"The purpose of the prince's visit this time is no longer Yuzhou, but what you have done is so outrageous! Every official in Dahua has a duty to deal with the refugees. You must make arrangements in the shortest possible time.
, properly handle the situation at hand. Tomorrow, the prince will leave Yuzhou and continue to Xuzhou. After handling the affairs in Xuzhou, he will return to Beijing. When we come to Yuzhou next time, if the public hears anything about you Yuzhou officials,
, let’s settle the old and new accounts together!”
The magistrate kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you for your kindness, the prince. Thank you for your kindness. We, a group of officials in Yuzhou, will immediately make arrangements to deal with the current refugee problem. We will do our best to deal with the refugee problem. We will never let you down, nor will we let the prince down. We will not let you down."
The court is disappointed."
"It's a good thing that we can clearly understand our position. We won't stay here for long, and the prince doesn't want anyone to disturb us. Let's go."
The magistrate stood up, wiped the sweat from his head, and softened his tone slightly: "It is rare for the prince to come here, and I want to show my kindness to the landlord. I wonder if the prince can reward me, so that I can find an opportunity to listen to his teachings. If
I am very grateful to you for this good fortune."
Xia Shang glanced upstairs and knew what Li Xin was thinking without asking: "The prince needs a rest after a long journey, and he obviously has no interest in these things."
"Is that so..." The prefect looked disappointed, hesitated for a moment, and then asked Xia Shang, "What about you, my lord..."
Xia Shang naturally wanted to refuse, but before Xia Shang could refuse, a voice came from Li Xin upstairs: "Master Xia, please give them some guidance tonight."
Xia Shang frowned and couldn't say much.
He is now regarded as the prince's subordinate, so he has to pretend to be more like him. Naturally, he cannot refute in front of so many people.
But being ordered around by the prince like this really made him very unhappy.
Li Xin had already spoken, and Xia Shang could only acquiesce.
Li Xin's purpose is also very obvious, which is to make a plan first and then give a candied date.
After all, the situation in the imperial court is not clear now. As a force, Li Xin cannot offend the prefect of Yizhou casually.
Allowing Xia and Shang to go was an opportunity for Yuzhou officials to flatter Xia and Shang, and it was also a gift to give some local officials the opportunity to flatter Xia and Shang.
Hearing the words of the prince upstairs, the officials below were all happy, and their previous nervousness and fear disappeared.
After losing it, the prefect also smiled at Xia Shang: "Haha... It seems that His Highness the Crown Prince appreciates you very much and has already made a decision for you. Now you have no reason to refuse."
Xia Shang shrugged: "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."
When things developed to this point, Xia Shang was considered calm.
Anyway, we are just going to spend a day in Yuzhou city. Since there is a chance to enjoy it, why refuse it? At least it can be regarded as a small reward for riding horses for so many days.
Xia Shang was the youngest among many officials, and was not even older than the children of many of them.
But he left the inn surrounded by a crowd of people. Everyone rushed to speak to Xia Shang, introduce who they were, ask about Xia Shang's origins, his official position in Beijing, etc.
He talked too much and Xia Shang didn't know how to reply, so he could only smile politely.
Only the magistrate beside him could hear Xia Shang clearly. He seemed to be very concerned about Xia Shang's official position and asked him three times: "I don't know your name, what is your position in the capital? Why are you so appreciated by the prince?"
After hearing the other party's continuous questioning, Xia Shang replied: "Xia Chunqiu, I only have a false position in the capital and no rank. I just know some strange skills and are recognized by the prince, but I have no real ability. So you sir, don't be so polite.
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"Fake job...no rank?"
This made everyone confused. They thought that a position with no rank had such great authority just now?
At such a young age, I don’t know where the confidence comes from.
It must be that the prince's appreciation is extraordinary...
And what ability can such a young man have? Can he be appreciated by the prince? Could it be that because of his handsome appearance, he was...
After thinking about it, the officials seemed to have concluded that this Master Xiaoxia should be the prince's male favorite.
This is amazing, such an identity can be taken care of more easily, and this level of status is more feared than an official of several grades.
A slight breeze from the pillow of the prince's pillow can kill everyone.
Xia Shang didn't know what these officials were thinking, and thought to himself that he was not lying.
The head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is a position that has no rank, but is beyond rank. To say that it is a false position is indeed a false position.
"Sir, before I came here, I ordered you to
A banquet was held in the small garden in the west of the city, why don't we go to the small garden now..."
"Let's go take a look at the barn in the city first." Xia Shang interrupted him.
"The barn..." Unexpectedly, the Xia Chamber of Commerce made such a request. The prefect was stunned for a moment, and then asked tentatively, "Do you mean that you want us to implement the disaster relief first?"
Xia Shang nodded.
"Don't worry, sir. Since we have already issued a military order in front of the prince, there will never be any neglect in this matter."
"I don't trust what you are doing. I want to know the situation personally."
Thinking of the scene outside the city, Xia Shang still couldn't care less about having fun, and the work of these people was indeed disturbing.
Xia Shang said this, and the prefect felt no contempt in his heart. He thought that a young man like you should just serve the prince honestly. You can also interfere in the affairs of the country? You don't understand anything!
I thought so in my heart, but I didn't dare to say it with my mouth, so I honestly took Xia Shang and walked more than half of the city to the grain warehouse of the official family in Yuzhou City.
The warehouse is very large, and there are countless grains in it.
No one took the embroidered pillow seriously, thinking that he would leave after just a few words.
Xia Shang walked around the barn a few times, called the grain officer and the waiter in charge of reporting to his side, pointed to a barn of grain and asked: "What year are they in?"
The grain officer answered truthfully: "Sir, the rice in Beicang is three years old, and the rice in Xicang is three and four years old. This is new rice, and that is last year's rice."
"What's the total?"
"A total of forty-nine thousand stones."
"Why was the amount of old rice last year less than half of the three- or four-year-old rice in the northwest warehouse? Why was there a backlog of old rice, but the new rice was sold?"
"This..." He looked at the grain officer and was speechless.
Because part of the grain collected by the government is handed over to the court, part is requisitioned by local governments, and part of the grain requisitioned by local governments will be sold to rice merchants in the name of the government. The price of old rice and new rice is very different. In places like Yuzhou,
Ordinary families mainly buy old rice and rarely buy new rice.
In other words, old rice should be sold faster and new rice should be retained more.
The situation in this barn is exactly the opposite.
Xia Shang smiled and looked at the prefect and the officials around him: "Who can explain?"