Han Du was not surprised when he heard this. Lao Zhu's words were indeed exciting. But no matter how excited I am, after more than ten days, I should have calmed down long ago. Once a person calms down, it is difficult to be impulsive. On the contrary, reason and long-term considerations will prevail.
It took more than ten days for the people to calm down. This is considered to be the charm of Lao Zhu.
"The emperor was still worried that there wouldn't be enough food here, but now it seems like your place is doing fine."
"It's nothing, it's just half-life." Han Du sighed, then smiled and said: "But with the hundreds of thousands of loads of grain you sent, Henan should have no problem holding on for another month. "
After a month, if the food from Luzon comes back, then naturally there will be no need to worry about lack of food. If the food from Luzon doesn't arrive, the capital will collapse. It doesn't matter whether there is food in Henan.
He simply gave Fang Xiaoru some support. In fact, it wasn't really a support, it was just a simple meal.
"Can this little food last for a month?" Fang Xiaoru knew how many people there were in Henan. Even if he adds the hundreds of thousands of dans he brought, Han Du only has 300,000 dans of grain in his hands now. I originally thought that it could only last for more than ten days, but Han Du unexpectedly said that it could barely last for a month.
"It's support, not what you think. If you eat and drink normally, then this little food is naturally not enough." Han Du explained, "Now it's just water and water."
As the two of them walked along, they happened to see the people who had finished repairing the road and were eating.
Fang Xiaoru suddenly saw hundreds of people eating together and was shocked.
"Here, what's going on? Why are we all eating together?"
"There's nothing surprising." Han Du explained calmly: "Do you know why disaster relief has been so difficult since ancient times?"
"Why?" Fang Xiaoru thought about it carefully and asked directly when he didn't get an answer.
"Because of human nature." Han Du smiled, looked at Fang Xiaoru and explained: "People are very strange. Even if it is ordinary things, no one will care about them most of the time. But once this thing changes
If it is rare, people will go crazy for it. "
The so-called hunger marketing exploits this weakness.
"This is especially true for food. When there is enough food, the price is only a few hundred cents per load. We remember that the year before last, when the price of food was the lowest, it was probably more than three hundred cents. But look at the price of food this year."
"Food prices are indeed high this year, but isn't it because of the drought?" Fang Xiaoru asked doubtfully.
Han Du smiled, "Drought is naturally a reason, and the destruction of grain depots is also a reason, but people's fear of food shortage is also a reason."
With that said, Han Du asked Fang Xiaoru another question, "Brother Fang, do you think there have been more corrupt officials or more honest officials since ancient times?" "Is there any need to ask?" Fang Xiaoru sighed, "Of course there are many corrupt officials, and honest officials are rare. , Corrupt officials are like the sand of the Yellow River."
"That's right." Han Du smiled and sighed: "This has been the difficulty of disaster relief since ancient times. If you want to provide disaster relief, you need officials to distribute food to the people. But when there is an extreme shortage of food, people will be concerned about food. Very greedy. Therefore, whenever there is a disaster relief, there is never a time when officials do not help. This leads to a great reduction in the food available to the people, further increasing the difficulty of disaster relief. No matter how much food the court sends, This bottomless hole cannot be filled."
After Fang Xiaoru heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "Then why do you use 300,000 tons of grain to last for a month?" Since Han Du knew that no matter how much grain he had, it could not fill the disaster relief hole, why was he so sure to use this amount of grain? Some food to last for a month?
Han Du did not explain directly, but continued: "So if we want to provide disaster relief, we cannot let the food pass through the hands of officials."
"But how can we distribute food to the people without going through them?" Fang Xiaoru continued to ask.
Han Du smiled slightly and said, "Of course we let the people bring the food back."
Without leaving Fang Xiaoru confused for too long, Han Du explained with a smile: "I asked the people in each area to organize themselves and come here every ten days to collect food. In addition, the care and use of the food were completely left to them to decide, and only one person was sent. The officer stared at
. The people are numerous and powerful, so the government officials will not dare to act recklessly. And with the government officials watching, no one among the common people would dare to bully others. "
"This is a good idea. Brother Han's grasp of people's hearts is really wonderful." Fang Xiaoru was greatly shocked after hearing this. Although this method may seem simple, the effect is extremely good. If you don't have a very profound control over people's hearts, you wouldn't be able to think of it at all.
Han Du laughed dryly, is this his own ability? If I had the ability to control people's hearts like this, why would I have lived so mediocrely in my previous life? I have already said the classic words in an understatement, "Fighting with the sky is endless fun, fighting with the earth is endless fun, fighting with people is endless fun."
Next, Fang Xiaoru stayed in Henan and did not go back with the navy fleet. According to what he said, since the emperor wanted him to take a walk and have a good look, he naturally wanted to take a good look.
In particular, Fang Xiaoru was very curious about Handu's disaster relief methods, so he often went to the following prefectures and counties to check on the disaster relief situation.
Han Du also happened to take advantage of Fang Xiaoru's identity to further intimidate the officials below, so he allowed him to run around and didn't bother to care about him at all, just thinking that he was on inspection.
Fang Xiaoru is the supervisory censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Although he is only a seventh-rank supervisor, his status as a supervisory censor can make the officials of the fourth and fifth ranks below him tremble violently when they see him.
Although the supervisory censor is not of high rank, when he leaves the capital under the emperor's order, he is a serious imperial minister. Hearing that Da Tian listened to the report made the officials below fearful, fearing that a bad person would be reported to the emperor. If local officials like them were reported to the imperial court by the supervisory censor, they would almost never be able to stand up.
Although Fang Xiaoru is not an imperial envoy this time, who can say that he will not have the opportunity to go out of Beijing according to orders in the future? Moreover, Fang Xiaoru is still so young, and his future future is beyond what local officials like them dare to imagine.
Therefore, no local official dared to offend Fang Xiaoru. Even more so, he didn't dare to make any small moves under Fang Xiaoru's nose.
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In more than ten days, Fang Xiaoru almost visited all the prefectures and counties around Kaifeng Prefecture.
