Concubine

Chapter 187 Weighing
Master Jin said: "No problem! Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. All sage kings understand this truth. Today's sages are wise and powerful, far better than the so-called wise lords of previous dynasties, and they are more considerate of people's feelings. Therefore, disaster relief is what the emperor cares most about." , it is already clear from the fact that the imperial court allocated disaster relief food twice in a row."

"But now, the hungry people in the city have not received relief. People who starved to death and frozen to death abound. There are more and more incidents of looting food. The emotions of the victims are already showing signs of losing control. Create chaos, and it is very likely to cause chaos or even riots."

Master Jin paused for a moment, and continued: "From the news that the guards have found just now, this sign is already very obvious. Once there is chaos in Wuchang or even chaos in Huguang, the consequences will be unimaginable. This is the last thing the emperor wants to see."

"If there is such a result that the emperor doesn't want to see, from a bad point of view, as a special envoy of Jin Yiwei, your lord has the position of picketing all officials. If he sees the danger and stands by, I'm afraid it will be hard to absolve himself of the blame; from a good point of view , if your lord can turn the tide, stabilize the situation, and stop the riot in time at this critical moment, it will be a miracle, and it will also benefit the people with immeasurable merit!"

Master Jin's words awakened the man in his dream. Yang Qiuchi nodded again and again, and stood up abruptly: "That's it! Go to Huguang Jinyiwei's thousand households, take Jinyiwei to take over the magistrate's yamen, and release food for disaster relief!"

Speaking of the last sentence, Yang Qiuchi's face suddenly became serious.

Song Yuner likes excitement the most, and taking over the magistrate's yamen is the most fun. Besides, she can save so many ordinary people. She almost jumped up for joy, and kept urging Yang Qiuchi to leave. He asked, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

"There is no food in the magistrate's yamen!"

ah?Everyone was stunned, Song Yuner asked urgently: "There is no food? Brother, how do you know? What about the food?"

Yang Qiuchi said: "Didn't you find it when we inspected the burned granary in the Chief Secretary's Yamen just now? There is no ashes of grain in the ruins."

Song Yun'er lowered her head and recalled for a while, she didn't know what kind of ashes the burned food should be, and said, "Maybe it was all burned by that fire?"

Yang Qiuchi shook his head: "No, although the fire is big, it is impossible to burn all the food to ashes."

"Why?" Song Yuner asked.

"The grain in the granary is packed in bags, and the bags are stacked together. Have you heard the saying: Fire must be hollow, and people must be loyal. Only when the middle of the fire is empty can the fire be ignited. Gotta be big."

Song Yun'er had been to the granary in her father's yamen, and of course she knew the situation in the granary, so she hurriedly said: "I understand, the rice bags in the granary are piled up like hills, and the middle is not empty, so there should be only surface The rice was burned."

"Yes! The pillars of the granary are not all burned out, and the grain at the bottom should not be burned. Taking a step back, even if the fire is too big and the burning time is too long, all the grain will be burned, but so much grain , There will be a lot of ashes from the burning, but we have not seen a large pile of grain ashes at all. Therefore, there is no grain in the chief secretary’s yamen granary at all!"

"Since the relief food from the chief secretary's granary disappeared, and someone deliberately set fire to destroy the evidence, the same reason, the food in the magistrate's yamen may have been transferred out, and the granary of the magistrate's yamen may also be burned down. Destroy!"

Song Yuner said anxiously: "Then what should we do? If we can't find food, it's useless even if we take over the disaster relief work!"

Master Long said: "My lord, there is a lot of food for disaster relief. It is too big a goal to transfer so much food from the yamen. It is possible that when it is shipped, it is pretended to be transported to the yamen, but in fact, the food has already been shipped to other places. Or else , the place where the food is transferred should be not far from the government granary."

Yang Qiuchi pondered: "In other words, the food from the Chief Secretary and the magistrate's yamen is stored somewhere. Finding this food can appease the hungry people and stabilize the overall situation!"

Song Yun'er said: "But how do you know where the food went?"

Master Long said: "Probably at Mi Yuan's family! In the year of the catastrophe, Mi Yuan's family had new rice. If it wasn't for his long-distance trafficking, it might be the disaster relief food embezzled by public-private collusion!"

Speaking of this, Master Long thought for a while, hesitated to speak, and finally summoned up the courage to say: "My lord, I have a suggestion. It may be a bit risky, but it may be useful to resolve this crisis at the last moment."

Yang Qiuchi was overjoyed, and said anxiously: "Mr. Long, please tell me!"

"If there is no evidence or it is too late to verify that Mi Yuanwai is related to this incident, if it is not possible, you can use the name of emergency relief to forcibly confiscate the grain of Mi Yuanwai's family, first release the grain for disaster relief, and then investigate him and the disappearance of the official grain Whether there is any contact, if not, the court of the Ming Dynasty will allocate food to compensate him."

This trick Yang Qiuchi did not expect, he nodded happily and praised: "Tall! You two masters are really tall!"

Forcibly expropriating is a good idea, Yang Qiuchi thought, damn it, I, the Commander and Special Envoy of Jinyiwei, confiscating the rice from your little millet line for disaster relief, that would not be a piece of cake!It's considered a big face for you, and the big deal is to compensate you later.With this move, Yang Qiuchi was determined.

Seeing Yang Qiuchi very happy, Master Long continued cautiously: "However, this trick has great risks."

Yang Qiuchi was stunned, and his heart hung up again: "What's wrong? What risk?"

"Mi Yuanwai can have new rice for sale in the year of the catastrophe. I'm afraid it's not waiting for idle merchants. Otherwise, how could the magistrate's office not think of the trick of collecting grain for disaster relief? The reason why they didn't collect grain from Mi Yuan's family is probably Mi's family. There is a strong background. Therefore, if it is not done well, it may cause trouble to the upper body. Please weigh the pros and cons before making a decision."

Expropriation has existed since ancient times. The ancient government’s expropriation behavior was more arbitrary, but it also depended on the object of expropriation. For ordinary people, it was expropriated, and even compensation was sometimes waived. However, for high-ranking officials and dignitaries , it's not that simple, and it's the same now.

This Mi Yuanwai obviously has a backer, but it is not known who his backer is and how big it is.If you forcibly confiscated his food for disaster relief and offended his backers, even if you are fine now for the grandiose reason of disaster relief, you may be beaten with sticks, braids, hats, and bags in the future. accepted.

Hearing Master Long's words, Yang Qiuchi's heart suddenly turned cold. The infighting in the officialdom is too complicated, and if you don't pay attention, you will get into trouble.Of course, it's the safest thing to slap your ass and leave. If you leave Wuchang City immediately, you won't be able to blame yourself if something happens in the future.

However, thinking of the hungry people all over the city, thinking of the little girl Huier's father, mother and brother starving to death on the streets of Wuchang City, and thinking of countless hungry people who sold their children and daughters, Yang Qiuchi couldn't bear to just sit idly by. As far as the rebellion case of the remaining Jianwen party is concerned, it is still secondary. What Yang Qiuchi is thinking about now is the life and death of tens of thousands of hungry people in this city.

After walking back and forth for a few steps, Yang Qiuchi made up his mind and decided to take Master Long's suggestion at the last resort and forcibly expropriate the grain from Mi Yuan's family to open the warehouse and release the grain. As for the small shoes behind, he can't care about it now.

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand and said, "That's it, first go to Jinyiwei Qianhu Office!"

Yang Qiuchi's little black dog has been wandering around in the house, and now seeing Yang Qiuchi about to go out, he jumped up and down.

Song Yuner said: "Brother, do you want to bring your little black dog?"

The little black dog seemed to know that they were talking about him, so he quickly ran up wagging his little tail, and circled around Yang Qiuchi.Yang Qiuchi knelt down and patted the little black dog's head: "The main thing tonight is not to solve the case, but to provide disaster relief, so let's leave it here to accompany Mrs. Bai and the others."

Yang Qiuchi told Mrs. Bai that they had something to do when they were out, and told them to stay at the post station and not to run around. Then they took Song Yuner, two masters, Nan Gongxiong and other Jinyi guards, and a group of them rode out of the post station. The street was already empty, obviously, everyone rushed to the magistrate's yamen after hearing the news.Everyone felt the seriousness of the situation even more.Taking advantage of the darkness, the fast horse galloped straight to Jinyiwei Qianhu House.

When he arrived at the door, Nan Gongxiong showed his Jingcheng Jinyiwei badge to the guard, saying that he would see Mr. Qianhu immediately for urgent military affairs.

After all, the Jinyiwei is different from the local government office. Knowing what the Jinyiwei from the capital meant when he said that he had urgent military affairs, the guard immediately led Yang Qiuchi and others to the living room, and then notified Master Luo of Huguang Qianhu.

Luo Qianhu heard that there was urgent military affairs, and rushed out with two Jinyiwei deputy Qianhu. Yang Qiuchi took out his special envoy badge from his arms. Luo Qianhu was shocked when he saw it, and bowed to salute: See you, Special Envoy!" The other two deputy Qianhu also hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Yang Qiuchi asked: "How many Jinyiwei are there in our thousand households?"

Luo Qianhu said: "There are more than 500 people. The rest have been sent to the magistrate's yamen to help maintain order. Tonight, the hungry people got the news that the magistrate will release food, so they all went to the magistrate's yamen. I have questioned Tan Zhifu. , there is no preparation for food distribution tonight, it is estimated that someone is playing tricks, and the humble staff is investigating this matter."

"This officer is also here to investigate this matter tonight. I suspect that someone is using the hungry people to deliberately create chaos and try to trigger a riot among the hungry people!"

Luo Qianhu's face changed when he heard it, of course he knew what it meant, bowed and said: "The humble job is all under the order of the adults!"

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