Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Provocation of the Wakos

To rehabilitate a person who has died unjustly, procedurally speaking, the first step is to overturn the previous judgment of the law against them.

That is to say, a comprehensive reversal of the case is carried out from all aspects such as witness evidence, confessions, and judgments.

After the legal process is completed, an edict is finally issued in the name of the regent, who knows the whole world.

In the end, in order to show the benevolence and guilt of the regent and the court, some appropriate compensation will be given to the families of the two.

For example, knighthood or material compensation to his descendants, or giving some false positions and titles to the descendants of the two families.

In this way, the whole process is basically completed.

Xia Junze attached great importance to this matter, and hurriedly summoned the officials of the Three Law Divisions and the relevant yamen to discuss, and quickly drew up a charter and reported it to the regent palace.

After reading it, Jiang Chuan agreed to the basic charter and ordered to find Yuan Chonghuan's descendants. Let once you find it, be sure to bring it to yourself as soon as possible.

This is going on in an orderly and rapid manner.

At the same time, Xia Junze also told Jiang Chuan about the lack of food in the capital.

Xia Junze looked anxious, and he bluntly said that in today's capital, the price of grain has been reached. A bucket of ten taels of silver is expensive. And it's still rising.

Even so, the people could not buy food with their silver. If we don't find a way to transfer grain from other places, I'm afraid that there will be a big chaos in the capital.

Looking at Xia Junze, who was worried, Jiang Chuan didn't seem worried, and the wind was light.

Faced with the regent's attitude, Xia Junze was puzzled, he didn't know why the regent was so relaxed, could it be that all his previous actions were just fame?

Jiang Chuan saw his thoughts, and just lightly told him not to worry. He already knew about the shortage of food in the capital, and he was already thinking of a way.

Within a few days, the problem of grain shortage in the capital will be greatly alleviated. And within a month, the grain prices in the entire capital will fall to a complete return to normal.

Xia Junze was puzzled, he didn't know where the regent would transfer a large amount of grain from, after all, the population of the capital was as many as one million, and the daily consumption of food alone was an astronomical amount. Now the only places that the imperial court can control are the Beizhili region and the Liaodong of the Qin king. Although Qingzhou has been recovered, it has been poisoned by the rogues, and it will take time to restore order, so it is naturally impossible to provide food.

However, Jiang Chuan deliberately said that he was not good at getting to the bottom of it, so he could only wait and see.

The lack of food can be said to be a great difficulty for others. But for Egawa, who has a fortress base, this is a trivial matter at all.

Jiang Chuan personally arranged the matter, and the execution efficiency of the imperial court was very high.

Three days later, the imperial court rehabilitated Zhaoxue for Yuan Chonghuan and Zhou Yunyi. The regent palace issued an edict of royal order, which not only restored the reputation of the two, but also posthumously crowned Yuan Chonghuan as the crown prince and princess, and added feudal Anhou, and called him Zhongzheng.

Zhou Yuanyi posthumously crowned the crown prince and young master, and his family members were all exonerated from crime, and his wife Lu was named the lady of the third grade.

The utensils of the mansion confiscated by the imperial court on the same day, all the family property was returned, and the Yuan family was compensated with 10,000 taels of silver and the Zhou family of 5,000 taels of silver. If the descendants of the two families have the heart to reimburse the imperial court, they can enter Taixue without examination. If you want to join the army, you can directly join the Prince's Guard Battalion.

As soon as the news came out, the capital was boiling.

The people talked about it, and there was a voice of praise between the government and the opposition.

Zhou Yunyi's son Zhou Deze, now recuperating in the palace of King Qin in Jiangchuan, although he had long known that the regent wanted to rehabilitate his father, but when he heard the news come true, he burst into tears with excitement, regardless of his injuries, ran to Jiang Chuan and kowtowed to thank him, and said that he was willing to swear allegiance to the regent.

Zhou Yunyi's adopted daughter Deng Xiaojin is even more grateful to Jiang Chuan, and she is even more dedicated to serving Jiang Chuan, omitting it.

However, the situation of the Yuan family is very different.

On the same day, Yuan Chonghuan was unjustly killed, and his death was extremely tragic. His family members were all affected. Some were killed, others were sent to the army, and many fled in disarray, without a trace.

Jiang Chuan also ordered local governments to look for Yuan's descendants, and once found, they should be treated preferentially and sent to the capital.

Through this thing. The name of the regent of Jiangchuan Renyi spread rapidly among the people of the capital, attracting countless voices of praise.

Many people thought that the regent was so benevolent, and in turn cursed the emperor who was now locked in the palace for his cruelty and immorality.

It was something else that brought the regent's prestige to a peak.

The grain shortage in the capital has been going on for a long time, the people's grievances are boiling, and the soldiers and horses of the nine cities dispatch thousands of men and horses every day to maintain order.

Seeing that it was about to cause a big chaos, the Shuntian Mansion and the major yamen of the imperial court, even including the cabinet, were in a hurry, but no one had a good plan.

Just when everyone was anxious, the first batch of grain that the King of Qin transferred from nowhere entered the capital.

As soon as this batch of grain entered Beijing, it was quickly put into the market and sold at a flat price of one tael of silver per bucket of grain, which immediately caused the people to rush it.

Fortunately, under the maintenance of order by the army, there was no stampede.

As soon as foreign grain entered the capital, grain prices immediately fell.

However, many businesses are still holding a wait-and-see attitude and have not immediately opened up grain prices for sale.

In their minds, it is impossible for the imperial court to transfer too much grain, at most it can only alleviate the immediate urgency, and it is not a drop in the bucket, and it cannot fundamentally quell the food shortage in the capital.

Unexpectedly, in the following days, a large amount of grain was transported into Beijing every day, and then it was quickly put into the market.

The people of the capital rushed to tell each other, and everyone could buy food, and the price was extremely low, for a while. The love of the people of the capital for the regent Jiang Chuan has reached a peak.

On the other hand, the hoarders began to panic, and the hoarded grain would not be sold. Now the weather is getting hotter and the rain is getting heavier. Once the storage is not good, the grain is easy to mold, and then it will be lost.

So these grain merchants gritted their teeth, stomped their feet, hurriedly opened shops to sell, and lowered the price to the same price as the official grain of the imperial court

It's a pity that Jiang Chuan made up his mind to make these profiteers completely unlucky, and as soon as they adjusted the price, Jiang Chuan left and ordered the price of grain to be halved, half a tael of silver.

Jiang Chuan has a fortress base, and he is not afraid of losing money at all, and his grain is exchanged from the base, although he has to pay a handling fee of one percent, but this money is not worth mentioning compared to the money earned from selling grain.

Moreover, as more and more grain was transferred into Beijing, the food shortage in the capital was easing at a very fast pace, and the mood of the people in the capital quickly settled down.

Those grain merchants had hoarded large quantities of grain at prices several times the current price, waiting to make a windfall during the critical period. But he never thought that this regent who was born out of nowhere had great ability, and he could transfer a huge amount of grain in a short period of time, and the problem of food shortage was suppressed at an incredible speed.

Even if these grain merchants vomit blood and sell at this time, they will suffer heavy losses. Not to mention taking back the old capital, it's not bad not to lose your pants.

However, the official food is still reducing the price, which makes them curse while gritting their teeth and continuing to reduce the price.

It's a pity that the people in the capital hate these profiteers, and now the supply of official food is very sufficient, so there are few people who come to buy grain at all.

Even if an uninformed person occasionally came to buy grain, there were well-wishers who would persuade him not to buy grain here at the door of these grain stores, and then take people to the grain stores run by the government to buy it, so angry that those grain merchants vomited blood. But they didn't dare to be rude, because ninety percent of the soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses were wandering around the door, and those who interfered with their business didn't care, but as long as they dared to do it, the soldiers would immediately come and clean them up.

These grain merchants complained bitterly, but there was nothing they could do.

But what made them even more painful was that after the grain price was completely stabilized, the government immediately closed down their grain shops for the crime of hoarding and disturbing the order of the capital. and brought the proprietor and the shopkeeper to the yamen for interrogation.

As a result, everyone in the capital raised their hands and shouted long live the regent, and even many people set up a shrine for the regent Jiangchuan at home, burning incense and praying every day.

When Jiang Chuan learned about this, he couldn't cry or laugh, but he knew that the people were good, so he went.

Jiang Chuan won the hearts of the people in the capital, stabilized internal affairs, and stabilized prices.

The Qin army's war in Qingzhou also came to an end. After the recovery of Jinan Mansion, Yanzhou Mansion, Laizhou Mansion, Dengzhou Mansion, Dongchang Mansion, Daimyo Mansion and other prefectures and counties have been recovered.

The remnants of the Dashun army fled one after another like snow meeting the scorching sun, and the states were recovered. The Qin army rapidly expanded to the entire Qingzhou.

Hu Zongxian is now appointed by Jiangchuan as the governor of Qingzhou, with full authority to take charge of the Qingzhou and Jiangnan wars, as well as the re-establishment of order after the liberation.

Hu Zongxian was preparing to send an ambitious army to continue southward and march towards the Central Plains and the Jiangnan region. An unexpected force entered the sight of the Qin army.

On 10 May, a group of Japanese pirates attacked Weihaiwei in Qingzhou by sea, killing more than 1,400 soldiers and civilians in Weihaiwei, abducting nearly 1,000 women, looting the entire Weihaiwei, and then burning it to the ground, and finally swaggering away.

When the news reached the Qingzhou Governor's Mansion, Hu Zongxian was immediately furious. On the one hand, he reported to the regent palace in the capital, and on the other hand, he reorganized the armament, sent people to contact Heibingtai, collected information about the Japanese robbers, and prepared to exterminate this group of Japanese robbers and avenge the people who died in Weihaiwei.

When the news reached the capital, Jiang Chuan was furious. Although he had long expected that the Japanese would take advantage of the battle between him and Li Zi to fish in troubled waters, he did not expect that the attack of the Japanese would be so unexpected, so brutal and inhumane.

Moreover, the arrogance of the Japanese is obviously not just for simple plunder, but more like a provocation and temptation.

If he can't quickly extinguish this group of pirates, and return it tenfold and hundredfold, this kind of attack will become more and more in the future, and then he will be anxious, and Qingzhou, which has been stabilized for a long time, will be turbulent again.