The once wealthy Nanyang County is now in decline, with disaster victims and refugees endlessly, all supporting the elderly and young. They want to go out to flee, but because there is no surplus food around them, they have to beg along the way.

The wind and dining in the open along the way, and it was hard to say that it was difficult. Unexpectedly, the same was true for escaping a county or even going to the bottom of Wancheng. Therefore, many of the people who fled to famine starved to death, and some died of poverty and illness. Fortunately, the people who survived were mostly dove-like faces.

Among the refugees, honest people beg or find wild vegetables in the fields to fill their stomachs, and those who are not honest will rob and steal. When they are extremely hungry, even those who are honest will change their nature and start to be cannibalistic, and the order is in chaos. No wonder Red Eyebrows can easily take Runan, and this is the case there.

However, the major forts still stand tall in the fields, and every day there are disaster victims who cannot survive and go to join us. The powerful and powerful followers are attached, and the number of slaves is increasing day by day, almost returning to the level of the Han Dynasty.

"Under my rule, there is a system of kingly fields, and all the land belongs to the state and cannot be bought and sold. Naturally, no officials and powerful officials occupy arable land."

"There is also a private order, and slaves are not allowed to trade, so the powerful and powerful dare not abuse the people too much."

Looking at these miserable scenes, Wang Mang suddenly became energetic and began to compare the new policy with Gengshi frequently.

"During the Tianfeng period, there was a severe drought in the world. Not only did I personally eat food, but I also issued an edict. All those who were affected by disasters, those who were less than 100,000 in rent and tax will be exempted from rent and tax. I also ordered each county to distribute grain in warehouses, and at the same time, the defense of the mountains and lakes in the world, allowing the people to take the things from the mountains and lakes to give all the yuan."

"The refugees entered the pass and ordered them to build 200 houses in Chang'an City to live in poverty, and set up special assistance for the poor. At that time, even if it is not as mentioned below, everyone can eat rice and meat soup, but food and clothing can be satisfied. They are also recruited young and strong people to join the army, so that they can have a livelihood."

"But what did he do in this pseudo-emperor of Gengshi? I heard that he was still enjoying himself in the midst of a disaster."

Wang Mang was heartbroken. He lost to such a frugal and loving emperor who lost to such a person? He was unwilling to accept it! He also gradually understood why the new room collapsed!

"The ministers mistakenly!"

Many of his policies are good, but there is something wrong with the implementation of the subordinates. The powerful and cunning officials distort their intentions and obey them. The common people are not Wang Mang's original intention.

"All the generals will betray me!"

Mediocre generals such as Wang Yi, Wang Xun, and Lian Dan are boasting about it on weekdays, but every battle is given for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Which court can withstand such losses?

"The one who fails the most is the fifth relationship!"

There was also an ambitious man like the Fifth Reunion. The backstab from Hongmen was the direct cause of the destruction of the regime. Now when Wang Mang saw it, he felt in his heart: "At this time, the Green Forest is so unbearable. If there was a general who changed to a general, such as Tian Yi's side army, and attacked Nanyang, the Green Forest Army might be destroyed."

"Those who disrupt the world are not here, but all the people are here!"

In the final analysis, he was not wrong. What he was wrong was that he failed the new family's gentle intentions and was determined to restore the Liu clan. Look at what they had done to harm the world! Whether it was the Red Eyebrow or the Green Forest, they were originally honest people, but they were used by the traitors! Now I regret it!

When he arrived in Xindu, he saw that his former fiefdom was left with only dark ruins, and many refugees wandered among them, and his body was thin and as if he was like a ghost, Wang Mang became even more angry. He only called Liu Bosheng a plaudit, but in fact Xiang Yu was a good thing. He and the fifth dog bite and died in Guanzhong.

Ju Wuba was always taciturn, while Cui Fa listened to the old emperor's complaints and disagreed.

Although the people of Xindu say that they miss the Xin Dynasty, what they miss is just the benefits Wang Mang gave to the people of the fiefdom and the good thing of rent and tax exemption. If Wang Mang really showed his identity and the people of Xindu believe it, the first thing they did was probably...

Captured him and took him to Wancheng for rewards!

Wang Mang didn't think so. He still regarded the world as his own country. He could do this good silk, but he fell into the hands of Gengshi Green Forest so badly. He felt very distressed. The Zhou Gong's desire to save the world again emerged again.

But Wang Mang didn't have time to make any plans. The combination of their giant, old man, scholar and mule was really conspicuous. When the people of Xindu saw it, they were surrounded by soldiers by a commander of Green Forest Qu who was passing here.

This is a passing army with hundreds of people, and there is a continuous stream of troops behind it, surrounding Wang Mang and others' places. The spear pointed at them, and there were bows and arrows behind it, so there were no escape.

If Ju Wuba was alone, he might be able to fight out, but for fear that the conflict would accidentally hurt him, the emperor would have to protect him, obey the call of the Green Forest soldiers, and join their long team.

The team was filled with refugees who were gathered, and their eyes were full of confusion.

Cui Fa was very afraid and thought that his identity was exposed. He quickly told him that he had been fled from the west by a wealthy family. Wang Mang was a pseudonym Tian Weng, and he was a family official, while Ju Wuba was a pseudonym Tian Elai, and he was a guard.

Unexpectedly, the Green Forest Qu Shuai didn't even look at Wang Mang, but he came to Ju Wuba.

"What a hero!"

The coach of Green Forest praised Ju Wuba. This man was 1 zhang taller (Han zhang) and had a strong waist. If he were placed on the battlefield, he would definitely be a warrior. Unfortunately, he only carried the burden for his old master. It was a waste.

Coach Qu was very happy: "This time I came to Xindu to catch Ding and beat Red Eyebrows, I was so lucky to meet such a person! One person can beat ten people!"

"Ship Qu, will the white-haired old man leave behind?"

"Even the people and mules, I'll catch them back! I see that although his hair is white, he is still energetic and can do things. He will always be fine if he picks up dung and adds fire. No matter how bad he is, he can take him as a hostage so that the loyal giant to his master can serve me!"

...

Disasters and droughts will not distinguish the name of the regime. They walk freely in the world and can block the solidarity of the army, but may not necessarily block natural disasters.

In late April, Guanzhong could not escape the drought. He saw the red sun in the sky, like a fire, drying the fields, shattered trees, and half of the millet seedlings in the fields were withered and yellow. It was really a disaster in heaven and earth, and all people were robbed.

"Fortunately, by the king's decree, a ditche was dug near the newly opened fields in Shanglin County."

Du Shi, the water supervisor of Silidu, was very afraid. In the years when there was no water conservancy, agriculture was purely about paying attention to the sky. When it was not raining for a long time, the people not only went far away to pick up water and water the dried and cracked land, but also only cried out to the sky, staring at the clear sky, hoping that the clouds would rise and the rain would be done.

Simple agriculture is extremely risky. A wealthy family, even if there is a lot of land, will become poor households because there is no harvest. The poor people rely on farming to make a living, and there is no way to make a living. Only the virgin girl cries and everyone calls her hungry.

However, with water conservancy ditches, the drought can still be slightly controlled. The Bai Canal and Zheng Guo Canal in Weibei continue to provide irrigation water for energy sources, so that the granaries of Wei can still allow millet and wheat to survive in severe drought, and give some hope for the upcoming summer harvest.

In Shanglin County, Weinan, the water source is richer than in Weibei. Du Shi was ordered to work with the county's military troops and civilians to drive the river out of some small ditches through the farmland. The newly built water truck then sent the canal water to various hectares of fields, which at least relieved the drought.

However, water fights between the upstream and downstream of the ditches were more frequent. The King of Wei had to ask Jingzhao Yin and Lieutenant's Mansion to dispatch soldiers to suppress them, and asked Du Shi to uniformly assign the water gates of each ditches to open and close. When they caught the private fighters, they sent them to dig the canals.

"The Qin people's good tradition of being brave in public wars and being afraid of private wars must be continued."

When the King of Wei inspected the situation of the canals, he said: "The Shangdang is fighting in the north, and the same is true for Guanzhong. This battle is a death from the drought and famine!"

More than 300 officials who passed the exam in March have been trained for more than a month and are now in handy. They either run errands around the Fifth Reun, or are sent to Weibei and Weinan to assist in the transportation of grain and canals, and the grassroots officials are no longer all old officials of the previous dynasty, but also from the King of Wei. The outdated system has injected some vitality.

The fifth reunification tried to control the famine. Now the famine is mainly in Weinan. Shanglin Xinpi Tiancao is still early to harvest, and there are still 200,000 mouths waiting to be fed in Chang'an City.

When Weinan was hungry, the rest was moved to Weibei... It was still the same rule, and labor was used instead of relief. Idle people recruited them to Shanglin County to dig canals. Cars and rides continued to flow south from Liyang Crossing Weiqiao. Taicang, which was once hollowed out by the fifth reunion, was once again filled with old rice and grain from Weibei as their food. East and West cities also released part of the grain price to stabilize, and the embroidered and Yiwei entered and left the two cities. Any hoarding behavior would be subject to iron fist sanctions by the government.

After the last round of slight anti-corruption, seeing that the King of Wei even took ruthless measures in his own royal family, the officials did not dare to openly corruption, at most they could thieves.

"In this way, it would not be as exaggerated as Wang Mang's disaster relief. At that time, 10,000 stones of food were distributed, but the officials were fattened. The people had no grains, but they could only cook grass and trees for cheese, and countless people starved to death. The officials even deceived Wang Mang, saying that all the victims all had meat soup, and Wang Jujun actually believed it!"

The fifth reunion is a lot of irony about disaster relief in the Wang Mang era, and it is called "small goodness and desire to make up for great evil."

"Many places dare not report disasters because Wang Mang does not like the disaster, and the disaster is linked to salary, whoever reports will be damaged."

"The so-called exemption from rent and tax for poor and disaster victims was also used by local officials. In the end, the rich were all exempted from rent and tax, while the poor had to bear more generous taxes."

"Build 200 houses in Chang'an City to live in poor people? Most of the people who live in are evil and evil young men. The poor people live at the foot of the imperial wall and are driven away by officials, for fear that Wang Mang will see it."

If Wang Mang had not provided any incompetent relief for disasters, there would not have been so many poor soldiers who followed the fifth rebellion.

But this did not prevent the fifth reunion from learning from Wang Mang and taking the lead in "vegetarian food" during famine.

What he ate was alfalfa that people planted in Shanglin Gardens when they expected a great hunger in spring.

When Zhang Qian traveled west, he brought not only Tianma and grapes, but also this kind of thing. When he was planted in the remnants of Emperor Wu of Han, he has gradually spread and is the best forage for military horses.

This is a good thing. It can grow in three seasons, and it can be harvested several times a year, and it is also nutritious.

It is midsummer now. The alfalfa that has been harvested once in spring is growing like a rolling hydrangea again. The garden is full of the ground, and the seedlings are more than one foot tall, but they are very tender, so it is best to pinch them with your hands.

The food shortage was too big and the grain in Weibei was not filled. The fifth reunion called on the Shanglin people to eat wheat rice and alfalfa, and even took the lead in eating it. After the court meeting, the ministers were allowed to eat together.

The fifth way to avoid making the kitchen is too complicated. If you want to experience eating bran and drinking thin, there is no need to make honey and brew bran and deceive people.

At first, the ministers also had a happy meal. The steamed alfalfa was not unpalatable. It had a bite, a little sweet, neither bitter nor astringent, and it also allowed them to have a stomach and intestines of big fish and meat. But occasionally, it would be fine for a few meals, but who could stand the wild vegetables every day? After a few days, everyone saw alfalfa again and their faces turned green.

The fifth reunion only said: "We can still add vinegar and garlic, but the people can only steam the rice and swallow it dryly. Wouldn't it be even more bitter?"

"As long as the summer harvest has not arrived for a day and the hunger has not eased, I will eat this alfalfa every day! I will eat whatever the people eat!"

The king is humiliating and worried about his ministers, so the ministers naturally can only follow their examples, and at most they go home to have a small meal.

But the next declaration of the Fifth Reunion frightened them: "The people eat dirt, and I will take you to eat dirt."

"If the people are forced to be cannibalized..."

The fifth reunion pointed at the ministers present: "Not only will I issue an edict to cut my hair to blame myself, but the Nine Ministers must have to change a few more!"

This is too harsh. Isn’t it normal for a few people to starve to death in drought and famine? A minister then advised: “King, this is a chaotic era, and it is not as good as a prosperous era. Even if a tragedy happens, the king should not blame himself.”

"Although Wang Mang was foolish and ruined the world's affairs, he at least had the heart to save the people. Now there are famines in the other states, but Gengshi and others have nothing to save them, and they only care about enjoyment and melee. The world's hans are not as good as Wang Mang! Compared to this, the king is like Yao and Shun!"

Wu Lun was also curious about what the men abandoned and what they had reborn. After Huang Chang and others sent a detailed work to sneak into the Green Man, he roughly summarized the following words:

"The new house will be abolished, the Han family will be restored; the Wang family will be abolished, and the Liu family will be restored; I will be abolished, and I will be restored; Chang'an will be abolished, and Chang'an will be restored; the ancient clothes of the new dynasty will be abolished, and the Han officials will be abolished; the fifth-class title will be abolished, and the princes will be abolished; the astronomical crown will be abolished, and the Liu family will be abolished; the new lyrics will be abolished, and the Han family will be reborn. The king's fields will be abolished, and the private subordinates will be abolished, and the pigs will be bravely abolished, and the Han army will be reborn."

Wang Mang once changed the Han system, and the Gengshi regime changed all the same.

But most of them are "waste" and "refuse", but they change the soup without changing the medicine, and they even don't change the soup, but they only change the broken bowl of soup. The situation is even worse. The Han people think about is a Han who has light taxes and low taxes, but how can they hope to have a beast full of animals and a rotten wood as an official, and the ability to squeeze even surpasses that of the "Han" in the new dynasty.

The people are as poor as old as they are, and the porridge and tofu are still the same as before. The long-awaited Han family has returned, and the burden on their shoulders has obviously increased. How can we not be disappointed?

To sum up, there have been situations of "new people" in many overseas prefectures and counties recently, and many people regret rebelling. The reason is not because Daxin is too good, but because the Chinese are too bad!

"Then I will have more relief!"

When the fifth reunion saw that all the ministers were a little proud, he felt that the Wei State was already a beacon on earth, so he reminded them: "The ancestral temples in Linqu Township were originally called 'Liren Hall', which was taken from the Analects of Confucius "Liren"."

"In that article, there is another sentence that Yu likes very much."

"Look at the virtuous and think about it, and reflect on yourself when you see the virtuous!"

How bad did the men do? The fifth relationship can be listened to as happy, but even if his regime has many shortcomings and problems, it must go to the right and the good!

"I disdain to compare with Gengshi, Wang Mang and other unwise people."
Chapter completed!