Chapter 338: Your Majesty, please open a warehouse to provide disaster relief
Ming Dynasty: Huddled in Beiping Dangzhi County Text Volume Chapter 338 Your Highness should beg Your Majesty to open a warehouse to provide disaster relief. "What Guo Changshi scolded is that I and others have lived such a long life in vain and almost made a big mistake!"
"In the past, when big things happened in the village, we had to rely on the help of the folks from neighboring villages!
In fact, several villages often intermarry with each other, but today they turned against each other and fought over some river water. It is really inappropriate!"
"We old guys are really confused. Thank you Guo Changshi for scolding us to wake us up..."
All the old men quickly admitted their mistakes with sincerity.
"You are all elders and village chiefs of each village. It would be great if you can wake up!"
Guo An also showed a hint of joy in his eyes.
"You are neighbors, and you have always taken care of each other in the past. How can a mere drought cause you to fight like this?
Moreover, you are not short of food at home now, and you still have money left.
In addition, His Highness King Yan has ordered people to go to the south to purchase grain.
Even if there is really no harvest this year, you don’t need to worry, His Highness King Yan will definitely have food to sell to you.
Moreover, the price of food will not increase.
Even if your families don’t have any spare money, Prince Yan’s Mansion will still have many workshops and fortifications for you to work on and use food as wages!
Please feel at ease..."
"Your Highness is kind, thank you Guo Changshi!"
The faces of all the village elders were full of joy.
Guo An said again: "Also, as you all know, His Highness King Yan has almost conquered Goryeo. As for the Japanese country, it is also almost there!
By then, in order to control and govern Goryeo, His Highness King Yan will definitely need many trustworthy people.
As citizens of Beiping Prefecture and the people under the rule of His Highness King Yan, you are naturally the most trusted people by His Highness King Yan.
Therefore, you all should unite with each other and work together for His Highness King Yan!"
"Don't worry, Guo Changshi, I will definitely supervise those bastards when I get back!"
The faces of all the village elders and village chiefs suddenly turned red, and they were extremely excited, as if their children would be able to go to Korea and Japan to serve as officials tomorrow.
"Great kindness!"
Guo An nodded slightly, and then said: "However, we are not here specifically to dissuade you today.
Under drought, nothing survives.
The water in those rivers is getting less and less every day.
However, as long as those rivers can still flow for one day, they should be irrigated if there is enough water for people and animals."
"However, since there are so many villages, you need to stagger the time and water one village per day, and you are not allowed to water too much, just enough for the crops to survive!"
"Yes, Guo Changshi!"
A group of village elders and village chiefs responded again.
Afterwards, Guo An sat aside and watched the village elders discuss.
It was obviously not the first time that these village elders sat together to discuss. They quickly agreed on the order of watering in their villages, and even the amount of watering for each household was stipulated. p>
Guo An took a look and found that it was still reasonable, and nodded with great satisfaction.
Then, he threatened the village elders: "In the future, you will not allow any more group fights.
If we hear of any other village that is extremely domineering, or of any village that watered the country without caring about the lives of other villages, we will arrest the people in these villages and lock them up for ten days and a half, and make all your farm work impossible.
Wrong!"
"Don't worry, Guo Changshi, we will never be impulsive again!"
All the village elders were shocked and quickly promised.
Afterwards, Guo An gave instructions again for a while and then started to set off towards Beiping City.
By the time we returned to Beiping City, it was getting dark.
Guo An immediately left his duty and went home.
The second day.
Guo An continued to the next county.
I am still accompanied by the local magistrate, and I still have the familiar group fighting, familiar scolding, and reasoning.
Then, call the village elders, village chiefs, and armor chiefs from all the villages upstream and downstream, and reprimand them together, talk to them, reason with them, threaten them, and then paint a bigger picture.
Finally, all the village elders and village chiefs who were clear-hearted walked down the steps with faces full of joy.
As for those that are too muddy, just catch them and lock them up for three or four days.
Killing the chicken to scare the monkey, these people are all honest.
Nonetheless.
Guo An still worked hard for half a month before he visited all the prefectures and counties.
But this time, the drought has become serious again, and the water in some rivers can already be seen at the bottom of the river.
There are even some small rivers that have dried up, exposing the silt at the bottom of the river.
As for the crops in those fields, even if they were irrigated by river water before, they would only be 10 to 60% better.
The grain harvested by the people is not enough to feed them for a year, let alone support their families!
The entire Beiping Mansion burst into mourning.
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In the Yan Palace, Guo An frowned and found Zhu Di.
"Your Highness, there is a severe drought in our Beiping Prefecture. I wonder if the chief envoy and the inspector can report to the imperial court and request the imperial court to allocate food for disaster relief?
Why has the autumn harvest already passed and the imperial court has not distributed relief grains yet?"
"Huh?"
Zhu Di's eyes lit up, "What does Guo Qing mean? Under such circumstances, our Beiping Mansion also needs disaster relief food?"
"Your Highness, there is a severe drought in our Beiping Mansion. The land is thousands of miles away and the people have no food to eat!"
Guo An shouted directly, "Under such circumstances, our Beiping Prefecture naturally needs disaster relief food. Your Highness should even report to the court to reduce taxes and corvee for the people of Beiping Prefecture!"
Zhu Fu on the side stared, and then slowly lowered his head.
"What Guo Qing said makes sense! Regarding taxes and corvee, the court has already exempted and exempted the people of Beiping Prefecture."
Zhu Di nodded slightly, "However, those officials in the Chief Envoy and Inspector's Department are really thieves. In such a big disaster, they did not ask the court for relief food. Even those granaries should be opened when necessary to provide relief to the people.