"What is King Yan doing?"
All officials were shocked by Zhu Di's actions.
Is it possible that King Yan has lost his mind and gone crazy?
You blatantly violated His Majesty's ban on going to the sea, caught so many sea fish and instead of eating them secretly, you even openly sold them in Beiping Mansion. Do you want everyone to know that you, King Yan, disobeyed the holy order and sent people to the sea to fish?
However, although I can’t figure out why King Yan Zhu Di did this?
However, it did not stop a group of officials from secretly sending their cronies to buy sea fish.
Is that a sea fish?
You know, since His Majesty issued a ban on going to the sea, it has been difficult for everyone in the Ming Dynasty to eat sea fish.
Soon, what shocked and angered the officials of Beiping Prefecture was that King Yan actually issued a ban. Each household in Beiping Prefecture could not purchase more than two kilograms of marine fish.
Two pounds?
According to the description of the servant, there is not even half a fish weighing two kilograms. At most, it is only the size of a sea fish tail or a sea fish head?
However, there are countermeasures from above and policies from below.
A group of officials directly sent a few more stewards to buy sea fish.
However, when they were shocked and angry again, all the 30,000 kilograms of sea fish were sold out in just a short period of time.
"How could King Yan do this?"
"How can those common people compare with officials like us?"
"Okay, King Yan dares to risk being punished by His Majesty by sending people to the sea to fish, and he dares to sell it openly like this. Is there anything else that he dares not do?"
"I wonder if your colleagues have heard that outside the three city gates of Wanping County: Shuncheng Gate, Pingze Gate, and Heyi Gate, there are stewards of Prince Yan's Mansion selling marine fish, and they are still 30,000 kilograms!"
"How can this be?"
"If you add this to the sea fish in the city, it will be a full 60,000 kilograms?"
"I heard that the two big ships of Prince Yan's Mansion just went out to sea five days ago. How come they were able to catch 60,000 kilograms of sea fish in just five days?"
"According to the distance, after entering the sea, the two big ships of Prince Yan's Mansion will stay in the sea for at most one day? Is it possible that there are fishing boats in the sea specifically for Prince Yan to catch fish?"
"This is absolutely impossible!"
"But that's the truth?"
"Everyone, everyone, what I'm talking about here is that King Yan sells sea fish specifically to the people of Wanping County!"
"Huh? What's wrong with this?"
"King Yan sells sea fish exclusively to the people of Wanping County?"
"Exactly, there are 10,000 kilograms of marine fish piled at the gates of each of the three cities in Wanping County. They are sold by the stewards of Prince Yan's Mansion. The Yamen and Qingzhuang of Wanping County maintain order. Among the 30,000 kilograms of marine fish, only Wanping Only people from the county can buy it, people from other states and counties can’t even squeeze in!”
"Why is this? How can King Yan be so kind to one and not to the other?"
"I heard that it was because the people of Wanping County had reclaimed two thousand hectares of land and were overworked. King Yan specially compensated the people of Wanping County!"
"It's about cultivating fields again. Is King Yan insisting on this matter?"
"How is the land reclamation going in other states and counties in Beiping Prefecture?"
"There has been no progress at all. In addition, it is extremely hot in Beiping Mansion right now. The people simply do not dare to cultivate fields in the sun!"
"This group of unlucky people, Guo An from Wanping County is just a weakling, and they can do this. They have lived for so many years, and with our support, they are still..."
"Brother Qin, don't be angry. The autumn harvest is coming soon, and the state and county officials below are also caring about the people's physical strength. Otherwise, when the autumn harvest comes, these people will fall down one by one, delaying the autumn harvest. Then I will inevitably be punished!"
"Humph, the person to be punished can only be King Yan. After all, this matter was his repeated request!"
"But he is the King of Yan, so how could His Majesty..."
"His Majesty will definitely not let him go to the sea to fish privately this time, and neither will the officials in the court... No, I will report it to the court!"
"I also want to submit a memorial!"
"..."
No matter how the officials, dignitaries and wealthy businessmen in Beiping Mansion viewed Zhu Di's sending people into the sea to catch fish.
However, all the people in Wanping County were as happy as if they were celebrating the New Year.
Basically everyone can buy one or two pounds of marine fish meat.
For those poor families who couldn't even afford fifteen cents, the surrounding neighbors would bring them a bowl of fish soup for them to try.
The Jia Chang and Li Chang in Wanping County can buy half a fish, at least five kilograms.
Perhaps the only family in Wanping County that has not eaten sea fish is An Santie's family!
As for the Wanping County government officials, there are basically more than half of them.
Guo An, on the other hand, left three of them, one at home, and the remaining two, and took them straight to Nie's house!
"You kid really doesn't stop for a moment!"
Seeing Guo An coming in with two big fish, Nie Zi was both pleased and frightened.
"Uncle, you have wronged my nephew in this matter. The fishing in the sea was all done by His Highness King Yan and has nothing to do with my nephew!" Guo An explained quickly.
"snort!"
Nie Zizhi couldn't help but snorted, "Who do you think you can hide from in this matter?"
After scolding, Nie Zishi couldn't help but sigh, and said helplessly: "Tell me, what do you want to do? Don't you know how much His Majesty attaches importance to the sea ban? Or do you think that His Majesty, King Yan, is standing in front of you? Won’t you punish me?”
Guo An said with a bitter smile: "Uncle Nie and the other officials only knew that my nephew led a group of Wanping County people to cultivate two thousand hectares of wasteland in just two months, but they didn't know that within these two months, tens of thousands of How hard do the people of Wanping County work?
My nephew is afraid that he will not find a bite of meat for these people to replenish their bodies. I am really worried about whether these people can survive the autumn harvest even if they work hard! "
Nie Zizhi said: "I see, no wonder I heard that you, the magistrate of Wanping County who has only been in office for less than half a year, have extremely high prestige in the hearts of tens of thousands of people in Wanping County.
In Wanping County, no common people say that you are wrong, and these common people also obey your words very much! "
Guo An replied: "Uncle Nie is very aware that the people in Wanping County are indeed very simple."
Nie Zishi: "..."
There was an instant impulse not to talk to Guo An, and he kept talking. When you ask him questions, the answers he gives make you want to punch him.
"I'll leave these two fishes to Uncle Nie. My nephew has a lot of things to deal with, so I won't hit Uncle Nie!"
Seeing this, Guo An resigned very wisely.
"Go!"
Nie Zishi waved his hand slowly. Now he didn't know how to treat Guo An.
Even if he is a dignified chief minister of the government, he will not be able to protect himself as long as he has some connections in privately fishing in the sea.
Guo An also knew what Nie Zishi was thinking.
Of course, Guo An didn't want to come, and he was afraid that he would move around too much and accidentally injure his uncle.
However, after all, he was recommended to the official position by Nie Zizhi, so he had to come.
As for the guilt of fishing in the sea, he believed that Zhu Di would be fine. After all, the old monk with a dark heart and an extremely stubborn attitude had already arrived at Zhu Di's side.
Moreover, since the beginning of summer this year, it hasn’t rained much at all in Beiping Prefecture!
By now, drought has appeared in Beiping Mansion.
I believe that His Majesty and the Prince can detect these situations...
