The fastest distance from Changjing to Yuzhou is about twenty days.
Now the emperor has visited Yuzhou in person and is outside the Yamen.
However, there was no news in Changjing about the emperor's departure.
Xu Jin was caught off guard. At the same time, with his sense of smell developed through many years of officialdom, he was also keenly aware that something big was going to happen this time.
Otherwise, the emperor would never arrive in such a quiet way.
The tea house is diagonally across the street from the Yamen.
Due to the floods, the teahouse was deserted.
Only a wave of guests came today, and they booked a private room on the third floor. After the waiter brought the refreshments, he returned to the lobby and continued to sigh at each other with the shopkeeper.
On the third floor, Bai Yu and the three brothers from the Su family were lying in front of the window sill. They watched with their own eyes a man in a fifth-grade official uniform rush out of the yamen over there, leading the yamen servants to respectfully greet the giant Buddha standing in front of the door. Go in.
Su An raised her lips, "The next step is the battle of wits and courage between the emperor and the prefect."
"There is no need to fight with wits and courage. After handing in the account book, we still need to fight. Isn't it that I have been holding the pen for more than half a month in vain?" Su Wen returned to sit back at the tea table and drank tea leisurely.
Su Wu followed and came back, "Our mission is complete here, right? After more than a month of exhaustion, we can finally have a good rest. I didn't even work so hard when choosing the arena!"
Wheat Sui, on the other hand, was still focused on remembering the total in the account book, flipping his fingers over and over, "Sister, how much money did we spend on buying food this time? Eight hundred thousand taels? Nine hundred thousand taels? Why can't the Bai Yu family seem to have endless money? of?"
Bing'er had no idea whether 800,000 or 900,000, she only knew one fact, "So many! So many days!"
"Throw out so much to make those people grow blind, and take back so much again." Bai Yu turned his back to the window sill, with a smile on his lips, "This Yuzhou flood, the people have enough food to last until now. , all thanks to the generosity of Yuzhou grain merchants, their merits are immeasurable."
Everyone, "...Pfft!"
Tianbao also raised the corners of his lips. Although he didn't say much, it could be seen that he was in a good mood.
The group had been sitting in the teahouse for less than half an hour when the sound of footsteps going upstairs was heard from outside, and a moment later there was a knock on the wooden door of the private room.
The man who came in was in his forties, with a slender and heroic figure, and serious facial features.
After entering the door and seeing a group of people sitting at the tea table, the coldness in the man's brows and eyes unconsciously dissipated, and a smile appeared.
"Uncle Ziyi!" Su Wu stood up and flew towards him.
The man grabbed his shoulders and used his strength to relieve his strength. He turned half a circle and pressed the boy onto the chair. He patted his head and said, "Uncle is old and can't hold you as heavy as you are."
Su Wu pretended to be dissatisfied, "It's nothing, it sounds like you are scolding me."
Everyone laughed.
They hadn't seen each other for several years, but when they met again, they didn't feel any stranger at all. With a word of address and a laugh, they regained the closeness they had in Tubei Village.
Ziyi sat down next to Su Wu, and his eyes swept over every face in front of him.
Men are not used to talking about missing her, but their eyes are full of missing her.
After looking at the children, he spoke with a smile on his face, "They have all grown up and are becoming more mature in doing things. You all made great contributions to the Yuzhou flood."
Bai Yu smiled and winked at the man, "Uncle Ziyi, it doesn't matter whether you show your credit or not. You have to let Wei Li return the money I broke in, otherwise I may not be able to enter my home when I return to the place of exile."
Maisui didn't believe it, "It's impossible. Uncle Bai loves you as much as he loves his ancestors. If you smash the sky, he will stand up and stand up with a smile. How can he not let you in even after spending hundreds of thousands of silver?"
Bai Yu, "You don't understand, my old man will rebel even if his body hurts."
Crowd, "Bah!"
He held his forehead in purple clothes and couldn't help laughing.
"How dare Your Majesty to deduct your silver? If I deduct it here, all the money in the treasury will be lost." After teasing, Zi Yifang then explained, "Things at the Yamen will take some time. The emperor will not be able to leave for a while. I am worried that you have been waiting for a long time. Let me come over and tell you first. He will come to you later when this matter is settled."
Tianbao nodded when he heard this, and handed over a package and a prescription. "In the package is the medicine prepared by Grandpa Du using rotten poison. Together with the medicinal materials listed in the prescription, it can cure epidemic diseases."
"Give me a pillow if you need to take a nap. This is what we desperately need." Ziyi was not polite and accepted the things together, "But using poison to treat epidemic diseases? This is the first time I have heard of such a medical method."
Su applauded and showed off, "Uncle Ziyi has forgotten what Grandpa Po is good at? The epidemic is transmitted by corpse poison. In Grandpa Po's eyes, this is poison. It is treated with rotten poison, and it is used to fight poison with poison. !”
"..." After a moment, Ziyi's shoulders shook again.
Du Lao's style is indeed true and has always been like this.
Unexpected.
He is probably the only one in the world who can think of using rotten poison to cure diseases.
After the group gathered at the teahouse, Ziyi returned to the Yamen with his things, and Tianbao and others also rode out of the city.
Now that Wei Li has arrived in Yuzhou, they don't need to worry about the next thing.
Naturally, there is no need to continue buying food.
As for the goods that the local grain merchants have just purchased from other places at high prices... Wei Li will allocate a good place for them.
On the last day of October, the temperature has dropped to morning dew and frost.
A piece of news that the people had been waiting for for a long time finally came.
The emperor personally visited Yuzhou and ordered all county and town government offices to open warehouses and release grain for the people! Allocate funds to rebuild disaster areas later!
It had only been half a day since this news came out, and the people had not started to get excited. Then another news came that official granaries in various places were in urgent need of food! No food left! The emperor was furious about this and ordered a thorough investigation of where the food was stored!
The people didn't make a fuss when they heard about the grain release, but when the news came out, they exploded.
The official granaries of all dynasties must follow the laws of the country. Three years of farming will produce one year of food, and nine years of farming will produce three years of food. After thirty years of farming, even if there is severe drought and overflowing water, the people will have no food.
That is to say, after three years of farming, one year of grain reserves is necessary; after nine years of farming, three years of grain reserves are necessary.
It is used to provide relief to the people in times of natural disasters and to protect the people from the suffering of lack of food.
In the third year of Xuanjing this year, reserves started from the beginning of the new dynasty, and local government warehouses should have at least one year's worth of grain stored!
Taking one out of ten taxes paid by the people of Yuzhou in three years, the grain storage in the entire Yuzhou official warehouse should be between 80,000 and 100,000 shi.
But the emperor personally came to Yuzhou and ordered the official warehouses to be opened, but there was no food in the warehouses to send! Where did the huge amount of food go?
Since the disaster in Yuzhou, the people have not received any relief from the government at all!
In the next few days, the people of Yuzhou were eagerly awaiting the results.
The emperor personally supervised and led people to investigate thoroughly, pulling out carrots and bringing out the mud. Soon the people in the county and town saw the imperial officers and soldiers stationed, and took off their official hats and uniforms one by one and threw them into prison.
During this period, the emperor had been sitting in the Yamen of Yuzhou Fucheng, and the prefect Xu Jin was accompanying him to investigate the case. He did not dare to say a word and could not leave the scene.
