Chapter 355: People who are hungry and crazy have no reason to explain
Ying Zheng said very speechlessly: "What's the difference? It's not just releasing food for disaster relief."
Qin An smiled and said: "Father-in-law, although we are also providing disaster relief, unless there is a major disaster like an earthquake or a once-in-a-hundred-year flood, the country will organize troops to go to disaster relief.
Let's talk about a once-in-a-hundred-year flood. Seeing that the flood cannot be stopped, the soldiers will jump into the flood one by one and block the flood with their bodies.
Sometimes soldiers stayed up for three days and nights to fight floods, and some even died of exhaustion.
Would ancient officials do this? No, they only think about glory and wealth, and how much money they embezzle from disaster relief money.
They even colluded with grain producers to swap high-quality rice with low-quality rice to raise grain prices and make money from the country's financial crisis.
This is only one of them. The second is that the government will organize manpower in advance to take away people from dangerous areas.
Let them come to a safe place, such as a high mountain or a high-lying area, and prepare disaster relief food in advance to ensure that no one is hungry.
There were a few officials in ancient times who would do this. Basically, they would escape first, and then wait until the flood receded before crying to the court.
After the disaster relief food appeared, they were immediately greedy for it, resulting in many refugees in the country.
The third is the food for disaster relief. In ancient times, genuine rice or wheat equivalent grains were used, and then the government set up porridge sheds to provide relief to the victims.
Now we use cakes, bread, instant noodles and other ready-to-eat foods for disaster relief. This is incomparable to ancient times.
The fourth is that ordinary disasters can be over in a few days without having to move at all.
This is because of the house. Our houses are all made of reinforced concrete. As long as the whole house is not flooded, we basically can solve the problem of food and clothing ourselves without the need for the government to rescue us.
There are many differences, so father-in-law, you cannot compare ancient disaster relief laws with current disaster relief laws. "
Hearing this, Li Si was moved in his heart and said, "According to your opinion, the ancient disaster relief methods are wrong."
"Yes, that's wrong." Qin An said, "Disaster relief must be provided, but the government cannot give the victims free food and drink. The victims must work.
For example, a place suffered an earthquake, all the houses were destroyed, and the people were displaced. Especially in ancient times, the people had no food at all. After their homes were destroyed, they could only go to the nearest city to beg for food.
It should be said that we should wait for government relief. The people just want to have something to eat. "
"The people don't want to die. There's nothing wrong with that," Li Si said.
Feng Quji said: "If the court doesn't provide relief, then the people will just starve to death. Sir, do you have any other ideas?"
"Of course there is." Qin An said, "There is a big difference between ancient times and modern times, and modern methods cannot be implemented in ancient times. Therefore, we have to find another way.
First of all, the first one is to provide relief through work.
The court will distribute relief grain, but the grain in this relief grain is uneven. "
"What? You want the people to eat relief food with sand in it. Do you want to kill the victims?" Ying Zheng said angrily.
"Disaster victims?" Qin An smiled and said, "Literally they are human beings, but in fact they are no longer human beings.
A bunch of wild beasts were already going crazy with hunger. Changing their children to eat shows that the victims still have a conscience. "
"What?" Ying Zheng's face darkened, "You actually say that people like Yi Ziershi who cannibalize human flesh have a conscience? They are simply heartless beasts."
Qin An smiled bitterly and said: "Father-in-law, when you say such things, it means that you have never been hungry, or that although you have been hungry, you are not really hungry enough to think that everything you see is food.
A truly hungry person has no sense at all. If you try to talk about morality to a group of hungry people, they might be the first to eat you.
Father-in-law, don’t disbelieve it. If you want to know, actually just find someone to starve for a few days.
I once saw on TV that a prince had supreme power. He was the most powerful besides the emperor, and he was also the emperor's uncle.
He was caught for treason, and the emperor only planned to imprison him for the rest of his life, but an eunuch deliberately starved him for three days.
Because this eunuch is often bullied by the prince, and now he wants to take revenge. "
"Damn it, another one of the following offenders." Ying Zheng said angrily.
"Father-in-law, don't be nervous. There are many people like this in history." Qin An said, "What we want to pay attention to now is the prince who has been hungry for three days."
"Tell me, how is this prince doing?" Ying Zheng asked.
"He was so hungry." Qin An replied, "He was really so hungry that he ate all the snakes, insects, rats, and ants in the prison.
He was still very hungry. At this time, he no longer had the high spirits he had when he was a prince. At this time, the prince was just an ordinary person who had been hungry for three days.
When the eunuch saw the prince again, he was holding a living big mouse on his cell phone and threw it directly to the prince.
Without saying a word, the prince bit the mouse alive and ate it into his stomach. "
"vomit……"
Ying Yinman and Li Yanran couldn't bear it anymore, and their internal organs started to churn. They covered their mouths and left their seats to vomit outside.
Qin An knew that the two girls couldn't bear it, so he said, "Third uncle, help me go see Manman and the others."
Jiang Lu nodded and left his seat.
Qin An continued: "I just want to tell everyone that the hungry victims will be willing to eat anything as long as they have a bite to eat.
It doesn't matter if it's mixed with sand, as long as it's a disaster victim, he can eat it. If he can't eat, it means he is not hungry, or he is not a disaster victim at all. "
Li Si thought for a moment and said: "It seems to make sense. In this way, the victims who are about to starve to death will have something to eat, and they can also identify whether they are disaster victims."
"Yes, but we can't expose them. What if they are real victims of the disaster and they just hid the food without being discovered." Qin An said.
"That might cause chaos." Ying Zheng said.
"So we need to do another thing, dignity." Qin An said, "Victims also have dignity. Tell the victims who are full that if you want to eat delicious food, you have to work. The government has a lot of work to do.
For example, digging moats, renovating city walls, building bridges and paving roads, digging rivers, etc. Things that originally took several years to complete can now be completed quickly.
Moreover, the victims can still eat food without sand and receive wages. There is no need to increase labor force for two or three years. It just so happens that the court can cancel taxes for two or three years and give the victims a chance to recuperate. "
"It seems to make sense." Ying Zheng said.
Li Si said: "Village Chief, it does make sense. The well-fed victims have regained their senses, and they have to go to work if they want to live a good life.
Only those who wait to die will continue to eat grain mixed with sand. "
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