Chapter 198: Endure and Endure Again
Shuyuan looked at Ye Junhao painfully and said: "Lord Wang, the current situation is very bad, those victims have become more and more excited because they can't eat enough food for a long time, and now they are getting more and more excited, if we don't send troops to suppress it now, we may only be able to watch them cause a riot." ”
Send troops to suppress? Ye Junhao himself felt that there was something strange in the matter of being sent over for disaster relief, and he didn't know how many pairs of eyes were staring at him in secret, if he sent troops to suppress it at this time, it would be tantamount to sending the handle to someone else's hands.
However, if the troops are not sent, these people will not be able to eat enough food, which will inevitably lead to a riot, which will result in even more casualties.
"Now take this silver, go to the surrounding areas to find those landlords' houses, buy their grain and open warehouses to release grain, and how much grain we have now will immediately be used to cook porridge for those villagers to eat." Ye Junhao frowned, gritted his teeth and said.
This is just a delaying tactic, fortunately, Shi Yingqiu gave him enough silver before leaving, otherwise he didn't know what to do, but if these grains are really used to cook porridge until the victims have enough to eat, it is estimated that it will only last for a day or two, and there will not be a single rice to eat after a day or two.
At that point, the situation may be even more dire.
"Even if we don't have enough food now, we can't do this, if this continues, after a few days we won't have enough to eat, those victims will still protest." After hearing these words, Shuyuan dialed the abacus in his hand, and he roughly calculated how long these grains could be eaten.
And even if you go around to buy it, one is that those unscrupulous businessmen may take this opportunity to deliberately raise the price, so that they can't buy much even if they have a thousand taels of silver, and second, they can't let Ye Junhao keep sticking money!
Ye Junhao sneered a few times and said: "There must be someone in the middle of this who has withheld the disaster relief silver layer by layer, but it must be too late for us to check now, the purpose of these people is to make the villagers make trouble, and after the trouble, all the fault lies in this king, and it is estimated that few people will go to find out who embezzled the disaster relief things at that time." ”
And now, outside, many people are already protesting.
After listening to the sound of protest outside, Ye Junhao suddenly sneered.
"You can go out and have a look now and see if these people are rioting outside because they are really hungry, or if it's because someone is saying something behind them." Ye Junhao looked at the source of the book and said.
After hearing this, Shuyuan immediately nodded and left.
And the next moment, Ye Junhao immediately announced that he would open a warehouse to release grain, and quickly take out all the grain, so that these victims could eat enough.
"My lord, we have already let the words out, and after those victims listened to our words, they really went to Prince Shen's side to make trouble, now it depends on how Prince Shen will deal with this matter." Said a man dressed in the clothes of a disaster victim.
The adult nodded slightly, very satisfied: "You just continue to do this, remember to report to me in time if there is anything, remember to mobilize their emotions, and make them feel that it is because of Ye Junhao's dereliction of duty, it is because of Ye Junhao's greed that they have no food to eat." ”
After the adult finished speaking, the man said that he would go immediately.
After making trouble in front of Ye Junhao's tent for so long, just when the guards wanted to drive them away, Shuyuan suddenly came out.
"Everyone, please don't be impatient, we didn't think about it before, but now the prince has sent people to buy grain from the surrounding landlords, so let's have a full meal tonight!" As he spoke, Shuyuan asked people to bring the cauldron in public and set up the cauldron in front of everyone.
set up a pot to boil water and cook rice in front of everyone, but these victims still didn't buy it, and they were noisy.
"If you continue to make noise here, you will have enough to eat, and if anyone makes trouble here again, they will be driven out immediately, and it has nothing to do with us whether they live or die." Shuyuan suddenly swept his gaze coldly over the people below and spoke.
After these words, many people became honest, and when he saw this scene, Shuyuan was very satisfied, and he paid attention to the people who were the most happy in the crowd, and gave a look to the people around him, signaling them to pay more attention to these people later.
After Shi Yingqiu took the silver twice, soon those people bought a large amount of rice and came back, according to what He An said, Shi Yingqiu didn't dare to put all this rice in the palace, so he had already entrusted someone to start transporting it to Ye Junhao.
"I really can't rest assured about these things, and the affairs of Ancheng and the beauty salon here in the past few days, I will ask you to help me more." Shi Yingqiu thought about it and couldn't rest assured, she and He'an instructed her, and then packed her things and prepared to leave.
Before leaving, he left a large amount of silver taels for He'an, and instructed her to collect a steady stream of grain and grass to send them.
"I won't worry the hostess." And An said firmly.
Sure enough, after three days of eating a full meal, they had reached the point of running out of food, but there was not much food to buy around.
Shuyuan sat in the tent and looked at Ye Junhao's sad face: "It's really not that we don't do our best enough, it's just that according to the current situation, I don't know why, those grain merchants say that they don't have enough grain and grass, but I have already sent someone to check their grain secretly, obviously there are still a lot of them, but they don't sell it." ”
And why, someone must have taken a lot of money to trade with them, and no matter what we offered, they just didn't sell.
How could these grain merchants be dissatisfied with being able to make a large sum of money without losing a little grain?
Ye Junhao never expected that the other party would be so vicious, and the worst result he thought of was that the other party would raise the price indefinitely.
There is hardly any food left in the granary to eat.
Shuyuan said as he didn't know what was written on the paper: "The way we are now using is to let these victims be fed, and after they are full, they can work for us and build the dam with their own strength, so that they can save a lot of things for the officers and soldiers, but now as long as they are not full of food, they will make a fuss, saying that they have no strength to work, and there will be a lot of rain in this season, and if we do not step up the construction of the embankment, the loss in the later period will only be greater." ”
Ye Junhao's heart understands these things, he doesn't need someone to remind him again, he is upset now.
"But I also found something wrong with those victims before, some of these victims are very energetic at all times, I think even if they have been fed and drunk in the past few days, but in the early night of fleeing and the endless work in the later stage, they will be a little tired anyway, so I have sent someone to keep an eye on these people." Shuyuan spoke.
This is about the same, Ye Junhao nodded slightly after hearing these words, pay attention to these people, this is an important matter, but now it is the most important thing to solve the grain and grass matter.
Sure enough, there are already some disaster victims outside, although Ye Junhao knows that there must be a mastermind behind these things, but he doesn't have so much time to let him find out who is behind the scenes before solving these people's affairs.
"Lord, lord, princess Niangniang is outside, and she came over with a large amount of grain and grass, saying that she is here to help you!" Just when Ye Junhao was unable to deal with the people outside, someone suddenly ran to say in a hurry.
Shi Yingqiu listened to He'an's words, all the way was super small, first went to the granary to check the grain he bought before, and then transported it here in batches after making sure that it was all right.
She disguised herself as a businessman along the way, and sure enough, she didn't attract the attention of others.
After hearing that Shi Yingqiu was coming, Ye Junhao's whole body became nervous, and he hurriedly got up and ran outside.
Shi Yingqiu was dressed in linen clothes, and then escorted a large amount of grain and grass.
"Damn, how can I miss it, there is still a Shi Yingqiu!" When the adults saw this scene in the crowd, they secretly gritted their teeth.
It was hard to make up their minds, and when they found that there was no food in the granary, and they were encouraging the victims to prepare to make trouble, Shi Yingqiu sent these things like timely rain, which made all their previous efforts useless.
After seeing Shi Yingqiu coming, Ye Junhao hugged her desperately.
"Okay, there are so many people, hurry up and get down to business first!" Shi Yingqiu said as she gently patted Ye Junhao's back, because she found that there were many disaster victims around here who were looking at them with unkind faces.
These people are not so much looking at Shi Yingqiu and the two of them, but rather looking at the grain and grass that Shi Yingqiu brought over.
"I want to state one thing here, these grains were bought from various merchants by the Rong'an Palace's own pocket, and the receipts for the purchases are here, please read them clearly!" Shi Yingqiu had already heard about Ye Junhao's affairs here on the way here, and she snorted while taking out the note from her pocket that she asked the family to open when she bought something.
Shi Yingqiu was now standing in front of Ye Junhao, protecting him in the posture of a protector.
After a few seconds of silence in the crowd, someone suddenly sneered twice and said, "Who knows if this is if your Rong'an Mansion bought it with disaster relief money after greedy for disaster relief, in order to make us grateful to you." ”
After hearing this, Shi Yingqiu frowned, he didn't expect this person to be so divergent, and this sentence provoked the emotions of the victims again.
The next moment, Shi Yingqiu was in Ye Junhao's ear, and he didn't know what he said when he lowered his body, and a sneer suddenly appeared on Ye Junhao's face.