Qi Yushan's matter is a big deal in the village, but for Qi Bao'er, just hearing gossip is no longer a trivial matter. She still does what she should do every day.
Today I went to the back mountain to see the progress of Wuying Army's training, and I will drag two wild boars back tomorrow.
"Good boy, it's a wild boar again!!" Can you change it to a pheasant or a hare?
Old man Qi has also become swollen. Now that he sees the wild boar, he no longer has any desire to eat it. Some of him just want to be evil~~
The wild boar has a foul smell and the meat is bad. In the past, when there was no meat at home, it was a good thing. But now, he was distracted. When he saw the wild boar, he had the urge to run away.
"Sir, go and ask Mr. Kaishan to come and take out one of the wild boars and give it to the villagers."
"This one is good, this one is good. By the way, where's the other one?" Don't they have to have a wild boar feast for three days in a row?
Qi Bao'er looked at Master's "Don't mess with me" expression and laughed, "Master, isn't our family already in the braised pork business? The meat won't go bad if left out in this weather, so I'm afraid
Can’t sell it?”
No matter how you stir-fry wild boar, it still smells bad, but the heavy marinade can suppress that smell.
Speaking of braised pork, old man Qi thought of another thing. Fortunately, he did not forget Zhengzhen. He first called a boy to inform Zhengzheng about the wild boar, and then he took his granddaughter to sit in the nearest bamboo forest.
"Hey, dear, didn't we take the big order from Mr. Wu? The news spread. Just when you were going up the mountain, a man who claimed to be Manager Yang came to our house and said he wanted to order five thousand kilograms of bacon.
The kind that can be shipped south."
He approached mysteriously: "When I looked at him, I could tell he was a soldier."
Qi Bao'er didn't quite understand what her father meant, "Master, if someone orders it, I'll do it for you."
No matter if he is a soldier or not, we are just doing business.
Old man Qi rubbed his face worriedly, "Didn't we already submit the recipe? I heard from Butler Qi that the emperor has asked the imperial court to build bacon shops in each major city. To be honest, there isn't much bacon.
It’s a difficult thing to build a workshop. If the imperial court comes to build it, it shouldn’t be slow. Why is there still someone here to decide?”
Also transport it to the south. Aren’t there ready-made bacon shops in the south?
Is he worried about business issues? Is he worried about whether something is involved that shouldn't be involved?
For example, a private army or something like that is scary to think about.
It turns out that because of this, Qi Baoer crossed his legs and straightened his expression, "Master, don't feel uncomfortable hearing what I'm going to say later."
The granddaughter's face was so solemn that Old Qi's heart skipped a beat, and his back straightened unconsciously.
"you say."
"Drought in the north and floods in the south are not just words, sir.
The drought in the north is better. There have been several moderate rains in many places in the north a while ago. It has not completely solved the drought, but at least it has moistened most of the land in the north. This year, food can be grown. Now many places in the north have rains.
Refugees around the country have already returned or are preparing to return home.
The floods in the south have never been resolved. Not only have many cities and villages that were destroyed by floods now turned into puddles, and corpses soaked in the water cannot be disposed of in time, there are also plagues in many places in the south.
There has always been grain storage in Qilin Kingdom, but since last year the grain storage warehouse has been inaccessible. The eldest princess told me privately that there is not much grain left in the grain storage warehouse. If the various regions fail to pay the grain tax this year,
Next year we have to buy food from other countries."
If you start buying grain from other countries, you are showing weakness to other countries. Notwithstanding the high price, people may not be willing to sell it.
Instead, it gave other countries the opportunity to take advantage of the Qilin Kingdom's weaknesses.
Speaking of this, Qi Bao'er scratched his face in embarrassment, "Master, I told the emperor about sweet potatoes and potatoes. These can be grown for at least two seasons a year, and they are still enough. They can be grown in many places in the north.
Those ones."
Her father also wanted to earn a fortune by growing these.
Old man Qi was still shocked by the seriousness of the disaster in the south, and he didn't even listen to what Qi Baoer said next.
"My dear, is it still so serious in the south now?"
"Well, His Royal Highness did not return to Beijing during the Chinese New Year just because of the unstable disaster situation in the south."
The person mentioned by Qi Baoer is currently trapped in Lingnan City.
Lingnan City is located on the southernmost border of Qilin Kingdom. A hundred miles away from Lingnan is the border between the two countries, and the guarding army is stationed here.
In a dilapidated house in the corner of Lingnan City, a man in ragged clothes, with disheveled hair and a pitch-black face ran in and went straight to the corner where the only person was lying.
"Master, the city has been sealed. Vice General Sun personally brought his people to the sealed city. No entry or exit is allowed."
The person sitting on the straw mat and half leaning against the wall was an acquaintance. If Qi Baoer saw it, he would only ask: Why does this girl always make herself so embarrassed?
Jun Chenyuan looks a little better than Zhichen, at least he won't be included in the Beggar Clan at first sight.
Wearing civilian linen clothes, his face was pale and bloodless, and he coughed from time to time.
"How is the situation outside now?"
"At least six to seven out of ten people in the city have been infected with the plague. All the people gathered outside the government office. Fortunately, Vice General Sun and his soldiers protected the government officials. Otherwise, it would be a matter of time before a riot broke out."
Lingnan has a vast territory and is suitable for planting and watering. However, because it is located on a border with high risks, not many people voluntarily come to live here even if the land is good.
Naturally, the imperial court was unwilling to give up this land that produced high grain yields, and the people were not willing to come, not to mention the refugees and military households who were implicated and exiled!
Therefore, the population of Lingnan is extremely large. There are nearly one million people in Lingnan as a whole. There are more than 300,000 people in Lingnan City alone.
However, since the outbreak of the plague, in less than seven days, more than 300,000 people have plummeted to less than 130,000.
In less than seven days, more than half of the people died, which is horrifying to hear.
But it was just bad luck that Jun Chenyuan and Chen Yi would be trapped here and cause such misery.
As the disaster in the south became more serious and refugees began to flee their hometown, the emperor was worried about the prince who was in the Zhennan army and issued three imperial edicts ordering him to return to Beijing.
On his way back to Beijing, Jun Chenyuan saw the tragic situation of the people affected by the disaster, the misery of the refugees struggling on the edge of life and death, and even the officials who sucked the bones and blood of the people.
After the people were affected by disasters, the court would regularly distribute relief food, but some officials who were supposed to petition for the people had lost their conscience and even had the guts to swallow the relief food privately.
As the prince of the current dynasty, Jun Chenyuan could not bear to see this happen, so he was not in a hurry to return to Beijing and began to go around to check the actual situation of the earthquake disaster.
If we want to find out the actual situation, we can't put on airs, we have to do it quietly.
Prince, that is the red dot in the center of the target. Once his whereabouts are exposed, it will attract batches of killers like a magnet.
The time he appeared in front of Qi Baoer and the others was because he was being chased, and the time he appeared in front of Lingnan was also because he was being chased.
A plague broke out in Lingnan, and Jun Chenyuan happened to be infected with typhoid fever.
What's even more unlucky is that Chen Yi just went out to ask for a doctor for Jun Chenyuan. Not only did he get the news that all the doctors in the city had been gathered into the government office by the prefect, he also witnessed with his own eyes the moment when the city was closed!!!