Wu Dalang's Counterattack

Chapter 68 Dalang Eliminates Disasters, Erlang Borrows Food!

After Wu Ming received the news that Bai Rishu had been arrested and confessed, he knew that the main line of robbing the birthday guide was also stable.Just as he was planning to carry out the next step, an unexpected incident forced Wu Ming to give up his original plan.

Seeing that it was almost autumn, suddenly a nationwide locust disaster occurred in the territory of the Song Dynasty. The affected area was large, including Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, and Shandong, followed by Gansu, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanxi and other provinces.A large number of locusts appeared in Fujian, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other places at the same time.

Wherever these locusts passed, they ate all the crops waiting to be harvested.The imperial court was also helpless about this. Locust disasters occurred almost every year in the Song Dynasty, but never on such a large scale as this year.

Although the imperial court urgently allocated a batch of food for emergency relief, a large area of ​​the country was affected by the disaster, and the food allocated by the imperial court was simply a drop in the bucket, and even this small amount of food was exploited layer by layer by corrupt officials.

There are not many sincere ones that can be sent to the victims.After hearing the report from his subordinates, Wu Ming immediately panicked. Food is the most important thing for the people. When is the time, these corrupt officials are still exploiting them layer by layer. No, we can't let them go.

Wu Ming said harshly: "Whoever won't make the common people feel better, I will not make them feel better."All of you are full of oily heads, and you don't know the sufferings of the people.You dare to exploit life-saving food, but there is something you dare not reach out for.

On the one hand, Wu Ming contacted his subordinates in the underground world and asked the dwarves to urgently dispatch food to the surface world to rescue the victims. On the other hand, Wu Ming gave Bai Suzhen a death order:

Let Bai Suzhen's intelligence personnel and Rat Clan masters dispatch all. Anyone found to be exploiting relief food and grass will be arrested and imprisoned on the spot, and there is no need to beat them.

After three days, eat in limited amounts every day, as long as you don't starve to death.Let them go after the locust plague has passed.

Wu Ming believes that let these moths who have never been hungry experience how uncomfortable it is to be hungry.They will be more honest in the future.

When Bai Suzhen carried out Wu Ming's order, the court was in chaos, from Prime Minister Cai Jing to the small officials in the county.But none of the corrupt ones escaped, and all of them were tied up in their own homes by the Rat Clan masters under Bai Suzhen.

Song Huizong was still playing with Li Shishi in the harem, completely unaware that more than half of his court ministers were empty.Now Song Huizong would not go to court if he could not go to court, so naturally he wished that no ministers would bother him.

The corrupt officials caught by Wu Ming's orders were still very scared at first, and they stayed at home well, when suddenly a bunch of human-shaped mouse-headed or human-headed mouse-shaped monsters appeared and tied up the whole family. up.

These corrupt officials hurriedly begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, please forgive me, I will wait for something bad to eat, so don't eat us."

The leader of the Rat Clan masters ignored these people's begging for mercy, and just looked at them coldly.Strictly carrying out Wu Ming's order, first starve these guys alive for three days.

During these three days, they were not untied, and they were allowed to urinate and defecate into their pants. Anyway, for the Rat Race, they don't know what is dirty or smelly.

After three days, the master rats occasionally fed them some food.Anyway, as said above, as long as you don't starve to death.

At that time, Wu Ming, who was in a hurry, was busy allocating food to relieve the victims after he gave the order, and he didn't think too much about it at all.

With the help of food from the dwarves, it is rare that no one starved to death during the locust plague in the Song Dynasty.Wu Ming breathed a sigh of relief after finishing his work.

Xin said: "Although we couldn't feed all the victims, at least no one was killed. I don't know how things are going with Bai Suzhen's place, and if anyone slipped through the net."

Thinking of this, Wu Ming called Bai Suzhen and asked Bai Suzhen how he punished those corrupt officials.Bai Suzhen told Wu Ming exactly what she had done as if asking for credit.

He also asked Wu Ming when he could meet his husband Xu Xian.

After listening to Bai Suzhen's report, Wu Ming smiled wryly and said: "Nonsense, since ancient times, the family has never been harmed. If you were asked to punish those corrupt officials, how could you tie up the whole family?

Check it out for me, as long as their family members are not involved in corruption, let them go.I also confiscated all their property, and let these corrupt officials go hungry for another week. After telling them why they were arrested and hungry, let them go.

Arresting them this time is just a warning, if they are greedy again next time, they will starve to death.I don't believe they are not afraid.After all, it is not realistic to kill them.

Before the successors are well trained, there will be big troubles if the court loses so many officials at once.As for your husband-in-law Xu Xian, I will arrange for you to meet after I finish my work. "

After Wu Ming's righteous assistance, the consequences of the locust plague in the Great Song Dynasty were minimized.

Since the locust plague was sudden and the area affected was so extensive, Wu Ming had no good solution. After all, he was a human being, not a god, and he didn't have the ability to avatar.

One by one, they flew to the affected places and ordered the flocks of birds there to destroy the locusts.Fortunately, the golden-winged roc is fast enough, and it is also the king of birds.

It only took Wu Ming one day to fly around the disaster-stricken areas and unify the various birds in each place. People in the disaster area were surprised to find that the birds flying in the sky were either raptors or sparrows.

All chased and ate locusts in groups.Although the army of locusts is overwhelming, the number of birds is not much less than those locusts.In the eyes of the farmers, the locusts, which they had no way to do, were slowly eaten up by the birds.

After ordering the birds, Wu Ming remembered that mice are also omnivores. In later generations, very hungry mice could hold wires and gnaw with relish.Of course, such resources should not be wasted.

Now that I have met him this time, I must completely solve the problem of locust plagues in Song Dynasty every year.

Thinking of this, Wu Ming ordered Bai Suzhen to let his rat clan masters lead the ordinary rat clan to devour locust eggs and larvae underground, trying to wipe out the locust clan this time.

Just as the locust plague was resolved, Wu Ming's phone rang.Looking at the caller ID on the phone, Wu Ming was stunned.It turned out to be his second brother Wu Song.

It turned out that the locust plague was so severe that Wu Song, who was already the leader on Erlong Mountain, also ran out of food. He had no choice but to call Wu Ming. Hundreds of people in the village had been hungry for several days.

They are all thieves in the eyes of the government, so when Wu Ming releases food, Wu Song and the others dare not go down the mountain to collect it. Isn't that equivalent to throwing themselves into a trap?
After listening to Wu Song's words, Wu Ming was happy.Yes, how could I forget this one.

Thinking that I haven't seen Wu Song for a while, I just took this opportunity to send food to see how my second brother is doing.

(End of this chapter)