The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law-Chapter 1011 - 1006: Chaos Everywhere

"So three years from now, will she still have to die? Look at her, her legs aren’t even good, right? I see her descendants always carrying her around. Living like this, she’s only a burden to her offspring. It would be better for her to die sooner and leave the grain for her children and grandchildren. Only in this way can she secure more opportunities for her descendants to survive."

"You... Your Highness King Jin, how can you think like this? Filial piety is of utmost importance. You only see that she’s now useless, burdening her descendants, but can’t you see the hard work she put in when she was young to raise her descendants?"

Jie Huanzhi felt his worldview was being turned upside down, staring at King Jin in utter shock.

King Jin, however, seemed completely unconcerned, suddenly laughed, and said, "Advisor Jie, now I understand why both your sons have run away to join the army at a distance. You, you’re stubborn and inflexible, too emotional! If your sons were to answer these problems, they would surely think the same as I do."

The corners of Jie Huanzhi’s mouth twitched violently.

At that moment, King Jin stood up and looked toward the large tent in the distance.

The people inside that tent were those isolated because of tuberculosis, and they, too, were consuming food.

Moreover, these people couldn’t be cured, and their number was growing.

King Jin sighed and said, "In my opinion, those people could be cut off from food. Advisor Jie, didn’t you say there’s a shortage of grain? Withholding their food should solve the grain shortage, shouldn’t it?"

Jie Huanzhi really felt there was no point in continuing the conversation with King Jin; it simply couldn’t go on. He was afraid if he listened to King Jin any longer, he would lose his temper and curse King Jin until he vomited blood, just like scolding his own sons.

"I urgently need to relieve myself, I ask to be excused."

This was the most embarrassing excuse Advisor Jie had used in his decades of life to escape.

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King Jin was a man of action. Having said so, he took action the next day.

He began to question the disaster victims aggressively about the source of the rumors. One by one, those who did not talk were taken away and beaten, then starved. He was determined to find the root of the issue, following the vine to find the melon.

Furthermore, the quarantine zone established by Searcy also had its food supply cut off, declaring that healthy people were almost starving to death, let alone those who were ill.

Someone like Searcy, now instilled with some kindness by Gu Youyou, still had her pragmatic nature.

She felt King Jin’s words were reasonable. If Advisor Jie hadn’t asked her to cure them, she wouldn’t have bothered.

Those people didn’t spend a dime, and she couldn’t cure tuberculosis, so why waste futile time and effort.

So when King Jin told her to stop caring, she really stopped.

In addition, he only cared for the able-bodied young men and women, disregarding the elderly, weak, women, and children, thus saving a lot of grain.

He even rewarded those who honestly confessed, providing more for those who exposed more rumor spreaders. The disaster victims, starving to the extreme, began to accuse one another wildly to earn a few more lifesaving buns.

Advisor Jie trembled with rage. This time he didn’t submit a memorial to accuse King Jin but directly requested the Emperor to recall him.

He was done dealing with this mess.

However, before the memorial could be sent out, Gu Youyou and the others arrived.

Gui Yunxi led Gu Youyou and the rest to the disaster relief camp just when King Jin was in the middle of a fierce outburst.

Because his method had begun to take effect, many people had been caught by following the trail, but as the number of informants dwindled and the buns for exchange became fewer, everything descended into chaos.

To get more buns, they began accusing each other, leading to bizarre situations where two people claimed the other was the informant.