Chapter Seventy-Two: Waiting for the Rabbit
May 19, Nanyang County, Yuzhou.
The county commander Sun Yi got up and led more than 30 people from the Ya Ge Division of Nanyang County and the chief of Sixiang Bali to go to Wolong Mountain to pray for rain.
Just after the unitary hour, there were officials who sounded gongs and walked through the streets, announcing to the state government: because this year has encountered a drought that has not been encountered in a century, the people have not sown seedlings, the state government respects the emperor's training of being close to the people and loving the people, and specially opens the granaries of each county, temporarily distributed according to the amount of three buckets per person, and the people take the grain for disaster relief in order, and ask the people of the county (except for those who have more than ten acres of land) to go to the county granary to carry the grain by themselves. Due to the county order to go to Wollongong Qiyu, Huang Enhao was temporarily presided over by the state government, and the people were asked to collect it in turn, and they were not allowed to take more than they occupied, and the violators were severely punished. At the same time, the same notices have been posted at all major traffic intersections.
I have long heard that a minister proposed disaster relief to the court, but I didn't expect this good thing to come so quickly. All of a sudden, the market was in an uproar, and many people went to the granary behind the county government to have a look. Sure enough, I saw that more than a dozen officials from the state government and the county government had already organized people to line up to receive food. Each householder only needs to report the number of people in the family, and if he signs it, he can receive three buckets of food per person. All of a sudden, there was a crowd of people at the door of the granary, but the grain receiving office was orderly. The state officials supervised the weighing and carrying with a serious face. And set up a double weighing platform outside the granary, allowing the people to check the weighing results. For those widows and lonely, they also paid to hire people to carry food. And he does not stop preaching the benevolence of Emperor Wu. Before noon, the grain distribution in the granary of Nanyang County had been completed, and the officials of the state government asked for a suspension of the distribution of grain, and ordered that all the people who were distant or future could continue to receive grain here after five days. All of a sudden, the people in the market praised the benevolence of Emperor Wu, praised the fairness and benevolence of today's grain distribution, and set up a double weighing platform, which is really unprecedented. It's really a county celebration, a group of harmony.
The officials of the state government received the roster, rewarded several officials of the county government, and led their subordinates to return to the state capital to resume their lives.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Yi, the county commander who got the news, led the crowd to gallop back to the ya, and first summoned everyone to participate in the grain distribution and asked about the grain distribution. Then Sun Yi asked who presided over the distribution of grain, but there was a state government document. The official told him that since the county order went to Wollongong Qiyu, the matter of grain distribution would be presided over by Huang Enhao. The county magistrate asked the state government where the sentence was going, and the official said, after the food was finished at noon, he returned to the state capital to resume his life. The master said that the state government did not have such a general judgment as Huang Enhao at all. The official said that the general judge was new, and the original person had been transferred to the county magistrate of Zhouyuan. Sun Yi looked at the original notice of the state government, and sure enough, there was the signature of the state government seal and the government Yin He Neng, and there was no mistake. After reading it, Sun Yi was still not at ease, so he ordered the officials to draw pictures of the state capital, and rode a fast horse to the state capital for verification.
After the official left, Sun Yi took a copy of the image he had just drawn, and felt that this person had seen it somewhere, and called all the masters to see it, and the masters also felt that they had seen it, and it was difficult to tell for a while. So he called all the officials to come and see, and everyone came to watch, and a weak voice came, "It's a bit like a wanted criminal." That Sun Yi suddenly woke up, and hurriedly asked someone to bring the portraits of all the wanted criminals, and sure enough, the figure was very similar to Li Ying's. Then Sun Yi faintly felt that this matter was not good. Let's arrange for everyone to be quiet. When he arrived in Hai, the official who went to the state capital for verification returned, accompanied by Wu Youcai, the head of the state capital, and a large number of arresters. Sure enough, the general judgment of presiding over the distribution of grain was false, and the state government's disaster relief proclamation was still being drafted. As soon as the head of the arrester arrived in the county, he ordered Sun Yi and all the officials who participated in today's grain distribution to be imprisoned. And organize all the officials to search the whole city, where there are any results. The head catcher arranged for people to go to the people to find out the whereabouts of the fake sentence, and at the same time interrogated Sun Yi and the officials overnight.
By the next morning, some people reported that the fake verdict had not actually gone to the state capital, but had already gone to the city. Then Wu Zhutou led his men to gallop to build the city. When the group arrived at the fortification, it was close to noon. There was no way to divide the grain in the construction of the city, and the people in the city gathered in front of the county yamen and asked the county order to distribute the grain quickly.
As soon as the group arrived at the county office, some people reported that XY County had already carried out the same grain distribution today by the state capital Huang Tong. Wu Zhutou, who hadn't drunk his saliva yet, was so angry that he smashed the teacup in the face of the county commander. In desperation, he sent a message to the state government and asked the state government to assist in the investigation. He stayed in the fortified city and prepared to wait for the rabbit. However, he waited for three days to build the city to no avail, and the people who built the city gathered at the gate of the county government and demanded that the grain be distributed as soon as possible. At the same time, news came that the people of Nirvana refused to distribute grain because of the county order, so a few strong men smashed the county government and led the crowd to forcibly distribute grain. The next day, the people of Jutan County received grain in the same way. In the past few days, Wu Zhutou, who has made no achievements, can only use alcohol to kill his sorrows, since he became an official, he has never handled such an embarrassing case. Whether he should go back or stay, he is really entangled to death. At this time, the state capital Taishou could pass on the message, and he had already mobilized many masters to rush to the city, because Li Ying was always running around Deng County, and after comprehensive judgment, He Taishou thought that Li Ying was very likely to be ready to make waves in the city.
Then how can he stay in the city honestly, and arrange a lot of people to make secret visits everywhere, in order to find the clues that Li Ying came to build the city.
Who knew that Zhuxian was surprisingly quiet, except for the people who gathered at the gate of the county government every day to ask for food, there was no trace of Li Ying at all.
On the fifth day, Wu Zhutou really couldn't find any clues, and when he was about to return to the state capital to resume his life, a personal arrester came to report that there were wanted notices posted everywhere in the market. When he hurried to the nearest place to look, he saw that the wanted notice read: Because the Central Plains has suffered a drought unseen in a century this year, the state government is carefully arranging disaster relief and grain distribution, but Li Ying, the suspect who assassinated Taishi a few years ago, stole the seal letter of the state government, pretended to be the new general judge of the state government, and organized the people of Nanyang Xinye to distribute grain without authorization, causing the people of various counties to rob the county government to reserve grain. If anyone who knows the whereabouts of Li and provides effective clues, he will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and those who catch Li will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver...... The big seal of the state capital behind it is eye-catching.
The people who built the city talked about it after seeing it. Since Li Ying has already led the distribution of grain, and the people of other counties have already received grain, why can't the people who built the city alone get the grain, rather than waiting for him to come, it is better for the people to distribute the grain themselves. Sure enough, a few strong men took the lead and led the people to hit the granary of K County and provide disaster relief on their own. Wu Zhutou led people to stop him, but he was blinded by the angry people and sent back to the state capital to recuperate.