I went to the temple after traveling through time, and he turned out to be a monk!

The news of Meng Ying's return was absolutely closed to the outside world. Even the carnival was in the name of Mei Boyang's birthday party.

Most of the children of the Mei family are also away from home. For Mei Boyang's birthday party, except for those who are still fighting, most of them have returned.

Meng Ying had a discussion with Mei Gong and only met a few people.

Meng Ying was thinking about many things to come, so she sent Shuangyun to contact the former forces.

After several days of banquets, Meng Ying still didn't see Mei Shaohong. He felt a little strange, so he asked Mei Boyang, "Where did my uncle go? Why didn't he see him?"

Mei Boyang was a little dazed after drinking, and responded in a daze, "He, who knows where he went to play!"

"He often doesn't come back?" Meng Ying remembered that Mei Shaohong was a homebody. When he came back in the past, he would always be there. He would eat and live with him every day and treat him very well.

"Isn't that right? It should be said that since you disappeared, he has stopped staying at home. At such an old age, he has neither married nor had children! I really don't know what he is going to do!" Mei Boyang complained about him being such a loser. younger brother.

"Didn't my grandfather show him the marriage relationship?"

"Hahahahaha! How can those women catch his eye? He is even more of a bastard than me. He only plays with women and then kills them after playing with them!"

Meng Ying frowned slightly, "He was like this before? Did I remember it wrong?"

"Ever since your mother died, he has loved to lock himself up and not want to see anyone but you! But since he heard the news of your disappearance six years ago, he has changed his gender and has been playing around all day long. Damn it!"

"I haven't been home for two years! The last time I heard news about him was when he dug a gold mine in Shayu Pass and didn't hand it over! Now he should be walking around with the gold mine! Leave him alone, maybe he will go somewhere God is back!"

Mei Boyang didn't like to take care of his younger brother. He was very strange and refused to be taken care of. Only his younger sister Mei Yingxue could take care of him.

Meng Ying didn't think much about it. Since she didn't know his whereabouts, she could only wait for Mei Shaohong to come back before having a good chat with him.

*

There have been heavy rains in Denning City for several days. The dam upstream was not strong enough, and now it was washed away. The floods rose and flooded several villages.

Troops were sent to carry out emergency repairs day and night to rescue the remaining villagers, but the crops could not be saved.

Although Bai Zhi has always wanted to rebuild the dam, she also made a plan and prepared a batch of money, but there were few people in Denning. Even with Boss Lu's money as support, she could not find migrant workers to build the dam.

Just then, someone came to the door about emergency repairs.

The military attache in charge of manpower recruitment shouted at the top of his lungs, "This ten-mile dike is so wide. How can I build it if I don't have a thousand people? Those farmers still gathered in crowds to protest! The dike has been built not just for them, but it's a thankless task!"

The farmer officer also said plausibly, "You have taken away all my farmers. Who will farm the land? Ah? No one farmed the land. Then the people of Danning City, as well as the hundreds of officials, nearly 10,000 Soldier, what do you want to eat?"

"Don't yell at me. If the flood comes again and everything is submerged, I think you will still be planting seeds!"

The two were quarreling fiercely. Zhou Li and Bai Zhi shook their heads after hearing this. They had no choice, they were short of people!

Zhou Li asked someone to make tea for the two of them and let them continue arguing. Quarrels were allowed in Bai Zhi's meeting hall.

The military attache was worthy of being a military attache. He was tired of arguing with the peasant officer with his fierceness, and then he shouted at Bai Zhi, "City Lord, you are a woman, and I don't want to say too much about some things..."

Bai Zhi raised her hand, "Hey! Stop it, you have something to talk about, don't talk about men and women!"

"Okay! Then let me tell you, your military strength in the five cities of Denning is too weak. You should forcefully recruit troops to strengthen the army. Otherwise, any force can destroy us in an instant!"

How could Bai Zhi not know this? It was a cliché. She took a sip of tea helplessly and said, "But food is the most important thing for the people. I have to let the people have enough to eat, otherwise they will all starve to death. What are you soldiers protecting?" ?”

"You just let them eat too much, and they will huddle in the house all day long and lose their blood! I wonder if the city lord has ever heard of a saying, when the people are weak and the country is strong, the country is strong and the people are weak!"

Bai Zhi frowned slightly, "You want to use a strategy that weakens the people?"

"Tiger beasts are only aggressive when they are hungry, and so are the people in the city! If a city loses its blood, it will be devoured and destroyed sooner or later! To be honest, I don't like the peaceful scene that the city lord wants, and I find it difficult to Realize, these are troubled times! Only strong soldiers can survive in troubled times!"

Bai Zhi had to admit that her thinking had the limitations of the times, and the decisions she made were all based on certain factory settings.

But she still can't put the cart before the horse. She originally fought for the people, but now she can't sacrifice the people for the sake of war.

No matter how the world evaluates her, saying that she is weak, kind, and indecisive, she still has to act according to her own conscience. That is her persistence.

She chuckled, "Xiao Lieutenant Liu is right, in these troubled times, weak soldiers will lead to self-destruction!"

"But I also have my own reasons. Xiao Lieutenant Liu, please listen to me."

"That's what you say!"

Bai Zhi said calmly, "Human beings are like all animals. Staying hungry can indeed stimulate people's mentality to kill, but it is only the mentality to kill!"

"The reason why humans are different from other animals is that they can think and make progress. But people ruled by hunger and fear are only thinking about food and survival. They have no time to think, let alone make progress, even if they can rely on The instinct to kill wins the war for a while, but it will inevitably be replaced by a stronger race. "

"Then according to what the city lord said, what is considered thinking and what is considered progress?"

"A strong man can hit ten people with his head lifted up, but a repeating crossbow can kill several people hundreds of miles away. This is a weapon! A woman can only weave a piece of cloth after staying vigil for several days, but A spinning wheel and loom can solve this problem in one day!”

"The use of tools is the manifestation of human progress. Farm tools and vehicles are all things that can be improved! But if the people are hungry, they will be thinking about the next meal. How can they think and improve?"

Although the captain thought it was reasonable, he still retorted, "Although what the city lord said is reasonable, it cannot solve the urgent need! Now our troops are weak and we have to build dikes. How can we solve these problems!"

Bai Zhi paced back and forth, frowning in thought, then turned to look at the agricultural officer, "Sir Qi, how do the men and women of the farmers in the surrounding villages divide their labor and what is their number?"

Upon hearing this, the agricultural official reported truthfully, "In the five townships of Danning and Yun counties, there are 288 strong men, but more than 800 old and weak women and children. The strong men are overwhelmed by the heavy farm work, and the women take care of the elderly and children during the day. , it’s miserable to do some handiwork at night and sell it in the city!”

The military attache didn't say a word after hearing this. It was really hard for everyone!

Bai Zhi always felt that there were many strange fragments emerging in her mind, which made her somewhat messy thoughts string together.

She suddenly realized it and breathed a sigh of relief, "Oh, there is a way, a way to get the best of both worlds!"

Just as she was about to speak, she heard a child crying.

Zhuo Rong entered the meeting hall with her child in her arms and said to Bai Zhi, "Sister, Agu must be hungry, and I can't coax him well."