Chapter 241 Trouble

Boss Zhou came back with a smile, "No one died in the village, only a few people were bitten by wolves."

Zhou Laoer answered, "However, the chickens in the village are basically gone, and there are still a few houses with low fences. After the pigs were killed by wolves and shared for food, the rest were taken away, and one of them died in the village. Cows, there is not much left to eat, all that can be taken away, only the head and bones are left."

The poultry raised in the village are basically gone.

Yang Dayong asked, "Did you not kill the wolf?"

Zhou Lao Er shook his head, "No, this time the wolf came running down the mountain and ran after the poultry, and didn't hit the door or the window to enter the house. The injured people were also bitten to save the poultry."

Zhulan knows that wolves have a strong ability to cooperate, obey commands especially, and are very scheming. I really didn't expect that I saw it in ancient times. This is premeditated!

Yang Dayong smoked a cigarette, "The wolves listen to the leader wolf very much, and this wolf is very smart, and only stares at the livestock. This is not a good thing. After one experience, the wolf learns quickly, and will continue to do so next time." The good news is that the poultry in Lijia Village is gone, and Lijia Village is safe."

Bad news, other villages will suffer.

The rest of the words were not uttered, and everyone knew it in their hearts.

There was no snow in the next few days, the roads were cleared, and the news could be exchanged. These days, as expected, the wolves swept through several villages one after another, and the poultry basically died. Zhoujia Village was not spared, but no matter how powerful They are also animals, many wolves have died, and some people have died, such as old people living alone.

About seven days later, it snowed again, and the snow was not small. Human beings seemed very small in front of nature, especially in ancient times, without any technology to predict and defend.

After two days of heavy snowfall, it stopped, and then it did not fall again. The road was opened again after nine days.

Zhulan likes to stockpile supplies, originally bought a lot of salt in winter, and bought some after the heavy snow last time, the road was cleared, Zhulan asked Zhou Laoer to go back to Lijia Village to see Xuemei, and took ten catties Meat and a few big bones, and a chicken, three of my own hens froze to death.

The meat was Zhulan's own pork. After Zheng Yang left, Zhulan killed the two pigs in the family. She didn't sell any of the meat, and kept all of it for her own food and for next year's wedding banquet.

Zhou Shuren went to the county to inquire about the news. In the afternoon, Zhou Shuren and Boss Zhou came back.

Zhulan asked, "What news did you hear?"

Zhou Shuren said: "Our side suffers little disaster,

The disaster near the capital was severely affected, but there are already ways to rescue the disaster. "

What Zhou Shuren is most afraid of is that the Northeast and the foreign people will be severely affected by the disaster. The northeast frontier is already unstable in winter. Perfection, the main energy is to stabilize the domestic situation and improve the rule, there is no extra energy to completely solve the frontier issue, and the frontier has never been stable since the establishment of the dynasty.

Zhulan said: "How to solve the disaster situation? The dynasty has been established for twelve years, droughts, floods, there have always been many disasters and disasters. After a few years, the weather has been smooth, and snow disasters have come. Big, the treasury doesn’t have much money, and there isn’t much food, so how can we provide disaster relief?”

Zhou Shuren eased the cold on his body, put his slippers on the kang and said, "I don't know who came up with the idea of ​​distributing the disaster relief food to each state, and how much food each state will send out, and then transport it to the disaster relief."

Zhulan, "It must not be the Kaizhou city granary for disaster relief. The state city is distributed to each county, the county is distributed to each village, and each village is distributed to each household. To put it bluntly, we still pluck food from the mouths of ordinary people."

Zhou Shuren said: "The magistrate of the county has just received the official document, saying that there has been no tax increase in the past few years, and the weather has been good in the past few years. Farmers pay grain according to their own land, one catty of grain per mu of land, like a scholar. In order to be exempt from taxes, not only have to pay the grain of the land under their name, scholars have to pay an extra 50 catties of grain, and 200 catties of grain for juren, and officials also pay all the grain without discrimination."

Zhulan frowned, "What about the merchants and those without land in the county?"

"I don't know about that. I only know this. It is estimated that the grain paid by the merchants will not be less, and there should not be many without land."

Zhulan frowned, "It's not a good start. If you taste the sweetness of this, wouldn't you just do it when there is a disaster in the future? At that time, it will be the lower class people who will bear the most burden."

Zhou Shuren sighed, "The emperor must have been forced to do nothing this time. Although the tax has just been collected, the expenditure has been barely supported by the years. Every dynasty has collected food. This dynasty is not bad, and the years of war have not increased. Land transfer tax, this time the collection is not too much."

Zhou Shuren continued: "I have analyzed the emperor, and he is a rare enlightened emperor. The policies in recent years have been good. After the snow disaster, the merchants who have been suppressed for more than ten years for tax purposes will probably relax a little bit. I guess the emperor wanted to stay. It is a pity that natural disasters and continuous military chaos have to be brought forward, and once the policy is relaxed for business, it means that the frontier will soon be used to solve the frontier's worries."

Zhulan's brain also reacted quickly, "The Zheng family and the Yang family have caught up with the opportunity. Now they are accumulating military merits in small-scale wars. When they really use soldiers, Wu Chun and the others will not be small soldiers with the care of the Zheng family. At least they will be safer. If you really make meritorious service, you won’t be afraid that someone will take credit for it.”

Zhou Shuren calculated the amount of grain that his family had to pay, which was 130 catties, "Fortunately, this year's grain is not sold, and the price of next year's grain will definitely increase."

Zhulan lamented that it was not easy to survive in ancient times, "Food will not be cheap in recent years."

On the second day, Lizheng organized a food donation, and after the donation, it was waiting for the yamen to collect it. Thanks to the good weather, although there were not too many complaints, the emperor's goodwill also dropped a lot after all the hard work.

Not everyone has righteousness. Most people at the bottom only care about their own families and never care about the country's worries.

Fortunately, there has been no heavy snowfall, and the disaster area in the capital has been resolved. Half a month later, the villages are reading the thank you letter from the emperor sent by the county government, thanking the people for donating food to relieve the disaster. I don't know if the letter was written by the emperor himself, but the public opinion has increased a lot because of the loss of a letter. The people are excited. This is a letter of thanks written by the emperor. Thank them!

Zhulan listened to Zhou Shuren's memorized letter, "Our founding emperor is really good at playing tricks on people's hearts."

Zhou Shuren smiled, "Which founding emperor is easy."

Zhulan thought about it too, it is not easy to found a country, especially the founding emperor who rebelled.

Time flies, Zhulan is having a good time this winter, there are no bad people, Wodong is the most comfortable, it may be that Zhulan and Zhou Shuren are too comfortable, and seeing that the new year is approaching, big troubles will come to the door.