In the face of doubts, Zhao Quande did not refute, but in turn threw out another question: "Have you heard of Yuan Banxian?" ”

Zhao Quanyou was stunned: "Who hasn't heard of this, what's the matter, when did you catch him?" Is he familiar with Wang Ben? ”

Zhao Quande deliberately sold a pass: "Do you know that this Yuan Banxian is now a man of the year in Beijing." ”

Zhao Quanyou nodded: "I heard that this person is a Buddha and Taoist, with profound mana, and omnipotent, and there is no one in the capital who does not want to befriend him, but this person has always been a dragon." Zhao Quanyou suddenly reacted: "Do you want to get in touch with Wang Ben through this person?" ”

Zhao Quande pretended to smile mysteriously: "It's okay with the two of them now, but I know that Wang Ben has been secretly befriending people with geniuses, and everyone understands that he is recruiting talents for the prince." Think about it, if I can let Wang Ben get acquainted with Yuan Banxian, will Wang Ben be impressed with me? ”

Zhao Quanyou frowned: "I'm afraid it's not easy, if you want the person surnamed Yuan to cooperate with you, how much face will it have?" It is said that the person surnamed Yuan is very high-minded, and rarely makes friends with dignitaries, let alone let him cooperate with you, so many princes and nobles pay a high price to ask him to make a divination, and he loves to ignore it. ”

Zhao Quande showed a confident look: "Ordinary dignitaries and dignitaries are really not good, but the county officials are not as good as the current management, Yuan Banxian now has something to ask me, and it is a very important matter, if I help him finish his big business, I don't want his money, and I don't ask him for medical advice, as long as he pays me a favor and does me a favor, can you say he can agree?" ”

Zhao Quanyou came to the spirit: "He actually has something to do with you?" What's up? ”

Zhao Quande was very proud: "A friend of his, who killed someone in Texas, was originally sentenced to be beheaded after the autumn, but yesterday Yuan Banxian personally found me and begged me to let his friend go, do you think this is a big deal?" I remember his friend's case clearly, it was the rape and murder case that caused a sensation in Texas last year. ”

Zhao Quanyou thought about it for a while, and there was indeed such a case: "Didn't you report that case to the Criminal Department a long time ago?" The case of the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department has been compounded, can you still turn it over? ”

Zhao Quande's eyes narrowed, and he said with a smile: "He doesn't want to overturn the case, as long as he saves his friend's life." I've already thought about it, that person is pressing Jinan right now, I just need to use a little means, do something secretly, and replace his friend, won't it? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, and he has always implemented a policy of recuperation and recuperation for the people, so since the end of the dragon and phoenix, to the short-lived Wu State, until the official establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the people's life is getting better and better, and the treasury is becoming more and more abundant, but even so, it still cannot guarantee that there is no famine in the world. God often doesn't give face, there are always places that are affected by disasters and famines, and there are still hungry people.

Every year before the beginning of spring, a group of refugees fleeing the famine will gather in the capital, and the situation of these refugees is different, but it can be roughly divided into two categories, one is the real disaster victims, and the other is the people who have crossed the famine.

The so-called real disaster victims, it is easy to understand, the hometown really suffered a disaster, there is no harvest, although the court issued a decree to exempt the payment of money and food, but if you want to solve the current problem of eating, you have to go out to beg.

The people who crossed the wilderness were different, they probably didn't suffer, they came out

The main reason for begging is that there are few people in the hometown, and the grain produced in the field cannot support the spring famine, this part of the people will come out to beg during the spring famine every year, and then return to the hometown after eating hundreds of meals outside for a few months, and then return to the hometown after the grain comes out in the field, eat the winter, and then come out to beg in the spring of the next year. Most of the people who crossed the wilderness were Henan people.

Although the situation is different, the result is the same: as soon as spring begins, a large number of refugees will beg all the way to Beijing and stay in Beijing for several months.

In the sixteenth year of Hongwu, the displaced people entered Beijing relatively early, and before the beginning of spring, a large number of disaster victims entered Beijing. Many of the victims were familiar with the road, some went straight to the several porridge fields where the imperial court had fixed the reception of the victims, and some of them were broken into pieces and wandered around the more prosperous streets and alleys in Beijing, because there were often high-ranking officials and nobles who did good deeds and gave porridge.

Once the displaced people entered Beijing, the busiest yamen in Beijing became Ying Tianfu and the Soldiers and Horses Division, and the servants of the two yamen almost poured out of the nest to drive away and guide the displaced people and maintain law and order in Beijing.

On this day, a large number of victims gathered near the Jinchuan Gate, and several of them were seriously ill and dying, lying on the side of the road, and no one cared about them.

At noon, a young Taoist priest came from the north, this Taoist priest was about twenty years old, with handsome eyebrows and eyes, a wide forehead and a wide nose, a tall figure, and a fairy wind and bones. He was holding a dust whisk in his hand and a gray sermon robe, but the strange thing was that this Taoist priest was wearing a monk's hat on his head and a pair of monk shoes under his feet.

When the Taoist priest saw the dying homeless people lying on the side of the road, he frowned, turned around and walked slowly to him, touched the pulses of several people one by one, and turned his head to ask the people sitting on the side: "Where are you?" ”

The person asked was a man in his thirties, with a dark face, perhaps hungry, looking very thin, and his speech was not full of energy: "We are Henan Di, several of them are from our village, it is not easy to go to the capital, but when they enter the capital, they all fall ill, Dao Chief, can you save them?" ”

The Taoist priest looked at the displaced people around him, all of them were depressed, some turned their heads to look at their side, and some were listlessly dozing, sighed and said softly: "They are not sick, they are hungry, if you want to cure him, you must not use medicine, let them eat enough." ”

The swarthy man also sighed, and said helplessly: "If we can eat enough, what are we doing here, but the food in the capital is not delicious." ”

The Taoist priest said lightly: "I have a way, don't worry." As he spoke, he conjured up several large bowls out of thin air, each of which was filled with clear water, and the Taoist priest said to the swarthy man: "Feed them a few sips of water first." As he spoke, he walked to the center of the avenue, chanted a mantra in his mouth, and after a while, he waved his left hand and his right hand at the same time.

A miracle happened, in the middle of this spacious avenue, more than a dozen stoves appeared out of thin air, and on each stove sat a large pot held by three people, and each pot was steaming hot, and the street was immediately filled with the enticing aroma of rice.

The homeless people on both sides immediately fried the pot, this is ten cauldrons full of porridge, the stove is very hot, and the porridge in the pot is almost boiling. The homeless people gathered around the cauldron like crazy, and some reached out directly to grab it, but they were scalded by the boiling porridge

Some screamed, and some took out half a bowl from their arms and used the bowl to scoop the porridge in the pot.

The Taoist priest shouted, "Don't worry, everyone has porridge to eat." Then he waved his hand again, and hundreds of tall clay bowls appeared on each stove out of thin air.

The homeless people were boiling again, they scrambled to pick up the bowls, crowded around the stove, eagerly scooped out the porridge in the pot, and drank it on the spot, some of them were reluctant to drink the porridge, so they carefully carried it to the side of the road and gave their children to drink it first.

At this moment, a group of officers and soldiers suddenly came from the south, this was obviously the officers and soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division patrolling the streets, and they saw the homeless people gathered in a cheerful atmosphere from a distance, so they hurried over. The first time these soldiers saw the stove and cauldron in the middle of the road, one of the leading 100 households said: "Do you understand the rules, who puts porridge here?" ”

As soon as the Taoist priest saw the officers and soldiers coming, he hurriedly walked up to the soldier with a smile, bowed down, and said kindly: "Master Jun, the porridge in this pot is for the people who fled the famine......

Before the Taoist priest's words could be finished, he was unceremoniously interrupted by Baihu: "No, they are all putting porridge here, isn't the capital chaotic, how do we do the errands of the Terracotta Division, there are rules above, the porridge must go outside the Jubao Gate, and the displaced people who fled the famine will all go there to receive the porridge, and the porridge here will be withdrawn for me quickly." ”

When the Taoist priest heard this, he became angry, but as soon as he saw the surrounding victims, he forcibly suppressed the anger and said angrily: "These people have not eaten enough for many days, let them go so far to get porridge, many people are afraid that they will faint from hunger on the road." Instead of tossing over there, let them eat it right here, I promise, they won't make a mess. ”

"Hey! Didn't I understand what I was saying? You stinky bull nose, your degree, you dare to quibble when you see our adults. A small flag beside Baihu scolded the Taoist priest loudly, and then turned his face and smiled at Baihu: "This is Zhang Fensi, this is Zhang Fensi, our adults say no, we can't do it." ”

Zhang Fensi took out a pair of chiefs, waved his hand at the flattering little flag, and was very disdainful of the Taoist priest: "You promise, you are the oldest." Then he glanced at the cauldron of porridge: "It seems that you are the one who puts the porridge, so let's see that you are also a kind heart, I don't embarrass you, you quickly withdraw the porridge and leave, and get a few drinking money for the brothers, the brothers should have no such thing, this time let you go." ”

Saying that, Zhang Fensi actually stretched out a hand, put it flat in front of the Taoist priest, palmed it up, and shook it meaningfully at the Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest's smile froze, he never expected that in front of everyone's eyes, these hundred households would blatantly ask him for money. The Taoist priest's anger can hardly be suppressed, he is kind enough to save people, you people not only do not help, but also hinder, but also ask me for money, are you human beings or not, in the blink of an eye, the Taoist priest made a decision to teach these people a good lesson.

He turned around and pointed to a dilapidated house on the side of the road, so he said to the hundred households in embarrassment: "I'm really sorry for the official, we only brought food today, and we didn't bring cash with us." Since porridge and thousands of catties of grain are not allowed here, we are not willing to work hard to get the grain back. The officials have worked hard, and we will dedicate the grain to the government, and as for where the government will transport the grain to put the porridge, it is up to the officials to decide. ”

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