The next day, when he got up in the morning, Xiao Man felt that his body was sore, and after looking at Xiao Man's lazy appearance, Lu Li smiled.

"Sure enough, I haven't been with my wife for too long, and my wife's body is not good."

Hearing Lu Li make fun of himself like this, Xiao Man's face immediately turned red, and he pushed Lu Li out of bed and stopped talking to him.

Lu Li put on his clothes, although he had a very pleasant time with Xiaoman last night, but he knew that the world outside the tent was not so happy.

Sure enough, his subordinates immediately reported to him.

"General, the plague is spreading so fast, nearly twice as many people as yesterday."

Hearing this, Lu Li sighed, this plague is most likely to occur in the place where the victims gather, throughout the ages, whenever there is a plague, it is a great disaster for the country, but it is not so easy to cure the plague.

"You go and separate the sick from the refugees, set up huts for the sick so that no one can enter, and the clothes they wear with the things they have used are immediately burned with fire."

"Yes!"

The soldiers were ordered to do it at a trot.

Seeing Lu Li standing there, some refugees rushed up, to say that yesterday they were forced by Lu Li's majesty, but today they thought that their lives were almost gone, and they just wanted to vent their grievances.

Their saliva kept spraying on Lu Li's face, and Lu Li felt that he couldn't open his eyes, only to see their hands trembling and pointing at him.

"It's this corrupt official, he not only talked about the money we used to build the river embankment, but they also flooded our fields."

"That's him!"

The more the refugees talked, the more excited they became, and even picked up the stones under their feet and began to throw them at Lu Li, Lu Li's martial arts practice since childhood This stone is naturally nothing to him, but the resentful eyes of these refugees are what he does not want to see, like a needle pierced into his heart, difficult to recover.

Seeing Lu Li being tossed by the refugees like this, Xiao Man immediately walked in front of him, hugged Lu Li and blocked many stones for him, Xiao Man's body was weak, and his face became red immediately after being hit by a few stones, Lu Li touched Xiao Man's face painfully, and said to those refugees, "What are you coming at me, don't hit my wife." ”

These refugees snorted coldly, "You and your wife are the same dog, you took so much silver from us, but now you came to save us with those fake steamed buns, do you think your conscience is okay?" ”

Hearing them slander themselves like this, Xiao Man was naturally unhappy.

"What's the hypothesis? If we had pretended to be hiding in the capital a long time ago, who would care about you, and if one of the magnates in the city of Shangjing would come out to pay attention to you? On the contrary, Lu Li is here to accompany you and guard you, and Lu Li has never been involved in the construction of the river embankment, what does he have to do with him as a general? The matter of flooding the fields is not what he thinks, you must polish your eyes and distinguish right from wrong! ”

Hearing Xiao Man say this, the refugees began to gradually discuss, "It seems that this is indeed the case, they have been here for two days, whether it is the emperor or the ministers in the city, no one wants to come out to take care of them." ”

'Yes, the yamen took care of themselves and closed the city gate, only this General Lu has been presiding over the work outside the city, and Mrs. Lu has brought so much food from the city to everyone, everyone seems to be really wrong to blame them! ’

"Mrs. Lu, we were wrong at the time, don't be surprised, we also listened to what others said to think that this was the truth."

"That thing you heard. I'm afraid that the real murderer wants to hide people's eyes, so he deliberately spreads the news."

The villagers nodded one after another, seeing that Su Xiaoman and Lu Li had the intention of saving them, so they immediately knelt down and pulled the corners of their trouser skirts.

"Mrs. Lu, General Lu, please save us. If this only one spreads further, we will definitely not survive, so let the emperor send a doctor to treat us. ”

Even if the villagers are so bitterly pleading. Lu Li is also helpless, not to mention that he can't see the emperor now and can't even pass the letters, I'm afraid, even if he sees the emperor, the emperor may not pay attention to these refugees.

Lu Li was unwilling to tell them such a cruel truth, so he could only persuade everyone.

"Don't worry, the emperor will make his decision soon, don't worry."

Hearing Lu Li say this, there was also a hope in the hearts of the refugees, and they all gathered at the city gate to wait for the emperor's relief materials.

In the city, Sharia and King Shen visited the mansions of the magnates in Shangjing, but at this time they all regarded Sharia and King Shen as if they were ghosts.

This was originally due to the plague and the destruction of the fields in Jiangnan, the rise in prices, the doubling of their own expenses, and the extra spare money to take care of the refugees.

Sharia and King Shen were given a small amount of money in a perfunctory manner, and the refugees could not eat enough for a meal.

There was no way for Sharia to go to King Ning's mansion, and after King Ning heard about this, he naturally donated generously and almost emptied his own family.

Seeing King Ning's heart-wrenching help to Sharia, Tang Jian naturally wanted to come out to stop it.

"His Royal Highness King Ning, all this wealth will be accumulated for the future to compete for the throne in the future, if you use it all to help the victims at this time, what will we buy in the future - officials buy people's hearts?"

Hearing Tang Jian say this, King Ning had a different opinion, and saw that his expression was like that of a scheming fox.

"Mr. Tang, you are wrong in what you said, although we do have a loss in front of us, but the benefits brought to us by this matter are immeasurable."

What does His Royal Highness King Ning mean?

"Now the royal brother is reluctant to go out of the city for disaster relief, let alone let any doctor go to the clinic. If the people knew that the emperor brother was such an emperor, he would definitely lose the hearts of the people, and at this time I was using all my money to save the people, and they must have thought of my good in their hearts. ”

"In the future, when I win the throne, there will naturally be loyal people to support me, so why should I use money to buy people's hearts."

Tang Jian didn't expect that King Ning had already had such a city in just a few days, and it seemed that he misunderstood that King Ning had given so much disaster relief funds for the sake of Saria.

Tang Jian misunderstood. His Royal Highness King Ning has a long-term vision, and Tang admires it. ”

King Ning smiled, this can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone, it can not only win favor in front of Sharia but also buy the people, I have to say that this plague came very timely.

After Salia got King Ning's money, she naturally wanted to buy grain, but she didn't expect that no rice shop in the capital was willing to sell her.

This made her very embarrassed, His Royal Highness King Shen, why don't you even sell rice in the capital, you must know that such a thing can be bought in any small market in our Western Regions.

Even if King Shen has not lived in Shangjing since he was a child, he naturally knows that Shangjing is the core location of Donglan Kingdom, and it is impossible to have such a thing as not selling grain, and someone must be obstructing it.

"Sister Sharia, I think it's absolutely impossible for us to buy rice from these ordinary shops."

"If you don't buy it in a regular store, where are you going to buy it?"

"I think all this rice should be hidden in Lord Liu's house."

Hearing these three words, Saria was obviously angry, and her hand tightly grasped the gold leaf that King Ning gave her, and the body temperature on her body seemed to be able to melt the gold leaf.

"He's him again? You said that old thief, he is dying, why do you eat so much rice! ”

King Shen sighed, Salia is the princess of the Western Regions, or is she too naïve to understand how these people in the Central Plains are intrigued, and now that Lord Liu has taken away all the grain, he naturally wants to sell it at a high price, and after making a lot of money, he can enjoy the blessings of the old man and return to his hometown.

"Anyway, Xiaoman is still waiting for our food, let's go to Lord Liu now to ask for clarification."

The two of them came to Lord Liu's mansion, Lord Liu naturally knew that they were here for food, Shari had never seen Lord Liu, but after listening to Xiao Man and Lu Li's narration, and then looking at his treacherous face, he had no good impression of him, and he was very disgusted in his heart.

"Lord Liu, I heard that you have a lot of grain in your house, I wonder if you can sell some to us?"

"Lord Liu laughed, His Royal Highness King Shen just said that he was joking, how could I not give it if King Shen wanted to buy food."

Seeing Lord Liu's smug expression, King Shen guessed that he would definitely offer a sky-high price, although he was prepared in his heart, but he didn't expect that the price that Lord Liu said still made him untenable.

After listening to the price that Lord Liu said, Salia almost punched him.

Are you sick? You're almost 20 times higher than the market price!

Lord Liu picked up the tea bowl in his hand and took a sip slowly, not caring about the noble status of Sharia and King Shen, and didn't even give a cup of tea.

"Princess, you have been in the Western Regions, I don't know the market of our Central Plains goods, and now there is a flood in the south of the Yangtze River, when there is a shortage of food, and things are scarce and expensive, and the price is naturally going to rise."

"But it can't rise so outrageously, if you want to say three times or four times, who can afford twenty times?"

"Didn't the princess ask knowingly? Naturally, the only one who can afford it is the princess, and the old man knows that the princess has just scraped together a lot of money from King Ning, doesn't he? ”

Saria didn't expect Lord Liu to be so well-informed, even he knew that she had taken the money from King Ning's mansion, but King Ning was giving her money to help the victims, so she couldn't use it for nothing.

Buying 20 times more expensive grain from Lord Liu can only make the victims last for a week, and buying ordinary rice can feed the victims outside for a month and a half, which is too big a gap.

"But Lord Liu, if I tell the imperial brother about your behavior of buying grain and raising prices, I'm afraid you won't have any good fruit to eat."

King Shen naturally thought of using his identity as a prince to suppress this Lord Liu, but he didn't expect Lord Liu to look down on him at all, and he didn't eat soft and hard, but he was just a prince who was not favored, and he had the face to show off his power here.