Upper study.

After Liu Bowen and the three left, Zhu Biao asked Zhu Yuanzhang in confusion:

"Father, who are you going to let this money pay?"

"Wasn't Shen Wansan exiled a long time ago?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang first started, he had no money to pay military salaries, and it was Zhu Yuanzhang who was funded by Shen Wansan.

Now that Zhu Yuanzhang is short of money, Zhu Biao of course thought of Shen Wansan for the first time.

However, Shen Wansan was assigned to the northwest when Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, and now he doesn't know where to get this money.

The corners of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth hooked, picked up the account book of Shanghu County, and said:

"Far away, close at hand!"

Zhu Biao also reacted at this time, and said in surprise:

"Does my father want Li Jin to be the overseer of the imperial history?"

"Hehe, let's not only let him be the overseer, but also let him be fully responsible for this matter."

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile on his face:

"Let's promote him like this, if he starves to death a disaster victim in Yiwu, don't blame us for being ruthless."

"Wonderful!"

Zhu Biao jumped up excitedly at this moment.

Before, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were still thinking about how to take out the silver from Li Jin's pocket, but now that Zhu Yuanzhang's conspiracy is out, Li Jin will not be able to bleed.

"Originally, 600,000 taels of silver were needed for disaster relief, but my father only gave 300,000 taels."

"If Li Jin wants not to starve to death, then he has to pay out of his own pocket."

"These 300,000 taels, he can't get it out of it."

"Father is really clever! It's just that in this way, isn't it too cruel to Li Jin? ”

"Cruel? Let's promote him from the nine-rank sesame official to the seven-rank superintendent of the imperial history, this is to promote him. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang really felt that Li Jin had made a lot of money.

"In our Ming Dynasty, there are no officials who are bought with silver."

When Zhu Biao heard this, he also nodded, after all, what Zhu Yuanzhang said was right, some people want to be promoted, but they can't buy it with money.

Now that Li Jin has jumped four levels in a row, it can be regarded as an extreme grace.

Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang called the officials of the Ministry of Rites, immediately drafted the decree, and conveyed the decree to Li Jin.

....

Shanghu County, County Office.

"Fengtian carriers, the emperor said."

"Ordered Li Jin to be appointed as the superintendent of Jiangnan Province to supervise the imperial history, and to be in charge of the disaster relief in Yiwu County, not a single citizen must starve to death, otherwise Li Jin must be investigated for the crime of dereliction of responsibility."

"After receiving the holy decree, do not delay, and set off immediately."

The messenger was a little eunuch who looked very kind.

Li Jin was blinded by this sudden holy decree.

Originally, after Li Jin sent Zhu Yuanzhang and the others away, he leisurely waited at home for Zhu Yuanzhang to send the pre-approval of the Royal Chamber of Commerce.

But after waiting for two months, Li Jin didn't even see a figure.

Just when Li Jin thought that the matter was messed up, he suddenly received such a holy decree.

Could it be that Lao Zhu knows what he has done and wants to settle accounts for himself?

Impossible, with Lao Zhu's temperament, if he knew that he was really corrupt and bribed, he was afraid that he would peel the daylilies on the spot, how could he give himself a promotion.

Just when Li Jin was puzzled, the little eunuch next to him reminded him loudly:

"Lord Li, please hurry up and thank you!"

After Li Jin came back to his senses, he hurriedly took the holy decree.

But no matter what, if you come to it, you should do it well.

"This father-in-law looks good-looking, I don't know what to call it?"

After Li Jin stood up, he secretly stuffed ten taels of silver into the little eunuch from his sleeve.

"Villain Huang Xing."

The little eunuch secretly took the silver, weighed it, and immediately smiled.

Huang xing? Li Jin said he had not heard of this person.

However, Li Jin was most concerned about Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude, and hurriedly asked:

"I don't know what the emperor has to say besides the holy decree?"

"The emperor only said that let Lord Li hurry to his post, don't delay the disaster relief, if someone starves to death, the emperor will definitely hold the adult responsible."

"Then how was the emperor feeling at that time?"

"If you look smiling, you should be in a good mood."

After getting this news, Li Jin was instantly relieved, since he was in a good mood, he shouldn't know what he was doing.

However, this disaster relief really can't be delayed, otherwise the people will really starve to death, and there will be a trouble, but I am afraid that my head will not be protected.

After asking the county magistrate of Shanghu County that there was no one to act as an agent for the time being, Li Jin briefly explained the county magistrate in the county yali, and then got into the carriage and went straight to Yiwu.

.....

Yiwu County.

The prefect of Jinhua Prefecture, the county magistrate of Yiwu County, the county Cheng and others gathered in Yiwu County, and everyone was sad, as if there was a big trouble that could not be solved.

Several people stared at each other, looked at each other for a long time, and knew that the Yiwu County Order couldn't wait any longer, so they shouted bitterly:

"Master Sun, you are the prefect, at this time, you have something to say?"

"Say what? Tens of thousands of people were affected in Jinhua Prefecture, not just your Yiwu County. ”

"So many people are waiting to be fed, and the court has only allocated 200,000 taels of silver, how can they be counted?"

Sun Fang is also helpless at the moment.

Yiwu County is hilly, and there is not much fertile land that could have grown rice, resulting in high grain prices.

Now the river has burst its banks, flooding all the fertile fields in the valley area and washing away all the grain.

At this moment, the price of grain in Yiwu will only be higher, and the imperial court still distributes disaster relief food according to the price of Beijing, which means that the people of Wuxian County will starve to death a lot.

"Won't adults go to school? Can't you state the people's feelings in Yiwu County to the emperor, and let the court allocate another two pieces of silver for disaster relief? ”

Yiwu County Commander Zhao Dahai roared loudly at the prefect, he really couldn't watch the people starve to death.

"It's not easy for the imperial court, someone in the court told me that there is only so much silver that the imperial court can squeeze out."

Sun Fang looked helpless, and said seriously:

"Let's think about how to use so much silver to save more people."

Yiwu County Cheng Qibo interjected at this time:

"It's useless to talk about this matter, let's buy food as soon as possible for disaster relief."

"Not yet, the court said that it is going to send a superintendent to the imperial history, and all of us must listen to him."

Zhao Dahai stopped:

"But don't worry, the official has already opened a warehouse to release grain, and he can resist it for a while these days."

"As long as the inspector of the imperial history comes, we will immediately go to buy food, and we won't starve too many people to death."

Looking at what Sun Fang said lightly, Zhao Dahai only felt indignant, but he couldn't do anything.

After all, Zhao Dahai is just a poor person, and the food at home has already been taken out for disaster relief, and his own family is hungry and screaming.

Today, Yiwu is still drizzling, the road is muddy, and the people gather in the simple grass huts built by the government.

Drinking gruel every day, barely getting by, but the food in the state capital is gradually bottoming out, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of the supervising imperial history.