The White Lotus Sect has rebelled against the tyrannical rule one after another, saying that the White Lotus came to the world and saved the people, but in fact, the one who harmed the people the most was the White Lotus Sect.

Soldiers and bandits, less than a hundred years after the founding of the country, the military discipline of the imperial army is acceptable, not to mention that the autumn has not committed any crimes, and finally will not do the evil thing of abducting and plundering the people.

But the White Lotus Sect is different, it robbed the people's grain reserves, burned down the people's houses, and even kidnapped the young daughter-in-law and girl, and forced the people to join the religion, otherwise it is a demon in the world, and they will be tied to the fire and burned to death.

Master Zhang Duo searched in the past, and Hall Master Li came again.

Finally, Hall Master Li left, and another King Xu came, and Qujia Town, at the foot of Fangshan Mountain, fell into a panic again.

Fortunately, this King Xu is different from others, and the soldiers under his command seem to be different, not disturbing the people, not entering households, and not levying grain......

The town is not big, and the owner of the only inn has already run away, and a team of elite escorts the carriage into the backyard of the inn, and a middle-aged scribe walks down, dressed in green clothes and with a dignified face.

The mighty man beside him clasped his fists and asked, "My lord, we don't have much food and grass, do you want to go to the town to collect some?"

"Forget it, where do they have food?"

The middle-aged scribe entered the house, lit the stove, and the temperature in the room gradually rose.

He unfolded the map and examined it carefully, and finally pointed with his hand to the place on the north bank of Surabaya on the north side of the town, where several Zhuangzi were marked.

"Niu Ben, I'm tired tonight, let's grab it here."

"Huh? Lord Xu, robbing the people's wealth is not tolerated by military law, and these Zhuangzi are all the property of the Yansheng Mansion!"

The middle-aged scribe looked at the bright red words specially marked on the map, and smiled: "Remember, your current identity is the White Lotus Sect, and the White Lotus Sect robbed the Confucian family, isn't it natural?"

Belch~

The expression on Niu Ben's face was extremely complicated, and he struggled for a while and replied under the indifferent eyes of the middle-aged scribe: "Since Lord Qincha has an order, the last general will obey the orders of the lord!"

"Go, remember not to hurt innocent people, those guards of the Kong family, if you kill them, you will be killed. Bring all the food back, and in the days to come, we will have to stay here and wait for the right time."

Sent Niu Ben away, Xu Jin was the only one left in the house, staring at the fire in the furnace, he sighed: "It's really prosperous, the people are suffering, dying, the people are suffering!"

Knock knock knock......

"Come in."

With a creak, a man in a strong suit walked in, closed the door and handed Xu Jin a letter.

"Mr. Qingteng, Dongchang Mansion has sent news that King Zhongshun and General Xiao Jia have arrived in Linqing County, and there are 3,000 forbidden troops with them."

Xu Jin tore open the envelope, read it hastily, and threw it directly into the furnace.

"Tang Wu, let people find out the strongholds of the White Lotus Sect in Jinan, Qingzhou, and Yanzhou as soon as possible, and find out who in the Kong family has colluded with the White Lotus Sect.

"Yes!"

Tang Wu bowed in promise, and then asked, "Then do you want to pass on the news to His Royal Highness the King of Zhongshun and General Xiao Jia?"

Xu Jin shook his head and solemnly replied, "No need, if we can deal with the affairs of the Kong family quietly, let's send a message then." If someone finds out, you and I will be subjected to those verbal and written criticisms, so why bother to drag others into this quagmire."

Tang Wu was still expressionless, he was Yulin Lang's secret guard, he was born to walk in the dark, and he had long been accustomed to doing things for the Emperor Taishang that could not be put on the surface.

But......

Xu Jin is different, six yuan and the first, Wenqu Xing, who should enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister in the future, how can he be trapped in a small Qufu.

Tang Wu was very helpless to the stubborn scholar in front of him, and he had persuaded him many times before, but this Wenqu star rejected his proposal with an extremely resolute attitude when he saw the hard life of the people around Qufu.

"Sir, in fact, this kind of thing will be done in the future, when I left the capital, the sage said that the Yulin secret guard must keep Mr. safe and sound."

Xu Jin poked the charcoal fire in the stove, and the ashes of the letter disappeared completely.

He smiled, looked up and said to Tang Wu, "Someone has to take that step, and I, a Confucian person, really want to see with my own eyes how many angry things the Kong family has done!"

After Liu Ke and Jia Cong entered Dongchang Mansion, they only replenished grain and grass materials, and continued to go south after a short night's rest.

After three days of galloping, he finally arrived at Yanzhou Mansion, and the prefect Liu Guoliang, Tongzhi Mu E and the officials of the government all visited Qin Cha in the lobby.

After Liu Ke roughly flipped through the documents sent by the Yanzhou Mansion, he wrote two edicts with a few strokes.

"Ordered Ma Jing, the commander of the city guard, to transfer 5,000 soldiers and horses to carefully search along Surabaya and Yishui in the direction of Qufu County. If you find a White Lotus Sect bandit, kill them."

"Governor Liu, how much grain is still in the city? Immediately open warehouses to release grain, and the four counties of Jining, Zouxian, Wenshang, and Ningyang, as well as Fucheng, must set up porridge sheds to accept displaced people."

When Liu Guoliang thought of the treasury that was enough to starve the rat to death, he chuckled in his heart, and the look of embarrassment on his face was obvious.

Well?

Liu Ke snorted coldly: "What? Could it be that there is no food in the treasury? If this king is not mistaken, when winter first arrived last year, the household department allocated a lot of relief food to the provincial capitals of Shandong to prepare for the snow disaster."

Qin Tianjian reported to the emperor as soon as winter last year that the winter would become more and more severe in the past few years, and the imperial court had already prepared for disaster relief in the north.

In particular, Gyeonggi, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan, and all the provincial capitals and counties have prepared sufficient grain to prevent disasters.

But the relief food in the Yanzhou government treasury has long been swallowed up. Not to mention sending it to the surrounding counties, even Fucheng itself is not enough to cook a few mouthfuls of gruel.

Originally, Liu Guoliang wanted to contact Qufu as soon as possible and ask the Kong family to temporarily send some grain over to fill the treasury, but unexpectedly Qufu sent news yesterday that several granaries of the Kong family on the north bank of Surabaya were swept away by the people of the White Lotus Sect.

Grain stored in other places was sold to Goryeo and Liaodong at high prices in winter, but only Qufu County still had grain to chew at home, which was not enough for the government treasury.

Hum!

Liu Ke stared coldly at Liu Guoliang, who was sweating on his forehead, and raised his hand: "Someone, come here, strip off the official robe of Liu Liangguo, the prefect of Yanzhou, and put him in prison pending trial!"

"Lord, you can't ...... Woo woo woo ...... "

The soldiers of the palace didn't pay attention to what Liu Guoliang wanted to say, and the rags he came to stuff into his mouth and dragged him down.

Liu Ke glanced at Mu E, the Tongzhi of Yanzhou Mansion who trembled with trembling strands, and the old man who was over fifty years old only secretly glanced at Liu Ke's cold face and knelt down unconsciously.

Knock knock knock......

After three rings in a row, Mu E begged: "The prince forgives the sin, and the lower officials will say everything......

"Hold it down and interrogate it carefully, and before dinner, the king will know where the food went."

Quickly cut through the mess, Liu Ke was too lazy to fight with this group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and directly let the pro-soldiers take all the people in the hall down.

Jia Cong had already finished reading the documents sent by the Yanzhou Mansion and the intelligence news sent by the prefectures from various counties.

He couldn't help frowning, just judging from the situation in Yanzhou, it was a little weird.

It is said that Qufu is the source of this banditry, Yanzhou Mansion is less than two days away from Qufu County, why Ren Chengwei did not move, until the White Lotus Sect finished robbing the Confucian family and ran to Surabaya County, Ren Chengwei sent a large army to pursue and suppress the bandits.

If it is said that the local officials do not have the right to mobilize the guards and horses, what about the teacher Xu Jin?

Xu Jin was sent by the emperor and held a golden order to order arrows, and an army of less than 10,000 people did not need to report to the capital at all.

According to the news sent back by the Dragon Guard, when Xu Jinlin set off, he clearly ordered Ren Chengwei to transfer troops to suppress the bandits, but until Xu Jin disappeared outside Qufu County, Ren Chengwei never left the camp with a single soldier.

"Thirteenth Master, I want to go to Ren Chengwei for a trip......

Liu Ke directly interrupted Jia Cong's words: "You don't want to, stay in the mansion obediently, this king will send an order to let the city guard command Ma Jing come."

Are you kidding? At the moment, there is no credible martial arts in Yanzhou Mansion, and Jia Cong went to Ren Chengwei to know if there would be any accidents

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The dignified Qincha can be nowhere to be found outside Qufu County, and what is impossible to lose another deputy envoy.

Jia Cong sighed when he heard this, and was about to ask for his life again, but he saw Lu Xiaozu, the accompanying Shandong Qing official, walking in with two scribes and a stack of account books.

"Lord Wang, Lord Xiao Jia, the situation is even worse than Xia Guan imagined, there are only 1,000 stone of grain in the treasury of Yanzhou, and 20,000 taels of silver in the treasury, which is not official silver, which is equivalent to more than 17,000 taels of city silver at most."

Whoa......

Lu Xiaozu asked people to pile all the account books on the table in front of Liu Ke, and opened a book casually and sighed again.

"They are all books of accounts, and if they are according to the books, the grain stored in the government should be more than 30,000 stones, and the silver deposit should be 80,000 taels of silver. But Xia Guan personally took people to investigate, and in the granary was a thousand stone of old rice that had become moldy, and only the city silver in very poor condition was placed on the shelves in the silver warehouse."

Liu Ke was quite calm, and forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart to stop Lu Xiaozu from continuing.

The top priority at the moment is to quickly raise money and food, according to the news sent from everywhere, I heard that the Qin mission is stationed in the capital of Yanzhou, and the displaced people from all over the country have gathered here.

Jia Cong stood up and clenched his fists and begged: "Xiaguan asks for food, and ten thousand stones of grain will be raised before noon tomorrow!"

"Ridiculous, where are you going to collect food?"

Liu Kezheng was upset and waved his hand to interrupt Jia Cong's words.

But seeing Jia Cong's solemn expression, he arched his hand again and said, "Xiaguan really has a way to raise food, but he needs to borrow the name of the prince......

Yanzhou is noisy, natural disasters and man-made disasters are coming, but the mourning outside the city does not affect the singing and dancing in the city at all.

The Surabaya River passes through the capital city of Yanzhou, and the two banks of the river have the charm of the Qinhuai River. On the banks of the Surabaya River in the southeast of the palace, there are restaurants, teahouses, and green building painting boats.

Jia Cong leaned on the wooden fence and looked at the lights in the distance, and Lu Xiaozu looked at the list in his hand with some doubts.

He couldn't help but ask, "My lord, are these people really going to sell us food?" Hoarding has always been the means of these merchants, and now that the price of grain in the city is rising three times a day, how can they sell it to the government at a low price?"

Jia Cong touched the Yanling knife on his waist and said coldly, "They just don't want to sell it, and the official will let them sell it to us obediently."

Knock knock knock......

Jia Shiyi pushed open the door of the private room and walked in, clasping his fists and saying, "In addition to the Qu family, the Qin family, and the Yan family, the rest of the squires and wealthy merchants in the city, a total of forty-two households, have arrived and are waiting downstairs."

"Uncle Eleven, did those three families say that they didn't come?"

Jia Cong took off the dragon golden order on his waist and gently rubbed the dragon pattern on it.

I only heard Jia Shiyi reply: "The head of the Qu family asked people to reply, but they were infected with the wind and cold, and they couldn't do it for the time being. The housekeeper of the Qin family said that the eighth concubine of the head of his family was waiting to give birth today and had no time to come. The Yan family's old house outside the city was poisoned by the White Lotus Sect, the ancestral hall was destroyed, and more than 20 people were killed or injured......

As he spoke, Jia Shiyi handed over the letter. Jia Cong opened it and saw that the content of the letter was very simple, Yan Hui, the head of the Yan family, was in a coma, and the children in the family were all sick at home and could not attend the banquet.

Skipping those few words of apology, Yan Chenglin probably thought of the reason for Jia Cong's invitation, and attached a handwritten letter stamped with the seal of the head of the Yan family, with which he could go to the Yan family's grain shop to pull away a thousand stones of grain.

Yan Chenglin said in the letter that the grain was donated free of charge, and he only asked the government to avenge the death and injury of more than 20 tribes of the Yan family.

Jia Cong put away the letter, and at the same time handed the Panlong Golden Order in his hand to Jia Shiyi.

"Since the Qu family and the Qin family are shameless, then the official doesn't plan to continue to give them face. Uncle Eleven, you personally led people to seal up the shops and warehouses of these two families, and pulled all the grain to the government overnight for storage. If anyone stops him, he will be killed!"

Boom!

Lu Xiaozu couldn't help but swallow his saliva, he hesitated and persuaded stubbornly, "My lord, this is a bit of a suspicion of not being taught. It's good to seal up the shop and warehouse, but if you kill someone, ......."

"If you don't kill, how can you deter Xiaoxiao?"

Jia Cong's indifferent face showed a hint of murderous aura, and he waved his hand: "Go, since the people of the Qu family and the Qin family are not willing to come, then don't come again." Master Lu, go downstairs with this official to meet this group of Yanzhou celebrities."

Yimeng Building is the largest and most luxurious restaurant in Yanzhou City, and the first and second floors are full of Yanzhou celebrities invited by Jia Cong.

When Jia Cong and Lu Xiaozu walked down the stairs from the third floor, the originally noisy restaurant immediately became quiet.

Jia Cong, who is in a purple robe, makes these people both curious and afraid, this young master has a father who is not stingy, and there are no taboos.

They had thought about joining forces against Jia Cong's invitation, but after discussing it for an afternoon, they didn't dare to find a reason to refuse like the Qu family and the Qin family.

After all, not everyone has the background of *** lords, maybe they have the fame of lifting people and showing talents, and there are one or two official gentry in the family to support them, but no one's waist can compare to the waist of the young master in front of them.

Besides, there is a great god behind this young master, the world-famous Prince Zhongshun is still sitting in the mansion.

"Meet Lord Jia, meet Lord Lu......

Jia Cong walked halfway up the stairs, his face calm, looking down at the saluting crowd.

He raised his hand and said in a deep voice, "You don't need to be polite, this official invited you here today because of your request......

There was a buzzing whisper immediately, but Jia Cong didn't care, but said his request bluntly.

"I think you all know about the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect, natural and man-made disasters are coming, and the people are displaced. There is a rat in Yanzhou Mansion, and the treasury has no grain in stock, so this official invited you here today to buy some food from you in case of emergency."

"Contemptible Hong Shixing, dare to ask Lord Jia, Yanzhou has no food, why don't you transfer grain like Jinan Mansion?"

Jia Cong looked at the white-bearded old man who asked him questions, shook his head and replied, "The whip is beyond reach, the homeless people are about to gather in Fucheng, the snow is heavy, and it is too late to transfer grain from Jinan Mansion. That's why I just said that I want to buy some food from you for emergencies."

Hong Shixing arched his hand and asked again: "If we can help the imperial court to relieve the disaster, it is our duty to wait. But ......"

"Mr. Hong can be blunt!"

I saw Hong Shixing with a look of self-deprecation, exchanged glances with the people around him and said, "Don't hide it from Lord Jia, if it is 1,800 stone grain, I can take it out when I get together, let alone buy it, even if I give it to the imperial court for free." But Lord Fang Cai also said that there is almost no grain in the treasury, and we will raise 1,800 stones, which is also a drop in the bucket!"

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