Chapter 15: Bo Yunlang
Before painting, Su Yiyao instructed the green pothos to send the letter she had written earlier to the little marquis Bo Yunlang of the Guangping Palace, she remembered that this Bo Yunlang was also a rare talent, and he was also loyal to the country, at that time, it coincided with the country's continuous disasters, there was famine in the north, floods in the south, and the people were struggling to make a living.
At that time, Mu Changge was very anxious, and summoned the important ministers of the court to stay in the imperial study all day and night to discuss countermeasures, and the ministers had actually discussed countermeasures a long time ago, but this countermeasure needed to bear the responsibility of Liangzi, so no one wanted to say it.
In fact, this countermeasure is very simple, that is, to send ministers to inspect the various places affected by the disaster, and supervise the various government offices as the ministers of the Imperial Mission, after all, the silver money and rice sent by the imperial court have been countless, and they are almost about to empty the entire treasury, but the disaster situation has not diminished in the slightest, and the disaster situation is reported every day and needs to be allocated by the national treasury, and how much of the silver money and rice grain sown down is really to help the people? This layer of filial piety, and so on to the people, can have a rice money, the people can have a mouth to eat is not easy, they don't know how many such things have been experienced, but this phenomenon is inevitable and cannot be changed, the emperor also had such a situation in the world, at that time I don't know how many embezzled the treasury sown relief money and rice, can it be useful? Maybe it's really a little useful, it's only half a year, and it's a good way to set an example, but it's still useless to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and those who should be greedy are still greedy.
Our court's attention to the Yellow River cannot be said to be unimportant.
However, in order to be able to make more money, river defense officials will even expect the Yellow River to break every year. However, the imperial court is not a fool, in order to put an end to the corruption and selfishness in the river affairs, the imperial court stipulates that every time the Yellow River bursts, the money and grain consumed by the blockage, the imperial court only takes out fifty percent of the money, and the remaining fifty percent, river defense officials at all levels pay for it themselves. The original intention of the imperial court was to hope that the river defense officials would fulfill their duties, and as long as the Yellow River did not break its mouth, the imperial court finances and river defense officials did not have to pay.
However, the Yellow River should not be flooded every year, and the river control is only a passive blockage, and even if the river defense officials go into battle shirtless, the Yellow River will still burst. What's more, in order to circumvent the imperial court's river control policy and not pay money, river defense officials at all levels will lie about the disaster every time the Yellow River bursts. Don't think that the disaster information is small, every time they report the disaster in a big way. In this way, not only do the river defense officials not have to pay money, but they can also make a lot of money from the imperial court's river control allocation.
This is all a helpless thing, it has always been like this, natural disasters and man-made disasters.
Although they are ministers of the DPRK and China, they are also powerless.
Then Bo Yunlang, who was far away on the frontier, returned triumphantly, and heard that the drought and flood of the Ming Kingdom occurred together, and when he returned to the court, he also personally prevented a farce from the continuous victims.
The food in the city is exhausted, and there are two families who can't bear to eat their children who are about to starve to death, but in order to survive, the fathers of the two families want to exchange their sons for their own food, but the child's mother is unwilling, this farce happened to be seen by Bo Yunlang, who returned to Beijing, so Bo Yunlang went to see what happened, and listened to the soldiers explain the general situation.
He was so angry that he said three words in a row.
"Nonsense, nonsense, just nonsense!" Bo Yunlang was really angry, there would be someone in this world who gave his son to others to eat, and was eating that person's son, which is obviously a tragedy in the world.
The people in the outfield saw that Bo Yunlang was dressed in military uniform, which was unspeakably expensive, and immediately knelt down and cried and chanted: "Adult, we can't help it, we are too hungry, we are too hungry, the child is about to starve to death, we have no choice, please save us, please, please."
The people present were all victims, some old and some young, all of them were yellow and thin, skinny and skinny, and some of the mothers holding the baby in their hands bit their fingers and tasted the baby in their arms drink their own blood, and the stomach of the child who was not yet Bo Yunlang's waist was propped up by something called Guanyin soil as if it were stuffed into a bamboo basket.
How so? He wrote to his father a few days ago, and he knew that there was a flood, but in the letter, his father said that the treasury had sown 6 million taels of silver for relief of the flood victims!
What's going on here?
Bo Yunlang hurriedly asked, "Didn't you receive the relief silver grain from the imperial court?" The Holy Lord has already broadcast millions of taels of silver in the treasury, which should be more than enough! ”
"My lord, we haven't received a penny or a steamed bun! The official in our county closes the door of the government, my lord! How many folks starved to death in our hometown! We didn't have a way to leave our hometown and come here, but we didn't think it would be the same here! The victims burst into tears and complained about the poor officials of this government, but in Bo Yunlang's opinion, they were even complaining about the incompetence of the court.
Bo Yunlang was also an extremely rational person, but he couldn't be rational when he saw this.
How can it be ignored if the child is fed and fed the mother's blood?
Bo Yunlang instructed his soldiers to distribute the surplus grain, as long as there was enough grain and grass for them to return to Beijing, and the rest was distributed to the victims.
I don't know whether he is happy or sad, he used military rations to help the victims, and where did the millions of taels of silver in his father's letter go?
You must know that if you use millions of taels to buy grain, then the grain can fill the entire capital! How can the victims of the disaster be eaten!
It's a pity that corrupt officials are rampant in my Ming country, and the people have suffered! It's sad and sad!
Su Yiyao still remembers the year, the Su family was sentenced to be beheaded all over the house, the ministers of the court and the central government were afraid of provoking the fire, and they all avoided her Su family, only this Guangping prince died to vouch for the entire Su Mansion, so Mu Changge also sentenced the Guangping prince Bo Yunlang to form a party for personal gain, gave him a trumped-up charge, copied the entire Guangping Palace, and exiled the people in the palace to the frontier as slaves, and Bo Yunlang was sentenced to behead for public display with the Su family.
Mu Changge killed all the fathers who worked hard for the Ming Kingdom
In her previous life, Su Yiyao had always been grateful to Bo Yunlang in her heart.
"Eh, Lord Wang, this competition is not over yet, why do you want to take this first prize!"
The prince also fell in love with this Su Yiyao, this little girl is good, I don't know how much higher than the concubines in his own house, it is not a level at all, he has also heard the wife of the family mention this Su Yiyao, his father and mother are not around, the family is in charge of Su Zhenghao's concubine room, and the concubine room is not a good thing, it is nothing more than to see Su Yiyao's concubine unpleasant.