The change in the situation was unexpected by everyone, but it seemed to be expected. In just five days, the number of displaced people outside Lin'an City has exceeded 500,000, and it is still increasing at an even faster rate. Countless people who were victims of the disaster or who were not victims of the disaster suddenly appeared from all directions, and then rushed towards Lin'an City in unison.

The rapid increase in the number of victims has made Jia Yidao's manpower, which is not very abundant, even more overstretched. Fortunately, there is not much in Lin'an City, and there are officials who have nothing to do but are not very high, and it is estimated that they can hit a few if they are smashed with a brick. Coupled with the old department where Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi had greeted each other, Jia Rudao was finally not too anxious.

On the third day, the Prime Minister's Mansion sent 200,000 stone of grain to the treasury of Lin'an Mansion, and Jia Rudao naturally didn't bother to ask about the origin of these grains. Of course, the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion will definitely not take the initiative and have no obligation to tell him.

However, on the faces of the officials sent by the Prime Minister's Mansion to deliver the grain, Jia seemed to know that this mere 200,000 stone of grain did not cause any trouble to Qiao Xingjian at all.

After the matter of the Qinzheng Palace, Jia Rudao knew that he and Qiao Xingjian, Li Mingfu, Yuan Fu and others obviously had no room for reconciliation. These 200,000 stone grains are obviously Qiao Xingjian's proof of "worrying about the king" in order to appease Zhao Yun's anger. After the 200,000 stone grain, before Yu Tianxi's people returned, he didn't have to think about getting any support in the court.

Even if there were, it is estimated that the symbol is greater than the reality.

"Brother Huaijin, if it weren't for your help, I'm afraid that these hundreds of thousands of people would be dead all over the place by now."

Jia Nidao, the head of Lin'an City, looked at the endless but orderly hustle and bustle below, and said sincerely to Zheng Mingxuan beside him.

He was indeed grateful to Zheng Mingxuan. If Zheng Mingxuan hadn't taken the lead in pulling the line, Jia Rudao would have known that now this outside Lin'an City would have been a hellish scene for a long time, and it would not have been as orderly as it is now.

He was even wondering if Nalan Yu had known that there would be a famine in Lin'an City. That's why I returned Zheng Mingxuan's ancestral house to him, and left a message for him, if you want to thank him, come to thank him.

If it weren't for Nalan Yu's introduction, although he said that there would be a way to solve the food problem, the means would definitely be much more intense than now. And the plans of Zhao Yun, Shi Songzhi and others are definitely impossible to talk about. When the famine is over, in order to calm the criticism of some people, I am afraid that he can only throw away the black yarn and go home to farm. How can it be like now, let Qiao Xingjian and the others suffer a big loss, and there are words of suffering?

"Brother Shixian, my ears are about to be cocooned when I hear these words."

After getting along these days, the friendship between the two is also improving rapidly, so Zheng Mingxuan and Jia Yidao are talking more casually than before. Of course, this is only in private.

Hearing Zheng Mingxuan's words, the two couldn't help but look at each other and smile at the same time.

Jia seems to be the situation of the Lin'an Mansion, and many people know it. This is also because of what is it, there are so many scholars in the Wuxu family, and only Zhou Tan and Yang Duo are the last two to help him. As for Qin Shou, does he still have a choice?

The treasury is empty, there is no food to eat, there is no money to ask for money, no matter who does the position of the governor of Lin'an Mansion, he is sitting on the crater. If you don't get it right, losing the black yarn is just the best result, and if it's a little more serious, it's not impossible to lose your head.

Therefore, even though many people are optimistic about Jia Nidao, no one wants to put their future on Jia Nidao. If he had a choice, Zheng Mingxuan actually didn't want to wade into this troubled water.

But then again, Zheng Mingxuan will definitely not be an incompetent person if he can get to this day. On the contrary, he saw it better than most people.

On the surface, in addition to Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi, Jia Nidao recruited countless enemies, but most people only saw the suppression of Qiao Xingjian and others, but they didn't see Zhao Yun standing behind Jia Nidao.

After all, this Great Song Dynasty is still Zhao Yun's Great Song Dynasty in the final analysis, even if Qiao Xingjian and the others are tightly united, they are still just courtiers, not to mention, Jia Yidao is not without allies.

Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi, including Zheng Qingzhi with **** attitude, how can they get along well?

Helping Jia Nidao also offended Qiao Xingjian and a group of people, as well as those wealthy businessmen and tycoons in Lin'an Mansion who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, so from the time he agreed to help Jia Nidao, Zheng Mingxuan was ready to make a desperate bet and poured all his wealth to help Jia Nidao tide over this difficulty.

Isn't this an investment? Although the risk is a bit big.

After all, once Jia Rudao messes up in this disaster relief matter, then the benefits that Zhao Yun promised before can only be the moon in the mirror. Of course, the most important thing is that Zheng Mingxuan is investing in Jia Yidao.

It's just that this matter is only clear to him and Jia Yidao.

Fortunately, at least for now, his investment has not shown any signs of going down the drain.

Of course, Zheng Mingxuan alone cannot support the consumption of these hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and there are some businessmen who are good friends with Zheng Mingxuan, although they chose to stand on Jia Nidao's side for various reasons, but they obviously don't want to put all the bets on Jia Nidao, so they all chose to let Zheng Mingxuan as an agent and hide in the shadows, so that both parties will not be offended, and the losses will be minimized.

Regarding the choice of these people, Jia Rudao does not feel that there is any right or wrong. What's more, being able to remain neutral in this battle is already a great help to him. Not to mention, they also provided Jia Rudao with so many necessities such as food, medicinal herbs, etc.

"I heard that the Qian family, the Wen family, and the Wen family have also sent people out of the city to give porridge?"

Jia Rudao looked at the long queue under the city wall and said with a smile.

The Qian family, the Wen family, and the Wen family are the three largest grain merchants in Lin'an Mansion and even in the entire Jiangnan. More than eighty percent of the annual grain trade in Lin'an Province is traded through the shops of these three grain merchants, and of course, these three companies hoarded the most grain during this famine.

However, with the resettlement of displaced people from outside the city, order was relatively stable. Under the leadership of the families of the important ministers and nobles in the court, such as the Shifu, the Yufu, the Shenguo Mansion and even the Rongwang Mansion, the wealthy merchants in Lin'an City also went out of the city to build porridge sheds. The people in the city, if they had surplus food at home or old clothes that they didn't wear, also took them out to the homeless, and gradually brought the atmosphere of Lin'an City.

It is said that Xu Ruoxi has also been preparing to go out of the city for the past two days.

Jia Rudao's expression was slightly in a trance.

"Shixian is really well-informed, early this morning, when the insiders went out of the city Shizhou, they met the people of the three of them, it seems that Qian Guan, Wen Tao, and Wen Liang personally sent the grain outside the city, and it is said that each family has thousands of stone of grain. These three families have always advanced and retreated together, and Shi Xian does not need to be too surprised. That's the porridge shed where the three of them gave porridge. ”

Zheng Mingxuan pointed to a porridge shed on the left side of the South City Gate and said quietly.

His Zheng family wants to make wine, and the annual food needs is naturally a lot. At that time, the Qian family, the Wen family, and the Wen family, the three grain merchants who controlled nearly eighty percent of the grain in the south of the Yangtze River, wanted to join forces to blackmail him on the price of grain, but the result was naturally unhappy and broke up, and Liang Zi also ended up.

Not to mention, over the years, relying on the control of the grain in hand, the three partners have made wine again, I heard that this year I will compete with his Zheng family for the name of the imperial businessman, how can I not make Zheng Mingxuan annoyed.

I have to say that he can so happily agree to Jia Yidao to help him solve the disaster relief problem, Qian, Wen, and Wen are not one of the reasons, after all, everyone knows that these three families seem to be friendly with Yuan Fu and others, the school of science in the court.

"According to Brother Zheng's estimates, how much grain can the three of them have in their hands now?" Looking at Zheng Mingxuan's hand, Jia Rudao said.

"This ...... I am afraid that there will definitely be 500,000 or 600,000 stone of grain in the three warehouses. ”

Zheng Mingxuan heard Jia Yidao's words, his eyes lit up slightly, and he licked his lips and said.

Only five or six hundred thousand stones? Jia Yidao was a little disappointed.

"Together, I'm afraid there are two million stone grains!"

Zheng Mingxuan gasped, smiled and slowly spit out a sentence.

"How much?"

When Jia Yidao heard Zheng Mingxuan's words, his eyes widened, and he exclaimed. Even Mo Ye, who had been silently following him, looked at Zheng Mingxuan with a shocked face at this time, as if he was waiting for him to confirm.

"Since last year, the three families have started to make wine, and as far as Huai Jin knows, in order to compete with Huai Jin for the name of this year's Chongyang Gongjiu Imperial Merchant, the three families have saved no less than 200,000 stone grain for each family just to make wine. Years later, I don't know why Lu Dao, the three have been buying grain in various places, and Huai Jin is also buying grain, so he has sent someone to keep an eye on the three for a period of time, as far as Huai Jin knows, the three have bought no less than 500,000 stone grain from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places in the past three months, and under the careful count, I am afraid that two million stone grain is just a basic number. ”

Zheng Mingxuan didn't hide it, and explained 1510.

Glancing at Zheng Mingxuan, who had a calm face, Jia Rudao took a deep breath.

Although what Zheng Mingxuan said was very simple, it did not prevent Jia Yidao from extracting something very intriguing from his words.

Since the beginning of the year, the Qian, Wen, and Wen families have begun to reserve grain on a large scale...... In just one sentence, it seems that the mystery has been exhausted. Because, according to Jia Rudao's knowledge, after the year, the drought situation in various places has been reported, but for various reasons, it has not been paid attention to by the imperial court. What kind of story is hidden in this, Jia Rudao doesn't want to know Lu Dao.

Cutting off people's financial roads is tantamount to digging people's ancestral graves.

Then, the next attack on others doesn't seem to be as gratuitous as imagined.

Two million stone grain.

Hey!

Jia Yidao sneered twice and did not speak.

At this time, in the northeast corner of a large area of exile camps under the city wall, which had begun to take shape, there was a sudden commotion. And then more and more people began to converge. There seemed to be a cry coming from it.

Jia Rudao frowned slightly.

These days, there are a lot of disputes of all kinds, and in general they are still minor.

"Jia Quan'er, you ask Lord Yu to go and see what happened...... Wait! ”

As soon as he was halfway through his words, Jia Rudao saw several teams of soldiers in front of the palace who were originally in charge of maintaining order in the center of each camp rushing towards the place where the riot occurred, but on the way to run, the saber on his waist had already been drawn.

"General Zhao, what battalion is there?"

"My lord, that's a women's camp!"

From the first day, Jia Rudao asked the officials of Lin'an Prefecture to do not only divide the displaced people according to their household registration, organize the displaced people to build thatched houses, and elect the principal to communicate with the manager, but the most important thing was to arrange for the men and women in the displaced people to live separately.

In every disaster, ordinary people are the most injured, but among ordinary people, in addition to the elderly and children, it is women who are the most vulnerable, which is the main reason why he specifically asked for women and men to be separated.

Women's camp?

Hearing Zhao Yi's words behind him, Jia Yidao frowned again.

Zhao Yi is no longer the head of the previous Inner Temple Straight Forbidden Army, after Sun Kui and others, Jia Rudao casually mentioned to Zhao Yun that Zhao Yi is not bad, Zhao Yi was immediately promoted to the commander of the Inner Temple, although it is only a battalion commander, it is much better than the capital.

This time for disaster relief, Mu Nuan and others were still recuperating from their injuries, and Jia Nidao needed manpower around him, so Zhao Yun waved his hand and ordered Zhao Yi to lead a battalion of 500 people to follow Jia Nidao, in addition to running errands, the most important thing was to protect him.

After all, there are too many homeless people, and Jia Yidao is now outside the city most of the day, not in the government.

Just as Jia Rudao was groaning, he saw that the people gathered from the men's camp seemed to have a conflict with the guards in front of the palace guarding near the women's camp. And it seems that the soldiers in front of the palace are already doing it, and there are faint screams.

The noise in the camp was also getting louder and louder, and from the place where Jia Rudao was standing, it seemed that more homeless people were gathering over.

"Let's go, go down and have a look!"

His instincts told him that something must have happened in the women's camp below that he didn't want to see.

……

There is a direct forbidden army in the inner temple to open the way, although the women's battalion has gathered no less than tens of thousands of displaced people, Jia Rudao still quickly entered the inner circle, although it is still very difficult. Before he could see the people inside, Jia Rudao heard bursts of cries coming from inside.

Grabbing Zhao Yi, Jia Rudao shook his head and signaled not to show his head for the time being.

"General, let the little girl go. She was still a child. ”

"Yes, general, let Liu'er go, in the next life, we will repay you by being cows and horses."

"Get out!"

With this burst of shouting, it seemed that the man who was called the general was still beating people, and there were two more screams.

"General Ben takes a fancy to this little girl, it is a blessing for your family, follow General Ben to eat fragrant and spicy food, isn't it better than you two old things drinking porridge and eating bran every day? Don't be ignorant of lifting. ”

An arrogant and rough voice sounded in the circle.

Hearing the word eating bran, Jia Rudao's brows tightened suddenly.

"General, it's not that the little old man is unwilling, I don't want the general to marry, as long as the general gives a letter of appointment to the general, the little girl will be a blessing for my family. But the general didn't even give a letter of appointment, if Liu'er was like the girl yesterday, she was taken to the house by a military master for a night, and she was thrown back to the women's camp the next day, how do you let Liu'er marry in the future, that girl had already hanged herself yesterday, general! ”

Hearing this, Jia Yidao suddenly felt the look of anger in the eyes of the surrounding onlookers. Although he didn't dare to say anything in front of the palace now, it was obvious that the seeds of hatred had already been planted, and at some point they would erupt like a volcano.

"Order someone to call all the officials in charge of the women's camp to my own officer."

After glancing at it, Jia Yidao, whose face was as cold as ice, Zhao Yi's heart jumped, and he hurriedly responded.

"Old thing, don't give face and shame ......"

"Ahh General, let the little girl go! ”

"Old thing, let go! Come on! Call me! ”

……

"Stop!"

"Who's fucking nosy? ……”

The general of the palace, who was holding a horsewhip and whipping non-stop, heard this explosion, and turned around without looking back, and whipped it towards Jia Yidao, who had just come out of the crowd.

"Take it!"

Jia Rudao shouted in a deep voice.

Zhao Yi, who had been waiting for a long time, heard Jia Rudao's words, grabbed the horsewhip that he had drawn, and then the bigfoot girl was imprinted on his face, and kicked it directly.

The former general of the hall screamed miserably, got out a few steps away, and seemed to be stunned by the kicking, and didn't even look at it, pointing at Jia Rudao and screaming miserably: "Why are you still stunned?" Don't you slaughter these untouchables for me! ”

After waiting for a long time, there was a dead silence around.

seemed to feel that something was wrong with the situation, Zheng Jing touched the blood stains on his face, shook his head, first saw Zhao Yi, his face was dark, of course, if he could still see the complexion, he was about to scold when he opened his mouth, and then he saw Jia Yidao, who turned out from behind Zhao Yi, opened his mouth wide, and was about to blurt out the words that were instantly stuck in his throat.

"The last general, I've seen my lord!"

Looking at Jia Nidao, whose face was as cold as ice, Zheng Jing secretly screamed bad luck, hurriedly wiped the blood on his face, got up and hugged his fists and saluted.

"Zhao Yi, the official said to take it, have you ever heard it?"

Jia Rudao didn't look at Zheng Jing, but said lightly to Zhao Yi.

"The last general obeys!"

Hearing Jia Yidao's words, Zhao Yi's heart jumped, and he hurriedly responded.

"My lord, the last general is Deputy Commander Zheng's cousin!"

Zhao Yi, who was about to make a move, couldn't help but pause.

"I said, take it!"

"Jia Rudao, I am the grandson of King Pu, you dare to take me?"

Zheng Jing's face changed greatly, and he looked at Jia Rudao and shouted.

Hearing Zheng Jing's words, Jia Rudao tilted his head slightly, and finally looked at Zheng Jing. Seeing Jia Yidao's movements, Zheng Jing's heart suddenly relaxed, wiped the blood on his face, glanced at Zhao Yi who had just kicked him with blood spraying on his face, and said with a smile: "Bring that girl back to the mansion for me, Lord Jia, I will come to the door again at the end of the next day to thank you!" ”

"Zheng Kuo is your cousin? So, he is also the grandson of King Pu? Looking at Zheng Jing, who was full of smugness and looked like a mud monkey, Jia Rudao suddenly smiled.

"Exactly!" Zheng Jing looked at Jia Rudao and said proudly.

In his opinion, Jia Rudao was obviously afraid when he heard the name of King Sipu.

"Everyone else is a cheater, and a fool like you is a cheater." Jia Rudao glanced at Zheng Jing with pity and waved his hand. After receiving the order, Zhao Yi, who had been waiting for a long time, led several forbidden troops with a straight inner temple to pounce in an instant.