All the imaginary intrigues and clever words between the imperial envoys and local officials and gentry...
Nothing happened.
On that day, all the victims outside the city were counted. The location of their hometown, population size, age, and where they currently live were all clearly determined based on the statistics of villages, towns, and county offices.
Mu Anzhi also visited more than ten porridge soup places in the city, and all the orders for clear soup and little water were changed. Each person and household received porridge according to their household registration, and the amount of porridge for each person was the same as for the victims outside the city.
Mu Anzhi summoned the river embankment envoy and asked about the status of the embankments in Yecheng. Floods occurred in several counties, with houses destroyed and people displaced. In addition, Mu Anzhi's simple entourage was led by Magistrate Xu, holding a topographic map of Yecheng.
, walking all over Yecheng on two legs. Which road was seriously damaged, and several city walls collapsed. The capital of Mu'an, Ling Huanli, recorded it on the topographic map.
In addition, Mu Anzhi summoned four imperial envoys to the whole city.
The first is that the whole city is called upon to store grain. For those who have grain, each household can keep one thousand catties of grain. All other refined rice will be purchased by the court at the market price of one tael per stone. Grain and grass are not allowed to be kept privately. What is the price of brown rice and coarse grain?
Prices are listed clearly.
Article 2: All grain merchants and drug dealers in the city are not allowed to open their markets without orders. No merchants other than designated merchants are allowed to engage in the grain and drug business.
Article 3: From now on, the four cities will be closed tightly and no entry or exit will be allowed without the permission of the imperial envoy.
Article 4: Anyone who knows about privately trading medicines and grains and reports it will receive 30% of the transaction volume.
All the victims in the city drank porridge for three days. Some of the people who felt unwell had doctors brought by Mu Anzhi to check their pulses and prescribe medicine. On the fourth day, Mu Anzhi issued four more orders.
Article 1: Young men over the age of 16 and under 50 who are not sick or disabled will no longer be given free porridge.
Article 2: Recruit young and strong men who can repair embankments, city walls, and roads. Food and accommodation are included. The salary starts at five hundred yuan based on their labor, and there is no cap on the salary.
Article 3: Recruiting women to cook and cook, food and accommodation are included, wages start at 500 yuan, no upper limit.
Article 4: Reopening of commercial markets. During the disaster relief period, all operators must have the qualifications approved by the Imperial Envoy.
There is work to do, food, accommodation, and wages are all included. This is a job that is simply unimaginable.
Of course, we still eat coarse grain brown rice. It’s not a choice. If you want to eat good food, isn’t the market open? The price of rice is now, snow-white rice, one tael of silver per stone.
In the past, even the rice bran that livestock used to eat in the city cost one tael per stone.
Nowadays, when the price of grain comes out, people applaud it even if they can't afford it. In fact, the price is more than three times higher than the price of rice in the imperial capital, but now everyone applauds, thinking that such rice merchants have a conscience.
The main thing is that the price of rice is fixed, and the price of brown rice and whole grains is naturally fixed as well.
If the people still have money but no food at home, they will not hesitate to spend money to buy food. Even for medicinal materials, Mu Anzhi also sets the price and allows people to buy and sell them freely. However, when buying medicine or food, you need to bring your household registration book.
Buy.
Of course, there are also some that are jaw-dropping. Fresh fruits such as apples and oranges cost 100 taels per catty, while cured chicken, duck, bacon, and fish are even cheaper, costing 50 taels per catty.
In addition, the most expensive live chickens, ducks, sheep, and fish are not worth eating even if a sheep does not cost 500 taels.
There is also sugar, which is more expensive than anything else, costing two hundred taels per catty.
So much so that when Zhuo Yushi, who had never dealt with Mu Anzhi, saw the large food box sent by the third prince and concubine, he felt that the prince and concubine were too generous.
There are two cold dishes in the food box, one is roasted vegetarian goose, the other is preserved bamboo shoots. There are two kinds of hot dishes, one is fried chicken slices, the other is braised mutton. A bowl of green vegetable and tofu soup, and a bowl of lovely crystal pearl rice.
Since arriving in Yecheng, everyone's food has been ten times more exquisite than on the road. The third prince's concubine specially passed on the message, "We have to rush on our way first, and we can't delay the relief work. The road is easier. Now that we have arrived in Yecheng, we can eat and drink to make up for it."
repair."
On the first day, Zhuo Yushi felt that the food was good. Now the merchants in the city were selling these chickens, fish, elbows, meat, and fresh vegetables at sky-high prices. Looking at the food again, Zhuo Yushi sighed with emotion and understood that the business of those sky-high price goods must be owned by the third prince.
The concubine’s butt.
However, there is an apple and an orange on the bottom layer of the food box. The apples are red and cute, and the oranges are bright and yellow. At this moment, they look even more like they are covered in silver and shining.
After the chief attendant brought the last fruit to the table, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Master, this meal costs three to five hundred taels of silver outside now. Fortunately, Miss Yan takes care of me, otherwise it would be up to you and the three of us."
Your Highness, we have to drink the northwest wind when we arrive in Yecheng." The eldest son of his family is an honest official. Although his salary is quite high, most of it is used to buy paintings and calligraphy for the younger brother to study, and he has no money to save. Now in Yecheng
Prices are such that even a chicken can't afford one.
"That's nonsense. I can't drink the northwest wind anywhere." Zhuo Yushi scolded with a smile, "How is your food?"
"It's very good. One meat and one vegetarian dish will make you full." Chang Sui knew a lot about economics, so he calculated in his stomach, "It will cost seventy or eighty taels."
"Bring it in and let's eat together." Zhuo Yushi asked, "These things are so expensive. Is there anyone who wants to buy them? How is the business?"
Changsui has been with Zhuo Yushi for many years. He is loyal and clever, so he put his own food on the table and said, "I am also curious, so I sent Li Liu to watch it early in the morning. Guess what?"
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"Tell me, why are you so pretentious?"
"Not only did people buy it, but the business was also good. Live animals were sold especially well. Someone spent thousands of silver to buy a fat pig that weighed more than 100 kilograms. The guy who sold the pig was even scolded by his boss, saying that he was on the way.
The pig was not taken care of well, and the pig was made to walk all the way. It was so tired that the pig lost more than ten kilograms of fat." Chang Sui said, "Sir, you see, there are really many rich people in Ye City.
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"Whose family is so rich?"
"I heard that I bought it for the first company in the Chamber of Commerce."
"What do the people outside say?"
"The common people find it strange, and they gloat more than scold them. Now they are all building embankments and city walls, and they don't have time to care about these things. They all want to earn more money to buy more food and save it."
He said, "There was a well-dressed man who shook his head and said a lot of disapproval."
Zhuo Yushi sneered, "They are only allowed to suck the blood of the people, but they don't want to be bled when it's their turn? Is there such a good thing in the world?"
"I heard that many people went to talk to the prefect."
Zhuo Yushi shook his head, "What an idiot."
In the next two days, the city gate received people who were brought into the city, drug dealers selling medicine privately in the market, and people who reported that someone had hidden a huge amount of grain and grass and wanted to move it. Du Changshi and his men caught him and exposed him.
Everything found will be confiscated. If it is reported, 30% of the reported amount will go to the reporter. Mu Anzhi kept his word and gave the food and grass directly to the reporter.
The informant was very wise and was willing to sell it to the court at market price.
Mu'an's cash payment.
Where did such a large amount of food and grass come from?
There has to be a source for this!
So the lawsuit went to trial.
Doctor Zheng is a veteran of the Criminal Department, and he pried open the mouths of so many moths without any trouble. This case actually makes people a little speechless. Magistrate Xu is innocent, and it was Fan Tongzhi who was in charge of all this. Magistrate Xu was promoted to Yecheng in the spring of last year
As the magistrate, Fan Tongzhi served three consecutive terms as magistrate in Yecheng. This man is really a talent. When the relief grains arrived in Yecheng, Fan Tongzhi left 50,000 kilograms of coarse grains for disaster relief. The rest he and several wealthy gentry in Yecheng
Then they scraped it off and kept it bit by bit. The price of food was getting higher and higher until the last copper coin was squeezed out of the people's pockets. It doesn't matter if the money is gone. Those who have fields at home can sell their fields, and those who have houses at home can sell their houses.
Even if you have no land or house, you can still sell your sons and daughters, forcing people to go bankrupt and destroy their families.
Mu An looked at it and saw that these were all big business owners.
OK, copy it.
The entire officialdom of Yecheng was in a panic, and the gentry and merchants were trembling.
Mu Anzhi just sorted it out and planned to leave for Luoyang Mansion. Before leaving, he left Du Changshi behind and said to Magistrate Xu, "It is rare for you to be such a coward. If you don't know what Fan Tongzhi did, you
It's just fainting. If you know it and don't tell it, you are incompetent! Blind man! I still have to go to Luoyang to see the disaster there. This is Du Changshi, the most capable person around me. He will stay and continue to help you with disaster relief.
. If you still want to have a safe and stable career, then put away this disaster relief tail neatly, and I guarantee that you will be safe."
Magistrate Xu once again shed tears of regret and gratitude, and Mu Anzhi sneered in his heart, such tears of incompetence are of no use.
In addition to Du Changshi, there were also 200 elite soldiers from Longhu Camp left behind according to Mu An's order. With these people and enough food, Du Changshi's talents were more than enough to pacify Yecheng.
Yushi Zhuo wrote a report about what happened in Yecheng and sent it back to the imperial capital. Mu Anzhi saw that Yushi Zhuo wrote the report diligently and thought that Zhuo had always been sinister, so that Yushi Zhuo would not confuse right and wrong in the report. Mu Anzhi also wrote
Li Yuhua took the envelope and handed it back. Li Yuhua did not miss this opportunity and wrote several letters to Empress Dowager Lan, and sent them back with the third brother's envelope.
Li Yuhua was a little regretful. She had originally planned to summon the local officials, their families, the squire's family, etc. when she arrived in Yecheng, but in the end, she didn't have to. The third brother said that there was no need to give them a good look when the disaster relief was so bad!
So, Li Yuhua counted the money at home.
However, before leaving, Li Yuhua still posted a message to summon the wives of officials and squires who were still safe and sound to come over and sit down, drink a cup of tea, introduce Zhu Yue to these ladies and grandmothers, took Zhu Yue's hand and said, "
This is my god-sister. She came in a hurry this time, and she is on a disaster relief mission. My Highness is also busy outside, and we have never had time to talk. I will leave with the disaster relief. Ayue stayed to assist Du Chang.
Shi is in charge of the trading market. If anything happens to you, tell A Yue the same thing."
There were many merchants who stayed with Zhu Yue. These merchants were making a lot of money. Suddenly, His Highness the Third Highness showed his power. All of a sudden, officials, gentry and merchants raided several houses. The rich households in Ye City trembled.
Their business is not as good as before. Now that His Highness is leaving, they are hesitant whether to leave with His Highness or continue to make a fortune in Yecheng.
Unable to make up their minds, as they could not see His Highness the Third Highness due to their status, they went to find Miss Zhu together. It was probably because of Miss Zhu's favor that everyone could come.
Moreover, Miss Zhu is someone who can go to the prince and concubine to pay her respects.
These people came with her, and Zhu Yue knew more about this matter in Yecheng.
One is out of the need to appease people's hearts, and the other is that Du Changshi is busy with disaster relief matters on weekdays, but business affairs are also very important. The situation requires such a person who not only understands business, but can also work among these merchants in the imperial capital.
As a person with prestige, Zhu Yue asked a confidant shopkeeper to follow the third prince and his entourage to Luoyang Mansion, and she took charge of the business in Yecheng.
Li Yuhua specially summoned Du Changshi to entrust him. After all, Zhu Yue belongs to a girl's family. As a girl, Du Changshi should take more care of her.
Du Changshi privately discussed with Mu Anzhi whether he could find another man, or let Zhu Yue go. What could such a girl do? If you can embroider flowers and flowers, what can you do with a girl for disaster relief?
As a result, the person was not replaced. Maybe Zhu Yue knew about his complaint to the Third Highness. Anyway, after the Third Highness left, the girl looked at him with a look that was unkind. Du Changshi complained in his heart, he
His Royal Highness is capable of everything, and he is even more wise and powerful when serving as an official. However, he is a bald-mouthed person in front of the empress, and it seems that he has told her everything.
Hey, this girl is the empress's confidant. Your Highness, didn't you sell this official?
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