Quanzhou suffered frequent floods and the people were displaced. Quanzhou magistrate Li Sanjian and others rushed to Fuzhou to invade the emergency, while organizing disaster relief, opening up some granaries, setting up porridge, providing relief to the victims, and stabilizing rice prices.

However, the Quanzhou government's move was like a drop in the bucket. Not only did it not help many victims, but even the market rice prices could not be suppressed at all. The rice prices in Quanzhou soared, and the rice prices were a price in a few hours. The Quanzhou government invested the food that stabilized the rice prices, like a mud cow, only rippled in a few ripples, and then disappeared.

In early July of the first year of Jianzhong Jingguo, the rice price in Quanzhou soared from 60 coins per bull in June to 125 coins per bull, which doubled and continued to rise, just like the river water of the Nan'an River. The people of Quanzhou were full of complaints, and there were even signs of civil unrest in some places.

Not only did rice prices soar, but the prices of food such as salt, oil, vinegar, and wine also soared, and people's lives were in a difficult situation.

At this time, the Quanzhou government's grain storage will be exhausted, so Li Sanjian and others are anxious. Li Sanjian had to seek help from the Quanzhou Fushi, wanting to borrow some money and the grain to meet the current urgent needs.

only...

However, according to common sense, Li Sanjian was invited to join the Chen family, a wealthy family in Quanzhou, and he was eager to propose borrowing money and grain, and even Chen Yide and others were ready.

But at this time, Quanzhou Military Affairs Office was appointed as the Quanzhou Municipal Bureau Office, the Minister of the Court, and the Zhilongtu Pavilion. After drinking a bowl of Fujian famous tea, Li Sanjian actually fell asleep on a chair... and even started to snore.

Seeing this, Chen Yide was stunned and laughed and cried.

"Sister Yingluo, it's him... it's him..." In a side room on the side of the Chen House's guest hall, a little maid ran in panting and said to a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl named Yingluo.

"He?...he...who is he?" The girl named Yingluo, with some baby fat face, suddenly two red clouds flew on her pretty face. Her face, which was unusually white on her face, looked extremely beautiful at this time. At the same time, the blush on her face continued to expand, and quickly spread to the back of her neck at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yingluo lowered her head and used her fair little hands to fiddle with her belt, and asked while fiddling with her.

"Sister, it's the reckless man from Luoyang Bridge that day. Have you forgotten?" The little maid blinked and looked at Yingluo and said, "That day, that man rode a horse and hit you. Nunu... Nunu... He called him a disciple at that time... But... Nunu didn't expect that he... he was the magistrate of Quanzhou..."

After the little maid patted her flat chest with her little hands, she said with lingering fear: "He...he is the master of the prefect. Fortunately, he didn't hear Nunu scolding him at that time... sister, he didn't hear him, right?"

"How could I know?" Yingluo suddenly remembered that Li Sanjian looked back at him with apologetic attitude. The slightly tired but gaze-like look made Yingluo still unforgettable.

Yingluo thought about the situation that day, and couldn't help but feel ashamed to raise her head.

"Lian'er, he...what did he do at home?" After a while, Yingluo asked in a low voice to the little maid named Lian'er.

"Puchi!" Lian'er couldn't help laughing when she heard this: "

I don't know what he is doing, but the master accompanied him, and he... actually fell asleep...hehe..."

Ah? Can you fall asleep? Yingluo opened her beautiful eyes widened when she heard this, stared at Lian'er in a daze, and said in her heart.

"Sister, come here, come and see..." Lian'er then held Yingluo's little hand and walked to the pearl curtain and smiled: "Sister, come and see, you are the one who is still asleep now."

"I...I don't watch...I have anything to watch, I'm going back to the room..." Even though Yingluo said that, when she still looked at Li Sanjian secretly through the bead curtain, she saw that Li Sanjian was indeed leaning on the soft chair and was sleeping soundly.

"Hey, hey, Li Zhizhou, Li Zhizhou?" When Yingluo and his servants were whispering in the side room, Chen Yingluo's father Chen Yide couldn't help it. He walked up to Li Sanjian, pushed Li Sanjian and said.

This person is... It's simply... Chen Yide doesn't know how to describe Li Sanjian. Who is this? The chief official of a state and the parents of the people of Quanzhou actually ran to someone else's house to sleep. What's going on?

"Ah? Oh...what happened?" After Li Sanjian woke up, he felt a little blushed and said quickly: "Mr. Li is too tired, rude, rude, I hope Mr. Chen will forgive me!"

What Li Sanjian said was the truth, he was really too tired.

After Li Sanjian went through hardships to Quanzhou, he continued to deal with the affairs of the state government. During this period, he worked hard for the floods in Quanzhou for days. Even when he was eating and sleeping, he didn't have a good meal or a good sleep. Li Sanjian was not an iron man, so how could he not be extremely tired?

At this time, the comfortable environment of Chen's house, coupled with the rich aroma of fragrant tea, and a rich fragrance from somewhere, Li Sanjian finally couldn't hold on and fell asleep in the Chen's house in an extremely rude way...

"No, no, Li Zhizhou is responsible for government affairs, cares about the victims, and is so tired. How can I blame you? How dare I blame you?" Chen Yide smiled and said, "Can Zhizhou tell me the purpose of coming now?"

"Thank you Mr. Chen!" Li Sanjian nodded and said, "Since that's the case, Li said bluntly today. Li came to visit Mr. Chen today, not for anything else, but for the people of Quanzhou. Mr. Chen, you know that the floods in Quanzhou are rampant at this time, and the people are displaced, and the grain stored in our state will be exhausted. Therefore, Mr. Li came here today not for anything else. He just wanted to borrow some money and grain from Chen in the name of the state to meet the current urgent needs. After the autumn taxes next year, our government will return the principal and interest. Mr. Chen, as far as Li knows, the ancestors of Chen had built a "social warehouse". Such righteous acts were praised by all people. Therefore, Mr. Chen would not disagree with what Li asked today, right?"

As the emperor of a state, Li Sanjian did not have to come here in person when he borrowed money and grain from the rich house. He could even send a capable or cruel official to borrow food by force, and the government forced them to take out money and grain.

But first, Chen Yide was kind to Li Sanjian. When Li Sanjian was poor and destitute, Chen Yide was generous and wealthy. Li Sanjian must repay this. The second is that the method of coercion is for the sake of the subordinates, which will bring endless trouble to Li Sanjian. Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, Li Sanjian decided not to make such a bad decision.

Therefore, at this time, Li Sanjian moved him with emotion and reason. He came to visit him in person regardless of his exhaustion.

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"How much do you want to borrow?" Chen Yide had actually been mentally prepared for what Li Sanjian asked, so he looked at Li Sanjian and asked.

"Money is 100,000 yuan, and grain is 50,000 stones. What do you think?" Li Sanjian said after thinking about it.

Li Sanjian roughly estimated that even if he borrowed 100,000 jin of money and 50,000 jin of grain, it might not be enough to deal with the current urgent matters, let alone reconstruction after the disaster, let alone govern Quanzhou and Quanzhou Maritime Control and Prefecture Department according to Zhao Ji's will, and in addition, deal with the pirates in Quanzhou.

Which one does not require money? What is not spending money like flowing water?

What kind of mess is this? At this time, Li Sanjian lamented in his heart, "I really don't know that the food, rice, oil and salt are expensive if I don't take charge."

At this time, Li Sanjian was more eager to support from the court or Fujian Road than ever before, but at the same time, Li Sanjian also knew in his heart that the court or Fujian Road could not rely on it. At least, the court or Fujian Road would not support Quanzhou too much. The reason was that the court dealt with the war in the northwest and the financial dilemma of the court was too exhausted. In addition to Quanzhou, the prefectures on Fujian Road were also more or less affected by natural disasters such as floods. As the saying goes, everyone should clean up the snow in front of their doors, don’t care about the frost on their house. Which other prefectures still worry about your Quanzhou affairs?

Li Sanjian's emergency document has been sent for many days, but he has not received any reply yet.

Therefore, Li Sanjian still said the same thing: It is better to seek oneself than to seek others, and only oneself is reliable.

"What? This...This...This...This...This is too much, right?" Chen Yide was shocked and asked stammered.

The annual income of Quanzhou and the income of the Maritime Bureau is only about 100,000 yuan. Among them, the more than 100,000 yuan will be paid to the court and various expenses in Quanzhou will be maintained. If you can save about 10,000 yuan per year, it will be a good luck.

Before Li Sanjian became the governor of Quanzhou, Quanzhou was basically in deficits every year, and basically lived a life of demolishing the east wall and repairing the west wall.

How could Chen Yide, who has lived in Quanzhou for a long time, not know about these situations?

At this time, Li Sanjian spoke loudly and had to lend so much money and grain at once, which shocked Chen Yide.

You should know that at present, there are only about 5,000 stones of surplus grain in Changzhou.

The Chen family is a big family in Quanzhou, but it still takes a lot of effort to raise so much money and grain. The Chen family also has to do their best to raise such a huge amount of money and grain.

The key to the problem is that even if Chen gritted his teeth and took out 100,000 yuan of money and 50,000 stones of grain to Quanzhou Prefecture Office, what did Li Sanjian pay back?

If the government relied on the debt and refused to pay it back, wouldn’t it be a big deal?

Li Sanjian looked at Chen Yide with a smile, smiling silently.

"Master Li!" Chen Yide was shocked for a long time, and after thinking for a long time, he spoke: "My Chen family has surplus grain, but you should know that such a huge amount of money is not something that my Chen family can afford. Even if my Chen family loses everything, I can't borrow so much money. Grain! Li Zhizhou, you and I are old friends. Today I will not hide it from you. Even if you, Master Li, sent someone to confiscate my Chen family, even if we sell the property, we can't take it out."
Chapter completed!