Tongtong stood in the back garden and dug down with a small shovel. This land was deliberately not watered, so even after digging for half a foot, there was no moisture at all. Winter wheat seeds were scattered here, and now the wheat seedlings are all wilted.
Well, it may be confiscated.
This autumn - there will be drought! This winter, there will definitely be drought.
What will happen next spring is hard to predict now!
Tongtong then sent someone: "Invite the fifth princess."
Xiaowu came very quickly, "I've been very busy recently. The cabinet issued an order to check the disaster preparedness food in various places. The capital is fully stocked, and reports from other places are arriving one after another. My table can hardly be piled up.
Already."
Tongtong said, "Not only do we need to check the disaster preparedness food, but we also need to continue to increase the amount of disaster preparedness food. In places without drought, add half of the original amount."
Such a large amount!
"Be prepared!"
What is this disaster preparedness food? Every village has to collect all the wild vegetables that can be eaten in the fields. Regardless of whether they are old, bitter, or what, as long as they are edible, they must be picked up, blanched and dried.
Dry.
This is easy and easy. You can even pick it out from the pigweed. After picking it out, wash it, scald it in water, and dry it in the woodshed.
After drying in the shade, the family either pays 20 kilograms or 30 kilograms and delivers it to the female official in the village. The village then organizes people to send it to the county. There are special people in the county who can process these dried vegetables under high pressure.
suppress.
It is usually pressed into the size of a green brick. It is not just dried vegetables, but must be filled with wheat bran and brown rice. In addition, it is mixed with a certain amount of salt and fishmeal. Fishmeal is fish caught along the coast and rivers.
, a certain amount must be dried every year. After drying, it is ground into powder, and a certain amount is added to each piece of grain preparation.
If there is too much fishmeal, use more. If there is less fishmeal, use less.
Things like locusts were collected, dried and ground into powder, and the imperial court spent money to buy them. Anyone who had a lot of dried vegetables could exchange them with the imperial court for salt for household use.
Therefore, I have relied on this method to prepare disaster food supplies in recent years.
Of course this stuff doesn't taste good, but it can definitely save people's lives.
Moreover, no one is willing to eat this thing even if there is nothing we can do about it. Therefore, in the past few years, during the transportation of this thing, I have never heard of it being lost along the way.
This is because Tongtong really couldn't make taro mud bricks, but he made this thing. After the thing is pressed, it is as hard as a brick and can really kill someone.
People are really going to starve to death at the end of the day. According to the ration ratio, a piece of famine grain is enough for one person for two days. The village is divided according to the population. This piece of famine grain is boiled in a pot with water, and it can be cooked.
Half a pot. Or smashed and boiled a little at a time. One piece is enough for one person to eat for two days.
Tongtong and Fourth Master have tried this thing themselves. It is particularly unpalatable, but it makes them full. Although they are not resistant to digestion and will easily get hungry after doing a little work, this kind of hunger is a level of hunger that is acceptable to ordinary people. Carrying one
It was almost time for dinner, which was actually not bad.
Of course, there is also a special disaster preparedness food, which is cheese.
If there are children under five years old or elderly people over seventy years old at home, they should have a daily quota of cheese.
Therefore, in these years, the trade with the Liao Kingdom and medicines in exchange for cheese were all used to prepare for disasters.
Daily disaster preparedness is a common understanding among Dachen people. In the first year, there were still people who fooled around and mixed things with mud.
Just do it, no one will care. As a result, your home was hit by a disaster, and you will understand when you eat it. Don’t fool anyone with this kind of thing, who knows who’s mouth will end up handing it in? It’s not guaranteed that it will go around in a circle
It's back again? Therefore, 99% of it is good. But what if you encounter that naughty one? Anyway, it's nothing more than sand, as long as it doesn't kill anyone.
But because the imperial court paid great attention to it, they were indeed very afraid of causing disaster.
Therefore, many people also have food in their homes. As long as there are extra dry vegetables, take them to the county for processing. Press and suppress the assembly. The loach and eel in the field are dried and turned into powder, which is to dry two pheasants into meat.
If it's dry, add some salt, fry and grind the corn into powder, mix it together and press it. If the conditions are good, there will be more grain. If the conditions are not good, a brick and a handful of grain will do. This is at least better than the court's.
Eat it! Moreover, it is very durable and will not go bad for two or three years.
After pressing it, take it home, seal it in a jar, seal it with plant ash, smear it with yellow mud, and then cover it with a stone slab or wooden board. If you don't leave it for three to five years, it will be fine forever.
Rich people save food, and poor people can survive famines by saving food like this.
The imperial court added another part. In the past few years, there have been disasters either here or there. There have never been any reports of people starving to death. This is the result!
It's one thing for the court to pay attention to it, but it's another thing for the people to pay attention to it too.
We have to teach the people how to survive the famine! Everyone participated in the court's disaster preparedness food, so we can prepare it ourselves! Just be more diligent, even if there is no matching food and salt, get more medicinal materials and wild vegetables,
You can also exchange them for part of them. Isn't it a disaster preparedness food if you put them together?
The imperial court did not allocate it in time, and every family was prepared.
Anyway, the awareness of preparing for disasters is up and down.
Even so, Tongtong asked Xiaowu to increase the amount, keep it, don’t panic.
Xiao Wu agreed, "The disaster preparedness food in autumn is much more unpalatable than the food in spring."
That’s right! The wild vegetables in autumn are all old and bitter. In spring, when they are still tender, their natural taste is different. But this year’s autumn and winter are dry, who knows what will happen next spring?
Be prepared!
After everything was said, Xiao Wu stood up and said, "I have to go! I'm really busy."
Get busy! I'll take you out.
They had all reached the door, and Xiao Wu suddenly stopped. He twitched the corners of his mouth a few times as he wanted to say something, but in the end he had no words. He waved to Tongtong and left.
Tongtong stood still and watched Xiao Wu leave.
Liu Yun whispered: "Master Xiao impeached a female official again!"
Why this time?
"Several female officials were sued by their mothers-in-law to the Yamen, saying they were unfilial." Liu Yun said, "There are all kinds of rumors outside. For female officials who have acted unfilially, they are criticized more than praised."
Tongtong nodded and said nothing more.
Whether you are truly unfilial or falsely unfilial, this is actually normal. In any group, there is inevitably a mixture of good and bad.
Tongtong asked: "Prefect or Su Youji?"
Yes! The prefect of the capital is still Su Youji.
Tongtong turned around and walked back. Su Youji was recommended by King Zhao when he was supervising the Ministry of Personnel. He has been in office for almost six years now. Ordinarily, he will be transferred soon.
Liu Yun asked: "Do you want me to inquire about it?"
No need! Everyone should perform their duties.
Tongtong went back to the house and took Chengping with him. He had to go see the queen.
Cheng Pingai went to the Queen's side, and as soon as he passed by, he called out: "Grandma—Grandma—"
The queen's eyebrows and eyes were filled with smiles, "Taiping is here..."
Yes! He said yes, and raised his little hand to stuff the Queen with preserved fruits. The Queen ate it with the child's hand, "Why are some of these preserved apricots salty?"
Cheng Ping chuckled and secretly told the queen: "...Mother... didn't give me food... she stole it..."
Your mother didn't give it to you, so you stole it and gave it to your grandmother?
OK!
"Why are we so annoying?" The queen held the child in her arms and then sat on the couch, beckoning to Tongtong: "If you are busy, please put Chou'er down for me."
Tongtong went over, "Mainly because I'm afraid of disturbing you. This guy's temperament is not as quiet as his brother's, he can be very noisy."
Where is the trouble? Every child has his own temperament.
While they were talking, Guo Daosheng hurried in and said, "Empress, concubine, go to the study and start a fight."
The Queen didn't take it seriously. What kind of fight could a few three- and five-year-old children have? What's so strange about brothers and sisters fighting? "Little Four and Little Five are still fighting now?" Is it worth making a fuss about?
No, "It was Concubine Gao and Concubine Xiao who were fighting at the door of the upper study room."
Concubine Xiao was originally concubine Xiao. She was promoted from concubine to concubine last year. The reason was that concubine Xiao had a serious illness last year, and her energy and spirit were all gone. The illness at that time... was probably caused by anger. She was in the palace
Here, the three children don't really listen to her, the son-in-law is rarely seen, and there are only two daughters-in-law.
But the two daughters-in-law are teething more than the other.
Normally, she would deliberately dote on Mrs. Xiao and pick on Zheng Yuanniang's faults. Depending on their origins, one is an orphan and the other's father is a cabinet minister. There is no comparison.
Once or twice, Zheng Yuanniang didn't take it seriously. But many times, Zheng Yuanniang couldn't tolerate her. She said bluntly: "Back then, you favored the prince and chilled the hearts of the fifth emperor brother. Now, if you go against the fifth brother sister, you may not come back warm."
The fifth brother’s heart may lose the prince’s heart.”
This is also true!
The fifth child is not even close to his mother. How sincere is his daughter-in-law to you, your mother-in-law?
On the contrary, if you keep picking the wife of the boss, your son will have no objection to you after a long time?
At that time, Xiao Bi said that she felt uncomfortable. She was in menopause again, and her mood suddenly became extremely low. She didn't think about food and food, and she had no energy at all. This was because she wanted to die!
Zheng Yuanniang turned pale and felt a little scared in her heart.
The Queen took pity on Zheng Yuanniang and said to Xiao Concubine: "You say you are angry with the child, but what is the truth? Or are you angry with me and the Holy One?"
No! No! I really felt that it was boring.
The queen said: "Okay! You are really tormenting yourself, but you can't live with a really noisy child. Dalang divorced because of this, what do you want to do by making such a fuss? Let's divorce again.
Leave for once?"
Concubine Xiao was so wronged that she pulled the queen's sleeve and cried, "Mother, what's the point of living a lifetime?"
"You have many children and grandchildren, but you are still boring! Then don't I have no need to live? Otherwise, you live and I die?"
I told you that’s not what I meant?!
The wife and concubine have been together for decades, and neither of them is a cruel person. Why can't they have a romantic relationship? Can they really watch her die?
The queen said, "Live! Don't be a concubine anymore. Let's become a concubine." She and Gao continued to pinch her. After pinching her, her waist no longer hurt, her legs no longer hurt, and her whole body felt strong.
But no matter how vigorous they are, they haven't seen them take action in these decades. They are already old ladies, so why do they take action?
The queen and Tongtong hurried over, and sure enough, they saw that their hairpins were flying. You pulled my hair, and I grabbed your collar. You pinched me, and I kicked you.
As ugly as it is.
There were people watching the fun nearby, and there were a row of little carrot heads sitting on the steps.
Everyone blinked their eyes, looking very happy.
No one else dared to go over and force them to separate. The gentleman who went to the study didn't even dare to come out and was hiding inside. Tongtong then walked over and grabbed one hand with one hand: "Concubine, could it be that you are trying to grab the osmanthus candy for me?"
A fight started?"
Concubine Gao's embroidered shoes fell off. She covered her hair with one hand and pointed at Concubine Xiao: "Ask her, what did she say?"
What did I say? Concubine Xiao said angrily: "I said there are so many children, but the Xiaowu family is missing! What? Is that wrong?"
Concubine Gao said angrily: "What did you say? With both eyebrows raised, aren't you just laughing at Xiao Wu? Why are you laughing at Xiao Wu? If Xiao Wu doesn't get married, he will be inferior to others?"
The conscience of heaven and earth has no such intention. If Xiaosi was as capable as Xiaowu, I would laugh so hard! Concubine Xiao cried out her grievances: "Mother, if I had this intention, I would be struck by lightning from the sky. When I look back, I will be struck by lightning."
A sore will never heal in your lifetime." After saying that, he said to Concubine Gao: "Who despises Xiao Wu? I think you despise Xiao Wu the most. If you don't think so in your heart, are you too worried about it? Ask the world,
Who dares to laugh at Xiao Wu? You are the only one who is a mother... You wish you were a man. No one can even mention Xiao Wu. They will burst into flames when they mention you. What are you thinking in your heart to think of others?
What……"
Concubine Gao's face was red and her ears were red, and she cried loudly: "Mother, I am a stupid talker, you have to make the decision for me!"
Shut up, everyone! Don’t you think it’s embarrassing?
The Queen turned around and left, "Follow me."
Tongtong wanted to laugh, so she turned around to scare a row of carrot heads, "Why don't you hurry up and go to school."
Cheng Ding stood up and urged others: "It's time for class... hurry in..."
Then he stood at the door and looked at Ugly No. 1, Ugly No. 2, Ugly No. 3... they went in one after another, and then he handed over to his mother and turned around to leave.
Tongtong then chased the queen and her entourage to Qianyuan Palace.
In the Qianyuan Palace, Concubine Xiao and Concubine Gao were kneeling. The queen was angry: "What are you doing in the study?"
The grandchildren were at school, and I wanted to go over and bring some snacks to the children, but I didn't want to go in. I just asked the people below to bring them in to the husband, and gave them something to eat while the children were resting.
I also thought that I might see children playing at the door, just take a look.
Who knew the two of them would meet.
Then he didn't respond after a few words, and no one was going to tolerate it, so he just took action.
Concubine Xiao thought that Mrs. Gao was too sensitive, "Xiaowu is living so well! Who in the world doesn't know about the fifth princess? Why should Xiaosi, a loser, compare with Xiaowu?"
Concubine Gao was so angry that she said, "Since your grandson is in your arms, you can certainly say that! But what about Xiao Wu? What does Xiao Wu have?"
Concubine Xiao almost laughed angrily: "What else do you want to call Xiao Wu? Don't go too far, you mother-in-law. If not, let's switch, give you Xiao Si and give me Xiao Wu! I don't dislike Xiao Wu.
Five don’t get married.”
Concubine Gao rolled her eyes: She was talking nonsense.
She choked and said, "Mother, you have to take care of Xiaowu! She can't be alone like this anymore." After that, she looked at Tongtong again: "Chu Heng, you and Silang have to take care of it! Don't always point fingers at Xiaowu.
Live, don’t call Xiao Wu a married woman!”
With Xiao Wuyi having a lawsuit on his forehead, how can he still find time to have a biological child?
The queen was too lazy to speak, "Either, go back to the palace to make military shoes; or go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables to prepare food for disaster preparedness. Choose one of the two, choose one."
They all got up and went to make military shoes.
After the people left, the queen laughed: "It's shameful to be embarrassed! You can cry and laugh, and your life will not be dull anymore. Otherwise, you really have to keep your filial piety."
It depends on what you said!
Regarding whether Xiao Wu was getting married, the Queen didn't say a word.
But then, with the conflict between Xiaowu and the Xiao family as the trigger, party strife seemed to emerge.
First, the Xiao family impeached female officials, thinking that these female officials were not morally good! The mother-in-law sued them to the Yamen, saying that they were disobedient and unfilial.
Because this matter involves family matters and is a matter between the female family members.
Xiaowu found Su Youji and communicated the matter with him. Kunbu has an internal investigation agency. Xiaowu believes that after the internal investigation, Kunbu will mediate. If the mediation is ineffective, the Yamen will be asked to make a decision.
This is where the two yamen overlap.
Su Youji did not refute at that time, and the case was always investigated but never tried.
Kunbu was very quick. After investigating, he suggested a "harmony" at that time. He asked the mother-in-law to understand the hard work of the daughter-in-law working outside, and asked the daughter-in-law to fulfill her duties as a daughter-in-law as much as possible.
No one wins and no one loses!
But there is no win or loss. In the eyes of many people, the mother-in-law loses!
Doesn’t this mean that the mother-in-law is inconsiderate of her daughter-in-law?
Isn’t this an excuse for my daughter-in-law?
I dare to ask, my daughter-in-law has disobeyed her to the point of suing the official, so has she been punished?
No!
After Kunbu gave such an answer to this case, public opinion outside was already boiling. Then came the news that one of the mother-in-laws hanged herself after she went home - she was dead!
Is this okay? Public opinion among the people instantly rose to a higher level.
And one question about this matter is, in the handling of this matter, is there any suspicion of covering up internal personnel in Kunbu's handling of this matter?
For example, the mother-in-law who died was really "abused". This "abuse" is not beating, nor depriving her of food, nor keeping the old man in the cold. This kind of abuse can be said to be mental abuse.
The daughter-in-law here has a bad temper, and whenever she is at home, she scolds her! Either she criticizes the old man, or she calls the man a coward.
Someone testified at the Yamen: "When the old lady heard her daughter-in-law yelling, she was so frightened that she shivered. After the lady from the Kun department left, the daughter-in-law was still scolding the old hen at home, saying, 'You old thing, you are so stupid.
I miss you every day to eat, or drink... I can't do anything, and there are still a lot of things to do... I'll chop you up and put you in the pot! You're barking at me? What's your name? It's a dog and it's okay
What about looking after the house? Who do you think you are?'"
Many neighbors came to testify that this daughter-in-law did one thing before and another behind the scenes, and was not a good person.
Su Youji sentenced her on the spot. It was true that her daughter-in-law was unfilial, forced her mother-in-law to death, and rebelled against a prisoner.
Xiaowu had to admit that it was Kunbu's problem. Kunbu had problems in handling this matter.
However, indirect death and intentional homicide should not be sentenced the same way! Isn’t it excessive to use this method to sentence someone to death by beheading?
In her self-defense, she also stated that the conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law accumulated from daily conflicts and eventually led to negative consequences, and whether there should be some consideration in sentencing.
As soon as this discount was added, it stirred up a hornet's nest.
The civil servants, ceremonial officials, and Yushitai headed by Xiao Yun aimed their artillery fire at the Kun tribe and carried out indiscriminate bombardments.
Officials headed by cabinet minister Gao Yuanying targeted Su Youji, believing that Su Youji had neglected his duties in handling this incident.
Su Youji was single-handedly promoted by the eldest prince, and because of his relationship with the eldest prince, he became a prosperous prefect of the capital. The eldest prince was the son of Concubine Xiao and was of the same clan as Xiao Yun. The Xiao Wu was the son of Concubine Gao.
, Gao Yuanying is the uncle of the Gao family who has not yet appeared in the fifth server!
