The end of the world begins with the king

Chapter 376
(Everyone, don’t you have a monthly pass? Get it together!)
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On the long street, there was a continuous sound of horseshoes, which was particularly harsh in the quiet environment.

Walking on the long street while riding a horse, Zhao Yanxun constantly reported the situation around him.

Unlike what he had imagined, the county town was not in a mess, but Zhang Wu kept it tidy.

There must be a big plague in a big disaster. This is what the doctor in the city told Zhang Wu. In order to prevent the outbreak of the plague, he strictly ordered the people to do good hygiene.

The fighting in the city has not yet ended. There are nearly 300 people who are the "ruling class". These people are either still resisting or hiding in Tibet.

In order to prevent these people from wreaking havoc, it is necessary to find them all, and it is the ordinary people who are responsible for this task.

They have been squeezed for more than a year, and all of them have blood feuds with Zhang Wu's subordinates, so they are naturally willing to be the vanguard now.

The supervisors outside the city totaled 40 to [-] people, all of whom were killed by the rioting people, and those in the city were not far away.

At this moment, under the leadership of the guards, Zhao Yanxun and his party came to the northwest corner of the county, where Zhang Wu stored his food.

Zhang Meng led his guards to guard here, and there was also a small official who was being detained here.

This person was once a small government official in Huiping County. After Zhang Ping killed the county magistrate, he saw the wind and turned the rudder down.

Most of Zhang Wu's subordinates are reckless men. If they are good at wielding knives and guns, they can only be caught blind in managing account books.

Especially in such an important place as the granary, Zhang Wu must find someone who can settle accounts, so that he can know the situation of his grain.

Seeing Zhao Yanxun's arrival, the little official who was in charge of the storehouse hurriedly cried out: "My lord, please forgive me, my lord, please forgive me..."

Zhang Meng ignored this person, but stepped forward to take the reins from Zhao Yanxun, and carefully helped Zhao Yanxun off the horse.

"My lord, this guy is in charge of the granary. According to him... there are still [-] shi of grain in the granary!"

There is still so much food, Zhao Yanxun couldn't help but think that Zhang Wu is still a little expert in food storage.

Although there are so many people in the city, the daily rations of ordinary people are only three or four taels, and they are really just hanging their lives.

"My lord... the little one is not in the same group as Zhang Wu, and the villain is also forced to obey his orders!"

"But the villain has never done a single bad thing, Wang Ye Mingjian!"

It has to be said that Zhang Wu, the chief housekeeper, has a particularly strong desire to survive, and he is not willing to give up the chance of survival.

"Shut up, the prince wants to ask you something, you answer honestly!"

As long as there is a question, maybe he can find a chance to survive, Zheng Ding thought so.

"Excuse me, my lord, the villain knows everything!"

Standing at the door of the granary and looking at the grain piled up inside, Zhao Yanxun asked calmly, "How much grain have you raided since March last year, why are there so many?"

"Back to the prince, after Zhang Wu took over the county, he ransacked every household, so he saved a large amount of food!"

"In July and August last year, he ordered people to harvest the grain outside the city, so he saved a large amount of grain!"

"This man is cruel and oppresses the people. From March last year to the present, the living population in the city has dropped by half, and the number of people eating food has decreased, and they don't eat much every day!"

With more grain harvested and less consumption, it is no wonder that there is so much grain left over.

"And from last year until now, those people killed by Zhang Wu have all been treated as rations by him, forcing everyone to eat them!"

"You ate too?" Zhao Yanxun turned around and asked.

Zheng Ding raised his head, and replied helplessly: "The villain has nothing to do. If Zhang Wu doesn't eat, he will kill the villain, and then distribute the villain to everyone to eat!"

Seeing that Zheng Ding was still honest, Zhao Yanxun asked, "What's your name? Do you still have relatives?"

"The villain's name is Zheng Ding, and he has a son!"

"Where is your son?"

"It's just here..." Zheng Ding took a peek at Zhang Meng, and then said, "It's just hiding in the granary!"

I searched the granary by myself, is there any fish that slipped through the net?Zhang Meng's face collapsed.

"Zhang Meng, is this the granary you searched for?" Zhao Yanxun half-questioned.

"My lord, I wish to lead the baton!"

But at this time, Zhao Yanxun didn't intend to pursue it, and it was enough to ask a question.

This Zheng Ding has a son, so he is concerned, and maybe he can use it to temporarily control the city.

It is impossible for the ten people like Zhao Yanxun to stay here for a long time, and now he has a new plan.

Since the torrential rain in Huiping County caused a large number of zombie deaths in the city, is it possible that this is also the case in other places in Gumeng Mansion.

A mansion is equivalent to a prefecture-level city in Zhao Yanxun's previous life.

This continuous torrential rain can easily spread to a whole prefecture, maybe it is the case in these prefectures in the south.

If that is the case, there may be a large number of survivors, but they are all surrounded by zombies in the city.

As long as these people are rescued and an effective rule is established, Zhao Yanxun can have more promotion places.

"Zheng Ding, you are quite honest. This king intends to let you take charge of the city temporarily until the new magistrate arrives in Huiping!"

Zhao Yanxun's words made Zheng Ding almost think he heard it wrong.

Let yourself hold the city for a while?Let yourself, a prisoner, be in charge of the city temporarily?

He was thinking of saving his life just a moment ago, but now he is giving himself such a big benefit, happiness is too sudden for Zheng Ding.

"Small man... I am afraid that the villain is not capable enough to be such a heavy duty as a prince!" Zheng Dingcheng said in fear.

At this moment, people have gathered in the granary one after another, because Zhao Yanxun has ordered to distribute food to the people here at noon.

These people avenged their revenge, so they naturally thought of coming to get food, filling their stomachs is also very important.

"A small county with only 2000 people, as long as the food is distributed in full, it will not be difficult to manage!"

"The prince wants to distribute the food in full?" Zheng Ding was a little surprised.

Zhang Meng and others were not surprised by this, because the rations of the people in the palace have standards, and they can be implemented directly by reference.

Next, Zhang Meng introduced the method of food distribution to Zheng Ding, mainly based on the amount of work done.

Zhao Yanxun found a chair and sat down, waiting for the people outside to gather. After half an hour, two thousand people showed up outside.

In order to prevent fire and theft, Zhang Wu demolished all the buildings around the granary, so the place is very spacious.

Although the number of 2000 people is large, they can still stand if squeezed together, and people can also stand on the roof in the distance.

Almost everyone has arrived, photographed by the fierceness of Zhao Yanxun and his party, all the people are waiting obediently.

While everyone was looking forward to it, Zhang Meng stood on the steps and shouted loudly: "Listen up, the one who avenged you and rescued you is the current emperor's own son, His Royal Highness King Yong!"

"From today, each of you will have enough to eat, and no one will bully you again!"

There was commotion in the crowd. On the one hand, they were amazed by Zhao Yanxun's identity, and on the other hand, they were talking about food.

"As long as you work every day, those over the age of 15 will receive a catty of grain every day, and those under the age of 15 will receive half a catty of grain every day!"

Following Zhang Meng's reading, someone below finally asked, "My lord, what do we do every day?"

"It's better to go out of the city to farm, this is also for you to have food next year!"

Immediately afterwards, someone asked some other questions, and Zhang Meng answered them all.

Finally, someone asked the most urgent question: "My lord, when will the food be distributed?"

The big guys waited eagerly, eager to receive the food, and they had forgotten what it felt like to be full.

"Don't worry, Mr. Zheng will take care of this matter!" After saying that, Zhang Meng took two steps back.

(End of this chapter)