"Ten more steps!
ten! Nine! eight! seven! six! Five...four! three! two! one!
Congratulations to this guy for moving the last standing log to the city gate!
The last hundred pounds of grain belongs to him! "
Under the watch of the crowd, the last lucky man successfully transported the last standing log to the city gate, received a hundred kilograms of grain from the Tatar guards, and showed a happy smile.
The rest of the people sighed with disappointment.
Today's Xifengguan City is different from yesterday. A large number of people walked out of their homes with only one destination, which was in front of the garrison mansion.
Due to the success of the thin man yesterday and Li Lin's keeping their promise, the people walked out of their homes one after another, hoping to be one of the people who moved the ten standing trees in order to obtain 100 kilograms of grain.
It's just that there are many people who have the same idea as them. Even if they ran over early, there are still more people who haven't qualified.
In this way, everyone could only hope that someone would fail in the challenge, so they changed their minds and stayed at the scene to watch the people who grabbed the last one and followed Tachibana one by one, trying their best to drag Tachibana to the city wall, and finally I got a hundred catties of grain and went home happily.
This made everyone very disappointed. Just as they were about to leave, they suddenly saw a convoy coming in from the direction of the city gate. The convoy was not the most important thing. The important thing was that the convoy was actually densely packed with food. Cars are transported into the city!
Everyone immediately became excited and followed the convoy to the gate of the garrison.
Seeing the crowd following the motorcade, Li Lin smiled and walked to the front of the motorcade to face the crowd.
He said loudly: "Everyone, let me introduce myself first. I am Li Lin, a graduate of the first batch of Yunzhou County Political School. I came to Xifengkou on the orders of King Yun to recruit people to settle down in Yunzhou County.
I believe that through those ten standing trees, everyone already knows our integrity.
Now I announce that from now on, for all people who sign up and are willing to follow me to Yunzhou County to settle down, I will give them a settlement fee worth two taels of silver, or give them food according to the original price of ten coins per catty!
As long as you are willing to come with us, we will give it to you right away. This food is here, and I won’t lie to anyone! "
As soon as he said this, everyone suddenly became noisy, but after a while, the noise gradually became quiet.
Of course, two taels of silver is nothing, but if it is exchanged for ten cents per catty of grain, it can be exchanged for two hundred catties and save some food, which is enough for the family to survive until next summer.
If there are two people, they can survive until autumn.
But... leave Xifengkou and follow the so-called King Yun's people to Yunzhou County?
Not to mention that they had never heard of King Yun, as common people at the bottom, they might not even know who the emperor was.
He is really the prince of the imperial court, but where is Yunzhou County? That is the most desolate northern region in the legend, relying on the Tatar grassland. Is it really a place to live?
Will he be sold to the Tatars as slaves by King Yun? With so many Tatars coming this time, is this also a Tatar conspiracy?
Heavy worries ran through everyone's minds, and no one dared to speak out rashly.
However, some people are eventually driven to a dead end.
"I'll go! Are you really giving food now?"
"nature!"
When Li Lin saw someone jumping out, he naturally nodded immediately.
Among the crowd, the wife of the man who just made the noise grabbed her husband with a worried look on her face.
"Master, you can't! Who knows what you are going for, you can't go!"
The man patted the woman's hand and sighed: "What can I do if I don't go? The family has run out of food, and my parents and children have to eat. I went, and the food I got in exchange can at least last you until next summer." , I think it will get better by then.
You don’t have to worry about me. I am a strong laborer. No matter what, they will not kill me casually. As long as I obey, I will have a chance to survive. If there is a chance in the future, I will definitely come back! "
"The boss! Wuwuwuwu..."
The woman burst into tears and hugged her husband and cried non-stop.
After a long time the man stepped forward and Li Lin asked, "Do you want food or money?"
"food!"
The man said without hesitation.
Li Lin nodded, and with a wave of his hand, someone immediately handed him two hundred-jin bags of grain.
The man took the food and said, "I'll go back and put the food back. Don't worry, I won't run away. I'll come back when I get the food back. If you're worried, you can ask someone to follow me."
Li Lin waved his hand: "No need, I believe you!"
The man nodded, then turned around and left with his wife carrying the food.
After the man left and other people saw that they could indeed get food in exchange, many who could no longer survive signed up one after another regardless of the amount.
Li Lin immediately asked the guards to start registering one by one. At the same time, Li Lin shouted loudly: "There are only 20,000 places, first come, first served!"
When everyone heard that there was a limit, they immediately became more anxious, and some people who were still hesitant joined in directly.
Logically speaking, there should be 25,000 places for 50,000 taels.
But Li Lin also considered the food they would consume on the way back, so he left 10,000 shi of food to eat on the way.
Twenty thousand people, each with fifty kilograms, is enough to reach the Hedong Corridor and there are many more.
At Xifengkou, Li Lin's recruitment operation was finally held. At the same time, all the border towns in Hedong County also welcomed students from the Political School, who showed their magical powers across the sea to recruit people.
A large number of suffering people in Hedong were deceived by them and headed towards the Hedong Corridor.
The local government officials turned a blind eye to their behavior.
No one helped them solve these problems. They wished they could help send them away, so how could they stop them?
And just when the people in Hedong were deceived to leave their hometown one after another.
Bianjing, Imperial Palace.
Zhao Duan suddenly received a secret message from Chen Du, the guard of Yumen Pass!
Zhao Duan was obviously stunned when he saw Chen Du's name. As the guard of Yumen Pass, Chen Du usually gave himself a discount for only one reason, and that was because the Huns were on the side!
But didn’t the Huns just leave? Could it be happening again?
He was shocked!
I prayed in my heart and hurriedly opened the brochure. After reading the contents of the brochure, I was so angry that I blew my beard and stared!
"This old man! He's thinking about my people again!
He came here secretly before, but this time it was better, he actually let me give it to me directly and blatantly! Arrogant! Arrogant! presumptuous!
Did he think that I would agree to him if he gave me a grandson? He is dreaming! "
Zhao Duan threw the memorial on the table, stood up, and walked around the room with his hands behind his back.
His face was full of anger and he wanted to vent it, but he didn't know how to vent it. But when he thought about the money in the national treasury, the resettlement of millions of victims in Hedong and the cost of rebuilding Guancheng, he sat back helplessly. !
The treasury is out of money!
Although the Xiongnu were not allowed to break through the new defense line, the amount of materials and food consumed by the Xiongnu for such a long period of time was astronomical.
Coupled with the pensions for soldiers who died in the war and the rewards for meritorious soldiers, the court was really out of money.
Zhao Duan even planned to spend the money to Guancheng gradually, but it was useless just to build Guancheng.
How to resettle the millions of people who were devastated by the war and had no food to eat is a big problem!
In the end it's all about money!
But the court had no money, and he was almost out of money!
He has been using internal funds to replenish the state treasury, and he is almost empty!
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(End of chapter)
