Lin Ruhai, the head of the household department, said: "Your Majesty, according to reports from various prefectures and counties, there are now nearly one million victims in Guanzhong who have suffered from the war and are homeless. Among them, nearly half a million people came in the direction of the capital.

Today, nearly 100,000 people have approached the capital. ”

Emperor Zhengqing rubbed his brows.

It is another big problem waiting for the imperial court to solve.

Every year, there are victims of disasters, either because of natural disasters, or because of man-made disasters, or both. It's just that there has never been such a large number of victims flocking to the capital at once as this year.

If it is not handled well, in case the victims make trouble......

Now that the capital is insufficient, if the enemy does not defeat Da Chu, but his own people destroy Da Chu, it will be interesting.

"What do you think the imperial court should do with these victims?"

"500,000, there are too many victims, how can this be a good ......"

"That is, after years of war, the treasury is already in an emergency, where is there so much silver to settle these victims."

The ministers began to talk.

But no one could come up with a charter.

"What is Shousuke-sama's plan?"

Emperor Zhengqing began to point generals.

"Back to Your Majesty, the old minister thought that he should send state and county officers and soldiers to stop them. Now that the capital is empty of troops and the treasury is not rich, how can it accommodate so many victims? If these disaster victims are allowed to enter Beijing, if they are instigated by people with ulterior motives and wait for an opportunity to cause chaos, will the capital not be dangerous? ”

Emperor Zhengqing's pupils shrank.

He Shanbao's words, even he can't get his thoughts?

If he is loyal and thinks about him, he fears that someone will take advantage of the opportunity to rebel against him...... Anyway, Emperor Zhengqing didn't believe it.

If it is said that he harbors evil intentions, is it that he is deliberately trying to provoke a popular uprising, and what good will it do him?

"No!"

Fang Shou frowned and objected.

"The displaced people can be unblocked, and the blockage will provoke civil change.

Now that Russia is at war with our Great Chu, but the Beijing division is still stable, we should order the surrounding prefectures, prefectures, and counties to set up porridge sheds and resettle the victims.

The household department should also provide money and grain, set up porridge factories outside the city, and build straw huts for the victims to recuperate. When the war is over, the displaced people can disperse. ”

Second assistant Yang Pu said: "Lord Fang's words are inappropriate......

This is not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of displaced people, but nearly a million! If it is all dependent on the imperial court to feed, where does the imperial court have so much grain and silver?

Now the national grain stock is only more than 300,000 stones, if all of them are eaten by the victims, then what will the 100,000 soldiers in Beijing and the soldiers at the border pass eat?

Moreover, it is impossible for the imperial court to be so clean that there is no food to use for emergency use......"

"Isn't this an emergency?"

"Although the flow of civil affairs is large, how can it be greater than the front line of the border pass? If the army runs out of food, hundreds of thousands of enemy troops rush into Dachu, and then the wounded will be far more than these displaced people now. ”

Fang Shou said angrily: "Then are we just going to let it go? That's the lives of nearly a million people! ”

"I can't ignore it, I just can't take care of it like Lord Fang said......"

Yang Pu said.

"Humph!" Fang Shou snorted coldly and stopped talking to him.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many victims this time, he wouldn't have argued with Yang Pu. His main achievement was in his studies, and he did not expect to be promoted to the cabinet by Emperor Zhengqing in his later years. Over the years, he has rarely had a dispute with anyone in the court.

Just when the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were discussing how to deal with this huge number of displaced people, Zhang Ziwen, a member of the criminal department, suddenly came out and said: "Weichen Zhang Ziwen has something to do!" ”

"Play." Zhengqing Emperor Road.

"Weichen wants to impeach Tu Xu, the grain manager of Taicang stationed in Tianjin, who is a vegetarian meal, corrupt and derelict in his duties, resells Taicang grain all the year round, and fills his own pockets, so that the Tianjin branch called 50,000 stone of new grain actually has only a few hundred stone of new grain, and the rest is all old grain. Some of the old grain, which is even more than ten years old, has long been rotten to the extreme, and has polluted and corroded the warehouse, and even rats will die of illness if they eat such 'grain'.

Such acts are truly heinous.

The minister also wanted to impeach He Jichai, the prefect of Tianjin, who was consumed by power, corrupt and bribed, and acted as a protective umbrella for corrupt officials like Tu Fei, and even sent people to assassinate the household officials sent by the minister to make secret visits in order to help Tu Fei cover up his crimes......

The officials who are notorious for such crimes are really the cancer of my Great Chu court, and I ask Your Majesty to punish these two people and correct the discipline of the imperial court! ”

Emperor Zhengqing's face was extremely ugly, and he said, "Is this the case?" ”

Lin Ruhai came out and said: "There is such a mistake in the household department, Weichen really has the unshirkable crime of negligence, please Your Majesty to surrender!" ”

"Lin Aiqing doesn't have to be too harsh on herself, even if there is such a thing, it is a traitor underneath, and she has nothing to do with Aiqing. Aiqing has only been in charge of the household department for more than a year, and the household department has complicated affairs, where it may be possible to cover all aspects. The crime will be exempted, and it is better to review what Zhang Ziwen played clearly. Emperor Zhengqing was already angry, but he didn't expect this Lin Ruhai to take the initiative to ask for guilt, which caused Emperor Zhengqing's anger to dissipate, and he comforted him in turn......

It's not a good taste to really make the ministers feel good.

If others make mistakes, how can they ever see Emperor Zhengqing speak so softly?

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your innocence." Lin Ruhai is naturally not lacking in heart and eyes, and insists that Emperor Zhengqing punish him for his crimes.

Originally, today's matter was discussed between him and Zhang Ziwen.

"Taicang is known as the four barns of 'heaven, earth, Xuan and Huang' in the capital. The amount of grain stored in these four warehouses is more than 700,000 stone all year round, and it can even reach more than 1 million stone in a good year.

If these grains are not used up, they can be stored for up to three years, which means that in addition to the new grain of the year, the remaining old grain before can be restored twice at most and must be completely discarded and cleared out of the warehouse.

Therefore, most of the officials of the previous household department would dispose of the old grain to the grain merchants at a price of two or three discounts before the new grain was put into storage in the third year.

This was a loss that had to be incurred in order to ensure that the treasury had new grain available at any time.

This is true not only of the national treasury, but also of the local government offices.

However, many corrupt officials took advantage of this system to resell new grain and put old grain in warehouses to cope with the inspection from above.

Even if there is a flaw, it is only a little silver stuffed with it, and it is gone. After all, new grain came in the second year, and when the time came, Shanglu said that the old grain had been disposed of, and he didn't know it!

Since Weichen was appointed as the head of the household department, he has also noticed this kind of thing, but every time he wants to track it down, someone fills in the loophole. Coupled with the fact that the war with Russia has been tense in the past year, there is no in-depth investigation into this matter.

Because Weichen personally inspected it, Taicang's four major warehouses in the capital are compliant, and there is indeed enough new grain in stock. Last year, the grain stocks of these four warehouses alone were not exhausted, and Weichen did not personally go to Tianjin, Shuiqing and other affiliated warehouses to check.

It was still this war that lasted for more than half a year, and seeing that countless victims had poured into the capital, Wei Chen was in a hurry to count all the grain in the treasury, including the six auxiliary warehouses.

Among them, in Tianjin, Weichen sent Zhang Zhuangyuan to go, but after Zhang Zhuangyuan came back, he truthfully reported the matter to Weichen. Weichen never expected that the people below would be so bold that they would be so greedy that they had not let go of a new grain in the warehouse for more than ten years......

This can no longer be described by the word corruption, it has simply reached the level of madness!

However, the imperial court is running out of food at this time. Today, the total of the four major warehouses in the capital is only 150,000 stone of large valley, and a total of 20,000 stone of sorghum! Originally, there should be a total of 180,000 stone grains on the books of the six auxiliary warehouses, so that the treasury only has more than 300,000 stone grain......

Due to the fact that Zhang Zhuangyuan's trip to Tianjin has already happened dangerously, Weichen did not dare to send the cadres of the household department to investigate, and implored His Majesty to go to investigate thoroughly with the brocade army! ”

As soon as Lin Ruhai's remarks came out, it was obviously premeditated, not only to echo Zhang Ziwen's words, to punish the Tianjin prefect and the Tianjin attached warehouse grain manager Tu Fei, but also to completely announce the malpractice of exchanging old grain for new grain to the world!

At this moment, I don't know how many old cases will be turned over and how many people will be implicated.

The Manchu courtiers were all frightened, and many officials who had been involved in the matter were trembling in their legs.

"Okay, yes, yes!!

If I remember correctly, he He Jichai is your nephew of He Da Shoufu, right?

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