Chapter 431 The traitor and the wolf ambition

What Kong Zhan said now is the primary problem that Qingzhou Prefecture must solve at the moment. Although Zhong Yu is coming forward to reach Tianting and even invites heavyweights like Qi Shi Cult, the problem is that all this takes time and a lot of time. The most lacking thing in Qingzhou Prefecture now is time.

Zhong Yuzheng had done all the official department and was the first of the six departments. He knew the most about how low the bureaucratic efficiency of the Ming Dynasty was. Especially under the premise that Emperor Wanli was lazy in government, it would take at least one or two months to solve the problem of Qingzhou Prefecture, and it would take at least one or two months to execute the orders in the court.

Qingzhou Prefecture can’t afford to wait! It can’t afford to wait at all!

Kong Zhan said that thousands of people had starved to death in the entire Qingzhou Prefecture. Zhong Yuzheng felt that Kong Zhan might be a bit exaggerated, but only a hundred people were starved to death in each prefecture and county under Qingzhou Prefecture, and thousands of people would starve to death in the entire Qingzhou Prefecture. According to Zhong Yuzheng's grasp, the number of people who died in each prefecture and county in Qingzhou Prefecture due to this natural disaster is far more than a hundred people.

Moreover, the disaster is expanding, and Zhong Yu is trying to turn the tide, but now he is almost exhausted by helping his clan and fellow villagers. Therefore, he said: "Officer Kong Tui, you are a parent official, and this matter must be solved with you. If Qingzhou Prefecture starves to death, it is your responsibility!"

Kong Zhan could hear the helplessness in Zhong Yu's mouth, and he immediately said with a righteous look: "Old Zhong, this matter is your responsibility! You are the number one gentry in Qingzhou Prefecture. At this time, you have to take responsibility."

Zhong Yu couldn't tell Kong Zhan about this, and he immediately asked, "How should I take responsibility?"

Kong Zhan immediately said: "Now someone has already stockpiled 20,000 stone rice beans in the Gaomi area of ​​Zhucheng to help our Qingzhou Prefecture at any time, but you also know that when the Heng Palace is making such a fuss, the 20,000 stone rice beans are not afraid to come in at all!"

When Kong Zhan said this, his tone suddenly became confident: "Now, only Mr. Zhong came forward, the officials and civilians in Qingzhou dared to transport the 20,000 stones of rice and beans in! I had sent someone to transport grain from Xiaoqinghe to pick up the officials and civilians in Qingzhou. As a result, the ship had just arrived at Yangjiaogou and was immediately detained by the captain of the Hengwang Mansion. Until now, let alone the food on the ship, even the merchant ship carrying grain was not brought back."

Kong Zhan’s words were half true and half false. There was something like this when he tried to transport grain from Xiaoqing River through Yangjiaogou. However, although Kong Zhan came forward to deceive others into doing this and drove the boat to Yangjiaogou together, his two grain ships deliberately fell behind. He immediately fled back to Changyi when he saw that the limelight was wrong, and he suffered no losses at all. It was an indisputable fact that the captain of the Hengwang Mansion came forward to detain the boat in Yangjiaogou.

"No need to say that someone has hoarded 20,000 stones of grain in Gaomi. Just say it, Huangcheng Liuliu Huangcheng in Dengzhou!" After all, Zhong Yuzheng was a person who was a member of the official department. He had competed for the foundation of the country with Emperor Wanli, but he was not polite at all. He said in front of Kong Zhan: "I know that Liu Pengliu, a traitor in Dengzhou, is a wolfish ambition, and he will definitely not die well in the future!"

He scolded happily, but Kong Zhan smiled and said, "But Mr. Liu has 20,000 stones of rice beans on his hand!"

The entire Qingzhou Prefecture had the least disasters in Zhucheng, while the Gaomi County was not serious. Liu Peng had a profound influence in these two counties, so these two counties were ready for the future and prepared first. Liu Peng made the worst plan in advance, which led to Liu Peng having a batch of food for mobile. Under the urging of Jiang Qingyue and the Zhang brothers, he was preparing to transport the batch of food to Qingzhou Prefecture.

This is also the unanimous opinion of many gentry in Laizhou Prefecture. After reaching a comprehensive cooperation with Longkou, the disaster in Laizhou Prefecture has been greatly alleviated. In particular, the cooperation reached by Longkou in private Zhuqiao Town and Changyi County has solved the major problem. The grain from Dengzhou Prefecture is continuously transporting into Laizhou Prefecture, and Beihai Money House and Longjiang Money House are also carrying out loan business in Laizhou Prefecture.

Although I felt that the 20,000 stone of rice and beans transported from Longkou were not enough, and the officials and civilians of Laizhou Prefecture were planning to borrow tens of thousands of stones of grain from Longkou to provide relief to the victims, the most worrying problem for the officials and civilians of Laizhou Prefecture is that the situation in Qingzhou Prefecture is many times more serious than that in Laizhou Prefecture. If hundreds of thousands of refugees in Qingzhou Prefecture pour into Laizhou Prefecture, then all the efforts made by Laizhou Prefecture will become a dream bubble.

Therefore, the officials and civilians of Laizhou Prefecture now support Longkou to send a batch of grain to Qingzhou Prefecture to alleviate the urgent needs facing Qingzhou Prefecture now. However, they did not know that Liu Peng had stored up tens of thousands of stones of grain in Gaomi, otherwise most of the grain would have to be deducted.

Zhong Yuzheng's reaction was particularly strong: "I knew that Liu Peng was not kind, so I decided to help him with the reputation of the Qingming Festival for half my life to recommend him to become the Zhaoyuan County Magistrate. Didn't he dream of getting this Zhaoyuan County Magistrate? Well, I will talk about Qi Shi teaches me!"

It is amazing that a former official’s official department is united with the Zhong and a current official department is united. Kong Zhan thinks it is too wasteful to solve a small Zhaoyuan County Magistrate, and it should be used to solve the promotion problem of Kong Zhan Kong Kong Promotion Officer!

But it was hard to say this, Kong Zhan could only say: "That's great. Everything depends on Mr. Zhong. By the way, Mr. Zhong, I will inform you of these 20,000 stones of grain immediately and let them transport it as soon as possible!"

"One stone of rice costs three taels of silver, and only 20,000 stones of grain is really a drop in the bucket. This is really a drop in the bucket to put out the fire!" Zhong Yuzheng's feelings for family and country suddenly burst out, and he continued, "Hey, the Ming Dynasty is really over. I know that Liu Peng is a traitor, a traitor, a wolf, and he took advantage of this natural disaster to win people's hearts, but he can't stop this thief, but he wants to lead the wolf into the house... Alas!"

Zhong Yu was sighing, and the official Kong Tui felt uncomfortable when he heard it. He could only say: "Old Zhong, you think of Mr. Liu too badly. Mr. Liu just wanted to take this opportunity to make money from public and private matters. He did not have any wolves ambitions! By the way, he also mentioned Mr. Zhong to me!"

Zhong Yu has experienced countless strong storms, but no matter how many storms he has experienced, people always care about other people’s evaluation of themselves: “What did he say about Zhong?”

Kong Zhan immediately said, "Mr. Liu said that he admired Senior Zhong very much and asked me to find a way to send the three thousand stones of grain to Qingzhou to hand it over to Senior Zhong to provide relief to the victims..."

"Three thousand stones?" Zhong Yu was shocked by Liu Peng's handwriting: "Is it three thousand stones of grain?"

If it is a normal year, not to mention three thousand stones of grain, or three thousand stones of grain, Zhong Yuzheng can find a way to raise it. However, now is a major disaster that has not been encountered in a century. Three thousand stones of grain is not just a timely help. With these three thousand stones of grain, Zhong Yuzheng can save thousands more people.

"Yes!" Kong Zhan immediately said, "Liu Xiao said that the three thousand stones of grain was his devotion to Mr. Zhong, so he specially squeezed out three thousand stones of grain from his teeth and lent it to Mr. Zhong. At this time next year, Mr. Zhong would like to ask Mr. Zhong to give Mr. Liu five thousand stones."

This year, Liu Peng lent Zhong Yuzheng three thousand stones of grain, but one year later, Zhong Yuzheng had to return Liu Peng a total of five thousand stones. This is an absolute usury loan, with an annual interest rate of nearly 70%, but Zhong Yuzheng knew that he had taken a huge advantage, and this was 3,000 stones of grain in the year of a disaster.

The usury in rural Shandong has always borrowed a bucket of grain in spring and paid two buckets of grain in autumn. Even a saint-family house like the Confucius Mansion still borrowed one and two buckets of grain between spring and autumn. In many cases, the Confucius Mansion borrowed a bucket of rotten wheat soaked in spring, and had to recover two buckets of good wheat in autumn. And with this interest rate, the Confucius Mansion also believed that it was doing good deeds, and most people could not borrow it even if they wanted to.

In this year of disaster, in order to survive, everyone is willing to borrow one and two, or borrow one and three and four. What's more, the grain that Liu Peng lent to Zhong Yuzheng only has an interest rate of 70% in a year. But by this time next year, Zhong Yuzheng doesn't care about 5,000 stones of grain at all.

Therefore, Zhong Yuzheng's expression suddenly became happy: "Is there really three thousand stones? Do you really have to pay back five thousand stones?"

Kong Zhan immediately said, "Yes, the principal and profit of 5,000 stones have been explained to me!"

Of course, Zhong Yuzheng could accept this condition. In fact, there was not much grain in his family. However, since the autumn harvest last year, he had been open to eat, and he brewed wine twice and sold grain once. Even now, when he really needed grain, he only had more than a thousand stones.

"It's enough to have three thousand stones!"

Although I couldn't open the door to accommodate refugees, the extra 3,000 stones of food was enough for Zhong Yu to take in a few small clans who had a good relationship with him and many villagers. Zhong Yu was suddenly excited: "It seems that I underestimated this young master Liu Peng and Liu. I have to go to Gaomi in person and take back this batch of rice beans."

Zhong Yuzheng can be said to be the number one gentry in Qingzhou Prefecture. He could not find any more influential existence in Qingzhou Prefecture. He personally went to Zhucheng and Gaomi. As long as King Heng did not take action personally, the group of lieutenants, small flags and general flags of the Yiwei Department of the King Heng Mansion could not do anything to Zhong Yuzheng.

Kong Zhan also knew that Zhong Yu was carrying his own rice beans in his name, but in fact he was escorting the batch of rice beans. He immediately praised: "Okay, Mr. Zhong's move will at least tens of thousands of people live!"

Zhong Yuzheng's expression suddenly eased. He asked, "Officer Kong Tui, tell me in detail, how should the 20,000 stone of rice beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans, and what specific regulations are there? One stone of rice costs three taels of silver, and we Qingzhou people really can't afford it."

Kong Zhan immediately replied: "Young Master Liu and Longjiang Money House have a constitution."
Chapter completed!