The price of rice in Qingzhou has skyrocketed, which finally attracted local officials to control, so that the price of rice was maintained at a suitable price. It's just that more people came to Qingzhou City. They were businessmen before, then they went to relatives, and later, they became begging people in ragged clothes.
The number of beggars on the streets of Qingzhou suddenly increased.
At the beginning, when Ning Lang saw the children begging, Ning Lang felt a little unbearable and bought steamed buns for them, but after that, more and more people came. I got a headache.
He asked Yang Zhen, and found a ruined temple in Qingzhou City to take in those beggars, and the bandits who went to study in the school often came over and wandered around, worrying that someone would come up with the idea of these beggars.
And Ning Lang also got a lot of news from these beggars.
"Yao City is in chaos now, rice is too expensive, everything is expensive, and everyone can't afford rice." A beggar said: "My parents sold me for rice, there are several people in our family, those rice I can eat it for a long time. But I escaped, and I don't know what happened to my parents. "
"My family is poor, and they starved to death on the way to Qingzhou."
"Qingzhou City University, I heard that rice is also cheap, so we came here."
Ning Lang felt heavy.
Naturally, the matter of Yaocheng did not reach the capital. The emperor ordered to send people to bring rice and grain to relieve the disaster, but Yaocheng was farther than Qingzhou, and it took a lot of time on the road.
Chu Fei had made preparations long ago, but this was a natural disaster. Even if he knew in advance, he could not make any changes. He could only reserve more rice grains and transferred grains from some wealthy Jiangnan regions early. But the city of Yao is short of water, so good luck with rice and grain, but bad luck with water.
Gradually, there were many more ragged adults in Qingzhou City, and there were people blocking every well in Qingzhou City, and every Qingzhou citizen became nervous, and they dared not waste a shred of water.
Ning Lang became more and more worried.
Yang Zhen comforted him: "We have already prepared, and His Royal Highness An Wang has also given us a lot of things. Think about it, if there is nothing, it will only be worse than now, and now the price of rice in Yaocheng is also controlled. Stay, you can rest assured, as long as it rains in the sky."
"But these days, it hasn't rained in the sky." Ning Lang said worriedly, "It rained a few times before, but it didn't last long. The last rain was many days ago, and I don't know if it will rain. When is it, looking at the weather, it doesn't seem like it will rain these days. That aside, more and more people come to Qingzhou."
"I know, I'm watching. If someone really wants to take the opportunity to make a bad idea, I won't let them go."
These days, the mountain bandits have all come down the mountain. They are all tall, and they also fight wild animals on the mountain on weekdays. A disaster victim from Yaocheng wanted to occupy a well, but they found it first and stopped the riot first.
The city gate could not be closed, and it was impossible to stop people from coming in, so the bandits wandered around the city, and when they saw something was wrong, they rushed over to block it. Even in the school, now there are only children left, and all the bandits who studied enlightenment in it have come out to protect Qingzhou City together.
Under Ning Lang's worries, Yang Zhen made preparations. They sent people to watch the city gate every day, until one day, a large group of ragged people went from Yao City to outside Qingzhou City.