Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 165 Is the imperial court so unreliable?

Mingzhou is located in the water town of Jiangnan, not too far from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Take a boat from Mingzhou, after passing through Hangzhou, you can go all the way to Suzhou and Yangzhou.

Of course, you can also go directly from Mingzhou to Yangzhou by sea.

Datang's current sea trade is not well developed. In the Jiangnan area, except for Yangzhou, the sea trade business in other cities is still in its infancy.

Mingzhou, which was originally relatively barren and had a relatively limited harvest, was hit by a hurricane after encountering a drought, which can be described as worse.

Many people in the city have already started to run out of food.

As the governor of Mingzhou, Xie Jin's hair was turning gray during this time.

He is obviously only under 40 years old, but he looks like he is already 50 years old.

"Your Majesty, the six hundred miles from Chang'an City are here in a hurry, please hurry up and see if the imperial court's disaster relief food is coming soon?"

In the governor's mansion of Mingzhou, Xie Jin was facing the urgent documents from various counties, his hair was grey.

"The imperial court is in a hurry to reach six hundred miles? Hurry up! Give it to me!"

His originally sad face was immediately filled with anticipation.

Xie Jin couldn't wait to get up, and accidentally bumped his thigh against the corner of the table.

"Okay! That's great! The imperial court has indeed arranged for a disaster relief envoy to come to Mingzhou to take charge of the disaster relief. The people of Mingzhou will be saved."

Although Xie Jin didn't do much in Mingzhou, he was still a good official who worked hard and cared for the people.

"My lord, when will the government's disaster relief food arrive? Many people in the city can only last until this month at most, and they will be completely out of food.

At that time, once the people have no food to eat, they can do anything. "

Wang Zhiming looked at Xie Jin expectantly.

As a collateral descendant of the Langya Wang family, although it has declined now, the Wang family still has quite a few members in Mingzhou.

If the imperial court does not arrange for disaster relief, these clansmen of Wang Zhiming will definitely be unlucky at that time.

"Disaster relief food...disaster relief food..."

Xie Jin finally muttered something, but slowly, his face became less pretty.

He has read the entire document.

Apart from saying that the imperial court had arranged for disaster relief envoys to come over to take charge of disaster relief, it did not mention specific issues of food and money.

This is still far from what Xie Jin expected.

"My lord, wouldn't the imperial court just arrange people and not bring money and food? If that's the case, this disaster relief is completely meaningless."

"There is no mention of money and food in the documents of the imperial court. Maybe they came with the disaster relief envoy. Let's first spread the news that the imperial court arranged for people to come to Mingzhou to take charge of the disaster relief, so as to stabilize the situation."

Xie Jin took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down as much as possible.

……

It is not too far from Chang'an City to Mingzhou. It took about half a month for Qin Xiedao and his party to appear at Mingzhou Wharf after walking by water.

It is said to be Mingzhou Wharf, but it is actually very dilapidated.

Obviously it is a pier near the sea, but it doesn't look as good as the Weishui pier.

"Lang Jun, there are not even a few fishing boats on the entire pier. I guess the fish here are not so easy to catch."

Ma Zhou frowned into a Sichuan shape.

Ever since he knew that Qin Xiedao was really going to go fishing in Mingzhou, he was thinking about how it would end.

In the vast sea, he did not believe that he could catch a lot of fish.

But now that he's here, it's absolutely impossible not to go out to sea.

"There is the largest fishing ground in Datang near Mingzhou. If there are not enough fish caught here, there will be nowhere to catch them.

Ma Zhou, this sea fish is actually not as difficult to catch as you imagine.

We have already prepared fishing nets and so on.This time, the few boats we took here only need a simple modification, and they can go fishing immediately.

Although the famine problem in Mingzhou is already serious, in fact, we have to solve it, and the difficulty is not as great as you think.

Gao Shilian and Changsun Wuji thought that if they got here, they would make me look ashamed and humiliated. I would not fulfill their wish. "

Why did Li Shimin suddenly think of asking Qin Xiedao to go to Mingzhou to be in charge of disaster relief? This matter sounds not very difficult.

After all, there are quite a few people in the DPRK and China involved in this matter.

People like Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin also go to court every day.

"I heard that Jiangnan is rich, but it is mainly in Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Changshu. The situation in other places is completely different.

Although this Mingzhou is not far from Hangzhou and Suzhou, the people here are completely incomparable with Yangzhou in terms of wealth.

Even the local wealthy households are estimated to be far less than Yangzhou.

Even if we have money at that time, we may not be able to buy a lot of food immediately. "

Ma Zhou admired Qin Xiedao's ability to make money.

Therefore, the court did not provide food, and Ma Zhou had a lot of opinions.

But the court didn't give money, but Ma Zhou didn't care that much.

"We're about to go ashore soon, and the mystery will soon be revealed. Whether we can go out to sea to catch fish, you will know soon.

It's pointless to say more now. "

……

"Qin Langjun, is there really nothing on board?"

In the governor's mansion of Mingzhou, Xie Jin welcomed Qin Xiedao into the main hall.

But what was waiting for him was not good news.

"Inspector Xie, although His Majesty arranged for me to come to Mingzhou to provide disaster relief, Inspector Xie must have heard about the current situation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Whether it is food or money, I can't get it out."

Xie Jin still had some chances if he had been rushed by Liu Baili a few days ago.

Now after hearing Qin Xiedao's words in person, his face immediately became ugly.

Without money and food, how to provide disaster relief?

Although he had heard of Qin Xiedao's name.

After all, his poems have been spread throughout the Tang Dynasty.

Normally, Xie Jin would definitely have a good exchange with Qin Xiedao about the way of poetry, but now he is not in the mood at all.

"Some people in Mingzhou have no food rations, and most of them will run out of food by the end of this month. Now the price of food on the market has risen to five cents a catty, which is an unprecedented high price.

If the price of grain here was so high in previous years, merchants would definitely transport grain from other places to Mingzhou for sale, but the situation here in Jiangnan Road this year is generally not very good.

If there is no way to solve the problem of eating for everyone, then something big will happen.

Mr. Qin Lang, what can you do? "

When Xie Jin was talking, he was a little disheartened.

"Of course there is a way. I plan to recruit a group of sailors now and start fishing in the sea the day after tomorrow."

"Go fishing?"

After hearing this, Xie Jin's eyes dimmed a bit.

Is the court so unreliable in doing things?

What kind of disaster relief envoys are these arrangements!
(End of this chapter)