This King Zhou is not stupid

After hearing this, Ji Fa frowned.

He originally wanted to only relieve the disaster in Xiqi, so why did he attract beggars from other vassal states? !

"Why are they here?"

The beggar also smiled and said: "Everyone is here to beg for a meal. I heard that Xiqi gave away rice porridge for free, and there is enough rice porridge, so naturally they all came."

When Ji Fa heard this, he was furious!

Forget about the beggars in Xiqi, and the beggars from other princely states also come for nothing?

He looked at the long line with mixed feelings in his heart.

'Shut them all away?No, it will be infamy, but it can't continue like this, if the number of beggars continues to increase, Xiqi will become a city of beggars! '

What he did was different from the expected result in his heart, which made Ji Fa really uncomfortable, and felt a little depressed in his heart.

After the beggar was sent away, Ji Fa immediately issued an order.

He said to the food distribution officer: "From today on, only two barrels of porridge will be distributed every day."

"But son, two barrels of porridge are not enough, at least four barrels are needed."

"Then add more water to make four barrels! Xiqi doesn't need to raise white-eyed wolves!"

Ji Fa was really in a hurry, he didn't believe it anymore, could it be that he, the second son of Xiqi, can't even cure these beggars? !

Don't tell me, it's his way.

It can't be cured.

Regarding this situation, Di Xin can actually sum it up in one sentence.

【If you want the horse to run, you have to feed the horse】

A thousand-mile horse runs fast and has great endurance, so it eats good fodder.

Ordinary horses can run averagely, have less endurance, and can also eat ordinary forage.

But if you don’t want to run and eat grass like a horse, you should kill it to eat meat earlier.

Many people may ask whether this is "capital", but it can only be said that you still don't understand the meaning of "capital", and capital is not a question of whether to eat grass or not.

He was fishing for a carrot in front of the horse, and let the horse run after the carrot. He wanted to eat it but couldn't get it, and he caught it when he didn't want to eat it.

This is capital.

Chapter 190: Teaching a man to fish is worse than giving him a fish

The next day, the porridge officer did as Ji Fa said and reduced the amount of porridge given.

The beggars looked at the bowl with only half a bowl of porridge water, and wondered, "Why is this porridge getting thinner?"

"Yeah, it was almost full yesterday, and today we can have floating rice."

The beggars complained a lot for a while, and they went to the gruel cooker to argue.

"It's so rare that you can't get enough!"

"That's right, if you don't want to give alms, don't give alms. Is such thin rice porridge rice porridge? This is rice soup."

The gruel cook also sighed helplessly, this is not his decision, if it were him, he would never give alms to beggars, because he is poor and his monthly salary is so little that he cannot afford alms.

Who made his young master kind-hearted?

He said according to Ji Fa's instructions: "If you like to eat, leave if you don't eat. There are still people waiting behind you."

What Ji Fa wanted was to drive away some beggars so that they would not continue to eat public food in Xiqi City. Now that spring was approaching and the temperature began to rise, people would no longer starve to death.

Sure enough, some beggars left after seeing the porridge for alms became thinner, but some beggars still kept it. Instead, they ensured that the amount of rice porridge was enough for alms.

Looking at this scene at the teahouse in the distance, Ji Fa also nodded.

"That's right."

His charity of rice porridge was an act of kindness, but it was definitely not to let these beggars drag Xibohou and Xiqi back.

"That means I have a kind heart. I just forced you to leave. If you were replaced by the tyrant Chaoge, I'm afraid you would starve to death!"

He was quite right.

If it was Di Xin, he would really let these beggars starve to death, not because he was cruel, but because he really looked down on those people who were just waiting to die.

Even if you are a beggar, if you find a place with a lot of traffic, you don't ask for much, and you ask for one penny at a time. It is not a big problem to ask for tens or hundreds of dollars a day.

As for those beggars who steal things and dawdle, they lack education and go astray, but at least they know one skill and have a chance to become a regular in the future.

However, there are some beggars with healthy limbs and clear minds, but they lie in the haystacks and refuse to eat until the food is brought to their mouths for free. The kind of beggars who scold the emperor for not doing anything all day long, what is the use of saving such people?

Even mice know how to stockpile winter food.

So Di Xin chose not to save people. There is a shortage of people everywhere in Chaoge City. There is a shortage of people in the restaurant, in the Xiufang, in the hospital, in the construction site, and in the Yaoyaoling department. What is lacking is not talent, but a shortage people.

Any job is enough to live on, overtime is paid, not forced to rely on voluntary, and official treatment is still paid.

Having said so much, it can still be summed up in one sentence.

【Teaching a man to fish is worse than giving him a fish. 】

People who even use fishing nets to sell money instead of fishing, such people will not lose money if they starve to death.

As for charity, it is even more impossible. It is true that Di Xin is the emperor of Yin and Shang, but all the treasury is used to distribute to other people. up.

Ji Fa still didn't understand this truth enough, he thought that beggars would remember his kindness, and of course beggars would remember his kindness, because they were full.

But what if he doesn't let them eat enough?

That is naturally hate.

"Mr. Ji Fa is too stingy. He obviously lives in such a magnificent mansion, but he is not willing to even give out a little rice porridge!"

"That's right, fortunately he is still the second son of Marquis Xibo."

"The more I think about it, the angrier I get! I simply don't see us as human beings! No, I can't bear it!"

The beggars live in groups in dilapidated houses and take care of each other. They feel that beggars are a kind of people, but Ji Fa and them are not a kind of people. When discrimination and being discriminated against arise, conflicts easily arise.

The Xibohou Mansion has suffered a humiliation that has not been experienced in hundreds of years.

A beggar threw a lump of fresh cow dung viciously at the gate of Xibohou Mansion, and the guards at the gate were dumbfounded.

"That beggar, stop for me!!!"

"Don't run!!!"

Although the guards at the door chased after him, they were still allowed to escape under the cover of other beggars.

But two hours later, the cultivator of the Human Ministry of Xiqi caught the beggar.

"Run? Where are you going!"

The guard pointed fiercely at the tied beggar and said, "That's him, throwing cow dung at the gate of the Hou's mansion! Who gave you the courage to insult Xibohou like this?!"

The guard's words were not serious. Throwing cow dung at the gate of Xibohou's mansion really meant the same thing as humiliating Xibohou.

The gate is the facade of the Hou Mansion.

"Fuck! Xibohou changed his mind temporarily and treated us like monkeys, let alone cow dung, next time I will leave dung at the gate of Xibohou's mansion!"

"When did I change my mind?"

Ji Chang's voice sounded from the Hou's mansion, and he walked out covering his nose with his sleeves covered. Although dried cow dung is a good combustible product, it has no peculiar smell.

But the smell of wet cow dung is really unflattering. Even though the gate has been wiped clean, the smell is still hard to dissipate.

"Master Hou, this beggar dares to throw dung at the gate of the Hou Mansion, I propose to drag him out and beat him to death with sticks!" A military officer behind Xi Bohou said angrily.

This crime is not serious. If someone throws cow dung into the palace, let alone the guards, the citizens may beat him to death with sticks.

"Don't panic, let me ask him the reason first, who are you? Why are you throwing dung at the gate of the Hou Mansion."

"I am a beggar in Xiqi! Throwing dung is to vent my dissatisfaction. You give out porridge as you give out. Why do you want to pass it off as good? Is that bowl of porridge and half a bowl of water for human consumption?!"

If Di Xin was here, he would definitely have slapped him, causing his nose to crooked and his face tilted, and then he would ask, "Why is half a bowl of water not for human consumption?"

It's a pity that Xibohou has a good temper. Although he was dissatisfied, he didn't explode immediately.

"I know about the porridge, but the standard of porridge is the custom of the Hou Mansion, and it is provided free of charge without charging a penny. There is nothing wrong with half a bowl of rice and half a bowl of water. If you don't like it, you can eat it." I don’t want to eat it, but throwing dung at the Hou’s mansion is really too much.”

"Master Hou, what will he do with it?"

"Take it to the street and play twenty big boards, so as to make an example to others!"

"Yes!"

Xibohou cares more about the majesty of Xiqi's law than worrying about other people's evaluation. This beggar deserves to be beaten, and only twenty big boards are considered cheap for him.

The beggar was dragged to the street by the guards and beat the board in public. The heavy wooden board was not a joke when it was slapped on the buttocks.

Twenty big boards, weak body and half life may be gone.

But no one sympathized with this beggar. Everyone around Xibohou's mansion knew what he had done, and it was unreasonable to throw dung at the Hou's mansion without hitting a board.

It's fine if Xibohou doesn't care, but if Xibohou says to hit him, he has to hit him, and he has to hit him hard.

Hearing the sound of boards on the street, Xibohou said without turning his head: "Go and ask Fa'er to come to my study, and also, let the porridge shop be withdrawn, and put up a sign on the spot, saying that the cold winter is over. More porridge!"

"Yes."

Xi Bohou knew that this kind of charity would only make more beggars dissatisfied, so he might as well withdraw it directly. The long-term pain is worse than the short-term pain.

He also beat his chest in regret.

"It's all my fault. I was too eager to let Xiqi have successors. I didn't expect that good deeds would bear bad results."

Chapter 190 Three: Expedition Expenses!

The embarrassing things Ji Fa did were quickly spread to Di Xin's ears.

"puff."

After hearing this, Di Xin couldn't hold back his heart, and laughed out loud.

'It's really courageous to give alms to beggars, even I dare not do that. '

Although Dixin has also done a lot of good deeds, such as building roads and houses, it is necessary.

Roads are used by everyone, whether they are farmers, businessmen, nobles, royal families or the army. They are typical public facilities; the houses in Nandu are because the people of Nandu were severely affected by the disaster. He was embarrassed to ask for money before allocating houses. The citizens of Nandu cannot be allowed to sleep on the streets.

'No, I can't laugh, even if I haven't received professional training, I can't laugh. After all, this kind of mistake is not only made by Ji Fa, many people have made this mistake in history. '

If it is Dixin, Dixin will recruit workers to reduce the pressure on refugees.

This point was used as early as the beginning of the disaster in Nandu. 90% of the people in Nandu spent their hard days at work. After the construction of Nandu was completed, other people naturally had no face to continue to eat disaster relief food in Chaoge up.

Even if there were a few who refused to leave with shamelessness, Di Xin threw him out anyway.

"Your Majesty, is it inappropriate for Marquis Xibo to stop giving porridge?" the official who reported the matter asked Di Xin.

"Not right? No, he's doing a good job, but it's not enough."

If it was Di Xin, he would release another message when he stopped serving porridge.

For example, a certain place is recruiting workers. In this way, a group of motivated talents can be excavated from the beggars, or the addition of a riot to arrest them for military service can also make some bad guys dare not show their heads.

"He didn't completely cut off the thoughts of beggars, so the beggars at the bottom of Xiqi will be in chaos for a while, but only for a while, and they haven't been able to make a big difference yet."

"Oh I got it."

The civil servant nodded and backed away.

As soon as he left the back garden where Di Xin was, he wrote the incident on a note and handed it to a guard outside the palace, and gave him some money at the same time.

"Go, immediately take today's flying boat and deliver this letter to Lord Xibo."

The guard nodded, and immediately took the airship that set sail that afternoon to Xiqi, and within an hour, he arrived at Xiqi's airship docking station.

Then I took the carriage and came all the way to Xibohou Mansion. It was still dark at this time.

The guard exhaled hot breath, and said at the gate of Hou Mansion: "I have something to ask Xi Bohou."

"Master Hou has been waiting for a long time, please." Marquis Xibo had already notified the guard in advance, and the guard walked into the Hou's mansion naturally.

After a stick of incense, Xi Bohou looked at the letter in his hand and felt relieved.