The man holding a mouse glared at the old man, then snorted and left.

Others left, but many people didn't give the little old man a good look, and they already classified the little old man as a bad person.

The old man looked at the people who left, and although he was willing to dissuade him, he sighed helplessly.

Without the unified control of the government, refugees would not have such a high level of ideological awareness. Whoever stops them from eating meat is simply killing their parents.

The old man is now without an official position and is just an ordinary member of the refugees here. How could he force the other party to not eat rat meat?

Not long after, he saw a woman picking up a fat mouse, and hurriedly pulled her son back to his residence and said, "I just died and my body temperature is still there. Let's eat it!"

In this gathering place, some refugees are inevitably hiding food, so they will naturally attract some mice. When they see these mice, the refugees here will not be polite and must eat them.

However, the disaster is accompanied by a great epidemic, especially in the hot summer season, several sick mice will inevitably appear. Once someone eats it, it is easy to get infectious diseases and lead to plague.

When the old man saw this, he knew that if this situation was not prevented and treated, there would definitely be endless troubles. If the drought is still sufficient, the grain can be "treated", but if the plague occurs, it is "no cure".

"Are you idle? We don't care whether they eat mice or not. Now we only receive orders to place you! Let's go, let's go, don't you see I'm busy?" Facing the situation that came to report the situation

The old man, the official in charge of the resettlement work, drove him away impatiently.

On this sunny day, no one listened to the old man's advice, and a crisis had already spread over Liuzhou City.

Liuzhou Prefecture, in the living room.

Gao Yan is in his fifties, but his complexion looks good. He is wearing a patched official uniform and asks the housekeeper to send tea.

The color of the tea is pale yellow and there are crumbs on it. It is no longer a good tea, but the person he is calling today is the Nanyang Inspector Lin Pingchang.

Lin Pingchang openly called his brother, and even the prefect of Liuzhou was respected three points. The other party was not something he could have offended, just a little Liuzhou prefect.

"Master Gao, I wonder why you came to me?" Lin Pingchang was not a tea lover. Instead, he felt that the light tea tasted just right, but he put down the tea cup and asked straight to the point.

Gao Yan picked up a document and asked someone to send it to him, and laughed directly: "Fortunately, the inspector submitted a memorial. The court had just issued a document and ordered our government to release grain to provide disaster relief!"

When he said this, his eyes couldn't help but become complicated. The prefect of Liuzhou, who was a Jinshi, submitted memorials many times a few days ago, but the court ignored them. As soon as the girl submitted her memorial, she received permission from the court.

Some people in the court like to be an official, so this sentence is true. At least this matter has been confirmed by Lin Pingchang.

Lin usually read the document that agreed to open the warehouse and release grain. His eyebrows raised slightly and he suggested happily: "Master Gao, the document has been released now. Please open the warehouse and release the grain immediately!"

Although the United Restaurant still has food to be served outside the city, the grain storage is limited after all. If you want to help Liuzhou City overcome this great difficulty, the grain that is often closed is the Dinghai Shen Needle.

In the disaster relief of all dynasties, the court and government were actually the main force of disaster relief. If the Changping warehouses began to release grain and the grain in Liuzhou City increased sharply, she would be able to suppress the price of rice more easily without having to worry too much from

Leizhou transfers grain.

"This mansion also has this intention and plans to open the warehouse and release grain this afternoon!" Gao Yan nodded gently, and then made a gentle request: "This food release has always been easily exploited by traitors. This mansion has a reluctance.

I would like to ask Lin Xunshou to help our office be responsible for the porridge shed outside Jingnan Gate, and our office and subordinates are responsible for the other three gates!"

Lin Pingchang came here this time and planned to assist in disaster relief. He knew that this kind of thing was indeed staring at him, so he immediately agreed happily: "It is better to obey your orders than respect!"

"Then there is Laulin's inspector!" Gao Yan looked quite trusting Lin, but he changed his tone: "By the way, I heard a good news just now!"

"What good news?" Lin Pingchang reached out and picked up the teacup and asked curiously.

Shen Yan was standing next to Lin Pingchang while dressed as a man, and at this time she also cast a curious look.

Gao Yan took a sip of the coarse tea, then responded with a smile: "The news came from Guangdong that the court has re-activated Tan Lun to temporarily take over as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and he will come from Guangzhou to provide disaster relief!"

"It will take at least one month to come from Guangdong!" Lin Pingchang had long guessed that the court would do this, but he shook his head gently and said.

Gao Yan smiled optimistically and said, "As long as we stabilize the situation and wait for Tanbutang Aomi to come, this drought will definitely be solved!"

"I hope so! If the prefect has nothing else to do, we will go to Changping the warehouse to collect grain now, okay?" Lin Pingchang was not as happy as he was, but urged directly.

Gao Yan saw Lin Pingchang so anxiously, and smiled helplessly, and agreed to go with her to get food.

There is a fixed process for opening warehouses and releasing grain.

There is an account book for the grain production and the grain consumption, and each item above is recorded very clearly.

Lin Pingchang counted the grain in Changping Warehouse. After confirming that there was no problem with the quantity and quality, he took the grain out of the city and went to a fixed place to release the disaster.
To be continued...