Outside Tokyo, on the banks of the Yellow River.

The Minister of Civil Affairs and Military Affairs and 3,000 Taoist priests gathered to watch Lin Lingsu pray for rain, and countless other Tokyo citizens also came to help.

Whether you believe in Taoism or not, everyone wants to succeed.

Well, except for Wang Zaixi.

Two months ago, they had already prayed for rain once, and Lin Lingsu and Wang Tsaixi took turns to fight.

As a result, a hail was prayed......

There are already hungry people in the north, and although the imperial court has ordered relief, it is only an order, and the specific operation depends on the local officials.

When encountering capable and responsible state and county officials, the people are also a little blessed. But more often than not, even the officials were powerless, so they could only persuade the gentry to take out the grain and give porridge.

Fortunately, Da Song still has the skill of pressing the bottom of the box: recruiting homeless people as an army!

It just so happened that in the past few years, there have been many major battles, and the soldiers have suffered a lot of losses.

When the displaced people gathered to a certain size, the imperial court finally took action, transported the grain sent from Jiangnan to the most severely affected areas, and ordered the state officials to recruit young and strong soldiers. The old and weak symbolically gave porridge, and anyway, the young and strong were withdrawn, and the remaining homeless people could not make trouble.

The Liao side was equally bad, with Jin soldiers outside, uprisings inside, and drought.

In the spring of this year, Dong Pang'er, a Han dynasty in Yizhou (Yi County), launched an uprising in Nanjing (southwest of Beijing) in the Liao State, and the ranks quickly grew to 10,000 people.

Dong Pang'er went all the way and fought with the Liao soldiers in Yishui. Even if the rebel army was dispersed, it soon gathered tens of thousands of people and flowed from Hebei to the surrounding areas of Datong.

Dong Pang'er secretly contacted the Great Song Dynasty, and Song Huizong promised to make him the king of Yan and gave him the name Zhao Yi.

This operation was very sassy, and Song Guo himself was a bunch of, and he actually went to meddle in the affairs of neighboring countries, making it clear that he was preparing for the future attack on Liao.

The two countries of Song and Liao, who have loved and killed each other for many years, have now become difficult brothers.

Thundered!

Lin Lingsu prayed for rain twice, and only a few days later, heavy rain fell on all roads in the north.

"Sir is really a man of God!" Song Huizong held Lin Lingsu's hand and said.

Lin Lingsu looked like a master, and said calmly: "This is not the work of the minister, but the blessing of Your Majesty." Since His Majesty is the son of God, God has his own rain to descend, and the minister is just communicating with the gods on behalf of His Majesty. ”

Song Huizong became more and more trusting of Lin Lingsu, and the situation of Taoist priest Wang Zaixi became even more dangerous.

It's just that Lin Lingsu prayed for rain too much, like stabbing the sky through a hole. It rained heavily for two days, and after a few days of clearing, it began to rain continuously.

Yellow River, Danshui, Xishui, Baihe ...... The water level has skyrocketed.

From Hedong to Henan, from Kaifeng to Nanyang, from Tangzhou to Xiangyang Hongfeng came wave after wave.

It was rare for the Song Dynasty to operate at full strength, and the Yellow River embankment in Henan was built to protect Kaifeng from flooding.

Other places can't be taken care of, Hejian Mansion and Cangzhou, both the Yellow River bursts its banks. Especially in Cangzhou City, the city walls were flooded half high, and the people of the city were forced to evacuate. Those who don't have time to run are buried in the belly of the fish, and those who run fast are starving.

In the entire Yellow Flood area of Hebei, more than one million people drowned, starved to death, and died of disease.

On Jingnan Road, Nanyang, Miyang to Xiangyang, a large number of villages were submerged, and countless victims fled towards Jingxi North Road.

Immediately afterwards, the Xihe, Huanqing, and Jingyuan earthquakes were the kind of major earthquakes in which the valley was broken and the river channel was displaced.

Huang Qianshan, who knocked on the bone and sucked the marrow in Hanzhong last year, was recommended by Wang Huang and has been transferred back to the central government after the beginning of spring. He was ordered by the emperor to inspect the earthquake damage, and found that it was a mess, so he simply concealed it and did not report it. When he returned to Beijing, he said that it was only a small earthquake, and that the victims had been properly resettled, so he was promoted again because of his merits.

The war in the northwest was temporarily stopped due to the disaster, and neither the Great Song nor the Western Xia could afford to fight.

However, Song Huizong was still thinking about Lianjin attacking Liao.

When the victims of the disaster in Hebei fled in all directions, the high pharmacists of the Han people in Liaodong, Cao Xiaocai, and the monk Jirong took more than 200 relatives to avoid the chaos and went to sea. They set out from Suzhou (Dalian Jinzhou) and were supposed to go to Goryeo, but they were blown to the Bohai Bay by a storm and waves.

From these populations, the governor of Dengzhou obtained more detailed information on Liaojin.

It turned out that the Liao State had lost all the territory in the northeast, and Song Huizong was overjoyed when he got the news, so he summoned Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others to discuss.

Cai Jing suggested: "In the name of buying horses, you might as well carry the high pharmacist and others to cross the sea from Dengzhou to contact the Jin Kingdom." First, I came to visit Jinguo to check the reality of Jinguo, and second, to test Jinguo's attitude. Even if you can't talk about it, you won't lose the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Song Huizong was very satisfied: "This old man is very serious, and he ordered the selection of generals and colonels, and carried the high pharmacist to the Jin Kingdom to buy horses in a military ship. ”

Cai Jing is actually reluctant to attack Liao, floods, droughts and earthquakes are coming, the victims everywhere are difficult to help, and the mess in Western Xia has not been dealt with, what do you want to recover Yanyun in this situation?

But Cai Jing is difficult to ride a tiger, he must curry favor with the emperor and do things according to the emperor's wishes, so as to consolidate his position and not be knocked down by political enemies such as Zheng Juzhong and Wang Hao.

As for Tong Guan, he only thinks about being crowned king in his heart.

That was promised by the first emperor, whoever can recover Yanyun can be crowned king!

……

It also began to rain in the Hanzhong and Shangyong areas, perhaps blocked by the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain, where the rainfall was just right, just ending the drought in the first half of the year.

Zhu Ming went out of the city with his entourage and officials, and did not sound the gong to clean the streets, but where he passed, the people automatically avoided it.

This year's days are very sad, but with Mrs. Zhu guarding her, she can barely get through it.

Only those grain merchants were disgruntled, and Zhu Ming allowed them to raise prices. But how much it will rise and when it will rise is completely up to Zhu Ming, and he will not give the slightest opportunity to hoard, and some grain merchants even make a small loss.

Outside the city of Golden State, thousands of victims are queuing up to receive food.

The cash-for-work has ended, and each person receives a bucket of food to go home. The government would send ships to transport them away in batches and disembark them closer to home.

A bucket of food will definitely not last long, and they will have to beg to survive when they go back. But at least when it rains, the plants come to life, and they can dig up the roots of the grass and eat the bark for a while.

Wealthier landlords would lend seeds to the victims so that they could replant the late millet so that they could harvest it before the snow fell. Borrowing grain and seeds is definitely usury, and you can't afford to pay it back in this life, but you can survive the crisis and save your life.

Zhu Ming had nothing to do about it, Qian Chen only got back more than 5,000 stone of grain, and he had no ability to continue to help the victims.

Batch after batch of victims got on the boat, and many of them were grateful for their kindness and kowtowed in the direction of the state city.

Huang Jue stood on top of the city tower, watched the ship go away, and whispered: "It has been found out, and part of the grain in Changping's warehouse was sold to grain merchants. There are still a lot left, stacked in the couch on the outskirts of the city, it is estimated that Li Tong is reluctant to sell them, and the further he drags it back, the more he can sell it for a high price. Taishou has been forcibly suppressing food prices, and Li Tongju has never made a move. ”

The couch room was called the Di shop in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the warehouse was called the warehouse in the Ming Dynasty.

The place where Li Daochong stores grain is an official bed, which has the function of inspecting taxes and temporarily storing goods.

"Let's go." Zhu Ming left the castle tower.

He stepped onto the cornucopia, took his entourage and officials, and went straight to the official couch on the outskirts of the city.

The officials there are all Li Daochong's henchmen.

But they didn't dare to stop them when they came in person.

It wasn't until Zhu Ming ordered to open the couch that someone finally stood up: "No one is allowed to enter without Li Tong's permission!" ”

"What are you?" Zhu Ming scolded.

The man said, "I am the personal companion of Li Tongju!" ”

Zhu Ming stretched out his hand and pressed the hilt of the sword: "The officials are with you, you must not meddle in local affairs, don't hurry up and get out of the way!" ”

Zhang Bo, Li Bao, Bai Sheng and others were usually responsible for conveying orders, or acting with officials, and never led people to perform official duties alone.

This was the rule of the Song Dynasty.

The man didn't dare to get out of the way, he couldn't deal with Li Daochong.

Since he was given the opportunity to not know each other, Zhu Ming had nothing to say, and shouted angrily: "You guy stole the grain from Changping behind your master's back, and you dare to resist arrest!" ”

"I didn't ......"

Before the words fell, Zhu Ming had already slashed out with a sword, and blood gushed from the other party's throat.

Just when everyone was shocked, Zhu Ming ordered: "Send this guy's body back to Li Tongju." Just said that he was stealing and selling official food from his master, and I helped him clean up the door so that he didn't have to come to the door to thank him. Tell the Golden State grain merchants again, let them come once every five days, and I will sell them grain at a lower price than the market price. ”

Although the drought is over, food is still tight.

This batch of stolen grain that is usually closed can just be held up for a while, so that the price of grain will not become too high.

Zhu Ming did not let the government sell grain directly, but sold it through grain merchants, which was to leave room for merchants and try not to use violent means to control grain prices.

Half an hour later, Li Daochong looked at the corpse that was with him, his face gloomy and he didn't say a word.

Li Bao smiled and arched his hand: "My family said that although the door was cleaned up for the general judgment, the general judgment did not have to be too grateful. ”

Li Daochong gritted his teeth, but he still couldn't hold back after all: "Of course I want to thank you, this kindness is in my heart, and there will be a good reward in the future!" ”

"Then my family husband is waiting for the general judgment to repay the favor. Leave! Li Bao turned and left.

Bang dang!

After Li Bao went out, Li Daochong couldn't hold it back, kicked down the high stool next to him, and the vase on the stool fell down and smashed it.

If it weren't for Zhu Ming making trouble, he could take advantage of this year's drought to hoard Juqi and steal official food, and make a lot of money!

But Zhu Ming didn't give a chance at all, and stared at the price of food every day. A meeting of merchants was convened once every five days, so that all grain merchants had to sell at official prices, and if any one sold expensive, they would be fined twice.

In the end, Li Daochong didn't make any money, nor did he get his reputation and political achievements, all of which were cheapened by Zhu Ming.

How can anyone in the world do this?

Li Daochong is now very sure that Zhu Ming is not greedy for half a penny, and he does not even take the gray income of the unspoken rules. The minister's treasury money, which Zhizhou could embezzle normally, was all handed over by Zhu Ming to Qian Chen to go to Xiangyang to buy grain.

As for the iron smelting yard, there is a lot of investment in the early stage, and the devil knows when the cost will be recovered.

Li Daochong was angry and frustrated, he couldn't fight such a person, because he didn't know how to fight at all.

Everything he did seemed to be in vain.

I can only hope that those impeachment recitals and the top ten crimes listed will make the emperor angry, after all, what the emperor values most is sacrifice.

Moreover, the magistrate did not sacrifice well, which means that he did not take the emperor to heart.

"Xianggong, do you still want to compete with the chief examiner of the state test surnamed Zhu?"

"How to fight? He is the governor of the state, and I am just a general judge. He has to be the main examiner, which one dares to oppose the Golden State? ”

Li Daochong roared and vented, and then returned to the back house to drink stuffy.

If the ten major crimes are not impeached, he will lie down in the future, and just want to leave this hellish place as soon as possible.

(End of chapter)