Chapter 336: Food (Subscription Requested)

Bloody mouth!

This is the response of the head of the household to the eldest master, and nothing else has been said.

Say what?

Do you want him to be a dignified household secretary, and the cabinet elder is like a shrew, and he and the eldest lord are exposing each other's shortcomings at the court meeting?

He can't afford to gamble, he's not as crazy as the old man!

It seems that the eldest lord himself really doesn't have any big stains to criticize, but the head of the household is not sure that he can make himself retreat, and the civil officials can mix to his level, and the bottom of the ass must not be clean, it depends on how much black material the eldest master has.

He didn't have the courage to bet that the big man didn't know too much, what if the big man mastered too much black material, did he have to resign directly and tell the old man?

Besides, the unspoken rules of the household department were not made by him, even if he wants to investigate thoroughly in anger today, do you know what it means to not be accountable to the public?

He is a cultivated person, and he is not at all happy to toss with an uneducated vulgar nobleman like the eldest master, and he will feel good after offending the household.

This court meeting ended in the angry exchange between the head of the household and the eldest master, which made the courtiers take a good look at the excitement and jokes.

After the next court, the eldest lord directly returned to the house with a ticket of guards, directly took out the million taels of silver left in the secret vault, and sent it all the way to the household department.

At the same time, the Shuanghou of the Shi family and the core clan of the Wang family also escorted the full amount of silver to the household without concealing it at all, putting on a posture of advancing and retreating with the eldest master.

Such a scene caused a sensation in the entire capital.

The household official accepted the money with a cold face and handed back the IOUs in his hand to the three major families.

The next day, Jia Jing, who rushed back from Xuanzhenguan outside the city after hearing the news, also escorted 800,000 taels of silver to the household department, and immediately went out of the city to continue cultivating immortals after retrieving the IOU.

Everyone was shocked by the decisive performance of the four major families in Jinling.

Nima really wouldn't be in a group, and in order to fight with the head of the household, he actually took out nearly three million taels of silver in one go to pay off the arrears.

What a pride!

Because of the quarrel between the eldest lord and the head of the household, I thought that the eldest lord was forced, and the anger in my heart was caused by it, and I didn't suspect that this was deliberately done by the eldest lord.

After listening to the 'rumors' of the eldest master, he can't trust the household department today, and directly let the internal affairs government take over this huge amount of silver, and he doesn't plan to let the household department interfere in disaster relief at all.

At this time, the blow to the household department is not small.

The right to distribute three million taels of silver is a lot of fat, even if you don't take money directly from it, you can get enough benefits just by exchanging benefits with the yamen next to it.

But now that all the people are running away, the head of the household is still having to fight hard to the present, and the result is naturally no good result, making the household angry enough, and naturally gritting his teeth with hatred for the eldest master.

The old man and the old god were unmoved, and after paying off the arrears, he did not continue to toss in a high-profile manner, but honestly worked in the Ministry of Industry.

The continuous heavy snow in the north has increased the power of the snow disaster, and the number of displaced people gathered outside the capital has increased day by day, and the whole capital has become nervous.

After the number of displaced people outside the city reaches a certain level, it is enough to threaten the stability of the capital.

If it is not appeased, it is likely to trigger a riot of hundreds of thousands of displaced people, which is not a joke, and it may lead to a tragedy of bloodshed.

Now with three million taels of silver in his hand, he is confident that he will solve this trouble.

A large amount of silver was sprinkled, and the victims outside the city were quickly calmed down, and at the same time, Jingying and Suncheonfu jointly stepped up patrols to stabilize the order of the homeless camps outside the city.

There is just one problem, and the food consumption of millions of victims is a staggering figure.

Although the imperial court has never used food for disaster relief, it is also afraid that the victims will make trouble after they are full, and the general rations of the victims are not enough to make them full, and it would be good to even have a fifty percent full.

But even so, the capital itself has a population of one million, and the amount of food consumed is astronomical.

At first, it was okay, the granary of the government was abundant and the price was stable, but after a long time, the price of grain began to rise, and the rate of increase suddenly accelerated after the silver in hand today.

"Bastards, all of them are a bunch of bastards!"

The sudden rise in grain prices in the capital, and the increase is not small, Xiuyiwei reported the situation for the first time, and immediately made the current angry enough.

But the report after the head of the household department made it possible to really have the urge to kill people today.

"Your Majesty, there is not much grain in the granary, and it can only barely supply the capital for more than half a month!"

Qian Shangshu made a bitter face and reported hard: "If the grain from outside can't be transported in, something big will happen!" ”

"How so?"

Now he was shocked and angry, and asked: "Is the granary in the capital insufficient to store enough grain for half a year?" ”

"This ......"

Qian Shangshu kept his mouth shut, his face was full of bitterness, and the fool knew what was going on.

"What's the matter, there's a problem with the grain in the granary of the government?"

Now his heart was murderous, and he asked in a cold voice: "Where did the food go?" ”

Feeling today's killing intent, Qian Shangshu didn't dare to hide it and hurriedly told the situation, this matter really has nothing to do with him, of course, a crime of dereliction of duty can't escape.

No one expected that the weather in the north would be so cold this year, and the heavy snow would not stop, causing great problems in the traffic between the capital and the outside.

The canal was frozen and could not be navigated, and the official road was frozen so stiff that it was quite difficult to travel, which meant that if the materials from outside wanted to be transported to the capital, they had to pay a huge price to do so.

This time, some things that were originally hidden in the secret were completely exposed.

For example, the official warehouse under the control of the household department, the old grain in it has long been sold to the grain merchants at a very low price by the officials below, and the silver is almost spent, so where can they conjure up the grain?

However, there can be no problem with the food of the people in the capital and the food of the millions of displaced people outside the city, otherwise the capital will be in turmoil, and the household department will be bloody.

Qian Shangshu almost fainted when he got the report from the people below, seeing that the food in the official warehouse had reached a very dangerous situation, if he didn't report it again, once it was discovered today, he would probably lose his head.

Why should others be held most responsible for their mistakes?

Although he knew that it would cause great dissatisfaction today, Qian Shangshu still came over to report this bad news, at least he had to take himself out first.

"Arrest, arrest all the officials who embezzled grain, and not a single one can be spared!"

Today, his eyes are so angry that his eyes are full of fire, and his hideous face directly determines the future of those officials, and he coldly glanced at Qian Shangshu and said, "What solution do you have?" ”

Qian Shangshu lowered his head and said, "Please Your Majesty call the Huangzhuang grain storage to tide over the difficulties!" ”

your horse, you know the idea of hitting the royal estate!

Today, I am so angry that I grit my teeth, I am really unhappy with officials like Qian Shangshu, I don't do it all day long just staring at his inner library, and now I still want to fight the idea of Huangzhuang, it is simply unreasonable!

It's not that he is reluctant, but this kind of atmosphere must not be indulged, otherwise whatever happens in the future, the royal family will have to pay for it and pay for it, and what will the officials in the court do?

"It's only right to recover all the grain sold by the official warehouse first!"

Today, he didn't take Qian Shangshu's stubble at all, and said coldly: "Such a large sum of grain will be gone if it is gone, I want to see who has such great ability and ability!" ”

Qian Shangshu's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he opened his mouth to persuade him not to come nonsense today, but in the end he didn't say anything.

The palace has no impermeable walls!

Qian Shangshu reported the shortage of food to the present day, and it spread throughout the capital on the same day.

The price of grain in Beijing has been tumbling upwards at a jaw-dropping rate, more than doubling in just a few hours, which is simply overwhelming.

Then the embroidered guards went out and directly seized the most famous grain stores in the capital, confiscated all the grain stored in the store, and at the same time captured all the grain merchants in the grain store, and took down the granaries in their hands.

Suddenly, there was a lot of noise in the capital, no one expected that today's methods would be so decisive, and they didn't reason with the people below at all, and directly showed their fists to swing horizontally, so that the real proprietors behind those grain merchants did not dare to act rashly.

In the current capital, there is no Prince Zhongshun and King Yizhong to mention them, and the body of the Emperor Taishang is not as good as day by day, and it is difficult to see each other, let alone stand up for some people.

Among the grain stores that were seized, several belonged to the Xue family.

When the news reached Aunt Xue's ears, she was so frightened that she hurriedly summoned Xue Baochai to discuss, and at the same time, Xue Pan, who was in charge of affairs outside the house, also called over to discuss together.

"How's that okay?"

When a pair of children arrived, she said anxiously: "How is this good? ”

The loss of a few grain stores is nothing, the key is that it was Xiuyi Wei who directly seized the grain store this time, it was the emperor's pro-army, who knows what happened inside?

"Mother, don't worry!"

Xue Baochai calmly analyzed: "Let our people inquire about what is going on first, and then it's not too late for us to make plans!" ”

turned around and said to Xue Pan: "Big brother, I have to go out to find out about the situation!" ”

"Done!"

Xue Pan got up directly and said, "I'll go out to find out about the situation!" ”

Saying that, he strode out of the Lixiang Courtyard, without alarming the people in the Rongguo Mansion, and left directly through the small door connecting the Lixiang Courtyard and the outside.

Not long after, this guy ran back in a panic, and his face was extremely ugly.

"Mother is not good, this time my family is afraid that we will cause trouble!"

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Aunt Xue hurriedly speak, "What a damn!" ”

"What's wrong, what's wrong, why is it in such a hurry?"

Aunt Xue was dissatisfied: "What a disaster, our family didn't do anything bad!" ”

"It's the steward outside who is causing trouble!"

Xue Pan looked depressed and said unhappily: "They actually colluded with the officials who managed the warehouse to purchase a large amount of official grain at a low price. ”