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Chapter 560 Great Drought (Part 2)

Liu Laogen exchanged a 12-year-old girl with five dou of corn flour for a twelve-year-old girl. But he didn't know that the price he gave was actually too high. In this year, a little girl could only exchange for two mixed buns! Because of the two mixed buns, the whole family could survive!

These days, people are really as cheap as dogs.

Liu Laogen, who was nearly forty years old, was naturally happy and proud to have a wife. The dirty child was washed away and was actually a pretty girl. Although she was not pretty, she was still quite attractive. Although she was thin, her skeleton was relatively thick. After raising her for a while, she was definitely a strong woman who could do farm work and give birth to a good woman.

But Liu Laogen soon discovered the problem: he sent five dou of grain, which was his two-month ration! He had lost two months of food. In fact, if he was alone, it would be okay to support the grain harvest next year, but the problem is that now there is an extra mouth for eating. How can this support the grain harvest next year?

Let’s sell your wife again, but Liu Laogen is reluctant to leave her. Such a good young wife can’t buy her price if she wants to sell her. It’s a loss.

In desperation, Liu Laogen had to go to hundreds of households to borrow food with shamelessness.

From the appearance of the family of Baihu, there is almost no difference between the family and the military households. They are all built with special building materials. The exterior walls are blue-gray, which look very strong, and the size of the houses is the same. There is a row of two floors. Each military household lives in a house with one bedroom and one living room. There is no special kitchen, and each household cooks in the corridor. Even Baihu lives in such a house, but Baihu has a large number of people, so it is divided into two houses, one living room, and it is opened up and turned into a house with three bedroom and one living room.

"Liu Laogen, in fact, I am like you, and I am also a refugee from Shaanxi. The food I sent to us is the same as you. How can we lend you excess food? But you are so old, it is a good thing to marry a wife. Let your brothers get together and get through it." Baihu replied, and then Baihu provided Liu Laogen with a liter of food.

After saying goodbye to Baihu and leaving Baihu's house, Liu Laogen was about to go back and get together with his brothers. He would pass this level first, and it would probably be easier next year.

This new Baihuso Military Fort is quite well built. It is surrounded by a circle of strong city walls, with four bastions on four corners, and a circle of trenches are dug outside the city wall. Musketeers can be stationed in the hollow bastion, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There are cafeterias, playgrounds, public bathrooms, and retail stores in the hundred households. If you are too lazy to cook, you must hand over the food rations and exchange them for small pieces of paper called meal tickets. When you are eating, you can sit in the cafeteria for meals. There is also a purpose for meal tickets, which can buy things in retail stores, such as buying cigarettes and alcohol. You don’t need to buy salt yourself, but the military office will send it.

There is also a stage in the castle. Some time ago, a literary and artistic team came to perform. During the performance, not only were the military households interested in watching the show, but even the people nearby rushed in. Several of the plays were very exciting, which made people feel very moved after watching it.

Such a spectacular military fort took less than a year from construction to completion! This shows the power of the new building materials.

Just as Liu Laogen was thinking about how other brothers would borrow food, he heard a long shout outside: "Brother is here!"

Liu Laogen hurried to the door, stood there motionless, waiting for the arrival of his uncle. Hearing the long shout, all the military households in the military office rushed out of the house, wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets, standing at the door, lined up to greet him in neat formations.

Wearing a silver white tassel phoenix winged helmet, a silver bright light armor, a white cloak, a jade lion under his crotch, and a white tassel sling, Li Guodong, holding a white tassel, rode more than a dozen black war horses, wearing black helmets and black armor, and wearing a red cloak, Ye Busuo walked towards the castle.

"I have met Master Bo!" A hundred households wearing mountain literary armor, six-petal pointed red tassels and iron helmets, and several general flags wearing pointed red tassels and wide-brimmed iron helmets, cotton armor, and a group of military households wearing light yellow red tassels hats, red mandarin duck battle jackets, and red leather armor walked out of the castle to greet them.

Li Guodong entered the gate of the military fort and looked around the new military households.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military household registration system became a backward system, which was a historical necessity. However, whether it was Lu Xiangsheng or Sun Chuanting, Li Guodong, to the present day, restored a certain military household registration system because the military household registration system was the best solution. However, once this system was settled, it would soon become a shattering, but it didn't matter. It was just a temporary transition. When the world was pacified, Li Guodong would adopt a recruitment system.

Li Guodong looked around and found that there was an older military household who looked neither wearing a hat nor a coat. He only wore a set of mandarin duck battle jackets and came out to greet him. So he pointed the whip in his hand at the military household: "Why did this old brother, why did he come to greet my uncle when he was not dressed in a mess?"

This military householder was Liu Laogen. When he saw Boye pointing at him with his horse whip, he quickly knelt down and said, "Go back to Boye, I have just arranged to borrow some food from my brothers. I heard that Boye was here and there was no time to go home to change it, so he did not approve the armor and did not wear a hat. I hope Boye will forgive me."

Li Guodong laughed: "Originally, Li came here just by, and he didn't ask his brothers to dress neatly to greet him. Old brother, you said you wanted to borrow food, but did the chief in the fort deduct your food?"

"No!" Liu Laogen kowtowed repeatedly, "Boye, I just married a new wife with a new wife. The food I originally distributed in my family was not enough, so I still had to borrow some from the chiefs of a hundred households, so I had to borrow some more food from my brothers."

Li Guodong laughed: "It's a good thing to marry a new wife! It's not enough food, and it's all Li's lack of thought!"

"My Lord, please forgive me!" Baihu knelt down and kowtowed, "It's all bad jobs. Humiliar jobs should try every means to help the newly married brothers solve the food problem."

Li Guodong said: "Get up quickly! It's still Li's not good idea! Let's do this in the future. If any single brother marrys a new wife, the hundred households in each military fort will report the names of the newly married brothers, and Li will give more food."

Who knew that at this time a small flag stood up, knelt on one knee and bowed to Li Guodong and said, "Brother, I have a report on my situation!"

"Tell me!"

Xiaoqi said, "Brother, this Liu Laogen is an old cow eating young grass. His new wife was bought with a bag of rations you allocated to him by Boye."

Li Guodong turned to look at Liu Laogen: "Is this a matter for this old man?"

"Master, please spare me!" Liu Laogen kowtowed repeatedly, "I know I'm wrong! I'll send the little girl home."

Li Guodong sighed: "Brother, you are not wrong! You bought your wife with your own food, not only saved your wife, but also saved their family's lives! Li took a boat to the shore from Dongchang and came all the way over, and it was thousands of miles away! At the end of last year to the beginning of this year, Jiannu left, and drought and locust plague! The people in Qilu land cannot be happy anymore! Everyone, do you know that you were also ordinary people! Most of you came from Shaanxi, why were you surrounded by bandits? It was because of the disaster in Shaanxi! Now, the disaster in Shaanxi a few years ago fell on the people of Qilu again. Li saw it and felt sorry for the people!"

"My uncle is kind and kind, and he is kind to the people, which makes us ashamed!" The hundred households quickly saluted.
Chapter completed!
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