"The great master personally told me to do this!" Yang Xiu said calmly.
Liang Shanbo laughed out loud as if he heard some funny joke.
"Hahahaha~"
"Hahahaha~"
"Why don't you say that what you just said was what Master Zhou Yizhou taught you?"
Wang Erniu, who was standing next to him, said abruptly: "To be honest, when we do this, whether we are replacing bran or adding sand, these are indeed the instructions given by the commander."
"Even what Master Yang said just now is exactly the same as what the Marshal said!"
Liang Shanbo's heart was instantly shocked.
"No, it's impossible. Mr. Zhou would not just sit back and watch the people suffer like this!"
"He can't be such a hard-hearted person. Otherwise, why would he have people escort food and supplies all the way here!"
After thinking about this, Liang Shanbo immediately asked: "You must have sold the disaster relief grains to the wealthy businessmen in Hangzhou City in order to make money behind Mr. Zhou's back, and then used it to slander Mr. Zhou." !”
Zhao Tiezhu stood up and said calmly: "Master Liang, you come from a wealthy family. I think you have never experienced disasters, but I, Zhao Tiezhu, have."
"I think back then, there were three consecutive years of drought in many places in the northern border. There was no harvest in the fields. Poor people like me were almost as poor as the city of Hangzhou that is now suffering from floods. Starvation was everywhere. In order to survive, the people had to give up their children. Sold to rich people to be used as cattle or horses.”
"We really risked our lives for a morsel of food, let alone whether we could treat ourselves as human beings. So the commander-in-chief said that the victims of the disaster are not human beings at all. It is really not an exaggeration at all."
Liang Shanbo wanted to refute Zhao Tiezhu's words forcefully, but he was speechless and didn't know how to refute.
He could only say feebly: "Then we can't let people eat bran, right?"
Wang Erniu shook his head angrily and said, "It's good enough for poor families to have bran to eat. Sometimes we even eat Guanyin soil!"
"If the great master hadn't come to Yongzhou, defeated the Huns and Khitans, and allowed us people in Yongzhou to live a good life, we probably wouldn't know where we would be starving at this time!"
Not to mention Wang Erniu and Zhao Tiezhu, even Zhou Yi and Yang Xiu had eaten black chestnut cakes made with chestnut powder and Guanyin soil.
Yang Xiu did not talk too much to Liang Shanbo and asked the soldiers present to move the disaster relief rice porridge outside so that Liang Shanbo could open his eyes to see the facts.
Soon, groups of victims who came to receive relief porridge lined up in front of the big pot.
When the victims outside saw how thick the rice porridge was today, they did not find the food disgusting like Liang Shanbo did. On the contrary, all the victims had happy smiles on their faces that they had not seen for a long time. That smile seemed to be celebrating that they finally didn't have to go hungry today.
After receiving the glutinous rice porridge, the hungry victims started gobbling it up on the spot.
What they ate was very sweet, as if the disgusting and ugly bowl of paste in their hands was some kind of dragon liver and phoenix marrow.
When these victims were feasting, they did not realize that the 'rice porridge' they ate was mixed with a large amount of sand.
However, not everyone among these victims ate such delicious food. One or two hundred people discovered that there was a lot of sand in the rice porridge as soon as they took a bite.
Since they were not hungry, they naturally couldn't eat the 'rice porridge' mixed with sand, so they vomited it out on the spot.
Yang Xiu had long expected that there would be people pretending to be disaster victims hiding inside to fish in troubled waters, and he had already arranged soldiers around.
The moment they, the fake victims, were exposed, the soldiers around them slipped them out.
Yang Xiu walked slowly to the group of fake victims and asked, "Please be honest and tell me which wealthy family sent you here."
"If you dare to be dishonest, then be careful of my ruthless axe!"
These people originally wanted to hide their origins through silence, but after learning from yesterday's experience, these people still dare to tell lies.
With the lessons learned from the city officials of Carmen yesterday, these people dare not hide anything, for fear that they might accidentally offend Yang Xiu and be chopped down by him with an axe.
"The villain was sent by the Xiaoshan horse crew!"
"The younger one is from Yuan Xu's family in Qiantang."
"The villain belongs to the Fang family of Yan Palace!"
...
Each of these people reported their names, and Yang Xiu had everyone write them down.
"Zhao Tiezhu, you and Mr. Liang will take charge of the disaster relief and porridge work here."
"Wang Erniu, you take 300 soldiers with me, carrying Jiuxi and Jieyue, to meet these wealthy families for a while. I would like to ask them why they send people to eat our food for free."
Soon three hundred soldiers were selected by Wang Erniu, and Yang Xiu took these servants of wealthy families who pretended to be victims of the disaster to go to the army one by one to question the crime.
At this moment, Liang Shanbo suddenly came to his senses. He finally understood why Yang Xiu... no, it should be Zhou Yi. He understood why Zhou Yi asked Yang Xiu and others to mix bran and sand into the rice porridge. .
It turns out that disaster relief is not just as simple as raising food and cooking porridge for distribution. There are many doorways in this.
Only now did Liang Shanbo understand why his food was used up so quickly, and there were many shameless families who shamelessly pretended to be victims of the disaster and came to drink porridge.
Liang Shanbo let out a long sigh and apologized to Zhao Tiezhu, who was now beside him: "I misunderstood you just now. I thought you..."
Zhao Tiezhu smiled and said: "The commander-in-chief has long expected that Mr. Liang will encounter this kind of situation when you are doing disaster relief in Hangzhou, so he specially told us before leaving."
"The commander also said that our north was invaded by the Huns, so everyone was poor, and there were no real landowners, so everyone knew how precious food was."
"But this Hangzhou is a prosperous place with Yanliu Painted Bridge. The relationships between clans and aristocrats are complex and intertwined. There will definitely be many problems during disaster relief. Therefore, the commander-in-chief used his tricks and deliberately made such a tactic in order to let Yang If you have a good reputation, you can take the opportunity to cause trouble and collect food from the homes of wealthy merchants. In this way, more and more people can be rescued!"
After listening to Zhao Tiezhu's explanation, Liang Shanbo's admiration for Zhou Yi became more and more profound.
Liang Shanbo secretly sighed in his heart: "Admiral Zhou was able to strategize and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away. He is truly a god! Originally, I did not believe that there were any people born with knowledge, but now it seems that Lord Zhou is such a born god and saint! "
