Sui and Tang Dynasties: Killing Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty to sacrifice to heaven at the beginni

Chapter 412 What a great move! ! !

The middle-aged man walked in front, and Li Mu followed to the village. At this time, most of the villagers had already gone out to work, and only a few children in the village were playing and frolicking.

Li Mu followed the middle-aged man to the house, and the middle-aged man dug out several bags of grain from the warehouse.

"Look, General, this is disaster relief food!" The middle-aged man said, pointing to several large bags of food in front of him.

These pockets are filled to the brim, and if you just look at the weight, there is nothing wrong with it.

Because it is only a reduction in production, not a complete harvest, some grain can still be harvested from the fields. In addition, taxes have been exempted, and in ancient times there was a two-meal system. Therefore, the distribution of these disaster relief grains is completely enough for the people to survive the disaster year. that's it.

Li Mu stared closely at the relief food. Since there is no problem on the surface, then the problem must appear inside.

"Open the grain bag and have a look!" Li Mu ordered, pointing to several generations of grain on the ground.

Following Li Mu's order, several officials from the household department immediately strode forward and opened one of the bags of grain to have a look.

After seeing the grain in the pockets, the officials of the household department seemed to be very shocked, and quickly opened the rest of the pockets.

After several officials from the household department looked at each other, they took a handful of grain from the grain bag and came to Li Mu.

"General, it's all like this!"

Li Mu grabbed a handful of grain and saw that [-]% of the grain consisted of wheat husks, fine sand, etc.

"General, look!"

"All the relief food in the whole village is like this. Hey, if it's not the case, even [-]% of it will not starve to death. If you distribute some of this kind of food, you don't want to eat it, or don't eat it!" The middle-aged man sighed Said in a tone.

For ordinary people, after this kind of disaster relief food is distributed, the wheat husks can barely be swallowed, but the fine sand and pebbles may not be able to eat it.

When this kind of food is distributed, the common people have to waste their labor to pick it up before they can eat it.If this is the case, it would be better to only distribute [-]% of the clean food.

"There is no such reason, no such reason."

"Under my nose, I dare to use such tricks!" Li Mu said angrily.

How could Li Mu not be angry? Right under his nose, the magistrate of Lu County dared to play such a trick.

"General, this is you who are in Shandong. They don't dare to blatantly drift away like in previous years, so they used this kind of bluffing method!"

"General, be punished severely!"

"No punishment is not enough to cause civilian indignation!"

The officials of the household department said one after another that these officials of the household department are all angry youths, and they are also very angry at this time.

If it is the method of reducing food distribution in previous years, it can also be explained by the large area affected by the disaster and the lack of food.However, the current method of mixing fine sand, stones, etc. in the grain is simply telling the people that the grain has been corrupted by officials at all levels.

Lu County.

County government.

"Tread, step, step."

There was a sound of armor trembling, and a group of armored cavalry surrounded the county government in Lu County.

"Master, master!"

"The big thing is bad, the big thing is bad! The soldiers have surrounded our government office, it's over now, it's completely over!" The master ran into the backyard of the county government in a frenzy.

This ancient county office is not only the office of the county magistrate, but also the residence of the county magistrate.Work in the front yard and live in the back yard.

"It's over, the Dongchuang incident has happened!" The magistrate of Lu County sat down on a chair decadently.

Li Mu personally sits in Lu County, and it is a very risky thing to play this kind of tricks under Li Mu's nose.

In fact, the county magistrate of Lu County also expected his end in his heart.

However, the price of grain on the market has been raised several times. Even if they are a group of officials in Lu County, even if they go bankrupt, it is difficult to make up for the grain that is greedy.

The most important point is that even if you have money now, you can't buy food in Shandong.

The county magistrate of Lu County naturally did not dare to resist. After Li Mu's soldiers arrested the magistrate of Lu County, they sent people to arrest the county magistrate and county lieutenant.

Among the officials at all levels in the county seat, the county magistrate and the county lieutenant are second only to the county magistrate. There is no doubt that the county magistrate is corrupt, and these two people are also inseparable.

Soon, the county magistrate, county magistrate, and county lieutenant of Lu County were put together by Li Mu.

Li Mu looked at the three people who were kneeling down and shaking like chaff, and asked coldly, "What's the matter with these grains?"

After being questioned by Li Mu, the three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, but no one dared to speak up.

"Don't tell me, everyone will be pulled out and hit with fifty army sticks first!" Li Mu said coldly.

There is something to be said about beating the army sticks. Thirty army sticks are minor injuries, fifty army sticks are serious injuries, one hundred army sticks are fatal, and two hundred army sticks can make dumplings.

When they heard that they were going to hit fifty army sticks, the three of them hardly peed their pants in fear.With their pampered bodies, it would be difficult for them to beat their own concubines with fifty army sticks on weekdays.

If Li Mu were to beat them with fifty army sticks now, I am afraid that this life would be lost here.

From the perspective of the author, it is not wise for them to resell the stored grain and earn the difference, and many small officials in the county government know it.

It's just that in previous years, after a bumper harvest of grain, they were able to replenish the treasury, so no one said much.

This year's disaster is a joke.

This is like some enterprises in later generations borrowing new ones to return old ones.Get a loan from the bank, and then when the loan is about to expire, take a loan from another bank and pay back the due payment.

In this process, once something goes wrong, it will be the result of a total collapse.

This is what the county magistrate of Lu County and others are playing. When the grain is about to mature but not mature, the price of grain will inevitably rise.At this time, they sold the grain at a high price.

When the new grain comes out, there will be more grain among the people, and the price of grain will inevitably fall. They are buying grain at a low price to make up for the government treasury.

In this way, between buying and selling, it can bring a lot of income every year, which can be called a perpetual motion machine.

However, this year seems to be playing off. This kind of thing can succeed countless times, but it can only fail once.

Because a person has only one head, if he fails once, he loses his position and his head.

The county magistrate of Lu County knew that he would not be able to bear the punishment, so he would naturally speak up at that time. In this case, it would be better to say it sooner rather than later, and it would save a lot of physical pain.

"General, the thing is like this. The three of us sold the food at a high price in the past few months. I shared [-]% of the money sold, and the two of them each got [-]%."

"Originally, we planned to wait for the new grain to come in, and then make up the difference in the government treasury. But we never thought that this year would be a disaster year, so we're out of luck!" the county magistrate of Lu County sighed.

(End of this chapter)