high official

Chapter 112

Fuyang County, Yongfeng warehouse.

Accompanied by Du Ziteng and Wu Wei, Jiang Xiancheng and Diao Zhubo stood in the A-name grain depot.

There is still half of the rice in the warehouse, but this is also the last half of the grain in Yongfeng warehouse...

"Can this rice be used for a day?" Jiang Xiancheng frowned.

"According to the master's order, everyone's quota will be halved." Du Ziteng said with a sad face, "So it's barely enough."

"What about tomorrow?" Jiang Xiancheng asked.

"I can only eat my [-] to [-] catties..." Du Ziteng said helplessly.This weight is definitely a big fat man in the Ming Dynasty, and it seems that he will never be hungry for Guancang.

"It's not enough to fit between the teeth." Jiang Xiancheng snorted, turned to Wu Wei and said, "If you drag it on, the common people will starve."

"I don't want to be in a lowly position." Wu Wei said with a bitter face, "But the old man thinks I'm selling cheap, and the big households don't want to increase the price. The two sides are stuck there. What can I do as a small pawn?"

"Is it not settled at all?" Jiang Xiancheng asked.

"The batch that has been completed has been negotiated, four stones and five acres," Wu Weidao: "The disagreement is on the unfinished 7000 acres. The master insisted on one price, saying that it is already a cheap sale, and the price cannot be increased. .And it must be paid in one lump sum, no deposit in advance.”

"That disagreement is big enough..." Jiang Xiancheng sighed: "At least let's deliver the deal first, right? The world eats the most, we can't let the common people stop cooking!"

"The big households don't agree, saying that the government said before that one mu of completed land and four mu of unfinished land must be fully negotiated before they are willing to deliver." Wu Wei said with a gloomy face.

"This is taking advantage of the fire to rob." Jiang Xiancheng said angrily: "Threatening the government to submit by cutting off the food!"

"You can't say that..." Master Diao, who had been silent for a long time, said at this moment: "The food of the big family does not fall from the sky. In the current famine, rice is precious. If you don't pay a high price, why should you let others buy it?" Food supply?" After a pause, he said, "Besides, don't they also open a porridge shop?"

"Don't mention their porridge shop." Du Ziteng spat, "The rice soup is so thin that it can be seen in a mirror. There are a dozen rice grains in a bowl, it's not bad."

"Is it an exaggeration?" Wu Wei sneered, "There are... more than [-] grains."

Hearing their strange voices, Master Diao knew that they thought his buttocks were crooked, but this time he was confident and said with a snort: "It's a kind act for someone to open a porridge shop, don't gossip here, if it wasn't for the old man to show off If we insist on giving relief to the victims, why do the people of Fuyang eat bran and swallow vegetables?"

"Indeed." On this matter, Jiang County Cheng and Diao Zhubo have the same opinion: "Other counties are trying their best to protect the people in their own county first. I heard that in Chun'an and Jiande counties, from the very beginning, Just serve porridge once a day at noon, regardless of age, one bowl per person, as long as you don’t starve to death.” Rubbing his face depressed, he said, “There’s no such thing as our Elder Master, as long as he’s willing to work, the whole family will be fed… ..."

"So people can still persist, but our county is about to run out of food." Master Diao continued, "Among the dozen or so counties receiving the victims, Fuyang is the first to run out of food, right?"

"Not yet." Wu Wei emphasized in a low voice.

"Shut up." Master Diao has tolerated him for a long time!Ever since Wang Xian became the head of the household, the department that was supposed to be in charge of the bookstore has completely ignored him as the master of the Sanya.Even if Wang Xian was not in Fuyang, Wu Wei reported directly to Weizhi County, and did not take him seriously at all! "It's the ecstasy soup that you and that Wang Er poured into your mind when the old man is fascinated by ghosts!"

"Okay, okay." Jiang Xiancheng persuaded Mr. Diao and said, "At the moment, we should help each other and don't start internal strife."

"I don't want internal strife," Chief Diao said excitedly, "I want to let the county magistrate understand that he can no longer be manipulated by the villains around him. We must cooperate with the big family quickly to solve the food rations of the people, or something serious will happen! "

"En." Jiang Xiancheng nodded deeply.Since Ma Dianshi was seconded to the mansion, Jiang Xiancheng was responsible for the security and prison in the county. He could clearly feel that since the rumors of food shortages in the county, especially after the government halved the ration quota, the local people were not satisfied. The resentment against the foreign disaster victims intensified rapidly.Various cases of provocation and beating of victims emerged in an endless stream every day, and several people were even killed, which made him feel extremely stressed. "When the magistrate comes back in the afternoon, I will go find him with you and persuade him to make concessions to the big family."

"It should have been like this a long time ago!" Master Diao said happily.

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The county government signs the house.Wei Zhixian will come back every two days for half a day, so that he can deal with the accumulated official duties. This afternoon, it happens to be his office time again.Before dealing with a few business matters, Jiang Xiancheng and Diao Zhubo came hand in hand.

"Don't even think about it!" After listening to the two men's persuasion, Wei Zhixian's reaction was still strong, "This county has spent a huge amount of money and food, and tens of thousands of people have worked hard, blood and sweat, and it can't all be taken advantage of by those rich and powerful gentry!"

"Otherwise, what can we do?" Jiang Xiancheng persuaded earnestly: "Is human life more important, or these lands?"

"The grain bought from Huguang will arrive soon." Wei Zhixian said in a muffled voice.

"What if we can't reach it..." Master Diao said threateningly: "The hungry people will vent their anger on the victims, and it will lead to civil chaos, and we will lose our heads!"

"It's not..." Wei Zhixian shook his head, and was about to say something when he heard hurried footsteps outside.Wei Zhixian frowned and asked, "Who?"

"My lord, it's Catcher Hu who's here, there's something urgent." Chang Sui hurriedly reported.

"come in."

"My lord, something is wrong," Hu Buliu said anxiously as soon as he came in, "I don't know who took the lead. The people in this county began to expel the victims and not let them Live at home!"

"What!" Wei Zhixian thumped in his heart, and said to himself, "I'm really afraid of something."

"The disaster victims don't live for nothing, they pay the rent. And because of this, the people are exempted from taxes for a year, how can they be kicked out!" Jiang Xianzheng immediately became anxious, if something went wrong, he would be the first to escape.

"The common people don't understand the big truth." Master Diao said sarcastic words: "They know that the official warehouse will run out of food soon, and they will be hungry. There is no reason without white rice, my lord!"

"Go and have a look first!" Wei Zhixian got up with a dark face, took the black yarn from Hu Buliu, and put it on his head heavily.

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The sedan chairs of several officials and masters stopped at the entrance of the yamen. Wei Zhixian opened the curtain of the sedan chair, and saw that hundreds of disaster victims had gathered outside the gate, and people kept coming towards the county yamen with their families.

When they came to the horoscope wall, they didn't make any noise or noise, they all knelt quietly in the dark.

The Min Zhuang and archers of the county government all held weapons and watched every move of the victims nervously through the gate.

There was dead silence in front of the entire yamen, and the atmosphere was extremely dignified.

Until Wei Zhixian's sedan chair appeared at the gate, everyone's eyes turned to Wei Yuan, the Fuyang magistrate who was sitting inside.

Wei Zhixian also looked at them. He saw depression, anger and fear in the eyes of the victims, and the victims saw depression and heaviness in his eyes.

"My lord!" Zhang Mazi stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to report, "After these disaster victims were evicted by the landlord, they gathered in front of the county government office! How should we deal with it?"

"Withdraw the soldiers." Wei Zhixian said lightly.

"Ah..." Zhang Mazi was stunned.

"Don't you understand?" Wei Zhixian asked with a frosty face.

"Yes!" Hu Buliu hurriedly responded, waved his hands and said, "Quickly withdraw!"

A group of archers and Minzhuang withdrew from the gate.

"Open the gate." Wei Zhixian ordered again.

"Absolutely not!" Jiang County Cheng and Diao Zhubo were terrified, and quickly stopped them: "Our family members are all living in the county government office! What if..."

"There will be no chance," Wei Zhixian said in a deep voice: "I understand them, they just have nowhere to go and come to seek asylum!"

Wei Zhixian said this with confidence, because he and the victims have been together day and night for almost two months, and they have established trust with each other long ago.The disaster victims won his trust with hard work and simplicity, and he also won the trust of the disaster victims with his integrity.

If you are sincere, why should you be afraid?
"Empty all the rooms to accommodate these victims who have nowhere to go." Wei Zhixian ordered.

"This..." Jiang Xiancheng and Diao Zhuzhu couldn't believe it: "What kind of decent is this?"

Seeing that the officials were still unwilling to move, Wei Zhixian said coldly again: "I allow you to move out of the county office with your family members during this period of time until you are sure it is safe."

After finishing speaking, ignoring the officials under his command who were looking at each other in blank dismay, Wei Zhixian strode to the gate, intending to open it with his own hands.

Hu Buliu hurried forward and unlocked the gate for him.

The gate slowly opened, and there was finally no barrier between the victims and Weizhi County.

But they didn't get up, they just looked up at Wei Zhixian, their eyes weeping silently.

There were also two traces of tears on Wei Zhixian's face. He took a deep breath, cupped his fists and bowed deeply to the victims: "Do you still believe me?"

"Believe it!" the victims said with tears.

"Thank you for not having a conflict with the landlord," Wei Zhixian said sincerely: "Thank you for your love for me!"

A white-haired old man, who was their village head, said in a pale voice, "How did the Elder treat us? We can learn from the sun! We have nothing to repay, we can only accept it and not make trouble for the Elder..."

"I'm ashamed..." Wei Zhixian's eyes that had just been wiped dry were filled with tears again: "There may be some misunderstandings here, before clearing up, please stay in the county government for a while!"

"We can't live in the county yamen, what's the proper way for the old man to do that?" The victims were unwilling to affect his yamen.

"If you are allowed to sleep on the street, how decent am I, my lord?" Wei Zhixian helped up the white-haired old man, and said to the crowd: "Come along, I don't need to invite you one by one!"

The victims cried again, but this time they were tears of emotion...

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