List of strange talismans

Chapter 44 I Can Help You

"Old people, children and women can go to the forest at the foot of the mountains to take refuge, and the flood will not reach that far, enough to ensure safety."

"People with limited mobility can be sent to high places such as city walls and roofs by relatives and friends."

"The same is true for food, books, wooden utensils and other property items that are difficult to take away. The highest flood level is only three meters. Beyond this height, as long as the building is stable enough, it is safe."

"Also. Clerk Childe."

Childe obviously did not expect that Gu Xiuya would know his name, and he was stunned for a moment before he realized it.

"I am here, Your Excellency."

He crossed the crowd and bowed to Gu Xiuya.

Gu Xiuya nodded: "The warehouse where the grain is stored is too low, and the flood will wash away all the grain."

"I hope you can organize your manpower as soon as possible and seize the time to protect the grain reserves in Galanz Town. This will be the most important material for post-disaster reconstruction."

"Okay, I'll go home first, and then..."

Childe replied subconsciously, halfway through the sentence, he suddenly understood the meaning, and his eyes widened for a moment: "You, what do you mean?"

He was tempted to say that it was the food of the church and the king.

But now is obviously not the time to say such things.

Gu Xiuya could tell what he was thinking at a glance.

The Baixing country's grain reserve policy is carried out in the form of a commission in good harvest years.According to the average per mu yield of various crops defined by the Congress, 70% of the excess tax will be taken as a strategic material reserve, and it will be settled every two years for war consumption.

As for disaster relief?

That has to be unified scheduling.

——No town has the right to use the grain reserves without permission.This is the regulation written into the Act.

According to the representatives of the Congress: Once such powers are delegated, whenever there is a minor disaster in various places, they will open warehouses to release food. Will we still have food to prepare for war when the enemy comes?

Gu Xiuya didn't want to comment on whether this overly centralized policy was correct or not, he just stated his reasons.

"Flooding can cause huge economic losses. Mr. Clerk, not everyone is as well-fed as you are."

He pointed to the people around him: "Most people here are farmers, and their source of food is farming. After the flood, the pouring water will wash away most of the crops. This will lead to a significant reduction in grain production that year. If you don't open warehouses Give them food, they won't be able to survive this winter."

"But that's the food of kings and churches."

In the crowd, Sachter whispered timidly.

Many people echoed his words.

"Stealing food reserves is a felony."

"The king will kill us."

Some people refuted it.

"Fart, that's the food grown by me!"

"Yes! The food in the warehouse is handed over by us. Now that we are in trouble, can't we still eat it?"

The crowd quickly started a fierce quarrel about this, and even forced Childe to express his opinion.

Childe felt dizzy for a while, and he didn't want to be beaten to death by excited people just because of a single sentence.

He tentatively asked Gu Xiuya, "Your Excellency, may I ask the mayor for instructions on this matter?"

"of course."

Gu Xiuya nodded: "But you have to remember one thing, Childe."

"You say."

"Our Lady of Shuntian is protecting me."

Childe was stunned briefly.

He originally thought that Gu Xiuya wanted to remind him that he should choose to stand in a team, or he just told himself what to say when he saw Matthews.

As a result, the other party actually came up with such a sentence. I don't know the so-called words.

Our Lady of Shuntian protects you and me. Could it be that His protection can make Matthews take the initiative to take the initiative and open the warehouse to release food?

Thinking of this, Childe couldn't help but feel that although the young man in front of him was somewhat miraculous, he was not mature enough.

You're oversimplifying things, boy.

He thought so.

Childe was a smart man.

He contacted Gu Xiuya's series of actions after he appeared, and he already understood that the other party wanted to take advantage of this disaster to do something.

Maybe founding a sect, maybe vying for the mayorship, maybe something else.

Otherwise, the other party doesn't need to spend a lot of effort to win people's hearts.

But all this was too hasty, so hasty that it was full of flaws.

Not to mention, Matthews and his mayor's escort would not let the granary be moved.

The Baixing Kingdom in the 18th century was still in the system of aristocratic enfeoffment, but the difference was that this system was double restrained by the Kingdom Act and the will of the church.Therefore, the rights of nobles are much less than hundreds of years ago.

But it is the few remaining rights that are still high above, enough to make Matthews despise the lives of civilians.

It doesn't matter to Matthews that many or even hundreds of people die.But if the food is lost, he will be the mayor of the town.

Matthews won't let that happen.

Childe thought about it in his mind, but nodded without saying anything, and told a dozen or so farmers to turn around and leave.

"Go home too, pack your things, and let the old people and children go out of the city."

Gu Xiuya spoke to others.

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, without moving.

"Leaving the city after nine o'clock requires a warrant from the mayor."

Belt explained next to him.

"It's okay, just do as I say."

Gu Xiuya turned around, looked out the window at the location of the mayor's mansion at the end of the road, and said calmly, "Our Lady of Shuntian will protect you and me."

Bert was a little helpless.

He didn't know why Gu Xiuya didn't seem to care about Matthews at all.

"Do as he says."

At this time, Ma En, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke for Gu Xiuya.

"No matter what, going out of the city temporarily is the best way to avoid the flood. If Matthews disagrees, I will negotiate with him."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately set off one after another.

The crowd gradually dispersed, Gu Xiuya nodded towards Ma En: "Thank you."

"I'm just doing what I have to do."

Man said expressionlessly.

He looked at Gu Xiuya and asked the question that he wanted to know the most: "Can you tell me why the heavenly father punished us?"

"God didn't give me the answer."

Gu Xiuya said: "But I have a guess."

"What guess?"

Mann asked.

Gu Xiuya glanced at him: "Do you think Heavenly Father will be particularly concerned about Galanz, a small place like this?"

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"I don't think so."

Gu Xiuya said lightly: "As a god, he may not be as magnanimous and merciful as in the legend. But he will never be so bored as to pay attention to a small place of hundreds of people all the time, and devote himself to finding out your mistakes, and then return Punishment must be lowered."

"If that's the case, he must be in a panic."

Ma En was annoyed by Gu Xiuya's disrespectful words: "...what are you trying to say?"

Gu Xiuya smiled, stretched out his hand to signal to Angelet's family to relax, and then said to Ma En: "Perhaps, the one who punished you is not the Heavenly Father, but His agent. A person who acts out his own desires in the name of God saints."

He pointed to the sky: "Guess what I saw just now? There is a person in the clouds."

Marne's pupils dilated.

"You saw that too?!"

He thought that he was hallucinating due to restlessness, so he didn't care.Hearing Gu Xiuya mention it now, he realized that it was not an illusion.

That's something real!
How can people stand in the sky?

Could it be... a legendary saint?

Legend has it that certain believers who are loved by the gods will sometimes receive gifts from the heavens and enjoy the mighty power of the gods.

Such people are called angels, or saints.

Ma En never thought that the legendary person recorded in the Holy Scriptures would appear in his life one day.

What made him even more incomprehensible was why the saints would bring disasters to Galanz.

He looked at Gu Xiuya in surprise: "You"

"I believe that the benevolent heavenly father will not send such severe punishments. It must be the saint who caused all this. It is he who distorted the oracle without authorization, brought Galanz suffering, and made you ashamed in front of the heavenly father."

Gu Xiuya directly characterized this matter and described it as what Ma En most wanted to believe.

He looked at Ma En: "he persecuted you with his personal desires, don't you want to take revenge on him?"

"I"

"I can help you. As long as you dare to fight him." Gu Xiuya said.

Marne opened his mouth, but made no sound.

He suddenly felt that the young man in front of him was a lunatic.

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