Chapter 242 Qingchuan County magistrate's acting skills
Chen Xiao is now unwilling to spend money to buy food.
To deal with such a profiteer, he has to hurt him.
Nowadays, the people of the two counties are homeless and displaced. Not to mention eating, they have no place to live!
But these wealthy big businessmen also stored a lot of grain, preparing to make money from the national crisis and make money from the disaster victims!
To be honest, if you change to a ruthless official, you will really just grab the food!
Fortunately, Chen Xiao just said to borrow, at most, that is, he would not let the merchant lose money.
But want to make money at this time? Dream!
Under Chen Xiao's order, hundreds of runners from the county government immediately went to the rich man's house to find a granary.
After finding this granary, it was shocking when I opened it.
In it, from the scale, there are at least two million kilograms of grain.
This is the foundation of a county's large grain household. In such a large warehouse, all of them are grain.
Although these grains are not as much as the ones left in the yamen, they are enough to save some time for the people to eat for a few days in Sankou County.
Seeing the people in the yamen opening the granary, the rich man was almost crying.
He kept begging Chen Xiao, saying that he was willing to give the price 10% cheaper and asked Chen Xiao to give it to him first.
But who is Chen Xiao? It’s the one who says it’s the right to borrow, but it must be borrowed.
From now on, the yamen in this place will collect enough grain and give it back to it.
Anyway, Chen Xiao’s meaning is very obvious. You love making money so much, it’s not comfortable to make money, so I just let you make less money.
So, naturally, the people from the county government managed the granary.
The daily amount of grain was personally planned by the Department of Wardangbu to allocate the grain for Chen Xiao!
Next, Chen Xiao went to the homes of other merchants. Anyone with huge grain reserves was unwilling to sell them at normal prices, and wanted to make a fortune in this situation.
Chen Xiao directly requisitioned unconditionally!
It makes these businessmen popular, but they can do nothing!
At the end of the day, all the food from more than a dozen wealthy families was enough for nearly one million people in Sankou County to save food for nearly a month.
But, that's not enough!
Chen Xiao had to raise enough food for at least one year. After a few days, the flood subsided. Even if they planted food, they had to wait until the food could be harvested before they could be eaten.
So during this period, we must ensure that they have something to eat!
Back to the yamen, the food problem will be solved temporarily!
Chen Xiao found the county magistrate of the county government and asked him:
"Now, the flood has not yet subsided. How are the drainage and drainage work everywhere?"
When I talked about this, the county magistrate was guilty and said, "Sir, I'm already working hard to do these tasks..."
"Hmph, that is to say, you did nothing before I came?" Chen Xiao was unhappy!
"Sir, the county magistrate didn't worry at that time, so it would be difficult for us to do things..." The county magistrate explained!
Chen Xiao was too lazy to listen and said, "Immediately, all the manpower that can be used by the soldiers of the hundred households in Sankou County, as well as the county government officials, Zaoli, and constables to drain the current and drain the flood.
We will try to discharge the surrounding floods as quickly as possible, and restore Sankou County to normal as soon as possible. Otherwise, all remedies and disaster relief will be treated with symptoms but not the root cause!”
Seeing that Chen Xiao was so serious, how could the county magistrate dare not to listen?
So, he was ordered to leave immediately!
Chen Xiao sat in the hall and sighed and said, "The people of Sankou County have temporarily solved the problem of food, and flood discharge and rescue are also vigorously carried out. I don't have to worry about it for the time being."
After saying that, he rubbed his forehead: "Tomorrow morning, go to Qingchuan County!"
The doctor of Kurabushi nodded: "I understand, sir, do you want me to take the lead tomorrow and go to Qingchuan County to control the granary to avoid... a fire?"
Chen Xiao nodded: "It's very necessary, it's best. You go over overnight and take someone to watch it secretly, so as not to leak the news of my trip to Qingchuan County. They make small moves in advance!"
"Yes, sir, then I'll clean up and take people over immediately!" said the doctor of Kurabeji.
Chen Xiao nodded and fought against these treacherous corrupt officials and slanderers, so he could take the lead in everything!
...
In this way, there was nothing to say overnight!
The next day, after Chen Xiao got up, he and Long Jiuling escorted the officers and soldiers and left the county government in a carriage.
Along the way, countless people were holding bowls and pairs of chopsticks in their hands, and used chopsticks to dig the porridge in the bowl to eat.
Looking at these scenes, Chen Xiao smiled.
When I eat porridge, I can see that I can eat enough!
No drinks!
The people on the road also recognized the carriage and Chen Xiao, and many people shouted:
"Master Qingtian..."
"Parents..."
"Thank you, sir..."
All kinds of voices were filled with gratitude to Chen Xiao.
This made Chen Xiao, who was standing in the carriage, feel very comfortable. He opened his mouth several times, trying to say something in such a scene to improve his style, but I thought about it and let it go again.
Sitting in the carriage and looking at Long Jiuling, Chen Xiao said: "Actually, this is the case for the people, or people are like this. If you are kind to them, they will be grateful!"
Long Jiuling said: "I know, are you a little nervous when you are suddenly so loved?"
Chen Xiao smiled awkwardly! Along the way, after leaving the city, Chen Xiao saw countless porridge sheds set up.
The people lined up very well to receive the porridge.
They finally had a full meal.
Wherever I passed, I finally saw no one selling children or starving to death!
This effect made Chen Xiao very satisfied!
However, after leaving Sankou County and entering the boundary of Qingchuan County for about an hour, the miserable scene appeared again.
In Qingchuan County, countless people were also victims of disasters and could not afford to eat.
These scenes made Chen Xiao know that the county magistrate of Qingchuan County was also ineffective.
After a while of the journey, Chen Xiao entered Qingchuan County.
He headed towards the county government along the way.
When he arrived at the distance from the county government office, Chen Xiao looked over and saw a porridge shed at the county government office.
In the porridge shed, it seemed that the person holding the spoon was Qingchuan County Magistrate wearing official uniform.
Originally, Chen Xiao looked at him and didn't move.
At this moment, I suddenly used it, and my fat body quickly scooped porridge spoon by spoonful of porridge to the people around me.
But looking at the surroundings, there is no people with porridge yet, it means that the county magistrate just ate porridge.
Chen Xiao's face showed a strange look and said:
"This idiot is trying to show me how to act? Even if you want to act, you should eat porridge early. Are you really trying to get some? I'm also a idiot?"
The carriage continued to approach, and soon came closer, and the county magistrate kept scooping porridge.
He also said, "Everyone lined up, there were all, the yamen, I won't treat everyone's food badly, and I will definitely not let everyone go hungry!"
"Come on, eat as soon as possible. Our yamen has food. Come quickly... As the county magistrate, I must let you eat full..."
As he said that, he wiped the sweat that did not exist on his forehead, as if he was so tired that he was too tired!
Chen Xiao was amazed after watching it!
I thought to myself whether this guy is doing well or not, he doesn't know!
But the acting is really good!
Chapter completed!