Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 285 Wan Ping, starved to death

Jinyiwei North Town Fusi.

Zhang Juzheng found He Liu in a hurry.

Zhang Juzheng opened his mouth and said: "Lao Liu, lend me five hundred brocade clothes and guards!"

He Liu said with some embarrassment: "May I ask Zhang Butang, what are you doing borrowing so many warriors in brocade clothes? It's a taboo for the Shangshu of the Ministry of War to borrow people in brocade clothes guards."

Zhang Juzheng said: "I can't control that much anymore. You know, our military department squeezed out tens of thousands of dans of military rations to help the victims. Now when the local government sees the food and silver, it is a custom to pluck the geese. That is life-saving food, and it must not be done." Let those corrupt officials dig these life-saving food out of the mouths of the common people! The head of the thirteen clean-up department of the household department will be sent to the thirteen counties affected by the disaster to supervise the distribution of food relief. It is not enough for the household department to send people, you It would be best for Jin Yiwei to send someone to go together. I hope that the might of the Jin Yiwei can deter the officials below, so that they don't dare to think about food relief."

He Liu pondered for a long time: "Forget it, for the sake of hundreds of thousands of people, I will break the rules once! The thirteen Taibao of the Jinyi Guard, there are only twelve members in the guard now. The twelve Taibao, plus Li Bofeng, who searched for hundreds of households, are each responsible for supervision. Food relief for a county! If those local officials dare to greedy for a grain, Jin Yiwei will execute them on the spot!"

Zhang Juzheng cupped his hands and said, "Old Sixth, I thank you on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims in Beizhili!"

He Liu sighed: "Zhang Butang. I have several rice shops in the south of the Yangtze River. I have asked Ding Sanjiao from the Cao Gang to help me transport [-] boatloads of rice to the capital. I will arrive in Beijing in ten days or so. Even if I donate it to the people of Beizhili."

Zhang Juzheng looked at He Liu approvingly: "You have people in your heart. It's rare!"

Zhang Juzheng turned to leave, He Liu summoned all the eunuchs and assigned errands.

Lao Hu went to Daxing County, while He Liu rushed to Wanping County together with Hai Rui, head of the Ministry of Household Affairs' Yunnan Cleaning Department.

The two led fifty warriors to the outside of Wanping County.They were stunned by the sight in front of them!

There are only nine cauldrons under the city wall. It seems that this is the porridge shed set up by the Wanping County Government.Tens of thousands of people crowded around the nine cauldrons.Hundreds of yamen servants drew their waist knives and stood beside the cauldron, for fear that the people would loot the limited hot porridge.

Thousands of old and weak women and children were too cold and hungry to stand up.They were all half lying in the snow.

A few Lizheng, leading some young and strong, kept loading the bodies of the people who died of starvation and freezing to flatbed trucks and transported them away.

A six or seven-year-old girl, holding a broken bowl in her hand, filled half a bowl of clear porridge that could reflect her figure, and ran to her grandmother who had frozen to death: "Grandma, grandma, I got the porridge. You Drink, drink."

A 40-year-old Lizheng patted the head of a little girl: "Little girl, your grandma has already gone to the Western Paradise. The Western Paradise is good. There are countless white flour steamed buns to eat. She doesn't have to go hungry anymore."

Seeing such a scene, Hai Rui shouted, "Where is the county magistrate Wanping?"

A full-bodied official in seventh-rank uniform came to Hai Rui: "I'm Li Bin, the magistrate of Xiawanping County. Are you Liuye He from Jinyiwei and Haizhu from the Ministry of Households? You two Shangguan braved the wind and snow to come to us." This Wanping County is really hard. I have arranged a banquet in the county town to welcome the two Shangguan."

Hai Rui glared at Li County Magistrate: "Tens of thousands of people are suffering from the cold outside the city, do you think I have the heart to eat a feast for the wind? Let me ask you, in such a cold day, you set up this porridge shop outside the city What's the matter? Even if the common people don't starve to death, they will freeze to death!"

County magistrate Li said lightly: "Lord Hai has learned a lesson. Tens of thousands of hungry and crazy people have entered the city, and I don't know how many troubles will arise! There must be some evil ways, hungry and evil, robbing rich people and so on. .For the sake of the stability of the county, I can only keep them out of the city."

Hai Rui couldn't bear it anymore!His elegant Qingliu actually yelled: "Fart your mother! Just for the sake of your so-called stability in the county, do you want to watch tens of thousands of people freeze to death outside the city? These ordinary people are so hungry that they don't even have the strength to hold a bowl." If there is no more, how can we rob wealthy households?"

County magistrate Li looked at the head of the household department who was "not on the road" in front of him, cupped his hands and said, "Don't be angry, Mr. Hai! In fact, it was not my idea to keep the victims out of the city. I live in Wanping City for the elderly, and there are three houses in the city. If the disaster victims rob me, then it’s okay? If you want to get angry, go to the servant.”

County magistrate Li is using it to pressure Hai Rui to the servant.

He Liu on the side couldn't listen anymore, he sneered and said, "Which big man should I support you? It turned out to be Xiang Shouli—Xiang Blind. You call him here and say that He Liu of Jinyiwei is looking for you." Him. I want to confront him to see if it was his idea to freeze tens of thousands of victims to death on purpose!"

County magistrate Li still has a ninety percent fear of Jinyiwei's sixth master.He hastily said: "Sixth Master, I've made a slip of the tongue. It's hard to be an official. I have been a servant of the official department for more than ten years, and my disciples are all over the official department. If he says something, my black hat will be lost. I How dare you go against his will."

He Liu said angrily: "If it weren't for the year of catastrophe, when the imperial court is employing people, I really wish I could chop off your head! In your eyes, the lives of tens of thousands of people are not worth as much as your black hat? Tell me Alright, open the city gate immediately and let the victims enter the city!"

County Magistrate Li said in embarrassment: "Where do tens of thousands of people live in the city? Isn't it the same to suffer from the cold inside the city and outside the city?"

Hai Rui said: "Free up the county government! Free up the mansions of the rich! Free up the county schools! Free up all the ancestral halls and temples dedicated to the ancestors of the rich—to resettle the disaster victims!"

County Magistrate Li complained: "Master Hai, how can there be such a rule?"

In desperation, Hai Rui grabbed the county magistrate Li by the neck: "I am the county magistrate in Chun'an and Xingguo, and this is the rule in times of disaster! From now on, if a disaster victim freezes to death, I will invite the emperor to attend you! "

He Liudao: "Master Hai, you don't need to join him. I have the Xiuchun knife on me! You don't need to ask for an order to chop off a handful of seventh-grade sesame officials!"

When County Magistrate Li heard this, he muttered in a low voice, "Kill me? You have to ask my godfather, Eunuch Lu, who is in charge of rituals, if he agrees."

He Liu sneered: "Heh, how dare a seventh-grade sesame official dare to grind his teeth with my dignified North Town Fushi? So there is a backer! Good! I will let you see if your backer is not working today! "

He Liuxin walked to a big pot in the porridge shed.This big pot is so clear that you can see the limited rice at the bottom of the pot.

He Liu grabbed a handful of chopsticks and threw them into the cauldron.The chopsticks floated on the water.

He Liu asked Hai Rui in a loud voice: "Master Hai, may I ask, what is the first rule of credit porridge at the Daming Disaster Relief Porridge Market?"

Hai Rui replied loudly: "The porridge needs to be thick so you can put chopsticks in it! If the chopsticks fall down, the heads of the officials in charge of the porridge field will fall to the ground!"

He Liu ordered his wrestlers to say: "Take Li Bin down, cut it off."

(End of this chapter)