Lin Tingxuan shouted a few more times, but the people were still running.
He stopped shouting, just found an open space, ordered the soldiers to stop, and then began to set up the stall to prepare Shimi.
He left a thousand soldiers here to provide rice to the people, while the rest of the soldiers went to help rebuild the homes of the people whose houses had collapsed.
After the people of Beiming State ran away, they found that the enemy army was not chasing them at all.
They stopped there, opened bags of white rice, and shouted: "Everyone in the disaster-stricken villagers, whether adults or children, can come to us to receive a cup of rice."
When the people saw the rice, their eyes gleamed!
It rained heavily for so many days, and there was no water everywhere. Houses were washed away, and food was soaked.
They were hiding in high places, digging wild vegetables and eating tree bark to wrap their bellies. They were already very hungry. When they saw the white rice, they couldn't even move their feet!
Day and night, I was looking forward to the imperial court giving rice and porridge, but it never came. Unexpectedly, the enemy soldiers came.
Is it credible
Everyone thought that since the soldiers of Nalan Kingdom launched their own troops to attack the city, they heard that they really did not kill ordinary people.
Of course, this is not what the court preached. It said that the soldiers of Nalan Kingdom were cruel and cruel. When there was no food, they were so hungry that they even ate the flesh of children.
However, some people still escaped from the Nalan soldiers unharmed, so people said that the Nalan army really did not kill ordinary people.
No one had ever delved into whether it was true or false before.
But at this moment, everyone hopes it is true.
A woman with a hungry child couldn't bear to step forward because she would starve to death if she didn't go get the rice!
It’s death no matter what, so what are you afraid of
With this mentality, the woman stepped forward and successfully received a cup of rice for each person.
The woman and the child in her arms received a total of two cups of rice.
The woman burst into tears looking at the white rice!
Although a cup of rice per person is not much, it is enough to make a pot of porridge for a day, so at least you don’t have to starve to death!
Children eat less and are full.
She knelt down with her child in her arms and kowtowed to the soldiers: "Thank you! Thank you!"
The soldier who took the lead in distributing rice said: "You're welcome. Go find clean water to make porridge for the children! Don't starve the children."
The reason why they gave rice instead of porridge was because this area was still the territory of Beiming Kingdom, and it was not convenient for them to light a fire to cook porridge.
Each person was given a cup of rice, which was enough to make several bowls of gruel for everyone to eat for a day.
The woman kowtowed three more times, took the rice and hurried off to make porridge.
Everyone saw that someone had received rice, and the Nalan soldiers did not arrest her.
They were so hungry that they could no longer bear it, and they all stepped forward to receive the rice.
More and more people ran to collect the rice and ran away after receiving it, but the soldiers did not catch them or kill them.
Gradually, those who had run away came back to receive the rice.
... ...
Lin Tingxuan divided into several teams and went to several severely affected villages to provide rescue services.
The news that there were soldiers from the Nalan Kingdom in Shimi outside the city spread quickly!
More and more people affected by the disaster are taking rice.
Officials from Beiming Guoda Prefecture soon heard about this incident.
The officials gathered together to discuss.
"Master Magistrate, the soldiers of Nalan Kingdom have ulterior motives and are trying to win over the people outside the city. Should we send troops to drive them away?"
The magistrate of Dazhou shook his head: "No, there is no decree from the court yet, and we don't have food to provide disaster relief. Since the enemy troops are helping us to provide disaster relief, then let's let them! It can just reduce our burden, right?"
Dazhou Hushu nodded: "The prefect is right, your majesty has just issued an order, ordering us to prepare one hundred thousand stones of military rations for the soldiers. Now we are short of food. There is no food relief at all. Without food relief, there will be refugees. When those refugees flood into the imperial capital and cause turmoil, Your Majesty will definitely punish us for failing to provide disaster relief! The enemy army of Nalan Kingdom did not take the opportunity to attack Dazhou City, but instead used military rations to relieve our people. No matter how you look at this matter, It will be of great benefit to us in Dazhou!"
Dazhou Military Book: "Yes, if we send troops out to drive away the enemy troops who are providing relief at this time, it will arouse public anger. Have we not seen the people who were affected by disasters in the past became hungry and became refugees, causing unrest? Now the enemy The army wants to show its righteousness for the sake of reputation and the people's hearts, so let them go there! It just saves us a lot of trouble! The most important thing for us now is to protect Dazhou City and not be captured by the soldiers of Nalan Kingdom!"
Dazhou Magistrate: "Well, you are right. As long as we keep Dazhou City from being captured by the enemy, no matter how much food those soldiers from Nalan Kingdom come out to rescue our people, it will be in vain! Just imagine, this time The disaster has passed and the people are living a good life again. Who still remembers the small favor of one or two cups of rice? If we send troops to drive them away now, it will anger the people who are in suffering, Nalan The enemy forces of the country take the opportunity to instigate them to rebel! Then we will be in big trouble! So let them go to Shimi and rescue them! Let’s guard the city and don’t pay attention! Otherwise, we will fall into the enemy’s alienation plan!”
"Your Excellency is right. Do we need to report this matter to His Majesty?"
Dazhou Household Secretary: "Why should I report such a trivial matter to Your Majesty?"
If you don't report to Your Majesty, when the disaster is over, he will write another letter, and the credit for the disaster relief will be theirs!
In this way, his position as the household secretary responsible for disaster relief can be mentioned higher.
Dazhou Magistrate: "Although the matter is small, it concerns the enemy country and we still need to report it to Your Majesty. Since the enemy army is using military rations to help our people here, we from Beiming Country can also take the opportunity to send troops to Nalan Country and take us back." The city that was lost before, now the people have been saved and the city has been regained, isn’t that killing two birds with one stone?”
"Your Excellency is wise!"
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Beijing
Ten days had passed when Nalan Jinnian received the news that Beiming State had sent troops to attack the city while their soldiers were providing disaster relief to the people of Dazhou City.
When the news was received, the Seventh Prince happened to be having dinner in Zichen Palace.
He couldn't help but scold directly: "Beiming Kingdom is so shameless! We didn't take the opportunity to add insult to injury, and they actually took the opportunity to attack the city! Seventeenth Uncle Emperor, what should we do next? This disaster relief can't continue! In In my opinion, we should attack Dazhou City directly now! Let’s see how Beiming Kingdom behaves!”
Nalan Jinnian shook his head: "The disaster relief cannot stop, and I have no plans to send troops to attack the city for the time being."
The Seventh Prince was confused: "Why? Are you going to let Beiming Country be so shameless and bully us?"
Nalan Jinnian gave Nuan Nuan a piece of food and said calmly: "Think about why."