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Chapter 545 Xu Pang¡¯s clever plan An Kunshan

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    Early the next morning, the city gate was opened, and sure enough, five more grain ships from Wu Ji arrived, still heavy and full of rice.

    Groups of people saw this scene when they left the city carrying hoes and bamboo baskets.

    Last night there were rumors circulating in the city. Some people said that there was a conflict between the Dongting Chamber of Commerce and the county magistrate and they were not allowed to transport grain into Kunshan.

    But some people said that this was not the case at all. They saw with their own eyes Wu Ji's grain ship sailing into the city last night.  The official also shouted that grain ships would arrive every day from now on.

    "It's just that the government's credibility in refuting the rumors is really insufficient, so people are still unavoidably panicked. It wasn't until they saw Wu Ji's grain ship arriving as promised that the people felt a little at ease.

    After leaving the city, they, under the leadership of their respective village chiefs, came to the embankment section assigned yesterday.

    The section leaders first mobilized them emotionally and focused on the scene where the Buddha appeared!

    The common people liked this the most, and they immediately started to kneel down and worship at Nanshan Temple.

    ¡°This year¡¯s levee will definitely be defended!¡± The section leaders waved their crutches and shouted at the top of their lungs:

    ¡°Young and old gentlemen, follow the stupid Wu Songjiang and fight hard!¡±

    "Fight!" The village chiefs and parents took the lead in responding. Since the people of Kunshan all over the mountains and plains, from both north and south, they all shouted together.

    ¡°Fight it, fight it!¡±

    Second Master Zhao stood at the gate of Nanshan Temple, listening to the shouts from Jiang Tao, and smiled at the two people of the same age beside him:

    "Those who do not use the people are the same as those who have no people. If all people are united, Mount Tai can be moved and rivers can be leveled!"

    ¡°Brother is right.¡± Second General Heng Ha praised: ¡°It¡¯s amazing that we can mobilize the people in just a few days!¡±

    "Oh, haha" Mr. Zhao smiled sheepishly: "Actually, I didn't do anything."

    ¡°Hey, brother is so humble.

    ??~~

    The motivated people, under the command of Chief Duan, strengthened the weak river embankment.

    ¡° Tens of thousands of Kunshan men are densely scattered along the sixty-mile long river embankment.

    They began to dig and load the soil into baskets and transport it up the embankment.  Then go down the embankment to load soil and go up the embankment again!

    ??It started over and over again without stopping, and before I knew it, I was busy until noon.  The levee seems to be really getting taller and thicker.

    Under the embankment, the sound of gongs for dinner was heard.

    The people, who had been hungry for a long time, hurriedly swarmed down the embankment.

    Not far from the river embankment, there is a cooking shack every hundred steps.

    Each shack provides food for one mile of peoplethat is, one hundred and ten people eat. Just cooking requires two large iron pots.

    The people who were cooking were surprised to find that the brown rice that was half dry and half watery yesterday was completely dry today.

    "Ah, how many meters did it accidentally rain?" The farmers couldn't help but be surprised. They were satisfied with yesterday's amount, but today it actually rained two to three hundred meters more than yesterday.

    "The top will give you as much as you can give to the bottom." The head of the village happily said as he was preparing the rice: "It is said that each pot will weigh thirty kilograms, so that everyone will be full and strong enough to work."

    This way I can wipe more oil every day.

    "Great!" Cheers came and went from one shack to another.

    "I didn't expect that I would be able to have a full meal after the disaster." The people chatted excitedly while waiting for the meal.

    ¡°It seems like it¡¯s true that food comes every day, otherwise we wouldn¡¯t dare to make it like this.¡±

    "That's right, there are still rumors that the Dongting Chamber of Commerce will not allow food to enter Kunshan. It's pure nonsense!"

    "Who dares to talk nonsense about me and tear his mouth apart, and dare to pour dirty water on the great master?"

    "That's right, things will be different once the eldest master comes. I think there is hope this year!"

    Just a full meal can boost the morale of the people and sweep away their depression!

    ??~~

    In the county town, next to the dilapidated Huiju Temple, rows of extremely simple shacks stretch all the way to the bank of Zhihe Pond.

    These shacks as far as the eye can see are the Anmin Society in Kunshan County.

    When Gu Dingchen designed the county seat, he considered that the people of Kunnan were suffering from disasters almost every year, so he insisted on expanding the county seat by two or three times, despite all opinions.  He also made an agreement with his elders that apart from a few original buildings in the north of Hetang, no more construction projects or paddy fields could be developed, and only wheat could be grown.

    Because the wheat is harvested before the rainy season, the free space can be used to accommodate the victims of the Kunnan disaster.

    "Gu Zhuangyuan worked hard for his hometown elders. It's no wonder that the Gu family has an unparalleled reputation in Kunshan.

      It is precisely because of the Gu family's persistence.  It took thirty years for the people of Kunnan to have a place to live in the city.

    Otherwise, the people in Kunnan have long been running away every year

    At this time, the men living in Anminshe all went out to work, and the women, children, old and weak who were left behind were not idle either. Under the leadership of the old man in the village, they were weaving baskets, twisting hemp rope and producing consumables for flood control and embankment construction.

    This is also part of the work-for-relief program, so at noon, the government also has to take care of food.

    Of course, the food quota is half that of a strong man.

    So when they were given lunch that was half dry and half watery, half a meter more than yesterday, they were all very happy.

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Being?coupled?with?small?fish,?shrimp?and?green?vegetable?soup,?the?old,?weak,?women?and?children?were?laughing?and?no?one?ever?believed?the?ghost?talk?about?the?city¡¯s?food?shortage?anymore.

    ??~~

    Amid jubilant cheers, Xu Wei and Wu Chengen walked out of Anminshe and got on the boat back to the county government.

    "How about it, do people still believe and spread rumors now?" Xu Wenchang clasped his hands behind his back, feeling proud.

    Wu Chengen stood side by side with him, shook his head and said with a smile: "No way."

    When work gets off in the evening and the news of the increase in work food spreads, naturally no one will believe the lie that food cannot be bought in the county.

    This is naturally the result of Xu Wei's two methods.

    The so-called "Dong Zhuo enters the city" means that when Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang to seize power, because there were too few troops, he moved his troops in through the west gate and out through the north gate.  Then enter the west gate to exaggerate your strength.

    Xu Wei ordered Wu Ji¡¯s grain ships to be divided into two groups, one entering the city and the other leaving the city. The cycle went back and forth every day, creating the illusion that grain ships entered the city every day.

    As for the allusion of "Liu Xiu earns the city", Wu Chengen had never heard of it before.  It was Xu Wei who told him that this was about Emperor Guangwu outsmarting Yancheng.

    At that time, he had besieged the city for a long time and was short of food and grass, making it difficult to survive.

    It was supposed to be time to cut back on food and retreat, but he did the opposite.  The soldiers were ordered to take out all the stored grain and allow the soldiers to eat three meals a day.  As a result, enemy spies mistakenly thought that he had enough food and grass, and sent the news back to the city.  The city guard completely lost the courage to hold on.  The next day they opened the city gates and surrendered.

    Xu Wei asked Wu Chengen to increase the daily allocation of working and food grains by 20 to 30%. The people naturally thought that the county's food supply was sufficient.

    With a two-pronged approach, the rumors will naturally fall apart.

    "Your two doses of strong medicine suppressed the rumors. But the food consumption increased by 30%." Wu Chengen has a cautious temperament, and he is naturally happy to eliminate the rumors, but he will inevitably worry about the consequences of doing so.

    "When the food is gone, the gods will no longer be able to lie, and we will be sinners."

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