Chapter 650: Love the People and Be a Good Official
In addition, at that time, all parts of the country were agitated because of the disaster in Hunan County, and people's hearts were in turmoil, and thousands of pairs of eyes stared at the emperor without blinking. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In this case, it is impossible for the emperor to do nothing.
So the emperor carefully allocated 100,000 taels of silver from the treasury to Lan Ruhai, and asked him to use the silver to help the victims.
One hundred thousand taels of silver, one hundred thousand taels of snowflake silver, if so many pieces of silver are piled together, it is a small mountain.
It's a lot, Lan Ruhai is a powerful creation, and he can't spend so much silver in his life.
However, if this silver is placed in front of the victims with a huge base, it will be like sinking into the sea, and it is not worth mentioning.
How can we keep more people alive? How can we buy more food for life with a limited amount of money?
Lan Ruhai fell into deep thought.
He is a doer who has worked step by step from the bottom, not a princess living in an ivory tower, this person is pragmatic, and there are not so many unrealistic romantic ideas, although he is fair and rigorous, but he is not rigid.
But if it weren't for Gu Taiguang's case back then, Lan Ruhai would definitely become a good official who would benefit the people of the entire Dayun Kingdom!
If Lan Ruhai hadn't had an accident, I think there would be nothing going on in the court now.
When I talk about this now, I have to sigh with emotion: Lan Ruhai was resented and died tragically, which is not only the loss of the first emperor, but also the loss of tens of thousands of people in the Great Cloud Country! Oh wow!
With limited silver, he wanted to help more people, Lan Ruhai came up with an idea, that is, to buy rice for disaster relief instead of polished rice, but bran rice. That is, the inferior grain and rice that finally convicted Lan Ruhai.
But this is not shoddy, this is really an expedient measure that Lan Ruhai has worked so hard to come up with!
To put it simply, the grain on the market at that time was one tael of silver per load, so 100,000 taels of silver could buy 100,000 taels of grain.
But bran rice is cheap, and that thing is inferior grain!
In this way, 100,000 taels of silver can buy 1 million quintals of bran rice!
A million quintals of bran rice! How many people can be saved! How many people can be killed!
I know, someone must be saying again: 'Bran rice is for pigs, how can you feed people?' How do you eat bran rice? That's a terrible thing. ’
Bad? Hehe, people are going to starve to death, and they are still picky about the taste!
God forbids you to be able to survive!
In this case, it's good to have a stomach full of it, no matter what kind of polished rice it is, what kind of bran rice it is, even if it is, you have to swallow it.
If you get lost in the desert, you'll have to drink urine if you want to save your life!
Some aristocratic sons and young masters who have not eaten the fireworks of the world since they were children may be indignant and feel that Lan Ruhai is shoddy, which is a loss of conscience.
But Lan Ruhai is a person who has seen hard times, he has personally eaten and lived with those hungry people, he knows that he is not harming others, he is saving people!
What you are doing is not a bad thing to lose your conscience, you are doing good deeds and accumulating virtue!
If it weren't for a good official and a real official who really cares about the people, he really can't think of this method!
Well, now that you have a way, it's time to start buying food.
But no, we're in trouble again.
In a normal harvest year, the price of grain is not high, and it is easy to buy.
But this year is a year of famine!
Where do you go to buy food in a famine year?
There were so many people in the disaster, and the bones of starvation were one after another, and the people could often see the tragic situation of the people fleeing the famine and begging, and they always heard about the tragic situation in Hunan County.
Everyone's panic!
The people are the most prone to panic, panic when they encounter a little thing, and panic when they hear a little rumor, not to mention that the locust disaster encountered in Hunan County is not a rumor, but a real thing that really happened!
What should the people do when they panic?
He's going to store grain! Grab it!
Doesn't this mean that the people of the Great Cloud Country are ignorant and stupid, and if you put it aside in modern society, don't the common people save grain and grab salt at every turn...
The people of the world are the same, and no one should laugh at anyone.
The people went to grab the grain because of panic, and the grain was already so much, so the price of the grain became more expensive.
In addition, there are some unscrupulous businessmen, who give full play to the characteristics of 'no traitors and no business', he doesn't care about the life or death of those disaster victims, hoards grain and does not sell it, and starts to sit on the ground and raise prices when he puts it in his hands.
This made Lan Ruhai angry, and he really wanted to directly raid all of them and confiscate all the grain.
But when Lan Ruhai inquired like this, oh my God, these profiteers are inextricably linked to those nobles, not to mention how can people be so fearless, there are people above them!
I can't buy it, I can't move it, and Lan Ruhai is so sad that her hair is a few white.
At this time, Lan Ruhai's good friend and confidant, Qi Zhentian and Master Qi began to make moves for Lan Ruhai.
Qi Zhentian introduced Lan Ruhai to Gu Taiguang, a famous businessman in Shengjing City. That is, Tang Fei's maternal grandfather, Gu's father.
At this time, although Tang Ting had already married Xiao Qi as a flat wife under the pressure of his mother, Da Qi, Tang Ting still loved Gu deeply at this time.
At this time, Gu's was pregnant, and the ball in her belly was our big beauty Tang Fei, and Tang Ting was lonely and unbearably drinking and having fun because his wife was pregnant, so he accidentally slept with Xiao Qi.
Tang Ting felt that he had done something sorry for the Gu family, and felt that he had betrayed love, so he was very guilty about the Gu family, and he was annoyed by the seduction of the Xiao Qi family.
At this time, the disgusting things that happened in the future have not happened, so Tang Ting and Gu have not yet torn their faces.
Since they have not torn their faces, the Hou Mansion and the Gu family still have a harmonious relationship with their relatives.
And Qi Fu, as Tang Ting's mother's maiden family, can also have a few words with Gu Taiguang through the relationship with the Hou Mansion.
Taking advantage of the relationship between Tang Ting and the Gu family, Master Qi first caught up with Gu Taiguang, and then introduced Lan Ruhai to Gu Taiguang.
Unlike those businessmen who are not treacherous and businessmen, Gu Taiguang is a conscientious businessman.
He is very honest in his own business, never deceives customers, and he is also very keen to do good deeds. So far, Gu Taiguang can be called a philanthropist.
Gu Taiguang naturally heard about the locust plague in Hunan County this time, and he has been worried about this locust plague.
However, unlike ordinary people who worry about whether they will be affected, this conscientious entrepreneur who worries about the country and the people is full of worries about the livelihood of these disaster victims.
Gu Taiguang naturally couldn't abandon his family and business and go to Hunan County to fight the disaster, but he didn't do nothing.
He hired men to open a porridge shop outside Shengjing City every day, giving free porridge to help those who fled from Hunan County.