"Accurate!"

The emperor waved his hand, and Gonggong Jia made a pot of tea for Fu Xiaoguan.

The emperor and the five ministers here are frowning and pondering at the moment, Fu Xiaoguan's words basically explain the reason why the disaster relief materials cannot fall into the hands of the victims, especially the last sentence, three times the profit dares to commit any crime, this ten times the profit, even if those officials know that they are going to be beheaded, they will gamble.

This is human nature, which means that it is not easy to change anyone.

There must be a clean official among them, but in this environment, such a clean official cannot play a role.

The upper and lower collusions are colluded, and this is woven into a net, and the mesh of this net may be a certain member of the court.

Fu Xiaoguan simply found a seat against the wall and sat down, drinking tea while thinking about whether to pat the old man's ass.

It didn't take long for Mrs. Ning to speak.

"Are you alarmist? Could it be that my court officials have been eroded to this point? ”

Before Fu Xiaoguan could answer, the emperor spoke: "Mrs. Ning, the words of the junior official are detailed." Saying that, he took out a copy of the fold from the dragon case, asked Gonggong Jia to take it to Mrs. Ning, and said: "This is the latest fold, Yan Xibai is in Xijing Henan Mansion at the moment, and the price of grain here has risen fifteen times, not twelve times as Fu Xiaoguan said." ”

Mrs. Ning took the fold and looked at it carefully, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and the anger on her face became more and more intense.

"The minister has arrived in Henan Mansion alone, where the city gate has been closed, and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed outside the gate. The ministers mixed in the soup kitchen crowd and went out of the city gate, and saw that the porridge and clear soup were low in water, and the corn was only a handful. The noodles of the victims are dishes, and they are all dying. Although it has not reached the state of starvation, it is not far away. When the minister asked about the victims, he said that the price of food had risen to the sky, and there was no more money in his pocket. ”

"The minister saw that there were slightly stronger people who were forming a team, worried about the mutiny, and went to ask them, and they said that if they stayed here, they would starve to death, so it was better to go to Jiangbei Province, it is said that there are good people in the village of Linjiang Prefecture to take in the victims, the food is very good, and there is money for labor, if you go late, you are afraid that you will not be able to catch up."

When the minister returned to the city and asked about the price of grain, it had risen to 260 wen per catty of rice, 120 wen per catty of sorghum, and 200 wen per catty of wheat...... Not only did the victims have no money to buy, but even the residents in the city are complaining. ”

"The ministers went to the government, and the officials said that disaster relief was being distributed every day, but there were too many victims, and the government could not do anything."

"Minister, sad! Such officials who are corrupt and pervert the law will definitely be strictly investigated! ”

This report is a secret report, and it has not passed through the Zhongshu Province, and it has been circulated one by one at this moment, and even Yan Beixi's face has changed color.

After a long time, Dong Shangshu bowed down and saluted the emperor: "Minister, guilty!" The minister was in a high position but did not expect that the disaster relief food and salary of the household department were greedy to such an extent, and the minister was willing to accept His Majesty's punishment to thank the world! ”

When Fu Xiaoguan heard this, this must not work, the old man should not be pushed down by His Majesty, so he stood up.

"Xiaomin thinks this is not Dong Shangshu's crime."

Your Majesty was stunned, why did this kid excuse Dong Kangping?

However, Yan Shidao knew a little bit in his heart, and this kid was very clever.

"The responsibility of the household department includes this disaster relief, and all the materials are allocated to various provinces, prefectures and counties through the household department, and the household department has the responsibility of supervision, why do you think it is not Dong Shangshu's crime?"

His Majesty asked, Fu Xiaoguan had to answer, and he had to answer to the point in order to solve Dong Shangshu's difficulty.

"Back to Your Majesty, the small people think that the officials of the various provinces, states, counties and counties are appointed and assessed by the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Households distributes materials according to the statistics of the disasters of the provinces, if the materials issued are deducted, this is of course the responsibility of the Ministry of Households, but if there is no problem with the materials issued by the Ministry of Households, it is the responsibility of officials at all levels, although the Ministry of Households has the responsibility of supervision, but the Ministry of Households does not have so many officials sent to supervise everywhere, but there are many officials in the Ministry of Households, and if you want to talk about responsibility, of course, the Ministry of Officials should be the first responsibility. Xiaomin feels that now is not the time to hold the household department accountable, should we return to the main topic of disaster relief and discuss the method of improvement? ”

Fu Xiaoguan is a gag, he successfully diverted this topic, the emperor thought, yes, this disaster relief strategy has not yet achieved a result, so he said: "This matter will be discussed later, now everyone has any questions about this strategy?" ”

Dong Kangping sat down nervously and glanced at Fu Xiaoguan.

Yan Beixi spoke: "The old minister still has a question, please ask Master Fu to solve it." ”

Fu Xiaoguan hurriedly saluted: "Xiaomin doesn't dare, please come on." ”

He doesn't know Yan Beixi, it's still that point of view, the older this person is, the bigger the official he must be, especially the last person to speak, I'm afraid this is the prime minister.

"Why would the merchants do this when they have raised the price of food so high, and the victims have no money to buy it?"

This is the limitation of the vision of people in this world, or perhaps because they have lived in the temple for a long time and do not know the suffering of the people.

"First, the merchants did not control the price of food to sell to the victims, but to make money from the rich people in the city."

"Second, the price of grain is gradually rising, when the disaster occurs, assuming that the victims of Henan Province fled here as soon as possible, at this time they still have silver money, although it is not much, but at this time they can still buy a little coarse grain. Then the price of this grain became higher and higher, and they could not afford it, so they counted on the government to give porridge. But the porridge given by the government can't be eaten at all, what should I do at this time? At this time, merchants came to buy their fields, and in order to survive, they had to sell them at a low price. ”

"So the real purpose of raising the price of grain is for the sake of the land, and if you think about it, the land of hundreds of thousands of people has simply and extremely cheaply reached the hands of those merchants, what a bargain is this? This is their fundamental purpose, and as for the price of food, it is only a means to achieve that end. ”

Everyone suddenly realized, exchanged heads and nodded frequently.

At this point, the drawbacks of the old method have basically been explained, Fu Xiaoguan waited for a while, and added: "According to my understanding of the victims, if the price of food does not rise, they can basically survive until the flood recedes." ”

"In a matter of days, they will be able to return to their homes and start farming again, and the days will definitely be difficult, but they will not flee. In addition, after the floods receded, the fields were more fertile, and the coming year was basically a good year. Their lives will be better again, instead of being like now, without fields, they will become rootless, and there is no point in returning home. ”

"If Your Majesty sends down the emperor's grace at this moment, exempts those victims from taxes, and even provides seeds for cattle and farming tools, Your Majesty's mighty imperial grace, those victims will be grateful for a lifetime!"