Tan Lun accompanied Xu Hai and others out of the black market, the expression will have a few points of loss, he these days in order to Taiwan State House blood, it can be said that the morning and night sleep, and there is a dynasty, but today a visit, I did not think that the situation in Taiwan State House is still so grim. An operation is as fierce as a tiger, a look at the record zero bar five, how not to let people lose.
“The clever woman is difficult to cook without rice, this is due to the situation, not manpower can do, Tan know how to do has been very good.”After Wang Mang noticed Tan Lun’s loss, he patted his shoulder and encouraged him.
“Tan mou is negative to the imperial grace, deeply ashamed ……”Tan Lun still could not hold back his loss.
“Governor Tan is so dedicated to the people, the situation is still like this, Jingnan does not know to what extent it is rotten!”
Xu Hai couldn’t help but lament.
“Zhu Pingan of the people of Taiping, like cooking pot ear, Jingnan people in the cooking. We can’t delay for a moment, let’s go to Taiping County, call the governor of Taiping, and head straight to Jingnan to get rid of this scourge for the people of Jingnan.”
Zhang Wenbo took the opportunity to say, urging the crowd to depart and run to Jingnan to bring the corrupt official Zhu Pingan to justice.
“Certainly.”
Peng Cheng and the others nodded their heads in succession.
Zhu Pingan was the most important task of their trip, so Xu Hai and the others, accompanied by Tan Lun, headed straight to the city of Taiping County.
As soon as Xu Hai and the others entered the boundaries of Taiping County, they realised that the situation in Taiping County was much grimmer than Taizhou Prefecture City.
There were as many starving people as cattle and sheep, and there were a lot of people with young and old in their arms. Xu Hai and the others saw more than a dozen corpses of starving people, and they couldn’t see a single colour of green in the wilderness, and the grass and trees were withered, and the land was bare for hundreds of miles, because the starving people had eaten up the leaves, barks, and roots of the grasses, but anything that could be ingested had been eaten cleanly.
“Is this a flood or a drought?”Looking at this tragic scene, Xu Hai and the others could not help but sigh with their wrists.
When the governor of Taiping learnt that Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, had accompanied the Beijing officials, he organised the county magistrates and the old and wealthy gentry to greet them, and sent people to drive away the stragglers at the north gate of the county to maintain the image.
But in the Taiping magistrate at the city gate is still organising, Xu Hai, Tan Lun and other people came. They were just in time to see the Taiping governor instructing his servants to push, shove, and drive away the stragglers to whitewash the facade.
Seeing this scene, Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, couldn’t help but hold his forehead ……
“I didn’t know that the superior officer and the Prefect’s honourable father came to my county, my humble servant failed to welcome them from afar, I really deserve to die ……”
Taiping governor recognised the plainclothes Taizhou governor Tan Lun, and knew that the person he was accompanying was the superior officer from the capital, and panicked and went forward to salute and greet him, his face was embarrassed, as if he were a little daughter-in-law who had been caught cheaply in bed.
“OK, don’t toss the people, nonsense!”Xu Hai swept a glance at him and ordered with a displeased face.
It is said that preconceived ideas, just because of this scene at the city gate, Xu Hai’s good feelings towards the Taiping Magistrate were all gone, and his antipathy increased greatly. Driving away the stray victims and whitewashing the peace, this kind of local officials who make false claims and make the whole superficial thing up are the most despised by the officials of the Ministry of Justice.
“Yes, yes.”
Taiping Magistrate was in a sorry state, panicking and ordering the servants to stop.
A whitewashed welcoming scene had turned into a complete farce, a total eye-sore.
Taizhou governor Tan Lun was originally dissatisfied with the governor of Taiping, and now saw the poor performance of the governor of Taiping, even more frowned. Taiping magistrate is his subordinate official, Taiping magistrate was caught red-handed, his face is also no light.
“We are here, I think you also have a number in mind. Why don’t you quickly change into civilian clothes and go to Jingnan with us to verify that Zhu Pingan, the governor of Jingnan, colluded with grain merchants, inflated grain prices, and accepted huge bribes.”
Xu Hai said to the governor of Taiping with a long face after he stopped the farce at the city gates.
Sure enough, it is for Zhu Pingan, it seems that my seal has reached the Holy Hearing, then I am not the time to be lucky ……The woeful governor of Taiping was suddenly invigorated, a face of excitement, on the spot borrowed a squire’s clothes, right behind the city gates nooks and crannies to take off the official uniform to change.
Before leaving for Jingnan, the Taiping Magistrate, in order to perform and salvage his image at the city gates, deliberately asked Xu Hai and the others to stop by and visit their Taiping County grain bank, showing that he had stabilised the grain prices in Taiping County.
Firstly, the governor of Taiping was kindly invited, and secondly, it was on the way, so Xu Hai and the others fulfilled the wish of the governor of Taiping.
Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, looked on coldly, inspecting the situation of Taiping County along with Xu Hai and the others.
However, Taiping County was just as bad as Taizhou Prefecture, if not worse. Although Taiping County has also stabilised the price of grain, the price of grain is 500 Wen per stone, but there is a price but not a market. When I looked at a few grain shops along the way, just like Taizhou Prefecture, they were all empty and had no grain to sell, many of the grain shops were closed, and only one of them still sold grain, and it was also a limited amount of grain for sale.
Grain market to see all see, black market also look at it, east factory hundred Zhang Guyi and people looking for a black market nearby.
As a result, the black market of Taiping County City, the price of grain than the black market of Taizhou City, the price of grain is also ridiculously expensive, the price has been 3,800 a stone, and the black market is small in size, the supply of food is also less pathetic, the food supply exceeds demand, the black market to buy food people scrambling to buy food, there have been several fights and brawls, the whole pull crotch thinning ……
After coming out from the black market, Taiping governor forehead cold sweat straight, face of embarrassment and woe than the city gate more than, panicked to Xu Hai and others to state: “to be under the official hand a letter, make the police officers swing here black market!”
“Foolish!”Taizhou governor Tan Lun heard, couldn’t help but reprimand the Taiping governor, “black market residence, such as leeks cut and reborn, how is a moment can be levelled? Fang today on the poor people’s important task is to verify the Jingnan Zhu Pingan collusion grain merchant corruption case, how can there be time to wait here for you to write a letter in hand?!”
“Yes, yes, my humble servant messed up and almost misplaced the important matters of the superior officer and the Prefect ……”Taiping Magistrate panicked and bowed to admit his mistake.
“Go, go to Jingnan.”
Xu Hai said with an expressionless face.
So a group of people will be from the Taiping county city south door straight to Jingnan and go, square out of the Taiping county city south door not far to see a good big open space, open space in the residue of a piece of dark broken shanty debris, seems to have been burned, originally should be the gathering place of the disaster victims, just at this time was burned, no one lives, depressed very, a group of a group of carrion crows in the broken shanty flying fly off and on, seems to be inside there is their food!……
“This was originally a disaster settlement area set up by my officials, but more than ten days ago, the county office ran out of food to provide relief ……A few days ago, there was a plague here, so people dispersed, and my humble servant, fearing that the plague would spread, burned this place ……”
Looking at Xu Hai and the other people’s probing eyes, among them there were also people from the East Chamber, Taiping Magistrate could only explain with a face of embarrassment.
After this disaster resettlement area, all the way to the south, straight to Jingnan.
This road is all the way to the mourning, miserable and incomparable scene, almost to Jingnan, the situation is a little better, although the road on both sides of the village is a piece of rubble, the village is empty, no one, ten miles of no one smoke without a few, but there is a green, trees and grass but can be preserved.
Further south, the road saw a lot of groups of victims, with the old and the young, seems to be fleeing in the direction of Jingnan.
The direction is wrong, right? Why are they fleeing towards Jingnan? There are corrupt officials there who eat people without blinking an eye! It’s all hell on earth now!
“Several old men, where are you fleeing to?”Xu Hai and the others couldn’t help but stop a group of victims and ask.
“Of course we’re going to Jingnan, but also when we get to Jingnan, everyone will have food to eat.”Someone from the victims replied, with a face of certainty and yearning.
What?
When we get to Jingnan, everyone will have food to eat?
You guys aren’t starving and stupid, are you?
Xu Hai and the others were stunned, with a look of disbelief, feeling so sorry for these victims, that they were going to escape to hell!
