Cheng Jie, who used to dominate the scenery on Jingbei Road, is a big man who will tremble three times when he stomps on the entire Luoyang City.

However, the situation changed surprisingly, the most powerful person in Luoyang City, the white-haired head, hung at the east gate of Luoyang City, and people who came and went inevitably had to take a closer look. And the story of the collapse of the Cheng family overnight has also become a topic of conversation among the people of Luoyang City after tea and dinner.

The property raid of the Cheng family took three full days, and thousands of brocade guards were dispatched, working overtime, and only a rough idea was made. In addition to the original works of famous artists, antiques and other items with high collection value, the rest are all auctioned on the spot, including the Cheng family's house. Zhao Hao urgently needed cash, and almost all of those land deeds and shops were sold cheaply, and even so, it was enough to check out seven million yuan. This money is almost enough to support the entire cost of the battle of Liao.

Seven million guan does not include the 1.5 million guan of rice grain for on-site disaster relief and grain release.

On the day after Cheng Jie was killed, all the grain merchants on Jingbei Road announced that the price of rice and grain would be reduced to the usual 500 yuan per stone, and they would never dare to sell more.

The wind blows the eggshell, and the wealth goes to the people's happiness...... Although the price reduction means a major loss, although the businessmen love money as their lives, but the wealth and life are still very clearly divided, after all, it is a pity for life. No one wants to be like Cheng Jie, his life is gone, his money is gone, his children and grandchildren are in prison, his wife and concubine don't know whose house he will be in, and he has to bear the big crime of rebellion, and no one will do this kind of business a second time.

After the early stage of exploitation, even if the price of rice is always 500 yuan, few people can buy it, and the big customer who can buy grain can only be Jinyiwei. However, on the 7th, the rice and grain in the hands of the grain merchants on Jingbei Road were sold out.

Of the 7 million yuan, 3 million yuan was spent on buying grain, 750,000 yuan was paid for Huang Wenhu's grain, 250,000 yuan was spent on transportation and various miscellaneous expenses, and the remaining 3 million yuan was paid.

Buying grain from other shops for 2 million stones, Cheng's grain shop seized 1.5 million stones, plus Zhao Hao's 500,000 stones from the capital, and Huang Wenhu's 500,000 stones, it is 4.5 million stones, and about 3 million victims on the two roads in Jingxi are converted into one and a half stones per person, which is enough to support the beans and wheat planted in autumn when they are ripe.

As for the 1.5 million Guan prepared by Zhao Hao's own family, there is no need to send them to the field for the time being.

Just like the effect of "Heshen falls, Jiaqing is full", killing a Cheng Festival, the drought in western Beijing, which was starving for thousands of miles, can be resolved, and millions of lives can be saved.

According to Zhao Hao's decision, tenant farmers who have no harvest due to drought will be provided with eight buckets of rice for each adult, five buckets for children between the ages of six and twelve, and three buckets for children under the age of five. Those who are not tenant farmers, and those whose families are found to be deprived of food and are destitute, are also given assistance according to this standard. If it exceeds this amount, it needs to be borrowed from the government; Those who still have assets but lack food need to borrow grain from the government and make an IOU, which will be repaid without interest after the harvest in the autumn of the next year.

Disaster relief is important, but it is limited to the victims, and those who have not been affected by the disaster and those who are not starved of food are naturally no longer within the scope of help. Even if it is a real destitute victim, there must be a limit to the amount of relief received, otherwise it is difficult to say whether each person will be raised with a stone and a half and a half.

Of course, this is only a general regulation, and it is inevitable that there will be differences in actual operation, but Zhao Hao's principle would rather be taken advantage of by the people than starve to death by a single citizen.

For the specific disaster relief work, Xu Churen led the northwest route of Beijing, with the assistance of local officials, and Jinyiwei was responsible for maintaining order and inspecting whether there was any embezzlement of ink.

On Jingnan Road, Chen Ju, the transfer envoy of Jingnan Road, took the lead in disaster relief. Chen Juan is a person with a high reputation, although Zhao Hao has not seen him, but according to the information obtained by Jinyiwei's investigation, he is very relieved about this person. Although Jingbei Road only received 500,000 stone of disaster relief food, and was repeatedly plundered by anti-thieves such as Song Jiang and Gao Shantuo, the disaster situation was much more serious than that of Jingbei Road, but the people who starved to death were much less than that of Jingbei Road, which also shows Chen Jue's character.

Groups of refugees with their families flocked to towns and county towns from all directions to receive rice and grain for disaster relief.

Xiangcheng County.

There are more than 20 disaster relief points lined up outside the city, porridge sheds are lined up, the porridge pot is steaming, and there is a smell of rice wafting from afar, and the victims of the disaster are lining up to receive porridge. Although the stomach is empty, after all, there is hope, so although most of the victims are not very good, they are still in good spirits.

Although the porridge in the pot is not as exaggerated as Du Gongcai, there is a lot of shredded meat in it, but the porridge is very thick, and it is okay to drink a bowl for half a day. It's just that people are limited to one bowl, and if you drink too much, you're afraid of breaking your stomach, but it's not beautiful.

Behind the porridge shed, bags of rice grain are piled up, and there are still carriages constantly shuttling back and forth, pulling rice grain, and the men who unload the grain are busy.

After drinking porridge to fill their stomachs, the victims began to line up to receive food, steamed buns to fill their hunger on the road, and water. More than a dozen officials were busy arranging the distribution of food, registration and other matters, and there were three or four brocade guards and ordinary officials around to maintain order and prevent looting.

The faces of the victims were full of excitement and joy, and a little uneasy, and they did not dare to speak loudly, but whispered from time to time.

The people who received the grain, wept with joy, I don't know who took the lead, after carrying the grain out one by one, stopped in the open space, and then moved the family to the direction of Kaifeng City and the first line of Luoyang, kowtowed a few times neatly, and cried and shouted "Xie Guan's grace, Xie Qincha's grace" Yunyun, and then the family left with rice and grain.

A gorgeous carriage stopped forty or fifty steps away, surrounded by more than a dozen brocade guards in fresh clothes and angry horses, the curtain was lifted, Zhao Hao and Xu Churen sat side by side, silently looking at the thriving scene in front of them, full of emotion.

Zhao Hao looked at the people who knelt on the ground and worshipped, crying with joy, and said slowly: "I am a great Song Dynasty, rich in the world, a natural disaster is nothing, and what is really thousands of times worse than a natural disaster is a man-made disaster...... Kill Cheng Festival, seize his money and food, Ben Hou will not regret it until he dies, even if he does it again, Ben Hou will still choose to do so! ”

Xu Churen's eyes were full of admiration, it was a kind of admiration from the bottom of his heart, but he said with concern in his tone: "It's just that this time, Gongzi has offended too many people, Cai Jing and his party, as well as some people in the clan, will fight back with all their might, and even implicate some princes and county kings...... The son must be well prepared, after all, there are too many mistakes in the Chengjie rebellion, and the right and wrong are all in the thoughts of the official family. The official family seems to be ignorant of the world, but in fact, his heart is as clear as a mirror, and he has twists and turns, I am afraid that he can know it at a glance......"

Zhao Hao smiled slightly: "Mr. Xu doesn't have to worry too much, although the official family understands it in my heart, I have my own good policy, so that the official family will not be held accountable, and even rewarded." ”

Xu Churen heard Zhao Hao say this, and what had been hanging in his heart was also slightly relieved at the moment, and said with a smile: "The son has not reached the weak crown, and the lower official originally did not believe it, but since the prince returned from the gold this time, he has made immortal miraculous achievements, and the lower officials have to believe it if they don't believe it." ”

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Bianliang, Cai Fu.

In the flower hall, Cai Jing was wearing a short coat and a small coat, lying on a chair, sleeping sweetly.

Seventy years old, Cai Jing is seventy-three years old, and he can still maintain a vigorous spirit and a strong desire for power, which is inseparable from the recuperation of his life. And napping is a necessary item for him every day, and when he is napping, no one is allowed to disturb him, even if the official family arrives.

Kaifeng Mansion Yin Cai Mao, like an ant on a hot pot, walked anxiously around the corridor outside the flower hall, looking inside from time to time, but he didn't dare to go in and disturb Cai Jing's sleep.

After waiting for a long time, it was finally time for Cai Jing to wake up slowly, the maid next to him hurriedly wet the towel, Cai Jing wiped a few handfuls, and then handed over the fragrant tea, took a sip of water, turned around a few times in his mouth, rinsed his mouth, and then spit in the porcelain basin handed by the maidservant, and then asked slowly: "There are people waiting outside the hall." ”

"Cai Fuyin has been waiting for her husband for a long time."

"Oh? Come in. ”

When Cai Mao outside the door heard this, an arrow rushed in, and cried bitterly: "Husband, wronged, ......"

Cai Jing frowned, with a displeased look on his face, and said angrily: "You are also a second-grade member, you are so frizzy, if you have something to say, what do you shout?" ”

Who knew that if he didn't say it, as soon as he said it, Cai Mao cried more and more, and tremblingly took out a letter from his sleeve, handed it to Cai Jing, and cried: "Husband, Du Gongcai wrote a letter...... Strange injustices through the ages...... Woowoo woo ......"

In fact, Cheng Jie's matter has nothing to do with him, but this person has always been obsequious to Cai Jing, and it has become a habit to do his best to be sycophant, and he cries like a little decent.

Cai Jing took the letter with a puzzled face, opened it, read it carefully, and before he finished reading it, he suddenly rose up, his eyes were red, his face was red, and his expression was extremely terrifying, so that the maidservants around him were frightened, and they didn't know what was going on.

Cai Jing just wanted to say something, but he only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and he fell backwards, Cai Mao saw it clearly, hurriedly stepped forward, and held Cai Jing up, and then the maids beside him also lost their faces, and hurriedly hugged Cai Jing forward.

Several people hurriedly placed Cai Jing on the chair, patted the back, and pressed the person in the person, and after a while, Cai Jing gradually woke up, and his emotions calmed down slightly.

After a long time, Cai Jing let out an angry roar: "Zhao Hao'er, you ignore the law of the country and do this thing that has lost your conscience and the anger of people and gods, and I am inseparable from you!" ”

After yelling and scolding a few times, Cai Jing shouted again: "Prepare the sedan chair, the old man wants to enter the palace to face the saint, and ask the official family for an explanation!" ”

After a while, Cai Jing and Cai Mao, each in an official sedan chair, led dozens of domestic slaves, hurried to the direction of the palace, and saw that they arrived in front of the Xuande Gate, but they saw a familiar official sedan chair.

"It's Yu Dazai's official sedan chair." Cai Mao recognized it, hurriedly lifted the curtain, and said to Cai Jing.

At this time, the official sedan chair in front also stopped, and the white-haired Yu Shen, when he was facing Dazai, was staggering down the sedan chair, and Cai Jing also hurriedly got off the sedan chair.

As soon as the two saw each other, they were in tears, clasped their hands, and scolded Zhao Hao endlessly, but it was limited to the three generations of their ancestors, and they didn't dare to scold it.

Just when the two old ghosts were crying and scolding, an official sedan chair took the opportunity to pass by them, and flew to the front of the Xuande Gate, and then ran down an official, said hello to the guards guarding the door, and went straight to the palace, and went straight to Yanfu Palace.

That person is none other than Jin Chongyue!