Chu Zhenggao sat on the magnificent dragon chair, his eyes moved away from Su Wang's body, and then looked at the great rivers and mountains of his Chu family outside the Jinluan Palace.

"Since Su Xiang has said so, then I will see if the stomachs of those corrupt officials can be filled after the entire Great Chu treasury is emptied! Tomorrow, all the eight million quintals of grain used for disaster relief will leave Beijing!"

Chu Zheng clenched his fists tightly, it seems that he really hates those corrupt officials in his heart!

"There is not a single grain left!

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

In the kneeling of the ministers, Chu Zheng waved his sleeves and angrily stepped off the dragon chair and strode away.

And as the ministers of the humerus of Da Chu left with gloomy faces and silent voices, Lu Xiangrui fell alone at the back of the team, looking gloomy.

Outside the Jinluan Palace, Lu Xiangrui looked at the ninety-nine steps under his feet and was stunned, he himself didn't expect why the academy he wanted to run would become like this.

"Yo! I'm still thinking about your broken academy! In my opinion, you can get yellow as soon as possible, what are you doing nonsense? I thought you could make a name for yourself! But you don't look at what the academy teaches, and it's not just some animals that will only bring disaster to the country and the people!"

Hearing this familiar voice, Lu Xiangrui opened his mouth and wanted to refute two sentences, but in the end, he found that there really seemed to be nothing to refute these words.

The people who came stepped forward and stood side by side with Lu Xiangrui, their eyes crossed the gate of the Donghua Gate of the Imperial Palace, and also crossed the gate of the capital to look at the unknown distance.

After being silent for a long time, Lu Xiangrui said in a depressed manner, with a deep loneliness in his tone, and he seemed to be able to only think of this reason for his reading seeds.

"Either way, there's always something wrong with reading. ”

"Reading?"

The people who came didn't eat his set, and the tone of his speech was a little frivolous and full of mockery.

"Do you think there are still a few decent scholars in the world? Or do you think that those scholars regard the etiquette, righteousness, wisdom, and faith of scholars as important as their lives? But you must know that among the thousands of scholars in this world, there is such a Lu Xiangrui as you! Others can't live a life in a broken house like you! Others don't take your Confucian scriptures and the teachings of the sages in their eyes at all!"

After the visitor finished speaking, he patted Lu Xiangrui on the shoulder.

"I'm not saying that your idea is wrong, but if you take a big step, sooner or later you will have to fall on your heels, study, study! But that's not something that can be done by people who want to study after having a academy. Instead of pestering the emperor to repair the academy all day long, you might as well think about it first, what is your so-called scholar studying?"

After saying this, the man left, and looking at the figure of the man slowly leaving, Lu Xiangrui himself didn't expect that it would be Cheng Yijie who would say this to him, but even the word reading really needed him to think about it.

The next day, with a holy decree of Chu Zheng handed down, there was a steady stream of horse-drawn carriages transporting grain out of the granary of the treasury in the southern suburbs of the capital, and then distributed to the world.

According to Chu Zheng's will, the eight million quintals of disaster relief grain that were originally to be distributed to various places in batches were all transported out of the capital at one time, and there was really not a grain of rice left.

But if this batch of grain still doesn't fall into the mouths of the people, then Da Chu will no longer be able to take out a single grain of grain.

......

Wanshan County, Lingzhou, county seat.

"Hurry, hurry, transport all this grain to the warehouse first, don't be in a hurry to distribute it, wait until I go to discuss with Lord Liu before making plans!"

Master Chang Huan left with peace of mind after seeing with his own eyes that all the relief food sent by the imperial court had been put into storage, and turned around to go to find Liu Shenyu, the county guard.

According to my previous experience, although this first batch of disaster relief grain will come quickly, it will never be so much, but this time the state city directly distributed 200,000 quintals of grain to our Wanshan County, which is still the result of the layers of exploitation by those adults in the capital and the state city. You see......"

Chang Huan judged it based on his previous disaster experience, but he didn't know that this time was different from the previous situation.

The grain was not sent down in batches, and the officials in Beijing and the state city all had their own secret sources, and they all knew that Chu Zheng had just finished his anger in the capital, so no one dared to reach out and touch this batch of grain.

And these 200,000 quintals of grain are also the only batch of relief grain in Wanshan County in the next six months.

"Master, then we still keep thirty percent of the grain according to the previous proportion?"

After tasting the sweetness of the last time, Liu Shenyu found that no one would come down to investigate, including the six doors that were terrifying in the past, there was no movement, so his courage also grew.

"My lord, I didn't say that in two months at most, officials from all over the country will reach out to the imperial court to ask for grain, and then we will just shout with them! We are not afraid that we will not be able to distribute food, we have eleven counties in Wanshan County, and it is enough for each county to divide 10,000 quintals of grain and 10,000 quintals of chaff, and the rest will be all ours!"

"It's... Good!"

Liu Shenyu wanted to say that this would not be too ruthless, but when the words came to his mouth, he changed his taste again, thinking of the silver taels of white flowers that had become from grain, who could not be moved?

In this way, the eight million quintals of disaster relief grain sent by Chu Zheng were planed by various counties in the same way, and there was nothing left in the half-moon scene.

On the first day of receiving the food, I boiled a pot of rice porridge for the victims, but on the second day, half of the bran was mixed with it, and after half a month, there was no shadow of rice and all the bran was gone.

It is also strange to say that in these years of drought and famine, the grain stores and major trading houses were the first to sell out the chaff for livestock rather than the rice for human consumption!

......

Taopu County, Huanan County, Bianzhou.

Taopu County is located in the south, so the grain production is relatively large, until now some farmers still quietly leave surplus grain in their homes and do not know where to hide.

Although these people are ignorant, once it comes to food, they will become extremely shrewd, and now they obviously have the food of the court to eat, why should they eat their own food?

Besides, there is a lot of food put down by the imperial court, and the Yamen of Taopu County provides two meals a day, and they are all big white porridge, although it is not enough, but it is more than enough food and clothing.

If they occasionally find wild vegetables, they can sprinkle some salt to eat, which makes them think that this is the food they can eat in a famine year!

In the county yali, Shi Linwu, who is now the number one leader in Taopu County, sat on the lobby, and his subordinate positions were Zhang Boyang, the chief bookkeeper, and Jiang Hanlin, the county lieutenant.

Shi Linwu and Zhang Bozhi were drinking tea with relaxed expressions, and in the surrounding counties, the victims of Taopu County did not make a fuss, so it is no wonder that they still have the leisure to sit in the county government and drink tea!

However, compared to Shi Linwu, Jiang Hanlin seemed a little restless, not only did he not touch the tea on the table, but even the chair seemed to be burning his buttocks, which made people unable to settle down, neither did he twist left nor turned right.

"Lord Jiang, what's wrong with you? It's the end of May, and our Taopu County is still as stable and harmonious as ever, is there anything that Lord Jiang is not satisfied with?"

can be praised by Su Ruyu as a smart person, Shi Linwu can't see through the mind of this man in the army who only knows some martial arts?

However, he didn't break it directly, but was ready to tease this stuffy gourd Jiang Hanlin.

Jiang Hanlin, the county lieutenant, saw that his deliberately hot gesture had worked, and finally attracted Shi Xiancheng's attention, so he immediately turned his head and said to Shi Linwu.

"Master Shi, I didn't say you, I obviously gave you an idea, let you change thirty percent of the rice to bran! Why don't you understand?"

Shi Linwu pretended to be surprised and said.

"Master Jiang, I've changed it! Not only have I changed, but I've also replaced fifty percent of the rice with bran!

Jiang Hanlin had actually seen that this Shi Linwu was playing tricks on him, but he had nothing to do but let him lead him by the nose.

"Master Shi, I don't think you don't understand, you are pretending to be confused with understanding! I asked you to change rice into chaff, is that for the sake of food for the victims? I... Alas!"

"It's... Master Jiang, isn't your suggestion to replace rice with bran because you are worried that the disaster victims will not have enough food to eat? But now there is still enough food! When only 30% of the grain is left, it will not be too late for us to mix in some chaff!"

The more Shi Linwu was in a hurry to pierce the layer of window paper, the more anxious Jiang Hanlin was to say something clearly, and Zhang Bozhi on the side was already smiling with a teacup.

"Master Shi, at this time, I don't care about any face, let's make it clear! Look at other counties, after replacing rice with bran, they put the extra grain into their own pockets, but what about us? Not to mention greedy for food, we also put a lot of it ourselves! What is the matter!"

After saying everything in his heart at once, Jiang Hanlin seemed to feel a lot more comfortable, not only exhaled a long breath, but also picked up the teacup on the table and drank it all.

But Shi Linwu and Zhang Botian looked at each other and laughed, the town has little fun, for the two of them, teasing Jiang Hanlin in their leisure time is one of the few pleasures they have.

After laughing, Shi Linwu patted Jiang Hanlin on the shoulder.

"Okay, okay, I won't tease you, do you think that batch of food is easy to take? Release all the disaster relief food at one time, that is the result of the emperor already angry, if we don't make the trick a little brighter now, once the disaster passes, it will be our heads to move!"

Jiang Hanlin was still unconvinced when he heard Shi Linwu's words, and angrily slapped off the hand he put on his shoulder.

"Just blow it, you, now in the whole country, how many places are not greedy? Just our Taopu County is honest, and now the officials of several counties around here are laughing at the people of our Taopu County who can't be officials, and they don't dare to be greedy for the money that can be easily obtained, they are all greedy, but we haven't seen the people above come to them for trouble! What are we afraid of!"

"Hey... Dissipate your anger, Master Jiang dissipate your anger, if you believe me, don't fight the idea of that batch of grain, that thing will definitely be a hot potato in the end!"

"Humph!"

Jiang Hanlin only knew that his pocket had not only not increased, but had shrunk a lot, so he couldn't listen to Shi Linwu's persuasion, and he twisted his head to the side angrily.

And Shi Linwu happened to be a good-natured person, and seeing that he was still sulking alone, he went around to the other side of him and continued.

"Okay, okay! Let's not talk about anything about the court's investigation, even in the end, the court really has so much food that there is no place to put it, and if you really don't care about anything, let the officials below embezzle, I'll ask you a word!"

Shi Linwu slowly put his mouth to Jiang Hanlin's ear.

"Can you feel at ease when you eat the food used for disaster relief?"

Hearing Shi Linwu's words, especially a reckless man in the army like Jiang Hanlin, he lowered his head a little ashamedly, and even lowered his voice with words.

It's not that he doesn't understand something, it's not so much that he cares about that batch of grain, but that he wants to fight between his colleagues in several surrounding counties!

"Actually, I'm not really rare for one or two thousand quintals of grain, but... It's just that I see that everyone is greedy, my heart is itching, you say that there is a lot of food, and my family can't eat it all, and my aunt doesn't like me to go home to get the things of the government, I just like to be competitive, and my old Jiang thinks that he also has a share!"

"Hahaha!"

Seeing that this Jiang Hanlin was making a cowardly gesture like a little lady, Shi Linwu and Zhang Boyang laughed again.

"Jiang Hanlin, you don't want to think like this, although we were scolded as stupid by the officials around us, but the people of Taopu County, who don't praise us for being honest! ”

After Zhang Botian smiled, he comforted Jiang Hanlin, since everyone has a little lady's attitude of admitting her mistakes, then he can't hold on to the 'little lady's braids too much'.

And after Zhang Bozhi finished speaking, Shi Linwu took over his words and continued.

Although we are greedy, it is a peaceful thing, at that time everyone can at least have enough to eat, but if we have to reach out and be greedy in this situation, it is too much for pigs and dogs. ”

Shi Linwu got up from his seat and took one last look at Zhang Boyan and Jiang Hanlin before walking out of the county office.

"Remember, we can be called corrupt officials by the people, but we must not be scolded as dog officials by the people! There is no reason why good people don't do it, but we want to be dogs!"