After Tan Lun accompanied Xu Hai and others from the black market, he looked a little disappointed. He had worked hard for Taizhou Prefecture these days. He had been working hard and long, but after a visit today, he did not expect that Taizhou The situation in the government is still so serious. The operation is as fierce as a tiger, and the record is zero and five, how can we not let people feel disappointed?
"It is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Due to the situation, it is beyond human power. Magistrate Tan has done a very good job." After Wang Meng noticed Tan Lun's loss, he patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him.
"Tan has failed the emperor and feels deeply ashamed." Tan Lun still couldn't bear the loss.
"Prefect Tan is so dedicated to serving the people, and the situation is like this. I don't know how corrupt Jingnan has become!"
Xu Hai couldn't help but sigh.
"Zhu Ping'an is like a cooking pot to the people of Taiping, and the people of Jingnan are all cooking. There is no room for failure here, and we can't delay for a moment. We quickly go to Taiping County, call the magistrate of Taiping, and go straight to Jingnan to prepare for Let the people of Jingnan get rid of this scourge."
Zhang Wenbo took the opportunity to speak and urged everyone to set off and rush to Jingnan to bring the corrupt official Zhu Pingan to justice.
"Of course."
Peng Cheng and others nodded repeatedly.
Zhu Ping'an was the most important task of their trip, so Xu Hai and others, accompanied by Tan Lun, went straight to Taiping County.
As soon as Xu Hai and others entered the territory of Taiping County, they found that the situation in Taiping County was much more severe than that in Taizhou City.
Hungry people were as numerous as cattle and sheep, helping the old and the young in mourning all over the field. Xu Hai and others saw more than a dozen corpses of victims who had died of starvation. There was no green color in the vast wilderness. The grass and trees were withered and the ground was bare for hundreds of miles. Because the hungry people would Leaves, bark, grass roots, anything that could be put into the mouth were eaten clean.
"Is this a flood or a drought?" Looking at this tragic scene, Xu Hai and others couldn't help but sigh.
When the magistrate of Taiping County learned that Taizhou Magistrate Tan Lun was coming with his envoy from the capital, he organized the county government officials and rich old squires to greet him, and at the same time sent people to drive away the refugees at the north gate of the county to maintain his image.
However, while the Taiping Magistrate was still organizing at the gate of the city, Xu Hai, Tan Lun and others arrived. They happened to see the Taiping Magistrate ordering the officers to push and push away the refugees and whitewash the appearance.
Seeing this scene, Tan Lun, the magistrate of Taizhou, couldn't help but hold his forehead
"I didn't know that the superior official and the government official came to this county, and the inferior official failed to welcome him from a distance. It is really a crime worthy of death."
The magistrate of Taiping County recognized Tan Lun, the magistrate of Taizhou, who was in civilian clothes, and knew that the person accompanying him was a businessman from the capital. He hurriedly stepped forward to salute and say hello, his face extremely embarrassed, as if his young daughter-in-law had been caught in bed.
"Okay, don't torment the people and make nonsense!" Xu Hai glanced at him and ordered with an unhappy look on his face.
It is said that preconceptions are preconceived. Just because of the scene at the city gate, Xu Hai's good impression of Taiping Magistrate has completely faded and his disgust has increased. Local officials who drive away the refugees and whitewash the peace are the most despised by the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. .
"Yes Yes."
The magistrate of Taiping County was in a panic and hurriedly ordered the officers to stop.
A welcome scene that was whitewashed as peaceful turned into a complete farce, which was completely eye-catching.
Taizhou Magistrate Tan Lun was originally dissatisfied with Taiping Magistrate, and now he frowned even more when he saw Taiping Magistrate's poor performance. Taiping Magistrate was an official under him, and Taiping Magistrate was caught cheating, and his face was tarnished.
"I've been waiting here, and you must know what I'm doing. Why don't you change your casual clothes quickly and go to Jingnan with us to verify that Jingnan Magistrate Zhu Ping'an colluded with grain merchants to drive up grain prices and accept huge bribes."
After Xu Hai, the magistrate of Taiping, stopped the farce at the city gate, he said to him with a long face.
Sure enough, I came here for Zhu Ping'an. It seems that my memorial has been heard by Da Sheng. Then I am in a difficult situation. The magistrate of Taiping immediately cheered up and looked excited. He borrowed the clothes of a squire on the spot.
He took off his official uniform and put it on in a corner behind the city gate.
Before going to Jingnan, in order to show off and restore the image of the city gate, the magistrate of Taiping County specifically asked Xu Hai and others to stop by and take a look at their food store in Taiping County, showing that he had stabilized the food price in Taiping County.
Firstly, they were invited by the magistrate of Taiping, and secondly, they came along the way, so Xu Hai and others fulfilled the wish of the magistrate of Taiping.
Tan Lun, the prefect of Taizhou, looked on with cold eyes and followed Xu Hai and others to inspect the situation in Taiping County.
However, Taiping County is the same as Taizhou Prefecture, or even worse. Although Taiping County has also stabilized the price of grain, which is 500 yuan per stone, it is expensive but not marketable. I visited a few grain shops along the way, and it was the same as Taizhou Prefecture.
Prices for grains are low, and there is no grain to sell. Many grain shops are closed, but only one is still selling grain, and it is selling in limited quantities.
I've looked at the grain market, and I've looked at the black market too. Zhang Guyi, a householder in Dongchang, asked people to find a nearby black market.
As a result, the price of grain in the black market in Taiping County is even more expensive than in the black market in Taizhou Fucheng. The price is already 3,800 yuan per stone. Moreover, the scale of the black market is small and the supply of grain is pitiful. The supply of grain exceeds the demand. People who buy grain in the black market
People were fighting to buy food, and there were several fights and fights, and the whole thing was broken into pieces.
After coming out of the black market, Taiping County Magistrate broke out in cold sweat on his forehead. The embarrassment and embarrassment on his face was even worse than at the city gate. He hurriedly expressed his position to Xu Hai and others: "I will send a handwritten letter from the official to order the officers to liquidate the black market here!"
"Stupid!" Tan Lun, the magistrate of Taizhou, couldn't help scolding the magistrate of Taiping County when he heard this, "The black market has no fixed place, like the resurrection of leeks, how can it be wiped out in a short time?! The important task of the superiors now is to verify the Jingnan Zhu
How can I have time to wait here for a handwritten letter from you on the corruption case involving Ping An's collusion with grain merchants?!"
"Yes, the lower official lost his sense of proportion and almost missed the important matter of the superior officer and the governor." The magistrate of Taiping hurriedly bowed and admitted his mistake.
"Let's go to Jingnan."
Xu Hai said expressionlessly.
So the group of people went straight to Jingnan from the south gate of Taiping County. Not far from the south gate of Taiping County, they saw a large open space, with a dark shabby shed remaining in the open space ◇ Ling Ling Reading Network ◆ Household
The ruins seemed to have been burned. They were originally supposed to be a gathering place for victims of the disaster, but they were burned at this time and no one lived there. It was very depressed. Groups of carrion-eating crows were flying and landing in the dilapidated shanties. It seemed that there were people inside.
their food
"This was originally a resettlement area for disaster victims set up by Xianguan, but more than ten days ago, the county government ran out of food relief. There was a plague here a few days ago, and people dispersed. Xianguan was worried that the plague would spread, so he burned this place
"
Seeing the probing eyes of Xu Hai and others, including people from Dongchang, the Taiping magistrate had no choice but to explain with an embarrassed look on his face.
After passing this resettlement area for the victims, we headed south, straight towards Jingnan.
The whole road was full of mourners, and the scene was extremely miserable. When we were about to reach Jingnan, the situation was a little better. Although the villages on both sides of the road were in ruins, they were all empty. There was no one, and there were only a few people inhabited for ten miles.
, but with greenery, the trees and grass can be preserved.
Going further south, I saw many groups of disaster victims on the road, carrying the elderly and supporting the young, and seemed to be fleeing in the direction of Jingnan.
Are you going in the wrong direction?! How can you escape to Jingnan? There is a corrupt official named Zhu who cannibalizes people without blinking an eye! Now it’s all hell on earth!
"Old men, where are you fleeing to?" Xu Hai and others couldn't help but stop a group of victims and asked.
"Of course we will go to Jingnan, and we will go to Jingnan, where everyone will have food to eat." One of the victims replied, with a look of determination and longing.
What?!
When we arrive in Jingnan, everyone has food to eat?!
Are you all starving?!
Xu Hai and others were stunned, with expressions of disbelief on their faces. They felt that these victims were so pitiful that they were going to escape to hell!