Chapter 1280 Famine and Natural Disaster 439

"I've given the order, they'll do it."

Zhou Ting sighed inwardly. There are bound to be casualties in wars, and every casualty is a fatal blow to those families that falls into the abyss.

If conscription is called again, many families will only be able to send their only adult male.

Life will become difficult for a family without a pillar. The elderly, the weak, women and children in the family will lose their backbone and confidence, and life will only become more difficult.

Mingyi believed that the generals would make arrangements, but the most important thing was whether the pension could be distributed to the families of the martyrs.

"Let someone supervise it!"

Zhou Ting frowned and thought deeply about her words. She was not someone who spoke without a purpose. Since she spoke, there must be some basis for her words. Thinking so, he asked the same question.

"Why do you say that?"

There was helplessness in her eyes. In order for the families of the sacrificed soldiers to receive compensation, she could only give appropriate reminders and suggestions.

Mingyi said, "You are in high positions, so you may not have noticed. In the past, when someone from our nearby village joined the army and died in battle, his family did not receive any pension. In fact, if they asked about it, they would be beaten and thrown out of the county. This kind of thing is not uncommon. I have heard my grandfather and other older generations talk about it many times. The families whose male members died had a very difficult life and had no place to seek justice. Before the grief of their family members' deaths in battle had passed, they had to rush around and plan for their livelihood and future life, so they had no time to feel sad."

"Before fleeing, our county was quite lively, and the county officials were doing a good job. The people had a hard time, but they were still able to survive. Even so, corruption and bribery, as well as the misappropriation of pensions for soldiers killed in battle, had not been reduced. The common people had no connections, and did not know the dignitaries. Even if they knew there was something fishy going on, they had no way to find out the truth, and could only swallow their tears."

"Because I know a little bit about the suffering of the people, I will talk to you and give you some suggestions. If the soldiers shed blood and tears, it will chill their hearts and be very detrimental to the morale of the army!"

Zhou Ting frowned, "I haven't heard these things reported by the people below before, so I really didn't know. It seems that we should send someone to supervise, and also send someone to check the pension money from previous years."

"It's good that you know the situation." Just stop at the point and let him know the difficulties faced by the martyrs' families.

She believes that Zhou Ting will send someone to investigate thoroughly, and hopes that the compensation money issued this time can be smoothly delivered to the martyrs' families.

"I'll ask someone to come in and clean it up." Seeing him thinking, Mingyi stood up and said.

As he finished speaking, he had already reached the entrance of the tent.

"Someone is coming."

Chunxi, who was waiting outside the tent, walked in and asked, "Young lady, has the prince finished his meal?"

"Yes, you come in and clean up. The prince has been traveling for days and is very tired. You should clean up quickly so that he can rest early." Mingyi instructed.

Chunxi nodded with a smile, "Yes."

Mingyi returned to Zhou Ting, poured him a cup of tea and placed it next to him.

Chunxi led his men into the tent, and Li quickly cleaned up the mess and left.

There were only the two of them in the tent again. Mingyi looked at the man who was frowning and thinking, and tried to persuade him.

"Chao Sheng, it's time to rest. Think about it after you wake up, okay?"

"Yeah." After responding subconsciously, Zhou Ting realized belatedly that his indulgence of Ming Yi was becoming more and more unbridled; turning his head to look at the little girl in front of him, Zhou Ting thought helplessly, it was only her, no one else dared to interrupt his thoughts.

Zhou Ting pinched his brows. He hadn't slept well for several days and had been traveling for days, so he was already exhausted. At this moment, his thoughts were running wild and his brain was overloaded. He even had a slight headache, but it was useless to think too much.

"Forget it, I'll listen to you. I'll sleep for a while. Yiyi, you stay with me in the tent. When I wake up, I want to see you first, okay?"

Mingyi's mouth twitched slightly, but seeing that he was exhausted and still had to muster up the energy to keep her, she finally softened her heart, "Go to sleep, I won't leave."

"Thank you, Yiyi." He climbed up the pole, took her little hand and went to the inner room together.

Mingyi felt sorry for his difficulties, so she let him do it. She walked to the bed, and Zhou Ting lay down on it, his hand still holding her tightly, and he closed his eyes and fell asleep in a second.

Seeing how exhausted he was, she sat down beside the bed. He held her right hand tightly, as if he was afraid that she would run away. He could only use his left hand to pull the thin quilt to cover him.

The weather this year is extremely abnormal. At this time of year, the northwest, which should have been cooling down, shows no signs of cooling down at all.

According to her intuition, the Northwest will have a hard time next year.

The natural disaster spread to the northwest, and the entire Great Xi Dynasty was covered by drought. She didn't know what was happening in other countries; she was afraid that the natural disasters would spread more and more widely, and by then, the people would really have no way to survive.

"The Heavenly Dao had originally made up its mind to bring a devastating disaster to this small world. With my arrival, the Heavenly Dao saw some hope. Unfortunately, my energy is too weak, and I have not been able to unite the people so far."

She had something on her mind, and she couldn't help but get distracted while watching Zhou Ting.

She should do as much as she can now. Zhou Ting has worked so hard to conquer the empire, and she should do the logistics so that the soldiers don't have a hard time; she should really worry about making the people in the conquered territories live a better life.

It is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to keep the country.

"Who's outside?" Considering the person who was fast asleep, Mingyi lowered his voice, trying not to disturb him.

A secret guard came in and bowed.

"I have met the young lady. What do you want me to do for you?"

"Please move a small table over for me, and bring me some pens, ink, paper, and inkstone. I need them."

The secret guard said in a deep voice: "Yes, I will bring it to you right away."

After the secret guard turned and left, she glanced at Zhou Ting who was still sleeping and was not woken up by her, and she felt slightly relieved.

It seems that he is very tired, otherwise, he wouldn't wake up even with such a loud noise.

moment.

The secret guard brought a small table with writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone on it and placed the small table in front of it.

"Young lady, please see if there is anything you have missed, and I will go get it."

Mingyi glanced at the things on the table and shook his head, "Very good, please help me grind the ink."

The secret guard glanced at his master on the bed, whose hand was still tightly held, and gladly accepted the order, grinding half an inkstone for her use.

After grinding enough, Mingyi sent people to wait outside. She held a brush and wrote down the plan to appease the people on a clean paper.

In the future, she hopes that the Northwest Army will be respected by the people wherever they go.

If you want to gain the people's heartfelt respect, it is not enough to just fight, you need to make some changes in your thoughts and actions.

Nowadays, people are only concerned about defending their country, and too few people care about the people.

First, the Northwest Army had to formulate some new military regulations. Second, grain production needed to be increased, and the people were encouraged to learn skills and work hard to get rich.

In ancient times, people's craftsmanship was passed down from generation to generation and was kept secret. Once an apprentice became a disciple, he had to treat his master as his own father and be filial to him as long as he stayed in this industry. Few people could truly learn the real skills, which made the craft particularly precious.


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