Secretly looking back at Xiao Han and others, Master Liu saw that the nobles did not seem to be angry because of this. Master Liu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and at the same time he hurriedly raised his face and shouted to the cook: "Hurry up!"
"Ah? Here!"
At this time, the cook also realized that something was wrong.
Master, who always had a kind face in the past, is so serious today? Could it be that he knows that he secretly brought rice home?
I can't, I didn't get much.
Besides, if the cook doesn’t steal, he won’t harvest the grain! How can there be a cook in this world who doesn’t steal?
So, the cook who thought of this complained secretly, and kept winking at the young apprentice beside him, asking him to quickly put away his rice bag and other things before these people came in, so as not to be seen as something fishy.
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"Oh, it's so heavy!" Seeing that the little apprentice understood the idea and trotted to pack things, the cook pretended to move a wooden pole with difficulty and invited Master Liu and the others to enter the fence.
"Master, please come in quickly! Today's first pot of porridge will be ready soon!"
Seeing several people come in, the cook put down the wood with a hurried smile, rubbed his hands, and came over again and asked: "Would you like to serve you a bowl first?"
"No, just go and do your job!" At this time, Master Liu couldn't care less about whether he was a cook or not. Hearing this, he immediately swatted flies away, waved his hand and shouted: "Hurry up and cook the porridge, something went wrong.
I am the only one asking you!"
"It's ready? What's wrong with this?" The cook asked for trouble and snorted in his heart. When he saw Master Liu's unkind look, he quickly closed his mouth and ran back to the pot quickly.
Then, while looking at these uninvited guests from the corner of his eye, he vigorously stirred the rice porridge in the pot.
"Master Marquis, you see, there are more than a dozen large pots here. This pot of porridge is enough for dozens of people! According to the instructions of the county magistrate, each pot of porridge must be boiled more than ten times every day from morning to evening.
, to ensure that with so many people, everyone can have something to drink..."
After sending away the cook, Master Liu turned from an unsmiling adult into a flattering bitch, and began to act as a tour guide, explaining the situation here to Xiao Han.
In fact, there was no need for him to explain. Xiao Han had served porridge in Ningcheng before and was familiar with the twists and turns here.
After coming in, he could probably deduce something just by looking at the piles of firewood and the bags containing rice.
According to his own speculation, Master Liu did not fool him, and the quantity should be consistent with what he said.
Moreover, including those porridge pots that were burning on fire, Xiao Han just took a general glance inside.
The tumbling porridge in the pot is not white porridge, but a multigrain porridge mixed with wild rice, turnip, red indica, etc.
But it's also very thick and thick, so I can't say that it won't fall down when I stand up with chopsticks. At least I can give someone a bowl of it for a day, and it shouldn't be a big deal.
"Why is this all grain porridge?"
Xiao Han was still looking around, but Liu Hongji also saw a pile of yellow and green in the pot. Seeing this, he couldn't help but frown, and asked Master Liu: "Is it true that there is no food in the court's disaster relief food?"
White rice?”
"Ahem, this strong man!"
Since Liu Hongji had not informed his identity before, Master Liu did not identify Liu Hongji with the Duke at all, so he just smiled bitterly and explained: "This strong man doesn't know something, of course he has some white rice.
But my county magistrate specified that we don’t want white rice! From the very beginning, he told the grain team transporting grain that Dengzhou City only needs these coarse grains and miscellaneous rice!”
"Oh?" Liu Hongji was very puzzled when he heard this. He looked at Master Liu in surprise and asked: "Why is this? Is white rice bad?"
"White rice, of course, is excellent!" Master Liu glanced at Xiao Han secretly, and when he saw him turning his head to look over, he sighed and said, "But it's just because white rice is so good that our county magistrate doesn't want it!"
Liu Hongji raised his brows and asked fiercely: "Huh? What kind of stupid reason is this? Don't you, the victims of the disaster, deserve to eat white rice?! Or is your county magistrate just a confused dog official!"
"Hey! What a difference! Our county magistrate is not confused!"
Speaking of his own county magistrate, Mr. Liu, who was trembling just now, as if facing an abyss, unexpectedly straightened his back, and a hint of admiration flashed in his eyes!
"Strong man, please don't slander my county magistrate! My county magistrate is very wise! Just like this disaster relief grain! The reason why he doesn't want white rice but insists on these coarse grains is because others look down on them! The merchants refuse to accept them!
Big households don’t want to hoard! That’s why they can safely distribute it to our Dengzhou City, and then distribute it to porridge factories to supply these people!”
"Hiss...it's actually like this?!"
Master Liu's words made Liu Hongji realize it immediately! Then he couldn't help but pat his thigh and shouted "Hello!"
All he wants to say now is that this Dengzhou County Magistrate is so damn smart! He is almost as smart as the official who mixed sand into the rice porridge that Xiao Han said before!
As Liu Hongji, who has experienced hardships and desperate situations!
He knows deeply that you must never underestimate the greed of human nature! And don’t overestimate the character of officials and wealthy officials!
For money, those people can do anything!
If you don’t believe me, go and take a look. The more disasters occur in years and disaster areas, the more officials, subordinates, and even businessmen and landlords collude with each other to take advantage of them!
They banded together to steal or sell disaster relief materials, which eventually led to the victims who were most in need of disaster relief starving to death and freezing to death, while these bastards who had killed a thousand people were living happily everywhere with these ill-gotten gains!
And if you want to put an end to this situation, you can't do it just by relying on harsh punishments!
Because when you take it, I take it, and everyone takes it, the so-called punishment becomes a joke!
After all, not many people will have the courage of the later Emperor Zhu. If you see a greedy person, kill him!
Moreover, even if he really continues to kill these corrupt officials, he will be like leeks in the field, killing one crop and another will grow, and he will never be able to kill them all!
Therefore, if you really want to prevent materials from being misappropriated and resold, there is only one way, which is to do what the Dengzhou County Magistrate did, and replace all the white rice that can be hoarded and sold for money with worthless miscellaneous rice! From the root
Above, solve the problem of money-obsessed eyes.
Although some of these worthless miscellaneous rice will inevitably be stolen by his subordinates, as long as it is not resold in large quantities, the stolen things alone will not affect the overall situation at all.