Chapter 364 (2/2)
”Mr. Sima doesn't have to be like this. It's OK to have a seat.” After that, he looked at Lou Shide and said, ”tell me, what's so hard for you to say? Why do you want people to learn from Cao mengde's desire for plum blossom to quench their thirst?”
Lou Shide was full of bitterness. Li Hong looked around at many people and shop assistants who were listening up to each other about food. However, the lives of these people nearby, when I heard them talking about food all the time, I naturally hope to hear some good news.
”Then you can accompany me around the granary built by the previous dynasty, that Check with him. ” Li Hong got up and went outside the teahouse. Looking at the disappointed teahouse man, he pointed to Lou Shide and said.
”Well, my guest, take a long time. By the way, if you can find out when the imperial court will release grain, you may as well tell the small one that you are ready.” Shop assistant meets Li Hong and stealthily says.
”What? Why don't you have enough to eat while you're in the granary? ” Li Hong asked with a smile.
”My guest My guest, you are joking. I'm a waiter in the teahouse, not in the granary. Naturally, I don't have to eat. ”
”What do you eat every day now?”
”Food, can't we really gnaw bark? But it's just that I eat less than when I have surplus food. I'm not afraid of your jokes. After the Shangyuan Festival, I almost forget what a full meal is like. ”
”No, last year I gave you two full catties of grain. According to the family of five, even if you are late, you should be able to eat now?” Li Hong was very curious. According to the teahouse assistant's meaning, the common people had already begun to economize on food and clothing!
”There are grains, but you can't eat them all? If you eat all of them, what will you grow after spring? Is it difficult to eat only ready-made seeds? It's not like starving to death. ” The teahouse assistant looked at Li Hong and said disapprovingly.
I'm really worthy of being a childe. A full man doesn't know that a hungry man is hungry. You think you are all like you. If you don't have enough food, you can get enough food by looking for some relationship at will! We are ordinary ants and ordinary people. The government will take good care of us.
Li HongChong gives him a thumbs up, but he sees Li Sujie and Bai Chun chuckling. This is obviously not a joke. The teahouse clerk is poor, but he is laughing at his thoughtlessness.
Sima Lin was going to leave. Facing his royal highness and Prince Xu Wang of the Tang Dynasty, he was more or less nervous. However, Li Hong did not intend to let him go. Instead, he asked him to follow him to the granary.
Five people walking in the busy streets, the carts full of grain, one car after another, after the inspection of the guards, began to drive out of the granary door, slowly toward Luoyang.
Lou Shide walked on Li Hong's side and lamented, ”Your Highness, you don't know. He has been forced by him to come and have a look these days. He said that these grains are being transported out, but they are not for the common people. Instead, they are directly loaded with boats from Luoshui, or go north by carriage...”
”Yes, as the governor of Henan government, don't you know these things? First of all, why don't you want to release grain? Why do you have to wait until the imperial court orders? Is it that if the imperial court does not give the order, you, as a second grade official, do not have the right to open granaries and grain for the people? ” Ignoring the supervision of the guard, Li Hong pushed Bai Chun's shoulder and walked in first.
”Well You don't know that there is not much grain left in luocang this time. It is true that the imperial court is going to abandon it. But I also want to use all the grain in the most critical moment, don't you? ”
”Tell me directly, how much food is left.” Li Hong didn't go to the granary full of carriages, instead, he went to the cold granary to observe.
”This Back to luocang, there is still surplus grain left now About Less than three million stones. ”
”That's quite a lot. It's enough for the people in Henan to spend the famine years.” Li Hong asked in a puzzled way that you don't consume so much grain left. Do you really have to wait for the people to starve to death and begin to eat bark, just like Bai Chun said!
”Three million is quite a lot, but among these three million stones, there are military grain, public grain, royal food and a small part, but there is not much in the granary. And What's more, King Ji asked for the low-cost grain of 500000 stone granaries. If he took away the low-cost grain of 500000 stone, there would be not much left for the common people. What do you say the minister will give the people to eat? ” Lou Shide spread his hands, as if it was an impossible thing, but also felt very aggrieved.