Chapter 9 Banquet Building

Looking at this group of ragged victims, their heads are unkempt, their lips are cracked, some of them are so hungry that they can't stand on their feet, and they all need help from others, it's really pitiful!

"Then I have to give each person a bucket of rice. Can't take more! Hongxu finally had no choice but to let go, there was so much food missing, and he didn't know how to explain it to his grandfather.

I thought that only a small part of the grain would be distributed, but what I didn't expect was that there were so many people in the disaster, almost 500,000 quintals. Originally, the household department only gave 1.5 million quintals of grain, but now there is only 1 million quintals of grain left, and I don't know how to explain to the local county government when I get to Jiangnan!

After dealing with the victims, they set off again. Walking, walking, and after a few more days, we finally arrived in Gangnam!

At this time, the officials of Jiangnan who were waiting at the county entrance came out to greet them, and saw Hongxu riding a horse and carrying a food relief team, walking slowly. When Hongxu arrived, he immediately grabbed the reins of the horse, let Hongxu come down, and asked, "My lord, it's really hard to come to our remote town for disaster relief!" ”

After Hongma got off the horse, he was very happy to see so many people come to greet him, he had only seen his grandfather have such a pomp before, and said: "It's not hard, Your Majesty's trust, the people's suffering, my generation should do its best!" ”

"My lord, is this Qian Liang going to be put into storage immediately, or is it my lord, you should take a rest first, and watch the money and grain go into the warehouse tomorrow!" The official asked.

"Let's get in first! Your Majesty's concern is the most important thing, and the safety of the people is important, so we will implement the disaster relief matters as soon as possible, so that every citizen can receive relief food as soon as possible and solve the difficulties of enduring hunger and cold, so as to show the court's care for the disaster victims! Hongxu said.

"It's still thoughtful to the adults, we originally wanted to set up wine to entertain the adults, in order to relieve the pain of the boat and car! I didn't expect the adults to sympathize with Li Min first, and then they thought of themselves, their sentiments are really high! The official sighed. Immediately asked someone to transport the money and grain to the warehouse, looked at the person in charge of the warehouse, and carefully calculated the money and grain. After checking, the person in charge of the warehouse whispered to the official, and the official was taken aback when he heard it, and he didn't know how to open this mouth with Hongxu. After brewing for a long time, I felt that it was better to explain it, and asked: "Lord Sima, the grain record on the holy decree we received is obviously three million taels and one million taels of silver, but now this is only one million taels of grain, and the silver is not enough to be only 500,000 taels. ”

Hongxu replied: "The household department only pulled out half of the money and grain for me, and the other 500,000 loads of grain, and when I met the victims on the way, I gave them these 500,000 loads of grain!" I really can't help it! ”

After hearing this, the official hurriedly said: "So that's the case, my lord really cares about the victims!" Before I arrived in Jiangnan, I started to do work for my official, thank you very much! But this money and grain are not right, and I can't put it into the warehouse! If anything goes wrong, I won't be with the above! ”

Hongxu said: "Just enter the warehouse as it is, indicate the truth, I don't believe that the emperor will blame us." The rest of the money and food, my grandfather is in Tokyo, and if nothing else, it should arrive in a few days! Don't worry, Lord Prefect, I won't embarrass you. I will immediately send someone to the capital to urge, I believe there will be good news soon! ”

"That's all there is to it! This is still Lord Sima, if it were someone else, I wouldn't be so easy to talk to! I'm a big thunderbolt! The county magistrate looked at Sima Hongday and felt that he had gone too far, but he was embarrassed to attack, so he had to say: "Lord Sima, I am not free tonight!" A few adults and I prepared some food and drinks, ready to wash the dust for Lord Sima. In fact, there is nothing to entertain Lord Sima, it's just four dishes and one soup, I hope you don't dislike it! The prefect said.

Hongxu is indeed a little hungry, but he feels that the prefect invites him to eat, as if it is not in line with the etiquette, and he doesn't know whether to go or not! While hesitating, the prefect took Hongxu's arm and said, "Go ahead, it's not a big deal!" It's just that a few friends get together for a while, adults don't care too much! ”

Hongxu was taken to a very luxurious restaurant by the prefect, saying that there are four dishes and one soup, all the delicious food, delicacies from the mountains and seas, big fish and meat, and delicious food, which is simply more abundant than the New Year, thinking that they Jiangnan has suffered a catastrophe? It doesn't seem like that!

Suddenly, Ruoyun said: "Lord Prefect, it doesn't look like you've suffered some catastrophe here, but it looks like a bumper year!" ”

I only heard the official smile and said: "Where, where, we usually don't dare to eat anything, I don't hear that Lord Sima is from the capital, the prefects of several of our counties, they have made a lot of money, put together a month's official salary, and made this table of delicious food, just to leave a good impression on Lord Sima!" We just drank a bowl of gruel yesterday, and we are no different from ordinary people! ”

Hongxu was born as a gentleman, and he is usually tired of eating these things at home, and he can't taste a bite at all. But now I haven't seen dizziness for almost a few weeks, and when I saw so many delicacies from the mountains and seas, I immediately couldn't control my stomach and ate it in a big gulp! Ruoyun saw Hongxu's eating appearance on the side, and hurriedly patted him on the shoulder to make him pay attention to his image. But Hongxu shrugged his shoulders and shook off Ruoyun's hand. Ruoyun looked at him, so he had to cover his eyes, he really couldn't stand it!

When the prefect saw Hongxu let go of his courage to eat, he knew that he was a fellow believer, and immediately poured wine to Hongxu with several other officials. The prefect grabbed Hongxu's hand holding the wine glass and said, "My lord, it's really hard to send money and food all the way, please smile at this little meaning!" After saying that, he stuffed a silver ticket into Hongxu's sleeve. Hongxu drank too much, dizzy, confused, and didn't know what was going on, smiled at the prefect, pointed to a finger, and said, "You are so bad!" But he didn't know that a silver ticket was stuffed into his sleeve. Ruoyun looked at Hongxu's ugliness after drinking, and kept reminding Hongxu, but Hongxu turned a deaf ear to Ruoyun's actions and didn't take her seriously at all. Ruoyun watched the prefect pour down Hongxu little by little, and stuffed the money into Hongxu's sleeve, but there was nothing he could do!

The prefect saw that Ruoyun didn't drink, so he persuaded: "Girl, you should have a little fun when you come out to play!" ”

Ruoyun scolded: "Go to death with me!" The prefect was bored, so he had to ignore her.

After being drunk and full, everyone was drunk and confused, looking at Hongxu's unconscious appearance, Ruoyun had no choice but to help him to rest at the inn.

The prefects of those counties came to the local county government meeting and discussed: "The lord who came today!" ”

"I heard that the grandson of today's Taishi Sima Hongxi, Sima Hongxu!"

"I have long seen that I am completely a gentleman, and I have never seen anything in the world at all!"

"However, this time we only have half of the money and grain, how much can go into our pockets!"

"Plus the 10,000 taels we stuffed into him, we can't share much, so there's really no way! Let's go the old way! ”