Tang Dynasty: Nine-year-old County Grandpa

After a busy day, the smell of steamed bread wafted around the entire county government.

One by one, the refugees grabbed the hot white steamed buns in their hands and nibbled them one by one, tears of happiness flowed from the corners of their eyes.

"Nier, if you hold on for another month, you won't have to starve

to death!"

"My poor little son, I starved to death the day before yesterday, how good it would be to hold on for two more days, woo woo woo ......" "

That's it, don't talk about these greedy things, Lord Chu has just arrived today, and he has solved our problem of eating." "

Yes, Lord Chu is simply our recreated

parents!" "

Parents official, worthy of being parents officials!" The

people who took steamed buns to solve their hunger looked in the direction of the county government with a grateful face.

And Chu Jie himself, with Chen Xiu and Zhanzhao in a lot of thoughts, stood in the attic of the county office, looking at the crowd downstairs.

"Alas, I haven't been in contact with them before, and I still think it's not a big deal, but now that I see them up close, I understand that this is human life, a living human life!" Chen

Xiu said with a look of embarrassment.

"Hehe, so although a county magistrate is a seventh-grade official, once he is lazy, he can kill thousands of people. "

How many did they starve to death?" asked

Chu Jie's young face with an expression of reluctance to listen.

"When I first came last year, there were 210,000 people, but now it is estimated that there are only 140,000

......" "

Among the 70,000 people, some of them should have escaped...... Chen

Xiu said with an uncomfortable look on his face.

"The last magistrate of the county is really special

!" "But in the end, most of the pots here are in the imperial court!"

Chu

Jie said hatefully.

"My lord, be cautious, how can the affairs of the court be discussed by one of our county officials?"

Chen Xiu's expression suddenly changed greatly.

"Okay, there are no outsiders here, and the Tubo people have met all of them with their food

?" "Who caused this kind of thing?"

Chu Jie asked.

"I'm all satisfied, and when I came to ask for food for the second time this year, they also said that they couldn't get used to eating wheat, and asked us to give them mutton

......" "My lord, here is the specific situation, you can take a look......"

When Chen Xiu said, his face turned ugly, and he took out a scroll from last year's locust plague.

Chu Jie opened it and immediately laughed angrily.

Their own people starved to death in thousands of places, and then the aliens wanted to come to the rescue, and they didn't want coarse grains, but meat!

What was even more embarrassing was that in the end, the imperial court really sold a large amount of grain from the state treasury in exchange for dried meat and sent it over, so that the government had no food and could not resist the price of grain raised by those profiteers.

Coupled with the mistake of spring ploughing, the Ministry of Rites is equivalent to killing at least 300,000 people this time.

And that's just Guanzhong, Jizhou and Youzhou.

Counting Shandong, there must be as many as 400,000 people.

And Chu Jie saved the part that should have been starved to death by mistake for spring ploughing.

As for the 70,000 refugees, who are less numerous, they will not go away if they think about it on their knees, but they will starve to death.

What's even more infuriating is that the DPRK and China also announced that half a month later, another wave of Tibetan envoys came to ask for help.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty Mansion will have another heavy hemorrhage.

What contributed to all this was the Ministry of Rites, which desperately knelt down and licked aliens for the sake of the so-called peaceful achievements, and the Taixue Academy, which was engaged in the ancient version of Baizuo for the sake of the so-called reputation of benevolence.

"Dou Lukuan, damn it!" "

University scholar Xue Shu, also deserve to die

!" "Tomorrow morning, I want to go to court!"

Chu

Jie said with some anger.

"My lord

, this ......" "

Don't be impulsive, this Chang'an County under your nose is without you, they are dead!"

Chen Xiu said in shock.

Zhan Zhao next to him also showed a trace of worry.

"Hahaha, you just have to go through the process and let me go to the court, if the court tears me up, I can't play, I won't be the county official.

Chu Jie laughed coldly.

"My lord, if you want to participate in the court meeting, it will be too late tomorrow, at least half a month.

Chen Xiu said with some embarrassment.

"You don't care about this, just do it.

Chu Jie stopped talking nonsense, put down a sentence as if he had made up his mind, and immediately walked down the attic and came to everyone.

"My lord is out

!" "My lord, thank you!" "

Yes, I gave us white noodles, and when we were at home, we couldn't eat

it during the New Year!" "My lord, this time it really helped us celebrate the New Year!"

The

people suddenly burst into gratitude.

"Hahaha, folks, are you all full?"

Chu Jie asked with a relaxed smile.

That appearance is full of power, and people believe that Chu Jie has more than this bit of food when they see it.

"I'm full

, my lord!" "My lord, but I want to pay

for my work?"

"If my lord has any task, just give my orders, and we will swear to do the instructions given by my lord

!" "That's right, we can already start work at any time!"

The

people immediately responded.

"Very good, now everyone goes to the Seongnam mine, and the official will send someone to guide you.

"Everybody goes, men, women, young and old.

"After I went, those who helped with the work were given five catties of grain a day, and those who had no work arrangement for the time being were given one catty of grain a day.

"The elderly and children, the same pound a day. "

Let's get out of the city first!" Chu

Jie ordered.

"Okay

, let's go!" "Okay, let's go, let's go!"

These

well-fed and well-fed people did not dare to slack off on Chu Jie's order, and turned around and left one after another.

At this time, Chen Xiu ran next to Chu Jie again.

"My lord, what do you want them to mine?

"And how many people do you want to mine, and what do other people do, you have to tell the lowly office, and the lowly position can organize them."

Chen Xiu said.

"Very well, you will have all the strong men of them, half of them for the mining, half for the dredging, and the women and the old and weak for breaking up the coals. As he

spoke, Chu Jie asked someone to bring a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and drew the appearance of the briquettes in later generations.

"You asked the carpenter to prepare a large number of molds like this, and then mixed three parts of coal and seven points of yellow mud together, and then put them into the mold, dried them for three days, and then they were formed, can you do it?"

Chu Jie asked while writing and drawing.

Chen Xiubi respectfully picked up the things drawn by Chu Jie and found that it was extremely simple.

"I can do it, but it's like this...... Mud cake, what's the use?"

Chen Xiu scratched his head and asked.

"Leave this alone, call a blacksmith to come and see me, and you can take care of the rest first.

"By the way, all the refugees who can carpenter and blacksmith, you can resettle all of them for me.

"The official will need them in about three days, and the official has given you a lot of things, so you have to do all of them and don't miss them."

Chu Jie didn't want to explain, so he directly continued to issue his orders.