As soon as November passed, the weather became colder and colder, and the grain sold by Xie Fei from Kyoto was divided into several batches and transported to the most severely affected counties.

The meeting hall of the Hangzhou governor's yamen was full of officials of all sizes who came to discuss the matter, and the seats were orderly, and several officials of the division, the feudal division, and the capital division sat on the left hand side of the main seat, and on the opposite side were several weaving eunuchs and brocade guards in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the middle of the empty council room, a charcoal basin was placed, and the smell of charcoal smoke inside was so strong that people's eyes were sore from the smoke.

Xiao Mingchang, the commander of the Yamen of the Dusi Division, couldn't stand it, and rudely shouted: "Take it down, take it down!" ”

"Old Xiao, it's time for your temper to change." Hu Lingtang of the Yamen of the Domain's Division said: "If the charcoal basin is dragged down, it will be cold in the house." ”

"If it's smoky, it's better to take it out." Xiao Mingchang didn't care and pointed to the weaving eunuch sitting opposite with his eyes, which meant that everyone was wearing furs and minks, and a few charcoal basins would not get in the way.

Jiang Banxia sat on the right side of Suzhou Weaving Lutang, and in front of them were Jiangning Weaving Huang Shunliang and Hangzhou Weaving Wang Zhan'er, sitting in this position delicately, several people glanced at each other with their own meanings.

"You are a smart one, you also know the friendship between Cao Alcohol and me, I won't say much about what to say and do when I come down." Lu Tang was talking in a low voice next to Jiang Banxia.

Jiang Banxia smiled gently: "Father-in-law Lu can rest assured. ”

Almost everyone in the conference hall had seen Jiang Banxia, and they had a doubt in their hearts so far, whether this Jinyi Wei surnamed Jiang under Cao Dugong of Dongchang was a man or a woman?

I saw her wearing women's clothes a few days ago, but from the point of view of doing things, this person's means inherited Cao Alcohol's style, not quite like a woman's family, and now Jiangnan literati are popular among the fashion demons, maybe this is also a new 'trendy' who likes the times.

Jiang Banxia met everyone's gaze, did not show any timidity, but looked back.

"It's bold." Lu Tang teased in a low voice.

She is not afraid of these people at all now, the mining power in Jiangnan is in her hands, and with the support of the Dong family, even if these people find out her mistakes or report her woman's identity, it will not be a big deal.

This thrill of being in control fueled her ambitions.

"Autumn is over, and the truly difficult winter has just arrived." Zheng Yanggu, the governor of Zhejiang, said in a low tone: "Now there are nine disaster-stricken counties in Zhejiang, and there is not much left of the relief grain that has been prepared since the end of summer. ”

At this point, he paused slightly, and his gaze slowly swept over the rest of the audience.

The old man's yellow eyes burst out with a dazzling light, sweeping inch by inch, vowing to remember all the faces of everyone present.

"The people can't wait!"

This sentence almost roared out of his mouth, using up all the strength of Zheng Yanggu's body.

The crowd was silent, and not one of them spoke.

They knew better than anyone how to calculate this account, and they couldn't raise food and money to kill them.

Compared with the anxiety and despair of Zheng Yanggu and Hu Lingtang, the father-in-law of the Weaving Bureau seemed very calm, and they had nothing to do with themselves.

"Father-in-law Lu, Father-in-law Wang, Father-in-law Huang." Zheng Yanggu asked: "How is the business between the Weaving Bureau and the Francophone people?" ”

The first to speak was Wang Zhan'er of Hangzhou Weaving: "At the beginning of the spring, I talked about 300,000 silk cloths and countless ceramics, tea and other things, but——" Good Chinese

Wang Zhan'er, who had a round face and a white face, changed his words: "However, this sea is rampant with pirates, and the caravan of the Francois people reported to the interpreter of Honglu Temple, if my Daming can send an army to escort them, they will order more silk." ”

Zheng Yanggu stroked his beard and asked, "How much more can I follow?" ”

"About 300,000 horses, not counting porcelain, tea and other things." Wang Zhan'er stretched out three fingers and pointed to the sky.

300,000 horses! But 300,000 horses!

Zheng Yanggu fell into deep thought, and he kept calculating in his mind how much silver would be converted into 300,000 horses.

"Poof." At this time, Lu Tang snorted and laughed, pinched his sharp throat and said: "This silk production needs silk, and the entire Daming can only raise silkworms in Jiangnan, and the 300,000 pieces of silk woven this year are barely enough?" No amount of it can be knitted. ”

"Princess-in-law, do you have any good way to produce silk in Hangzhou weaving?"

Wang Zhan'er was speechless by Lu Tang, he really hadn't calculated this account.

"I'm a rough person who doesn't understand what silk is all about, silk doesn't have it, porcelain and tea should always be enough, right?" Xiao Changming patted his thigh and said.

"Porcelain? Tea? Lu Tang laughed: "Let's not talk about porcelain, let's talk about this tea, you may not have read the newspaper much, but it doesn't matter, today we happen to sit here on a business trip back from the northwest tea tour." ”

He leaned back slightly, revealing Jiang Banxia sitting on one side.

Jiang Banxia was neither humble nor arrogant: "Coincidentally, I just returned to Beijing from a tea tour in the northwest next summer, and it was Yang Yiqing and Lord Yang with me. ”

As soon as Yang Yiqing's name came out, everyone in the conference hall straightened their waists, this person is very famous, and the reason why he is famous is that he is unlucky.

"I'm a military attache below, with a straight temperament, and if you have anything to say, just say it directly."

Jiang Banxia said directly: "Last year, the drought in Shu was still there, the people were struggling to eat, they couldn't eat enough and didn't warm up, no one planted tea, and this year there were natural disasters to reduce tea production in various places. ”

"And that's not the main thing." After speaking, she immediately smiled: "Everyone should have heard of the death of several tea horses along the tea horse road in Hezhou, and they must know what they died for." ”

She didn't make it clear, those people were very greedy, and all the tea leaves used by the Tea and Horse Division to send Yi Ma were stolen and replaced, and the good ones were sold to profit-seeking merchants, and the bad ones stayed to send the Fan clan.

For many years, those Fan tribes exchanged good horses for inferior tea, and naturally did not want to convince the imperial court, and in the long run, the border relations were deadlocked, and the smuggling crime was repeatedly prohibited.

So where is the surplus tea that can be sold to the West?

Once again, the entire chamber fell into a dead silence.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the subordinate officials have a plan." Jiang Banxia suddenly spoke, her voice was between a woman and a teenager, a little gentle and low hoarse, listening to the nasal voice seemed to be infected with the wind cold, but listening to it in the ears was extraordinarily reassuring.

All eyes fell on her, expecting mixed emotions to fill the entire council hall.

Jiang Banxia stared at the tea cup on the table and said slowly: "Yesterday, the lower officials went out of the city to inspect, and the caves where the displaced people lived were ten holes and nine empty, and those who starved to death and froze to death, the tragic situation is difficult to describe. ”

"Disaster relief has to be urgent, the court has no silver, no food, and the people also have no money, so where is this silver?" Her eyes crossed the faces of the people: "Not in the officials, not in the people, can anyone tell me where the silver went?" ”