After that, Xue Tingxiang distributed the food raising.
What he meant was that the government would come forward to buy the grain stored in the hands of those big households. According to the previous market price, if the big households did not want to ask for silver, they could replenish the grain afterwards.
In short, food must be brought out.
If they have food, they can talk well, and if they have no food, let them weigh each other up.
This is still Xue Tingxiang's consistent routine, strong buying and strong selling. It's just that this time he doesn't have to come forward in person.
After everything was arranged, Xue Tingxiang, who had not closed his eyes for a few days, returned to the place where he settled down.
Zhao'er was in the room, and she was still wearing a man's clothes.
Under the candlestick, red makeup dressed as a man, with a different style. You Qi Zhao’er was considerate, and when he saw him back, he stepped forward to take off his official hat and undress for him.
Before the change, Xue Tingxiang couldn't hold back for a long time.
This fellow is a serious, rambunctious man who has made Zhao'er wear men's clothes more than once in the inner curtain. But in five times, it would be good for Zhao'er to agree once.
Today he has no interest and is tired.
In fact, Zhao'er was also quite tired, but she still had a lot of chores to settle, and Xue Tingxiang came back just after she was done.
"Just spare them like that?" Zhao'er looked a little resentful.
Xue Tingxiang rubbed his brows and sighed: "It can only be like this for the time being. We don't know how many silverfish and squirrels there are among these people. We can't ask the teacher to ask the guilt because we have no evidence and no evidence. I have to use people to deal with these people, where did the people come from, it will only be more chaotic below, and I still have a place to use them."
Zhao'er looked at him curiously.
Xue Tingxiang added: "The so-called strong dragon can't overpower the local snakes is not based on force, but the strong dragons just arrived, but the local snakes are intertwined. They watch and help each other, and they can manage every aspect. If nothing happens, I don't mind. Play with them, but now the disaster relief should not be delayed, instead of disposing of them, it is better to let them go to work first."
"What do you mean—struggle with strength?"
Xue Tingxiang smiled and nodded: "Let their dog bite the dog's hair, I'll take a break and talk about it."
"It's okay to take a break, you've been very tired recently." Zhao'er said distressedly.
"You've been working hard recently." Xue Tingxiang took her shoulders, and the two went to the bed to rest.
Xue Tingxiang's fight between mountains and tigers stirred more than one or two people's hearts.
When they came out of the governor's office, those who had backers all looked for backers, and those without backers gathered together in twos and threes to worry. In fact, the meaning of the imperial consignor is very obvious, that is, to hold the imperial decree and press them to deal with those local big households.
There are only two ways to choose, either 'borrow' the food, or measure it yourself. If you have a handle in hand, how can you weigh it, you can only save your life first.
In the governor's yamen, Jiang Zhiyi and Lu Yanshou both came to Xiang Long.
At this time, naturally, you can't go through the front door, but through the back door. Xiang Long did not see them in the former ya, but in the latter's study.
"I said going around and making trouble, so it should be here!" Lu Yanshou sneered.
But the problem is that this trick is so hard that they can't tell, and Wu Xu won't mention it. The tail has been swept away. The problem is that the grain officer is still in the hands of the imperial envoy.
The grain officer was from Wu Xu. No one knew if Wu Xu had said anything to him. There are also imperial envoys who said that they have compiled the accounts of Guangji Cang over the years. They have never paid attention to these accounts. What will be reflected in the accounts, and whether it will have any relationship with them, these are unknown.
When things came to an end, they discovered that there was always a sparseness in the hundred secrets. And this sparse is like a big knife hanging above the head, no one knows if it will fall.
Jiang Zhiyi was in a bad mood, but Xiang Rong was in a good mood.
In order to avoid suspicion, he deliberately did not come forward, even if he wanted to give the imperial envoy a subtle disapproval, he also wanted to appease the hearts of the people below.
Don't panic, even if the imperial commissioner comes, he will come to see him instead of himself. If the imperial envoy wanted to do the disaster relief errand well, he would have to ask him.
Since he asked for his head, it means that the other party does not want to make a big deal, and will use the people below, so the following people can naturally rest easy.
But now it's better. When the imperial envoy heard that he was ill, he avoided the governor like a plague god, and he didn't even step on the governor's yamen. And Lu Yanshou suggested whether to ask the governor or not, but the imperial envoy even said that since Xiang Zhongcheng was ill, he should take good care of him.
There are too many meanings in this sentence. Do you want to make him recuperate
There is already such a trend.
Xiang Long wanted to jump out and say that this official sword is not old. The question is that the imperial envoy actually arranged this kind of errand. If he recovers, will the other party also make such excessive demands on him, and if so, should he or should not
It shouldn't be about disobeying the decree, it should be because people's hearts are unstable.
And Xiang Long also has another layer of consideration. The following relationship is intertwined, and this matter will inevitably produce contradictions in his life. There are not many relationships that have climbed up to his door. It is time to come to the door. How can he shirk
Those big households seem to be inconspicuous, but in fact, which of them are not hands and eyes, so they are still sick.
Even this disease is a bit suffocating.
The two of them were thinking about their own difficulties, and Lu Yanshou said: "It is imperative to go down and borrow food. I don't need to wait for this matter for the time being. But there is one thing—"
"What's up?"
Lu Yanshou could not wait to slap Jiang Zhiyi, how could he have such a pig teammate.
"Don't forget, when the court ordered the disaster relief, we reported that the relief had already been delivered, but the food was not enough. The Guangji Cang has an empty account, and we also have empty food for the relief, the only one that should be distributed. You intercepted all those grains and brought them to Kaifeng. Now, according to the population of the Yellow Book and the accounts of Guangji Cang, the one surnamed Xue should have borrowed one million stone grains for disaster relief, but now it is going to be depleted. If the number is made up, it means that all these dead debts will be shouldered by us."
Jiang Zhiyi was stunned for a moment: "But this food is not eaten by the three of me. It's up and down Kaifeng, and I haven't eaten it anywhere."
Lu Yanshou laughed angrily: "Then you go and tell the imperial commissioner that you ate all the empty accounts, and you cut off the food for disaster relief and sent it to Kaifeng, so the food accounts at Guangji Warehouse are not counted."
Dare to say that, it is obviously courting death, and taking the initiative to give the handle to people.
Perhaps the imperial envoy knew these things, so he would use such tactics to deal with them.
"Is there any reason for this, I'm not eating this food alone!" Probably because the blows he had received in the past few days were too heavy, Jiang Zhiyi sat on the ground with his buttocks covered, and burst into tears.
Xiang Long frowned, if he hadn't pointed at Jiang Zhiyi to do things, if he hadn't been a high-ranking official, he would have killed him too.
"Get up quickly. What you have to worry about now is that when the officials below find you, what are you going to do?"
"what?"
"Do you think they will carry the empty food on their backs?" Lu Yanshou said angrily.
At this time, someone knocked on the door, first Xiang Rong's person spoke, followed by Jiang Zhiyi's confidant.
"Sir, you'd better go back quickly. The two Futai lords from Runing House and Nanyang House came to you and said that they had something important to discuss."
coming.
The imperial envoy came to Kaifeng, and according to the rules, the prefects of all prefectures should come here to report their duties.
One is to facilitate the imperial envoys to understand the local situation, and the other is to ask for food.
There are a total of nine prefectures in Henan. The prefects of two prefectures are already in Kaifeng, and the prefects of the remaining seven prefectures are also coming.
They have always adhered to the rule, that is, they believed that the imperial court would not let it go.
Who would have thought that after that, it’s okay to have no food, and face the task of going down and borrowing food.
Even if the imperial envoy understands it again, the threat under that smiling face is obvious.
The imperial envoy deliberately took out the yellow books of each prefecture and the accounts of the local Changping warehouse, completely ignoring the fact that if there was food in the Changping warehouse, why did the disaster victims make trouble to Beizhili, as if they planned to record this bad debt on them on the head.
"Guide House has a total of more than 100,000 people on the register, and Changpingcang stores more than 80,000 shi of grain all year round. In addition to the food that has been donated in these days, you need to borrow 300,000 shi of grain, which is enough to control the government. The disaster victims have been through the autumn harvest. This amount is not difficult. If the local big households do not want silver, they can use the tax and grain of the new year to pay for it. You should do a good job in it. Now is the year of disaster. Difficulty."
"My lord—"
"Is there any difficulty for Mr. Zhang? If you have any difficulties, you can speak up, and this official can send someone else to temporarily borrow food on your behalf."
To say that it is a temporary replacement is obviously to be dismissed.
This Lord Zhang naturally shook his head again and again, saying that there was no difficulty.
After waiting, his face was full of bitterness.
When leaving the Governor's Yamen, he walked across the gate with a scar-faced man.
Zhang Shifu thought to himself, such a lame and blind person went to the Fansi Yamen.
However, because he had something on his mind, he didn't think much about it, but the person opposite him shrank his pupils and stared at his back several times.
"Master Hu, what are you looking at?" Hu San's subordinates ran over and asked.
Hu San shook his head and glanced at the place again: "It's nothing, go in and speak to the adults."
Today, in the whole of Henan, the city of Kaifeng is considered to be the quietest. Most of the shops on the street are open, but there are few pedestrians on the road, and there is no business.
Zhang Shifu left the governor's yamen and wandered the streets for a long time worried in his heart.
He also knew that it was useless to wander around like this, so he returned to the collapsed place and asked his confidants to go outside to inquire about news.
After inquiring around, I found that the imperial envoy was not only targeting him, but all prefectures and counties. First, send errands to the prefects of the prefectures, and then the small county officials below, no one can escape.
Now, the other prefectures that arrived first are going crazy.
For the sake of raising food, Zhang Shifu often ran out to borrow food during this drought.
He was not afraid that the victims below would starve to death, but that he was afraid that after the imperial official arrived, the fact that there was no food in Changping's warehouse under the government office would be discovered.
In fact, Zhang Shifu was not so timid before. He also went all the way from the low-level county magistrate to the prefect, but after the incident that happened in the summer of the ninth year of Jiacheng, his courage became less.
Naturally, these grains were not greed by Zhang Shifu alone, but they were transferred from the predecessor to the successor, and the successor to the next.
When Zhang Shifu took the position of the prefect, Chang Pingcang was a bad debt that he couldn't figure out. Usually, when someone comes to check, I will add some in it, and remove it when no one is there. Over time, everyone is paralyzed and regarded as normal.
We all know that if something happens, it will leak out sooner or later. The problem is that if people are not angry, who is willing to take responsibility for others.
You are greedy, I am greedy, everyone is greedy; hello, I am good, everyone is good.
Anyway, it won't last for a few years. Based on this mentality, Chang Pingcang's place has become a chronic disease.
Now that it is good, the imperial emissary has given his life, which means that this mess is all on his own.
A servant's report sounded outside the door: "Sir, Master Chen of Henan Prefecture has asked you to go to the governor-general, Master Jiang."
what to do? Naturally, it is the food that they want to give away. They can't carry this food. Now they can't protect themselves, and they don't care if they will offend their superiors.
But no one knows that the Guide Mansion where Zhang Shifu is located has not been emptied, and a batch of food has been distributed there.
As for why no one else has it, but the Guide Mansion has it, only heaven and earth know Zhang Shifu and that person.
Thinking of that person, Zhang Shifu's eyes flashed with hope, maybe he could ask that person for help.
No, it's better to take it slow first, and try not to go there as much as possible, so as not to lose the last bit of incense.
"You go and tell Mr. Chen's servant that the old man arrived after a few days' journey, so he needs to settle down a little and go to find him tomorrow."
In the next two days, Zhang Shifu and several other prefects went to Jiang Zhiyi.
Jiang Zhiyi also said that he would give them ideas, but he did not disclose the method, and the imperial envoy of the political envoy was already urging them to return to their places.
Zhang Shifu thought about it all night, and went to the governor's yamen the next day.
These days, no matter what the fuss is about outside, Xiang Long has been behind closed doors and no one is seen, but Zhang Shifu came to see him, but someone led him in.
"What is the important thing for you to come to see this official?" In order to show that he is indeed ill, Xiang Long has been lying on the couch these days.
Zhang Shifu bowed respectfully and saluted: "Xiaguan's visit this time is mainly to visit Lord Zhongcheng, but he is healthy."
Seeing this, Xiang Rong didn't want to show his cold face any more: "This official is fine, just retire if nothing happens. Now that the situation is different, it's better not to arouse suspicion."
His words seemed to be thinking for Zhang Shifu, but it was also to avoid suspicion for himself.
Speaking of this, Zhang Shifu remembered some gossip that had been circulated privately in the past two days. It is said that the incident was too big this time, and I am afraid that Lord Zhongcheng would be to blame, so he took the initiative to back down after the imperial commission arrived. Lord Zhongcheng can't protect himself, how can he protect the people below? Didn't you see that Lord Jiang was so anxious that the roof was smoking.
Thinking of this, Zhang Shifu knelt down with a plop, and fell to the ground: "I hope the adults can save the official."
Save what? They both knew it in their hearts, but Xiang Long was annoyed that this man was so unpromising, that even some food would make him difficult, and he actually asked him to come before him.
"As soon as this matter came out, even if I could borrow food, I'm afraid that Xiaguan would not be able to borrow it. Xiaguan was just a small prefect, and the imperial consignor was a strong man. Coupled with the deficit of Chang Pingcang, he killed Xiaguan. The subordinate can't even fill it in!"
"If you can't fill it in, can this officer fill it in?"
"My lord is different. Your lord is a senior official of the frontier. Your hands and eyes are open to the sky, and you will definitely save a child's life." Zhang Shifu saw Xiang Long's cold face, so he could not help moistening his lips nervously, and said softly, "Sir, please don't. Forget about the incident in Jiacheng's ninth year."