672 The palace is very good, but the younger brother prefers the Nine Kings Mansion
On the thirteenth day of the snow disaster and the ninth day of disaster relief, the emperor declared that the food in his hands had been used up. However, the food transferred from other places was delayed in arriving at the disaster area. If enough food could not be raised, the government's disaster relief was about to stop.
Become a joke!
The emperor once again issued an order, asking those noble families to take out the stored grain, and promised to return it in full if there is new grain in the coming year.
It is indeed a great thing to exchange old grain for new grain, but the prerequisite is that you have to have grain on hand.
More than 90% of the aristocratic families are close to the emperor, but each of them has thousands or even tens of thousands of people to support, and they themselves have to eat. Even if they want to provide disaster relief, they cannot starve their own people to death.
Being squeezed so hard by the emperor, the noble families and powerful officials had no choice. Whenever the emperor mentioned the food problem, they started to cry. Why were they crying? Of course they were crying because they were poor.
They were starving to death. How could they get food for the emperor to provide relief? Some time ago, there was suddenly a lot of food on the market, and the price of food fell sharply. As a result, they not only lost a lot of money, but also took out all the old food.
They sold it short, fearing that it would not be worth the money if they kept it. At this time, they themselves did not have much food on hand, so where could they raise food for the emperor's disaster relief?
The atmosphere in the morning court these past few days was so sad. The emperor said that the people were pitiful, and the officials began to cry for poverty, leaving the emperor speechless. On this day, when the emperor once again spoke about disaster relief, the officials could not withstand the pressure and cried for poverty.
After that, he tried to make suggestions to the emperor.
"Your Majesty, we really have no food. The heavy snow has been falling for dozens of days in a row. This is killing people. No matter how much food we have, it is not enough. Jiangnan has raised a batch of food, but we have to wait for a while.
It takes months to transport the grain.
Your Majesty... isn't there a righteous person among the people who is giving out porridge? Seeing that he has been giving out rice porridge for nearly ten days and there is still food. Why not, why don't we borrow food from that righteous person first, and when the food from Jiangnan arrives, we can
Gave it back to him."
This is a good suggestion, but the prerequisite is that you can find out how the mysterious disaster relief person can borrow food without even knowing who he is.
The emperor sent people to investigate, and even called Su Wenqing to the palace. After repeated questioning, he still got nothing, because Su Wenqing didn't know.
Su Wenqing almost burst into tears: "Your Majesty, Cao Min is unjust. Cao Min really doesn't know who the mysterious man is. Cao Min is just a businessman who borrowed a few people. This is what the mysterious man paid for. Your Majesty, what do you want?"
If you don’t allow it, I will take the person back immediately.”
Following Su Wenqing's line of investigation, I couldn't find out where the food came from after several days of searching. The food appeared out of nowhere in various towns, leaving no trace at all.
It turned out that after Su Wenqing made the sled, he started to rest during the day and drove at night. Anyway, the heavy snow made the night look like day. In addition, the traces left by the sled on the snow were shallow, and they were covered by the heavy snow every few times.
Well, the emperor really can't find out where the food came from.
If the emperor forces Su Wenqing again, Su Wenqing will die to show his determination. Is it okay if he quits? He is just a small businessman, making some hard money, but also puts his life on the line.
Don’t do it? Of course not. If Su Wenqing doesn’t do it, no one will come out to provide porridge for disaster relief, and the victims will not be able to make trouble. In the past, there was no way to do it without providing porridge, but now they have given porridge to relieve the disaster. If it stops, the people of the world will
Scold the emperor to death.
Although the emperor was angry, he had no choice but to rely on the mysterious man to provide relief and stabilize the people's hearts.
Although the people were grateful to the mysterious disaster relief person, no one knew who the disaster relief person was. At this time, the official proposed to borrow food from Shenbi. Where could he find it...
The emperor was so angry that he directly issued a fatal order, regardless of whether these officials had any ideas, asking them to raise five thousand shi of grain before the court tomorrow morning. If they failed to raise it, they would be punished for disobeying the military order.
Five thousand shi of grain was a matter of minutes in the past, but now...
"Master Yu, where are we going to raise five thousand stones of food? Our family can only eat 70% of the food. If this continues, our whole family will starve to death." This snow disaster is really a trap.
The porridge man is even more deceitful.
If he hadn't come out like this, why would they be so worried? If the victims of the disaster died of starvation, they would just dig a hole and bury them. Hundreds of thousands of people would not die from natural disasters in any year. Untouchables are like ants. They will die.
Even if there are dead people, no one will take care of them.
When natural disasters occurred in previous years, people often starved to death, and there were also incidents of cannibalism. They all knew about these things, but so what if they knew about it. They kept the matter hidden, as long as the emperor didn't know about it.
But... the disaster was serious this year, and it was discovered again. Now the victims are enjoying the blessings, but they are unlucky. Not to mention using the disaster to make a fortune, it would be good to keep their official title.
"The emperor is serious about providing disaster relief this time. We will try our best to raise food. The remaining food at home will be enough to feed the whole family for a month. The food from Jiangnan will arrive in a month, so we don't have to worry." Master Yu was satisfied.
He has silver hair but is full of energy. He looks vaguely like the head of a hundred officials. Many officials are surrounding him, of course most of them are civilian officials, and military officers are all surrounding Prince Su.
Civil servants are cunning and military attachés are frank. There is some truth to this. After being squeezed one after another by the emperor, most of the military attachés' families had no food and they didn't even have enough to eat. However, most of the civilian officials' families could still provide some more food.
Every time a dog is slaughtered in a righteous way, it is a scholar who has a negative heart. This statement was proved once again. The military attaches all cried and said with sad faces: "Your Majesty, my subordinates really can't bring out food. My family will have nothing to eat tomorrow."
"Yes, Your Majesty, the first time the emperor asked to donate food, the general donated all the food, leaving only enough food for the family to eat for a month. Later he asked to donate food, and the general donated again. The general is already well.
I don’t know what it feels like to be full for a few days.”
"As long as everyone can live up to their conscience, if they can't provide food, they can't provide it." Prince Su certainly knew that these people were not telling lies. Military attaches are not as good as civilian officials. Without war, military attaches have no chance to make money. Most military generals
Poor, how much food can they have on hand?
"With these words from the prince, we can rest assured."
A group of people were discussing and walking outside the palace. Civil servants and military generals each occupied the left and right sides, and their positions were clear.
The emperor stood on the high tower and watched the civil and military officials leaving the palace with sad faces. The expression on his face became more solemn. He looked dozens of years older: "Isn't it too much?"
The emperor sighed, he also knew that he had pushed all the civil and military officials to the limit, but he was angry in his heart.
As the emperor of Dongling, he didn't even have that much food on hand. How did the mysterious disaster relief person get so much food? He could actually give out porridge non-stop. Moreover, the white porridge was thicker than the government's. This was not to beat him.
Face.
The most important point is that there is a person with so much food under his eyes. How can he feel at ease? He will dig out the mysterious person no matter what.
It would be fine if that person didn't have any different intentions, but if he did, he would kill the other person in the world.
"Your Majesty, you are thinking of the people all over the world. Your Majesty will understand. Reports from various places in the past few days show that fewer and fewer people have died due to snow disasters. The people have been properly accommodated. None of the victims are not
Thank you, Your Majesty." The eunuch tried his best to flatter him, but his voice gradually weakened at the end.
The main force in disaster relief was not the imperial court, but the mysterious man who had enough food and grass.
"Hmph..." How come the emperor doesn't know this? If it weren't for that mysterious man, at least 300,000 people would have died in today's snow disaster. But because of that mysterious man's intervention, the number of people who died due to the disaster was greatly reduced.
So far, only 60,000 people have died.
He should be grateful to the mysterious disaster relief person, but there was a knot in his heart. The mysterious disaster relief person made the emperor feel threatened.
The great eunuch looked at the emperor's face carefully and found that the emperor's face was very ugly. The great eunuch turned his eyes and decided to divert trouble: "Your Majesty, the Nine Emperors Uncle has been living in the palace for so long. Do you think..."
If you are angry, just take it out on Uncle Nine Emperors. Little people like us can't stand it.
Uncle Nine Emperors?
A flash of light flashed in the emperor's eyes.
Yes, why did he forget the Nine Emperors Uncle? The Nine Emperors Uncle is Su Wenqing’s biggest supporter. The mysterious man might be the Nine Emperors Uncle, but the emperor doesn’t believe that the Nine Emperors Uncle can save so much food under his nose.
I don’t even believe that Uncle Nine Emperors will take it out.
After all, it is not easy for a prince to save food. Uncle Nine Emperors must be saving food for rebellion. It is too stupid to use it for disaster relief at this time.
No matter what, I went to test it once or twice. The emperor said nothing and showed up at the palace where the Nine Emperors Uncle was temporarily staying.
The emperor walked in unexpectedly without alerting anyone. As soon as he entered, he saw Uncle Nine Emperors sitting by the window reading a book, looking so leisurely that one could envy him.
When the emperor approached, Uncle Nine Emperors realized that the emperor was coming. He put down his hand, stood up slowly, and bowed slightly to the emperor: "Your Majesty."
"Ninth Brother is so elegant." The Emperor waved his hand, indicating that the Nine Emperors Uncle would not be polite and sat down without being greeted. The Nine Emperors Uncle stood where he was. Without the Emperor's order, he could not sit down, but...
The Jiuhuangshu's posture was completely different from that of ordinary ministers with low eyebrows. The Jiuhuangshu stood there quietly, like a pine and cypress, without the slightest trace of humility.
The emperor was so angry when he saw it, but he was speechless. He pointed to the chessboard on one side and said: "Ninth brother, play a game with me."
"My brother, I obey." Uncle Nine Emperors understood why the Emperor came, so he was not in a hurry. When the Emperor said to play chess, he played chess. Now he is not the one who is anxious.
At the end of the game, the Ninth Emperor showed no mercy and killed the emperor to the point where his face turned blue. No one had dared to play chess with him like this for a long time. As expected, his ninth brother was very courageous.
It's been a long time since he learned how to behave, which is really annoying...
A message to readers: Sigh...this time, Uncle Nine Emperors is really free!