"Xin Yande took the waterway directly to Huai'an!"
Lu Xian was probably very thirsty, so he took a deep gulp of tea in his hand.
Then, his words suddenly stopped, he frowned and chirped twice.
"Go on!" Fu Zhong said anxiously.
"What kind of tea is this?" Lu Xian smelled the tea cup in his hand again.
"It's Pu'er from Yunnan!" Fu Zhong said, "This has become popular in Beijing in the past two years!"
"Can you drink this?" Lu Xian's face was full of disgust, "No matter what, it has to be so frightening! This Pu'er turned out to be wild tea. The emperor said that Yunnan tea is so good that it is worth a hundred times. No one drank it before.
....."
"Hurry up and say something!" Tang Jing frowned.
Lu Xian was stunned again, "What did I just say?"
puff!
Hu Guan next to him couldn't bear it anymore and spit out a mouthful of tea.
He thought to himself, "It's a damn pity that Tang Jing has planned so hard. With such a group of people, how can any one of them be able to do practical things? No one drinks wild tea. In your generation, let alone tea, there are
Even if you drink clean water, it will burn you. You have only had enough food for a few days. Why are you pretending to be rich and wealthy? You are not good at planning, you are not successful enough, and you are more likely to fail!"
Li Fangying knocked on the table, "You just said that Xin Yande arrived in Huai'an!"
"Yes, the scholar who suffered from the plague arrived in Huai'an!" Lu Xian continued, "He left first, and the court's relief materials were behind. When he arrived, he saw that the Huai'an Prefecture had not started to provide relief. He asked the prefect of Huai'an, what are you doing?
Why don’t you open a warehouse to store grain?”
"The prefect of Huai'an was also adamant and told Xin Yande that there was no food! Xin Yande checked in Huai'an and found sixteen full warehouses! They were all filled with rice, grain, cloth, salt, and oil, and there was a fire on the spot! Guess what happened?"
"Hurry up and say it, stop talking nonsense!" Fu Zhongshi couldn't bear it anymore, so he laughed and cursed.
"The prefect of Huai'an said that it is military rations, do you dare to touch them? Those are military rations transferred by the imperial court to Liaodong. When the flood comes, they will be loaded onto ships and headed north! He also shouted to Xin Yande, "The grains of King Yan and King Shen of Liao, do you dare to touch them?"
"
"Xin Yande didn't get angry at first. He suppressed his anger and told the prefect of Huai'an to quickly open a warehouse to help the victims. When the food allocated by the imperial court from Yangzhou and other places arrives, it will be replenished for you! Guess the result..."
"Why don't you tell me!" Tang Jing couldn't bear it anymore, "Where are you singing?"
Lu Xian was not annoyed and argued, "Don't you have to pay attention to the context of everything? I don't want to tell you clearly..."
Hu Guan couldn't stand listening anymore, "Okay, okay, you can go on, can you go on?"
Lu Xian cleared his throat and continued, "The prefect of Huai'an told Xin Yande directly that the food in the Huai'an military warehouse is not defective at all and is 100% pure food. If the food allocated by the imperial court is mixed with sand or gravel, or the portion is not enough,
,Who bears the responsibility?”
"Isn't this correct?" everyone said.
The Ming Dynasty had only been founded for more than 30 years, and the martial arts was in full swing. Every civil servant dared to tamper with military rations, especially the military rations given to the vassal king. If you did it on the front foot, the vassal king would dare to take the case directly to the emperor.
The grain that can be transferred to the local areas is a bit worse. The food transferred to the local areas has always been fair and honest, and it is lost. Moreover, some of it is moldy grain that was packed in the warehouse and mixed with a lot of debris.
This kind of thing cannot be completely explained by corruption, because the court knows that even if it gives you good food, you have to go through the process and mix in some things when you go to the place. And not giving enough figures has been the practice of all dynasties.
If local officials develop the habit of stretching out their hands, the imperial court will not be able to bear it.
As for the people, the highest requirement is to keep them alive. As long as a person can live, he can eat anything, and there is no need to worry about such small things.
"Xin Yande said you open a warehouse, okay! Give the order and let the big households in the city provide food!" Lu Xian said again, "I guess Xin Yande's heart is burning at this moment, but he is suppressing it! It's so hard to die, the second
Xin Yande went out to inspect the city the next day, guess what..."
"I can't guess anymore!" Hu Guan couldn't stand Lu Xian's way of speaking, so he said, "Don't let us brothers guess, you should quickly reveal the truth!"
Lu Xian chuckled, "If someone wants to commit suicide, no one can stop him. Didn't the imperial court give an order when Xin Yande didn't leave? The surrounding prefectures and counties in Sizhou must unconditionally accept and resettle the victims. But guess what...
..."
Everyone sighed in unison, too lazy to speak.
"The prefect of Huai'an actually ordered that all major transportation routes be heavily guarded. The government officials and archers from the countryside also borrowed soldiers and horses from the command post, all sent out for one purpose."
"No disaster victim is allowed to enter the territory of Huai'an! We have also ordered all villages in Huai'an countryside to organize team training to protect themselves. What does this mean? It means that when the victims come, these village warriors can take action directly!"
"Hiss..." Everyone gasped.
boom!
Hu Guan threw a circle on the table, "Foolish! All the people in the world are the people of my Ming Dynasty. What does the governor of Huai'an do? Where will it affect the people, where will it affect the king and father, and where will it affect my Ming Dynasty?"
Lu Xian added, "The prefect of Huai'an did not open warehouses for disaster relief and did not allow the victims to enter Huai'an, which directly angered Xin Yande. What a good scholar. Xin Yande called the prefect of Huai'an outside the city and pointed at those who were soaked in the flood.
The victims of the Sizhou disaster here didn’t even let the prefect of Huai’an say anything!”
"I directly invited Huang Mingqi and Jin Yiwei to take action and chopped off the head of the Huai'an magistrate. At the same time, the heads of the sixteen officials in Huai'an who were not doing their job well were also beheaded!"
"It's just a matter of chopping them off, but what the hell, they hung all these people's heads on bamboo poles, and they were all scattered around! They put their corpses on a tree and left them exposed for three days!"
"Hiss!" Everyone frowned again, their faces full of horror.
"To say that this person is also mean, not only did the prefect of Huai'an not allow the victims to enter the city or enter the territory of Huai'an, the local squires in Huai'an also did not agree. But after a long line of heads were hung up, no one, no matter the officials or gentry, dared to say a word
.”
"When it's time to put food in, and when it's time to leave the city for resettlement, it's time to leave the city for resettlement!" As he spoke, Lu Xian took another sip of water, "Then Xin Yande asked people to fish out corpses from the flood. More than a hundred corpses of the victims were fished out, most of them were
Old people and children.”
"It is said that Xin Yande's eyes were red at that time. After killing the prefect of Huai'an, the inspection censor of Huai'an also asked him to take off his official hat. He also went to the guard station and cursed, which scared the Huai'an guard commander.
Don’t dare to go out…”
"Wait a minute!" Hu Guan suddenly interrupted Lu Xianxing, "How do you know so clearly?"
"The commander of the Huaian Guard is my brother-in-law!" Lu Xian said with a smile, "He let Xin Yande scare him, so he quickly sent someone to send a letter to Beijing." After saying that, he looked directly at Tang Jing, "If this official is my brother-in-law,
If I can’t keep it, I have to trouble you to move it around!”
Tang Jing nodded with a sullen face, and looked at Fu Zhong the next second, "Will it affect...?"
Fu Zhong muttered, "Probably not. After all, we are taking the water route. As long as there is no trouble at the Hedao Yamen and Huai'an garrison, it will be fine!"
Hu Guan on the side looked like it had nothing to do with him, but he was thinking about it in his heart.
"There are still three nails in the broken ship! It has been so many years since the Lu family fell, but there are still people in the local area. These noble children of high-ranking families have even more connections in the local area! Well, the emperor asked me to take care of Qingyan,
I’ll have to sort out the connections between these people later!”
"Cut them all down by their roots. I won't let go of the wrong ones!"
Dong-dong-dong, suddenly there were footsteps coming from outside again.