Don't panic when fleeing the famine, the peasant girl is busy farming

Chapter 105 Erya wants to fish in troubled waters

At this time, Zhao Wenchang was standing on the side of the road weighing the pros and cons.

If he followed the method Jiang Erya said, he would definitely be able to raise some money and food for disaster relief, and solve the urgent need of Qingjiang County.

However, just like what Jiang Erya said, if he didn't have a secure backing behind him, those gentry and wealthy households would definitely retaliate against him afterwards.At that time, his dragon crossing the river will probably be bitten to death by those local snakes.

After much deliberation, Zhao Wenchang gritted his teeth, "Done! As long as the people don't starve to death, it doesn't matter what happens to Mr. Zhao!"

Zhao Wenchang made up his mind, he didn't even sit in the official sedan chair, and trotted back to the county office.

He first went into the study, and wrote a family letter full of emotion to his younger brother, who was a first-rank official, with thousands of words, and only one central thought, "My brother is going to get into trouble, brother, come and save me."

After asking someone he could trust to deliver the family letter, he called all the people under his command over and ordered them to buy a lot of lanterns.

After buying the lanterns, he wrote the four big characters "Jianshan Family" on the lantern paper one by one, and stamped his official seal on the side of the big characters.

In the end, he asked his subordinates to distribute these lanterns to those gentry and wealthy households.

"Two lanterns for each family. Tell them that this is a compliment from the county. You must see these lanterns hanging on their gates before you leave..."

The people under his command thought that the county magistrate did this to please those gentry and wealthy households in a different way, so that they could ask for some money and food for disaster relief from those gentry and wealthy households.

They lamented the difficulty of the county magistrate.

Zhao Wenchang didn't explain too much, and waved his hand, telling them to quickly take the lanterns and do as he said.

Before the banquet held by Zhu Yuanwai's family was over, the servants of Chen Yuanwai's family came to announce the good news, "The county magistrate sent a pair of lanterns to our family, with the words 'Jishan Family' written on them, and beside them It bears the official seal of the county magistrate."

Immediately afterwards, the servants of Mr. Li's family from the silk and satin village also came, talking about the same happy event.

No one doesn't like a testimonial, especially one with an official stamp.Even Zhu Yuanwai, who has the most right to speak, is no exception.

He immediately ordered his servants to hang the two lanterns on the gate, and they began to be lit in broad daylight.

In the county government office, Zhao Wenchang started his next plan.

He sent people beating gongs and drums to various villages.

"Tell the villagers to gather outside the city gate at [-]:[-] a.m., and the county will announce something about relief food. Anyone who doesn't come will not receive relief food in the future."

The people below took orders and went with gongs and drums.

When the gentry and wealthy households heard the news, they only thought that Zhao Wenchang was annoyed by the people throwing stones at him before, and wanted to gather the people together and play an official role in front of the people.

They didn't pay much attention to this matter, and only asked the servants in the family to go outside the city gate to watch the excitement, and tell them later, so that they could have an extra post-dinner conversation.

Soon, the people in Xinglin Village were also notified.

Li Zheng was originally worried because he didn't find a way out for the big guy, but when he heard the news, he suddenly cheered up.

Is the county magistrate going to distribute relief food to everyone?So what are you waiting for, hurry up and take the sack at home and go outside the city gate!Walk around, don't wait for the time to apply, start now!

At the third quarter of Shen Shi, the county magistrate went up to the gate tower, and using his loudest voice, he praised those gentry and wealthy households, saying that they were benevolent, and that they were willing to donate their money and food to help the victims of the disaster.

The servants sent by the gentry and wealthy households were mixed in the crowd, and they looked at each other in blank dismay.

One person asked the other: "Is your Patriarch willing to provide money and food?"

The other person shook his head: "The head of the family said it, but he can't take it seriously. The reason why he said that was just to play the county magistrate."

Zhao Wenchang on the city tower said to the people outside the city: "You go, go to the homes of those gentry and wealthy households to ask for relief food. Those who agree to distribute relief food to you have already hung up marked lanterns at the door of their houses and are waiting for you. It's..."

He said the mark on the lantern twice, and the victims remembered it firmly.

"Whoever hangs a lantern is free to go, and those who don't have a lantern are not allowed to go..."

Finally, with the holy light all over his body, he waved his hand on the tower and shouted passionately: "Go! Go!"

There was cheering under the city tower.

The servants of those gentry and wealthy families were struck by lightning.

The county magistrate is going to make trouble!

It was their master who did it.

They had to rush back and report to the Patriarch, so that the Patriarch could come up with a solution in time.

They rushed and rushed out of the crowd, but they couldn't get out.I can only be carried by the crowds and move forward with the victims...

Xinglin Village was pushing towards Jiang Erya and asked, "Erya Erya, there are so many gentry and wealthy households in Qingjiang County, which one shall we go to?"

Jiang Erya pointed to the east, "Let's go to Zhujiazhuang. Zhu Yuanwai of Zhujiazhuang is the largest local landlord, and his family should have the most grain."

The system told her that the batch of grain that Zhao Wenchang's wife raised from the capital was worth five thousand shi, and the five thousand shi grain was now placed in the granary in Zhujiazhuang.

This was robbed by Zhu Yuanwai and the bandits from Heifengzhai.

After looting the grain, the bandits in Heifengzhai took 5000 taels of fast money from Zhu Yuanwai, and left all the grain to Zhu Yuanwai, who was responsible for selling the stolen goods.

No matter how many pounds Zhu Yuanwai plans to sell, it has nothing to do with Heifengzhai.

Zhu Yuanwai and other squires have discussed that they will not donate money or food. When the victims are starving, they can sell the food brought back from other places to the victims at a high price.

Member Zhu said to the others, "Don't look at the poverty of those disaster victims. No matter how poor they are, they can still squeeze out a few taels of silver from their bodies. No matter how poor they are, they can still sell their sons and daughters."

With a leader, other gentry and wealthy households are also happy to cooperate. Anyway, the new county magistrate is useless. Even if they made this national calamity, the county magistrate would not dare to do anything to them...

After Jiang Erya learned about the faces of these people, she decided to borrow the powerful storage function of the system backpack and take advantage of the opportunity when Zhao Wenchang sent the victims to the homes of the rich gentry to grab food, and become a chivalrous man who robbed the rich and helped the poor.

For this reason, she specially handed over Silly Star's little tail to Jiang Erniu, telling them to stay at home and not go anywhere.

Jiang Erya raised her foot and walked towards Zhujiazhuang, Lizheng immediately led the villagers of Xinglin Village to follow.

Li Zheng knew in his heart that what the county magistrate said was not the truth at all, even if those landlords were willing to donate food, they would not take the initiative to let the victims of the disaster flood into their homes.

This is clearly the county magistrate's helplessness, that's why he came up with such a bad move, let the victims go to the big family by themselves.

Can Zhu Yuanwai of Zhujiazhuang honestly let the disaster victims eat the big family?Those thugs and tenants in his family were not raised for nothing.

A conflict is inevitable.

However, those in Xinglin Village don't have to be afraid, because they have Erya!
(End of this chapter)