please make me king

Chapter 1076 Graphite Xi

"Reporting to King Shun, there are four hundred and thirty-one strong men among the hungry people, two hundred and seventy-nine strong women, forty-three old and weak, and sixty-two children, totaling eight hundred and fifteen. A total of two and a half bags of grain and rice were distributed, and there are one hundred and ninety-seven and a half bags of grain and rice left." Shi Changsheng came to report with the rag.

After drinking some gruel just now, Shi Changsheng's complexion was a little rosier than before.

"That's right!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but nodded, "Since you are also a scholar, there is just a lack of a county magistrate here, why don't you take care of it for me, I don't know?"

Yesterday, Song Qijiao, the magistrate of Tianyaozhou, complained to himself that Yaozhou and the affairs of the same officials should be taken care of by him, and he was really busy.

It just so happened that Shi Changsheng was also a scholar, and seeing how well he distributed food, Zhang Shun wanted to recruit him to work.

Shi Changsheng was hesitant when he heard that he wanted to "follow the thief", but then he thought that if King Shun hadn't rescued him, he would have starved to death, I'm afraid his wife, daughter and son would end up in dire straits.

He couldn't help but hastened to worship: "King Shun's life-saving grace can't be repaid, but if there is a drive, there is no one who will follow!"

"Hey, you!" The red lady said unhappily when she heard the words, "My husband saved your whole family's life without mentioning it, and even promoted you to be the head of a county, and you are still coy and reluctant! "

"Madam taught me that it was Shi who was wrong!" Shi Changsheng couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed when he heard the words, and quickly apologized.

As a result, before Shi Changsheng finished speaking, his daughter couldn't help stopping her father, and argued loudly: "My father's willingness or unwillingness is a public matter! How can a gentleman destroy justice because of selfish favor?"

"King Shun's life-saving grace can never be repaid. I promised myself, so what is my relationship with my father?"

Don't look at Shi Moxi's young age, but he has sharp teeth. The phrase "how can a gentleman destroy justice because of personal favors" is quite accusing the red lady of trying to repay her kindness.

No, what are you still relying on?

The red lady can't laugh or cry, how old is she, and she knows how to steal a man?

She pretended to be a villain at first, and wanted to remind Zhang Shun of his kindness to their family, but now she got herself into it instead.

"What a mess?" Zhang Shun waved his hand, pointed at the red lady and said, "See, you have to be so beautiful to be qualified to be my woman!"

"You're lying, aren't the two men and women next to her also your women?" the little girl said in disbelief.

Ma Yingniang and Wang Qiying were watching a joke nearby, but they didn't expect to be shot while lying down.

"This brat, it's okay to be blind, but his mouth is so poisonous!" The two couldn't help being furious.

One wanted to pierce her heart with a bullet, and the other wanted to smash her dog's head with a whip.

"That's enough, that's enough, Tong Yan Wuji, Tong Yan Wuji, don't be as knowledgeable as her!" Zhang Shun quickly grabbed one of them, fearing that the two of them would rush over and swallow her alive.

"I can really give birth," that Shi Moxi yelled again, but his father Shi Changsheng covered his mouth.

People in this era are of the most important family background. Don't look at Shi Changsheng's family who is about to starve to death, but if you count carefully, it is a family of innocence and a scholarly family.

Don't underestimate these two standards, that's incredible.

But in terms of cleanliness of family background, it is required that there are no people who violate the law, commit crimes or engage in low-level occupations within the five clothes, which can almost screen out more than [-]% of families in the late Ming Dynasty.

If it wasn't for his family's troubles, Shimo Ximo said that she would be a concubine, even if an emperor chooses a concubine or a vassal king marries a wife at the right age, she is fully qualified to run for election.

That's why Shi Changsheng owed a usury loan back then and couldn't repay it, so he would rather abandon his family and leave than let his daughter be a concubine.

I am poor and an innocent family, and you are rich but a merchant.

As for Zhang Shun, if he hadn't occupied the territory of Shaanxi, implemented a benevolent government, and was boasted by a group of people as "King Shun is alive", I am afraid that in the eyes of these people, he would be nothing more than a "thief".

It is not shameful to be Zhang Shun's "concubine".

It's just that as a woman, if she is rejected again and again, she will be ashamed.

So when Shi Changsheng saw that his daughter was talking nonsense, he immediately stopped her.

"Okay, okay, stop shouting, since you want to stay, then you should stay!" Seeing this, the red lady shook her head and said.

"You..." Zhang Shun, Ma Yingniang, and Wang Qiying were taken aback when they heard the words. Could it be that you don't know your surname because they praised you in a subtle way?

"Anyway, she is a woman from a good family. If there is a trouble, it will be bad for my husband!" Seeing the expressions of the three of them, the red lady couldn't help explaining.

Well, for some reason, Zhang Shun suddenly remembered that when he was in Nanyang, Mrs. Zhu cried, made trouble, and hanged herself in her wedding dress.

He shivered involuntarily, and nodded in agreement.

Well, just treat yourself as a pet monkey!
There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, after Zhang Shun arranged for the new cheap "old man" and co-official magistrate Shi Changsheng to collect the refugees, he left Jinsuoguan and rushed all the way north.

Just entering Yijun County, I saw groups of refugees.

Some are squatting in the grass and using wooden sticks to dig grass roots and wild vegetables, some are holding knives around the tree to peel the bark, and some half-children are riding on the branches to pick green fruits.

"Is this edible?" Zhang Shun had never seen this before.

It is often said in the book that "when you are hungry, use grass roots and bark" to satisfy your hunger. Does anyone really eat this?

He was about to get off his horse and go to inquire, but unexpectedly a crisp voice replied: "The grass root is thatch root, it tastes sweet."

"That vegetable leaf is thistle, boiled in boiling water, it is a rare delicacy."

"The bark is elm bark. It is a first-class product. It is ground into flour, sticky like glutinous rice, and does not hold beans and wheat."

"Among them, poplar leaves are the most unpalatable, causing swelling after eating."

Zhang Shun turned his head to look, and saw that she was riding a horse with Hong Niangzi, commenting on the grass, flowers, trees, fruits and other things on the roadside with a high spirit, never leaving the words "eating and drinking".

Although she had already washed and washed, she was thin and tight.

Especially wearing an old dress of Hong Niangzi, but it is much looser, making her body look even thinner.

You have a knife mouth and a bean curd heart, Zhang Shun glanced at Hong Niangzi, and couldn't help sighing secretly.

It was Ma Yingniang's turn to be on duty last night, so this girl was handed over to Hong Niangzi.

As a result, she cleaned up and changed her clothes in one night.

It’s just that Zhang Shun never imagined that there are still people in the world who can comment on the texture, taste, cooking methods and symptoms of common plants on the roadside like a few treasures.

Thousands of years ago, Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs to cure diseases and save lives.

Now there are hungry people eating hundreds of herbs in order to survive for a while.

He looked at the fierce, cowardly, vigilant, or simple and honest faces on the side of the road, and at Shi Moxi whose thin face was sunken in, two words popped out of his mind: "Alive!"

Yes, no matter what their temperament, ability, or means, there is only one simple goal: to live.

Just like Zhang Shun and more than [-] people were trapped in the Hanguang Wuling by the flood, only one person like Zhang Shun was missing, and when he ascended the heights and called Yan'an Mansion, everywhere would be turned against him.

Oh, wrong, there are actually many such characters already!
Zhang Shun suddenly understood why Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others failed and failed repeatedly in the original history.

"Where is Wang Jinyi?" He frowned, unable to help but make up his mind, and would not delay for a moment.

"The end is here!"

"Give me an order to ask Lu Weiqi to divide some of the grain delivered and send it to Yan'an Mansion for disaster relief. There must be no mistakes!"

(End of this chapter)