Edo Traveler

Vol 2 Chapter 69: Rough rice is suspicious

   In addition to the common people staring at the Chuemon Gate, Tokugawa Ieki and Mizuno also stared at the Chuemon Gate openly or secretly. In addition to the normal situation of paying for the inspection, there are definitely many people who secretly inquired.

   It's normal. One hundred thousand stone rice is handed over to Chuemon. It would be strange if the shogunate had no supervision at all. For the shogunate, this may be only a few tenths of the annual income, but for a single natural person, this is basically an astronomical figure. I can't help it, maybe there is something bad-hearted, doing something bad.

   However, although both sides are checking together, they are actually checking by one person. Because the shogunate Omesushibu Ryobi was the younger brother of the shogunate veteran Mizuno Tadakuni.

   The two are one family, whoever checks it is the same!

I didn’t see Ryobi Rube’s ineffective governance of Osaka, and the Oshio Heihachiro’s change, but he still managed to make a big payment, and he will be transferred to the shogunate in the future. Brother coaxing.

   He wrote a report, one for Tokugawa Ikei, and one for Mizuno Tadakuni, which are all inherent principles. Seeing that Chungemon gave the people smashed rice, or soaked rice, Obe Ryobi didn't say anything. He secretly speculated that it was the shogunate who opened the barn to Chuemon that it was all old rice, and the cooked rice would definitely not come, and it was nothing strange.

   "How many people go to receive relief every day?" Of course, Mizuno doesn't have to use official language to speak to his younger brother.

   "About 180,000, slightly up and down." Ryobi Tsube read the account book, and Zhuoroku wrote it very clearly.

   "Whether the congee and rice that Chuemon gave the relief is sufficient."

   "It's quite a bit."

   Chuemon did not deprive him of food at all. After cooking the sugar water, he gave out enough rice. There is no such thing as satiating one's own pockets. At most, it is the temporary workers who cook rice, who will take two more bites while cooking. There is no good thing in the world that allows horses to run without eating grass. For these temporary servants who don't have any wages and can only eat openly, Chuemon will not be too strict.

  You are at the scene. As long as you don’t die, you will eat hard. You can eat three catties or four catties of rice in one meal. But you are not allowed to take it out. If you dare to carry it secretly, I'm sorry, and you will get out. Anyway, there are people who are willing to come and sell their labor. The least valuable thing these days is to work as a worker. There is a lot of one crop and one crop, and one crop is a lot less.

   "En..." What my brother said with his own eyes is definitely not false, so Mizuno Tadakuni was relieved.

   "Before remember that you were sent by Guan Cang to send one-year Chen." Ryobi Tobe picked up a small package from the side.

   Two pieces of ruo leaves wrapped a portion of rice. The rice was naturally the broken rice distributed by Chuemon to the people. Ryobi Obe asked for a portion, which was a real thing, and brought it back to Tokugawa Ikei and Mizuno Tadakuni.

   "What?" Of course Mizuno remembered that this was an order from his own mouth.

   Had it not been for him to give an order, I wondered what kind of rotten rice would the people on the Guancang side give Chuemon. It is even possible that the shogunate reimbursed the shogunate for the new rice that year, but actually replaced the new rice with three-year-old and five-year-old, making a large difference in the price. This kind of thing is endless at home and abroad, and it is the old routine of feudal bureaucrats.

  While questioning, Mizuno Tadakuni opened the ruo leaf again, and inside it was broken rice that had no taste. Because the sugar is boiled by Chuemon, the stickiness of the rice has also decreased. Even the smell is far inferior to the normal steamed rice.

   Mizuno Tadabang naturally eats polished rice. The rice he eats is full of grains, oval and transparent. It is easy to eat and has a certain amount of chewing. This year, Japan's future well-known "Koshihikari Rice" has already begun to be cultivated. In the future, it will even be possible to cultivate rice grown in the cold regions of Tohoku. There is a saying that early Tohoku rice is indeed directly related to Koshihikari rice in Japan.

   However, while Mizuno was the prime minister, he was also the great name of 153,000 stones of the Hamamatsu clan. He also personally handled the clan government and knew the difference between Xinmi and Chenmi.

   The rice in front of me is like the kind of rice cooked with aged rice that is more than three years old. The rice grains have been completely broken, and there is no crystal luster on the rice grains. Eat it in your mouth like chewing wax.

   "How does this rice look like a three-year-old..." Mizuno Tadakuni was noncommittal.

   "This kind of rice was distributed at the scene." Atobe Ryobi had tasted it at the scene and felt that the rice was a bit poor.

   "Just report to the general that there is enough food, and the rest will wait."

   Mizuno, who was suspicious in his heart, first thought of the moths in the official storehouse. They put their words on the ears, and didn't give him the better rice. After all, referring to Chuemon's resume, he is a serious person, and his own brother also sees clearly that Chuemon's meals are distributed in full and sufficient amounts~www.readwn.com~ without deduction.

   Waiting for Yobe Ryobi to leave, several people arranged by Mizuno Tadakuni also reported the news they found back to Mizuno Tadakuni. The fact that Chuemon is cooking rice day and night is not going to say, hundreds of thousands of mouths need to be fed, even if it has been expanded to thousands of pots to cook rice, it will need to come in batches to receive the rice, otherwise it will not be able to supply it at all.

   And the rice brought back by these spies was the same as the rice brought back by Onobe Ryobi. It was so shattered and dull. Apart from the weight, there was almost no good point.

   "Damn it! Such a silverfish!" Mizuno was really angry.

  This disaster relief is to wipe the bottom of Mizuno Tada’s radical land inspection policy. Now the farmers outside the city have completely dispersed because of land inspections, and have their own businesses. If it is because of the ineffective disaster relief that caused dissatisfaction among the townspeople in the city, and another forceful complaint, then even Mizuno Tadakuni, who is an emperor, would not be able to hold it.

   It’s not that every time there is a substitute for the dead, Yabe Sadagye only has one. A small reform scheme like Chuemon, who has a salary of 60 years, is not qualified to be pushed out as a replacement for the dead.

   The very angry Mizuno Tadakuni immediately sent someone to the Guancang to investigate what kind of rice was allocated to Chuemon, and if it was the shoddy tricks that the Ziguancang officials would play. Mizuno Tadabang doesn't mind choosing a cause and killing a few blind people to stand up. When he came to power to reform, there were too many people holding him back. Zhengque used it to kill the chickens, and killed the monkeys who jumped up and down.

   The news that could be reported made Mizuno Tadakuni a little unpredictable. It was indeed a year old that the official warehouse assigned to Tadaemon, and there are still tens of thousands of stones left there.

   Is it possible that Chuemon was replaced with rotten rice?

  If this is the case, then Chuemon is not a good thing!

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