After Emperor Hongzhi was angry, he quickly regained his composure, he has always been gentle and elegant, and he also knew that anger had no effect at all, so after thinking about it, he said to Liu Jian and the others: "What do you think about this matter?" ”

"Your Majesty, the matter of the granary grain can be investigated slowly, but the problem of hunger of the victims cannot be delayed, and we must find a way to raise food for disaster relief as soon as possible."

Liu Jian, as the first assistant of the cabinet, was naturally the first to stand up, and he knew that the key now was not why the food was gone, but how to get food for disaster relief, so that the victims could eat enough and survive this difficulty.

"What Liu Gong said is very true, the focus now is how to raise grain for disaster relief, and in the opinion of the minister, the southern provinces should be quickly ordered to transport grain to the north."

Li Dongyang also immediately followed, but after thinking about it, he added: "It will take more than a month to transport grain from the southern provinces to the north, even from the nearest Henan and Anhui, and in addition to the large volume of Cao Yun, the transportation in other areas is inconvenient, the grain transportation is limited, and the cost will be greater. ”

"So in the more than a month before the grain arrives from the south, we have to find a way to raise food for disaster relief."

Hearing Li Dongyang's words, Emperor Hongzhi thought about it and nodded, there is grain in the south, but it is difficult to transport it to the north, and the only ones that can transport grain to support the north are Huguang, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Jiangxi, the land of fish and rice, like Sichuan, although it is the land of abundance, but the grain in Sichuan cannot be transported at all, because the road out of Sichuan is too rugged.

"Where can I raise enough food for a month?"

Emperor Hongzhi frowned, thought quickly in his mind, and asked again.

When Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and others heard this, they all immediately pondered with sad faces, but none of them could think of any good way.

In the years of famine, food was extremely expensive, except for the grain in the official warehouse of the imperial court, there was very little surplus food for others, and for a while, these court princes couldn't think of any good way.

Qianning Palace.

Zhu Houzhao, who had just returned from Tianjin, was telling Empress Zhang what he had seen and heard in Tianjin.

"Queen Mother, haven't you seen that as soon as the boat that went out to sea to fish came back, a boat brought back tens of thousands of catties of sea fish, all kinds of sea fish, some of which weighed hundreds of catties, and it took five or six people to carry them together."

"I asked people to bring back some sea fish, and I have instructed the kitchen to make it for the queen mother to taste, Lao Liu said, this sea fish is more nutritious than river fish, especially this big yellow croaker, the meat is extremely delicious, rich in a large number of trace elements, the queen mother has a very good beauty and health function for people of your age, you must eat a little more."

"Okay, okay, I must eat more, your father is really sending you to Tianjin to suffer hardships, look at it, you have lost weight."

Empress Zhang was naturally very happy when she heard that her son had brought her a sea fish back, she hadn't seen Zhu Houzhao for a while, and she also complained about Emperor Hongzhi.

"I eat and drink well every day here in Tianjin, where are the hardships and suffering, the real hardships and hardships are those hungry people, the queen mother, you don't see it, those hungry people even eat up the bark, the grass that has just grown is gone, even the soil is eaten, one by one the stomach is swollen like a pregnant woman in October, hungry eyes are shining, skin and bones, that is called real suffering, I have seen it with my own eyes this time."

Zhu Houzhao didn't care, he lived a very chic life in Tianjin, without the constraints of Emperor Hongzhi, and he didn't have to study, and he was able to follow Liu Jin to taste all kinds of seafood every day, he didn't want to go back to the capital, if it wasn't for Emperor Hongzhi's order to let him come back, he was ready to stay here in Tianjin all the time, and he also wanted to go to sea to go whaling.

"How serious is it already?"

At this time, Emperor Hongzhi walked in, his face was full of sorrow, and after discussing for a long time, he couldn't think of any good way, and now when he heard Zhu Houzhao's words, his face was even more ugly.

"Father, don't you know if you go to the disaster victims in person, where can you see the suffering of the people and feel the hardships of the people when you stay in the palace every day."

Zhu Houzhao seems to have anger in his heart, he came back all the way from Tianjin, and everywhere he passed, there were hungry people everywhere, starving all over the wilderness, and it was unbearable to see, and only the places closer to Tianjin were relatively better, and the imperial court seemed to have no disaster relief at all.

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Emperor Hongzhi was also slightly stunned, and then looked at Zhu Houzhao again, and immediately felt that this Zhu Houzhao was a lot more mature.

"If I have the chance, I'll see it for myself."

Emperor Hongzhi said slowly.

"Father, you should go and take a look, I have long heard that the imperial court is providing disaster relief, but why is this disaster getting worse and worse?"

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then asked Emperor Hongzhi seriously, the dissatisfaction in his words was fully revealed, he was really not afraid of his cheap father.

"Alas, the imperial court has no food in its hands now."

Emperor Hongzhi sighed and said helplessly.

"No food?"

"How is this possible, the grain in the granary can be released for disaster relief, how can there be no food?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately stopped believing it.

"It's true that there is no food, and I just received the news today that the grain in the granary is gone."

Emperor Hongzhi roughly told Zhu Houzhao about the matter, if it was before, he would naturally not tell Zhu Houzhao about these things, but today, he felt that the prince was a lot more mature, so he also told Zhu Houzhao about this major event.

"Earlier, it was said that there was food, but now there is no food, there must be something strange in this, this food can't be gone, oh, I understand, I understand, they played a big game of chess, and they are really bold, and they are really not afraid of being wiped out by the nine clans."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately frowned and pondered, and then said with his eyes widened.

It is impossible for this grain to disappear for no reason, Xie Qian has been asked to check before, Xie Qian is still trustworthy, not to mention that Xie Qian is not the only one who is in the inventory, everyone else is also there, and you will know it when you check it.

This can only show that the grain in this granary disappeared during this time, and as for how it disappeared, you can know it with your toes.

This incident also reminded Zhu Houzhao of some things that happened when he was here in Tianjin, Liu Jin said that someone was deliberately targeting him, and if he connected this matter in series, he could guess it in an instant.