Chapter 16 (1/2)

Chiyunyuexuan dismisses these accusations. He has his own statement: a few months ago, several counties in the south of Huayan suffered the worst flood in a hundred years. Yuliang county and Yanshan County are the most serious. Fuling pass, guarded by jiyunyuexuan, is only one county away from Yuliang. When he heard that the disaster of Yuliang was very serious, he took people and horses across the county to help the affected county. The area under the jurisdiction of chiyun Yuexuan is still abundant in food. He decided to take a part of it to help the victims of fishing beam. He supervised the convoy of grain transport to the fishing beam. On the way, he also listened to the Scout's report that Chaoting had allocated a large amount of relief money to the disaster area.

When chiyun Yuexuan arrived at the fishing beam, he found that the situation was wrong. A large number of victims have fled from famine with their children and daughters, and the victims of starvation can be seen everywhere on the road. Chiyun Yuexuan distributed the grain to the victims all the way. Before he arrived in Yuliang County, the grain he had brought had been distributed. Chiyun Yuexuan knows that these grains are only a drop in the bucket and cannot solve the problem at all. Most of the victims are still not rescued.

When chiyunyuexuan arrived at Yuliang County, it was a scene of dilapidation in the city. On both sides of the whole street, families were closed and fled. The disaster was more serious than he thought. He secretly visited several families who were unable to escape, only to learn that the local officials, together with the state officials, had divided up the money allocated by the court for disaster relief. The merchants in the city colluded with the officials, hoarded a lot of food and sold it at a high price. In order to survive, the people sold their houses, properties and children, and finally spent all their savings, but they still failed. None of the rich families, businessmen or officials in the city were affected by the disaster. Instead, they took advantage of the disaster to get the wealth of the country and forced the common people to a dead end.

When local officials learned that jiyunyuexuan had come here to inspect the disaster, they presented a grand banquet to flatter him and asked him to turn a blind eye.

Chiyun Yuexuan pretended to form an alliance with them, and contracted Yanbin building, the largest restaurant in the city, to entertain Prefecture and local officials who came to inspect the disaster. The gentry, celebrities and rich businessmen were also included in his invitation.

When these people enter Yanbin building, they find that Yanbin building has been guarded by chiyun Yuexuan's heavy troops, and they can only enter and cannot leave.

At the banquet of chiyun Yuexuan, there was no wine or meat, only the grains and porridge that were as clear as water, and the nest that had mildew. Now people know that things are not good.

Although several local officials have heard of the vicious reputation of chiding yunyuexuan, they all think he can't have any means when they see that he is young and has a beautiful face. Officials speculated that chiyun Yuexuan just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to gain some benefits and talked with him about the conditions.

Chiyun Yuexuan's indistinguishable peach blossom face always smiles: ”since everyone is here, we will have dinner first and then discuss major issues. Unfortunately, because of the natural disaster, I can't offer you anything good. I think you are as hungry as the victims. You don't care. Let's start eating. ”

These officials are used to eating big fish and big meat. They can't eat these things on the table. One by one, they begged chiyun Yuexuan to send their servants to get good wine and food at home, and chiyun Yuexuan answered with a smile. And let them tell their servants to prepare a whole table of good wine and food for each family. Chiyun Yuexuan quietly accompanies them to drink tea. Time goes by, and those people's eyes are green with hunger.

Half an hour later, the dispatched servants successively brought good wine and food to the host. Chiyun Yuexuan ordered the waiter of the restaurant to move the tables and chairs in the shop to the door, and there were more than 20 long banquets in the street. Local officials saw this and asked for the opening of chiyun Yuexuan. Chiyun Yuexuan smiled and waved downstairs: ”OK, let's open the table.”

The chiyun army downstairs dodged to open a path, and the people around rushed to the table to eat and drink. Officials, tyrants and gentry thought that the victims were coming to grab food and let the county magistrate send people to suppress them. The county magistrate gave a salute to chiding yunyuexuan: ”these villains dare to rob the feast of the general, and the corporal hereby orders to kill them all.”

Chiyun Yuexuan's face was very gloomy: ”they are also guests invited by our general. These victims are the foundation of the country. Only through their hard work can the common people of Huayan and the officials of all levels of prefectures live a full life. However, when they encounter natural disasters, those of you who depend on them to support them, regardless of their lives and deaths, even divide up the silver that is allocated to the court to help them through the difficulties. Do you have a little compassion? ”

When they heard this, they thought about their escape. Chiyun Yuexuan then said: ”you don't want to solve such a serious disaster. You also collude with businessmen to store grain and increase prices. Do you know how many starving victims there are along the way? If you don't like the food I invite you to eat, you should know that thousands of victims in the city have become extravagant even to eat such food. ”

Chiyun Yuexuan grabs a moldy nest head and takes the lead in eating: ”today, I just want you to understand that those drinks and vegetables are what they should eat. What you should eat is the food that general Ben entertained you today. I can eat them all, can't you? ”