The yard where Lu Youji lives is very simple, there is not even a separate well, and you have to go to the front yard to get water.

He didn't keep a maid either.

On the first day Li Huai entered the prefect's mansion, he discovered that there were only on-duty guards in the prefect's mansion and no servants were hired from outside.

As for the furniture and furnishings, they were also very ordinary. They were basically distributed by the imperial court according to the specifications of the prefect, and nothing was added.

"Tell the prince, I found some silver notes." Li Huai's follower Yi Qi found a box in the closet, which contained several silver notes and broken silver and copper plates.

"How many?" Li Huai asked.

"A total of thirty-three taels and eighty-six articles." Follower Yiqi replied.

Lu Youqi smiled innocently, "Your Majesty, I shouldn't even have this little money."

"Of course not. The prefect is an official of the imperial court, with an annual salary of more than one hundred taels. There is also a Bumi subsidy and a land rent of thirty-three taels, which is too little." Li Huai said with a smile.

"I can't control the money. I usually give it to my family after receiving my salary, leaving only some daily expenses." Lu Youji explained.

Keep searching.

"Tell the prince that a banknote of ten taels was found in the shoe."

Ahem!

Lu Youqi coughed a few times and said, "Your Majesty, please keep it a secret. It's not easy to hide some private money."

Li Huai was a little puzzled, "I heard that my wife lives in the countryside and rarely comes to the city. Why do you need to hide your private money in your shoes?"

Lu Youji smiled and said, "Isn't this to cope with the surprise inspection?"

Very reasonable.

Li Bai deliberately took the shoes where the money was hidden and took a look at it, "Prefect Lu, you are careful enough, you hid it in the middle of the shoe."

"Be careful!" Lu Youji explained.

Li Huai put down his shoes and continued to search, but found nothing, a total of forty-three taels of silver.

He was a grown man, and he didn't have any valuable gold or silver jewelry. The only thing he had that was slightly valuable was an inkstone.

But the characters written by Lu Youji are not pretty.

"May I ask, for your convenience, in which country did Governor Lu hide your wife?" Li Huai asked instead.

"Shiliting Pavilion in Qingshui Township is on the edge of the Yellow River, not far from Jiuyuan City." Lu Youqi replied honestly.

"When was the last time you went home?" Li Huai continued to ask.

Lu Youqi thought for a while and said: "About... it was a month ago. At that time, the Yellow River had just frozen. I caught a carp that weighed three kilograms and six taels."

"withdraw!"

Li Huai collected his team and was about to go out.

Lu Youqi caught up with Li Huai and grabbed his hand, "Your Majesty, I must not tell you the secret of hiding my private money. If this is known, I will be finished!"

"Is your lady very fierce?" Lou Xiaowan asked strangely. The magistrate has hid ten taels of silver. No matter how tough your lady is, she won't kill anyone.

"My king...promise you!"

Li Huai nodded and withdrew his hand, which was still stained with sweat. Lu Youqi felt very nervous.

"Ready your horse!"

Without delay, Li Huai took the small bowl upstairs and his entourage Yiqi, and set off directly to leave the city through the south gate.

He just walked away.

Lu Youqi took a hammer and smashed the wing, and released all the suspected detainees without permission.

"You all go away!"

…

Not long.

Li Huai saw the Yellow River and did not rush to Qingshui Township. He ran to the edge of the Yellow River and saw many people fishing.

So I dismounted and went over to have a look.

Just getting close!

"Shh!"

The fishing man made a silent gesture, held a sledgehammer with both hands, and struck hard on the ice.

Then change the hammer and hit the ice hard.

A hole was soon made, and he raised his sleeves and groped underneath. After a while, he fished out a carp.

"This carp is so stupid, it doesn't even know how to run away." Lou Xiaowan commented.

Li Huai said with a smile: "It's not that the carp didn't run away, it was because it was stunned by the big brother. When winter comes, carp will find deep water areas to live in, and some carp will move under the ice. At this time, you can smash the ice to shock the carp.

faint, and then catch the fish again."

Lou Xiaowan suddenly realized, "Young master is really knowledgeable!"

The man fishing also noticed them at this time. Li Huai was young, well-groomed, and had so many followers, so he knew he was extraordinary.

"Young master actually knows how to fish?"

In the eyes of ordinary people, people dressed like this can't even tell the difference between grains, let alone fishing.

You will know how to eat and drink.

"Know a thing or two!"

Li Huai said with a smile, walked forward and looked at the hole in the ice below, "Brother, if you smash the ice like this, aren't you afraid of accidentally making the hole bigger and people falling in?"

"Afraid! How can I not be afraid?"

The man sighed and said, "There's no point in being afraid. Every few days, someone will fall down. If you're lucky, you can still come up. Some of you are unlucky and can't even find a body."

"For a few fish, it's not a big deal." Li Huai didn't quite understand. Compared with a few fish or a human life, which one is more precious? Everyone can tell the difference.

The man rolled his eyes at him and said with a bit of resentment: "You guys who eat white flour, how can you understand that we eat chaff?"

"Brother, you might as well tell me, I also have a lot of experience." Li Huai asked.

well!

The man sighed again, "We poor peasants only rely on the sky for food. This year, God has not given us any food. The farmland has failed. After paying the grain tax, there are only a few buckets of rice left. It is not enough to feed the whole family, and there will be some left for next spring."

Even if we grow more food, there won’t be enough to eat.”

"You nobles like to eat the winter carp from the Yellow River. If you are willing to spend money, we will catch the fish for the nobles to eat in exchange for some chaff and save on growing grain so that we can survive this winter."

Lou Xiaowan asked again, "Then why not catch more carp before the Yellow River freezes? It will be easier to catch then."

Li Huai stretched out his hand and patted her on the head, "Fool, Yellow River winter carp is different from ordinary carp. Winter carp is fresh and sweet, so it is expensive. Carp is cheap if it is not frozen."

"That's right." The man agreed.

Lou Xiaowan touched his head and thought it would be simple again.

Li Huai thought for a while and asked: "Brother, will the grain grown at home be enough for planting next year?"

The man sighed.

"It's enough now, but the winter is only halfway through, and no one knows whether it will survive. Some people are so hungry that they have already exchanged their crops for chaff."

"Then this can be considered a food shortage. Doesn't the government care? Have you ever gone to the government? What did the government say?" Li Huai continued to ask.

"I haven't found it anywhere. The government said that there is no grain in the granary. They asked us to hand over the seed grain and exchange it for bran. When the ice and snow melt, the government will buy the seed grain from Guanzhong and give it to us for free to sow." The man said.

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Li Huai was surprised. Could it be that the grain that those merchants bought at low prices and then resold was the grain grown by the people?

"Then do you agree?"

"Some people believe it, and 80% of it is true. The harvest this year was bad, and the government did not receive the stored grain. Moreover, they even wrote a note and stamped the official seal to guarantee it. I am a timid person, so I still think it is better to grow the grain at home. This requires

If you can't survive the day, you probably have to take out the grain and exchange it for some bran."

When Li Huai heard this, his heart dropped to freezing point. He thought they were too good. They were not just embezzling and accepting bribes and engaging in illegal activities. They were going to lay waste to the entire Jiuyuan County and even the entire Liangzhou.

!

How can the human heart be so dark!

Li Huai continued to visit nearby people, and based on what they said, he found that those who were shorted were not just grain crops, but also Buang, pig iron, medicinal materials... and so on.

It's the middle of winter now. People are staying at home and not going out much. There are no activities. There is no chance of an outbreak.

If we wait until spring and the people start to get active, there will be nothing here or there in Jiuyuan County.

All the people stared blankly, unable to do any work.

At that time.

Millions of people may want to raise the banner of righteousness and rebel against him!

Li Huai also spent twenty taels of silver to buy a grain-growing coupon. With this coupon, he could go to the government to collect grain for sowing in spring.

According to his understanding, the Jiuyuan granary is already empty, and everything that can be sold has been sold. Where will there be grain to distribute to the people?

Guanzhong purchase?

joke!

Who would sell their own crops to others?

What's more, Guanzhong Mu Shen Tu Zai and Li Huai have formed a rift. If he knew that Liangzhou was short of food, he would probably put five big locks on the granary overnight and not sell a single grain!

For this person who grows food stamps, even Ling Chi's 3,600 dollars is not too much, and even lighting sky lanterns is considered a bargain for him.

The official seal stamped on the grain-growing stamps is Lu Youqi’s order from the prefect of Jiuyuan County!
Chapter completed!