Meng Lanqing continued: "In Jingtian County, the water has reached the waist of the people, and nearly half of the 7,000 catties of rice and 10,000 catties of grain stored in the rice shop are soaked in water. ”

Jing Jing didn't care much about how much property she had lost, and she could earn and buy it again when her property was gone, she just cared: "How are the people in the shop?" You okay? ”

Meng Lanqing said: "Jingtian County is a little far away from the Shihe River, everyone has run to the roof to take refuge when the water comes, and there are no casualties in the rice shop." ”

"That's good." Quietly nodded, exhaled a long breath, and then said: "There has been such a big disaster, the imperial court should send officials to come to the disaster relief, right?" ”

Meng Lanqing said: "This matter has been urgently reported for eight hundred miles, and it is estimated that it will take two days for the emperor to know." ”

Quiet: "This ancient means of communication and transportation is really too slow!

"Then when will the emperor allocate money for disaster relief?" Quiet asked.

"If the emperor allocates grain money and sends people to relieve the disaster as soon as he sees the urgent report, it will take time to open the treasury to collect grain money and come, and it should take a month and a half at the earliest." Meng Lanqing replied truthfully.

"Can the people of Jingtian County wait for a month and a half? They were all starving to death! "Quiet unbelievable.

Meng Lanqing said again: "If the emperor sees the emergency report and immediately orders the grain to be released nearby, it will only take about seven days." ”

Now the emperor does not know about this, it will take two days to know, if he sends someone 800 li to expedite the decree to release grain nearby, it will take three or four days to expedite from the imperial capital to Jingtian County, and it will indeed take about seven days.

"Seven days, now there is water everywhere in Jingtian County, and the people are cold and hungry, can they survive for seven days?" I don't know what to say when I'm quiet, human life is at stake, so many people!

Meng Lanqing said: "Without the emperor's order, no one in the nearest official warehouse would dare to open the grain. ”

At this time, Xiao Changyi took out his token and threw it to Meng Lanqing, and said: "Let the counties near Jingtian County immediately open warehouses for disaster relief, if the old man is to blame, I will bear it." ”

"Yes!"

On the second day, Meng Lanqing came again, saying that the food in the official warehouses of the counties near Jingtian County was not enough for disaster relief, and it could last for five or six days at most.

Jing Jing frowned: "Why is this food so small?" ”

Meng Lanqing said: "Last month, most of the grain in the official warehouses was handed over to the state treasury, and it is waiting to be filled with tax grain this autumn. ”

Quietly sighed: "Then we can only wait for my father-in-law to allocate grain from the treasury." After a pause, "How much rice and grain are in our family's rice shop?" ”

Meng Lanqing: "Counting the soaked rice and grain in Jingtian County, the two rice shops have a total of 70,000 catties of grain and 30,000 catties of rice.

Jing Jing didn't say anything immediately, but looked at Xiao Changyi: "Xianggong"

Xiao Changyi said: "Do what you want." ”

Only then did he say to Meng Lanqing: "The soaked rice and grain in Jingtian County should not be moldy, as for those that are not soaked, they must also be trendy, you take advantage of the fact that they are not moldy, and quickly let people boil them into porridge and distribute them to those people to eat, so that they can spend one more day." ”

"Also," Jing Jing continued, "we have left 1,000 catties of grain and rice in the rice shop in Hecheng County, and the rest will be used for disaster relief, hoping that the people of Jingtian County can survive until the day when the national treasury provides disaster relief food." ”