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Chapter 306 Placement ()

The hungry people listened to Magistrate Cai's command, changed directions, and kowtowed. They shouted unevenly: "Thank you, Princess!"

Tao Da and other personal guards saw this and admired Magistrate Cai.

Among the 14 counties in Nanyang, Li County is one of the poorest counties in the bottom three. In the past three years, it has developed and changed step by step. It has escaped poverty and is even much better than some middle counties. This is all the credit of Magistrate Cai. What is even more commendable is Magistrate Cai's diligence and loyalty to the princess.

Even now, Magistrate Cai has not forgotten to win over the people for the princess. No wonder Magistrate Cai is known as the first magistrate of Nanyang!
Magistrate Cai said to the hungry people in a warm voice: "The county government has set aside a piece of open space for you, and Magistrate Mo is leading people to build houses for you to live in. Before the houses are built, you will temporarily live in Li County. at home."

"Now one person from each household will come and register the family's names, ages, and places of origin."

Some of these hungry people knew each other from the same village, and many more were traveling together on the road to escape famine. Even though they were not familiar with each other at first, after traveling for more than half a month, they became familiar with each other.

Magistrate Cai was so friendly that the nervous and fearful hearts of the hungry people calmed down a lot, and almost all families sent men to register. The rest of the people either stood on their feet and looked around, or gathered together and whispered.

"This Master Cai is really a good official. He speaks kindly and writes personally."

"Really? I have never seen such a magistrate in my life. No, I have never heard of him."

They, who are ordinary people, have to stay silent when meeting the county government servants. Who would have thought that there are still good officials like Magistrate Cai in this world who are close to the people and don't put on official airs.

County magistrate Cai wrote the registration himself. After writing down the family name, he ordered the government officials around him to lead the family to resettle: "Tang government officials, you take their family of five to stay in the nearest village. Remember to tell the people It is clear that the county government will send food to them every day when they stay for about ten days. The county government will give them a pound of food as rent every day.”

This is the meticulousness of Magistrate Cai's work. Staying in people's homes is always a troublesome matter, and the people may not be happy about it. There is rent and food every day, who wouldn’t want that? The severe drought in the north has caused food prices to soar, making food very expensive.

The Tang government official accepted the order and led the hungry family to a nearby village.

When the village leader heard what happened, he immediately smiled and said: "This family lives in my house. My house is spacious and can have two empty rooms."

When the people who came to join in the fun heard about the rent of one pound of grain per day, they became excited and shouted loudly: "My family can also have an empty house."

"I have some at home too. Send them to our house."

The Tang Yamen servants traveled around with Magistrate Cai every day to do errands. Now they are very skilled in errands and are very knowledgeable in dealing with the people: "This is the first household. There will be many households behind. Someone will lead them here soon. Everyone can make time." It’s best to come home and clean it up now.”

After hearing what Tang Yamen said, the people happily ran home to work. Staying for ten days is ten pounds of food!
The first hungry family was taken home by Li Zheng. Li Zheng did not brag. His house was indeed the largest in the village. There were two empty houses for a family of five, which was enough to accommodate them.

The male of this household was the first man to stand up when Magistrate Cai asked. The clothes on his body were torn and he was very thin. At this moment, he knelt down with a plop and kowtowed: "Thank you for taking us in."

Li Zheng was startled, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to help the man up: "No need to kneel, get up quickly. If you want to thank us, thank our county magistrate, no, thank our princess."

Magistrate Cai's catchphrase is "our princess". No matter where he goes, at any time, he always talks about how our princess is doing. Li Zheng was used to hearing it, so he said it smoothly.

The tall and thin man changed his words with red eyes: "It was the princess who took us in and gave us food to survive. We will all belong to the princess from now on." Li Zheng frowned and smiled: "That's right. Stay in peace and don't think too much. . Look at you, you are all so thin. You must have suffered a lot along the way. I will go and boil a pot of hot water for you, and I will ask the old lady to find you some clean old clothes. Don't mind it."

Li Zheng was so warm-hearted that the family of five was so excited that they almost cried. How could they dislike him and thank him repeatedly.

"By the way, what's your name?"

The tall and thin man replied in a low voice: "My surname is Shi, and my name is Dayong. I am from Bingzhou. There has been a two-year drought, and the fields cannot grow food. The county government also urged us to pay the land tax. We had no way to survive at home, so we had to escape. …”

Shi Dayong fled famine with his wife and two daughters. You can imagine the suffering he suffered on the way. However, even in the most difficult time, he was not willing to trade his daughter for food.

Tang was selling new grain seeds, so he mustered up the courage to go begging. Commander Qin took a fancy to him and signed a deed of sale for the whole family for the price of one liter of grain.

Li Zheng was also a smart man. After hearing this, he already understood and whispered: "Brother Shi, if you abandon your mother, wife and daughter, you will not have the good luck today."

Shi Dayong thought about it all the way and had long thought about the reason for this. He nodded and said: "Yes, at that time, the people who begged Commander Qin to take him in were lined up two miles away. Commander Qin would not accept anyone who was single. He only wanted to have someone with him. A family of old and young.”

There are many hungry people like Shi Dayong. Qin Zhan will not accept anyone who is treacherous or has abandoned his wife and children.

Those who can be picked up by Qin Zhan are mostly honest and hungry people.

At this point, Shi Dayong's eyes turned red again: "This is the grace of the princess. If it had been anyone else, even if they wanted to buy people, they would not buy the old, weak, women and children. The princess has given our family a way to survive, and my life is that of the princess." I dare to do whatever the Lord asks me to do.”

Li Zheng laughed: "Don't worry! The princess won't ask you to work hard! It's enough for you to live well and work in farming in Li County and take root."

Shi Dayong, a grown man, actually started crying.

The sixty-year-old mother and the frail wife also cried. Ten-year-old Da Ni and seven-year-old Er Ni did not cry. The two thin girls were full of hope and longing, leaning their heads against each other and talking quietly.

"Sister, do we not have to run away anymore?"

"Well, we'll be here from now on."

"It was the princess who took us in, gave us a place to live, and gave us food to eat. What do you think the princess is like?"

"The princess is a god in the sky, better than Buddha and Bodhisattva."

"Yes, when we were hungry, Buddha and Bodhisattva ignored us. From now on, I will worship the princess!"

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