Daming: Wanted to be a small landlord, but was forced to ascend the throne

Chapter 510 Rat
Wang Yun only understood about the well-known rat incident in the Confucian Mansion after listening to the principal.

Even though he is a son of a family in the capital, he still not only sighs, the life in this Confucian mansion is really extravagant and lustful!
While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone!
Here in Confucian Mansion, it really happens all the time.

The cause of the incident is nothing more than that the Confucian Mansion has a lot of fields and a lot of grain, and the grain in the granary piles up into mountains every year.

Although people in this era have thought of many ways to store grain to prevent it from rotting, but the technology is still limited, coupled with human and material resources and other issues, the grain in the granary rots a lot, and of course a lot of rats are raised in vain.

Even during the famine years, the rats in ordinary peasant households were starving and skinny, while the rats near the granary in the Confucian Mansion were fat and fat.

In the land of Qufu, people can not only recognize at a glance those people who are doing things in the Confucian mansion, but they are mice, and they can also know which family the mice are based on their body shape.

In the tenth year of Xiaozong's reign, Qufu was infested with rats.

The rats in the granary of the Confucian Mansion were even more numerous.

In the final analysis, the previous two years were not very good. Although people would not starve to death like in the famine years, the common people had no food left in their homes, and the mice had nothing to eat.
The Confucian Mansion is very powerful, even if ordinary people have no food to eat, they dare not call the Confucian Mansion's attention.

Of course, when the Confucian government encountered a bad year, it would set up a porridge shed with the amount of grain in the granary, which was three walnuts and two dates, and boil some rice soup with little water for charity.

As for many people in the previous life who regarded cats and dogs as pets, there were also some rich and powerful families, but very few.

Also, the guards found the corpses of several cats with severed fingers and arms in the hidden food store. The situation was quite tragic.

As for women, even if they belong to the rich and powerful class, they are good women who are known for their virtuousness. Good needlework, filial piety to their in-laws, and good support to their husbands are the role models for women. Even keeping pets is just a private matter. How good it is to publicize outside!

But one day, when several guards counted the mice that had been bitten to death again, they found two dead cats nearby.

But in the days that followed, several cats died almost every one or two days.

Although it has been relieved now, many families are still not very rich. Let those people see so much grain in the granary of the Confucian Mansion, and many of them are spoiled for rats and not for hungry people. Can those poor people not be jealous?

The mice in the granary of the Confucian Mansion still lined up to join the herd, and hundreds of cats fought fiercely with those mice every night, which was quite lively.

In that year, the rats in the granary of the Confucian Mansion reached its peak. In order to eliminate those rats, the Confucian Mansion spent a lot of manpower and financial resources.

The guards didn't care at first, after all, cats and dogs are dead in this day and age, and it's normal for cats and dogs to die.

The guards did not find any beasts around the grain storage.

A lot of people were invited to form a rat-fighting team to fight rats;

Countless rats died every day, and the guards guarding the granary of the Confucian Mansion had a generous extra income during that time, which was to sell newly killed rats. those rats.

Those things themselves have a short lifespan, and it is normal for diseases or injuries to disappear suddenly.

And men in this era, the bottom is to live, the middle and upper is to engage in business, walking cats and dogs is the behavior of prodigal sons, and with such a reputation, they are basically treated as useless people in the family. Little, if the bad reputation goes out, basically there will be no achievements in career.

The manager's suggestion was directly rejected by the then Duke Yansheng!

Everyone didn't pay much attention to the death of the two cats.

Someone observed the dead cats and found that the cats did not seem to have died of illness.

The steward came up with an idea to let those poor people come to the granary to catch mice, without paying them wages, those who caught the mice would be taken away, the mice here are big and fat, those people are absolutely happy!

In addition, hundreds of cats were raised to catch mice, but the effect was not very obvious.

For example, cats are used to catch mice. If they cannot catch mice, they basically lose their value. Dogs are used to guard homes.

Rat kills cat?
This is probably rare in a hundred years!
Cats eat mice. Mice are afraid of cats. A three-year-old child knows it. No one cares about the joke!

A steward of the family advised Yan Shenggong, saying that there is not much food left in the common people's homes, and to be honest, there are few rats outside, and there is nothing to eat in the homes of ordinary people. That is:
There is little food, not much to eat, and mice are considered a piece of meat. Those mice that can be seen outside are all caught and eaten by such poor people.

"This... this should be killed by something..."

Someone said jokingly.

This gradually attracted everyone's attention.

"Then what else can do it? After all, it can't be a mouse?"

For ordinary people with inflexible brains and solid eyes, they will naturally be grateful to Dade.

Although Yan Shenggong of the past dynasties was arrogant and extravagant and not a thing, they were all intelligent and slippery people, and their ability to judge the situation was not bad at all.

But the matter was far from over. More and more cats were attacked, and the number of dead cats also continued to increase. This matter quickly reached Duke Yansheng!

In the past, when the grain harvest was short and the number of hungry people increased, the Confucian government simply distributed porridge, saying that there was not much grain in its granary.

Of course, the good deeds of the Confucian Mansion were quickly reported to the court, and naturally the next step was to commend and reward the Confucian Mansion.

The tree attracts the wind, and Yan Shenggong is naturally worried that once encountering a situation, it is not impossible for someone to violently bring them to grab the granary. Under hunger, there is no such thing as etiquette, morality, monarchs and ministers, and parents will change their children and eat. , who cares so much!
For a person like Yan Shenggong, he would rather have the grain in the granary ratted by rats than let so many people know the condition of his granary.

Yan Shenggong lost his temper, and felt that the people who did things were incompetent. The granary of the Confucian Mansion raised so many idlers for nothing. Since they can't do anything, get out early!

The reason is that there are too many rats, breeding too fast, and many of them are hidden in the grain piles. It is really limited to hit rats manually!

mouse?

In addition, people will have enough to eat, and those who eat animals are not considered life at all in the eyes of people.

Examining the wound, there were actually large bite marks.

Those so-called beasts will attack some domestic animals at most, and rarely choose cats, and beasts like meat, there is only food here, cats are not big, and there is not much meat, those beasts don't have to go to the city to attack . Hit the cat.

Experienced people looked at those wounds and said.

And those cat corpses with broken limbs and arms looked tragic, but they were not eaten, indicating that the objects that attacked them were not carnivorous beasts.

But what killed it?
Apart from food, there are no other aggressive beasts in this grain storage. Cats are the biggest beasts here!
After a few more days, the cats gradually disappeared, and cat corpses and stumps kept appearing around the food store.

Yan Shenggong lost his temper, how could everyone not be afraid?
The granary management is under a lot of pressure.

In order to find out the situation, the steward simply sent someone to be on duty twenty-four hours a day at the granary, insisting on finding out what was going on!

The number of people is not enough, and the management does not save manpower, so a batch of money is directly allocated from the money that I am greedy to hire a lot of temporary personnel to patrol the granary on duty for [-] hours.

Don't tell me, I really found the problem!

(End of this chapter)