Chapter 270: The Truth About Hepu County
"This brother, you don't know, our prefect is a rare good person."
In a small tea stall, two businessmen were talking to Jinyi Wei Baihu, talking about the good things Li Jin had done these days.
"Our prefect has a strategic heart and scales in his belly, and everything is in his old man's control."
"Some time ago, there was a big flood in Hepu County and the surrounding prefectures and counties, and the victims were everywhere and starvation was everywhere."
"In addition, it is now the season of grain harvesting, but there is a sudden flood, which causes a year's income to be wiped out."
"The grain merchants and big landlords in the city sat on the ground and raised the price, and fried all the grain to the sky."
"The people can't afford to buy food, and they have to eat all the food at home, but the grain in the fields has been washed away by the flood, and there is no harvest, and it is not far from starvation."
"Fortunately, we have a good prefect in Hepu County, otherwise our Hepu County would have turned into a ghost town by now."
When the two businessmen saw Jinyi Wei Baihu, they were generous, and they bought a pot of good Biluochun when they came up, and naturally they didn't hide their secrets, and they said whatever they knew.
But after listening to this, Jinyi Wei Baihu was even more confused, and asked rhetorically:
"But how did I hear that this Li Governor took the lead in raising the price of grain, wouldn't the people be even more unable to afford food because of this, and they would be starved to death?"
One of the merchants, slapping the table excitedly, said:
"At the beginning, all of us thought so, thinking that this prefect was not a good thing, and it was simply a big corrupt official who colluded with officials and businessmen to harm the people."
"We secretly don't know how many times we scolded this prefect, but it wasn't until later that we found out that we had misunderstood him."
"Oh? How so? ”
Jinyi Wei Baihu poured a cup of tea for this one in a timely manner, and kept asking.
"Lord Li's move is not to harm the people, but to save the people."
The merchant took a sip of his tea, then said:
"Our brothers are originally businessmen, so they naturally know the nature of businessmen, which is to see the seams and chase profits."
"If Lord Li raises the price of grain in Hepu County, he will attract the surrounding grain merchants to come to Hepu County with a large amount of grain."
"When a large amount of grain appears in Hepu County, it is destined that the price of grain here will drop in a short period of time."
"Lord Li took advantage of the psychology of businessmen to completely solve the food disaster in Hepu County."
"Now the grain in Hepu County has returned to normal levels, and it is even one to two percent lower than the previous grain price, which is all due to the Li Governor's house."
"Later, in the name of the government, Governor Li bought these grains and gave relief to the victims, which can be described as a great merit."
In one breath, the businessman told everything Li Jin did in Hepu County, and the hundred households of Jinyi Wei were dumbfounded.
On the way here, he kept thinking that a big corrupt official like Li Jin should be imprisoned and tortured, so that he would never dare to be corrupt and accept bribes again in his next life.
But now after arriving in Hepu County, this Jinyi Wei Baihu is a little dumbfounded, which is completely different from what he imagined, and it can even be said to be a world of difference.
This Li Jin is not only not a corrupt official, but also a living bodhisattva who saves suffering, the Qingtian master of Hepu County.
Combined with what he saw and thought along the way, he felt that the two businessmen were telling the truth, after all, those relief shelters on the road would not tell lies.
But this made Jinyi Wei Baihu feel entangled, after all, when he came, he was ordered by the Holy Decree to arrest Li Jin and bring him back to Beijing.
Now, Li Jin has no guilt at all, and if he rushes back to the capital, he is afraid that he will bring disaster to himself in the future.
After pondering for a long time, Jinyi Wei Baihu finally came up with a bold idea.