Chapter 130 The emperor is angry

Ye Jiu would be lying if she said she wasn't shocked.

He knew that the brothers and sisters of the Xia family were storing food, but he never thought that they had so much food in their hands.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like preparations for opening a grain shop.

After all, even if they originally planned to open seven grain shops, it would be impossible to sell out so much grain without this disaster.

Xia He didn't know what Ye Jiu was thinking, but just sighed. "For more than a month, I'm afraid the ice and snow won't melt."

She remembered that the ice and snow would have to wait until next spring to melt.

It is expected to be around March from now.

Seeing her absent-minded, Ye Jiu deliberately breathed on her sensitive neck to annoy her. "What are you thinking?"

Xia He was tickled by him, and avoided him with a smile. "I'm thinking, today's winter seems to be longer than any other year."

Ye Jiu understands that the winter in her mouth refers to the cold and freezing days.

Ye Jiu comforted her. "Don't worry, you have to believe that since Liuheting has stood up now, someone must follow suit. No matter how bad it is, there is still a royal family in Nanning."

Hearing what he said, Xia He smiled happily and relieved his worries.

Yes, if no one cares about you in the last life, how many people will die!
Royal Palace.

After the early court, Zhao Zheng summoned Rui Wang Zhao Miao and Household Minister Shi Chengyi in the imperial study.

At this time, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground suddenly came from the imperial study room, followed by Zhao Zheng's furious roar.

"There are so many disaster victims at the feet of the emperor, this is a slap in the face! Shi Chengyi, where do you want my face to be placed?"

Shi Chengyi was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground with a plop, trembling. "The emperor calms down, the emperor calms down!"

Shi Chengyi also panicked because of the complex terrain of Nanning, and in the cold winter every year, many cities will be closed from time to time.

But the days of closing the mountains, except for the Tianshan Mountains, which are longer, other places are intermittent, and the time will not be too long.

Who knew that Kyoto would be so unlucky this year, and encountered a great cold.The heavy snow has basically never stopped from the beginning, which has caused the heavy snow to close the mountains, a large number of victims in Kyoto, and food shortages, which cannot be supplied.

Zhao Zheng was too lazy to look at him, turned to King Rui, and said modestly. "Third brother, I want to leave the disaster relief to you."

Zhao Miao's sharp-edged face was full of caution. "I will do my best to live up to the emperor's orders."

Zhao Zheng nodded in satisfaction, looked at Shi Chengyi who was kneeling below, and his face changed from his previous modesty. "In this matter, you are at the request of King Rui and fully cooperate. If you make mistakes again, I will never avoid you."

Shi Chengyi kowtowed as if he had received an amnesty. "The minister obeys the order!"

After leaving the imperial study, Shi Chengyi reported to Zhao Miao everything he knew about the disaster.

Zhao Miao asked first after listening. "Now the disaster victims may die."

Shi Chengyi only felt that his hands and feet were getting colder than usual, but he didn't dare to hide anything. "The death toll as of yesterday afternoon was six."

Everyone knows that King Rui is the most strict and selfless in handling affairs. If he is not honest, once he finds out, even the emperor may not be able to protect himself.

Zhao Miao's cheeks twitched uncomfortably on his unchanged face for many years.

Hiding and not reporting, this is a sign of wanting to die!

Zhao Miao finally knew why today the emperor lost his temper so much to the Shi family, whom he had always taken good care of.

If it weren't for Concubine De, a favorite concubine from the historian family, Shi Chengyi would have already been imprisoned at this moment.

Zhao Miao and Shi Chengyi went to the household department together, first read a series of files about the disaster in recent days, and then called all the personnel of the household department to carry out a series of deployment and division of labor on the disaster relief.

In the end, Zhao Miao decided to take two or three officials and several officers and soldiers to the suburbs to investigate the disaster situation on the spot.

When Zhao Miao arrived in the disaster area and found out that someone had set up a tent to help the victims, he was unavoidably surprised.

"Who is this porridge?"

He saw two or three people passing by him, each holding a steamed bun and a bowl of very clear porridge in their hands.

These things may not be a big deal on weekdays, but now that even the common people in Kyoto may not have rice, and the rich and powerful may not have good food, this situation becomes very strange.

When Shi Chengyi saw those steamed buns in the hands of the victims and rice grains in the bowls, he was completely dumbfounded.

Could this porridge man be crazy!

You must know that the grain in the whole of Kyoto has been sold at a sky-high price, not to mention ordinary people, even his family can't afford it. They started to let the people below eat coarse grains, and they can supply at most one or two meals a day.

Soon there were officers and soldiers who went to inquire about it. "My lord, my subordinates found out that the porridge is from Liuheting."

"Liu He Ting?" What kind of family is that?
King Rui hadn't heard of it.

On the contrary, Shi Chengyi thought about it and knew something about Liu Heting. "If my officer remembers correctly, there seem to be seven grain shops and several medicine shops under the name of Liu He Ting."

The first time he heard about Liuheting was when the people below said that during the time of food shortage, there were seven grain stores called Liuheting, and the asking price of grain was three times that of other grain stores.

Later, when I heard about Liuheting, it was because many grain shops in Kyoto were short of grain and could not sell the grain, but in this Liuheting, all seven grain shops still had grain for sale.Although it is a daily limit, it has never stopped.

At times like this, he always paid more attention to the word "grain", so he naturally wrote down the Liuheting.

"The owner of the grain shop!" King Rui was even more puzzled.

An official behind him said suddenly. "My lord, the people from Xiaguan's family went to several grain shops yesterday but failed to buy a drop of rice grain, so they had to go to this Liuhe Court and came back to say that it was closed. Everyone was discussing in private that their family also There is no food left."

King Rui was even more puzzled.

The grain merchant didn't hurry up to make money at this time, and actually used the grain to help the victims.

The officials and soldiers below also looked at each other.

Some soldiers even thought that they would tell the seven aunts and eight aunts at home when they went back. If someone really couldn't open the pot, they might as well come here to get a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun.

"Go, go and have a look." King Rui pointed at Shi Chengyi and the official who spoke before. "The rest are waiting here."

The three of them came all the way to the porridge shed, only to see that the long line was extremely long.

From a distance, King Rui saw an old man patrolling the porridge shed.I saw him looking at the porridge made by his subordinates for a while, and how many steamed buns were left for a while, and then explained a few words to the people around him in turn.

Not long after, the old man came out of the porridge shed, and walked to the carriage not far away with a young man dressed as a servant.

King Rui said to the two people around him. "Walk."

(End of this chapter)

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