There were porridge sheds set up outside the military fort, and the military households sang loudly: "What we wear on us comes from the people, the weapons in our hands also come from the people. Our parents are the people, and our sisters are also the people. Our responsibilities are to defend our country and protect the people!"

The aroma of porridge and the loud singing attracted hungry people around. The porridge was made of corn flour and sweet potatoes mixed with a little buckwheat, millet and rice. Although it was very thin, it could make people survive. The hungry people who came lined up in a long queue and brought bowls to collect the porridge that the military households gave.

Liu Laogen was also busy in the porridge shed. He suddenly saw his father-in-law and mother-in-law coming to get the porridge, so he walked up and asked softly in his cheap father-in-law's ear: "You, you, haven't I given you a bag of food? Why are you here to get the porridge again?"

The father-in-law sighed and said, "I don't know how long the family can last for a small bag of food, so I have to keep it for precautions. Our family is big or small, and we should come here to drink some porridge, so that we will have greater hope of living."

Not far away in Jinan Prefecture City, King De's Mansion also opened a porridge shed and gave porridge. Of course, this was also the credit of Li Guodong. After Li Guodong left the military office, he traveled to Jinan again. Because he was grateful to Li Guodong for his life-saving kindness, King De generously took out the grain and built a porridge shed to give alms to the hungry people.

Even King De and King Lu had all given porridge, and some gentry also took out grain, built porridge sheds, and gave them to the people. Although their porridge was so sparse that people could see, and there were also many rotten vegetable leaves, wild vegetables, grass roots, rice bran, wheat bran and even wood chips mixed in it, it also saved many lives.

Li Guodong also mobilized the people of Shandong to catch locusts and eat them. The people did not dare to eat them at first because they did not look like the Tang Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin personally urged the people to eat locusts, and even mobilized the government to exchange food for locusts. A bucket of big locusts could be exchanged for a bucket of essence rice; a bucket of small locusts could be exchanged for a bucket of brown rice. In the late Ming Dynasty, not only did the government not have any money to help the people, but there was also a saying that it was believed that locusts were insects sent by God to punish the sins of the human world. If eaten, it would cause the Jade Emperor to be furious and give more serious punishment.

However, Li Guodong's military households caught locusts to eat, and also caught a large number of turtle doves and quails to eat locusts. Li Guodong also urgently transferred a batch of chickens and ducks from the Touhu city walls, asking the military households to drive the chickens and ducks to eat locusts.

Chicken, duck, quail and turtle dove all grow extremely fat after eating locusts. Later, these chickens, ducks, quail and turtle doves became delicacies for military households, or lay eggs to provide food.

Seeing that the military households were eating locusts, the people gave up their concerns and began to catch locusts in large numbers. This not only eliminated the locusts and relieved the disaster, but also filled their stomachs.

In this way, the losses caused by drought and locust plagues in Shandong were minimized. After the Qing army entered the pass in the future, they formed a regiment training under the leadership of local gentry, making significant contributions to the fight against the Qing army, making Jiaodong firmly in the hands of the Ming army.

The gentry were not blind. After the disaster of the Qing army's invasion and robbery, they saw that the fortresses built by Li Guodong's military households imitated Li Guodong's bastion style and built countless forts on the land of Qilu. Although most of their forts were brick and wood structures, under the reminder of some kind-hearted people, those brick and wood structures, plus sandbags, turned into indestructible simple castles.

The victims in Shandong were rescued, but Henan was a hell on earth.

The whole of Henan is thousands of miles away from the ground and full of bones. When a disaster comes, even some small landlords and rich peasants can't survive, and countless people starve to death. With drought and locust plagues, plagues follow one after another, making it worse for the severely affected people of Henan. Not only did the villages become empty villages without people, but even some people in towns die.

In Shandong and Shanxi, locusts that were afraid of being eaten by humans and birds also flew to Henan in large quantities, causing even more serious disasters to Henan.

Li Guodong also sent people to the Fu Palace and asked King Fu to donate grain, build a porridge shed, and rescue the people. Who knew that the sent people were driven out by King Fu!

Fortunately, the King of Zhou took out some of the grain, built a porridge shed, and rescued some of the hungry people. However, the King of Zhou's wealth was far less than that of King Fu, and he had to leave some silver to support the army and the strong people. Because there was news, the bandit army would soon come to Henan.

After receiving the news that Ye Bu received it, Li Guodong said angrily: "The people in Henan have been starved to death. However, King Fu is still luxuriant and rich, and refuses to take out a grain of grain to provide relief to the victims. I heard that King Fu is fat enough to more than 300 kilograms, but is there any such thing?"

Zhang Shuheng said: "Yes, he is as fat as a pig!"

"It's just a pig! Such a guy should be slaughtered by Li Zicheng as a pig!"

Zhang Shuheng said: "Lord, Li Zicheng has come back, and they have also arranged a song."

"How did you sing?"

"Eat and wear fucking. Open the door to welcome the King of Chuang. The King of Chuang will not pay food when he comes."

Li Guodong sneered: "To be honest, thieves are not good things! But being able to sweep a group of pig-like vassal kings is considered to be a contribution to the people. It is no wonder that the people have surrendered to the thieves in this way!"

As for Fulugen, Li Guodong believes that it is completely nonsense. Li Zicheng cannot cook a delicious deer with the disgusting fat man, King Fu. If Li Zicheng heard about Fulugen, he would be able to widen his eyes and his eyebrows stand: "The deer is delicious, how can you waste venison?"

According to the original history, there is still one year before King Fu was killed. Because the Qing army invaded and robbed, Li Zicheng, who was originally beaten by Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, was revived again. Zhang Xianzhong and others surrendered and rebelled again. Yang Sichang received the edict from Emperor Chongzhen and was about to send troops to suppress the thieves. Therefore, Li Guodong decided to return to Shanxi first. Although he did not intend to really wipe out Li Zicheng, he still had to do the superficial work of sending troops in a pretentious manner.

When I returned to Xiangling City, I couldn’t see any disaster here. In fact, Shanxi’s disaster was almost in line with Shaanxi, several years earlier than Henan and Shandong. At this time, Shanxi had a serious disaster, even the water of the Fen River was dry, and the water volume of the Yellow River was seriously insufficient.

But there was a prosperous scene in Li Guodong's village, with the soldiers blushing and there was no sign of anyone starving. Not only that, a porridge shed was also set up outside the village, and the soldiers gave porridge to the hungry people around and helped the surrounding people.

It can be said that the new crops such as improved sweet potatoes and corn played a great role and saved countless people. On the other hand, the troops in Xiangling City dug countless deep wells and irrigated them with well water to solve the problem of drought.

As for locusts, it is easier to solve. A large number of chickens were raised in Xiangling City. When the locust plague arrived, these chickens were released. Previously, Li Guodong had artificially domesticated and breeded birds such as quails, turtledoves, and these birds were also released. Because they were raised, quails and turtledoves would come back tonight.

The birds that ate a large number of locusts lay many eggs, which also provided delicious food for the officers and soldiers of the garrison.

The Xiangling City Village built along the Fen River Valley has become a paradise in Shanxi at this time, and a large number of Shanxi victims have come, which has also made Li Guodong feel extremely pressured.

However, he also had a solution, providing food to the victims and giving them porridge, but letting them work, such as digging wells, building canals, and reclaiming wasteland. Then he sent some of the victims to Shandong to fill those uninhabited lands. At the same time, Li Guodong also sent people to Huai'an again and asked Wang Quan to send another batch of grain.
Chapter completed!