Chapter 27 We are born from the same roots, why rush each other?
"Open."
Arriving at the government warehouse and looking at the thick lock on the door, Li Yunze's anger level continued to rise.
"Long live." The fat-bellied and white-skinned official in charge of the intercourse affairs stepped forward tremblingly, "The filthy place in the warehouse will stain the eyes of Long Live."
Li Yunze whipped him directly in the face.
"Open!"
The pian who got up from the mud did not dare to cry out in pain, but tremblingly took out the key and opened the door of the warehouse.
The government government warehouse is much larger than the county government warehouse, and there are warehouses that store various materials in different categories.
"Where are the disaster relief materials sent by Yingtian Mansion?"
The official of the workshop held his face and cried bitterly, "Long live, it's none of my business, it was all approved by the Lord of the Palace."
Li Yunze didn't bother to pay attention to him, and pointed his riding crop at a subordinate, "You, go and open the door."
The subordinate trembled and collapsed on the ground, "It's all arranged by the masters, I'm just a worker."
With everyone making excuses like this, they knew without further ado that there must be something wrong with the supplies.
Li Yunze, who was already furious, was so angry that he almost squeezed out the water from his riding crop.
He didn't bother to talk to these guys anymore, and directly signaled Cao Bianjiao to "smash them all."
The soldiers swarmed forward and broke all the door locks of the warehouses.
At the same time, Wang Chengen had already obtained the cashier's accounting books from the Experience Department.
In the warehouses of local government offices in the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of things were stored.
From grain to hay, from oil and vinegar sauce to silk cloth, from copper coins to tool frames and so on.
Everything that can be collected is available.
Look at the old grains in the warehouse that have rotted due to being stored for too long, look at the cloths that break when touched, look at the oil and vinegar sauce covered with bugs, and look at the mice running around.
In particular, there are several warehouses dedicated to storing disaster relief supplies, but they are all empty.
Although he had known for a long time that there was no bottom line for monsters and monsters in the Ming Dynasty, but the bottom line reached such an extent that it still refreshed Li Yunze's three views.
"Where is the Jin Yiwei?"
Luo Yangxing, whose clothes were covered with mud on Feiyu, hurriedly brought people forward to salute, "I'm here!"
"Feng Yamen. Check one by one from the clerk to the clerk's office." Li Yunze adjusted his mentality slightly and tried to keep his face as normal. "If there is something wrong, first trace the stolen goods and pay the fine, and then drag him to the disaster relief work. After the matter is resolved, send it to
Serving in death camps in the military."
Cao Bianjiao, who had been silent all this time, looked up in shock. The people in these yamen were all so weak that they were not qualified to be cannon fodder in death camps.
Wang Chengen on the other side hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, what should I do if there is no one in the Yamen?"
"Three-legged toads are hard to find. There are many scholars who want to enter the yamen." Li Yunze understood what he meant and simply said, "Take all the scholars, children, and judges registered in Shaoxing Prefecture. Anyone with a student status will be called
Come here. I want to examine them and give them a chance to enter the Yamen directly."
The total number of scholars in the Ming Dynasty is not small, especially in the areas south of the Yangtze River, where economic conditions are good, and the number of scholars is even greater.
Li Yunze estimated that there must be tens of thousands of scholars from all over Jiangnan who can pass the children's examination, that is, the county and county dual examinations.
Counting those who have studied for many years but failed to pass the child examination, there are even more.
The lifelong pursuit of these people is that every three years, only two to three hundred people are eligible for Jinshi.
The vast majority of people will live a mediocre life and are not even qualified to take the examination.
Li Yunze gave them a chance to enter the Yamen.
Prefects and county magistrates are not good, but experience, governors, ministers, jailers, subordinates, clerks, etc. are all fine.
"After the people are summoned, take them to see these souls at work and tell them what will happen to them. Then let them memorize the Ming Law. The prerequisite for taking the exam is that they can recite the Ming Law without any mistakes."
After saying this in one breath, Li Yunze looked at Dian Shi, who had collapsed on the ground, "Now tell me, where did my goods go?"
On the most prosperous Qian Street in Fucheng, Shaoxing, there is a shop called "Richang Hao".
This shop sells daily necessities to the whole city, including everything needed for food, clothing, housing and transportation.
"Brother Song, this batch of white sugar is of excellent quality and is a top-grade product."
The owner of the Richang Hao poured wine for Mr. Fu Zun's brother-in-law with a smile on his face. "As for the price, I'm going to sell it for a pound of silver. How about we split it 50-50?"
The brother-in-law with a ruffian look on his face picked up the wine glass and took a sip, "Although it is a business without capital, you also know that the bulk of the money has to be given to my brother-in-law. Five or five cents, I still make a shitty profit."
The boss smiled even brighter, but in his heart he scolded the dog for being greedy.
"Look at what Brother Song said. How can I let my brother do it in vain? Then look, what about us four and six?"
There was the sound of urgent footsteps outside the door, and the shopkeeper of the Richang Hao stumbled against the door and barged in.
"Boss, something happened! Many officers and soldiers came outside and said they wanted to close our shop!"
"Why are you panicking?" The brother-in-law clapped his hands and stood up, "Commander Wu of the Shaoxing Guard is worthy of our brothers. I will go out and get rid of these crazy bastards."
"Here is Lauzon's brother."
When my brother-in-law came to the front hall, what he saw was a dazzling metallic luster, and all the people who came in were soldiers.
If he hadn't been drunk, he might have become alert, because the Shaoxing Guards simply didn't have so many well-maintained armors.
After drinking, my head was in a state of excitement, so I carelessly stepped forward and raised my hand to slap a soldier in the face.
"Where did you come from, you bastard! How dare you come here?"
‘呛啷~~~’ drew the sword out of its sheath.
‘Shua!’ The knife swept across.
When the owner of the Richang came over, the first thing he saw was the head rolling and falling at his feet.
Li Zicheng, who was holding a knife in his hand, walked up to the owner who was lying limp on the ground. "Are you the owner of this store? You were ordered by the emperor to collect relief materials. Boy, you are in big trouble."
For those merchants who colluded with the government to resell supplies, Li Yunze chose to impose heavy penalties instead of chopping off their heads.
Don't you like making money? OK, then I'll punish you until you lose everything.
The penalty will be directly based on the selling price of the resold materials, starting from one hundred times. The more resold, the higher the multiple will be. There is no upper limit.
Richang Hao got 200 shi of sugar from the government office. One shi is 150 jins, which is 30,000 jins.
The price they sold was one pound of silver, which was three thousand taels.
One hundred times the starting price is 300,000 taels.
Nothing to say, just pay.
If they said they had no money, the soldiers would raid homes and shops, steal houses, take care of cattle and harvest fields.
If that's not enough, then use a rope to drag the male members of the family away to do hard labor, and the wages will be ten cents a day. When the fine is paid, they will be released home.
Food and accommodation are included on the construction site, and ten cents a day is a net profit.
No one can ask for any favors from Li Yunze. No matter how old the boss behind you is, he is a retired minister of the Wanli Dynasty or something else.
The premise of respecting the elderly and caring for the young is that you are worthy of respect and love.
A large number of soldiers swept across the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and countless gentry met with bloody misfortune.
Countless people have lost their homes because of coveting these supplies.
Ni Yuanlu, who was urgently called back from Yuyao County, was still covered in mud.
The first time I met Li Yunze, I was hit hard.
"Ni Yuanlu, I am very disappointed in you."
He said he was disappointed, but looking at Ni Yuanlu's weathered face, Li Yunze still asked Wang Chengen to bring him a cup of hot tea and give him a chair.
"I feel guilty, please punish me long live."
Although I don't know why, it is my duty as a minister to ask Ni Yuanlu to plead guilty immediately.
"I asked you to come here to provide disaster relief."
"I have been providing disaster relief. Before the typhoon came, I persuaded and supervised the villagers to leave their homes and go to the mountains. After the typhoon passed, I have been busy with rescue." Ni Yuanlu stood upright and looked calm.
He was indeed busy with disaster relief and did nothing extraordinary.
"You are the censor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, in charge of disaster relief." Li Yunze said eloquently. "What you have to do is to strictly guard the supplies everywhere, ensure that they can be distributed to the people in time and in sufficient quantities to help them tide over the difficulties. Instead of
Working in a county is what the county magistrate has to do!"
The more he talked, the angrier he became. "Before the typhoon came, most of the supplies I distributed were missing. After the typhoon came, no one was in charge of distributing supplies, and there was no one to supervise them!"
"What you really should do, you just can't do."
Now Ni Yuanlu finally understood, "I have failed to live up to my trust, and I am guilty."
"You have not failed me, but all the victims outside Yuyao County."
Ni Yuanlu was suddenly horrified, and then she slapped herself hard.
I only wanted to go to the place where the disaster was the worst, but I didn't think about these things. This is really true.
"Okay." Li Yunze hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand helplessly, "You will be appointed as the prefect of Shaoxing first, and you will also be in charge of disaster relief work in various places. You can hone your skills in the local area for some time before you talk about joining the court."
If it were someone like Wen Tiren, he would definitely regret losing the favor of the king and the opportunity to enter the center.
But Ni Yuanlu didn't have any regrets here, and immediately bowed and thanked her.
Without a trace of hesitation, he got up and went out to work on disaster relief work.
The difference between loyal ministers and traitorous ministers actually lies here.
"Your Majesty."
Wang Chengen jogged in with a memorial in his hand, "After receiving the order, the governor of Henan has captured King Fu. Please decide how to deal with it."
Li Yunze sighed as his acting skills were on the line, "We are from the same roots, so there is no need to rush into each other."
"Escort King Fu to Yingtian Mansion, and the vassal kings from all over the Xingwen world gather at Yingtian Mansion to discuss King Fu's plans for rebellion."
He looked around and said, "As for the disaster relief here, leave it to Ni Yuanlu."
The supplies have been recovered and there are enough manpower to do the work.
Next, we only need to resettle the victims step by step, distribute supplies, and then resume production and life step by step.
For Li Yunze, the period before the kings arrived at Yingtian Mansion could be used to arrange fishing boats and processing plants.
Jiangsu and Zhejiang have abundant catches and numerous rare fish resources.
Large-scale fish meat can be used as food supply, and high-value catches are his most important source of income at this time besides gold.
In the modern world, there are many rich people, but high-value catches are becoming less and less.