Chapter 365: Just start over

Shaanxi in August.

There is a kind of business in the whole country that is so prosperous that it is full of business, that is, the business of selling animals.

The government reported that it was necessary to slaughter 200,000 animals as sheepskin rafts. This was an exciting news. Not only did the large number of victims have a way out, but it also stimulated the livestock transactions in Shaanxi and stimulated the livestock slaughtering industry. Every prefecture and county had to slaughter at least 2,000 people. For a time, sheep and animal purchases were everywhere. The business of selling animals was instantly prosperous, and even those bad melons and dates that were not cared for before were sold were sold out.

There was a person who benefited a lot from this crazy "spending money" incident in the court.

Gao Yingxiang is the leader of horse dealers. He has a team of specialized horse dealers. There are many people who can fight and kill. Otherwise, he would not dare to sell horses or sell horses. He would have to deal with the grassland. If he doesn’t have any real skills on the grassland, it would be unreliable.

Gao Yingxiang has been staying in Yan'an Prefecture all year round. He is very familiar with the situation in northern Shaanxi and even more with the rumors about the "river and lakes". It is said that on July 23, someone in northern Shaanxi will raise a flag to rebel. The whole Shaanxi is preparing to bring fire everywhere. He also has his mind and thinks that maybe he can do something. People in Shaanxi can't survive anymore. They don't want to have some solutions. There is no other way except waiting to die.

But not long after, it was obvious that the wind was wrong. The twenty-three had passed long ago. Even if it was climbing, the news of rebellion should have reached Ansai. Ansai is not far from Fugu.

At the end of July, his livestock business was immediately overwhelmed. The remaining old, weak, sick and disabled people who sold the remaining old, weak, bad melons and bad dates, and no one wanted, especially sheep, were gone in one breath.

The news that came was that the court wanted to slaughter 200,000 animals to save disaster victims. Each prefecture and county needed to slaughter at least 2,000 animals, and it had to be as soon as possible. Recently, they had to sell animals and slaughter animals, especially sheep, which was so good that it was impossible to get worse.

Outside Ansai City, a huge animal slaughterhouse has spontaneously formed. There are too many animals that need to be slaughtered here. In the past, the entire Ansai County town could slaughter a few or dozens of animals every day. Now, it has doubled every day, and the animals are never enough to slaughter. The immigrant officials took the money to buy animals on the spot, especially sheep, without bargaining. After the purchase, they were sent to the slaughterhouse, and were skinned by a special slaughter master, and then they used the wide area outside Ansai City to dry sheepskin feces, preparing to transport disaster victims as sheepskin rafts.

Gao Yingxiang's life has been quite "prosperous" recently. He is famous for his livestock sales business throughout Yan'an Prefecture, so the government must find him. So he personally took charge of Ansai and set up a large slaughterhouse outside the city. He even sent his brothers and disciples to various valleys to catch sheep. Not only this Ansai, but also in other prefectures and counties, all of them were in a hurry. It is said that Xu Bodhisattva, the imperial envoy of the Ministry of Agriculture, ordered that enough sheep should be slaughtered as soon as possible and enough sheepskin feces should be made for leather rafts. Therefore, for a time, sheep everywhere was in a hurry.

Gao Yingxiang planned to slaughter 200,000 animals in the entire Shaanxi Province. In short, he was afraid that there would be more than 20,000 animals in Yan'an Prefecture, and he would account for most of the slaughtered amount of Yan'an Prefecture. Therefore, this time, slaughtering 10,000 animals was not a problem. The price of each animal was different. If a sheep was three taels of silver, it would cost tens of thousands of taels of silver. This was a lot of money.

Gao Yingxiang looked at the disciples who were busy, looked at the lively scene, and looked back at the immigrant officials who "refreshly" spent money to buy livestock. Gao Yingxiang sighed that now a sage emperor who has been rare in a thousand years has been willing to spend money and spend 10 million taels of silver into Shaanxi. This year, with such a severe drought in Shaanxi, almost a harvest, is about to catch fire, and is about to bloom everywhere. Now there is no trace. I have never heard of any news in any place. If there is news, they are just some bandits, bandits, robbers, etc., which are common in Shaanxi and are not considered a big deal.

Gao Yingxiang was thinking about whether to tell his own affairs to his brothers. If he had been in the past, he was very sure. Once there were many disaster victims, he would have taken the victims and grandchildren to carry out tens of thousands of people. It was possible to attack the county town. Even if it was not possible to attack the county town, the officers and soldiers would not dare to chase him. But now, his brothers and grandchildren slaughtered animals one by one, and they were so greasy that they wanted to vomit when they saw the meat. Now they said that, they were afraid that the brothers would not have the intention to rebel.

Many victims heard early in the morning that they could find immigration sites and immigrate to the south. Someone provided food to them, so they could avoid the torture of the natural disaster in Shaanxi. They all took their families downstream. In this year of disaster, there were not many beggars in Ansai County... Thinking of this, Gao Yingxiang didn't know whether to praise the emperor, the court, or the emperor, or the court. He was intentionally trying to rebel, and he had a relationship and had a connection to the uprising. Now, if he is a thief, he could do it.

Yes, if the officers and soldiers really pursued him, he would not be able to escape the crime of rebellion... Gao Yingxiang was irritated again. The officers and soldiers suddenly seemed to have received news last month and began to become alert. They would also close the city gates during the day, and they have only relaxed a little in the past few days. However, it is obvious that there are more soldiers patrolling the city walls, and their weapons are much brighter. Now that the uprising is not a big chance of success, Gao Yingxiang sat in the shade, looking at the busy slaughterhouse, with a row of sheepskin feces, and looking at the tall city walls in the distance, his thoughts and emotions are everywhere.

Yang Jing would never have expected how much impact Xu Guangqi's decision to boldly acquire livestock would have on history. The money spent was finally spent.

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Shaanxi Fugu in August.

Shi Kefa was happy all day long. Originally, news came that the Twenty-Three will be the day of rebellion, but now it is August, and no news of rebellion has been heard. The news he received earlier scared Shi Kefa out of a cold sweat. The Fugu County where he was located was the starting point for the rebellion of the victims. This is not the most critical. The key is that someone is watching to see if the immigrants are powerful, whether there is really food, immigrate if there is food, and rebel if there is no food. This scared Shi Kefa very much and sighed that he insisted on leaving the city that day. Otherwise, the civilians would start in his own Fugu County.

Fugu County is right next to the Yellow River, and opposite is Baodezhou. Immigrants are resettled in an open area outside the city, where many victims have gathered here.

Now the emotions of the victims have reassured Shi Kefa. Originally, the victims were all numb, panicked, and even had deep resentment. Now, their emotions have become much more stable, and the reason is strange.

In the past two days, some people came, saying that they came from the capital and came to Shaanxi for condolences. The emperor sent them. Shi Kefa felt very strange at first. Why did the emperor send a few people to this remote corner of Shaanxi? Singing to those victims? This is strange. Are the victims not hungry after listening to the opera? Shi Kefa felt that the emperor was really naive. He should send food here instead of a few people to sing. However, since it was what the emperor wanted to do, Shi Kefa did not stop him and asked the people from the capital to teach people to sing among the victims.

However, later, Shi Kefa praised the emperor's behavior very much. After these people taught him to sing for a few days, the emotions of the victims changed a lot and became cheerful. In the crowd of victims, there was no longer sighing, numbness and despair, and there was also some laughter.

Shi Kefa stood on the river beach, watching the "choir" people in the capital in the distance arranged for the children to sing, and felt very warm. The audience was the adults of the children, including men, women, old, few, old, old, smiling, and mothers who silently smiled at their children singing.

The people from the "choir" were quite kind, smiling, directing the children to stand in a few rows. The smaller ones were squatting in front, the slightly higher ones stood on the mound, and the higher ones stood on the mound, so there were several rows.

The person from the "choir" smiled and said, "Okay, 'all yesterday's...' is ready to...sing..."

The children had already mastered the songs, and when they heard the orders, they immediately started singing in the tender voice of children.

"All yesterday's... have turned into distant memories..."

"I have spent half my life diligently..., I have entered the storm again tonight..."

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"No matter how hard or difficult it is, you must be strong, just for the look of expectation..."

The singing was together, looking at the mothers and grandpas who were singing, their smiles were still there, but there were tears in their eyes. This was clearly the singing themselves.

"If the heart is there, the dream is there, and there is true love between heaven and earth..."

"Looking at success or failure, life is heroic, it's just starting over..."

After singing here, some of the big men couldn't stand it anymore and sang and hummed with the children. The whole scene was very touching and extremely touching.

When we sang the second time, countless victims of the disaster were already spontaneously singing with the children throughout the river beach.

The scene became spectacular.

"If the heart is there, the dream is there, and there is true love between heaven and earth..."

"Looking at success or failure, life is heroic, just starting over..." The singing has changed from a tender childish voice to a heavy chorus.

Shi Kefa has long been familiar with the lives of the victims. When he heard the victims singing emotionally, he also yelled. Fortunately, this song does not pay attention to any rhythm, just yell the voice in his heart.

"If the heart is there, the dream is there, it's just starting over and over again..." The victims sang these two sentences over and over again. This song written in their hearts can only express the sourness in their hearts by singing them constantly.

The people in the "Chorus" saw that the victims sang these two lyrics over and over again, and seemed reluctant to stop. They knew that the victims were moved by the victims. Although it was a good thing to vent their emotions, it should not be too long. So they thought of a way and immediately clapped their hands to interrupt the victims' singing.

"Papapapapa..." After a few applauses, the victims came back to their senses from their bitter moods and started to take pictures. Although this rule is strange, a burst of "violent" applause soon came to mind on the river beach. Some secretly wiped their tears, some red eyes, and some blinked, pushing their tears down...

When the leader of the choir saw Shi Kefa coming, he hurriedly shouted: "Friends, can we ask our Lord Shi to say a few words?" The people in the choir have seen the situation and know the importance of sensationalism and the creation of momentum. Seeing that the victims were already moved, it was a good time to sensationalism, so they immediately pulled out Shi Kefa, whom all the victims trusted more.

When the victims heard that they wanted Shi Kefa, a good official, to speak, they all shouted: "Okay, okay..."

Shi Kefa sighed. These people really had a few tricks, a few simple songs, and a few simple sentences to motivate people's emotions. They were really amazing. When they heard that they wanted to speak by themselves, they were not vague, so they walked up and prepared to start speaking.

"Friends, this song has been sung in my heart and in everyone's heart. Your Majesty said, "Don't abandon, don't give up." As long as you believe in Your Majesty, Your Majesty will definitely save you. There is no doubt that now, Your Majesty has prepared 10 million taels of silver to provide relief to Shaanxi, in order to transport everyone to the south and start your life there again. That is, it is sung in this song, "If your heart is there, the dream is there... it's just starting over." As long as you firmly believe that there is a future, as long as you sing in the song, no matter how hard or tired you are, you must be strong, then good days will definitely belong to you..., you see, those sheepskin fetuses over there are specially prepared for you, and when these sheepskin fetuses are dried, you can sit on these sheepskin fetuses.

The river goes down, at a speed of 400 miles a day, in just a few days, you can leave Shaanxi, and when you leave Shaanxi and Henan, your Majesty has prepared a big boat to pick you up. You will be assigned to Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake. These lakes are quite large and can surround countless fertile fields for you to cultivate. In that fish and rice land, you will never be worried about this drought again... Remember, if your heart is there, the dream is there, between heaven and earth, and your Majesty's true love; see success or failure, life is heroic, everything is just starting over again..." Shi Kefa became more and more excited as he spoke, and he cheered the victims loudly, pointing to the place where the skinned fetus was not far away. There were sheepskin fetus, which were used for skin rafts. With skin rafts, Shi Kefa would not be afraid of disasters and misfortunes. This is the source of his confidence.

"Start from the beginning! Start from the beginning!" The one among the victims suddenly shouted, and the victims shouted together.

"Start from the beginning, start from the beginning." The shouting could not calm down for a long time. The generous and passionate voice from outside the city of Fugu County shook Fugu County, shook the ditches and obstacles of Fugu County, and shook the Yellow River water flowing through Fugu County.

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"Okay, kids, you sang very well today, and you all have rewards... Come, line up, come and receive the prizes from uncle..." A "choir" person announced something in front of the children, and then the children lined up happily to receive the prizes from several "choirs", some were candy, and some were jerky.

Watching the children play "crazy and happy" and the adults on one side watched with relief, while some shouted loudly to the children not to rob, and the scene was warm.

Shi Kefa once again sighed that these people in the "choir" were indeed amazing. With one song, they calmed down the sings of these victims. A few words and a little thing pulled the victims' hearts to the emperor. The emotions of the victims have now become very stable. Even if someone calls these people to rebel, they are afraid that these people will not follow them. Now, these people are all thinking about going to the south to start their new life. It is really amazing. Shi Kefa can only deeply admire the emperor.

Shi Kefa bowed deeply to the east alone.

Officials and ordinary people are still far away. Although Shi Kefa is already very "friendly", the victims still have a sense of distance from him. When they see him, they can't help but leave a certain distance.

An old man watched his grandson get a small piece of candy, and laughed so hard that he couldn't stop. Seeing Shi Kefa was by his side, he bowed deeply and asked in a hurry: "Sir Shi,... I have a question for the young man, I want to ask, "Sir, there are really so many fields in the south waiting for us to divide them?"

An old man asked himself embarrassedly, and Shi Kefa bowed slightly and said, "Brother-in-law, are you asking about the fields in the south?"

The old man who asked was very cramped. He had never been in this life when he talked to such an official. Seeing that the official spoke to him kindly, he became even more cramped and dry, and his black face turned red, and he said, "When you say, yes, the little old man wants to ask, is there really such a lot of fields in the south for us to farm?" As soon as the old man asked this question, the people around him would automatically watch it. This had a great relationship with them in the future, so he naturally cared about it.

Shi Kefa smiled slightly. This was a question he had heard countless times in the disaster victims. Almost every wave of disaster victims would ask him these questions.

"Don't worry, my father-in-law, there will definitely be a land, but I still need to reclaim it myself. Has my father-in-law heard the saying "Eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake"?" Shi Kefa never tires about popularizing knowledge for a disaster victim.

"After sir, the old man has lived a long life. I have heard this sentence, and it is said that Dongting Lake is the Greater." The old man replied crampedly.

"That's right, my father-in-law, this time His Majesty wants to transport you to Dongting Lake. The 800-mile Dongting Lake can be reclaimed millions of fertile fields. There will be no drought in Dongting Lake. There is sufficient water source. It is no problem to have two ripening a year. It is not impossible to be diligent and three ripening. In addition to Dongting Lake, there is also Poyang Lake. Haha, my father-in-law, it's better to sing. If your heart is there, your dream will be there! ~ Everything is just starting over, it depends on your willingness to follow His Majesty!" Shi Kefa explained with a smile.

"Adults say this, the old man has a clear mind. We farmers have nothing else, just have the strength. As long as we have land for us, we farmers are not afraid of putting in trouble." Although the old man was cramped, he was also very satisfied. This time, he was completely relieved.

The victims who were "listening" around were also satisfied. This time, I heard the high-ranking official's words with my own ears, so it shouldn't be a lie.
Chapter completed!