The solution to the hunger of disaster victims is to break the whole into parts.
Xiyun County has over 20,000 households, and each household can take in three or four disaster victims. Furthermore, the neighboring villages of Liangjiazhuang and Pangjiazhuang can accommodate quite a few people.
Do the people of Xiyun County dare to disobey?
I dare not, because Baili Tang has already issued an order. If I don’t obey, the head of the family will be beaten with a hundred sticks!
Moreover, there was no epidemic among these disaster victims. As for those who dared to steal or rob, the consequence would be - their hands would be chopped off!
This idea was not thought up by Baili Tang, but by his beloved concubine, Liang Qiuyu.
Liang Qiuyu told Baili Tang that when she was a child, she had also encountered a similar disaster. At that time, the villagers all went to seek refuge with their relatives to overcome the difficulties first.
When one side is in trouble, all sides will come to its aid!
When Baili Tang heard Liang Qiuyu talking about this, he gave her two "dragon kisses" - in fact, it was just a disguised way of taking advantage of her.
The floodwaters have receded, so shouldn't the victims go back to rebuild their homes? For example, they can rush to harvest the rice in the fields. Don't worry, almost everyone in their homes still has someone there.
If all the disaster victims came here, there would be more than tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands!
Dongyun County was the hardest hit by the disaster. Even if they rushed to harvest their rice, it would still be washed away by the flood. There was no other way. The rain was too heavy those two days!
"It turns out that the person who just drowned was only feigning death. If we give him some breathing room to save him, he can still be saved!"
"It was a close call! We were almost all mistaken for rebels!"
"I really want to see the Royal No. 1 Thresher! Xiyun County was able to harvest the rice quickly this time thanks to the magical artifact invented by Your Majesty!"
"It seems the rumors are wrong. Your Majesty is not a tyrant at all! He is intelligent and his words are quite amusing!"
"Look, a folk track and field competition!"
"...In the relay race, the winning town will receive a Royal No. 1 threshing machine worth a thousand taels!"
A thresher is worth a thousand taels?
Is this BWM?
Is it necessary to be so exaggerated?
Baili Tang: Please listen to my explanation. Scarcity makes things valuable... Hehe. I have to price it high. I need this stuff to fill the empty treasury!
Only in this way will everyone participate in the competition more actively!
In addition, the champion of the 30-meter dash will receive a reward of 50 taels of silver, the runner-up 30 taels, and the third place 20 taels. All other finalists will receive 2 taels of silver as a consolation prize.
Who said I don’t provide disaster relief?
It's just a different way!
How did the ancient people compete in their robes? They still competed!
Baili Tang can design shorts and short-sleeved shirts - I'm very busy!
What does it mean that women can also participate? I am a tyrant and don’t care about etiquette!
Soon, spies from various forces at home and abroad sent the information they had obtained via carrier pigeons.
A hundred spies have a hundred ways of expressing themselves.
The spies will report the truth, but if they fall into the hands of someone with ulterior motives, they can change their stories into many different stories.
For example, Yanyun Road was the most plagued by banditry. Bai Li Tang is described as follows: "The tyrant, Bai Li Tang, was so starving that he had no choice but to eat, even the peasant girls were not spared. While the Wuling Road was filled with grief, he reveled night after night, murdering loyal and honest people, with no regard for the lives of millions of disaster victims. If a victim complained, he would be punished with 300 beatings at the very least, or even the execution of his entire clan! By now, East and West Yun Counties were already a river of blood!"
Yanyun Road and Wuling Road are over 4,000 miles apart. It would take several days for the white pigeons to fly!
Therefore, it was difficult for the ordinary people of Yanyun Road to prove whether this was a rumor! First, they didn't have the money to raise homing pigeons; second, they couldn't ride a horse or a donkey south to find out the truth, right?
Hi, villagers, when will the electricity be available?
But Baili Tang's spies had already told him about this.
I am so hungry that I won't choose what to eat?
I party every night?
Did I kill a loyal and good person like Jia Shidao?
I let Dongyun County become a river of blood?
Why don't you talk about me? I invented the thresher, introduced first aid methods to everyone, solved the poisoned cattle case, and killed a corrupt official...
Perhaps Baili Tang was not so foolish in the past, but the treacherous ministers coveted his throne... and exaggerated the facts everywhere...
No more hiding?
Some people say that the innocent will be proven innocent, and rumors will be refuted by themselves, it is just a matter of time.
But Yue Fei, the renowned Song Dynasty general, said: "Those who slander me ask what I seek; those who praise me know my anxieties." Seventy years of injustice finally brought him redress, a belated justice finally delivered by his grandson. Yet, rumormongers Qin Hui, Wan Qi Xie, and Zhang Jun still kneel before Yue Fei by the West Lake, centuries later!
After Su Dongpo was exiled to Huangzhou, his political enemies in the capital also began to spread rumors. According to the Dongpo Chronicles, when Zeng Gong's mother died, rumors spread in the capital that Su Shi and Zeng Gong had ascended to heaven on the same day!
In this way, Su Shi "died".
The famous singer Zhuo * Ting has also been "dead" for twenty years...
What a vicious trick!
The more he thought about it, the angrier Baili Tang became. He couldn't help but slam his hand on the table! "It's best if I don't find out who's behind this!"
Just then, Eunuch Yang brought him a plate of snacks, and he was afraid to enter.
Your Majesty wants to beat someone with a stick again!
"Come in!" Baili Tang handed the note to Eunuch Yang and asked him, "Who do you think could have done this?"
“Plop!” Eunuch Yang knelt down without saying a word, “I don’t know…I don’t know…”
Eunuch Yang guessed who it was, but he couldn't tell Baili Tang because it would only hurt him.
Furthermore, as someone who had always been at Baili Tang's side, he was a very attentive person and could see that his memory was fading. The two trusted imperial physicians he brought with him had also been trying to help Baili Tang recover his memory, but to no avail.
The old imperial physician was a straightforward person, and though he wished Baili Tang was dead, he was still very dedicated. It was he who had treated the Empress back then...
“Back off!”
Baili Tang saw the hesitation in Eunuch Yang's eyes. Why didn't Eunuch Yang dare to speak out? Was he afraid of his anger?
A little lack of patience will ruin great plans!
Let’s get through this hurdle first!
There was a hidden force nearby—the "Lord" as Jia Shidao and the others called him. If Baili Tang's guess was correct, several county magistrates were secretly controlled by this person.
Announce to the world that I will abdicate and stay in Xiyun County as the King of Freedom, and die; if I don’t abdicate, I may live!
Then Baili Tang can only give it a try!
…
"My Queen, is the Royal No. 1 thresher really that magical? Can it replace several laborers and thresh more than ten acres of millet a day?" Xiaolian asked Liang Qiuyu curiously.
They were all from the same neighborhood, only four years apart in age, so they had a lot in common. Besides, it was Liang Qiuyu who had given Xiaolian the energy she needed, so she was considered Xiaolian's savior.
"Xiao Lian, you've asked me eight times. I'll take you there to try someday."
Xiaolian nodded vigorously. Seeing that Adi had secretly taken another rice cake, she said, "Adi, you've eaten too much. No more!"
After all, A-di was still young and didn't know much. He was eating rice cakes while jumping around and accidentally bumped into Baili Tang who came down to look for Liang Qiuyu.
The atmosphere suddenly froze.
"Be careful, or I'll take you back to the palace to work!"
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