bookrebus Chapter 411 Spring Sowing
Chapter 411 Spring Sowing
"So much food is being sent out of the city. When will the poor people in our city be able to get their share of food?"
"I haven't heard that the common people in the city will also share food?"
"What do you mean, are the people in our city not human beings?"
As soon as these words were spoken, there was a whisper among the crowd. Who wouldn't want free food? But now it was only given to people outside the city and not to those inside, so naturally they were unwilling to do so.
Before the first batch of grain was shipped out of the city, many people in the city gathered at the gate of the yamen and asked the officials inside the yamen why they had no grain.
More and more people gathered at the gate of the yamen, and some even picked up stones and threw them at the gate.
Once someone took the lead, others immediately followed suit and smashed the gate of the yamen with stones.
The gate that was tightly closed just now suddenly opened, and a group of yamen runners ran out from the yamen with sticks. Without saying a word, they rushed into the crowd with sticks and beat anyone who held a stone.
The crowd that was denouncing the protests instantly became a mess, with wailing sounds that continued.
After the crowd dispersed, a notice was posted at the gate of the government office, stating that the people in the city who did not have land would not be able to receive free food.
The food distributed this time will only be given to farmers who are about to start spring ploughing.
As soon as this news came out, there was an uproar in the city again.
Some people cursed the Qin Palace behind their backs for being too cold-blooded, and some people cursed the Qin King for being mentally ill for giving all the good food to those poor ghosts.
Some people even called the King of Qin a fool. Ningchuan City had experienced countless masters, but this was the first one to give away food for free.
All kinds of rumors were flying around, but Ye Jintang was not moved at all.
"The rumors in the city are really outrageous. Your Majesty, would you like to send someone to deal with those gossipers?"
"Let them talk if they want."
Ye Jintang, who was calculating the food in his hand, didn't take these rumors to heart at all. In the face of absolute power, words are the most vulnerable.
Lu Zhu came forward and asked with a gossipy look on her face, "My queen, I am also curious, why do you only give wheat to the poor people who grow crops outside the city, and why don't you give a bite of food to those who can't get enough food in the city?"
“Because I am not a Bodhisattva.”
Ye Jintang found it very funny to see Luzhu's gossipy look on her face.
She went on to explain, "Farmers who own farmland need to sow wheat in the spring, which is a physically demanding job. If they have nothing in their stomachs, how can they have the energy to sow wheat?"
"I gave them food so that I could harvest more wheat this summer."
"On the other hand, the people in the city don't have any farmland. How they live depends entirely on their own abilities. I'm not a Bodhisattva, so I don't have that much spare food to give them for free."
Ye Jintang has a conscience, but not much.
She could give 10 kilograms of wheat to everyone in the city for free, but why should she do it?
So those people can make trouble if they want to, but they’d better spend their free time thinking about how to make money and have enough food to eat.
In the past, there were refugees snatching jobs, and it was difficult for people in the city to find work. Now she has unified all the refugees under unified management, and there are many more jobs for ordinary people in the city. If they still can't make a living, she can do nothing about it.
"I hope that farmers can survive this lean spring by eating the wheat given by the Goddess."
Although Lu Zhu was not very old, she knew that spring, when everything came back to life, meant hunger for some ordinary people.
"No problem. The wheat I give you is not ordinary."
Ye Jintang, the producer of Space, is still very confident. Even though the amount per person is only 10 kilograms, even if it cannot have the effect of transforming one's body, it can improve the physical fitness and make farmers feel more relaxed when doing physical labor.
There are many farmers within a radius of 300 miles of Ningchuan City. The farmland here is relatively concentrated and there are many villages.
Almost every day, a large number of horse-drawn carriages transported grain out of the city. At the beginning, some people wondered where the Qin Palace got so much grain.
As time went by, everyone became numb, and no matter how much food was shipped out every day, no one said anything.
Xiao Mo, who originally said he would be away for five days, sent a carrier pigeon message to Ye Jintang two days after he left, saying that he had encountered some problems and was busy, and would probably have to stay out for a few more days.
"I don't know if I met a troublemaker."
Ye Jintang put away the pigeon letter, muttered something, then folded the letter and put it away.
Although Xiao Mo did not explain it clearly in the letter, Ye Jintang could more or less guess that Xiao Mo would take people out as soon as the weather got a little warmer, and most likely they would go to other cities.
Years ago, only Ningchuan City and several surrounding cities were cleared out and were completely under Xiao Mo's control. Other cities that were slightly farther away didn't know about it yet. Hua Cailiang had been beheaded, and now the entire Ningchuan City has changed hands.
Xiao Mo not only brought people to other cities to make his presence felt, he also dispatched a large number of refugees to build roads within Ningchuan Prefecture.
The rugged mountain roads were smoothed and the fallen stones on the roads were cleared away.
"My queen, I heard that the prince sent people to compact the newly built road and then laid a layer of cooked soil on top. My god, Ningchuan Prefecture is so big. If all the roads were paved with cooked soil, how much manpower and material resources would it take?"
"Your Highness is quite clever. Paving the road with cultivated soil may seem troublesome, but it can solve the problem once and for all. After some roads are repaired, grass will not grow for decades, so it is relatively easy to maintain them in the future."
"Generally speaking, a lot of money is invested in road repair every year."
At this point, Ye Jintang thought that in fact, it was not necessary to use only cooked soil when building roads. She had seen a very interesting poison prescription called Metformin in a medical book.
If you sprinkle chlorpyrifos on the soil, no plants will grow in that area, and there will even be no weeds for the next three or four years.
Using chlorpyrifos when maintaining roads is much more convenient than using cultivated soil. At least it does not require a lot of manpower and material resources to fry the soil.
Even if the effect of the medicine has worn off in the later stage, you can still mix the herbicide in water and spread it on the official road, which can also have the effect of killing weeds.
Ye Jintang immediately wrote a carrier pigeon letter to Xiao Mo to tell him about this matter.
So within just two days, Ye Jintang started to grow the medicinal materials for making Methamphetamine on a large scale.
Since the space was upgraded, her efficiency in planting anything in the space has greatly improved.
By the time the people had started their spring sowing, Ye Jintang's herbicide had already been transported out of the city in horse-drawn carts.
"Jintang, I'm back."
Xiao Mo, who had been away for more than ten days, finally came back exhausted. He didn't even have time to take off his armor and rushed into Ye Jintang's house with big strides.
Xiao Mo looked a little haggard as he hadn't shaved his beard for more than ten days.
"What is the prince doing? He didn't even have time to shave."
Ye Jintang was also very happy to see Xiao Mo coming back. She personally stepped forward to help Xiao Mo take off his armor.
"I'm not thinking about getting things done quickly and coming back to see you."
"So is everything alright?"
"It's almost done. Shi Bin will take people to finish the work. From now on, the entire Ningchuan Province will be stable."
"On my way back, I saw some places where wheat was planted early and the seedlings had already sprouted. The green scenery was very attractive."