The eunuch who was going to step forward to hold Jiang Ziyuan retreated.

"Your Majesty."

The boy deliberately gave a big gift.

"Your Majesty asked me how I knew this, and I can't hide it, when I was from Jiang Guo to Yandu, I met a Yan man crying on the road, and his voice was extremely sad, and those who heard it wept——"

"I got out of the carriage and asked the reason, and the person who was about to die brought all the old things of his family together, which was really shocking."

Jiang Ziyuan's tone froze, and he deliberately stopped here, and everyone's curiosity was aroused.

Emperor Yan's face visibly deteriorated with the naked eye.

can make the king of a country unable to control his emotions, and everyone never cares, and gradually becomes a little interested.

Could it be that the famine in Yan Country ten years ago was really boring?

Some people who didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement asked: "How can you be frightened?" ”

"The county where they are located was the first to break out of famine, and the father and son went to the government to receive relief food, but they were driven away by the sticks. There were those who persistently gathered in front of the house to beg for food, but they were directly beaten to death as mobs. ”

"The grass and trees are full of hunger, and the children are eaten, and it is not easy for the people who have been hungry for so many days to fight against natural disasters, how can they have the strength to fight against the government with weapons?"

"Only a small number of his neighbors in the same county starved to death on the way to seek help from the government, and most of the rest died at the hands of the government officials, and they did not see a bucket of relief food until they died."

"His father and son were lucky enough to survive by eating dry tree bark, but because they went to the government to ask for food, they were labeled as 'anti-thieves' and 'mobs', and they hid in XZ for ten years and did not dare to return to their hometowns."

"After years of running around and worrying, that person's body has long been empty, and his life is short. His son, who was only a young man, even died before him, and the white-haired man sent the black-haired man. ”

A certain princess, who did not know the suffering of the world, gasped.

Even Wen Yao frowned.

She had only read a one-sided account of the famine in the book, but it was more complicated than she had imagined.

"Let's ask Yan Guo to harvest in autumn and hide in winter, there are hundreds of granaries of all sizes in various places, why were they caught off guard when the famine broke out, and millions of people died?"

After the young man finished speaking, he deliberately stopped again.

Someone immediately answered: "Could it be that there are officials who withhold food at all levels?" ”

Corruption in disaster relief is common, and it is more or less common in all countries.

"When the disaster is serious to a certain extent, there is no point in hoarding food, even if you deduct the disaster relief food, you can't make any money, because the vast majority of people don't have any money at all."

"What's more, under the national disaster, the risk of deducting official food is too great, and if you are not careful, it will cost tens of thousands of lives, if you ask the guilt afterwards, you will lose your head, which official would be willing to take such a big risk, just for a little silver tael?"

Jiang Ziyuan is reasonable.

There is a slang saying among the bureaucrats in Kyushu: small disasters make oil and water, and big disasters break their legs.

It means that if the disaster is not serious, they can deduct some from it, but if it is a serious disaster, not only do they dare not deduct the disaster relief subsidies above, but they will even pay out of their own pockets to reduce casualties.

There is no other reason, once there are too many casualties, even if the data is falsely reported, it will be found and then questioned when recruiting strong soldiers after the fact.

"So Ziyuan has reason to suspect that the grain stored in your country's grain warehouse has long been embezzled, and only an empty granary can't save the hungry and cold victims no matter what."

"So it's not that the government is unwilling to distribute food, but that there is no food to distribute, and the grain saved in the good years has long been embezzled by officials before the famine broke out—"