In a decent house in Jinan Mansion, Li Zhi and Cui He sat in the second hall and were preparing to eat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Now Li Zhi has no office in Jinan, and the official title of Shandong Admiral did not exist before, so there is no talk of the Admiral's Office. Li Zhi asked people to buy several courtyards connected together in the north of the city, and prepared to demolish and build a governor's mansion as an office in Jinan.

However, it will take a long time to build a magnificent Admiral's Mansion, and at present, Li Zhi can only work in this decent private house and deal with various things in Shandong.

At this time, it was already dark, and the servants lit six bronze lamps in the second hall and served various dishes one after another.

Li Zhi was tired all day, and he was indeed hungry, so he looked at the table full of wine and food, and ate all kinds of dishes.

But Cui He stayed aside, didn't eat a mouthful of food, and only stared at the dishes on the table.

Li Zhi was stunned, turned around and asked, "Don't you eat?" ”

Cui He shook his head and said, "Husband, the people of Shandong are so pitiful, each person can only eat one catty and eight taels of sweet potatoes. How many sweet potatoes can we exchange for this table of wine and food? When you're done, I'll wrap up the leftovers and take them to the relief station tomorrow for the orphans who don't have parents. ”

Li Zhi smiled and said, "That's too, we have a lot of food left over every day. It is also a good thing to give the rest to the orphans to eat. ”

When Cui He heard Li Zhi say this, he took out a few old pottery bowls from under the table and began to put vegetables into the pottery bowls, as if he was going to use the pottery bowls to serve the orphans.

Li Zhi said: "How about you eat?" ”

Cui He shook his head and said: "I won't eat it, the one and a half pounds of sweet potatoes I ate today have been given to the two orphans of the Huan family, and I have nothing to eat today." The little girl was so pitiful, she hadn't eaten for three days. I don't know if the sweet potatoes I gave her will make her full today. ”

Li Zhi was a little speechless, and was told by Cui He that he had no appetite, and he also put down his chopsticks.

Cui He saw that Li Zhi also put down his chopsticks, and the vegetables were clamped faster, as if he was grabbing food for the poor orphans.

Li Zhi thought about it and began to help Cui He pick up vegetables. Cui He took ten small pottery bowls and put them on the table, and Li Zhi sandwiched the fish, meat and vegetables on the table into those pottery bowls one by one.

Sandwiched it, Li Zhi said: "The lady can only feed ten orphans with ten bowls of vegetables, and it is not a solution." ”

Cui Yiyi pursed his lips and said, "I only have such great ability, so what should I do?" ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "When the people want to plant wheat next spring, they will have to do manual work at that time, and they can't just eat one and a half catties of sweet potatoes." Don't worry, let's get some grain, so that the people of Shandong can eat a few more taels of grain every day and eat more. ”

Cui He opened his eyes wide and asked, "Really?" ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Of course it's true, you eat a few bites of food first, don't go hungry." ”

Cui He thought for a while and said, "Then I'll eat half a bowl of rice." You can't lie to me! ”

Li Zhi smiled and did not answer Cui He's words. Cui He finally picked up his rice bowl and ate half a bowl of rice. She also seemed to be hungry, and couldn't help but eat another piece of fish. When she was eating fish, she saw Li Zhi looking at her, and her face flushed with shame.

Li Zhi smiled: "Lady, you have to eat more fish." If you starve to death without eating, I will be sick with grief. In that case, the people of Shandong will really have no one to take care of. If you eat more and have more children, our children will be important members of the imperial court in the future, and we will work together for the people of Tianjin and Shandong, and the people will have a good life. ”

Cui He blinked when he heard this, nodded, and took another piece of fish meat and took a bite.

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On the first day of September, Shen Congdao sat in a house in Yangkou Town, Shouguang County, Qingzhou Prefecture, and looked at the latest issue of "Shandong Daily" with a sad face.

This is a private house that is not luxurious. Compared with Shen Congdao's status as a rich man, living in such a mansion is a bit shabby. From time to time, farmers passed by at the gate of the house, and looking at the Shen family with the gate closed, the farmers had some jokes in their eyes.

The fact that the Shen family lost a lot of silver because of hoarding grain and losing all the big houses in the city has now become the biggest joke in Yangkou Town. On the day when the Shen family moved back to Yangkou Town from Qingzhou Mansion in embarrassment, half of the people in the town crowded at the entrance of the town to watch the excitement.

After the influence of "Shandong Daily" over the years, the people of Yangkou Town are no longer as fearful of the gentry as before. The common people have dared to express their disdain for the inferior gentry who are not benevolent to the rich. For the inferior gentry who are enemies of the Duke of Jin, the people are even more hateful.

The people of Shandong are not only influenced by the "Shandong Daily" in public opinion, but also rely on the Jinguo Gong court to uphold justice, and now they rely on eating the sweet potatoes of the Tianjin Guogong to survive the famine. Jin Guogong single-handedly saved the people of a province, what else can this say? The people of Shandong have long been of the same mind as the Duke of Jinguo.

For Shen Congdao, a bad gentleman who tried in vain to obstruct the relief of the Duke of Jinguo and vainly tried to make the people starve to death, the people were eager to stone him to death.

Shen Congdao also knew that he was now infamous, and he generally didn't dare to go out on weekdays. He pondered that when this limelight passed, he would donate a volunteer student in the town to help him save some reputation.

However, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and the wording of "Shandong Daily" has become more and more severe in the past few days, which makes Shen Congdao a little breathless.

In the second hall, Shen Congdao grabbed the newspaper and looked at it, and fine sweat broke out on his forehead. The hand holding the newspaper couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Today's newspaper front page headline: "Who gave the inferior gentry the courage to raise the price of grain?" 》

"When the people in Shandong had no food to eat, the gentry in Shandong guarded the granary and did not open the warehouse for disaster relief, but bought grain in the market to raise prices. When the Duke of Jin wanted to buy grain for disaster relief, these inferior gentry raised the price of grain to six taels and one stone. If there is no food for disaster relief, how many people in Shandong will starve to death? ”

Nowadays, the people of Shandong only have one and a half pounds of sweet potatoes per person a day to survive, and they all have yellow faces and thin muscles, while the granaries of the inferior gentry are full of rice, flour and rice that they have hoarded. Who gave them the courage to disrupt the market and raise the price of rice? ”

"Could it be that Shandong under the rule of the Duke of Jinguo has no royal law?"

Seeing the last sentence, Shen Congdao's hand shook and he dropped the newspaper to the ground.

Shen Congdao's daughter-in-law didn't notice Shen Congdao's abnormality, and she was still playing tricks in the hall. She hugged her thighs and said, "Master, you have to make the decision for me!" Today, when I was returning from the county seat and passing through the town, I was spit and stoned by several teenage children. Those phlegm spit on the sedan chair forget it, but those few pounds of stones really smashed my sedan chair and smashed it on my legs! ”

"Master, I said a long time ago that it would not be possible to move back to the countryside, but you just won't listen to me. Now that everyone in the town is looking at our Shen family's jokes, you don't dare to go out of the door, how do you say you live this day? ”

Shen Congdao was originally frightened by "Shandong Daily", and at this time, he couldn't help but be angry when he looked at the unreasonable main house. He slammed the table and shouted, "You stupid woman! Stop arguing! ”

Shen Congdao's main room was stunned, his eyes widened and he looked at the angry Shen Congdao, and suddenly fell to the ground as soon as he rolled, rolling on the ground and shouting: "Shen Congdao!" You scold me! When you saw that my maternal uncle was a magistrate, he carried a sedan chair to marry me from my mother's house, but now I think I'm old and dare to scold me? I'm not alive anymore! ”