Food is so precious these days. How many people starve to death because they can't have a full meal.
Not to mention refined grains, even the kind of coarse grains that are hard to swallow, or Guanyin soil, these people who live like dogs in front of them don't dare to waste it at all.
But it was because of these people's chaotic looting that the edge of the big pot was covered with rice porridge that had fallen to the ground.
The corvees who had just robbed the rice porridge all lowered their heads in shame.
There was an older man who was the first to squat down. He didn't care that the rice porridge was stained with mud. He picked up the porridge with mud and put it into his bowl.
The other corvees who were snatching the rice porridge saw this and followed suit. In a short time, all the speckled rice porridge on the ground were picked up by this group of people and put into their own bowls.
The relief porridge they had eaten before had much more sand in it than the rice porridge on the ground.
Just like what He Shen said in the TV series "Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan", these victims are not human beings.
The wealthy gentry of Chen State did not regard the victims as human beings, and even the victims themselves did not regard themselves as human beings. When they were desperate, they would even compete with pigs and dogs for food.
Zhou Yi stood up again at this time and said: "You people, please listen to me. From now on, if you work for me, I will not starve you."
"But if looting and disorderly things happen again like just now, I will be fucking hungry from now on."
The reason why Zhou Yi said this was simply to plant a seed in the hearts of this group of people to obey and obey orders.
Pingliang County is located at the intersection of the five war zones of Chen, Xiongnu, Khitan, Qiang, and Di. Simply building city walls for defense is not enough.
Therefore, Zhou Yi wanted to wait until the city wall was repaired before recruiting local warriors to train troops to guard Pingliang County.
What is the most important thing about the army? That is to abide by order and obey instructions.
If it is a militia unit that Zhou Yi cannot command, then what is the use of building it?
Just when Zhou Yichang was thinking that he had an army under his command that could win battles with good style, the leader Qian Yongti slipped a man with a sinister eyebrow and threw him in front of Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi glanced at the man kneeling on the ground and asked leisurely: "Captain Qian, what did this man do?"
The catcher Qian Yong clasped his fists and replied: "Reporting to your lord, this is the kid I caught for a living. The kid kneeling on the ground is named Bai Sheng. He is a person in this county who always likes to idle around and steal chickens and dogs."
"The official found out that this person didn't come to build the city wall in the morning at all, but he got into the crowd while everyone was refilling the porridge. Please punish him!"
Zhou Yi glanced at Bai Sheng who fell to the ground and saw that he was sharper than his confidant Yang Xiu. He couldn't help but think to himself: "Bai Sheng, the day rat in Water Margin? Do all people named Bai Sheng look like this?" Do you look like a mouse? Shi Naian sincerely doesn’t deceive me.”
Zhou Yi was not in a hurry to punish him, but ordered a policeman to get two bowls of porridge and mustard. Although the people under his command didn't understand, they still did it.
"Baisheng, right? Have you eaten enough just now?"
Bai Sheng, who fell to the ground, knelt down quickly and begged for mercy: "Sir, please spare my life. The little one is really obsessed with pretending to be a corvee to drink porridge. The little man only took two sips and was caught by the captain."
"I have realized my mistake. I will definitely work hard in the afternoon. Please forgive me!"
Zhou Yi looked at Bai Sheng in front of him with a smile, deliberately pointed at the two bowls of porridge he had just brought, and asked: "Does my rice porridge taste good?"
Bai Sheng, who was kneeling on the ground, immediately shivered in fear and kept kowtowing to Zhou Yi. Because Bai Sheng knew that the kind of vicious officials were easier to deal with, and the most difficult ones to deal with were the ones with smiles on their faces.
"Good...good...delicious..." Bai Shengzhan replied timidly.
Zhou Yi leaned over to his ear and said softly: "But, you have to know that my porridge is not something you can drink casually!"
Although Zhou Yi said this softly, Bai Sheng, who was kneeling on the ground, was so frightened that he trembled.
"My lord, have mercy on me, my lord, have mercy on me!"
Zhou Yi couldn't help but squinted his eyes and thought to himself: "Am I so fucking scary?"
Zhou Yi's squinting expression made Bai Sheng on the ground feel that he had guessed the temperament of the county magistrate.
"I am in urgent need of manpower to build the city wall here. I see that there are two bowls of porridge on the table. One bowl is for you to drink, and the other bowl is for you to pull people for me. Do you understand?"
Bai Sheng was stunned when he heard this and said: "My lord, you mean to let me go to the city to spread the word and build the city wall so that I can have porridge to drink and mustard to eat, right?"
Zhou Yi nodded lightly, confirming Yum's statement.
Seeing that Zhou Yi did not punish him, Bai Sheng asked in a low voice: "Sir, won't you punish me for what happened today?"
Zhou Yi snorted coldly and said: "If I see that there are only so many people to repair the city wall tomorrow, it means that you have not done a good job for me. The two crimes will be punished at the same time. I will see if you deserve it." rise!"
Bai Sheng quickly kowtowed and thanked you: "I will definitely do my best for you, sir. I will definitely recruit a lot of people for you tomorrow."
"Well, after finishing the porridge, hurry up and give me some action!"
Bai Sheng kowtowed a few times with gratitude, then picked up the white porridge on the table and started eating it.
At first, he just drank a few mouthfuls of white porridge and did not eat mustard. Now after taking a bite of mustard mustard, the salt in the mustard has whetted his appetite, and he feels that the white porridge in the bowl is as delicious as heaven.
This also made Bai Sheng more determined to recruit some heads for Zhou Yi to build the city wall.
After finishing the bowl of white porridge, Bai Sheng still had a lot of pickled mustard left in his bowl.
Bai Sheng decided to take another bowl of white porridge and pickled mustard home to give his mother-in-law, who had always looked down upon him, a taste of this delicacy. Maybe he could be the groom's official for another night tonight.
After finishing the bowl of porridge, Bai Sheng quickly started walking around Pingliang County with a bowl of porridge and the remaining bowl of pickled mustard.
Whenever Bai Sheng meets someone, he will tell them how good they can be by helping Master Zhou build the city wall.
"To tell you the truth, those who were building the city wall today drank refined grain rice porridge at noon, and there was no Guanyin soil, sand or gravel in it."
"And the county magistrate was so merciful that he even gave out pickled mustard, which also contains salt and oil."
"This white porridge and pickled mustard are delicious together!" Bai Sheng kept praising the food of the corvees.
The people in the county who still had coarse food at home did not believe this sneaky Bai Sheng at all, and thought he was bragging and lying.
Seeing is believing, hearing is believing.
When Bai Sheng brought out a bowl of rice porridge with white flowers and the bright red and oily mustard on the rice porridge, everyone's suspicions were immediately dispelled.
