Enter the room 2

Chapter 375
On the one hand, Yuan Yunzhong sent people back to the capital to inquire about the news, and on the other hand, he sent people to discuss with wealthy households in Wanping, Daxing, and Fang counties about borrowing grain.

The squires from the three counties showed great face, and all of them came to the temporary meeting hall at the foot of Shijingshan.

Master Bai excused himself from being unwell and did not participate.

Yuan Yunzhong and Mr. Xiang received these gentry together.

After exchanging greetings, everyone was about to sit down according to their superiority and inferiority, but there was a commotion outside, and some people shouted loudly: "I would rather die than be exiled to the Nine Sides!"

"It's a long way from Nine Sides. Rather than dying on the way to Nine Sides in exile, it's better to eat a full meal and die at the foot of Shijing Mountain. Anyway, it's under the root of the imperial city. Feng Shui is good. After death, you can be reborn in the capital, eat enough and wear clothes." warm!"

"We want to eat! We want to live!"

Although Mr. Xiang gave Yuan Yunzhong an idea in Lufang that day, Yuan Yunzhong felt that the matter was too big, and he didn't decide to evacuate all 5 people to Jiubian hastily. Why did this news suddenly spread? Not to mention the civil uprising caused by going out, it was also when Yuan Yunzhong borrowed grain from the gentry of the three counties.

Yuan Yunzhong's expression was slightly cold, while Master Xiang smiled and bowed to everyone in the conference hall, and said, "Excuse me, let me go and see what's going on outside?"

"Since we are making trouble at this time, we must not give up until we see me." Yuan Yunzhong stopped Mr. Xiang and said with a serious expression, "Let's go out and have a look together!"

Master Xiang frowned.

There are rules for being an official. If Shangfeng has not yet decided, you can't talk nonsense outside anyway.

He thought that neither he nor the people around him would do such a thing, but the news got out, and everyone in Lufang at that time was suspicious.

What he wants to do most now is not to appease the refugees, but to find out the messenger.

But before that, he had to find a way to convince Yuan Yunzhong that he was not the one behind the scenes.

He followed Yuan Yunzhong out of the chamber.

In the meeting hall behind him, it seemed like a frying pan had exploded, and the buzzing voices of the country gentlemen could be heard.

All the squires in the counties near the capital did not keep an eye on the court's movements. Yuan Yun Zhongliang did not borrow it, which made many people suspect that Yuan Yunzhong's move was against the emperor's heart. If there is no way to appease these refugees, I am afraid that today the grain is It is difficult to borrow.

The captain who drew his sword firmly suppressed the ragged refugees and prevented them from breaking into the meeting hall, but the refugees who kept surrounding them made the defense of the captains as fragile as a dike that would soon be washed away.

Mr. Xiang has never seen such a scene before.

His face turned pale, and regret secretly surged in his heart.

I feel that a refugee is a refugee, and that in troubled times, heavy codes should be used, and Lord Bai should be supported to wipe them out.

Yuan Yunzhong asked the guards beside him: "Have you found all Zhao Laowu's people?"

The guard said: "Seven were found, and five people were not found."

It should be those people who encouraged the refugees to make trouble.

Time is too tight, and the affairs of the Twelve Guards are quite bureaucratic. It is not unusual to have today's situation.

Yuan Yunzhong was thinking about impeaching the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. A refugee broke through the captain's defense and cried out, "Master Qingtian, please save our child. The child has not touched a drop of water for three days!"

The captain hurriedly drove him into the crowd.But someone in the crowd started to cry: "Master Qingtian, please show mercy and give us a bowl of porridge!"

"What (how) is it?!" Yuan Yunzhong's face darkened, and a hostility flashed between his brows.

The county magistrate of Wanping County died in the line of duty. In the past few days, he has been letting the head of Wanping County, Bo, act in place of the magistrate, and led the yamen servants to set up porridge sheds everywhere.

It is definitely not enough to eat, but it can continue to live.

A school lieutenant faltered and said: "There is not enough food, sometimes I can only drink rice soup."

Even the rice soup was mixed with water.

Yuan Yunzhong raised his eyebrows, like a sword out of its scabbard, he loudly said to the turbulent refugees: "I was sent by the emperor to appease you. The court has been giving out porridge, and I don't know what happened. Don't you Be anxious, say one by one."

The crowd immediately calmed down.

Yuan Yunzhong said loudly: "Where is Bo, the governor of Wanping County?"

Immediately an official stood up.

Yuan Yunzhong said to the refugees: "If you have something to do, just go to the master Bo and tell him, line up and come one by one. Let's write it down first and deal with it according to the urgency."

Immediately, a group of refugees flocked to Zhubo.

The master Bo was so frightened that his voice was trembling: "Do you listen to Mr. Yuan? Mr. Yuan said, come one by one."

It's up to the alert captain to maintain order.

Zhu Bo hurriedly sent a yamen servant to settle the case, and let the county yamen's clerk be responsible for registering the refugees' demands.

He ran up to Yuan Yunzhong and said with a wry smile: "My lord, it's not that we didn't do anything, but we opened those two granaries, and there was no grain in the granaries at all."

Yuan Yunzhong was stunned.

Of course he knows that there are various bad habits in the officialdom, but he should have some scruples when he is close to the capital and at the foot of the emperor.

The owner is full of helplessness: "The two granaries have a shallow layer of old grain on the surface, and the bottom is full of haystacks. But nothing can be seen on the books. The ambassador in charge of the granary has died in this refugee riot. , even if we want to find someone to ask, we can’t find out why.”

When he said this, his old face blushed: "I thought everyone was dead, and you sent someone to the capital to adjust the grain. I can support it for a day at most. I can preserve the reputation of my two colleagues and fool this matter." past."

What he didn't expect was that when he saw that the food didn't come, he found a way to raise some in private and cooked clear water porridge, and the refugees mutinied.

Yuan Yunzhong couldn't even get angry.

He remembered what his grandfather said, non-Hanlin is not allowed to enter the cabinet, and these elders who have been released from the cabinet may not even recognize quinoa.

His first priority is to solve the food problem.

He asked Master Bo: "Is there any other way to raise food?"

Master Bo shook his head: "I have borrowed everything I can."

Yuan Yunzhong thought for a while, and promised those refugees loudly: "Don't worry, everyone, the food from the imperial court will arrive early tomorrow morning."

The refugees cheered.

Mr. Xiang worried: "This, if it doesn't arrive..."

Yuan Yunzhong interrupted Mr. Xiang: "I went to Beijing overnight."

Now it can only be like this!

Yuan Yunzhong said: "Then please Master Xiang find out who spread the words of Lu Fang."

Mr. Xiang replied "Yes" repeatedly.

If he can't find out, he can't get away with it.

Yuan Yunzhong went back to the conference hall. Master Bai came here at some point, and was chatting with the squires of the three counties with a smile. Is it done?"

He also said to the squires: "Don't look at Mr. Yuan as young, but his seniority is high. I and his cousin Wang Zi are in the same discipline. Wang Zi, you should know that Honglu Temple Minister, the youngest Xiao Jiuqing .”

Those country gentlemen were praised by everyone.

Yuan Yunzhong had no intention of getting entangled with this old fox, and said directly: "I want to go back to Jingmiansheng, and I will leave this place to you, Mr. Bai."

Everyone in the chamber was stunned.

(End of this chapter)