Chronicle of Farming in Muxianfu

Chapter 427
When everyone entered the hall, Hongyu, the steward of the back kitchen, brought out tea bowls and several plates of freshly baked snacks.

In the past few days, due to the relief of the victims, there has been no snacks at home, and the dishes are very simple. Sometimes, they even eat the same big pot of porridge as the victims. He took a piece of horseshoe crisp, bit off half of it, and when Mu Shiqi and the others saw it, they felt so distressed that they could not help but tremble. My young master is a prince, and he is still short of food.

After receiving Mu Shiqi's signal, Hongyu quickly ran back to the back kitchen, took a few helpers, packed two boxes of all the snacks, and carried them all to the long table outside the hall.

Mu Ai took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then said, "There is no grain reserve in the official warehouse, and there are more than ten thousand disaster victims outside the city waiting for me to bring rice back, so I must get some emergency rice first. I just caught The governor of the Miao Mansion was imprisoned, and the counselors and informers were promised to make up for their mistakes. The rice merchants in this city should be persuaded by them to take out most of the rice. However, it should not be enough. Shopkeeper Seventeen, send someone to take For my brand, go to Mingyue City to find shopkeeper 25, and ask him to buy more rice and bring it over, the sooner the better."

Mu Shiqi got up immediately to answer, calculated carefully, and then said, "Ma'am, Mingyue City is more than two hundred miles away. When I came back, I was heavy and the road was slow. It would take seven or eight days to get back. How do you deal with the day?"

Mu Ai stretched out her hand and rubbed the center of her brows, "I think there should be hundreds of bags from various rice merchants, and I'll figure out what to do with the rest."

Mu Shiqi thought of all the magical methods of his mistress, so he didn't ask any more questions, and took people down to arrange things.

Hongyu came in with two bowls of very fragrant boiled chicken soup, waited for the mistress and the little master to drink it, Muai rinsed her mouth, and then leaned on the soft couch with her eyes closed, Simba was very playful and brought a good harvest Yushun and Yushun fought and practiced martial arts or talked and laughed in the yard.

An hour later, Mu Ai's mother and son had just had a sumptuous lunch accompanied by Mu Shiqi and others, when Kong Xi came back and returned to his life. Miao Zhuang had already been put in prison, and was guarded by Lu Yun and Chen Fang day and night. A total of 30 li of family property was confiscated there, plus countless gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings.Ouyang sent ten people over, five at the front and back of the Miao Mansion, plus a cadre of city guards, it is not difficult to defend the Miao Mansion.

Finally, he took out a thick account book from his pocket, and said, "Madam, I found it in the secret compartment of the study."

Mu Ai reached out to pick it up and took a look. At first, he felt that copying the Miao family was a bit too arrogant, after all, he was a fourth-rank official, but now looking at the account books, Miao Zhuang is simply a person who is as good as a melon, so that Rongcheng is rich and prosperous. Otherwise, the common people will be forced to rebel.

She gave Kong Xi a few more detailed instructions, and let everyone go to work, then took out a pencil and paper from the space, and handed a copy to Simba, asking him to write what he saw and heard to Shangguan Yufeng, while she As the prince, he wrote a formal memorial.

Xiao Jin, who had been hiding in the space for many days in the heavy rain, was released. Simba called Fengshou Yushun outside the door to find fresh beef, fed it with his own hands, and made out with each other for a long time. The letters and memorials were rolled into paper rolls, stuffed into bamboo tubes, sealed, and tied to Xiaojin's right foot.

Xiaojin let out a low cry, as if he was unwilling to travel far. Simba coaxed it along the feathers on its back, and then saw it spread its wings and flew into the sky, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

It's a matter of life, with the Miao Fu Yin locked in the prison as a reference, several counselors and acquaintances are working at an unprecedented speed. As soon as Mu Ai's mother and son sent Xiaojin away, they heard someone outside the door and went out of the shop. Seeing Counselor and Tongzhi, he knelt for a while. It turned out that those rice merchants were well-informed and knew that Miao Fu Yin had been imprisoned. Even if they could save their lives, they would not be able to keep their official positions. Regardless of saving face, the price of rice was raised, so they had no choice but to buy at a high price. Six people made up 1 bags, more than [-] catties of rice grain.

Mu Ai didn't want to push them too fast, after all, Rongcheng needs someone to take care of it first, so she said a few words, saying that the memorial to them for intercession has been written, and then sent away a few grateful officials .

Simba looked at the rice bag in the yard and asked his mother, "Mom, how many days is this rice enough?"

"I'm afraid it's only enough for more than two days." Mu Ai took a sip of tea, her mind turned, thinking about how to get those greedy rice merchants to lower the price of rice, if the money confiscated by the Miao Mansion were to buy rice at the normal price, It should be enough for the disaster victims for more than half a month, and the people sent by the imperial court should arrive by then, and she can also relieve such heavy responsibility.

Simba turned his small eyes, leaned over to his mother, and said, "Mom, why don't we use a trick."

Mu Ai smiled slightly, pulled the youngest son, and asked, "What's the trick, tell mom about it."

"Mom, I am a prince and a child. If I take people to those rice merchants' houses and force them to sell all their grain to me. They can't reason with me as a child, and they are afraid of my identity. Evil words will surely yield in the end.”

Mu Ai's smile became heavier as she listened, embraced her youngest son, and kissed her hard, "Mother's Simba is too smart, that's it. Although it is not written in the Hundred Flowers Law, merchants need to fully assist the government in times of crisis. However, they took the opportunity to raise the price of rice instead, and they must have a guilty conscience, you should scare them a little more, move the Queen Mother and Your Majesty out, and things will definitely happen."

Simba was praised by his mother, and his face flushed with joy, "Don't worry, Mom, Simba will definitely complete the task."

Mu Ai tidied up his clothes for him, and said with a smile, "Mom believes in you, but you can't force anything. If it really doesn't work, or if there is someone who is so tough, come back first, and Mom will find a way." The red gold token that was returned was handed over to him for safe keeping.

"Yes, Mom." Simba agreed, ready to go out and show his skills.

Mu Ai called Mu Shiqi to come in, and told him to find a young man who was familiar with the situation in the city to guide Simba, and then went to the Ping An Inn to ask Ren Baiyi to send eight brothers with good skills to accompany him for protection, and then sent Simba riding a big white Simba goes out.

Another hour later, horse-drawn carriages brought rice bags to the door of the store one after another. The leading stewards all said that they were people from various rice stores. It was obvious that Simba's little trick was successfully implemented, and everyone was happy until the second young master made a good move.

When there were sixty more rice bags in the yard, Simba came back with a tired face, but his eyes were full of excitement, and he rushed to his mother with a smile, and shouted, "Mom, I put all those rice shops away." Evacuated, more than 1 catties of rice, only spent 4000 taels of silver."

Mu Ai praised him with a smile, let him go in to drink tea, and then called the skinny monkey who accompanied him to protect him and asked him carefully. Sure enough, those rice merchants were afraid of Simba's identity and treated him respectfully, but the rice merchants When buying grain, they still didn't sell all of them, but the price was only twice as high as usual, which was a bit of a conscience.

Mu Ai never thought of asking these profiteers to give up all the rice, otherwise the people in the city would have no rice to cook.Therefore, she was not disappointed, and she was still thinking about the camp outside the city, so she asked Mu Shiqi to find a cart to load rice grains, then took Simba into the carriage, and returned to the camp all the way.

Two miles away from the camp, victims began to sleep on the side of the road one after another. It was obvious that the number of people had increased compared to when they left in the morning. Now there may be more than [-] people.This made everyone who was delighted by the return of rice grain feel heavy.

Simba got out of the car, smiled and ran to Cheng'er and Xing'er to brag about, while Dayu and Tao'er went forward to salute their mother, and then went to direct everyone to unload the car.

Ouyang stepped forward to look carefully, and seeing that Mu Ai's face was fine, there was tenderness in his eyes, and he said, "It's been a hard journey."

Mu Ai smiled slightly, "I think I'm still suitable for cooking for children, reading and drawing, or playing around. Such intrigues are really too embarrassing for me."

"Okay, let's not care about such things in the future."

"Stupid words, so many lives, how can we ignore it."

Mu Ai returned to the camp, saw her loved one and several children, and felt much happier. Turning around, she saw that the victims of the disaster were all gathered not far away, staring at the grain bags that had been removed from the car, the light in her eyes was too bright. fanaticism.

She thought for a while, and put up the aura cover again.At this time, if someone took the lead in grabbing rice and causing a riot, it would be difficult for them to stop them.It's not that she feels sorry for the rice, but it's just that everyone can take it away, and the amount is different. It's better to put them all in one place and share the food every day, so that they can hold on for a little longer.

The two entered the villa, and several children were chatting in the hall, listening to Simba and Fengshou Yushun talk about the rice business, it was very lively.Mu Ai brought out two boxes of red jade filled snacks, and the children cheered again...

Not mentioning Mu Ai's relief for the victims, only that Xiao Heng received the bamboo tube from the small village outside the city, checked the marks on it, rode on his horse, and ran to the palace gate to see His Majesty. After a while, he followed the little eunuch to Ann In the Hall of Harmony, Shangguan Yufeng had just come down to court and was correcting the memorial. Seeing him kneeling down and saluting, he said, "Get flat."

Xiao Heng stood up to thank En, raised the bamboo tube, and said, "Your Majesty, this is the news from Mrs. Xian who sent a golden eagle."

"Oh, send it to me quickly." Shangguan Yufeng's eyes immediately lit up when he heard the news from his youngest son. A few days ago, a memorial was reported, saying that Lingjiang was flooded and the disaster was widespread.While rejoicing that he sent people to bring silver to supervise the repair of the dam early on, he issued a letter ordering the officials of the affected cities to open warehouses for relief according to the situation. The silver used for repairing the dam can also be used for disaster relief first.

But five days have passed, and the reports of the disasters in those cities still haven't been sent. On the contrary, the spring water that is sent to the palace every day has been cut off. As we all know, Mrs. Xian and her party happened to be trapped in a flooded place.

So the whole palace became anxious, and he even sent the big inner guards south to search and respond, but he didn't expect the news from there to arrive first.

　I finally caught up, haha, I’m not late, I still have to go to the hospital to do a medical case, I’ll come back in the afternoon and continue to code, thank you for your support, group hug, go out!

　　
　
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