Concubine

Chapter 190
Yang Qiuchi said to the envoy Quan and Tan Zhifu: "Do you know what it means to force the people to rebel? You have embezzled all the relief food and pushed tens of thousands of hungry people to a dead end. You want to cut off their livelihood , is forcing them to rebel!"

Pointing to the direction of the Yamen Square: "Do you know how many hungry people have starved to death in and outside Wuchang these days? Now listen, listen! Tens of thousands of hungry people outside the Yamen are like a torrent, and riots are about to break out! Now you You can only tell the truth, find out the whereabouts of the food as soon as possible, and release the food for disaster relief, otherwise, this official will immediately show the heads of the two of you to appease the people!"

When he heard that his head was about to be beheaded, Tan Zhifu shouted in a trembling voice: "My lord, spare me, I know where the food is!"

"Say it!" Yang Qiuchi shouted.

"It's in the granary of Mi Yuan's family a few hundred steps behind the yamen! The millions of catties of rice for the two disaster reliefs are all there!"

No wonder, the granary of Yuan Mi's family is right next to the Yamen, and it is very convenient to sneak in to the warehouse.

At this moment, the noise outside the yamen has become louder and louder, and the shouts for grabbing food keep coming and going!It is urgent, and a decisive decision must be made.

Yang Qiuchi didn't care about being polite, and issued an order as a special envoy. First, he said to Mr. Shi, the procurator of the punishment: "Mi Yuanwai colluded with the envoy of Quan Buzheng and the prefect of Tan to embezzle the public food for disaster relief and set fire to extinguish the traces. It has violated the king's law. Please Send people to Mi Yuanwai's house immediately, there are already [-] Jinyi guards I sent to control Mi's house, you go and arrest Mi Yuanwai. I will interrogate myself in a while."

"Follow Master Yang's order!" Master Shi clasped his hands, and immediately organized people to arrest Mi Yuanwai.

Yang Qiuchi said to the commander again: "Master Wu, please lead someone to push the back wall of the yamen to a section, and transport the relief food from the granary outside Mi Yuan to the front of the yamen as soon as possible, and we will open the warehouse to release the food immediately."

"In addition, please send someone to build a control channel from here to the north gate. After a while, the hungry people will receive the food, and immediately transport the hungry people to the north gate. In addition, send people to transport a lot of firewood and light a bonfire there. To keep the hungry people warm for the night, and to open a porridge factory to release porridge for disaster relief. Then send troops to maintain order there.”

The commander of the capital, Mr. Wu, saw that Yang Qiuchi commanded well and calmly, and he admired him very much. He clasped his fists and said, "Obey!" Just as he was about to leave, Yang Qiuchi shouted again: "Wait, Mr. Wu, if you have bows and arrows, , please find someone to send some bows and a pot of arrows immediately."

Master Wu didn't know what Yang Qiuchi wanted the bow and arrow for, so he agreed without asking, and hurriedly led him away.

Yang Qiuchi hurried to the desk in the second hall, picked up a brush and hurriedly wrote a few lines on a piece of paper, then walked to Nan Gongxiong, handed the note to him, and then bowed

At this time, Master Wu had already sent some bows and a pot of arrows.Yang Qiuchi said to Song Yuner: "Yuner, are you accurate in archery?"

Song Yuner smiled, picked up a bow, took a sharp arrow from the quiver and put it on the bow, raised her head and looked out the door, and saw two rows of people standing on both sides of the aisle leading to the front hall outside the gate of the second hall. A pillar, with a big red lantern hanging on it, said: "I'm going to shoot down the second lantern on the right!"

Yang Qiuchi raised his eyes and saw that the distance from the lantern was at least six to seventy meters. If he hit the rope hanging from such a long distance, it would be hundreds of steps through the Yang.

Song Yun'er stepped on a T-step, concentrated her attention, opened the bow and arrow creakingly, and said softly: "Zhong!"

The arrow flashed out like a shooting star, and a faint bang was heard, the arrow was nailed to the head of the second pillar, and the red lantern hanging on the pillar fell in response to the sound, fell to the ground, and slowly ignited , a yamen servant ran over to put out the fire.

"Good archery!" Yang Qiuchi praised, "You can go to the martial arts exam!"

Song Yuner smiled triumphantly, and asked, "Brother, why are you testing me on archery at this time?"

"I'll tell you to shoot people right away!" Yang Qiuchi said, "After we get outside the door, you listen to my orders. If anyone dares to instigate food grabbing, you will shoot him to death with an arrow!"

Everyone immediately understood that Zuo Buzheng, Mr. Qian praised: "My lord, this is a good move! Inciting food robbing should be punished by death, not to mention the suspicion of instigating rebellion."

With the affirmation from the chief envoy, Yang Qiuchi felt more at ease, and ordered Song Yun to change into a Jinyiwei Feiyu suit.Let Nan Gongxiong and other Jinyihui guards also change into Jinyiwei Feiyu suits.

The clothes of Nan Gongxiong and the others were easy to manage, and the Jinyiwei who stayed behind took off more than ten sets for them to put on, but Song Yuner was in trouble. The hundred Jinyiwei were all big men with big arms and round waists, so they finally found a slightly thinner one. After taking off the flying fish suit and putting it on for Song Yuner, it was still loose and loose, like Sun Wukong wearing an official uniform, so he had to roll up his sleeves to facilitate shooting.

Yang Qiuchi said to Zuo Buzheng: "Master Qian, let's go, let's announce the opening of the granary!"

Seeing that Yang Qiuchi arrested the right chief envoy and Tan Zhifu on the spot, Zuo Buzheng was terrified for fear of implicating himself, but now he heard Yang Qiuchi tell himself that he wanted to go with him to announce the opening of the granary, so he knew that he It's not a big problem, and suddenly he felt relieved, and said incoherently: "Thank you, thank you... no, okay... Master Yang, let's go."

Yang Qiuchi pulled the Zuo Bu Zhengshi, and the two walked out side by side, and the deputy of Jinyiwei Qianhu followed closely behind with a hundred Jinyiwei.

On the way from the second hall to the lobby of the front hall, Yang Qiuchi said to Zuo Buzheng: "Usually, how much food is distributed for disaster relief, how much per person?"

Mr. Qian, the Zuo Buzheng, replied: "There is no fixed number. It depends on the time of the disaster, the size and the amount of food left by the people. The township officials in the disaster area are counting the number of people affected by the disaster and compiling the list of victims. The standard is to ensure that the hungry people can survive. "

"Has the standard been set?"

"It should be decided, but in the past disaster relief was the responsibility of the chief minister, I don't know."

"Then have you been in charge of disaster relief and food distribution before?"

"Of course I did," Qian Buzheng smiled. "Natural disasters and man-made disasters happen all the time. Almost every parent and official has to go through this disaster relief. The amount of food that I released in the past is beyond count."

"Very good. Is the relief food allocated by the imperial court enough to feed the hungry people in the city?"

"The imperial court has allocated relief food twice, which is enough anyway."

"That's good," Yang Qiuchi made up his mind, "When we get to the front hall, you will arrange the specific matters of disaster relief. I'll take people outside the yamen first to stabilize the order."

"Yes, yes," Mr. Qian nodded repeatedly. He was also worried that Yang Qiuchi would assign him to appease the hungry people. Facing tens of thousands of emotional hungry people, he couldn't think of a way to appease them. He might cause order by releasing food directly. There was chaos, and the hungry people lost control and grabbed food.Now that the special envoy went to appease him personally, he immediately felt relieved.

In the front hall, the assistant officials of the two levels of the yamen heard the din of people outside the yamen, maybe they could hear someone clamoring to rush in to grab food, but a few leaders entered the back hall and did not come out, they were terrified, seeing Mr. Qian and others When I came out, I felt at ease, and found that the other adults were missing, and I muttered in my heart.

Distributing food for disaster relief is something that the chief envoy often does, and Master Qian immediately started to organize specific food distribution affairs.Arrange for an assistant officer from Sanpin to participate in politics to accompany Yang Qiuchi to appease the hungry people and announce the release of food.

Under the protection of Nangong Xiongzhong's guards, Yang Qiuchi left the yamen, and heard a mess outside the yamen, some fences had been pushed away, and all the officers, soldiers and arresting people were lined up in several rows. , Desperately blocking the pushing of the hungry people.

Someone in the crowd kept shouting: "Rush in and grab the food, if you don't grab it, you will be burned!"

"Grab food! Otherwise, you will starve to death!"

"They don't know how to release food. These dog officials hope that they will be happy when we die!"

"If you kill these officers and soldiers, they will bully the common people! Go in and grab food!"

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The human wall formed by the officers and soldiers has been retreating steadily, and some places can no longer resist it.The faces of the officers, soldiers and government servants were full of panic, like a levee about to collapse in the raging waves.

Yang Qiuchi saw the high platform next to the yamen where the shackles were displayed to the public, and ran up quickly. Nan Gongxiong and other guards and Song Yun'er in Jinyi guard followed closely on the high platform.

Deputy Qianhu took a hundred Jinyi guards to block under the high platform, and drew his waist knife as a guard.Deputy Qianhu already knew that Yang Qiuchi was the special envoy of the commander. If there was any mistake and he didn't protect himself well, he would lose his head, so he gave a death order. If anyone dared to approach, he would be killed without mercy.

He wanted to go up to the stage with Yang Qiuchi from the third rank, but he saw tens of thousands of hungry people, his legs were trembling, and he wanted to go up, but he couldn't move.

Yang Qiuchi shouted loudly to Nan Gongxiong: "Start!"

Nan Gongxiong took the note written by Yang Qiuchi, glanced at it, and then shouted loudly: "The emperor's grace is mighty, open the warehouse to release the grain!"

More than a dozen Jinyiwei guards followed and shouted: "The emperor's grace is mighty, open the warehouse to release the grain!" He shouted several times.

Nan Gongxiong's voice was loud, and the dozen or so Jinyiwei guards also had loud voices, shouting in unison, and at a high place, their voices immediately overwhelmed the noise of the crowd below.

The crowd suddenly became much quieter, but at this moment, someone in the crowd shouted loudly: "Liar! Go in and grab the food!" Then many people also shouted:

"Goofy liar, rush in and grab it!"

"Rush in, get out of here if you're afraid of death!"

"Grab food, or you will starve to death!"

"It's setting fire to food inside again!"

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More people clamored among the dark hungry people, and the order suddenly became chaotic.

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