The deafening loud noise temporarily silenced everyone. The people breathed hot air and glared at Zhang Yanling fiercely, like wild beasts about to charge up and bite him.
Once this person hurts any of the people, or if anyone gets inspired, the next scene will definitely be a riot and chaos.
Zhang Yanling held up a blazing gun and shouted loudly: "Calm down, everyone. I am Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang of the Ming Dynasty. I said, I will save you. In the whole city of Beijing, I, Zhang Yanling, am the only one willing to come out to save you. However,
, you are actually treating us like this. Look, that is a whole bag of rice. How many people can survive if it is made into porridge and rice? You just waste it like this. Do you know that this bag of rice is worth so much in the capital now?
How much money? How many lives were saved?"
The people were speechless and felt a little ashamed.
Zhang Yanling said loudly: "I know you are hungry and cold now, but what's the use of your robbing and making noise? Even if these things are given to you, it won't solve the problem. Once it is discovered that you are so unruly and robbing and causing chaos, there will be no consequences.
People will come to save you again, do you understand?"
The people looked ashamed. This Lord Zhang was telling the truth. After such a commotion, who would dare to come?
"Listen to me. If you want to have a full belly and survive, you must obey orders and obey the rules. If you don't obey the rules, no one will care about you. If you freeze to death and starve to death, no one will care about you. From now on, whoever fails to obey the rules will not be punished.
If you have trouble with us, you will have trouble with all the people. Anyone who does not listen to the advice is a black sheep. I suggest that you throw the troublemakers into the moat, because they are hurting you to lose your life and hurting your success.
When I go to the rescue, I want to kill your parents, wives, children, and brothers. That is killing people and cutting off your livelihood. Do you understand?"
Zhang Yanling's words were extremely inflammatory and successfully diverted the conflict. The people immediately began to blame the victims who rushed to grab supplies. They blamed them for not obeying the rules and would kill everyone. Some people even started gearing up to prepare.
The ones who robbed the most fiercely and screamed the loudest were caught and thrown into the river.
Seeing the anger of the people, the victims who were looting did not dare to mess around again, so they had to stop and retreat one after another.
Zhang Yanling seized the opportunity and said loudly to the people around him: "Why are you still standing there? Xiu'er, brother Yuan Cheng, and Lao Huang, why don't you unload the truck quickly and immediately light a fire to make porridge, so that the villagers can eat hot porridge to warm themselves up first?"
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Axiu and others hurriedly agreed loudly and immediately started to take action.
Hundreds of people started working together, quickly pulling up the tarp and setting up the porridge shed. Dozens of large pots were lined up on the snow. After the firewood was burned, the flames rose, and bags of rice were opened and poured into the pots.
Start cooking in medium.
The people did not retreat too far. They watched the white rice being put into the pot. Soon the water in the pot began to boil, and the aroma of porridge and rice wafted out, and everyone's emotions slowly calmed down. At this time,
What's more tempting than eating a bowl of porridge and rice? Everyone's eyes are attracted by those steaming hot pots.
"Everyone line up and come one by one. The old, young, women and children have priority. The rest go behind. Don't worry about you. How many trucks of food are there? It's enough to eat. After eating, we will pull it out from the city.
.Everyone line up." Axiu, Xing'er and others began to maintain order and let the people line up.
The people now became obedient and queued up as required. Some people even spontaneously organized themselves to maintain order and yelled at the young and strong people who tried to jump in line.
Zhang Yanling was never idle. After the porridge and rice were cooked, and seeing that the people's emotions had stabilized, Zhang Yanling ordered everyone to carry down the materials and prepare to build a tent. Behind the porridge tent, a flat and open snowfield was chosen as the camp.
, ordered people to drive the cart filled with materials there. Xu Gao, a member of the Ministry of Industry, personally demonstrated, and soon a simple triangular straw shed made of three moso bamboos was built.
This kind of straw shed is extremely simple to build. Three pieces of moso bamboo or wood are tied at one end with straw ropes, and then after one of them is flipped over and held tight, it can easily stand on the snow to become a stable triangular support. Just surround it by surrounding it.
The top is a straw curtain, and the bottom is covered with loose snow, and a shack is completed. After the ice and snow inside are shoveled away, a meadow can be spread to shelter from the wind. Although simple, this kind of shack is quick to build and saves materials.
, very efficient. More importantly, it can block the wind and cold.
In order to speed up efficiency, Zhang Yanling divided the people into several groups and divided them into numbered camps on the snow. Starting from Camp No. 1, shanty towns were built in sequence. Passages and activity areas were reserved in the middle to make the people's lives as comfortable as possible.
In less than half an hour, hundreds of thatched huts were already standing neatly on the side of the river bank, gradually taking shape.
At noon, with the arrival of manpower and materials organized by Xu Yande and Zhu Lin, the construction speed accelerated rapidly, and the area of shanty towns became larger and larger. After all the materials were used up, more than 300 triangular shanty towns were built.
At the porridge shed, dozens of pots of hot porridge have already been distributed. People lined up to serve the porridge, and then squatted in the snow to eat it. After eating the hot porridge, they immediately felt physically and psychologically.
settled down.
What they were most panicked about before was that no one cared about them to save them. In desperation, they naturally acted agitated and lost their minds. Once they had food and drink, and when their bodies were warm and there was food in their stomachs, their emotions stabilized and they returned to the appearance of simple people.
Some people even started to help build shacks, help carry things, and help maintain order.
Zhang Yanling took Huang Si and more than a dozen people to register and let the victims who had eaten porridge enter the tents one after another to rest. They were resettled and adjusted based on the standard of five people in each shanty as a family unit. Although it was a bit crowded,
At this time, having a place to shelter from the wind and snow is no longer a problem.
People entered and stayed in the tents one after another. An hour later, almost all the seven or eight hundred victims who had been in a mess had moved in. The entire city outside the gate of Nancheng became unusually quiet and peaceful, which was completely different from the previous messy situation.
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On the city tower, Zhong Zhong, who had been paying attention to the situation outside the city, sneered at all this. Although he was surprised that Zhang Yanling was well prepared and well organized. He quickly built so many shanties to accommodate the victims, calmed the emotions of the victims, and achieved success.
A huge success. But he knew that this was just the beginning. A large number of victims were coming around the city, and Zhang Yanling would soon be in a situation that he could not cope with. The peace in front of him was only temporary.
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Outside the city gate, Zhang Yanling was sitting in the porridge shed to rest. After running and running for a long time, she was indeed a little tired. As the victims were almost resettled, Zhang Yanling took Xu Gao, a foreigner from the Ministry of Works, to drink some hot water.
Rest.
Xu Gao also worked hard for a long time, and sweat appeared on his forehead. This man did not do things cunningly, and although he did not talk much, he did things diligently. Compared with other officials in the imperial court, he was a practical person.
Axiu poured tea for the two of them and placed it on the small wooden table next to the stove, letting them sit by the stove to warm themselves up.
Xu Gao took a sip of hot tea and sighed comfortably.