Edo Traveler

v2 Chapter 67: Famine rice is not only edible

   "Just ask for hundreds of pots indiscriminately, why buy it?" Shuroku wrote a ticket for the money and handed it to Chungemon for his signature.

   "All we can recruit are those without pots, and those with pots can't be recruited." Chuemon pointed towards the ruins in front of him.

   The poor and ordinary people eat takeaways and live in Datong shops. There is no pot at all. Even if there are pots, they are all thrown into the fire at this time, and it is impossible to use them.

   I can’t ask for the pots of thousands of Kimoto masters. The Kimoto masters live in the south of the city. Their homes have not been overwhelmed, but they dare not go with the hundreds of bear-hearted leopards at the Zhongyou Gate.

   What is left is not the wealthy merchant who sells ironware castings, who can recruit hundreds to thousands of iron pots at once. Merchants are easy to bully, but that good bully is only relative to old middlemen like Mizuno Tadakuni and generals like Tokugawa Ieaki. Which tycoon does not stand behind a few bigwigs?

   None of them can be provoked by Chuemon. Even if they are forced by the situation now, they will not say anything, but in the future there will be opportunities to wear shoes and stumbling for Chuemon. Rather than offend them, it's better to pay for it directly with them. Anyway, it was Tokugawa Ieki's money, and Chungemon didn't pay much.

   It’s a big deal. I will sell second-hand goods in the future and send the wok to the pawnshop. As long as people have to eat, the iron pot will never be eliminated, and it can sell for a higher price.

   "Yes!" Zhuroku scratched his head. He hadn't bathed in two days, and his scalp was itchy.

   "Hurry up, hurry up, the people who fled outside the city are about to come back." Chungemon asked everyone to move quickly.

  Since you want to cook rice, except for the iron pot, it is firewood. As for the stove, just a few bricks are just a small problem. The moat was littered with waste wood, and the river was also full of waste wood, but this amount of wood is definitely not enough to cook a month's meal for 200,000 people.

   Tademon hurriedly went to the general director of Okusa Takayoshi, and because of the dead ghost Yabe Sadaken, who came back as if he was okay, and came back to Edo Minami-cho, who pretended to be okay. The two are responsible for the reconstruction of the fired area in the north of the city, coordinating the street planning, and the connection of the ditches.

  Nothing else. They will hire a large number of poor people, so that the pressure on Chuyemon who needs relief will be less. Secondly, even though the fire was over, eighty-nine towns were burned to white ground, but after all, this was not Li Mei's burning bomb, it was the kind that was burnt clean by both people and ghosts.

  There are all kinds of waste and charcoal that have not been completely burned down. In theory, they are already garbage, but for Chuemon, as long as it can be burned, it is a good thing. The price of buying firewood in Edo is too expensive, so it is better to use it as waste and use it to cook rice for Chuemon.

   Discussing with the two of them was also for this matter. Chungemon watched hundreds of thousands of victims squatting on the side of the street every day without preparing, and mobilized them to clean up the waste materials on the street, and all moved to the riverside. In order to prevent these people from doing nothing to become a factor of social instability, it can also save Tokugawa Jiaqing a few dollars.

   What disagreed with the suggestion that Dacao Gaohao and Yuanshan Yuan could disagree, and immediately agreed. They originally needed to hire someone to clean up the fire scene. Now that they have freelance workers to use, that's a great thing.

   The three people hit it off immediately, and then they mobilized their hands to announce along the street that only those who carried the waste materials and went to the city could have porridge and rice. The old and the young must be hugged, and no food will be given if they are not hugged.

   The other is to recruit one to two thousand temporary workers to cook rice. Hundreds of thousands of mouths need to be managed, which basically means cooking rice 24 hours a day, and it may not be enough to feed. So this matter needs to be generous, and may even need to recruit more staff.

   left Sukeruku to deal with it on the spot, and Chuemon took Amano Hachiro to the official warehouse to check the fineness of the 100,000 stone grains allocated. Because of the horrible lessons of the Great Famine in the past, Matsudaira, known as the "Prime Minister of Shirakawa", set up a barn in Edo to store relief rice.

   In the past, after the shogunate harvested the nian tribute rice, the western countries were generally sold in Osaka, and the eastern ones were sold in Edo. Except for the part that needs to be paid for, the rest were basically sold immediately. The shogunate is poor and needs money. It's really sad to have no money.

   But fortunately, this policy of reserving the savaged rice was continued. The shogunate generals of the past also knew that the people were squeezed badly by them, and even the leeks could not be cut according to the roots. Always give the leeks a chance to recover, so that the leeks can be cut by his Tokugawa family forever.

   Well, I was shot by Hachiro Amano!

   Tokugawa Jiaqing really gave it the old rice, but it was not the kind of old old rice, maybe it was the rice from the year before last year. The problem is not big, it hasn't become moldy or black, and the rice grains haven't broken apart, so that it won't be eaten by people, and it will be directly poisoned by the Aspergillus flavus.

   That's what is called death. The fire did not burn people to death. After eating the relief rice from the shogunate, they were poisoned alive!

   "It should be the old rice that has been replaced with this year's new rice." Hachiro Amano has never planted the ground, but it is so good that he has milled the rice, and at a glance it should be one year old.

   "It was just right to cook rice." Chuemon nodded.

   "This was specially ordered by the Hou Hamamatsu~lightnovelpub.net~ The official Cura Fumi who accompanied the inspection on the side, with some envy.

   It turned out that Mizuno Tadakuni ordered it, no wonder. The so-called wooden peaches, and wooden plums in return. Chuemon did such a big favor to Mizuno, and now Mizuno is also doing him a favor. Sometimes it's like this. If you pull me, I pull you, everyone's path will be widened.

   "Hamamatsu, this is Taolai Li's answer (this is actually written in Japanese)." Amano Hachiro patted his hand and closed the rice bag carefully.

  Rice bag is what we often call rice bao. It is generally woven with rush, and a bag can be sold for a few dollars. In fact, tatami mats are also woven with rushes. In addition, in "Domestic Lingling Paint" starring Stephen Chow, everyone cuts half a catty of meat at the market. If there is no plastic bag, they use a few rushes to carry them home. .

   "Go, go back and call someone, and move a thousand stones first." Chuemon did not drag.

   After the first pot of rice was steamed, Chuemon took a spoon first, and tasted it. There was no problem. This began to arrange hired temporary servants to frustrate rice balls. For disaster relief, don't expect to eat big fish and meat. There are rice **** and salt to eat. For the victims, it is a delicacy.

   A temporary hired servant probably didn't cook much before, and added too much water to cook a large pot of rice into thick porridge. It was not a big deal, and Chuemon didn't care. Just ask to take this thick porridge aside, and you can eat it for these servants later, and it won't be wasted.

   Shuroku, who didn't want to eat dry rice, just made a bowl and stood by Chuemon Gate and started eating. Chuemon was not hungry, so he chatted with him, just casually glanced at the sky.

   Because the porridge was cold, there was a film floating on it!