Red Sleeve Square.
Li Jin looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with a headache, knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang had relapsed into his old habits and started to like the emperor's tricks again.
But this time Li Jin was really in no mood to argue with Zhu Yuanzhang. Last time it was to kill Zhu Yuanzhang severely.
There was no profit this time, and Li Jin really didn't want to waste any more words with Zhu Yuanzhang.
"These are government affairs. Why did Mr. Huang come here this time?"
"If there's nothing important, just wait until I invite Mr. Huang to dinner next time."
"We have other things to talk about, so please leave Mr. Huang first."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard that Li Jin was trying to drive him away, he became even more furious and said:
"As relatives of the emperor, when we see that the people outside the city are hungry, we should make decisions for the people."
"If you don't give us an explanation today, we will definitely report it to the emperor and ask him to arrest you all."
As soon as these words came out, the officials around him were so frightened that their faces turned pale.
Li Jin looked helplessly at Zhu Yuanzhang who came in to disturb the situation, knowing that if he didn't explain things to this man today, he might really go to heaven.
Li Jin glanced at the left and right, asking them to step back first.
These people didn't want to stay with Zhu Yuanzhang anymore, so they stood up hurriedly, picked up the boxes behind them, and ran out of the room.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the boxes held by those people were very suspicious, and he also winked at Mao Xiang beside him and asked him to go down and check what was inside.
In an instant, only Li Jin, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and his son were left in the room.
"Old man, tell me, what do you want to do this time?"
"You said that as a relative of the emperor, wouldn't you like to earn some money to support your retirement? Why do you have to get involved in officialdom?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang talked about this, he suddenly became angry and shouted:
"What do you bunch of dog officials do?"
"Let me ask you, you have a lot of fish and meat here, but the disaster victims are drinking bran and eating grass in the city. How can you afford it?"
"Are those things for humans to eat? Li Jin, don't you know that they are for animals to eat?"
At the end of Zhu Yuanzhang's words, his eyes widened, and bloodshot eyes slowly crawled up, looking extremely terrifying.
Li Jin wiped his mouth with a towel and said:
"Of course I know it's for beasts."
"Then don't you feel ashamed of yourself and feel ashamed of the people?"
"On the contrary, I am deeply pleased. It was my idea to sell all the grain and buy bran and fodder."
After Li Jin finished speaking, he proudly stretched out his finger and pointed at himself.
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately jumped up and roared:
"Dog officer, you are such a dog officer."
"The Emperor asked you to come to provide disaster relief. Is this how you help the victims? Are you worthy of the Emperor?"
"How can I be sorry to the Emperor? The Emperor told me not to starve a single person to death. Did I do it?"
Li Jin confidently explained:
"Go out and ask if anyone has starved to death in Yiwu County."
"Mr. Huang, you come from a wealthy family. You eat white rice and wheat cakes every day. You think bran is for animals. You are noble and disdainful."
"But, let me ask you, have you ever carefully understood the situation in the disaster areas in Yiwu County?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless for a moment when Li Jin said it. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang only knew that the disaster in Yiwu was particularly serious.
But he didn't know exactly how serious it was. He just knew that he needed 600,000 silver to get through this difficulty.
At that time, he was focused on passing the blame to Li Jin, but he did not pay attention to the subsequent development of the Yiwu disaster.
"You didn't. I was the one who went to the disaster area in person!!"
At this moment, Li Jin seemed to recall the scene at that time, his brows furrowed slightly, and his voice became deeper:
"When I got there, my heart dropped. Not to mention the 300,000 taels of silver issued by the imperial court. Even if it were doubled, it would still not be enough."
"At that time, Yiwu was a vast ocean, all the food was washed away, all the fertile farmland was destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people were crying for food."
"Not only that, in addition to the people in Yiwu County, people from other counties in Jinhua Prefecture also came here when they heard that the court was providing disaster relief in Yiwu."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he couldn't help blurting out and said:
"If you don't have enough money, you can think of ways to raise it. Besides, you are so rich, why don't you use your own money to help?"
"Why do you have to exchange the money you spend to buy grain into bran?"
"Using my money to help the victims? That's asking for death."
"Master Huang, this idea is too dangerous. Have you forgotten Shen Wansan?"
Of course, Li Jin couldn't use his own money to help the victims, otherwise Shen Wansan would end up.
"Did you know that for one pound of grain, if you exchange it for bran, you can buy three pounds of bran?"
"In other words, the money that could have saved one common person can now save three common people."
"Otherwise, how can I get so much money to help hundreds of thousands of people? By then, what you see here will not be victims, but bones."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he still couldn't accept it and said:
"But bran is for livestock, not for humans."
"Old man, why are you so confused?"
Li Jin hated the fact that iron cannot become steel and said:
"I told you before, are disaster victims still human beings? Only people with dignity can be considered human beings, but do people who are about to starve to death still have dignity?"
"At that time, let alone bran and bran fodder, it will all be good stuff."
Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a moment. Different from the fierce situation at the beginning, he really did not expect that the disaster in Yiwu County would be so huge.
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was contemplating the gains and losses of this disaster relief, Mao Xiang suddenly turned back and whispered a few words in Zhu Yuanzhang's ear.
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his expression suddenly became ferocious, and he shouted at Li Jin:
"Bitch, you dare to deceive us with your sweet words. We were almost deceived by you."
"You keep saying you are thinking about the people, but you are trying every possible means to commit corruption."
Li Jin was a little blinded by the sudden change in Zhu Yuanzhang's painting style, and reflexively said:
"What did I lie to you about?"
"You bitch, you still dare to talk harshly."
Zhu Yuanzhang was filled with indignation and began to output to Li Jin:
"Let me ask you, what were those people holding in their hands just now?"
Only then did Li Jin react and said:
"Yinzi, what's wrong?"
"You still dare to say that you are not corrupt? Those people hold at least 10,000 taels each in their hands, and you still dare to quibble?"
