Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 175, I understand

After Emperor Hongzhi was angry for a while, he quickly recovered his composure. He has always been gentle and refined, and he knew that getting angry is useless at all, so after thinking about it, he said to Liu Jian and others: "What do you think about this matter?" view?"

"Your Majesty, the matter of the food in the granary can be investigated slowly, but the problem of hunger for the victims cannot be delayed any longer. We must find a way to raise food for disaster relief as soon as possible."

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, Liu Jian was naturally the first to stand up. He knew that the key now was not why the food was missing, but how to get food for disaster relief, so that the victims could have enough food to survive this difficulty.

"What Liu Gong said is very true. The focus now is how to raise food for disaster relief. In my opinion, we should quickly order the southern provinces to transport food to the north."

Li Dongyang also immediately followed up, but after thinking about it, he added: "It takes more than a month to transport grain from the southern provinces to the north, even from the nearest Henan and Anhui, and besides the large amount of water transportation, Transportation in other areas is inconvenient, food delivery is limited, and the cost will be even greater.”

"So more than a month before the food from the south is shipped, we have to find a way to raise food for disaster relief."

Hearing what Li Dongyang said, Emperor Hongzhi thought about it and nodded. There is grain in the south, but it is difficult to transport it to the north. Only Huguang, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Jiangxi are lands of fish and rice. However, the food from Sichuan could not be transported out at all, because the road out of Sichuan was too rough.

"Where can we raise enough food for a month?"

Emperor Hongzhi frowned, thinking quickly in his mind, and asked again.

When Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and others heard this, they all immediately became sad and thoughtful, but none of them could think of any good solution.

In times of famine, food was extremely expensive. Apart from the food in the official warehouse of the imperial court, other people rarely had much leftover food. All of a sudden, these court princes couldn't think of any good solution.

Qianning Palace.

Zhu Houzhao, who had just returned from Tianjin, was telling Queen Zhang what he had seen and heard in Tianjin.

"Mother, haven't you seen that when the sea fishing boats come back, they bring back tens of thousands of catties of sea fish, all kinds of sea fish, some of which weigh hundreds of catties, and it takes five Only six people can lift it together."

"I asked someone to bring back some sea fish, and I have ordered the kitchen to make it for your mother to taste. Lao Liu said that this sea fish is more nutritious than river fish, especially this large yellow croaker. The meat is extremely delicious and rich in a lot of trace elements. It has very good beauty and health functions for people of your age, mother, you must eat more."

"Okay, okay, I must eat more, your father is really, sent you to Tianjin to suffer, look, you have lost weight."

Empress Zhang was naturally very happy when she heard that her son had brought her sea fish back. She hadn't seen Zhu Houzhao for a while, and she also complained about Emperor Hongzhi.

"I eat and drink well here in Tianjin every day. There is no suffering or suffering. The real suffering and suffering are those hungry people. You didn't see it, my mother. Those hungry people even ate up the bark of the trees, and the grass that just grew is gone. Even eating soil, each one’s stomach is swollen like a pregnant woman who is pregnant in October, her eyes are starved and skinny, that’s the real suffering, I have seen it with my own eyes this time.”

Zhu Houzhao didn't care. He lived a very chic life here in Tianjin. He was not restrained by Emperor Hongzhi, he didn't have to go to school, and he could taste all kinds of seafood with Liu Jin every day. He didn't want to go back to the capital. If Emperor Hongzhi had not decreed him to come back, he would have been prepared to stay here in Tianjin, and he still wanted to go to sea to hunt whales.

"How serious is it?"

At this time, Emperor Hongzhi walked in, his face was full of sorrow, and after discussing for a long time, he couldn't think of any good solution. Now he heard Zhu Houzhao's words, his face was even more ugly.

"Father, if you go and see among the disaster victims, you will know. How can you see the suffering of the people and understand the hardships of the people when you stay in the palace every day."

Zhu Houzhao seemed to be angry in his heart. He came back from Tianjin all the way. Wherever he passed, there were hungry people everywhere, starving and dying everywhere. It was horrible. Only the places closer to Tianjin were relatively better. The court seemed to have no disaster relief at all. .

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Emperor Hongzhi was also taken aback for a moment, then looked at Zhu Houzhao again, and immediately felt that Zhu Houzhao had matured a lot. It seems that this trip to Tianjin was not in vain. He started to teach himself.

"If I have a chance, I will go and see for myself."

Emperor Hongzhi said slowly.

"Father, you should go and have a look. I've heard that the imperial court is doing disaster relief, but why is the disaster getting worse?"

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then asked Emperor Hongzhi solemnly, his dissatisfaction was fully revealed in his words, he was really not afraid of his cheap father.

"Alas, the imperial court is out of food now."

Emperor Hongzhi sighed and said helplessly.

"No food?"

"How is this possible? The grain in the granary can be released for disaster relief. How could there be no grain?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard it, he couldn't believe it immediately.

"It is true that there is no food. I just received the news today that the food in the granary is gone."

Emperor Hongzhi roughly told Zhu Houzhao about the matter. He would not have said these things to Zhu Houzhao before, but today, he felt that the prince had matured a lot, so he also told Zhu Houzhao about this important matter.

"It was said earlier that there was food, but now there is no food. There must be something wrong with this. The food can't be gone. Oh, I understand, I understand. They played a big game of chess, and it's true. He is so courageous, and he is not afraid of being wiped out of the Nine Clans."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately frowned and pondered, and then said with his eyes widened.

This food can't disappear for no reason. Xie Qian has been asked to check it before. Xie Qian is still trustworthy. What's more, Xie Qian is not the only one, but everyone else is also there.

This can only show that the grain in this granary disappeared during this period of time. As for how it disappeared, you can know it with your toes.

This incident also reminded Zhu Houzhao of some things that happened when he was in Tianjin. Liu Jin said that someone was deliberately targeting him, and if he connected these things in series, he could guess it all in an instant.

　The merchants and gentry in the Ming Dynasty seemed to have nothing they dared not do~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)