Chapter 181 Food is coming 10 "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Hao has woken up. The Sinong Temple we went to early this morning looks the same as usual!"
A figure whose whole body was covered in darkness said to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin's writing pen paused, and he waved to the man in a daze for a moment: "Then don't worry about him, there is no problem with him. It seems that someone is inquiring about what happened back then. You go handle it and don't expose the truth."
"promise!". Starting from the next day, Ji Song clocked in normally and dealt with his own government affairs. He lived a very regular life at two o'clock every day.
"Master Marquis, please give some of our food to the court. It's so miserable! Didn't you see that those children are so hungry that they are just skin and bones?"
"On the way here from Xiaguan, someone stopped me and wanted to sell my child to Xiaguan. I asked how much it would cost. Do you know what he said?"
"They don't want any money at all, they just want ten catties of grain. Ten catties of grain means one life, Lord Marquis. I really can't stand it anymore."
Listening to Yao Chang's accusation, Ji Song grasped the handle of the chair tightly with both hands. He was so strong that he made handprints from the handle.
Although the emperor had stabilized the situation by swallowing locusts alive, it was impossible without there are victims everywhere in Chang'an and Jingdao. The imperial court no longer has enough food to help the victims. Food cannot be replaced!
"That's enough! What do you mean by saying this to me? Are you accusing me of inaction? Or are you saying that I am cold-blooded and worse than an animal? Ah!"
Ji Song stood up and walked around on the ground, which showed that his heart was not peaceful at this time.
"You know what the heck! You are pretending to be a good person for me here. I am also a commoner. How can I not know?"
"If you give them food now, it will be useless. It seems that we have a lot of food, but even if we give it all, it will not last for a month at most."
"But have you ever thought about what if we don't have enough food? All our previous efforts will be gone. Do you know that it's all gone?"
"Do you know how much effort I have put into this matter? If I fall short, it will be difficult to do it again in the future!"
Yao Chang had already collapsed to the ground. It was not that he had not thought about it, but after all, his vision was too small and he could only see what was in front of him.
There are still more than two months until the next harvest, but it is only a wheat harvest, not to mention only God knows how much will be left after the locust plague.
Ji Song was furious when he thought of this. How many years had he been planting wheat in Jijiazhuangzi?The harvest is there, but not many people follow suit, and the government does nothing.
What does this make him do?You can't force them to plant with a knife, right? He sat firmly on the chair, took a breath, and suppressed the anger in his matter how angry he is now, it won't help, so just take care of the present!
"Fortunately, Haojue County is located on the edge and has not been severely affected by the disaster. My village will have a harvest soon. Together with the grain from other nearby villages, I can buy it and get almost [-] shi of wheat. You can go and buy ours." Chu Liang will give [-] shi to the Ministry of Household Affairs, but you must tell them that this is a loan and write down the IOU!"
Ji Song still compromised. He didn't have much food in the first place, and he only kept it to prevent emergencies. Now he could only use it in advance for emergencies.
"Isn't this inappropriate!" Yao Chang said coyly.
"Go away! You're the only one who's generous, right! Why don't you feel bad if you don't know how valuable the material is?" Ji Song couldn't hold back his anger now. Everyone is a good person, but he is Scrooge?
If we don’t seize the handle of the Ministry of Finance now, when Sinong Temple is rich, won’t those things come to fight the autumn wind every day? "Hey, I'll take care of it now." When Yao Chang saw that Ji Song was really angry, he didn't dare to stay any longer and ran out quickly.
Staying at the government office, Ji Song became more and more uneasy as he thought about it, so he took Honglei and went home.
"Call the housekeeper, quickly!"
When he returned to the Hou Mansion, he immediately said to the concierge.
"Let's go, little one!"
After a while, Lao Zheng came trotting over. "Master Hou, do you want to see me for something?"
Ji Song didn't talk nonsense and asked directly: "Is there any news from Khatib?"
Last time, he told Zheng Li to keep in touch with Khatib and asked him to transport grain to the Tang Dynasty, while he would settle the accounts with there was no news at all after such a long time, so he couldn't help but not worry.
"Yes, yes, I received his letter this morning. Judging by the time, he should have arrived in the Tang Dynasty by now." Lao Zheng did not dare to neglect and said hurriedly.
"Great." Ji Song stood up happily.
Then he asked again: "How much food is there this time, or is it rice?"
"Yes, this time the letter said there were 30 stones of rice, which required dozens of large ships."
Ji Song was a little surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect that Khatib had such ability?I really underestimated him at first.
"Okay, you continue to contact him, and go straight up the Yellow River from Qingzhou. If it can't move, use people to pull it. I will go and talk to His Majesty about this."
After saying this, I didn’t dare to delay. If something went wrong in the meantime, the consequences would be disastrous!
In the Tai Chi Palace, Li Shimin was furious, while Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling and others could only bow their heads and be scolded, not daring to say anything.
"If you can't think of a way, just stand here. When you find a way, tell me again, hum!"
Maybe he was tired of scolding, so he sat on the dragon chair to catch his breath, regardless of the ugly faces below.
Du Ruhui was also full of complaints, but what could he do? He was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the emperor wanted can only ask him for it.
But don’t look at what time of year it is now?There is no need to pick up the slack, where can I get food for you?
After the locust plague, we are even more stretched! Just when everyone was thinking of a solution with a sad look on their faces, a eunuch came in from outside and said that the left minister of the household department had come to report something important.
"Let him come in!" Li Shimin waved his hand and said irritably.
"promise!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is so happy! There is food, the Ministry of Household Affairs has food!"
When Du Ruhui heard this cry, he was furious. Who was spreading rumors? Where did the food from the Ministry of Hubu come from? How could he not know if he, the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu, didn't know? "Where is the food?" But Li Shimin didn't care about this, he said excitedly.
"Liu Qing, you have to think clearly, where does the household department get the food?" Du Ruhui said angrily.
The man was stunned and seemed to have thought of something. He quickly handed the document in his hand to Du Ruhui and said, "This was sent by someone just now. I don't dare to neglect it. Since you are not here, I have no choice but to enter the palace."
"Sent here?" He handed over the paperwork, and when he saw it clearly, his face turned green and red. He didn't know how his face would change when he returned it!
Li Shimin saw that he didn't speak for a long time, but he still couldn't bear it. He stepped forward and snatched the document away, and was overjoyed after reading it.
"Okay! It's great for a good Marquis to act like this when the country is in crisis!"
"Good Marquis?" Everyone was a little confused, what does this have to do with Ji Song? You know that he has tens of thousands of people to feed, and he can still provide food to the victims?
(End of this chapter)