As the personal maid of the Ninth Princess, Qin'er naturally knew what happened between Jin Feng and the Ninth Princess.
Qin'er was very unhappy with Jin Feng's behavior of breaking into the Ninth Princess's house without informing him, but she didn't say anything and allowed Jin Feng to enter the courtyard.
Jin Feng originally thought that the Ninth Princess had come back to catch up on her sleep, but when he opened the door, he saw her reviewing documents under the window.
Seeing Jin Feng coming in, the Ninth Princess could not help but flash a hint of joy in her eyes.
But in the next second, he suppressed it and waved at Pearl.
Zhuer knelt down slightly and saluted Jin Feng, walked out, and closed the door behind her.
"Zhu'er is just more sensible than Qin'er."
Jin Feng smiled and praised.
"I compete with a maid every day, and I'm not afraid of being laughed at."
The Ninth Princess found that Jin Feng acted like a child sometimes, and rolled her eyes at him angrily: "Tell me, what do you want to do with me?"
"Can't I come to you if I have nothing to do?"
Jin Feng casually picked up the pastry on the table and stuffed a piece into his mouth.
The Ninth Princess didn't say anything, she just glanced at Jin Feng sideways.
"It's not interesting," Jin Feng swallowed the cake, "Miss Linglong came to see me just now. She wants to expand the scope of disaster relief. There will be a lot of food needed next. It's time to borrow food from the landlord."
"Is it so early?" Princess Ninth's face turned serious.
Sichuan and Sichuan are one of the granaries of Dakang. Even if there is a disaster this year, there will still be food in stock.
However, these stored grains are not in the hands of the people, nor in the hands of the government, but in the hands of various landowners and gentry.
The total amount of food in their hands is definitely more than that of Jin Feng and Ninth Princess.
And not just a little bit more.
Because there are too many landowners in the entire Sichuan and Sichuan.
Moreover, they make a living by renting fields and harvesting grain. The most important thing at home is food.
So after taking care of the powerful people, Jin Feng thought of the landlords.
It's just that the food in the homes of the landlords and gentry is protected by the laws of Dakang. Jin Feng and the Ninth Princess cannot directly ask them to hand over the food like they do with the powerful.
Moreover, the landlords and gentry are local snakes everywhere. Once they are not handled well, problems can easily arise.
Therefore, in Jin Feng and Ninth Princess's plan, they mainly focused on purchasing from Jiangnan. In the end, they had no choice but to start with the landlords and gentry.
The Ninth Princess did not expect that Jin Feng would request action just after the disaster relief work had begun.
"Wuyang, I thought about it seriously a few days ago and decided to take this matter sooner rather than later."
Jin Feng said: "If we wait until next year, when we are almost running out of food, we won't even have time to respond if something unexpected happens.
If we do it now and it succeeds, we will hoard the food. This is the safest way.
If it doesn’t succeed, we can also think of other ways so as not to grind our guns in the face of battle.”
"What you said makes sense."
The Ninth Princess nodded slightly, but did not make a decision immediately. After thinking for ten minutes, she nodded: "I will do as you said. Let's start from Maozhou and Mianzhou and finish these two counties. Mr. will just come back."
Happy New Year in Jinchuan!”
"Then I'll ask Da Liu to quickly send people to Xichuan to get water jade beads." Jin Feng followed.
There are too many landlords and gentry in Sichuan and Sichuan. It is impossible for Jin Feng and Ninth Princess to go to them one by one to ask for food. The fastest way is to press down from top to bottom.
Qing Xinyao had been deposed by the emperor, so after killing the chief eunuch, the seal of the state pastor was still in the hands of the ninth princess.
So to a certain extent, the Ninth Princess is now the governor of Xichuan and the immediate boss of the county guards in Sichuan and Shu.
The Ninth Princess requested to raise food, and the county governor found it difficult to refuse.
Anyway, they don't have to do it themselves, they just need to distribute the tasks to the various county magistrates.
And the county magistrates in various places are the enemies of the landlords and gentry, so it is most suitable for them to deal with the landlords and gentry.
As for how county magistrates in various places take action against landlords, Jin Feng has no control over it.
He had no good impression of these landowners at all.
The powerful people still care about saving face to some extent, but the landlords will do whatever they can to seize the people's land for themselves, including all kinds of dirty tricks.
Every time there is a disaster, the people cry for help, but many landowners are overjoyed.
Because in disaster years, the people have no harvest, so they have to borrow food from them, and they can take the opportunity to annex the people's fields.
People without land can only sell their sons and daughters, or sell themselves to landlords as long-term laborers, working for free for the rest of their lives.
It may be unfair to arrest all the landlords and tycoons in Dakang and behead them one by one, but if you kill every other person, most of them will definitely slip through the net.
Jin Feng left the Ninth Princess's courtyard and asked Da Liu to release a homing pigeon to Xichuan City.
That afternoon, a team of escorts rode to Dujiangyan and handed Jin Feng a bulging cloth bag.
On this day, Jin Feng and Ninth Princess, led by Wei Datong, rode on horseback to look at the projects around Dujiangyan.
After confirming that there were no major mistakes and that everything was being carried out according to the designed drawings, Jin Feng felt relieved.
Early the next morning, Jin Feng and Ninth Princess left Dujiangyan with their team.
This time they did not return to Xichuan, but continued northward towards Maozhou County.
After running on the road for a whole day, I finally arrived at my destination in the evening.
When the Maozhou County Sheriff heard that Ninth Princess and Jin Feng were coming, he immediately led his people to the city gate to greet them.
Seeing the cavalry getting closer and closer, the Maozhou County Sheriff felt very uneasy.
Maozhou is not far from Xichuan, and the governor of Maozhou has long heard of the ninth princess's feat of killing powerful people in Xichuan.
He was very worried that the Ninth Princess would come to deal with him again after taking care of the powerful people.
Maozhou is located on the border and is not on the way to Guangyuan. Apart from that, he really can't think of what else the Ninth Princess can do here.
law!
The cavalry stopped at the gate of the city, and the Maozhou County Sheriff quickly suppressed the panic in his heart and rushed forward.
"I have met Her Royal Highness the Princess and Mr. Jin!"
"No gift!" Ninth Princess raised her hand slightly: "Is the other courtyard ready?"
"Ready!" Maozhou County Sheriff nodded quickly: "Your Highness, please come with me."
When they arrived at the other courtyard, the Ninth Princess drove away the others and asked Qin'er to take out a bulging cloth bag and put it on the table.
Then he said to the Maozhou County Sheriff: "Open it and take a look."
"yes!"
The Maozhou County Sheriff nodded and opened the cloth bag with trembling hands.
He originally thought that there was some kind of murder weapon in the cloth bag, but when he opened it, he found that there were crystal clear jade beads inside.
The big ones are about the same size as peanuts, and the small ones are like soybeans.
Adding up all the sizes, there are hundreds of them.
"Your Highness, what does this mean?"
The Maozhou County Sheriff looked at the Ninth Princess with a puzzled look.
"Your Excellency, the Sheriff, should know that Sichuan and Sichuan have been severely hit by disasters this year and are in urgent need of a large amount of food relief. Landlords and gentry from all over the country have a lot of food at home. I hope you can help me buy some!"
The Ninth Princess said: "These water jade beads are the money I use to buy food."