Planetary Museum

The order of the search and rescue team was quickly responded, and soon the more than 30 soldiers, who had eaten and had not had time to eat, were all standing sparsely in front of Wu Xiaoqing.

The soldiers used to maintain order here are actually not soldiers in essence. According to the classification standard of "soldiers" by the Minister of Finance, that is, the classification standard of people who can eat meat, these people are actually counted as groups other than soldiers.

Strictly speaking, they are more like a combination of urban management and tax collectors.Focus on collecting taxes, and maintain order depending on your mood-by the way, beat up a few guys who don't like it.

In the defense system of Elis, the role of these soldiers under the city gate has never been considered. The soldiers who are really responsible for the city defense only patrol and move on the city wall.

Wu Xiaoqing noticed that among these people, several stood in particularly weird postures, bending over and covering their stomachs all the time.He asked the clerk what was going on with this person, and the clerk said without any surprise, "It's just that my lord was fed up, and he ate five cakes at a time... It's okay, just wait a while and you'll be fine."

Wu Xiaoqing took a look at the size of the cakes, five... If he was given to eat, he would not be able to eat half of them.

"You can't eat five cakes?" Even Wu Xiaoqing heard the voice of the search and rescue team with obvious malice, "I'm afraid the tasks I want to give you will far exceed this amount."

Then, before the clerk could understand, the search and rescue team raised the volume and said to everyone present: "From today onwards, my task for you here is to make five hundred cakes every day, five hundred cakes every day! Chef!" Do you understand! You need to make [-] cakes every day! Each of these [-] cakes must be eaten into your stomach according to the regulations! I don’t care who eats it, but I want to see that these The cakes were indeed eaten by people, and it was still in accordance with the regulations that they were not allowed to be wasted or taken out of the shed.”

Then he asked the cook, "How many cakes did you make today?"

"One hundred."

"Keep going!" the search and rescue team shouted, "I brought you such a big oven from the palace, do you think it's enough to make a hundred cakes?"

Wu Xiaoqing just watched from the spot, watching the chef from kneading the noodles to sending them into the oven, and finally stacking the freshly baked cakes on a small table in the shed.Because there were too many cakes baked at one time, the table could barely fit. Wu Xiaoqing turned around, and the search and rescue team shouted at everyone: "What are you doing, come and share the cakes!"

Each soldier was soon given a few thick slices of cake, and this was just this batch, and the next batch would appear.Some of the soldiers who didn't get the pie just now had already started to eat it, but they also gradually realized that compared to their appetite, the pie they were about to face might be a difficult task.

Those who had already eaten the cake seemed unwilling to take it again, but Wu Xiaoqing stared at the clerk, and the clerk naturally had to assign tasks.After they got the cakes, everyone would just stare at the thick stack of cakes in their hands in a daze, as if they didn't know what to do except to solve these things with their mouths!

"Everyone has to dispose of the cakes in their hands. If anyone still has cakes in their hands after sunset," the search and rescue team paused coldly and asked the clerk, "Do you remember the gallows that was erected here?" ?”

"Master God, please spare me!" The clerk was so frightened that he lay down on the ground and cried, "Even a cow can't eat so many cakes in a day!" Five hundred cakes were distributed to 32 people. It's really unacceptable.

The others also quickly realized that maybe they had done something wrong before, which made the gods angry and made adults angry. They quickly crawled into a large group in front of Wu Xiaoqing, begging Wu Xiaoqing to give them a way out.Beside Wu Xiaoqing, the dozen or so guards accompanying him to protect him looked at these people coldly, and the leading guard looked at Wu Xiaoqing, and just waiting for him to nod, he was about to force these people to eat cakes with his sword.

But Wu Xiaoqing was obviously not that scary.

"A cow can't finish it. That's an excellent reason that people can't refute," the search and rescue team asked the clerk. "But I said, these cakes are just for you to eat?"

The clerk stared at Wu Xiaoqing with wide eyes, but didn't react for a while.

"The document doesn't say who these cakes are for. This bakery was originally set up for everyone passing by," the search and rescue team said, "but since you all think that these cakes are made for you, then you Just take this responsibility. Passers-by, I don’t care whether you invite people to eat or force them to eat, in short, when the sun goes down today, let these cakes go into people’s stomachs .Today is [-] pieces of cakes, tomorrow is [-] pieces...Every day after that, there will be more cakes. For this reason, you have to recruit more people to help you deal with these cakes. Finally, I warn you, If it’s not finished by then, recall the gallows that was once erected here!”

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When Wu Xiaoqing left, the bakery was already overcrowded. At least in Wu Xiaoqing's opinion, disposing of [-] cakes in one afternoon is not difficult at all in this era.It is even conceivable that after the news spreads, there may only be more people waiting for the cakes and fewer people eating the cakes.

But for the time being, the way the bakery is handled is still somewhat different from Wu Xiaoqing's imagination.Those soldiers are very good at using the power in their hands to solve problems.Just like eating cakes, it is obviously a good thing, but these soldiers do it as a bad thing.In order to digest these cakes as soon as possible, the soldiers used the power of inspection and tax collection to force everyone who entered the city to come to the cake shed and let them go after eating the cakes.At this time, the bakery is no longer a charity, but a compulsory distribution of cakes—but for people of this era, this should be regarded as a trouble of happiness.

Wu Xiaoqing originally wanted to prevent this "unreasonable" state, but the search and rescue team found it acceptable.In fact, the method and method are not important to the search and rescue team. What matters is the result. So many people have eaten the cake and tasted the sweetness, and they will become free propagandists later.In a few days, it will not be the soldiers who are worried, but the supply of the Minister of Finance-you can imagine with your toes, and this bakery will definitely become the most densely populated area in the city by then.

There are three gates in King Elis, two of which are side gates for people to pass through.After Wu Xiaoqing left the south gate, he had to go to the north gate to repeat the action just now.There are more people in the north gate than in the south gate, and there are more pies there, and the clerks there are obviously smarter than those in the south gate. When Wu Xiaoqing went, they were already distributing the pie. However, they also charged a reasonable fee for the Kingdom of Elis by the way.

The clerk at the south gate regards the bakery as a city management public canteen, while the clerk at the north gate regards the bakery as a state-run restaurant.Both sides sent the same documents, and the same messenger was responsible for explaining, but the results were always very different from the imagination.

The problem of the cake sheds at the north and south gates has been solved, as well as the city square, the churches of the Dayang and Xiaoyang religions, and the vegetable markets of the residents... In the main traffic areas of the city, the search and rescue team has planned cake sheds.He went to inspect one by one, and some sheds had not had time to make cakes, but only made cakes, and some were not even willing to make cakes. The most serious thing was that an official directly shipped all the flour and sugar that should be distributed back to his home.

The unlucky guy was directly arrested and sent to prison, and then the warden asked Wu Xiaoqing to be a judge to judge. Wu Xiaoqing hesitated for a long time, and said: "Since he is a first-time offender, let's give him a lighter sentence."

"In God's mercy," said the warden, "the sentence will be light."

Wu Xiaoqing wanted to see how the warden gave a light sentence. In his mind, it might be a few months of hard labor, or be beaten with dozens of sticks—this seems to be the case in the TV and movies.

It has to be said that life sometimes surpasses art.

The laws of the Kingdom of Elis seem to be a little different from what Wu Xiaoqing thought.

According to the precedent of King Elis, all those who commit corruption and fraud should have their hands cut off. Since Wu Xiaoqing said that the crime is reduced, it is natural to cut off his fingers.In the law on beheading hands, there is such an explanation: the prisoner needs to roll a dice to decide whether to cut off his left hand or his right hand.And when it came to the fingers, they were also dice.

The prisoner got his dice, which was a four-sided pyramid, which in turn represented the four fingers except the thumb.According to the legal interpretation, after the prisoner finished throwing the sieve, the side of the pyramid facing down, representing the prisoner's lucky finger, can be preserved, while the other three... Wu Xiaoqing didn't dare to look at it, but he could tell that the The prisoner screamed terribly.

Because of this incident, when Wu Xiaoqing went to see Xu Yan and Wang Youquan later, they both seemed a little absent-minded.But the two of them didn't notice it. When they saw Wu Xiaoqing, they just kept talking about how proud they were now.

It is natural to be proud, both of them now have official positions, among them, Wang Youquan is in charge of the army in the city, and Xu Yan is in charge of the king's guards.Of course, in name it means mastery, but in fact, they just follow the instructions of the search and rescue team to contact and chat with every officer, and when necessary, they also chat with a few special soldiers.In the afternoon, when the search and rescue team helped Wu Xiaoqing deal with the problem of the bakery, they also helped them separately, and got a general understanding of the most important thing in the entire King of Elis, the psychological state of the specific force masters.

It can be said that the final conclusion is not bad. The king's prestige is very sufficient. After all, these soldiers, their fathers are almost all soldiers who fought against the king, and their loyalty to the king comes from the bottom of their hearts.Just like the head of the guard Tallinn said, the throne poured with blood is the most stable.

All of these conversations were taped, and of course, the soldiers who were being talked to had no knowledge of it—because they didn't even know that there was such a technology as recording.Wu Xiaoqing will take these recordings back to the king and play them to the king himself.The search and rescue team believed that when the king really heard these voices, his trust in Wu Xiaoqing would truly reach a new level—a higher level that was needed for this rescue.