Chapter 354 Ambush

After Liu Bei's army departed, under Chen Xi's coordination, Mount Tai began to function frenetically. Hundreds of thousands, who in winter mixed their labor for relief work to get a meal, now all had new jobs. Each day, they not only received two meals of steamed buns but also a minimum wage of ten copper coins, plus two additional copper coins as a food subsidy.

Chen Xi himself occasionally thought his work-for-relief was too unprincipled. Normally, his work-for-relief provided a wage of five copper coins, two meals, and included free medical treatment.

It should be noted that during the Late Han period, a day laborer in a county could earn about thirty copper coins. Yet, Chen Xi's work-for-relief offered only five...