Gu Taiguang is a good person, Lan Ruhai is a good official, these two people get together, naturally they hit it off and see each other like old friends. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Gu Taiguang is a well-known businessman in Shengjing City, and he naturally has a lot of grain in his hands.

He has always wanted to use his ability to make some contributions to the imperial court, and make some contributions to the improvement of this locust, and now Lan Ruhai wants to buy his grain, he naturally readily promised, not only did not raise the price, but even deliberately lowered the price to sell.

As for Lan Ruhai's method of replacing grain rice with bran rice, Gu Taiguang also agreed, and only felt that this was really a top-notch and easy-to-use method.

Gu Taiguang was originally from a poor background, and he was able to have today's family wealth because it was not opportunistic, but because of his honest reputation created step by step.

Since he was born at the bottom, Gu Taiguang knows a lot.

In today's society, it is said that it is disaster relief and relief for disaster victims, but there are still some people who have lost their conscience and want to deduct food from the mouths of disaster victims and make money from the dead.

Because the victims had nothing to eat, they had no choice but to accept the help of the imperial court and receive life-saving food and grass.

However, some squires who already have a surplus of wealth in their families, or even live very well, obviously do not lack this idea of life-saving food and rice, but because of their greed, they have to fight for their lives with the victims.

Hearing me say this, everyone must think that it is very incredible, and feel that such a person is really evil to the extreme, and he has lost his conscience to the extreme.

But are there very few such people?

No! There are too many such people!

Let's not talk about ancient society, the old people of the province seem to me to be alarmist, let's talk about modern society, let's talk about what is happening around us every day.

We always say that the welfare of the country is not good, and we do not care about the lives of the people.

In fact, the welfare of our country is relatively conscientious, after all, our population base is too large, and sometimes even if we want to cover everything, it is inevitable that there will be some omissions.

Many of the state's policies are actually well-intentioned, but how many of the subsistence allowances that the state delegates every year really reach those who need them?

Have you ever seen a person whose family is poor and whose life is extremely difficult and who cannot receive the subsistence allowance, and have you ever seen a person who has a job and a house but has a rich life but receives the subsistence allowance every month?

Well, the subsistence allowance or something may be a little far away from our lives.

But we've all heard about bursaries, right?

This is set up by the state to help college students who cannot afford to go to college, and to cultivate talents.

Have you ever seen someone like this when you were in school?

I usually spend money lavishly, play games, pile up a mountain of clothes, change iPhones one by one, go out to eat and drink every day, but receive grants every year.

Are such people poor students who really need financial aid?

Apparently they weren't.

But why did all the bursaries go to them? It's an iPhone, it's a meal at their restaurant, or it's an out-of-print outfit in a game?

I don't know. I don't know why that's happening.

But society is like that. Maybe this is the cruelty of society? Or is it human cruelty?

There are also low-rent houses and public rental houses that the state has made great efforts to build, and how many of them live in them who really can't afford to live in houses and are in need?

If you want me to say, low-rent housing and public rental housing do not need to be built so well and have such complete facilities, and public baths and public toilets can be set up directly.

It's not that I'm ruthless, but I really think that people who really need these things won't care if they have a separate toilet or bathroom.

It's like those who are about to starve to death and don't care whether they eat polished rice or chaff.

In order to help Lan Ruhai realize his plan, Gu Taiguang spent a lot of effort to hire a large number of workers to work overnight, just to mix these milled rice with bran rice, in order to help more victims.

The original intention was good, and the matter was also a good thing, but when this matter was secretly reported to the court by Qi Zhentian and Master Qi, everything changed again.

According to Qi Zhentian and Master Qi, Lan Ruhai, as the locust control mission personally appointed by the emperor, took 100,000 taels of silver issued by the imperial court, but he didn't think about how to help the people, but only thought about how to bend the law for bribes.

Lan Ruhai accepted a bribe of silver taels from Gu Taiguang, a merchant in Shengjing, and collected inferior bran rice at a high price as grain and rice for disaster relief, abandoning the interests of the people and disregarding the life and death of the people, which is really a heinous crime.

As a friend of Lan Ruhai, although he values the friendship of friends, he really can't watch his friends do such a unconscionable thing and remain silent, so he can only stand up bravely and expose the matter to the emperor.

Master Qi immediately presented another account book, and what was recorded on it was indeed the specific account details of Lan Ruhai's acceptance of Gu Taiguang's bribes.

As I said earlier, the locust plague in Hunan County at that time was really very harmful, and the entire Hunan County, no, it should be said that the entire Dayun Country was in a storm.

Ordinary people, when they encounter some disasters and other things, they must blame the government.

Anyway, no matter what happens, there is nothing wrong with complaining about the government first, and this practice has been applicable since ancient times.

So during this period of time, the emperor has been under considerable pressure.

However, the treasury was not full at that time, although the imperial court took out a lot of silver and rice, but where is the manpower comparable to the will of heaven, although the locust plague was finally controlled, but the people's food and houses were almost made by locusts.

As a result, the common people were even more resentful, only saying that the court was inactive, that the emperor was mediocre, and so on.

The emperor lived in dire straits, and his prestige fell to the lowest point in history, so he was naturally in a violent mood every day.

In addition, the harem is not worry-free, the backyard is on fire, and the person who is the queen of his own family is actually his biological brother King Longqing! This brought the emperor to the brink of collapse.

At this time, after listening to Qi Zhentian's secret report from Master Qi, and reading the account book he presented, the emperor was furious.

However, Lan Ruhai has always had a good reputation, so the emperor did not convict him immediately, but sent someone to investigate secretly.

This investigation is good, Gu Taiguang really mixed the grain and rice with bran rice every day and night, isn't this shoddy!

What Master Qi said was half true, and the emperor had already believed two-thirds of it in his heart.

And the remaining third was completely filled when he saw a mutton fat white jade Guanyin that Gu Taiguang had bribed Lan Ruhai to find in Lan Ruhai's house.

This mutton fat white jade Guanyin is a priceless treasure.

The workmanship material is still secondary, mainly the miraculous effect of this white jade Guanyin.

In ancient times, people were very superstitious, and they liked to ask the gods and worship the Buddha when they encountered anything, as if as long as they sincerely begged the gods, the gods would fulfill their wishes.

And if it has not been realized, it is not because of my lack of effort, but because my heart is not sincere enough.

And this white jade Ruyi in Gu Taiguang's house is a famous miracle in Shengjing City.