Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 284
After mid-July, the news that reached the capital was mostly about casualties.

After the flood, came the plague.

Before the plague subsided, there was a famine.

Because there was no precaution, many government granaries were also flooded, and the imperial court did not transport grain from the north. The local grain was not enough.

Before these memorials arrived, the Ministry of Households had urgently distributed the little summer grain collected from the north to the Gyeonggi Camp and the Guards.

When the request for disaster grain arrived, the Ministry of Households passed the road, and there was no grain in the warehouse, but the autumn grain in the north was about to be harvested, and the autumn grain could be transferred.

The emperor naturally agreed.

At this time, Cai Xiang proposed the tea discussion method that had been prepared for several years.

It not only said how much income it could bring to the court, but also mentioned that it could help those victims so that their tea would not be unsold.

This is a great thing!

The emperor didn't even say that he would retreat to discuss with others, and the current court agreed.

Fortunately, he added at the end that Su Yue's tea mountain does not fall within the scope of this law.

This statement is not out of the blue.

Because before that, Fujian Road also handed over the booklet.

This year, Fujian is also heavily rained. Although it is mountainous, unlike the two lakes in Jiangxi, which were directly submerged by the lake, the rivers are raging, mudslides occur frequently, and the rare fields are completely destroyed.

Fujian is a place with relatively little food, and this time it is even worse.

The reason why Fujian did not have bitter water in the booklets like other places is because the maritime merchants in Fuzhou, Quanzhou played a big role.

First, Xie Jue's Xie family fleet recruited a large number of people, and the conditions allowed many coastal residents to go to work with their families. In places where mudslides broke out, there were many fewer people and a lot of casualties.

Then when the disaster broke out, Xie Jue, together with other sea merchants, including the foreign merchant, brought his sailors to help with disaster relief.

Not only that, but also donated millions of coins to buy food for disaster relief.

Therefore, compared with other places, Fujian is much better, and it has never reached the point where tea farmers cannot survive without tea.

The emperor can't understand anything else, but it's about Su Yue and Su Yue's default husband Xie Jue, which is still above the IQ.

At that time, Xie Jue was given the name of a charity merchant, and he was also promoted to a first-level vain job, becoming a third-rank follower.

Cai Xiang got the approval of the emperor, thinking about how many tea mountains a little girl Su Yue can have, he also praised the emperor for being a great and wise king, and agreed to the matter.

When a year later, he knew how many tea mountains there were under Su Yue's name...

Of course, this is something.

In fact, the emperor didn't even know that the real disaster was far more serious than those modified scriptures.

And because of the selfishness of Cai Bing and the household department, the court's deliberate inaction, and some things that local officials did to protect themselves.

Xie Jue and the others felt sad when they saw the worst disaster in the area.

Although Xie Jue had already prepared some food, compared to such a large-scale disaster, it was really a drop in the bucket.

Only one place can be saved, and one place can be lived.

Moreover, it is specifically aimed at those places with remote terrain and tough folk customs, where the local government is unable to govern or even deliberately abandons them.

Xie Bodhisattva's reputation spread deeply in those places.

Some places in Jiangxi also set up shrines for Yun Qinghong and Chang Bai.

The disaster in Jiangxi was serious, but the government granaries in some places were located on high ground, and the grain storage was not damaged.

Those local officials reported that there was no grain in the granary, but they wanted to secretly sell the official grain, and together with those unscrupulous businessmen, they drove up the price of grain and took the opportunity to make huge profits.

Those granaries were extremely hidden, but Yun Qinghong seemed to be able to guess it, and directly asked Chang Baicheng to bring 500 people to pick out the private warehouses of the magistrate of Shangrao, and then beheaded the magistrate and those unscrupulous businessmen on the spot.

After picking several places in a row, and even the magistrate of Wuzhou was arrested, the other officials became frightened and honestly opened warehouses to release food.

There is no way around Poyang Lake, but Wuzhou, Jingde, Fuzhou and other places have saved a lot of people.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, in a small courtyard outside Jingde County, Yun Qinghong wrote vigorously for an hour, then put down the pen, dried the ink on the paper, and put it in an envelope.

Then walked out the door.

Niu Fang and Chang Baicheng were sitting in the yard, chatting with a glass of water and wine in their hands.

Seeing Yun Qinghong coming out, Chang Baicheng smiled and said: "Come and have a drink, this is a rare Mid-Autumn Festival night."

Usually in the capital mansion, watching the aunt and those brothers and sisters play, how can I feel free now.

Seeing his smile, Yun Qinghong also smiled, walked to Chang Baicheng and sat down.

Although the emperor was confused and was fooled by Cai Xiang and the others one after another, he persisted in one thing and did not transfer Chang Baicheng and his guards back.

Otherwise, let's not talk about the disaster relief and the closing of the warehouse to arrest people later, he is afraid that he will be assassinated when he first entered Jiangxi's territory.

Those people really dared to do it. They hired dozens of people from the rivers and lakes, and then encouraged the local disaster victims to join them. They wanted to take advantage of Chang Bai's formation of troops and only brought more than 100 guards to stop them. On the mountain road coming from Liangzhe Road.

If it wasn't for someone secretly helping them, they might have been tricked.

Niu Fang poured Yun Qinghong a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Yes, it's Mid-Autumn Festival today, it's good to take a break, we've finished dealing with Jingde, the rest is just local affairs."

After finishing speaking, he said with a cold smile: "Thinking about it, those people don't dare to make any more bad things."

"That's hard to say." Chang Baicheng drank the wine in his glass in one gulp, and said: "They are so arrogant, even a small county magistrate in Shangrao County dares to point our noses and scold us, hey, I said cloud Brother, how do you know where he hid the food?"

No one in the local government office where the food was stored in Shangrao Magistrate's County knew, but they found it. The expression on his face at that time...

Yun Qinghong smiled lightly and said: "Brother Chang, do you know who helped us when we were on the mountain road?"

In his previous life, the documents kept by the Ministry of Industry were only related to floods, and these plagues and famines were not mentioned. He just felt that Shangrao’s granary could not be completely destroyed based on his experience on Liangzhe Road.

However, what told him the location was a letter thrown in in the middle of the night.

In that letter, not only the place where Shangrao county magistrate stored grain, but also the places where the other two county magistrates hid grain.

But after Chang Baicheng killed one or two people, the others let go, and some local people secretly reported the news.

Chang Baicheng was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and said: "Those people, if I guessed correctly, they should be people from the rivers and lakes of Liangzhe Road. Maybe they are grateful for the picture, so they escorted us all the way."

Looking at Chang Bai's image, he really didn't know, Yun Qinghong smiled lightly, and stopped asking this question.

It doesn't matter, no matter who the other party is, these are helping them now.

Then he also suffered from this situation.

As for later...

"Master Yun." A man in his 30s rushed in from the outside.

Seeing that the Jinshi who came with them is now also a sixth-rank official, Chang Baicheng smiled and said: "It's better to come early than to be coincidental. Come, let's drink together."

"Oh." The Jinshi stomped Chang Baicheng's feet, and then said to Yun Qinghong: "There is an order from above, we want us to go back!"

"Go back now?" Niu Fang unconsciously called out.

Now I have only gone to three states, but most of Jiangxi has not been there. Let them go back now. Then, those local officials who have been deterred will definitely fight back, and those people...

Yun Qinghong's complexion was gloomy, and he snorted coldly.

Sure enough...

(End of this chapter)