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Text 135. Exchange for food

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    Tang Bin traveled to several places for several days, bearing the responsibility of arbitrarily exercising power. Although he misappropriated military pay to buy grain, in fact, from the grain merchants who hoarded grain and drove up grain prices, even if he paid the money at par, it was the same as robbing grain.   Just read the novel~

    There is a large family named Shi, and he is a powerful grain merchant in southern Anhui. Since the head of the family, Shi Hongtu, was born in Juren, and there are many ancestors with outstanding deeds in the ancestral hall, he is not afraid of the local government's announcement on the repression.  Food price notice.  Mr. Shi had his own idea of ??making money, and since the government was not allowed to raise prices, the owner could just hoard grain.  Once floods occur in summer and autumn and affect the harvest of that year, it is a plague of the year. If you still farm every other year, there is no three-year period before new grain can be produced and put on the market. Therefore, the necessary things like rice and flour will only become more and more expensive and the price will rise.  If you stock up at this time, you don¡¯t have to worry about the profits.

    However, Tang Bin hurried to Wannan and had already heard about the reputation of the Shijia grain store.  The government has not yet purchased rice and noodles in large quantities, but the Shijia Grain Store has begun to restrict sales and supply according to quantity every day. This has made the local people who have not been affected by the floods panic. They queue up early in the morning and stock up small batches of rice at home.  With the total supply of rice in short supply, even the bran is in short supply and is in high demand.  Under natural disasters, no matter where you are, people's hearts are indeed confused and confused.

    Tang Bin only had a lot of money on hand, but there was not enough food to buy on the market. He was worried about the disaster in Jiangsu and was worried all day long.  Nalan Chengde, the deputy imperial envoy, accompanied Tang Bin all the way, and saw all the difficulties he encountered. He didn't see that Rongruo had read poetry and books, and was proficient in poetry, but he was not a scholar. Instead, he learned martial arts from riding and shooting.  Because of this, he has the courage to act chivalrously and righteously.

    Nalan Chengde and Liu Quan'er talked about the current serious situation, and Liu Quan'er was also excited. The two hit it off immediately, and holding the imperial edict of the imperial minister, they went to the local county government to mobilize all the government officials.  Holding a chain in his hand and an iron staff on his shoulder, he broke into Shi's house and took Shi Ju to the county jail and imprisoned him.

    The family members of No. 100 of the Shi family went to the gate of the county government office to cry. Liu Quan'er was wearing a set of fresh, bright and green clothes. Shi Shiran walked out of the gate of the county government office and only said in a low voice, "Take the food."  Send it over and replace it."

    The Shi family just realized that Ganqing had been robbed by officials.

    After Tang Bin learned the whole story, he couldn't help but sigh, "The current situation is critical, and it is helpless for the eldest son to take strong measures. Since it can scare the monkeys, it is better than just sitting back and waiting for death I will figure out the relationship involved."  Submit a memorial to plead guilty to my emperor Just read the novel~"

    Nalan Chengde was shocked when he heard this. He stopped Tang Bin and said: "Why are you doing this, Your Excellency? This is just a matter of letting Ruochao go beyond your control. He will take full responsibility for the crime and is determined not to implicate Your Excellency"

    Liu Quan'er listened impatiently and couldn't help but interjected: "Why do you two adults rush to take the blame? We all work for the suffering of the people. If the emperor knows the whole story, maybe he will be rewarded heavily"

    Tang Bin and Nalan Chengde had been immersed in official circles for a long time and understood the obstacles involved. They did not explain it to Liu Quan'er in detail. Anyway, the consequences would be revealed soon.

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    All the ministries in the DPRK and the Central Government were also fully aware of what the imperial ministers were doing in the south.  The officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs discussed it for half a day, which was really difficult.  If Tang Bin was the only one who had no foundation, he would not be afraid of him. However, the emperor also ordered Nalan Chengde to accompany him.  The scholar Mingzhu did not express his position, and there was no talk of favoritism among the officials. However, the eldest son Rong Ruoru was implicated and convicted, and it would not look good for everyone to be officials in the same court.

    Money is the most sensitive matter, and money must be investigated in the first place. The Household Department was offended by Lao Tang's unauthorized use of money. After thinking about it for a long time, Yi Sang Ah took the lead and read a copy of Tang Bin's book when he went to court, claiming that he had not approved it.  , secretly misappropriated the collected military pay to purchase rice and grain for disaster relief, and bought public opinion with ulterior motives

    Emperor Kangxi looked at Yisang'a with some hesitation, and heard that the words in the ginseng book had traces of the censor's old talk.  Kangxi was too lazy to refute him face to face. He turned to look at Mingzhu and asked in a calm tone: "Ming Ai, what do you think?"

    Mingzhu originally wanted to act fair and stay out of the matter, but was called out by the emperor in public and could no longer pretend, so she had to bite the bullet and answer: " After all, one must obey authority in urgent matters, one's feelings are pity, and one's heart is observable  ¡­After all, it¡¯s about caring about people¡¯s livelihood and thinking about the people,¡­¡±

    Kangxi suddenly raised his hand and couldn't help but praise, "What a person who can understand his heart and think about the people. If all officials can do this and put the people first, then the Qing Dynasty will be peaceful and the country will be stable. I can rest assured  .¡±

    Kangxi admired Mingzhu's wise words and simply ordered Mingzhu to draft an imperial edict. He added Tang Bin with the title of imperial envoy for coordinating disaster relief and providing food and grass with the exclusive authority to allocate officials from Anhui and Jiangxi to close warehouses and reserve grain. Nalan Chengde still added the deputy envoy.  Position: Assist Prime Minister Tang Bin in this matter.  As for Lao Tang's previous move of embezzling soldiers' pay to buy food without authorization and killing people first and reporting later, although it wasThere was a reason. After all, it violated the normal process of submitting reports, approving, and transmitting memorials. In order to maintain the dignity of the emperor, the imperial edict inevitably warned Tang Bin a few words, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and not abuse power, etc., and also fined him a salary of half a year as a punishment  .

    More than ten days had passed when Tang Bin and Nalan Chengde received the imperial edict respectively.  Because the two of them escorted food convoys in batches, traveling between southern Anhui and Jiangsu, the number of refugees along the way increased day by day. Prefectural and county officials in various places, or local philanthropic wealthy households, set up large and small porridge sheds to relieve the victims.  Two eunuchs from the Imperial Communications Department who announced the decree searched for a long time on horseback before they found the imperial minister with a weathered and dusty face.
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