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Wang Tong asked Wang Junlin to seat the guests and hosts again in the living room, and served tea again. After dismissing the irrelevant people, Wang Junlin immediately straightened his back and asked slowly: "Master Wang, who is lying on the ground now?"
What kind of situation?"
Wang Tong smiled bitterly and said: "What is the situation? I must have seen it on the way Qin Anhou came. Since the beginning of winter last year, there has been heavy snowfall in the three counties in the north of Yongzhou, with feet of snow accumulating, making it impossible for humans and animals to walk. Until the spring sowing season, the three counties
Hundreds of thousands of acres of fields still have snow that has not melted. The land has been frozen dry and hard, completely lifeless and impossible to sow. Seeing that the spring sowing season has passed and the climate has not improved, the people finally despaired and started from half a century ago.
Starting a few months ago, people began to flee their hometowns with their families. In some places, the entire village and Zhuangzi fled together. I ordered county officials to guard the roads every day and begged the people not to leave. However,
The results were minimal, and most of the people still fled to Jincheng, the state capital..."
As he said this, Wang Tong's face showed a look of guilt and heartache, and his eyes quickly filled with tears, and he cried: "Originally, last year was not a good year, and the people did not save much food at home. Now I am taking my family to go there."
How many days would it take to store enough food and energy to go to Jincheng? Even if they could reach Jincheng by chewing bark and grass roots, would they have a way of survival just by coming to Jincheng? After just half a year of fighting, how could Jincheng still have extra food?
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Seeing Wang Tong's tears falling one by one, Wang Junlin felt very heavy.
He believed that Wang Tong was a good official, and he also believed that Wang Tong had made his best efforts. However, it is difficult for a good woman to make a meal without rice. During natural disasters, food is the most important thing. Without food, no matter how much you do, it will be in vain.
"Your Excellency, I don't know how many people are left in the three counties, how much grain and grass are left in the official warehouses, how many civilian casualties there are, whether the rule is peaceful, whether there are any chaos and troubles, etc., please tell me in detail, Your Excellency the Governor." Wang Junlin said.
Slowly.
Wang Tong sniffed, wiped his tears, took a deep breath to calm down, and then choked up and said: "Yesterday, the county magistrates under his jurisdiction sent people to deliver the news. Now the people of Guo and Siye Village in the three counties have left their homes and fled.
Only about three to four out of ten people actually stayed in the local area, and about half of them gathered outside the counties and county towns. A small number of people went into the mountains to collect wild mushrooms or hunt, and some disappeared without a trace.
There is no way of knowing that at least one-third of the remaining people from various places have already arrived in Jincheng or are heading towards Jincheng."
"Alas! As for the grain in Guancang, I just said that the last year was not good. The grain in Guancang was almost used up in the war last year. The remaining old rice and millet are about 1,500 dan. If you can help the people,
This amount of food is only enough to feed the victims outside the city for ten days at most..."
Having said this, Wang Tong sighed, looked at Wang Junlin and said sincerely: "I know the predicament that Marquis Qin An is currently facing. In fact, as long as Marquis Qin An can find a way to collect enough food within ten days, let him
As long as the victims have food to eat, I can guarantee that the victims will not cause chaos. As long as the victims do not cause chaos, no matter what means those who secretly want to kill Qin Anhou, your Majesty's trust in Qin Anhou will be able to withstand it.
The Impeachment of Hundreds of Officials of the Imperial Court.”
Wang Junlin glanced at him with a sullen expression, and said quietly: "The problem is that the court cannot mobilize the food needed by hundreds of thousands of victims at the same time. Even if the subordinates have the ability to do it, they can't get it!"
Wang Tong looked up to the sky and sighed, his last glimmer of hope was shattered. He originally thought that Wang Junlin would find a solution, but now it seems that he is overthinking.
Wang Junlin frowned and said, "Could it be that the imperial court's relief grain cannot be transported to Jincheng within ten days?"
Wang Tong sighed sadly: "The situation is like this. You also know that from last year to this year, half of the time was spent in war. Although we won the battles in the Sui Dynasty, the national treasury was also depleted due to this war. The huge treasury is not enough."
It can be said that it is empty, but it will never be too much, and..."
At this point, Wang Tong glared at Wang Junlin before continuing: "If some people don't take this opportunity to kill you, maybe the food can be transported within ten days. But since we have to borrow hundreds of thousands of victims to kill you,
This food and grass may not arrive in ten days, let alone thirty days..."
Wang Junlin was startled for a moment, and then he understood what Wang Tong meant. His face was so gloomy that he could shed tears, and he gritted his teeth and said, "In order to kill me, they dared to gamble with the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."
Wang Tong didn't know what he thought of, and said with an incomprehensible expression: "For the benefit of the family, members of the aristocratic family can sometimes do anything."
Wang Junlin laughed ferociously and said in a cold voice: "In that case, don't blame me for going on a killing spree."
Wang Tong was startled by the murderous intent emanating from Wang Junlin. He was stunned for a moment, and then his face turned pale. He couldn't help but secretly guess what Wang Junlin meant by these words, but he laughed twice in despair, his eyes were red,
Said: "Alas, our people in the three counties of Yongzhou have provoked whoever. They did not die due to natural disasters, but they were cut off because of the personal enmity of some villains! On the day when the first people died of starvation, I left the city from the top of the city.
Just jump down and use your body to apologize to the folks..."
Wang Junlin pursed his lips and said nothing. He vaguely felt that although hundreds of thousands of people were being used by his secret enemies, they were also implicated by himself. Although he was ruthless, he could never let hundreds of thousands of people starve to death.
Regardless of it.
What Wang Junlin was thinking about most these days was how to deal with the enemy's plot to prevent the enemy from tarnishing his reputation, and how to deal with the enemy using Chen Danying as bait to lure him into appearing.
In short, it is to prevent the other party from forcing him to a dead end. But now Wang Junlin suddenly realized that the most important task now is to fill the people's stomachs, and this is the root of all problems and hidden dangers. If the people's stomachs are controlled, who will be left?
If you can incite everyone to force yourself, who has the ability to let rumors spread wildly?
So, the biggest question now is... how to raise food? With food, Wang Junlin can take the opportunity to clarify the rumors.
The imperial household department and the treasury can't count on it. It's not that the imperial court doesn't care about the life and death of the people, but Wang Junlin's enemies will definitely use various means to delay the arrival of disaster relief food. So now we can only rely on self-financing to save ourselves.
Thinking of this, Wang Junlin couldn't help but sigh heavily. The people in the three northern counties of Yongzhou had been reduced to chewing bark and grass roots. Seeing that they had no food left, he had already seen some people starving to death when he came. Now let him
He thought of a way, how could he save himself? How? He had created many miracles over the past year, but even gods couldn't change food.