Just when everyone was pulling Yang Dingyuan, they suddenly heard a loud shout!
"What are you doing?! How do you behave like this?!"
Everyone turned their heads and saw Li Jiuyuan striding over, his face as gloomy as water, obviously extremely angry!
"gentlemen!"
Everyone saluted Li Jiuyuan one after another.
"Today's floods are so serious. I don't know how many people have been displaced! They are starving to death all over the fields, and corpses are floating hundreds of miles away! You disciples of Xinxue, who don't think about how to save the people, are still here messing around, how unbecoming it is!"
Li Jiuyuan was in a very bad mood, and he was scolded all over them!
Everyone lowered their heads, and no one dared to say a word.
After venting his anger, Li Jiuyuan asked anxiously: "I asked you to contact various grain merchants. How will the effect be? How many of them are willing to open warehouses and release grain to relieve the victims?"
Everyone, look at me and I look at you, everyone's face is dejected.
"What?! Isn't there even one family?!"
Li Jiuyuan raised his voice and looked very shocked!
"Although Mr. Lin Xulin of Jiangling County is not a grain merchant, he urgently purchased some grain and was willing to help the victims! However, Mr. Lin's grain is limited and can only take care of some of the victims in Jiangling County..."
Yang Dingyuan stepped forward and said in a deep voice.
"Um......"
Li Jiuyuan stroked his beard and sighed with a complicated expression: "I really didn't expect that there are so many grain merchants in Suzhou, but in the face of such a huge natural disaster, none of them are willing to open warehouses to store grain! Mr. Lin is not in the grain business.
Yes, he is just a businessman from a small mountain village, but after he opened a warehouse for disaster relief last winter, he donated generously again! Comparing the two, don't some people feel guilty?!"
"I see, those businessmen have no shame for a long time, and they only think about how to make money! This time, let alone letting them open warehouses for disaster relief, I heard that they will join forces to hoard food and drive up food prices.
, I’m taking this opportunity to make a fortune from the disaster!”
Yang Dingyuan said angrily!
"Dingyuan, you are well versed in criminal punishments! If these businessmen hoard and drive up food prices, are there any crimes that can punish them?"
Li Jiuyuan asked.
"Our Ning Dynasty has emphasized agriculture and suppressed business since Emperor Gaozu. These businessmen are driving up prices. Naturally, there are many crimes to punish them!"
Yang Dingyuan said loudly, but then he changed his tone: "But..."
"but what?"
"However, if you want to sue these businessmen for this crime, not to mention whether the Jiangsu government will accept it, even if it is accepted, it will take a long time just to collect evidence! But today's floods are so serious, I heard,
Even if all the province's grain reserves are used for disaster relief, they can only last for three days at most! The people can't afford to wait!"
After hearing this, Li Jiuyuan's face became even more anxious!
"Mr. Jiuyuan, I have a way. We can go to Song Chaoshan and ask him to issue an order to force those grain merchants to open warehouses to provide disaster relief! Even if they are unwilling to open warehouses to provide disaster relief, they are absolutely not allowed to drive up grain prices! In addition,
You can also ask Song Chaoshan to prepare money, buy food, and provide relief to the victims!"