Cui Renshi hesitated for a long time as to how much food could be raised at least, and in the end he did not give a specific number!
This is not because he is stingy, he even refuses to take out some food.
In fact, this year's situation is completely different from before.
Severe cold! Floods! And the imperial court’s vague intention to send troops to Goguryeo!
It has already frightened the people of Luoyang City, who had just settled down a few years ago, to the point of terror! They were afraid that if they did anything wrong, they would repeat the mistakes of the Sui Dynasty and fall into chaos again.
And in this time of panic, compared to the pearls, jade, gold and silver that cannot be eaten when hungry and cannot be drunk when thirsty.
Only food is the foundation of a family and a city!
Only when there is food at home can we not panic!
Therefore, even though the emperor repeatedly asked nearby counties and counties to rush to the disaster area in his newspaper, in the end, the results were still very few!
Just imagine, a big city like Luoyang only has five thousand shi of food! Other poorer prefectures and counties naturally have even less.
Looking at Master Cui Ren, whose face was a little hot, Xiao Han did not take the opportunity to open his mouth as others thought! Instead, he sighed deeply, turned around and said to the silent people in Luoyang:
"I also know that in this lean time, no matter which people or families, all regard food as their lifeblood!
But now these grains are not given to the court, let alone me! They are used to save lives! Save the lives of our own compatriots!
I think everyone can imagine that once the river bursts, the downstream will immediately be flooded!
Those people who lost their homes and relatives due to floods now don’t even have food to eat! In some places, they have even begun to chew turf, gnaw tree bark, and feed on Guanyin soil. Can we just sit back and ignore such a tragic situation? "
"What is Guanyin...woohoo!"
Before Xiao Han finished speaking, someone in the corner asked a question, but the voice soon turned into a suppressed whine.
"Shut up!"
On the mat, the elders of the Sun family widened their eyes with anger, and covered the young master of the Sun family's mouth with a pair of big hands. The force was so strong that the poor young master of the Sun family rolled his eyes!
"What is Guanyin Soil?" Xiao Han heard the voice and glanced indifferently towards the Sun family, and replied without any emotion: "Guanyin Soil is clay! Anyone who eats this stuff will have his belly ripped to death.
It burst! In the end, the intestines were pierced and the belly rotted and he died!"
"hiss……"
After hearing this, everyone in Luoyang who had been silent finally had some reaction.
Everyone's face showed a little bit of unbearable color, but they were still hesitant, and no one was the first to stand up!
Xiao Han also saw the appearance of everyone and knew that they were not stubborn and hard-hearted!
But between family and morality, they can only choose family!
Xiao Han doesn't blame them for this, after all, this is human nature.
Such virtuous behaviors as cutting meat to serve an eagle or cutting meat to feed a tiger can only be accomplished by Bodhisattvas and Buddhas!
Even if he is himself, to put it bluntly, isn't he similar to those common people? At most, he can be regarded as an ordinary person with a conscience!
On weekdays, if you encounter injustice, you will step on it; if you encounter someone who is suffering, you will help!
But this kind of help is also based on what we can do!
If someone lets him starve his wife and children and gives the last bite of food to others, then he will be known as a gentleman.
There is no doubt that Xiao Han will definitely pick up the knife on the spot and fight this bastard to the death!
"Actually, you don't need to take food so seriously! Because we in the Tang Dynasty still have food!"
After quietly looking around at everyone, Xiao Han took a deep breath and slowly told the news that he had prepared for a long time.
"What?!"
Everyone who was still uneasy just now was stunned when they heard Xiao Han's words! It took them a while to react, and they all opened their eyes wide and looked at Xiao Han.
"Where is the food?"
Master Cui Ren asked anxiously!
When Xiao Han saw this, he just smiled and said nothing, pointing to the direction.
"You mean, Jiangnan?!" Cui Renshi glanced in the direction of Xiao Han's finger. When he found the direction of Jiangnan he was pointing to, he quickly froze like a deflated rubber ball.
Yes, Jiangnan is a prosperous land!
But the problem is, judging from the news from a year ago, we know that Jiangnan has also suffered a disaster this year! Isn't it as difficult for them to bring out food at this time as it is for them to get food from Luoyang City?
"Who said I was referring to Jiangnan?" Seeing Cui Renshi's discouraged look, Xiao Han smiled slightly and asked everyone: "You have all heard of three-season rice, right?"
"Of course I know! It's because of this rice seed in the south of the Yangtze River that there is more food! However, there is no hope this year. If it can be ripe for one season, God will bless it!" Someone in the crowd replied dejectedly.
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Xiao Han didn't pay attention to this person's discouraging words, and continued to smile and asked: "Then do you know where these three-season rice comes from?"
"this……"
The man who answered was speechless, but an old man next to him hurriedly cupped his hands as if offering a treasure and said, "I heard that you, Marquis Xiao, sent someone to retrieve this rice seed from the Linyi Kingdom in the extreme south!"
"That's right!" Xiao Han nodded to this person, making this person's old face burst into laughter, and his smile immediately turned into a flower!
"This kind of rice seed comes from the Linyi Kingdom in the south! And in Linyi, this kind of grain can be harvested not only three times a year, but even seven times every two years, and four times a year!"
"Could it be..."
Someone present understood what Xiao Han meant, and their eyes suddenly brightened!
"That's right!" Xiao Han straightened his chest and said loudly: "I, the Tang Dynasty Navy, have already protected countless merchant ships and set out from Guangzhou to Linyi to buy food. I believe it won't take long to send the food back! By then,
Food will naturally no longer be a problem!”
"ah……"
"Going to Linyi Country to buy food?"
"It's so far away, can it be reliable?"
“What if they don’t sell?”
After everyone present heard the news, they were stunned for a long time. When they came to their senses, they immediately started talking like a pot exploding!
Yes, since Linyi has this kind of miraculous rice, how much grain do they have to put in their granaries? Why don't we just go and buy theirs?
But there is one thing that is hard to say: will they be willing to sell us grain?
"Not for sale?!"
And while everyone in Luoyang was talking about it, Liu Hongji, who had been drinking quietly since just now, slapped the mat in front of him hard!
"How dare they not sell it? Do you think our Datang navy went there just to watch the fun?!"
