Chapter 12 Riot
Master Liu hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him: "Cheng Ling, this Xiaoshan may have been a little... poor in academics before, but now she has made great progress after working hard."
City Order: "..." Who can become a master after just a few months of hard work?
Did you carve it with a knife?
"She solved the problem of our Liu family. Just give her another chance."
What's going on with the Liu family?
It seems that people say that the Liu family has been hit by evil spirits recently. There have been frequent disasters, old people and dead people in the family, and they are all heading towards extermination... How did they solve it?
Cheng Ling looked at Master Liu dubiously: "Is this true or false?"
Master Liu smiled bitterly: "My Lord Cheng Ling, can I still joke about this kind of thing? ?”
Cheng Ling believed he wouldn’t.
But he couldn't believe Xu Shan Shan Hui either.
The cost of trusting her last time still made him regret it.
Xu Shanshan stood there calmly and let them discuss it. Although this matter required patience, she did not have the patience to wait.
"The city magistrate seems to be still hesitating, so you might as well listen to me tell a story before making a decision."
The city magistrate smiled disdainfully. He has recently read extensively about various popular folk deceptions, The magic stick has a good book of tricks, and he has long seen through her tricks.
"Oh, I advise you not to waste your efforts."
Xu Shanshan recounted calmly and calmly: "The story happened half a month later, in a quiet and ordinary late night, Jiangling City was already asleep."
"At this time, the silence outside the city was terrifying, as if a darkness was about to swallow everything..."
Then a riot broke out without warning.
I saw black hungry people gathering outside the city, and their crazy eyes were all blood-red.
Holding a hoe, an axe, or swinging a fire stick, their faces were black, their eyes were on fire, and their teeth were shining, as if they were extremely hungry and wanted to choose someone to eat.
The number of hungry people outside the city far exceeds that of the few guards in the city. In addition, their riot happened quickly and violently. With their beastly nature and ferocious collision, the city gate was quickly breached.
Speaking of this riot, there was no warning.
When the hungry people "exchanged their children to eat", when the court did not adopt a rescue plan for a long time, and when the city officials were still afraid to open warehouses to release grain, we should have expected this result.
These thugs who rushed into the city have lost their humanity at this time.
They broke into rich people's homes and plundered them. They were like unbridled cattle, making a trampling noise. Robbery, arson and other crimes were commonplace.
It was this riot that completely plunged Jiangling City into chaos and disorder.
As she vividly described it, the people present seemed to see people wearing soft jewelry and running away in panic. He came out, but was surrounded by thugs coming from all directions -
Immediately there were all kinds of screams, screams, shouts and curses intertwined together.
There is even a smell of blood and violence filling the air...
Cheng Ling and Mr. Liu were so cold that they froze there for a long time, unable to recover.
...They thought she was going to tell them a fantasy story to brainwash them, but they didn't know that she was telling them a horror story to scare them!
"You, you made up this ridiculous story!" The city commander was furious.
Xu Shanshan had a leisurely manner and a casual tone: "Is it ridiculous? If the current situation continues to develop badly, does the city order think it is impossible for it to happen?"
The city order was immediately asked. .
He has been an official for many years, and has been assigned one level at a time, from low to high. He has witnessed countless gangsters emerging from poor mountains and rivers.
Indeed, if this trend continues, the hungry people may actually riot in order to survive!
The city order suddenly became unbearable: "Didn't you just say that you wanted to offer some advice? Let's hear it."
As a great national master, Xu Shanshan has learned many things. As time goes by, she doesn't use things like political strategy and national policy, but that doesn't mean she doesn't know how to do it.
After all, she has opened her eyes and knows no tricks. Nothing can be hidden from her, so why bother playing tricks with others. But now her cultivation has not yet returned to its peak, and coupled with the shackles of this "naturally disabled" body, she cannot do as she pleases.
“Actually, Jiangling City is not without food. It’s just that food is kept and hoarded by the wealthy gentry shops to raise food prices and greatly enrich the country.”
“This is also true for me. They knew it, but they had no choice but to lure them with benefits and plan to engrave their good deeds on their tombstones. However, they only cared about the immediate interests and did not care about the life and death of the people. "
"It is actually not difficult to break the situation, but. This requires Cheng Ling and the Liu family to work together."
Cheng Ling and Mr. Liu looked at each other.
"What do you mean?"
She said leisurely: "Raise the price of food and raise the price of food in Jiangling City to the highest in the country."
"Why?" The city order frowned: " Wouldn't this make the already difficult people even worse? "
By then, people will be starving, so who will he be? Damn the dog officer?
"Of course not. The city order can order the city gates to be opened, admit all the refugees into the city and distribute disaster relief food, and just hang on for the time being."
The more the city magistrate listened, the more outrageous he became: "It's nonsense. There is no room for so many people in the city. There will be a dispute instead of a dispute."
After making suggestions to the city magistrate, Xu Shanshan said to Mr. Liu again Said: "The Liu family will then join in the same trap with profiteers. You can get as much as they raise, blend in and get along with them."
The corner of Mr. Liu's mouth twitched: "This..."
No, he is only interested in profit, so who has he become? Unscrupulous profiteers?
“Aren’t the merchants in the city safe just because they stayed out of the incident? What if they are also in crisis?”
She kindly advised: "Actually, the city magistrate should not put himself in the position of guardian of these people. You should also become a corrupt official."
Good guy! Forget about being a dog official, do you still want to call him a corrupt official?
“After all, we all enjoy the blessings together, and we should all bear the hardships together.”
The city commander’s dark and grumpy face suddenly paused.
Is it difficult... to be together?
He opened his mouth wide, his eyes flashed, and he realized: "You are saying...it is better to be chaotic than to defend tightly...just call it chaos."
"It is better to block than to be sparse, and to be sparse is better to lead. The current chaos , the city order still has the ability to control the end, but what if a real riot occurs one day and is caught off guard? "
Her words are very pertinent and reasonable.
Master Liu agreed: "Yes, if you drive a dog into a back alley, there will be a backlash."
It's just... this plan is cruel enough!
It's completely pushing the profiteers to the front to block the knife. Aren't they eager to make national wealth?
But the hungry wolf is around, watching eagerly every day, and the "cage" of restraint is no longer tight. If their lives are gone by then, do they still want this wealth?
"Xiaoshan's plan is worth trying."
He sat down a little embarrassed and angrily: "But this life-threatening disaster relief food... I really don't want it." I can’t take it out.”
He doesn’t want to lose face by exposing himself.
Xu Shanshan suggested: "Then open the charity warehouses."
The grain stored in charity warehouses in various places is to prepare for Tongji disaster relief in famine years, but it requires the imperial court to issue decrees from top to bottom to open the warehouses, and local officials cannot just release the warehouses if they want. warehouse.
The city magistrate was sad and angry: "Since you know Yicang, you know that you can't be the master of this matter with your official position."
"Then using this token, will it be useful?" She Take something out.
What token?
A "profiteer" and a "dog official" looked over and saw the eye-catching word "Huo" on the top and "Heaven's Power Military Discipline" engraved below. They were immediately shocked.
(End of this chapter)