"Oh, you said you are so smart, why can't you think of yourself as a corrupt official who doesn't care about the life and death of the people?" The demon girl Ruonan glared at Zhu Pingan and said angrily, "Don't say I don't keep my word, you are stupid.
Come on, I'll only give you a cup of tea. If you take more, the dagger in my hand won't agree to it."
"Yeah, I'm so smart, how could I be a corrupt official who doesn't care about the lives of the people?"
Zhu Pingan nodded and said.
"Young poor man! I hate self-righteous scholars like you the most. Anyway, I only give you tea time. If you like to talk, then just talk. You have wasted your time. Don't blame the dagger in my hand for drinking blood.
." The demon Ruonan sneered, shaking the sharp dagger in front of Zhu Pingan.
"The reason why I raised food prices is indeed for the sake of the 100,000 people in Jingnan. Don't stare, time is precious, just listen to what I have to say."
Zhu Ping'an didn't waste any time, and opened his mouth to explain. After saying a word, he saw the demon girl Ruonan glared and sneered, as if she was going to ridicule him again, so he stretched out a finger and shook it gently in front of the demon girl Ruonan,
said to her.
"If you fart, let it go." The demon Ruonan sneered.
"The reason why raising food prices at this juncture is a last resort, and there are two reasons why it cannot be done. The first reason is that the imperial court was unable to rescue the Jingnan floods for a while. In my study, I have repeatedly appealed to Taizhou Fucheng since the floods.
There are a total of 12 copies of official documents from the imperial court on rescue and disaster relief. Taizhou City issued a reply document two days ago, stating that the imperial court was temporarily unable to rescue the floods, and ordered all counties and counties to actively provide relief on their own. If you don’t believe me, go to my study.
You’ll know it just by looking at it.”
Zhu Pingan explained slowly, with a clear conscience on his face.
"Humph, Taizhou Prefecture asked you to provide self-relief, so you raised the price of food? What's the point of this relief? You are clearly taking advantage of the situation, adding fuel to the fire, and adding fuel to the fire! I know that other counties and counties have followed Taizhou Prefecture's example in arresting profiteers, beheading them, and imprisoning them.
Distributed and confiscated the army, and used thunderous means to reduce the price of food. The price of food in other places has been reduced to 500 yuan per shi. Only you, a puppy official, went against the grain and issued a document in the name of the government to forcibly raise the price of food to 2 yuan per shi.
Thousands and five hundred yuan, you are trying to force the common people to death!"
The witch Ruonan gritted her teeth and glared at Zhu Pingan. The more she spoke, the angrier she became. The veins on the back of her slender hand holding the dagger were exposed, and she almost couldn't control herself from poking several transparent holes in Zhu Pingan's heart.
I hate that iron cannot become steel!
I was quite optimistic about this puppy officer at first, but I didn't expect that I was blind, and it was difficult to paint the bones of a tiger with paint. I know people and faces but not their hearts. This puppy officer turned out to be a maggot in human skin with a black heart!
"This means that the second one is unacceptable." Zhu Ping'an said calmly to the witch Ruonan's gnashing of teeth.
"I see how you confuse right and wrong." The enchantress Ruonan looked on coldly, twitching the corner of her mouth with disdain, as if she had seen through Zhu Pingan, quite similar to the way Teacher Fan Wei used to deceive and deceive again and again.
"The second failure is to save ourselves from food shortages. Jiangnan was originally the granary of the Ming Dynasty, and more than half of the world's food was exported from Jiangnan. However, this time, most of Jiangnan was affected by the disaster, the food was destroyed, and the granary became a food shortage. The remaining grain in Jiangnan,
They couldn't survive ten days and a half. Only by transporting grain from Shandong, Sichuan, Sichuan and other places with relatively rich grains to the south of the Yangtze River could the millions of people in the south of the Yangtze River be saved. The imperial court was unable to provide relief for the time being, so private grain merchants could only transport grain.
Grain merchants need to pay a lot of money to transport grain. The journey is thousands of miles, and the people and horses are consumed along the way. In addition, employment work and nursing homes are all a big expense. On the way, they also face risks such as bandits, bandits and even looting by disaster victims.
Grain in Shandong and other places has also risen to the point where it costs 500 wen per stone. If the price of grain is forcibly reduced to 500 wen per stone, or even 400 wen, then which grain merchant will lose money and risk transporting grain?! If so, when the grain reserves in Jiangnan are exhausted, how many grains will be lost?
Millions of people have no choice but to starve to death! Therefore, I raised the price of food to 2,500 wen per stone and used heavy profits to induce grain merchants to transport food to Jingnan, so that the hundreds of thousands of people in Jingnan who are desperate for food can have a way to survive.
"
Zhu Ping'an sighed and re-explained what he had explained to the county government officials.
After Zhu Pingan finished speaking, the demon girl Ruonan suddenly became quiet, and the sarcasm in her eyes slowly faded away.
"Then..." Soon, the demon Ruonan seemed to have thought of something and was unconvinced.
"Then there's no need for me to raise the price of food so high, right?" Zhu Pingan knew what the demon Ruonan wanted to say at a glance, so he interrupted the demon Ruonan's words and spoke directly for her.
"Hmph." The demon Ruonan snorted, acquiescing.
"In this case, the price is not high. In extraordinary times, only heavy profits can drive the grain merchants to continuously transport grain to Jingnan. Is this price expensive compared to the lives of 100,000 people?!
The land south of the Yangtze River is relatively rich, and it is not a poor and weak place such as Shaanxi and Gansu. Ordinary people have little savings after decades, especially in Jingnan. Because I gave early warning, the people had time to react, and they took everything with them when they fled.
In the year of famine, what they need is food. Although the current price of food is 2,500 yuan per stone, they can still afford it for a while."
Zhu Pingan waved his hand and explained slowly.
"It is precisely because the above two are not possible, and it is precisely because of the actual situation in Jingnan, that I have raised the price of food. The above three are indispensable. If the imperial court had been able to provide disaster relief, and if there was no shortage of food in Jiangnan, I, Zhu Pingan, would have been the first to do so.
One chops off the heads of those grain merchants who are driving up grain prices, and forcefully lowers and stabilizes grain prices; if Jingnan had not always been relatively wealthy and could afford it, I, Zhu Pingan, would not have raised grain prices."
Zhu Pingan sighed helplessly.
The witch Ruonan was quiet again, this time for a long time. After a long time, she snorted coldly, "Although what you said sounds very reasonable. But how do I know if it is your sophistry?!"
"This is not sophistry, this is a fact! If you don't believe it, wait for one month. Within one month, the food in other counties, especially Taizhou's capital, will be exhausted. There will be no food to sell on the market, and the price of food on the black market
It will skyrocket, and it is not surprising that every stone will cost three to five thousand coins, or even seven or eight thousand coins. Moreover, it will often be priceless and unmarketable... Even with gold, you will not be able to buy food, and hunger will
Come, death will come unexpectedly, and the picturesque Jiangnan will become a hell on earth..."
Zhu Ping'an closed his eyes and said feebly. At the end of the sentence, tears streaked the corners of his eyes...
"Aren't you... a grown man crying? Are you ashamed?" The demon Ruonan was a little at a loss.
"Sorry, I made you laugh... I just thought of countless people starving to death, but I was powerless, and I couldn't control myself for a moment. The people are innocent and I am powerless..." Zhu Pingan took a breath,
He opened his eyes, looked at the demon Ruonan calmly, and said calmly, "I've finished speaking, you can take action."
After saying that, Zhu Pingan closed his eyes.
In your mind, silently count 1...2...3...
Sure enough, when Zhu Ping'an counted to three, he heard the witch Ruonan say, "Humph, forget it, let's lend my head to your neck for a month, and let me see if things are what you said. If I find that you lied,
I, hum, don't blame me for being ruthless, I will definitely cut off your head with my own hands."