Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

"How's the situation?"

Mo Jun waited for a while, and after Yao Gui had finished treating the little girl's injuries, he stepped forward and asked.

Yao Gui's face was not very good-looking, which was normal, because no doctor would feel better after seeing the torture and injuries suffered by these children.

Seeing that the person who came was Mr. Mo, Yao Gui exhaled a breath of gloom, but his eyes were still a little gloomy, and said: "There happened to be three [Myogenic and Bone-regenerating Grass] mature this year, so the trauma and bone injuries on these children can basically be guaranteed to be free." Obstacle, but the parts that are missing..."

Although Yao Gui hadn't finished speaking, Mr. Mo had already understood what he meant.

Whether it is internal or external injuries.

With the help of Lord Mo's [Life Crystal] and the various elixirs cultivated by the medicine ghosts, they can all come up with ways to cure him.

But some of these children had their tongues and limbs cut off directly. Faced with this situation, neither Mo Jun nor Yao Gui could do anything.

"Furthermore, the physical injuries are not bad, but some children have been tortured for too long and their minds have collapsed. In the current situation, most of the children who can cry are no longer in serious trouble. The key is that those children who cannot even cry are the big trouble. "

After saying that, Yao Gui added another sentence.

Mo Jun nodded gloomily. Although he didn't know much about medical skills, he still understood some basic common sense. People who know how to cry at least show that they still have emotions in their hearts.

But those children who can't even cry have had their most basic humanity forcibly 'annihilated'.

This is not only a spiritual problem, but also a destruction of the spiritual level.

Mr. Mo also secretly fed some [Adventurer's Soul] to these children, but with little effect. Only a small number of children's conditions were alleviated, and some serious cases were ineffective at all.

"Black Feather!"

Mo Jun suddenly shouted, and the next second, with a few pieces of black feathers falling down, Black Feather's figure silently appeared beside Mo Jun.

"Sir, what are your orders?"

"Go tell the prisoner in the dungeon to give those 'nobles' an extra meal today."

"yes!"

Black Feather responded, then his figure flashed and disappeared without a trace.

After getting a little angry, Mo Jun said again: "Zhan Qin, have the parents of these children been found?"

"Some parents have come to claim their children, but..."

"but what?"

"But most of the people who come to claim the child are boys. The parents of the girl have only found one so far. The parents of the other two children came and saw that their children's legs and feet had been chopped off, and then sneaked away."

When he said this, Zhan Qin's tone was helpless and angry.

Mr. Mo was speechless after hearing this.

The preference for boys over girls was an unsolvable problem in the era of small-scale peasant economy. Giving birth to a boy was an extra labor force for the family, while giving birth to a girl was a burden.

The only role of a girl is to raise her up to be married off at best, or to sell her daughter at worst.

But in the current environment, even if it is to 'sell daughters', only clean ones can be sold. Dirty girls are completely a burden to the family, so naturally not many people are willing to adopt them back.

Not only girls, but boys will also be abandoned once they lose the value of their labor force, just like the two parents who saw their children's legs and feet cut off after they arrived, and then sneaked away.

"In this case, then we will send a sum of money to those families who are determined to give up their children, and then ask them to sign a deed of sale. We will raise all the children."

"As for those children whose parents have never been found, if someone comes to adopt them in the future, let them pay the 'support' first and then take them away."

Mo Jun said calmly.

Mo Jun can understand the current difficulties of these families, and he can also raise all these children with kindness, but this does not mean that he is willing to be taken advantage of.

The function of "deed of sale" is equivalent to "deprivation of custody rights" in this era.

If Mr. Mo doesn't take precautions, if he works hard to raise these children, his biological parents will come over to 'pick peaches' right away.

That would make Mr. Mo so sick that he couldn't eat for several days.

As for now that I have signed a 'deed of sale', there will still be people who want to kidnap me morally and act rogue in the future.

Ah!

This is not an era two thousand years later, when extortion and extortion are not illegal.

Do you really think that Mr. Mo’s current position of power is just for show?

"Yes, I understand!"

Zhan Qin calmly wrote down the incident. He didn't think there was anything wrong with Mr. Mo's handling of the matter. To be precise, Mr. Mo's behavior at the moment could be considered a act of kindness.

After all, few people would be willing to do such a thing even if they visited the Seven Kingdoms several times to raise hundreds of worthless children.

After visiting the children here.

Mo Jun then turned around and walked out, preparing to go to the lobby to meet the 'purple-haired woman'.

But just when the two of them showed up at the front door, Mo Jun suddenly heard a cry of injustice from outside the door.

"What an injustice!"

"There is no justice. The county governor is looking down on human life and killing innocent people indiscriminately."

"Does it mean that as an official, you can do whatever you want?"

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Hearing the noise coming from outside the main entrance, Mo Jun frowned and asked, "What's going on? Hasn't the disaster situation in Nan County been slowly calmed down?"

"Sir, these are not disaster victims, they are the fault of those nobles."

Zhan Qin explained in a low voice: "According to your previous instructions, we have not officially announced the charges for the extermination of the four major clans this time."

"Originally, I planned to take this opportunity to see if I could catch a few more fish hiding under the water. But now these nobles seem to have learned a lot. So far, no one has taken action personally. They are just secretly stirring up resentment among the people. , let some ignorant civilians come forward to complain."

Mo Jun thought for a moment, and it seemed that he had indeed given such an order before.

The main reason is that it is convenient. Anyway, things have become so big now, so we simply add more fire and burn down the hidden pest scourge in Nan County.

After all, before taking action this time, Mr. Mo didn't expect that the four major clans would dare to "privately make armor" and "privately train five thousand soldiers and horses." It would be a pity if he didn't do something with such a good excuse. .

As for the possible backlash that Mr. Mo will suffer in the future, everyone has already reached this point, and he has too many lice to bite now.

"Haven't you ever dealt with these civilians?"

"We have also comforted and advised them, but those nobles have been rooted in Nan County for many years, and their influence in this area is stronger than that of the county governor's office. Our persuasion basically has little effect."

Zhan Qin hesitated for a moment, then said: "Sir, how about I simply send someone to arrest a group of them and lock them up to kill the chickens to scare the monkeys?"

Mo Jun rolled his eyes and said: "If you do this, then you have really fallen into the trap. These civilians were just fooled and did not commit any mistakes themselves. If you caught them, you really took the initiative." Leave the handle to those people."

Everyone has a herd mentality, especially when the number of people gathered reaches a certain level, the truth becomes unimportant.

Sometimes many officials in ancient times would call people "foolish people", which is not unreasonable.

Therefore, the best way to appease people's emotions is never to tell the truth, but to divert people's attention.

Think about it for a while.

Mo Jun said: "How are we doing disaster relief now?"

Hearing this, Zhan Qin couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Disaster relief, isn't it just giving out porridge?"

Mo Jun shook his head: "Another method is to use work-for-relief, allowing the victims to exchange their own labor for food. At the same time, we can also involve some civilians and find something for them to do to divert the attention of those people."

"Will this... have a bad impact? What if it arouses public resentment? After all, they have just suffered a disaster. Should the victims be allowed to rest and recuperate for a while?"

Zhan Qin was a little worried. After all, these victims had just suffered a catastrophe. It would be too cruel to force them to work so quickly.

"It is because they have just suffered a catastrophe that they should be busy. Only after they are busy, these people will have no time to think about things."

Mo Jun's view is exactly the opposite of Zhan Qin. Zhan Qin lives in this era and pays more attention to basic human survival issues, that is, having enough food and clothing.

But Mo Jun, who came from a later generation, knew very well that in the face of catastrophic disasters, mental stability is often more important than food.

As he spoke, Mr. Mo continued: "As for arousing public resentment, a team of black-armored soldiers can be dispatched to take control at that time. They should be used in troubled times. And the victims generally don't have much energy to make troubles. At this time, 80% of those who dare to make troubles will It's also the fault of those nobles, so you don't have to be polite when the time comes."

"You have to remember one thing: disaster relief is disaster relief, and doing good is doing good. These are two different things."

In the few years since he came to this world, Mo Jun's behavior pattern and outlook on life have also changed subtly. The knowledge reserves of future generations are far richer than those of this era. After all, the current hardware facilities are limited, and the scope of information dissemination is limited.

Moreover, there is still a lot of knowledge that is monopolized by the aristocratic class, and ordinary people are not even qualified to access it. Naturally, it cannot be compared with later generations of the Internet era.

But theory is theory, and action is action. There are many truths that Mr. Mo had never noticed before. It was not until he came to this world that he slowly began to understand them.

Zhan Qin nodded thoughtfully, then bowed to Lord Mo and said, "Thank you for your advice, sir. Zhan Qin understands."

"But sir, if we provide work-for-relief, what should we ask these victims to do?"

Relief through work was not invented by later generations. In fact, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Yan Ying, a doctor in Qi State, had already used a similar method.

There is a record in "Yanzi Chunqiu": "The Qi Dynasty was hungry and Yanzi helped the people because of the battle of sleeping on the road."

During the reign of Duke Jinggong of Qi, there was a famine in the world, and the official Yan Ying advised him to send Lun millet for relief. But Jinggong did not agree, because at that time Jinggong planned to build a "road sleeping platform".

So Yan Ying took the initiative to take over this task, and then hired the victims with high salaries and postponed the completion date, pretending to be building a platform, but actually doing disaster relief.

Finally managed to survive the famine.

So there isn’t really that much new under the sun.

However, 'relief through work' is not something that can be solved just by talking about it. If you want to use this method to provide disaster relief, you must first meet two basic conditions.

First, there must be enough disaster relief food.

Second, there must be jobs that allow so many disaster victims to start working at the same time.

Compared to the first one.

In fact, the second item is even more difficult to satisfy now.

Why do most people think of "men farming and women weaving" when they think of the era of small-scale peasant economy? It's because nowadays, apart from farming and weaving, there really aren't that many jobs out there for people to choose from.

Mo Jun thought for a moment, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, and he said: "In this way, you first lead these victims to dig out a few lakes that can be used to store water in places that were most prone to floods in the past."

"Then we'll find a few workers who are proficient in construction, check the topography of Nan County, and build a few embankments that can be used to prevent floods around the grain fields that are usually flooded."

After listening to Lord Mo's words, Zhan Qin's writing brush paused slightly and looked at Lord Mo in surprise: "Do you want to completely solve the flood disaster in Nan County?"

"But the amount of the project is too large. Even if there are tens of thousands of disaster victims working together, it will probably take several years."

"I'm afraid our food won't last that long!"

Lord Mo had left 200,000 shi of food behind, which seemed like a lot, but if he could supply tens of thousands of victims at the same time and last for a year, it would be considered a huge amount.

Faced with Zhan Qin's doubts, Mo Jun waved his hands and said, "It doesn't matter. Just find someone to do it first. Remember that a few key sections to prevent waterlogging must be piled with stones. I will think of ways to reinforce them later."

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