Chapter 651 Xu Laoer's Depression
Xu Lao Er snorted and said, "I will verify this matter myself. If it turns out that you are talking nonsense, hehe..."
"Students absolutely dare not lie!"
Bai Jin almost swore to the sky.
Xu Laoer waved his hand in disdain and had Bai Jin taken away.
"Thank you, Lord Yongwu, for not killing me."
Bai Jin was truly relieved when he saw that Xu Laoer did not have anyone kill him.
In his opinion, since he had escaped a disaster, it meant that his life should be saved. Of course, he still had to continue to survive until his life was finally saved.
After all, you only have one life, and if it's gone, it's really gone.
He followed Song Dahu and amassed a huge amount of wealth.
Song Dahu was defeated and brought to Xu Laoer, where all the gold, silver, and jewelry seemed to have been taken away. However, he had been aware of the principle of a cunning rabbit having three burrows from the beginning.
The gold, silver and jewelry confiscated from him seemed like a lot, but it was only a small part of his accumulated wealth. The bulk of it was hidden by him along the way.
As long as he could save his life, he could take out the hidden gold and silver and live a luxurious life.
Unfortunately, Bai Jin didn't know that Xu Laoer had never intended to let him go from the beginning.
In order to win over the hearts and minds of the people, Xu Lao Er also planned to carefully plan how to send this dog-headed military advisor on his way. After all, there weren't many good ready-made targets for winning over people's hearts.
If Xu Laoer had followed his previous idea, he would have just chopped off all the leaders of this gang one by one. After all, none of them were good people.
But now the situation is really not good.
How did Song Dahu manage to gather such a large group so quickly? While many people were coerced, many others genuinely followed Song Dahu in his rebellion.
Why did they rebel? Of course, it was because they couldn't survive.
After two years of famine, local officials, far from providing relief, imposed heavy taxes and levies. The locust plague was undoubtedly the final straw that broke the camel's back.
Therefore, the people of Qiping Prefecture, and even some garrison troops, were directly punished.
Otherwise, based solely on the impact of the locust plague, how could this civil uprising sweep across the entire Qiping Prefecture in such a short period of time?
Ultimately, I can't survive.
Xu Laoer came to quell the rebellion. Although he didn't kill many people, the people of Qiping Prefecture were still dissatisfied with his arrival.
If it weren't for Xu Lao Er who stopped the Northern Barbarians at Huangfengkou last year, killed two little princes of the Northern Barbarians, and captured the Northern Barbarian King alive, his prestige was too terrifying, and the people of Qiping Prefecture would never be as calm as they are now.
But before coming, Old Master Xu told Old Second Xu to be very cautious and to be extremely careful with the people of Qiping Prefecture.
With his father's instructions, Xu Laoer sent people to Qiping Prefecture to secretly inquire about the people's sentiments when he arrived. Only then did he understand the real thoughts of the people in Qiping Prefecture during the civil unrest.
In order to ensure that Qiping Prefecture was completely pacified, Xu Laoer chose to defeat Song Dahu in one fell swoop and kill him without leaving any room for maneuver.
Otherwise, it would not be difficult for Xu Laoer to capture Song Dahu alive.
After defeating the rebel army, Xu Laoer immediately ordered people to take out military rations to provide relief to the victims.
After being blocked by Xu Laosan's sea of fire, the Qiping Prefecture's rebel army had been unable to obtain any food supplies. Song Dahu had originally stored a considerable amount of food thanks to the support of the Jieyun Dao, but without it, the civilians in the rebel army had long since become reduced to a mere porridge a day.
When the locust plague passed through, almost everything that could be eaten by the locusts was eaten.
If it were a normal disaster year, when the people were short of food, they could still find some wild vegetables and fruits to fill their stomachs. But now, where the locust plague has passed, not a single blade of grass is left.
"They're all idiots!"
Xu Laoer felt a headache when he thought that some people still thought Song Dahu and Bai Jin were good people.
But he couldn't come up with any particularly reliable evidence to prove that they were bad guys. Although he had found a lot of gold, silver and jewelry from Song Dahu and his men, they had been buying food all along. The existence of these gold, silver and jewelry made it impossible to convict Song Dahu and his men.
"Uncle, there's a letter from the Third Master!"
Just when Xu Lao Er was feeling extremely depressed, a personal guard hurried over and delivered a handwritten letter from Xu Lao San.
Xu Laoer quickly tore open the envelope and unfolded the letter inside.
After he finished reading the letter from Xu Laosan, Xu Laoer was happy.
"Great, great! As expected of my uncle's brother, he's got a quick mind!"
The depressed look on Xu Laoer's face disappeared instantly.
He immediately called people over and asked them to draft a notice.
The content of the notice was very simple, which was to recruit people to go to Xiangyi Prefecture to mine.
The mineral resource map that Fubao obtained showed that there were many coal mines in Xiangyi Prefecture, and although there were also minerals in Qiping Prefecture, they were iron mines that were of no use for the time being.
In wartime, iron is indispensable.
But in the current situation, a cold winter is coming, and what people need are warm clothes and charcoal fires. Otherwise, when this cold winter comes, who knows how many people will freeze to death.
"Go and pass the notice down!"
After the notice was written, Xu Laoer immediately asked someone to post it.
The content of the notice was also simple: anyone who went to mine would be given 100 catties of grain and 2 taels of silver to their family. This was money and food for settling down!
Although the amount of money and grain may not be much, for the people of Qiping Prefecture, it is life-saving money and grain.
In fact, if it were not for the purpose of restoring order in Qiping Prefecture as soon as possible and allowing merchants from other places to come in, Xu Laoer would have planned to give all the food instead of silver.
Today's Qiping Mansion is truly a blank slate.
Due to the locust plague and civil unrest, many county towns in the huge Qiping Prefecture became deserted cities.
Those shops were looted as the rebel army marched along.
It can be said that the current Qiping Mansion has undergone a thorough purge.
After the notice was posted, the lifeless people in Qiping Prefecture all came back to life.
One hundred catties of grain and two taels of silver, with such money and provisions for settling down, who wouldn't be tempted?
If a family with many males could all go mining, they could harvest hundreds of kilograms of grain. This amount of grain would be enough for the whole family to survive the winter.
What's more, people who go to work get paid every month.
The wages are not fixed, but determined by the amount of mining. As long as you are strong and work hard, it is hard to say how much you can earn in a month.
Of course, not all families have male children. Some unfortunate families only have the elderly, the weak, women and children left.
This is a bit difficult!
(End of this chapter)
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