When the people saw the man coming, their hearts were reassured.

Cui Yuanting looked at the man, and saw that this person was dressed in civilian clothes, about forty years old, medium build, wearing a black gauze stiff head, a face with the word "by", a short beard, and a fierce look in his eyes - it was the county Cheng Jiang Tongfan.

Jiang Tongfan first saluted, and then said: "On the way down, I have heard that the county zun has dealt with the errand who abused the people today, and the county zun loves the people with a heart, and his subordinates admire it, but the grain that is often closed is now not available." ”

"Oh?" Cui Yuanting glanced at him lightly, "How do you say this?" ”

In the tea shed on the street opposite Mihang in East City, Chuyi County, Xu Lingfu was sitting in the corner and drinking tea with his head down. Several tables of guests sat scattered around, and the tea doctor with a cloth towel was busy before and after, boiling water and pouring tea, and casually greeting the regular customers.

An old man in gray frowned and walked into the tea shed, put the empty cloth bag in his hand on the table, and couldn't help but let out a sigh.

When Dr. Tea saw the old man, he walked over quickly, set up the tea bowl and poured tea: "Ge Weng, it seems that you haven't bought rice?" ”

The old man, known as "Ge Weng", took a big sip of tea, obviously thirsty.

"I didn't buy it, and I didn't open a few rice shops. Alas, even if it is opened, it is sad, now the price of rice is the same every day, and if it continues like this, the old decrepit family will be cut off! ”

Ge Weng's words drew echoes from the surrounding guests, "Who said it wasn't? Seeing that this bucket of rice has been bought for a thousand Wen, isn't this fatal? You must know that in the fourteenth year of Longping, the doumi is only twenty Wen, and it has only been a few years, and it has increased more than fifty times......"

"Can that be the same? During the Longping period, it was a prosperous era, which of firewood, rice, oil and salt was not cheap? ”

A tea guest with a silk head said: "Yes, but who would have thought that the good Great Xuan Dynasty would suddenly flourish and decline, and the counterinsurgency has been fought in the dark in recent years, and the people are not able to make a living, and now it is easy to calm down, stop fighting, but this rice can't afford it." ”

Dr. Tea hurriedly came over to pretend to wipe the table, and quietly reminded: "Everyone be cautious, be cautious!" ”

The tea guest who was stopped talking was dissatisfied: "Be cautious, that's what happened!" Anything else? I didn't say anything about our county, nor did I mention that Jiang County, who killed a thousand knives, colluded with Haoqiang, hoarded Juqi, and ran rampant in the county......"

Before he finished speaking, he was covered by the guests at the same table first, and the others also persuaded one after another: "Let's just scold the court, don't say this on this street, in case it is heard by those minions patrolling the street, you will have to bear it." ”

"That is, eat tea and eat tea......" Even Ge Weng echoed this, and under the persuasion of everyone, the guest had to give up.

Xu Lingfu tilted his ears and listened to these words word for word.

When the tea guest got up and paid and walked out of the tea shed, she followed silently......

In the second hall of the county government, Jiang Tongfan's voice covered the audience: "Bosui rebels Fang Xiu, now the Gyeonggi area has a serious shortage of grain, and the imperial court vigorously requisitioned rice grain from all over the country and quickly transported it to Beijing. ”

made high-sounding words, and suppressed Cui Yuanting in the name of the imperial court everywhere.

But Cui Yuanting was as tall as a jade in the mountains: "It turns out that Jiang Xiancheng refuses to come out of the country, because he cares about the Beijing teacher." That official can tell you, don't worry about Jingshi. ”

"Since the departure of this official Jingshi, Luoyang Hanjiacang's 10,000 stone grain has arrived in Beijing, and the rice grain from Huainan Province and Jiangnan East Road will also go north from Cao River and arrive in Beijing in the near future, at least this year the imperial court will not requisition us because of the lack of grain in the Gyeonggi area."

Jiang Tongfan lowered his eyes, thought for a while, and said: "But even so, the situation in Hexi is turbulent now, and Zhang Tingshi of Benzhou has ordered the counties under his rule to stock up on grain for military needs, so it is better to keep the grain in the official warehouse untouched." ”

Cui Yuanting paced to Jiang Tongfan's place, with scrutiny in his eyes: "Jiang Xiancheng, you and I, as officials of Chuyi County, have the most important duty to appease the people under our rule, and now that the people of Chuyi County are about to be hungry, it is impossible for me to look at the disaster in front of us, but to worry about the things on the horizon." ”

He paused slightly, and his voice was unquestionably determined: "Since this official is the head of a county, it is natural for this official to make a decision. ”

"This ...... I'm afraid that Zhang Tingshi ...... there, "Jiang Tongfan still wants to stop it."

Cui Yuanting smiled faintly: "Zhang Tingshi's place, the official will play by himself, and the county will not have to worry." He beckoned to a scribe: "Come! Now I'm going to put out a notice here, and the official will watch you write, and post the notice as soon as you're done! ”

Such a vigorous and resolute action was beyond the expectations of everyone present.

The scribe came in with a pen and paper but didn't write immediately, and looked at Jiang Xiancheng.

Jiang Xiancheng shook his head invisibly.

Cui Yuanting looked at the scribe: "Why don't you write it yet?" ”

Scrivener: "This ......"

"Do you want the official to write it himself?" Cui Yuanting's eyes were full.

"Don't dare, don't dare to ......" The scribe gritted his teeth, so he had to lie down on the desk and pick up the pen to write.

Behind Cui Yuanting, the eyes of several rice shop bosses, city orders, and warehouse governors all gathered on Jiang Tongfan, Jiang Tongfan looked back at them with a gloomy face, secretly clenched his fists, and stepped forward to Cui Yuanting's side.

"The county is respectful and slow, please listen to me."

"Oh?" Cui Yuanting said lightly, but his eyes were still reading the notice written by the scribe.

"After all, opening a warehouse and releasing grain is a big deal, please ask the county order to give a few days of grace, let me discuss with a few rice shop bosses first, and see if I can get some rice grain as soon as possible to stabilize the price of rice."

Cui Yuanting still didn't look at Jiang Tongfan, still very calm: "Then you can discuss and discuss, of course this official hopes that you will be able to take out the rice tomorrow." However, I can't watch the people starve to death, at most I will give you one night's time, if the rice in the market is still higher than 1,000 Wen tomorrow morning, the official will immediately open a position. ”

Jiang Xiancheng saw that Cui Yuanting was so unrelenting, and his heart changed: "My subordinates still have an important matter to tell the county honor." Today, I received a report from the people that thirteen corpses were found on the side of the Baihe River in this county, and the traces of the scene saw that the bandits intercepted and killed passers-by. ”

Cui Yuanting turned around and fixed his eyes on Jiang Tongfan: "This matter will be handled by Jiang Xiancheng and the county lieutenant Gao who is in charge of the soldiers in this county." ”

"Such a big and bad case, doesn't the county respect care?" Jiang Tongfan unabashedly questioned loudly.

"That's right, this matter is for you and County Lieutenant Gao to investigate." Cui Yuanting repeated again.

He paced a few steps around Jiang Xiancheng's hands: "This official can tell you that the time of the crime was at the end of last night, and the murderers were strong in martial arts, there were six in total, and two escaped. ”

"Of the nine corpses at the scene, except for the murderers, two were the domestic servants of the official, one was the driver of the car, and the remaining six were the hands of the imperial court to the official."

"And - this official escaped from the murderer last night."