Zhang Dun was furious: "When Princess Wang Jing was in power in the past, the country's wealth was free. All regions set up Changping Warehouse and Guanghui Warehouse for this situation. It was less than ten years since Wang Jinggong passed away. The court actually kept going.
Can’t even bring out the food for disaster relief?”
In his early thirties, the county magistrate of Zong was like a school student who had made a mistake in front of Zhang Dun: "It is a junior official who has dereliction of duty and has a traitor."
Zhang Dun said angrily: "What's the matter with you, a little county magistrate!"
After saying that, he felt that he had a slight disloyal and quickly apologized: "I just said nothing, don't blame me."
A bitterness streaked across the corner of the county magistrate's mouth: "It's okay, my father-in-law doesn't need to worry." Since he passed the imperial examination four years ago, he has been in the position of county magistrate for four years. He was a second-class Jinshi for four years.
There was no rise, and this is probably the only one in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, and there are no other families.
Zhang Dun asked, "The name of the county magistrate? If I meet the official family in the future, I will recommend it to the official family. With your talent and such efforts, it would be too insignificant to stay in the position of a county magistrate.
Now.”
County Magistrate Zong smiled faintly: "I dare not work my father-in-law, I am going to go to Zongze."
Zhang Dun touched his beard and nodded slightly. But Murong Fu was excited and couldn't help but look at the county magistrate of the Zong.
After the group walked away, Zhang Dun asked Murong Fu curiously: "Nephew, why did the county magistrate pay special attention to that person after he signed up his surname?"
Murong Fu smiled and shook his head: "I just think this person's name is interesting and down-to-earth and diligent, and he will definitely achieve great success in the future."
Zhang Dun said: "Oh? How can I see it?"
Murong Fu smiled and said, "I guess!"
Zhang Dun refused to comment and immediately said in a deep voice: "I am not in a hurry to enter Beijing now. I will think of a way to help the victims of this disaster. Never cause trouble. Is there any way to nephew?"
Murong Fu laughed: "Why uncle means to let his nephew get rid of his pocket?"
Zhang Dun was not embarrassed when he was pointed out, and he laughed: "Your Murong family is more than a million yuan in wealth? It is also a great merit to take out some relief to the victims, so why bother with these yellow and white things?"
Murong Fu smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry for the generosity of others, right?"
After a lot of laughter, Murong Fu said: "Corrupt officials have been greedy for disaster relief money and food. This kind of thing has been a long time and is not uncommon. But why are civilian ships prohibited from passing through the canal at this time?"
Zhang Dun sneered: "What's wrong with this? It's nothing more than collusion between the government and local gentry to prohibit foreign grain ships from entering the local area. Local large households took the opportunity to lower the price of land acres and force the victims who survived for a meal to sell land at a low price.
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Murong Fu sighed: "In this way, after this flood, I don't know how many original small fields will be mainly relegated to tenants and endure the exploitation of the master's family."
Zhang Dun sighed: "At the beginning of the establishment of a country, the land and land were freely traded, and there was no saying that land and land were permanently traded in the Sui and Tang dynasties. Although it greatly facilitated transaction circulation, it also greatly accelerated the merger of land and land. Thousand years of land and eight hundred
Lord, in the end, the land is concentrated in the hands of a few large households.”
"The original intention of Wang Jinggong's Qingmiao Law was to curb the situation of large households accumulating land in wasteland. I don't expect that after Wang Jinggong stopped his prefecture, the Qingmiao Law was also abandoned. Humph, these hypocrites kept saying "Qingmiao Law" that hurt.
The people? After all, they still hindered their so-called rural parties and relatives' annexation of land and land?"
Whenever he talks about the dispute between the old and the new, Zhang Dun always gritted his teeth and sighed infinitely.
Murong Fu did not want to complain with Zhang Dun, and quickly interrupted: "Uncle Shi, don't be busy discussing these things now. Now civilian ships cannot pass through the canal. Even if my nephew intends to relieve the court of poverty, it will be useless to not be able to transport food in."
Zhang Dun thought for a moment and hesitated: "Is it possible to transport food from land?"
Murong Fu looked at Zhang Dun with the look of a fool.
Zhang Dun shook his head, with a little apology in his tone: "It's because I'm not thinking well."
You can blockade through waterways, so wouldn’t it be easier to set up checkpoints on land? Not to mention that the efficiency of transporting grain on land is far less than that on waterways. Originally, Murong Fu said in two words that he should use private wealth to help the victims was already a huge expense.
If the Murong family was asked to transport food on land, this favor would be even greater than the sky.
After a little pondering, Zhang Dun said, "I remember that Ye Quan, the official of the Caosi Office of Jiangnan East Road, was my disciple in the past. I asked him to write a letter to him.
In the name of the Siyamen, the grain ship was driven onto the canal and transported to Chuzhou. What is the method?”
Murong Fu smiled helplessly: "Shiwang, as the saying goes, tea is cold when people leave. If Shiwang is still in charge of the court, then Ye Kongmu will naturally be reluctant to say this little thing. How can he need Shiwang to write to him?
Now Shibo is named in the court, but in fact it is not much different from Baishen. Will Ye Kongmu still listen to Shibo? What's more, Shibo himself said that the local government colluded with the big households and was determined to annex the land.
At this time, the grain ships from other places were transported in to seize food from local officials and gentry, let alone a small cave. Even if the transfer made me afraid that I would not risk offending my colleagues to repay Shibo's kindness.
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Zhang Dun's face changed. With his scheming, how could he not know that what Murong Fu said was the truth? But he still felt a little lucky and said half unwillingly: "Although that said, people's hearts are always different. If the other party agrees
Wouldn't it solve our troubles if you help?"
Murong Fu smiled and said, "Okay, since that's the case, Uncle Shi might as well write to Ye Kongmu immediately. The two routes are not far apart. If the post station is fast, there will be a reply within two days. I will also give you a reply to the Murong family in Gusu City.
The manager of the farmland manager wrote to him and asked him to prepare 10,000 s of grain immediately, and as soon as the grain ship arrived, he would be transported immediately. If nothing unexpected happens, the hungry people in Chuzhou would be able to receive relief within ten days."
"Okay, that's it."
Five days later.
Zhang Dun looked at the reply in front of him with a blue face. Murong Fu had no doubt that if there were no one beside him at this moment, Zhang Dun would have cursed on the spot.
"Has been rejected?" Murong Fu looked at Zhang Dun with a smile.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Dun sighed: "I know that Wang Jinggong was devoted to serving the country and was very loyal, but he finally stopped his appearance twice and ended with regret."
Murong Fu said: "I received a letter from Gusu Tianzhuang yesterday that the food was ready, but I had to stop when I was transported to Runzhou, which is still 200 miles away from Chuzhou."
Murong Fu shook his head and sighed, and walked out to relax: "Uncle Shi, I'd better wait for you to enter the capital and regain your position and worry about it!"