Chapter 126: Disaster
Renault was in a daze every day, thinking about his own thoughts, and suddenly noticed that the room was much quieter. At the beginning, Renault was in a daze, and the people around him would be light-hearted, but after a long time, he found that Lei Shi was in a daze, and he didn't care about this, and the people around him were much more comfortable.
There aren't many times like today's when it's quiet. Mo Xiang is better, Huya is not an honest master, and he is unwilling to leave Renault too far, so there will always be some movement inside and outside the house.
Fortunately, Renault really doesn't care, as long as the sound is not too loud, but feels more comfortable. It's like a person sleeping with the TV on, obviously loud, but he can sleep very soundly, turn off the TV, but wake up all of a sudden.
Looking up, it turned out to be the ninth princess Yihe, this princess's life is not very good, but after all, she is a princess, and there should be a lot of spectrum, at least two female officials are followed by her, and everywhere she goes, people like Huya and Moxiang unconsciously feel a strong sense of oppression.
"What's the matter?" asked Renault, Princess Yihe was his maid, but he never took it seriously, and he didn't care too much about Da Chu's rules. If she is willing to learn, Renault is willing to teach, and how much she can learn is her business, and Renault will not take the initiative to teach.
Princess Yihe bowed down and actually knelt.
"Get up, have something to say. Renault's face sank, he already understood a lot of the rules of Da Chu, on weekdays, the people and officials did not need to kneel, let alone a noble princess.
Don't think that if a princess kneels down to you, your heart will be happy, and then you will inflate yourself, that is looking for death, so that the princess can put down her noble body and do this great gift, what she asks for will definitely not be small.
On the surface, Renault has integrated into the circle of secret masters, but this circle is too small, including him Renault, there are only three people. And how to position the secret master, until now, Renault is not sure.
Respect for this art is not serious, when you respect you, you are a celebrity, if you don't respect you, you are nothing.
It is said that there was a secret master who was killed in the previous dynasty, and although that country was punished later, Renaud, with his modern heart, was never willing to pin his hopes on others.
Besides, death is dead, even if revenge is useless. It's a similar thing to life insurance, you have to pay the insurance company when you're alive, and you have to pay the insurance company when you're dead. But you're all dead, and no amount of money is meaningless to the dead.
"Sir, last year, many places were affected by disasters, and there were great rivers dancing, and the court spent a lot of money to help the people. This year, many places have been hit by disasters, and in winter it has snowed heavily, and the treasury is empty. My father was in poor health, worried about the people, but he had no food or money, he didn't know how to eat, and he couldn't sleep at night. ”
Well, Renaud knows about this, not to mention last year's events, there seem to be a lot of natural disasters in Dachu this year, a few days ago, the displaced people have arrived in Shengjingluo City, it is conceivable that the scope of this disaster is quite large.
Murphy and Mozi sisters and brothers came to the vicinity of Shengjing with the displaced people, and in order to survive, they could only exchange the secret book handed down by their ancestors for a way to live.
"Mr. Yi Heqiu, help my father. Princess Yihe knelt down and continued.
Displaced people, disasters!
Renaud smiled bitterly, such a big thing, he can't resist it. Besides, he hasn't understood the position of the secret master yet, and even if he has some ideas, he can only think about it in his own head, and he doesn't dare to say it at all. No matter what dynasty, politics is very complicated, don't think that if you are kind, you can do good things.
"Yihe, you better get up and talk. Can the two seniors of Bai and Huo know about this?" Renault asked, it was really not him who pushed and delayed, and there were two veteran secret masters, Renault didn't dare to take the lead easily, let's take a look first.
Of course, Renault didn't feel the pain of his skin, the homeless, the disaster or anything, he had only seen it on the news, any country would go all out to provide disaster relief, and countries that were unable to provide disaster relief also had federations to contribute, and basically there would be no starvation to death.
There are a lot of them in the history books, and what Renault can remember, just a sentence of easy eating is quite scary, but no one has ever seen it.
"My cousin has begged Master Bai, and Master Bai is already thinking of a way, ...... for the time being" Yihe said this, and did not continue, the secret master has been mythologized in the minds of the Great Chu people, and Yihe does not want to say that Master Bai is powerless.
"Huya, go and see what the two seniors Bai and Huo are busy with. ”
Half an hour later, Bai Jing and Flame sat in Renault's study, the results of the telephone test were not very ideal, there were too many noises, the signal was exhausted, and it was already inaudible from a kilometer away. The effect of the telegram is very good, but it is too troublesome, so far, Bai Jing has not completed the compilation of the telegram secret codebook, so the telegram can only carry out simple communication.
Renault also knew that with the increase in the distance of the telegraph line, there was also the problem of signal failure, and without the support of the relay station and the strong power system, even if it was weak, it would not be able to play.
"Two seniors, I don't know what you two think about the disasters and displaced people mentioned by Yihe?" Renault asked tentatively, it's no problem to engage in scientific research with them, disaster relief is not just about saving people, it's troublesome.
"Naturally, if you can save it, you can save it, but this thing is ...... It's not easy, although we two old guys have some savings in our hands, but it's a drop in the bucket, and we can't even solve our urgent needs. Bai Jing shook his head and said, disaster relief has never been the main business of the secret master, not to mention that even if you want to save it, you are powerless.
The secret master is not an immortal, and he can't conjure money and food out of thin air, and their living needs and research are all from the worship of Dachu.
"Is it convenient for us to help the disaster?" Renault wanted to know not about that, but what the mystic could do, and what he couldn't touch.
Renault's thinking is naturally different from that of the Great Chu people, the so-called detachment sounds good, but it is not unconditional. You stretch out your hand to try, believe it or not, and every minute makes you transcendent and transcendent.
After hearing this, the two secret masters were stunned for a few breaths, a smile appeared in their eyes, and Bai Jing said: "Naturally, it is convenient, and it is okay to be with people." ”
As long as it doesn't get in the way of others, this ......
Brain pain, disaster relief will involve money and food, fools know that it involves a lot of money and food, how can it not hinder others?
"Two seniors, in this city, can there be enough rice and grain?" Renault thought for a moment and asked, money is easy to solve, food is difficult to do, this is not the earth, the low grain production makes people desperate, plus transportation is also a problem, no wonder Emperor Chu can't eat well and can't sleep, it's almost the same for whoever comes.
Renault's question, with a little skill, was that there was enough rice in the city, not the court. The rice and grain in the court is the national treasury, or the state-owned grain depot, which must be insufficient, and maybe all the rats will starve to death.
If the Great Chu treasury has enough rice and grain, do you still need to worry?
The poverty of the country does not mean that the people of the country are poor, especially in the relatively backward era, they attach great importance to food, not only the state attaches great importance to it, but also the large squires attach more importance to it.
Not to mention others, in the Shengong Temple where Renault is located, there is quite a lot of grain in stock, not to mention the piles, it is almost the same. I learned from Huya that there are 12 warehouses of grain stored in the Shengong Palace, and this warehouse is a volume unit, one hundred quintals. That is to say, in the Shengong Temple, there are 1,200 loads of grain, and one load of 100 catties, which is more than 100,000 catties of grain. Compared to the population of the Shrine, that's a lot.
But if these grains are used for disaster relief and release food, forget it, I'm afraid it won't even be enough for the hungry people. Da Chu is very backward, there is not enough oil and water, a man in the prime of life, there are not a few people who eat rice for a meal, and these grains are not enough to cook porridge for a disaster.
Luocheng is Shengjing, the political, military, cultural, and economic center of Great Chu, and there are many giant households, plus the nobles who have lords, and the food reserves of any family are far beyond the Shengong Palace, after all, the population is too different. More than 100,000 catties of grain, placed in large households with hundreds of thousands of people, will not be able to eat for long.
To sum up, Los Angeles should have food, but I don't know how much. Of course, even if you know that there is food, it is useless, and the food is heavy in disaster years, not expensive. It means that food is the most important in disaster years, and no one will sell it to you if you take the money.
Now there are three months left before the beginning of spring, plus five months of planting, and the next eight months will depend on these grains to survive. The Great Chu people have no culture, and they still understand this simple arithmetic.
Bai Jing shook his head: "It is impossible to have enough food, from ancient times to the present, I have never heard that when there is enough food, there will definitely be some surplus food." ”
Renault nodded slightly, understood, it's okay to help, but not much can help. Even if Renault didn't study finance, it would be easy to make money in a world like Da Chu, not to mention the support of the Chu Emperor and the court behind him.
Money can only solve a small part of the problem, and you must find an adequate source of food.
Looking for things, the God of Wealth is very good at it.
"Two seniors, see if this is okay, first use money to solve part of the food problem, and I will divinate again to see if there is any other way. Renault resolutely deducted the pot of the God of Wealth to divination.
"The treasury has no money. Suddenly there was another person in the room, white and pure, the flames had long been accustomed to it, Renault shuddered, and then he saw clearly that it was the Zhenguo Earth Immortal who had a relationship with him before, Chu An Wang Chu Xingyun, this King An, is really elusive.
Stabilizing his mind and taking a sip of tea to suppress his shock, Renault said indifferently: "Money is easy, Lei has two ways to get a large amount of money in the shortest possible time." ”
"Master Lei, please speak. Chu Xingyun's eyes lit up, Emperor Chu was not only worried about food, but also worried about money, and the ministers in the court were already in arrears for more than three months. Although most of these ministers' families do not live on salaries, there are always some net ministers who have to rely on salaries to support their families.
In the past month or so, there have been a lot of strange rumors below, and the enthusiasm of many ministers has obviously decreased.
Coupled with the Wuwang Mansion, he deliberately added fuel to the fire and made Emperor Chu more passive.