Chapter 192 The money is not in the bank
Qi Yuncang was about to leave with that person, and the official sent by Fu Yin arrived.
Qi Yuncang raised his sword eyebrows.
The officials wanted to stop Qi Yuncang's people, but when they saw that it was Qi Yuncang, although they didn't know who he was, they knew that he had followed the prince to Fucheng to collect food before, so they immediately didn't dare to move.
That's the prince's man.
Even the people of Fu Yin didn't dare to move, and the shopkeeper didn't dare to move.
The prince's soldiers found thousands of sacks of grain in the cellar, including rice, wheat, and barley.
The general store had a large floor, the entrance to the cellar was small, and there were other things to cover it so that it was impossible to detect it if you were not careful, but inside it was very large, and there were several rooms, and the amount of grain was even more surprising.
"Shopkeeper, you have stored so much grain, why didn't the prince take it out when he raised grain?" One of the prince's personal soldiers asked.
Although it is based on the principle of voluntariness, but it is for disaster relief, everyone tacitly takes out the surplus grain, and the surplus grain is not necessarily the real surplus grain, and some of the people in the government who are nervous will also take it out, where is the opportunity to sell well in front of the prince so easy to get?
Even the first family of Shanyuan Mansion, the richest man in Shanyuan Mansion, and the landlord took out a lot of grain, but this broken grocery store didn't take it.
If you don't want to sell it in front of the crown prince, is it the second prince's person?
In addition to food, there are also quite a few medicines, most of which are trauma medicines. And some carbon. On the contrary, they were sold in the store, but there was no food or medicine.
"Shopkeeper, bring the account books." Qi Yuncang said solemnly.
He had a bad premonition, maybe he was too influenced by Dr. Su, and he would doubt what the old lady did, unlike before, he completely felt that what the old lady did was right, even if it was wrong, he would subconsciously be right.
The shopkeeper took out the account books, which were all in and out of the store, and there was no account of the food and medicine in the cellar.
"Shopkeeper, you know what I want, if you don't want to cooperate, I don't mind coming by myself."
"Adults spare their lives, adults spare their lives, these grains are all borrowed by others and put here for medicine, the only thing we have is the account of borrowing the venue fee, the reason why we borrow this place is because our cellar is very large, and this cellar was not built by us, but by the person who built this house, we were also empty before, and when we saw that it was useless and wasteful, we thought about renting it to others."
"Look, my lord, this is a lease contract."
Qi Yuncang kept staring at the shopkeeper, seeing that he was not panicked at all the time, and even a little arrogant that could not be hidden, obviously, they had long thought that there might be such a day, and they had already been prepared.
Qi Yuncang's eyes moved from the shopkeeper to the lease contract in his hand, and the tenant turned out to be Mrs. Yi's younger brother, General Yi's uncle Lou Fangnian.
"Who's the owner of the shop?"
"The boss is in the capital, we don't dare to use the customer's food to donate it, please understand."
"Everybody obeys the order and takes away two-thirds of the grain here."
Qi Yuncang gave an order, and all the prince's personal soldiers took action, carried bags of grain on their shoulders, and then walked out of the cellar, went to the outside of the store, and threw the grain into the carriage.
After many back and forth, I finally moved almost all the food.
During this process, the shopkeeper kept screaming bitterly: "How good is this, this is a guest's thing, how can we explain it to the guest?"
"Someone is robbing something, who can call the shots! Grab something!"
In front of the power that Lord Yin couldn't resist, the shopkeeper could only tell the boss immediately, but in this case, the boss would definitely not respect him, how could he have thought that they could actually find the entrance to the cellar?
Locals from many mountain sources outside heard the shopkeeper's shout, but no one dared to go in to help them.
Looking at it from a distance, some people dare to discuss: "It wasn't so excessive to raise donations a few days ago, how did you grab it today?"
"It seems that we are robbing the things of the guests, and the food of the guests, we can't be the masters, and we are robbed, so we can only make up for it with our own silver."
"It's really unlucky, when we meet officers and soldiers, we are all weak."
In the end, Qi Yuncang wrote an IOU: "Since you are unwilling, the prince will not force it, and he will definitely pay you cash, which is proof, and then give cash to destroy."
Even if the prince doesn't come out of this amount of silver, he will come out, no matter what, it's his mother's shop, her mother's grain, although I don't know what her mother is doing with so much food.
The food problem is temporarily solved, and they can continue to provide disaster relief, and after waiting for a while, the people of the imperial court will open the way, or their people will open the way, and they will not have to rely on local fundraising.
Ten days later, the rescue road was finally opened, and the second prince asked the emperor to go to the mountain source for disaster relief in person.
This is the result of his deliberations. He knew that too many people felt that he, the second prince, was inferior to the prince, the prince was benevolent, and his reputation had long been spread, and many old ministers speculated that the prince was killed and did not want to admit it.
He must go out for a trip and let those old immortals know that what the prince can do, he can do better.
If the second prince also goes to the disaster relief, the disaster relief money cannot be greedy, this time it is mainly for the second prince's reputation among the masses, Xie Kui felt that it was a pity, and he also followed.
He also explained Xie Xinyuan's matter to the second prince, and the second prince was noncommittal, but she was just a woman, which made the Xie family so nervous.
It's just that when they arrived at the mountain source, they felt that something was wrong, there was news of the winter disaster before the avalanche, just because the avalanche relief people have not been able to come, but when they arrived at the disaster area, how did they feel that the victims were a little happy to get together?
As a result, when asked, it turned out that the prince had already provided disaster relief on the spot and helped the most serious disaster areas to tide over the difficulties.
The second prince and the others were shocked.
"The prince is not dead?" Xie Kui was the most surprised one, although he had never found the prince's body, he had seen the other party and his party all buried by heavy snow, and there were few in history where such an avalanche could survive.
Could it be that what he saw from afar was not true?
"Shut up, I'm afraid no one will hear you, right?"
This time it was for nothing, not only for nothing, but also for a closer look at how popular the prince was.
The news that the prince did not die and the news of the prince's disaster relief had flown to the capital as soon as the road was clear, and it had arrived on the emperor's desk at this time.
The second prince was so angry that he met the prince and his party in Shanyuan: "I am so worried about the imperial brother because I am a brother, it turns out that the imperial brother is doing well in Shanyuan."
"Brother Huang, you are here too, Brother Huang is not doing very well in Shanyuan, but as long as the people are better, it doesn't hurt for Brother Huang to be more bitter."
"......" really has the ability to infuriate people.
"Fortunately, the royal brother is here, so that the victims can tide over the difficulties, and in the future, the imperial brother will have to come out and walk around like this time from time to time."
At this time, a man cried at the door of Mrs. Yi's grocery store: "God is unfair, the official family robs people's food, and they want people's lives—the people have no way to ask for help——"
For a time, rumors of the imperial court robbing the people of food were flying all over the sky.
Everyone was talking about it hotly, and on Shanyuan's side, Mrs. Yi's younger brother, that is, Yi Lingfeng's uncle Lou Fangnian, united a group of squires and landlords who were raised at the beginning, saying that their family's food was not much, but those officials were desperate to force them to hand over the grain, and if they didn't hand it over, they would rob it.
Although it was the prince himself who came to collect donations at first, when Lou Fangnian went to unite them, he told them that it was not the prince at all, it was an official who was worried that he would not be able to raise food, and under the banner of the prince, so that those local tyrants and squires would dare to unite, otherwise where would they dare to oppose the prince.
However, they knew that the second prince came later, thanks to the people of the second prince who dug through the passage of the avalanche and sent the grain to the source of the mountain, otherwise they would have starved to death.
And no one knows how much grain they dug up from Mrs. Yi's cellar. Think it's just a few bags?
Spread and spread, and when the rumor reached the capital, it became the prince who robbed the people of the grain, not the surplus grain
, things suddenly became serious. The prince and his entourage instantly became the target of public criticism.
The people in the court and China discussed one after another, thinking that the crown prince should be for disaster relief, but the other faction had a different opinion: "Even if disaster relief cannot rob the people of their food, what is the difference between exchanging the lives of one people for the lives of another people, and murderers?"
"No one will believe it if they say it's surplus food now."
Now those united squires also know that the person is really the prince, they secretly hate Lou Fangnian's deception, but it is useless for them to want to tie up with the prince, because even the people know about the prince's robbery of grain, there is no winter disaster in Shanyuan City, so those people have not been rescued by the prince, and they are very angry when they hear that the prince is robbing food, if such a person is allowed to become the emperor, it will be okay.
Water can carry a boat and capsize a boat, they are water, in this era when the people can say two words to the emperor, what is the prince afraid of, and most importantly, through their words, the prince who bullied the people can be pulled off the horse.
Qi Yuncang wanted to take out the original IOU, he was going to give the silver, but didn't he have time yet? And now, the IOU is a little pale. Now to take the money out is tantamount to a last resort.
"Of course the silver is to be given, not only from the grocery store, but also from other squires." The prince consciously walked upright and stood upright, and he was really not afraid of what people said.
The next day, the prince personally came forward and recruited the squires and others who had raised grain at the beginning.
"It was too urgent at the beginning, so I borrowed a lot of food from you, and I will return the silver to everyone today."
Boxes of silver had just been taken out of the largest bank in Shanyuan.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Is the prince this one because he doesn't want to be infamy? After all, I was talking about raising grain, and there was no silver at that time."
"At that time, there was really no silver, and none of the prince's silver was stored in the bank, until the road covered by the avalanche was cleared, and the lonely man sent someone back to deposit the silver in the bank, and then the silver was paid to everyone."
The prince's down-to-earth words surprised everyone, and also shortened the distance between the prince and them pariahs.
Some people already feel that their behavior is too much, and the prince made it clear that it was to raise food, and they all agreed, and now they are forcing the prince to pay silver, how good is this.
Some of them are businessmen, some are the most authoritative old men in the neighborhood, and the most important thing is integrity, but now they are made red-faced by the prince's operation.