Yu Jiao replied, "No problem." She didn't expect Gu Yun to agree so happily, she thought that it would take a lot of words to get Gu Yun to help.

"Over there on the Suhu River, I will arrange for someone to go over to buy grain." Gu Yun said, "My son and I will return to Beijing in a few days, and I will ask him to contact you when my people buy food." ”

"Okay." Yu Jiao can be said to have taken advantage of this transaction, she originally wanted to go to Jiangnan and other places to buy grain by herself, but she was a woman with no foundation, and others might not be willing to sell her grain, so she considered pulling Gu Yun into the gang, but because of his identity, he was pulling his banner to act outside.

Now Gu Yun not only gave money, but also promised to go to the Jiangsu-Hujiang River to buy grain, saving most of her things, but it seems that she, the person who took the initiative to do business, contributed the least.

But after thinking about it, when the grain arrived, Gu Yun was in the capital, and she needed to do her best to sell the grain, and Yu Jiao didn't care too much about it.

She went back to the East House, sorted out two thousand taels of silver tickets, and sent them to Gu Yun's room.

Not long after Yu Jiao left, Liu Ziqi entered Gu Yun's room.

He was silent for a moment before asking, "What did Miss Yu do when she came to you?" ”

Gu Yun did not hide it from Liu Ziqi, and told Yu Jiao about asking him to cooperate in buying grain.

Liu Ziqi sighed lightly, "It's rare that she was born in the countryside and hasn't been far away, and she is so smart and alert, if this rain doesn't stop, it will be a matter of time before the Surabaya River bursts." ”

Since that day, the two have never talked about Yu Jiao, Gu Yun was afraid that Liu Ziqi would resent her because Yu Jiao was not a plain note, but at this moment he realized that he was thinking too much.

"Maybe the rain will clear tomorrow, but today it is much lighter." Gu Yun said.

Instead of looking forward to the sunny weather, which is something that cannot be done by manpower, it is better to take precautions.

Liu Ziqi said, "Miss Yu's method is indeed desirable, if the north is affected, you might as well use the power of the imperial court to recruit merchants to sell grain, and set the price of grain within a controllable range, which can alleviate the disaster of the people in the north to a certain extent, but there are still details that need to be considered." ”

Gu Yun was not optimistic about this method, he said, "If the disaster is really affected, where can the victims have the money to buy food, this method is only applicable to those places where the disaster is not serious." ”

If the fields are damaged and there is no loss of life in the houses, this method can allow the people of the north to survive a season's harvest, but if the disaster is severe, there will be famine everywhere, and there will be hunger on the road, so they can only rely on the imperial court to provide relief and release grain.

Although all state capitals have official warehouses, Taiyan has long been rotten from the roots, the Son of Heaven has no people, and the court is full of smoke and miasma, and it has long been rotten from top to bottom.

The official warehouses of the state capitals should store about 500,000 stone of grain every year, but the reason why Gu Yun and Liu Ziqi were so worried was because they knew that these official warehouses would definitely not be able to take out 500,000 stone of grain.

"Tomorrow no matter if the rain stops, we have to go." Liu Ziqi suddenly made a decision, "Let's go to Lanzhou first, the Surabaya River bursts, and we must break the tomb first." ”

Gu Yun knew that he wanted to go to Lanzhou to keep an eye on the dredging of Guling, after all, the bursting of the embankment of the Surabaya River was related to the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people, so he nodded and said, "Okay." ”

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Although the Qingshui River is a small river, the Lanshui Canal that flows through Qingzhou eventually flows into the largest Surabaya River in Taiyan, and there are few cases where the river is full in recent years.

Coupled with the heavy rain in the past few days, the elderly in the village could not sit still and knocked on the courtyard door of the Chen family.

Chen Gensheng has not put her into the soil because of the death of the old lady in his family, and he has not dared to go to the field to release water.

Hearing someone knocking on the door, he was startled and asked Chen Qin to open the courtyard door.

When Chen Qin saw that it was the elder of the Chen family who knocked on the door, he panicked, for fear that this clan would always come to visit Mrs. Chen.

"Fourth uncle, is there anything wrong with you?" Chen Qin didn't dare to welcome people into the door, and asked pretending to be fine.

"Is Root at home? The Qingshui River is about to flood, and I see that there is a lot of rain this year, and the situation is not good, so we have to think of ideas. The fourth uncle of the Chen family said in a trembling voice.

When Chen Qin heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and helped the person into the door.

Chen Gensheng sat on the chair and listened to the fourth uncle with trepidation, and when he heard that he wanted him to preside over the worship of the river god, he agreed.

"It's still the fourth uncle's thoughtfulness, so I'll inform every family in the village and prepare to worship the gifts of the river god." Chen Gensheng said.

"The sooner the better." The fourth uncle of the Chen family, who was already old, told him uneasily.

There have been no natural disasters in the north for many years, and the last time he worshiped the river god was decades ago, Chen Gensheng asked carefully what he needed to prepare, and sent the four uncles out of the door, so he went to the village to inform them door-to-door, and went to several nearby villages to find Li Zheng from other villages to prepare the sacrifice together.

The people in the village are also afraid that they will be flooded, and if the fields are flooded again, there will be no harvest in the next year, and they are very supportive of worshipping the river god, and there is no complaint about the food and money.

In the evening, pigs and sheep and other living creatures are ready, people from several villages are gathered in the Qingshui River, Yu Jiao was also pulled by Yu Poria, she doesn't believe that worshipping the river god can quell the natural disaster, but just to watch a lively.

The pigs and sheep were driven into the river and sacrificed to the river god, and all the villagers knelt on the ground and prayed in the rain.