In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Youzhen had just gotten up, and the eunuch who was waiting next to him immediately reported that Professor Sun Chuanting asked to see him.

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly came to Yin'an Palace, and saw that Sun Chuanting's eyes were red, bloodshot, and his spirit was atrophied, so he was startled and said, "Sir, what's wrong?" ”

Sun Chuanting smiled faintly and said: "It's okay, it's just that the porridge factory has just opened, there are too many miscellaneous things, and I didn't have time to rest last night." ”

Zhu Youzhen saw that Sun Chuanting was so haggard, and he was secretly ashamed in his heart: he went back to his house and fell asleep, but he didn't sleep all night!

Sun Chuanting continued: "Your Highness, the minister has compiled a book of yesterday's expenses and soup kitchens, please take a look at them. ”

Zhu Youzhen took the booklet and looked at it, and saw that the book was full of neat and neat fly-headed small letters. In the first few pages, the expenditure is recorded, including yesterday's purchase of rice, dry food, hiring men, hiring cars, buying firewood, and buying equipment, all of which are missing. And the unit price, quantity, and total amount of each item are also clearly remembered and clear at a glance.

A few pages later, however, are inventory accounts, which record how much rice was bought yesterday and how much was spent.

Looking further back, there are columns of names with some marks behind them. Seeing that Zhu Youzhen didn't understand what he meant, Sun Chuanting explained: "The minister registered the hungry people, first, to count how many people there were, and secondly, to have a credential when receiving porridge. Each person is limited to two times a day, and those who have received it should make a mark after their name, and they will not give more if they want to. However, this move also has drawbacks, and some people deliberately double the registration in order to receive more porridge. Because there are so many hungry people, it is impossible to find out all of them. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said, "Is this okay?" Each time the porridge is given, each person is given a small receipt, and the ticket is collected. As long as you have received the porridge, you will take back the receipt, so that you can't receive it repeatedly. ”

Sun Chuanting thought seriously for a moment, and said happily: "Your Highness, this method is good!" But he immediately frowned again, "What if someone picks up the receipt repeatedly?" ”

"Let the people who receive the porridge line up first and send it over in turn, isn't it okay? Anyone who does not queue up well, or who moves in line after receiving the ticket, will not be given a small ticket, and he will be starved. Zhu Youzhen said, "If you do this once or twice, the hungry people will have a sense of discipline."

Sun Chuanting was overjoyed and said: "Your Highness is really a god!" The minister will do it right away when he goes back! ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled proudly. In fact, this "admission by ticket" was really commonplace in his previous life, and he just took it with him.

"However, the number of hungry people is too large, and 1,000 stone meters is far from enough." Sun Chuanting turned to worry and said, "As soon as the porridge factory opened yesterday, the hungry people in the north of the city gathered over. At first, there were less than 1,000 people, but then more and more people gathered, and this morning there were more than 5,000! If we calculate the minimum of half a catty of rice per person per day, 5,000 people will consume more than 20 stone of grain a day. It is expected that these hungry people will not be able to disperse until next year's spring sowing, and a thousand stones will not be able to support that time! ”

"And the number of hungry people continues to increase." Sun Chuanting used a hoarse voice to anxiously continue, "Half a catty of food per person per day can only save his life." Those old and young women and children, as well as those with poor physique, I am afraid that they will not be able to withstand it for a long time. Now it's not just a matter of food, the weather is too cold, most of the hungry people can only sleep in the open, and there is not enough clothing to protect them from the cold, and more than a dozen of them froze to death last night, most of them children. ”

When Zhu Youzhen heard that someone had died again, his heart sank, and he couldn't help but blame himself for not being responsible for the starving people to the end. Thinking of that hellish and tragic scene, his lips trembled, and he said with difficulty for a while: "We can't let the hungry people freeze to death anymore!" Sir, how much more money is needed, though it is withdrawn from here! ”

Sun Chuanting said angrily: "Your Highness's love for the people can be seen every day. But with the strength of His Highness alone, I'm afraid it won't help. Now there are tens of thousands of hungry people who are blocked from the capital, and only when the imperial court issues an order to let Shuntianfu open a warehouse for relief, can the fundamental problem be solved! Your Highness, you should immediately call on Your Majesty! ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled bitterly, what kind of virtue is the apocalypse, he doesn't know. Thinking about that Yang Lian, he knelt in front of the Qianqing door and memorized the music for several days, but he didn't even let him take a picture. Moreover, now that Wei Zhongxian has the power to criticize red, he basically stays directly in the unsatisfactory script, and the apocalypse can't see it even if he wants to see it.

However, in order not to discourage Sun Chuanting's enthusiasm, and at the same time to hold the attitude of "a dead horse should be a live horse doctor", Zhu Youzhen still asked Sun Chuanting to draft a chapter on his behalf, imploring the imperial court to issue an order, one is to let the hungry people enter the city to keep out the cold, and the other is to let Shuntianfu open a warehouse for relief. At the end of the recital, Zhu Youzhen signed his name crookedly.

At the same time as sending eunuchs to the Forbidden City to perform the chapter, Zhu Youzhen also told Sun Chuanting: "Even if the imperial court can open a warehouse and release grain, I'm afraid it won't be a matter of one or two days." In addition to continuing to take care of the porridge factory, we must also purchase more cotton clothes and quilts and distribute them to the victims. ”

As for the place to keep out the cold, Zhu Youzhen can't do anything, after all, the house is not made of paper, and it can be there immediately. Even if he is willing to pay, he will not be able to build a house under this ice and snow.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but think that if there was a disaster in his previous life, a large number of military tents would be transported over by various means of transportation immediately, which would be enough to shelter from the wind and rain and temporarily avoid the severe cold. After that, it can also build a prefabricated house, which has a better windproof effect. But in this era, these two disaster relief weapons are impossible, and they have to sigh in vain.

After Sun Chuanting left, Zhu Youzhen discussed with Rui'er and immediately did two things.

The first thing was to let Lin Youkun escort all the gold and silver in the palace to the silver account opened by Li Zicheng. Although Li Zicheng is not in Beijing, the silver number shopkeeper has dealt with Lin Youkun, and he has been instructed by Li Zicheng before, and he is obedient to what Lin Youkun wants to do.

Lin Youkun relayed Zhu Youzhen's original words to the treasurer of the silver number: "This batch of gold and silver is temporarily stored in the silver number, and no interest will be charged, but the silver number must be guaranteed to be available at any time." ”

The reason why Zhu Youzhen did this was because he felt that the silver was safer and more convenient to use than in the palace. Not to mention anything else, those few ambassadors of Cang and Ku, who knows if they were assigned by Wei Zhongxian. Even if it wasn't, it was hard to guarantee that there would be no self-theft. It's the silver number, because it is completely commercialized, and naturally there will be no such drawbacks.

The second thing, Zhu Youzhen summoned Wang Jiuling and others to Yin'an Palace, and pretended to be sad and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, what you said yesterday about rebuilding the palace and other things, this king also feels that it is very necessary. Helplessly, today's accounts, the palace does not have much silver, and it is difficult to even maintain daily expenses. ”

Wang Jiuling asked in disbelief, "Your Highness, it's impossible, right?" Ambassador Ku also told his minister yesterday that there are more than 60,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold in the treasury..."

Zhu Youzhen scolded in his heart: You bastards, you are really staring at your brother's money. On the surface, he said with a sad face: "Lord Wang doesn't know, this king has received a secret edict from Long Live to urgently purchase some rosewood and yellow rosewood and send them to the palace." But Banzai only let the king purchase, but did not allocate the silver taels, and the king had to pay in advance. No, just now I have asked Deputy Commander Lin to empty the warehouse. Since it is so urgent to rebuild the palace, can you also do the king a favor and pay some work expenses in advance? ”

Wang Jiuling and the others were dumbfounded, and they didn't know whether what Zhu Youzhen said was true or not. But to get them to take money out of their pockets, that's absolutely impossible. So some said that "the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, and the construction cannot be done temporarily", some said that "the rebuilding is very important, and the drawings need to be determined first", and some said that "it should be reported to the imperial court first, and it is not too late to discuss specific matters after approval"... In short, the project that was still in their mouths yesterday is imperative today, but it cannot be carried out today in any way.

Zhu Youzhen smiled dumbly, and said in his heart that you really call turning your hands into clouds and covering your hands into rain.

On the way back to the back house, Zhu Youzhen and Guan Ning walked face to face, and they had to stop and say hello to him.

Guan Ning has been really busy in the past two days. As the chief eunuch of the Xinwang Mansion, he has to handle all major and minor affairs, especially the allocation of housing, which makes him even more nerve-wracking.

Originally, this palace was bounded by a pond in the middle of the palace, which can be roughly divided into a front yard and a back yard. In addition to the Yin'an Hall in the front yard, there are two cross-courtyards in the east and west. In addition to the red calyx building where Zhu Youzhen lives in the backyard, there are also two cross-courtyards in the east and west. In each courtyard, there are more than a dozen houses that can be used for people to live in.

Originally, this palace was rebuilt from the **Star Mansion, and although there were dozens of people in the **Star Mansion, the room was still more than enough. But after it was changed to the palace of the king, the eunuchs, palace maids, guards, and family members all added up, and there were nearly 200 people, and the house was not enough to live in.

For more than a day, Guan Ning spent all his energy on coordinating housing. Lin Youkun's Tengxiang right guard he couldn't afford to provoke, so he drew a separate cross-hospital. As for the other eunuchs and palace maids, some of them wanted a single room because of their old qualifications and an iron relationship with Guan Ning; Some are tied up and asked for "husband and wife" to be together; Some are even more perverted, and they have to pick some young eunuchs or palace maids to be their "godfathers" or "godsisters".

In this way, almost everyone wants to pick a house, and everyone feels that they are qualified to pick a house, but there are many monks and few porridges, and it is impossible to be satisfied. In the end, they all quarreled with Guan Ning, and there was a lot of trouble.

In the end, Guan Ning could only put on the style of the chief eunuch and forcibly distribute them one by one according to his own ideas. As a result, except for a few eunuchs and palace maids who had a particularly good relationship with him, who were assigned to a single room as they wished, the rest had to be squeezed into a room by a few people, or even a dozen people. The vast majority of people were very dissatisfied with Guan Ning's distribution method, but they dared not speak out.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen at this time, Guan Ning regretted that he was only busy with these details, and he ignored this most important goal.

He hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Lord, today Xiaoyao Bofu sent an invitation, please go to the dinner on the 28th of the lunar month." Please show me how to arrange the specific matters? ”