Xuanhua City, Xuanhua granary south storage.

Xuanhua granary is divided into three warehouses in the south of the city, west of the city and north of the city, the grain stored is enough for 300,000 people for a year, it is the largest granary in Jiaozhi, and it is also the war reserve grain of Jiaozhi, which cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary.

Surrounded by a group of people, Li Qing came to the warehouse in the south of the city expressionlessly, and a granary supervisor wearing a civil official robe of the eighth grade was waiting at the door, bowing down to welcome him in.

"This is the official's official document for releasing grain, open the warehouse door, and the official wants to help those victims outside the city." Li Qingzheng did not go to the reception hall of the Chengnan Warehouse, but went straight to the courtyard, glanced at the doors of the granary warehouses with household seals on the doors, and asked people to give an official document stamped with his official seal to the granary superintendent of the Chengnan Warehouse.

"My lord, I'm afraid this is not appropriate, if there is no official document from the household department or a military order from the chief soldier, it will be a private granary, and it will be punished by the imperial court." The overseer of the granary in the south of the city was stunned for a moment, took the official document and looked at it, and his eyes showed a look of embarrassment.

Although the Xuanhua granary is in Xuanhua City, it is not under the management of the Xuanhua Mansion and the Jiaozhi Political Envoy, and it is a subordinate institution of the Ministry of Households.

"There are more than 200,000 victims outside the city now, if they are instigated to make trouble by people with ill intentions, this consequence is not something you and I can bear."

Li Qingzheng knew the difficulties of the supervision of the granary in the south of the city, looked at him with a stern expression, and said in a resolute tone, "The official has made up his mind, open the warehouse and release the grain, what are the consequences of the official to bear it!" ”

At this time, there were already 200,000 victims outside Xuanhua City who had taken refuge from the war, and due to the successive wars in the past two years, Li Qingzheng had not had a grain of grain in his hands a few days ago, so he had to choose to open the granary in Xuanhua City to help those victims, otherwise most of those victims would starve to death.

The reason why the victims flocked to Xuanhua City was because Li Qingzheng worked hard to govern Xuanhua City in an orderly manner when he was the prefect, so he won the trust of the people.

Li Qingzheng, who used to be a scholar of Hanlin, was not only a representative of the scholarly class, but also the leader of the Great Ming Speaker, so naturally he could not let those victims be displaced, so he gave great relief.

Under his inspiration, the merchants, gentry and toasts in Xuanhua Mansion donated food one after another to accommodate the victims.

However, with the deterioration of the war situation in Jiaozhi, a steady stream of victims came, and the poor harvest of Jiaozhi agriculture due to the war made the food problem a difficult problem in front of Li Qing.

In fact, not only outside the city, but also in Xuanhua City, the situation has become very bad, public order has deteriorated, prices have skyrocketed, and because the city can no longer accommodate the redundant victims, the four gates have been closed more than a month ago.

Because the price of grain is rising higher and higher, Li Qingzheng has summoned the grain merchants in the city twice, hoping that they can reduce the price and help the residents of Xuanhua City tide over this difficult time.

It's a pity that the nature of the merchants is profit-seeking, coupled with the successive defeats of the Ming army in Jiaozhi, which makes Xuanhua City, which is the rear more and more unsafe, and the grain merchants want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a big profit and return to Guangxi to avoid danger, so they are against Li Qing, which leads to the continuous increase in the price of grain in Xuanhua City, and the current grain price is ten times that of usual.

Li Qingzheng is a civil official with a strong character and arrogance, and naturally he will not force those grain merchants to lower prices, so he can only watch grain prices skyrocket.

To tell the truth, Li Qingzheng is a good hand at learning and governance, but he is a layman when dealing with businessmen, as a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, the top figure of Shinong industry and commerce, he has never been in contact with businessmen before, how can he know how to deal with those sophisticated and sleek grain merchants?

In the face of the hungry and cold victims outside the city, Li Qingzheng really couldn't bear to abandon these great people, so he resolutely decided to open the granary of Xuanhua, ready to exchange his life for the lives of those victims outside the city.

In all dynasties, Qingliu like Li Qingzheng, who dared to confront the emperor in public, was not afraid of death at all, otherwise he would not condemn Emperor Hongxi in the Taihe Palace, and then ended up like this.

For Li Qingzheng, who is arrogant and arrogant, reputation is what they value, and Li Yuntian criticized Li Qingzheng for selling his reputation and reputation, which made Li Qingzheng very angry, and also made Li Yuntian hated by many Qingliu and officials, and he still can't let go.

"Lord Prefect, I heard that the emperor has sent General Dingnan to come, do you wait for General Dingnan to come before deciding this matter?" The superintendent of the Chengnan granary knew that the matter of privately opening the granary was a matter of great importance, and it was not something that Li Qingzheng could carry alone, and he was bound to be implicated as the chief official of the Chengnan warehouse, so how dare he agree to Li Qingzheng, and said quietly.

Moreover, although the overseer of the granary in the south of the city was an official in Xuanhua City, he was indeed an official directly under the household department, so Li Qingzheng was not his boss, and Li Qingzheng's official documents had no legal effect on him.

Unless the highest official of the Xuanhua granary, the director of the Xuanhua granary, issued an official document to open the warehouse, the superintendent of the granary in the south of the city dared to open the warehouse and release grain, which also means that the director of the Xuanhua granary will bear the responsibility.

Hearing the words "General Dingnan", Li Qingzheng's face suddenly revealed a complicated look, and Li Yuntian's image couldn't help but appear in front of him.

When Li Qingzheng received the official document that the imperial court would send troops to quell the rebellion in Jiaozhi again, he did not expect that it would be Li Yuntian who would lead troops to Jiaozhi this time, rather than experienced and meritorious nobles like Zhou Zheng and Zhang Fu.

However, after thinking about it, Li Qingzheng felt that it was a natural thing for Li Yuntian to bring troops, and when he left the capital, Li Yuntian once sent him outside the city, not only asking him to manage the government affairs of Xuanhua Mansion, but also said that he would go to Jiaozhi to visit him.

At that time, Li Qingzheng was angry, and felt that what Li Yuntian said was full of sarcasm and sarcasm, so he didn't take it to heart at all, and now it seems that Li Yuntian fulfilled his promise back then, and really came to such a wild place as Jiaozhi, and he was also the commander of the counterinsurgency army.

For Li Yuntian, Li Qingzheng's feelings are very complicated, originally he thought that he would not have anything to do with Li Yuntian after coming to Xuanhua Mansion, but it backfired, and Li Yuntian was mentioned in letters written to him by family and friends.

The family sued Li Qingzheng that Li Yuntian had taken great care of the family's life since he left, and his friends were surprised to tell him the news that Li Yuntian had a heated argument with the officials who impeached him for his time in the Taihe Palace, and finally made Emperor Xuande give up the idea of punishing him.

After Emperor Xuande ascended the throne, he was angry about Li Qingzheng's recital before Emperor Hongxi's death, thinking that Li Qingzheng had humiliated Emperor Hongxi in front of his ministers, which led Emperor Hongxi to die suddenly.

There is no shortage of officials in the court who speculate about the holy will, plus officials who usually have enmity with Li Qingzheng, they have gone up to impeach Li Qingzheng, and the most vicious reason is that Li Qingzheng knows that Emperor Hongxi is ill and still uses fierce words to do things, his heart can be punished!

The sentence "his heart can be punished" made those officials who wanted to defend Li Qingzheng retreat one after another, after all, Emperor Hong Xi did die after Li Qingzheng's dismissal, which made Li Qingzheng's purpose of dismissal confusing, involving a conspiracy to kill Emperor Hongxi.

Even the Qingliu people in the court can't open their mouths to defend Li Qingzheng, in the final analysis, "loyalty" is the basis for the survival of the Qinglius, and it is under this banner that the Qingliu people can speak freely in the court, even if they offend the emperor, they are often tolerated by the emperor, and Li Qingzheng's matter is undoubtedly a big taboo.

Since even the Qingliu people chose to retreat, the rest of the officials did not want to face the anger of Emperor Xuande because of this matter, so as not to fall into the whirlpool of murdering Emperor Hongxi.

Just when all the ministers thought that Li Qingzheng would definitely die this time, something that no one expected happened, and Li Yuntian, who was the inspector of the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate at that time, stepped forward and defended Li Qingzheng.

In Li Yuntian's view, Li Qingzheng, as a scholar of Hanlin and the head of the court, is a matter of course for officials to admonish officials, and it is not inappropriate for Li Qingzheng to neglect things.

As for Li Qingzheng's excessive words and deeds when he was in the upper echelons, it was due to his usual personality, and this is also where Emperor Hong Xi admired Li Qingzheng, his loyalty does not need to be expressed, otherwise how could Li Qingzheng sit in the seat of a bachelor of Hanlin?

Therefore, Li Yuntian thought that Li Qingzheng's mistake was that he was too upright, and he didn't know how to be flexible when he encountered problems, and he also staged a fierce recital when Emperor Hong Xi was ill.

Now, Li Qingzheng has been punished by Emperor Hongxi, demoted to the barren and remote Jiaozhi as the prefect, and has paid the price for his mistakes.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the emperors of all dynasties have attached great importance to the speech officials, and the innocence of the admonitor has become an important cornerstone of the emperor's smooth speech, and Li Qingzheng, as the head of the speech officials, how can he add his guilt because of one of his admonitions?

Therefore, Li Yuntian believes that the old matter should not be brought up again, so as not to cause nuisance in vain.

Li Yuntian's appearance shocked the civil and military officials of the Taihe Palace, but if you talk about it in detail, only Li Yuntian dares to do so, not to mention that Li Yuntian is deeply trusted by Emperor Hongxi, just because he escorted Emperor Xuande, who is the crown prince, into Beijing to ascend the throne, Emperor Xuande will not doubt his loyalty, and he can listen to his words the most.

Hearing Li Yuntian mention the words "the road of speech is unimpeded", Emperor Xuande knew Li Yuntian's intentions, if Li Qingzheng was severely punished, it would inevitably make the officials of speech timid when they admonished, and then block the way of speech.

And this will also make the outside world speculate wildly about the reasons for Emperor Hong Xi's death, just as Li Yuntian said about those "nuisances on the way".

Therefore, after weighing left and right, Emperor Xuande suppressed the anger against Li Qingzheng in his heart, rejected those impeachment notes against Li Qingzheng, and issued an edict that no one should mention this matter in the future, so that Li Qingzheng could really get out of the whirlpool of Emperor Hongxi's death.

After Li Qingzheng learned about this incident, he had mixed feelings in his heart, and the last thing he wanted to see was that Li Yuntian helped him in this matter, and he couldn't figure out why Li Yuntian did this, was it to buy people's hearts?

Li Qing was puzzled by Li Yuntian's purpose, but his impression of Li Yuntian in his heart had changed invisibly.!^!