In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 297 Earthquake Special Envoy
After Hong Chengchou left, Lin Rui called Mrs. Lu, the Bureau of Statistics, the Supervisor of Commerce, and the person in charge of the bank.

After some thorough discussions, Lin Rui decided to let the royal family be directly responsible for this disaster relief. Firstly, it was to avoid corruption among officials in various places. Secondly, it could also be used to win over people's hearts and improve his reputation as the new emperor in the hearts of the lower class people in the north. status.

The 400 million shi of grain in the capital was to be reserved for next year's war and must not be touched. The 200 million shi in Datong could be diverted for disaster relief, but a mere 200 million shi would definitely not be enough.

After all, it is only the end of November, and there are still eight or nine months before next year's autumn harvest. According to the preliminary survey of the Bureau of Statistics, there are nearly 11 million people in need of assistance in the entire north. Therefore, the Ministry of Household Affairs did not lie this time. I am afraid that 500 million people are indeed needed. Only stone grain can ensure that no one will starve to death in these eight or nine months.

If it were in previous years, the gentry and landlords from all over the country would not stand idly by and the only people who would starve to death in the end would probably be some old people and children. The real young and strong can survive, but I don’t know how many people will sell their sons and daughters.

In the end, Lin Rui decided to remove more than 200 wives from the inner court and serve as disaster relief envoys, responsible for going to various states and counties to rescue victims. At the same time, he recruited 6 boys and girls aged 10 to [-] from various places for the two houses.

Rather than letting these children eventually become the slaves of the gentlemen and landlords, it is better to expand the recruitment scale and get all the good-looking girls to go to the Female Teachers College.

Each envoy brought with him 20 imperial guards, ten literate young eunuchs, and 5 taels of silver.

After these envoys arrived in various states and counties, they first used money to buy grain, salt, cloth, cotton and other supplies from local gentry and merchants, and then lent them to the people in need free of charge. All the borrowed materials were converted into silver and recorded clearly, and the land was divided among the people in the future. Later, it is repaid in installments year by year.

The Royal Bank and Royal Stores will also be spread to all six states and counties in the six provinces under their jurisdiction before the spring of next year.

Seeing that Lin Rui had directly handed over the disaster relief work to the inner court and sent more than 200 special envoys at once, Hong Chengchou and all the civil servants were helpless.

Especially when he learned that Lin Rui had spent more than 1000 million taels of silver to provide disaster relief this time, he became jealous, causing all civil servants to complain about Hong Chengchou's incompetence.

As disaster relief envoys arrived in various places one after another to carry out buying and borrowing work, the disaster situation in various places was finally alleviated, and the tragedy of selling children and selling women for cannibalism was avoided.

Although the price offered by the special envoys was much lower than the market price, the gentry, landlords and merchants everywhere did not dare not sell. After all, these special envoys were equivalent to imperial envoys and represented the emperor.

The emperor brought money to buy things from you. It was to give you face. If you refused and refused to sell, the next time he came, he might be the official who ransacked the house. So he took out the old grain from the house and donated some old cotton rags. .

Although they were all old grain, coarse salt, old cotton and rags, people everywhere still cried with gratitude. Lin Rui, the new emperor, instantly surpassed the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in the hearts of the people.

Even the landowners, gentry and merchants from all over the world have a much better impression of Lin Rui, the new emperor.

After all, compared with the forced apportionment and extortion by officials in the past, those envoys did indeed give out real money. Although the price was a little lower, it was a fair transaction and no deception.

Although it was a bit distressing to take out tens of millions of taels of silver at once, it could stabilize the disaster situation in the north and win over the people's hearts. What's more, the people will pay back the money in the future. Thinking of this, Lin Rui felt very good. Get rid of the irritability I felt a while ago.

Once he had some leisure time, Lin Rui couldn't help but think about Zhang Yan again.

Under Lin Rui's repeated urging, Zhang Yan finally moved into the harem a few days ago, and Zhu Cixiang and other three princes were sent to the imperial mausoleum to guard the mausoleum.

Originally, Lin Rui planned to let Zhang Yan and Princess Kunxing live in the East Palace together, so that they could take care of each other. After all, after the little princess entered the palace, she was depressed all day long and rarely moved around, which was really worrying.

However, Zhang Yan refused and even threatened her with death to prevent Lin Rui from telling Princess Kunxing that she had also entered the palace.

Lin Rui also knew that she couldn't accept it for a while and planned to take it slow, so he didn't embarrass her and still placed her in the Cining Palace where she used to live.However, she was asked to come to Qianqing Palace several times in succession, but she refused with various reasons. She even took the initiative to go to Cining Palace to spend the night, but she pretended to be sick and declined. This made Lin Rui annoyed and wanted even more. Have a good tease and play with it.

With Lin Rui's current status and mentality, except for the seven women with whom he has shared weal and woe with whom he can truly have a heart-to-heart relationship, the other women are nothing more than toys in his spare time, and there is no possibility of any real feelings, even if they are in a powerful country.

Even Zhang Yan, a superb beauty and queen, is no exception.

At this moment, in the imperial garden, Zhang Yan put on a palace skirt and took her personal maid Huan'er with her. She came to the pavilion with a nervous look on her face. She was relieved when she saw that Lin Rui was the only one.

"How is your health? Do you need me to ask the imperial doctor to take a look?"

Lin Rui waved her hand to sit down and said with a smile.

Huan'er on the side also retreated into the distance knowingly.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I am fine now."

Zhang Yan sat on the opposite side gracefully. When she heard that he was going to send an imperial doctor, she knew that she couldn't escape. After taking a deep breath, she had no choice but to say.

"The weather is nice today, and my wife is fine. Why don't you give me a dance first?"

Lin Rui came to sit next to her, hugged her waist, and said with some anticipation, there were neither mobile phones nor the Internet in this damn ancient time. When I was working hard before, I didn't feel much about it. Now that I am an emperor, I feel After free time, he felt extremely bored, which made Lin Rui and Yu Fa not used to it.

"Your Majesty, I am neither a dancer nor a prostitute. I would rather die than be so humiliated by you..."

Zhang Yan immediately stood up excitedly, her pretty face flushed red, and she looked at Lin Rui with extremely determined eyes.

For the sake of the continuation of the Ming Dynasty, and for the future of Xun'er and the others, she could endure hardships and enter the palace, but that didn't mean she could accept Lin Rui's humiliation.

"Empress, what are you doing? How did I humiliate you? Isn't it just a dance? Forget it if you don't dance. Why are you so excited?"

Lin Rui didn't expect that he just asked her to dance for him to relieve his boredom, but he didn't expect to stimulate her to this extent, and he was also shocked.

Seeing that Lin Rui was not forcing her to dance, Zhang Yan did not dare to make the relationship too tense, but as soon as she breathed a sigh of relief, she was pulled directly to sit on Lin Rui's lap.

"I made a mistake just now. Come and have a glass of wine to calm down the shock..."

Lin Rui was also quick to speak just now, but then he remembered that serious women in ancient times did not usually dance, let alone the queen Zhang Yan, so he poured a glass of wine and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, you are now the Ninth Five Supreme Being, and every word and deed must have the majesty of an emperor. This... is really unbecoming. How will the civil and military officials view it if it is spread? How will the people of the world view it? Your Majesty, please respect yourself. Some, please don’t be so frivolous, I will just sleep with you tonight..."

Zhang Yan was ashamed and angry, but couldn't struggle, so she could only speak righteously, almost biting her red lips until they bled.

(End of this chapter)