A Lucky Wife Born Again From a Farm Family

Chapter 63: Initial stability

When several families heard that someone was rebelling outside, they were very scared. They were all honest farmers. Even though they suffered a lot because of fleeing famine, they never thought of rebelling.

"Why is this chaos happening? What can we do?" The third grandma's hands are shaking. She has lived her whole life, but she doesn't want to encounter such a thing when she is old. She will be scared and worried about her daughter. The family will encounter rebels on their way out.

“It should have been chaos a long time ago.” Qin Erlang sneered: “The emperor did not provide disaster relief. Officials in various states along the way only wanted to protect themselves and blocked the victims outside the city. Such a court should have..."

"Erlang, shut up. Is this allowed to be said?!" Mr. Qin scolded Qin Erlang and refused to let him continue. If he said anything, it would be a serious crime of beheading.

 Qin Erlang had an angry look on his face, obviously unconvinced, but he did not continue to scold him after all.

Gu Jinli also thinks that the emperor of the Chu Dynasty is very strange. This year is the sixth year of Jingyuan of the Chu Dynasty. This emperor has only been on the throne for six years, but he has governed the Chu Dynasty to the point where the people have no life.

This Emperor Jingyuan was only the third emperor of the Great Chu Dynasty. He should have grown up under the strict education of the founding emperor. He had not even washed the dirt off his legs. He should love the people like his own son, so he would not be so stupid. That's right.

 But Emperor Jingyuan was so stupid that he brought the great Chu Dynasty into a state of turmoil.

Gu Jinli didn't know that the reason why Emperor Jingyuan didn't go all out to provide disaster relief was because he wanted to take the opportunity to replace all the generals of the northwest frontier army with his own people, but he was too eager, and the northwest frontier army obeyed the orders of Duke Wei, which led to the trouble now. , he only beheaded Wei Guogong's family, but did not include the northwest frontier army. Not only did the northwest frontier army become a mess, but also caused widespread resentment among the people, and rebel armies appeared in various places.

"Brother Qin, have you heard about how the government plans to resettle us? Have you talked about opening warehouses for disaster relief or allowing us to settle down?" No matter what is going on outside, the third grandfather only cares about their resettlement: "These are all It’s almost Chinese New Year, it’s freezing cold, the government won’t let us go to Jiangnan, and we are trapped here, we must give an explanation.”

Qin Sanlang shook his head: "There is no news that the government will resettle the victims in the city."

Mr. Qin comforted the third grandfather: "Don't worry, brother. The officials are most afraid of the rebellion of the victims and dare not not resettle them. Let's wait for a few more days. Before the Yamen seals the New Year, the government will definitely give us an explanation."

It's no longer enough to not give an explanation. There are too many victims, tens of thousands of them. If so many victims are not resettled or allowed to continue to move south, something will definitely happen.

Mr. Qin’s guess was correct. Two days later, a group of guards wearing armor, holding spears, and swords across their waists escorted a scribe from the government office to the outskirts.

The clerk was quite young, looking like he was only in his twenties. As soon as he arrived at the thatched hut in the suburbs, he asked the government servants to ring the gong to lead the victims out.

After all the victims came out, the scribe took out a scroll of documents and read aloud, but what he read was the official elegant language. Many victims could not understand it, and they all asked the scribe: "Sir, what are you reciting?" ?”

The clerk paused and repeated the contents of the document in vernacular: "The imperial court is kind and the magistrate has been ordered to open warehouses for disaster relief. From tomorrow onwards, all victims of the disaster can rely on their household registration to go to the city gate to receive food and keep out the cold. clothing."

When the victims heard this, they were stunned for a while and cheered loudly. They finally waited until the government opened warehouses to provide disaster relief.

However, some victims lost their household registrations on the way to escape the famine. At this time, they were very worried and asked the scribe: "Sir, if...if you don't have a household registration, can you receive food and clothing?"

The clerk shook his head: "No, those without household registration are all refugees and are not included in the government's disaster relief." When those victims who lost their household registration heard this, they immediately cried out: "Oh, the government is trying to force us to death. , we finally hope that the government will provide disaster relief, why don’t they save us? Why don’t they save us?!”

There were many victims who had lost their household registrations. Seeing that the government did not have a share in providing disaster relief, they all quit and cried for an explanation from the scribe.

The scribe, who had never seen such a battle, was so frightened that his feet weakened. The team of guards hurriedly surrounded him, pointed their spears at the victims, and shouted: "Everyone retreat, anyone who dares to cause trouble will be killed without mercy!"

The victims were all ordinary people, and they were very afraid of the officers and soldiers. When they saw those dazzling spears, they were all too frightened to move forward. They just wiped their tears and cried bitterly.

This clerk was a good person. When he saw the victims crying so miserably, he revealed a piece of news to them: "The prefect knows your difficulties. The prefect and the tongzhi are discussing. People who do not have household registration can just go to the prime minister." Anyone you know can jointly sign as a guarantee, and if you are sure that you are not a runaway slave or a fugitive, you can use money to apply for a new household registration."

When the victims heard this, their eyes lit up, but when they heard that they needed money to register, their faces became sad again: "Sir, how much money do you need to register for a new household? We fled all the way, but we didn't have any money left."

Even if they had money before, they would have used it to buy food, water, salt, and clothing to keep out the cold. Now, only a handful of families still have money left.

The scribe said: "Several adults are still in the discussion stage. I don't know how much money is needed to register a new household registration."

 At the end of the previous dynasty, there were fightings in various places, and many household registrations were in chaos. After the establishment of the Chu Dynasty, the management of household registrations was extremely strict. There were laws that clearly stipulated that those without household registrations would be sentenced to be refugees and could buy and sell at will.

There are too many disaster victims now. It is already a great grace for the prefect to allow the victims to use money to buy new household registrations. These victims can just be content.

The scribe was afraid that the victims would get excited and hurt themselves, so after saying this, he immediately left with the government officials and guards.

With this order, it can be said that some people are happy and some are sad. The victims with household registration are naturally happy and waiting to go to the city gate early tomorrow morning to receive relief supplies.

Those victims who did not have household registration cried in their arms. After crying, they hurriedly found acquaintances to co-sign as guarantees, and then collected money from everywhere.

But the victims are all poor, how can money be so easy to collect?

Yachang of Fucheng had already sent people Yazi to keep an eye on this group of victims in the suburbs. When he saw that the victims were worried about money, they immediately approached the victims and asked for money to buy their children.

The victims had no choice but to sell their sons and daughters. In less than one afternoon, Renyazi bought many girls and half-grown children, all at extremely low prices.

Gu Dashan and Mrs. Cui saw those families selling their sons and daughters, and they were very happy that Gu Jinli saved the life of the young master of Qi Mansion and got the reward from the young master of Qi Mansion. Otherwise, their family would not know how to survive.

The third grandma saw so many people selling their children and even said it was a sin. However, she didn’t have much money left at home. She couldn’t help others if she wanted to, so she could only take care of herself.

 Qin Guluotian's family members all had household registrations. Early the next morning, the men from each family took a boy of their own to the city gate to collect food and cold-weather clothing.

 (End of this chapter)