After time travel, my best friend and I exchanged supplies and became a rich woman

After three days of distributing porridge in the city, the efficiency was finally greatly improved.

The people got used to taking porridge according to the fixed amount, and there was no trouble anymore.

During these three days, Ma Jingcheng arrested no less than a hundred people.

These people can't just lock them up and let them eat and drink for free, right?

Lord Sun said that according to the laws of the Darong Dynasty, minor offenders would generally be imprisoned for half a year or a year and then released.

However, he took into consideration that most of the people arrested were first-time offenders, and many of them did not cause any actual losses to the government office, so~~~~~these people would not be imprisoned, but would have to work for the government office for three months.

What kind of work exactly?

Very simple.

Those who were physically able were actually dragged to the troops at the north and south gates.

Even though there is a stalemate inside and outside the city now, and no one needs to go to the battlefield to fight, but someone has to feed the horses, fetch water, chop wood and make fire, right?

The able-bodied men who were drafted away could help with odd jobs.

Some other women, children, the elderly and the weak were taken by Lord Sun to the wasteland in the north of the city to dig wild vegetables, dry them, and reclaim some land at the same time.

As for growing crops and vegetables, Lord Sun said it's better to take a break.

Soon the emperor will be replaced and the crops will only be half an inch tall!

The key to growing grain is to have seeds. For Mr. Sun, who only wants to survive two or three months and insists on taking an unsustainable path, he is really unwilling to spend so much seeds.

So, let’s just dig some wild vegetables.

A business with no capital investment will never result in a loss.

Although it is autumn now, there are definitely not as many wild vegetables as in spring.

But the dandelions that have bloomed, the purslane that cannot be chewed, the wild shepherd's purse that can be used as firewood, the bittersweet herb that is more bitter than life, these large old wild vegetables, which are more important than the tender ones in spring, are much more important.

Although most wild vegetables are not very tasty and a bit bitter, if there is a famine, can't they be cooked into porridge? !

Most wild vegetables have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

Even if I really starve to death, I can walk without getting angry.

Isn't it great?

It is much better to be a cool ghost than a ghost with blisters in the mouth due to inflammation.

The key is that if the wasteland in the north of the city is reclaimed, pumpkins can be grown next year.

Chen Dongyue said, she has nothing else, but pumpkin seeds, plenty of them~~

Based on the yield of the pumpkins grown by Chen Dongyue, Lord Sun felt that a few hectares of wasteland could probably feed all the people in the Darong Dynasty.

Therefore, in the days that followed, the people of Liaocheng could not only eat pumpkin porridge, yam porridge, but also pumpkin and yam porridge.

You can also eat various wild vegetable porridges that clear away heat and detoxify.

In order to make the wild vegetable porridge less monotonous and boring, every household can get a small portion of dried eggplant or dried radish for free on the day when the wild vegetable porridge is distributed.

You know what, the dried eggplant is really chewy.

Whether old or small, one dried eggplant can be chewed for an entire afternoon.

Three days passed.

Three days.

Three more days.

The curfew in the city was gradually lifted.

However, the time is relatively short, just the one hour when the porridge is served every day, and everyone can walk around in the designated area.

Some people take advantage of this time to see a doctor or get medicine, while others take advantage of the hour to go back to their parents' home or visit their in-laws' home.

In short, because of the time for fresh air, the people’s complaints about the government offices have decreased a lot.

Some people even think that it would be nice if life could continue like this.

After all, someone will take care of your food and drink, so you don’t have to fight or compete for it.

Although I can only eat half full every day~~~~but at least I can lie at home and do nothing.

How wonderful this is.

Of course, if some people are satisfied, there will naturally be others who are dissatisfied.

Especially those traveling merchants, they would take advantage of the time for fresh air every day to run to the government office to inquire about the situation and ask when Liaocheng would be unsealed.

At this time, Lord Sun would describe the situation outside the city as particularly tense.

There were stories like the rebels kicking human heads like balls, all the passing caravans being looted, old sows that passed by the rebels would lose their dignity in their later years, and so on.

The merchants were all stunned when they heard this.

Then after leaving the yamen, they all turned back and spit.

It is said that Lord Sun really thinks they are fools.

I don't even want to be sincere when lying.

Do you really think they don't know that everything is peaceful outside?

It was just that a few princes wanted to seize power, and the sixth prince, Prince Kang, chose to be a coward.

Even an old sow has lost her integrity in her old age...Listen, is this something a scholar can say? !

"That's not nonsense, I heard it~~~~~~"

Someone in the store suddenly started to keep the secret.

The others surrounded him and asked him to recount in detail what he had heard.

Oh no, let me explain it in detail~~~

When this gossip was told, everyone burst into laughter. After returning home, they cursed the emperor a few times but didn't take it to heart.

The days in Liaocheng have achieved a strange calm amid the confrontation between internal and external forces.

Chen Dongyue said that Liaocheng is now the center of the storm, so everything seems calm.

However, outside Liaocheng, there should have been bloody chaos.

There is nothing wrong with this statement.

The capital without an emperor seems relatively stable on the surface, but beneath the calm surface, there are undercurrents surging?

No, no.

In fact, without the emperor, all the court officials and nobles looked extremely anxious.

After hearing that the emperor was currently in Liaocheng, some princes and nobles shouted that they wanted to send medicine and doctors to the emperor.

There were even ministers in the court who cried and yelled, saying they could not live without seeing the emperor for one day, and they wanted to go to Liaocheng to see the emperor.

The emperor's concubine, who had been stolen from under his nose, lost her appetite and tea and food. In half a month, she starved to death and lost half a pound.

scared to death.

If the emperor doesn't come back, the half pound of weight that Concubine Shu lost due to starvation will probably gain back.

In addition, there are many rumors that King Kang kidnapped the emperor in order to seize power and usurp the throne.

There is also a saying that it was the Prince of Qi and the Prince of Ning who forced the emperor to abdicate, and it was Prince Kang who rescued the emperor from the capital, thus avoiding a massacre between father and son.

King Kang didn't care about such rumors. After all, he was in Liaocheng and such rumors would never reach his ears.

But the Prince of Qi and the Prince of Ning are both in the capital because they need to grasp the situation in the court in time!

How could they not be angry after hearing such rumors? !

So, the two princes began to investigate, who on earth was the one who dared to tell the truth? ?

After much investigation, they actually found the person who was the abbot of Yongding Zen Temple, Shi Neng.

The two princes immediately asked the Dali Temple to arrest the monk.

They wanted to see what kind of trouble this poor monk could stir up without the emperor's support.

If the monk admitted that he was telling the truth and was accused of spreading rumors, the King of Qi would say that he would reward the monk with a quick death and be done with it with one sword.

But if he doesn't admit it, then stab him eight or ten times and then let him die.

Anyway, he will die anyway, it just depends on whether he wants to die quickly or painfully.