my brother-in-law is the prince

Chapter 466

Yi Shiha said: "I heard that the Taiping Mansion is quite turbulent. Many people are short of food and clothing. Now Taiping Mansion is saving food and trying its best to supply the provinces... this..."

After Zhu Di heard this, instead of frowning, he let out a sigh of relief and said, "Mr. Zhang Qing is loyal to the country and has no selfish thoughts. He is really a model of a minister."

Yes.

The same behavior is seen differently by different people.

Zhang Anshi is selling blood to wipe the ass of those corrupt officials.

In Zhu Di's view, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is epic.

When Yi Shiha was full of envy.

Zhu Di suddenly said: "I heard that the crown prince also went to Henan?"

Yi Shiha quickly put away his thoughts, and said: "Yes, His Royal Highness is in the model camp. It's just that this time, the model camp was transferred to Henan, Guanzhong, and Huguang. He and a team of people rushed to Henan."

Zhu Di nodded: "It's good to go."

Next, Zhu Di had nothing else to say.

Yishiha is not good to say anything.

When the crown prince is involved, there are some things that cannot be said too much. His Majesty will think that you want to change to a new master before I die?

But if the flattery is too light, the emperor will inevitably think, do you, a servant, have any dissatisfaction with my son?No, such a person cannot be left to the prince.

It's really hard to grasp the thoughts in it, Yi Shiha is not Zhang Anshi, Zhang Anshi is the prince's wife and brother, how he hugs His Majesty's thigh, he wishes to be His Majesty's pendant, and he is not worried that after His Majesty's success, the prince will have suspicions about him.

Not to mention, touting the prince will attract unnecessary suspicion.

After all, His Majesty will only think that Zhang Anshi was raised by the crown prince, and he has a conscience to praise the crown prince.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Zhang Anshi said a few bad things about the prince, he would never think that Zhang Anshi harbored any ulterior motives.

Instead, they will think that this is good intentions, and it is for the good of the prince.

This is the difference between their own members of the Zhu family, and it makes sense anyway.

For an emperor as sensitive as Zhu Di, no matter whether it is Yi Shiha or a minister, any action related to the prince is actually extremely dangerous.

Everyone is not stupid, so they will try their best to ignore that there is such a prince in the world.

……

A large amount of grain has entered the warehouse.

stock up.

Almost in Kaifeng, every family's barn is piled high.

Zhou Juren is also a smart person, he has studied mathematics.

It only needs a simple calculation to know that these people of mine have purchased countless grains.

This is true for Kaifeng Prefecture, and it seems to be the same for so many prefectures and counties affected by the disaster. A large number of gentry are eating food.

With so much grain, there are not 1000 million shi, but 800 million.

He was even surprised that this Taiping Mansion could sell so much grain.

But now it doesn't matter...

Because no matter how he calculated, he also believed that the food in Taiping Mansion should have been exhausted.

Even in the second half of the year, the entire grain supply in Zhili had been sold out.

The food of the world must be in the hands of people like him in the four provinces.

And the reason why he dared to spend so much money was not because he had a desperate side in his temperament.

But since the past dynasties, as long as there is a catastrophe, as long as there is a shortage of food, there will be nothing wrong with recklessly hoarding food.

Zhou Juren's ancestors have been doing this since the family tree was established, and every time they encounter such a catastrophe and stockpile of food, the Zhou family's family business will have to go up a notch.

This is inertia. Once a family has tasted the sweetness once, it will become dependent. In terms of running the family business, although the Zhou family will also use the name of the so-called heirloom of poetry and books, diligent and thrifty family management, etc., but in fact... really The best way is to stockpile food in good years and hoard goods in bad years.

This time, the Zhou family borrowed a lot of money. It can be said that... everything that could be mortgaged was mortgaged.

After all, there was no choice this time, and a change like Zhang Anshi forced him to take a big gamble.

But now, he has confidence!

But... the porridge and rice from the porridge sheds are still being distributed.

This made Zhou Juren a little uneasy!Therefore, he had to perform calculations again and again, and the final results always gave him peace of mind.

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

The food in Taiping Mansion...should have been exhausted.

Never again.

This must be a flashback!

at the same time.

A team of model battalions arrived in Kaifeng, along with a large number of personnel.

There was a theater troupe, and they brought a large number of books, newspapers, and carts of goods, which were tightly wrapped in oilcloth.

As soon as the theater troupe arrived, Dongcheng immediately became lively.

As soon as the evening came, the opera troupe began to sing operas, and most of the songs were about Bao Zheng killing the son-in-law, or visiting the thatched cottage three times in the Three Kingdoms.

Ordinary people like this kind of fun the most. Therefore, working during the day and entertaining at night, and being able to eat and drink enough, the camp becomes more stable, and even some petty thefts in the past have gradually disappeared.

Prince Zhu Gaochi was among them, and this team of model battalions camped here in the name of assisting in the defense of Kaifeng.

After evening, Zhu Gaochi was allowed to leave the camp, so he walked east and looked west.

Regarding the situation of the catastrophe, he actually knew something about it before. After all, he had experienced the defense of Beiping, and he had traveled between Beiping and Nanjing as a prince.

Seeing this scene now, I couldn't help being taken aback.

Although the people here may not all have put on new clothes, they seem to be in good spirits, and there are no dishes that they thought they would foresee in the past.

There is almost everything here. Recently, a large bathhouse was actually built. A deep pit was dug on the ground, and then the water was heated, diverted into the pit, and a big tent was set up on the pit.

It is said... the weather is getting colder, so we need to keep it clean so as not to breed diseases.

Even if the clothes have been worn for a few days, there are special people who collect them, wash them, and then dry them.

There may be a lot of things here, and there are still some shortages, but the manpower is sufficient. If you organize people, you can always find work.

Zhu Gaochi glanced at it, but the more he looked at it, the more strange he became. He suddenly felt that this was like a huge military camp, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed wrong.

On the next day, Zhu Gaochi began to guard various porridge sheds.

There are already long queues in the porridge sheds everywhere.

He saw many energetic people, especially those men who needed to go to work quickly, queuing up first, while women and children had to wait a little later to get them.

Everything is in order.

Liu Jianye from the medical center was among them.

At this moment, he was holding a clay bowl, and all he could think about was his white rice porridge.

Teenagers are gluttonous, and sometimes they always feel that there is not enough to eat.

Looking forward to it every day, that is, three meals a day.

But soon, there was a commotion ahead.

The commotion became more and more obvious, so that the people in the back team didn't know what happened.

Suddenly, like a loach, Liu Jianye simply stopped queuing and squeezed inside.

At this time, someone shouted: "Silence, silence, don't whisper, don't cause trouble!"

But it was a few people from the model battalion and the guards.

Only then did everyone quiet down, and some people left in a hurry with the breakfast they had brought.

Soon he arrived at Liu Jianye's place.

Liu Jianye was still confused, when he took the pottery bowl, the person opposite scooped him a bowl of porridge as usual.

The porridge is hot, and the white rice is boiled, giving off a unique aroma of porridge, which greatly increases appetite.

Liu Jianye hurried to pick it up.

But the person who served the porridge didn't hand him the porridge water, but actually scooped out half a dried fish from the big tube at the side, and besides that, there was a piece of bacon.

The dried fish was only half the size of a fist, and the bacon was fatty and only the size of a thumb.

A man in his prime may be able to swallow it in one bite.

But Liu Jianye suddenly smelled the smell of meat and fish, and was startled for a moment, as if thinking that he had misread, his eyes widened a lot, staring at these two things, seeing them sinking into the porridge water, his whole body ...He froze in place, almost stopped breathing.

The other party handed him the pottery bowl: "Quick, the next one."

Liu Jianye didn't have time to pick it up, but Harazi fell down without hope.

When he reacted, he immediately held the bowl of porridge in his hands, and then ran to a certain wall and squatted down.

Holding his chopsticks, he began to fish his porridge with all his might. Finally, he saw the dried fish and meat fished out of the porridge. Then, he seemed to realize that this was not a dream.

As a result, the young man's face suddenly grinned...a smirk.

He began to sip the porridge, but he never touched the dried fish and bacon. Finally, when the porridge was all in his stomach, he realized that today's porridge was extraordinarily sweet.

Perhaps because of the smell of fish and meat, the porridge seemed to have a meaty smell.

When there were only dried fish and bacon left in the bowl, he carefully picked up the dried fish, put it near his mouth, and sipped it lightly. The indescribable feeling immediately spread throughout his body.

He chewed bit by bit, but the time passed very quickly, and after a while, his clay bowl was empty.

There seemed to be some kind of indescribable meaty fragrance rippling in the stomach, both a sense of satisfaction and a feeling of unfinished.

On the side, someone stabbed Liu Jianye with an elbow.

Only then did Liu Jianye come back to his senses, and looked sideways, only to see his father squatting beside him at some point.

The porridge in his father Liu Jian's bowl has already been emptied.

But there was still less than half eaten salted fish and bacon left.

"Baby, eat."

Liu Jianye swallowed, took a look, but shook his head.

Liu Jian scolded: "You donkey, why are you disobedient! You can eat as you please, what are you talking about! When you are full, you will obediently work with two doctors. They are capable people in long gowns. Follow them, and you will be promising in the future."

Liu Jianye still shook his head persistently and said, "Father, you eat."

Liu Jian glanced at Liu Jianye in astonishment, and suddenly realized that his son had actually grown up unknowingly, and he was no longer the doll who faltered, had a runny nose, and always followed behind his father.

Suddenly, Liu Jian's eyes were a little sore, he drooped his head, sighed and said: "I am useless, useless, I have never taught you to eat meat a few times in this life, I borrowed the grace of heaven and the Taiping Mansion, Only then did I teach you how to eat a few bites of meat, hey..."

As he spoke, he vigorously wiped away the tears that had long been uncontrollable.

"Let's eat together."

"Oh."

The father and son, hiding in the corner, lowered their heads and rustled like a pair of thieves.

On the same day, Jin Yiwei Wang Wu wrote in his report to Nanzhen Fusi: Today, the distribution of fish meat is exciting from top to bottom, and there is a scene of rejuvenation. The soldiers and civilians, etc., are all energetic and lively. The ditches are all progressing rapidly, and what I see today, I feel that people's hearts are in my heart.Even some idlers who used to mix among them have always been lazy at work and refused to work hard.Now I am willing to serve my life, and I am very happy.

After Wang Wu finished writing, he seemed to be full of meaning, and added his own feelings: Now that I think about it, preaching day after day is not as good as three meals of fish and meat.

After finishing writing, call it a day and order someone to send the report to Qixia as soon as possible.

…………

Today, the prefect Liu Jin seemed a little delirious.

He had already received news that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also came with the army, so he hurried to the east of the city to meet him.

It's a pity that people ignored him, he couldn't even enter the army, and only said that those who dared to enter and exit the army would die.

All of a sudden, Liu Jin was a little anxious.

When he returned to the magistrate's yamen with a flutter.

But Zhou Juren has arrived.

Liu Jin frowned and had to come to see them.

After greeting each other.

The prince was mentioned.

Zhou Juren seemed very dissatisfied: "The crown prince is the heir. You should be close to the sages and stay away from the villains. But now, he uses riding and shooting as a show and goes to the army. What is the difference between this and the Han Lingdi?"

Scholars love to use allusions when they talk. This week, Juren mentioned Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Liu Jinren, the prefect, etc., and immediately understood what he meant.

Liu Hong, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, once imitated markets, markets, various shops, and street vendors in the harem, letting some of the maids and concubines dress up as various merchants selling goods, another part as shopping customers, and some as selling singers. The ones who play monkeys and so on.And he himself puts on the clothes of a merchant, pretends to be a merchant selling goods, walks around in this artificial market, or drinks and has fun in the tavern, or quarrels, fights, fights with the shopkeeper and the customer, How lively.Liu Hong wandered here and had a great time.

In the eyes of scholars, such behavior is not doing their job properly.

Of course, the prince's current behavior is actually similar to these, and may even be even more hateful. After all, the army Han Qiuba, and the singers and merchants in this market are even more humble.

Liu Jin sighed, with dissatisfaction in his eyes, but he only said: "Be cautious, today is different from the past."

Zhou Juren understood it too, so he stopped short, but said: "Grand Liu, is there any news from the Taiping Mansion?"

Liu Jin frowned, looked at him strangely and said, "What?"

Zhou Juren said with worry in his eyes: "I have spent so much time buying food without spending all my money, but why... the food in Taiping Mansion is still in constant supply?"

Liu Jin frowned, thought about it seriously, and said, "This matter is really strange, but it turns out that the supply is going to run out."

Zhou Juren sighed, "But now... hey..."

It is said that the food is about to run out, but how can there be more?

Zhou Juren was anxious!

Seeing how worried Zhou Juren and others were, Liu Jin comforted him and said, "You are all scholars and well-informed. Don't you know how much food there is in this world? Don't you have a lot of food in your mind? After buying so much food, how can Taiping Mansion go?" Where did the surplus food come from? Now it seems that it is just a bluff."

Zhou Juren thought about it carefully, and couldn't help nodding, and then said: "Students and others, there is one more thing."

"But it doesn't matter."

Zhou Juren sighed and said, "Oh, the loss of buying grain this time is really huge, so the students are thinking, with the current price of grain, I am afraid that the previous loss cannot be recovered. It’s going to go up even more.”

"This is your business." Liu Jin knew it in his heart, glanced at him lightly, and said ambiguously: "I am a local parent, and I only care about maintaining the well-being of the people. Now, you and the people have suffered heavy losses. Losses are justified."

Zhou Juren was overjoyed and was about to thank you.

But at this time, someone came in a hurry and shouted anxiously: "Master, master..."

The person who came was a clerk, he was Liu Jin's confidant, the other servants might have had distracting thoughts, but this clerk still had his heart set on Liu Jin.

Liu Jin picked up the teacup, took a sip of the tea, pressed his hands on the hurried official, and said calmly, "What's the matter?"

The official took a breath and said, "It's terrible, it's terrible, today... I heard... I heard... the food of the refugees outside the city has improved."

Liu Jin, Zhou Juren and others remained calm.

Liu Jin sneered: "Improvement is improvement, so what?"

The civil official stammered and said, "But this morning, besides a bowl of sticky rice porridge, there was also fish meat. The fish was half the size of a fist, and there was also a piece of meat. At noon, there was a bowl of white rice, and there was also a piece of meat." Fish. Yes, I also added a roasted sweet potato. Even the recipe for the night was posted, but there is still fish and meat. It was said there that without fish, you can’t grow strength, especially children, who are growing up At that time, so there was an emergency shipment of many truckloads of fish from the Taiping Mansion..."

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Liu Jin and the others changed suddenly.

In ancient times, fish was fine, but this meat...was simply a top luxury.

In such a catastrophic year, who would dare to expect such a thing?

Even ordinary small landlords can only eat such things during the Chinese New Year.

But now... actually supplying this to the refugees...

Zhou Juren only felt that his head was dizzy, as if a hammer was hitting his heart hard.

He clutched his heart, thinking of a terrible thing.

Then, he tried his best to say: "They...don't they have no food? Why...how come there are still fish and meat...this...how is it possible..."

The clerk said with a sad face: "The other side said that it is open to eat. As long as His Majesty and His Royal Highness Wuhu County King have a mouthful of food, they will never starve to death a refugee!"

bang...

Zhou Juren felt his ears screaming.

He opened his eyes wide, and then roared hysterically: "It's a crime, it's devoid of conscience!"