It's hard to be a good person, but it's even harder to be a good person.
If you meet a person who is about to starve to death, if you give him a steamed bun, he will be grateful to you and even spread the word for you, so that people who are about to starve to death later will come to you, or ask you for it when they meet you.
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You can give one, two, three, but what about one group? Two groups? Three groups?
You can give them once, twice, but three times? Five times? Ten times?
Moreover, not everyone who is about to starve to death in this world is a good person, and not everyone who receives charity from you will treat you as a good person. They may also treat you as a scapegoat and constantly ask for things from you. You have to
If you don’t give, or if you give less, it’s all your fault…
It’s hard to be a good person. They also pity the people in the city. They also want to give the people in the city food so that they will not starve to death. However, there are too many poor people in the world. Their abilities are limited. They can only help the people in this city.
, but it can’t help the whole of Beichen.
Beichen's problem is not that the people in this city have no food, nor is it that the city Nan Jinzhao attacked has no food, but...
There is no food in the whole Beichen.
Beichen is not suitable for growing food, and the annual harvest is pitifully small. Ordinary people in Beichen have almost no possibility of having enough to eat. However, they still had some food in previous years, and they could also find ways to exchange some food with Tianqi and Tianwu.
However, as Nan Jinzhao launched a war and the four countries fell into a melee, Tianqi and Tianwu stopped selling food to Beichen.
Fighting requires a large amount of food and grass, which Tianqi and Tianwu themselves do not have enough, and even if they have enough food, they will not sell it to Beichen during the war.
Who knows, after they sold the grain to Beichen, whether Beichen's people ate it or Beichen's army ate it.
If Beichen's army is fed, isn't it helping his opponent to raise his army?
How stupid are they to raise each other's army to be fat and strong?
Tianqi, if Tianwu does not sell grain to Beichen, Beichen's food will be even more nervous. With limited food, the princes will naturally give priority to the needs of the army.
To them, if ordinary people starve to death, they starve to death, but if the army starves to death, Beichen is doomed.
Beichen's food was given priority to the soldiers, and very little of it reached the hands of the people of Beichen. Then, Beichen Tianque led troops to attack Tianwu and requisitioned a batch of food to ensure that the army could fight, and the people of Beichen suffered even more.
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Under such circumstances, Nan Jinzhao came to take away the first floor. The people of Beichen had almost no way to survive, and many places began to... exchange their children for food.
Indeed, the people of Beichen are miserable, innocent, and pitiful, but no matter how miserable or innocent they are, they can't save the whole of Beichen!
You know, the people of Tianqi are not much better.
Before the prince and the princess came back, and before the princess provided a large amount of seeds and food, thousands or tens of thousands of innocent people would starve to death every day.
Now, although their apocalypse is stable and no one will starve to death as long as they are within the jurisdiction of the prince and princess, their food stock is still insufficient.
Under such circumstances, they could only barely guarantee their food needs, so what could they do to rescue Beichen?
The most important thing is that they rescued Beichen. Will the people of Beichen be grateful to them?
Maybe, some people will, but it is not ruled out that they will curse their mothers after eating their food and putting down their bowls.
After all, they are not from Beichen. Even if the outside world spreads rumors that their prince is the prince of Beichen, but...
Their prince did not admit it!
So what if I admit it?
After admitting it, the people in Beichen may surrender, but there is another possibility, and that is...
Because their prince is the prince of Beichen, the people of Beichen will demand more and more from their prince. They will ask their prince to give preferential treatment to the people of Beichen and take care of them. Because their prince is the prince of Beichen, it is not the right thing to take care of the people of Beichen.
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Their prince is the prince of Beichen. If he is not good to the people of Beichen, why should he be good to the people of Tianqi?
Their prince is the prince of Beichen!
The status of Prince Beichen is a convenience but it is also a shackle. With this convenience, it will be smooth for them to take over Beichen's territory, but they will also carry the burden of Beichen.
"I finally understand why His Highness Beichen was so straightforward and gave us most of the country. The people of Beichen are simply a huge burden. Whoever carries it will be dragged to death." We need to get food.
Feeding this group of people can drag down the country's finances to death.
If the country’s financial resources are insufficient, how to develop the military? How to develop commerce? How to develop education?
His Highness Beichen is simply "well-intentioned".
"It's useless for us to discuss this here. In my opinion, it's better to write to the prince first and ask him to make a decision. As for the people of Beichen, we can't ignore it. The food we brought is enough. How about... first
Receive food per person, one liter per person, and let them estimate how much they can eat for three days. It is also a good opportunity to get acquainted with everyone in the city and pick out spies and suspicious people."
One of the lieutenants suggested, and the rest thought about it and agreed.
No matter how much they say now, it is useless. Most of the people in Beichen have not eaten for several days, relying on tree bark and leaves for support. No matter how cold-blooded they are, they cannot really let the people of this city go.
die.
Once the decision was made, it was implemented quickly. The people in the city received the prince's army and wanted to distribute food to them. They all cried with joy and rushed around, telling all their relatives and friends. They also lined up obediently at the request of the soldiers, one by one.
One is waiting to come forward to receive food.
One liter of rice is not much, and an adult can eat it in one day. It is indeed a little less to eat three ounces, but at least this liter of rice can prevent people from starving to death.
Many people were very satisfied, but some were angry and felt that this liter of rice was too little.
"Why do you people in Tianqi have enough to eat every day, but we only give you one liter of rice in three days? What's the use of one liter of rice? We haven't eaten for many days. If you give us such a small amount of rice, are you going to starve us to death?
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"That's right, that's right. If you don't give us food, you won't give us food. Why do you pretend to give us a liter of rice? Doesn't this treat us like beggars?"
"I saw it, I saw you brought a lot of food. With so much food, you only gave us one liter. You black-hearted people, why are you so bad? Do you people from Tianqi want to starve us to death?"
"Isn't King Yanbei our prince of Beichen? Why do you treat us like this? The people of Tianqi can eat as much as they want, but we only eat one liter of rice in three days."
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Someone started, and more and more people were dissatisfied. Just as the soldiers thought, the people of Beichen were not satisfied. After receiving this "charity", they wanted more...(