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And this is what Bai Fan suddenly thought of when he was in the Palace of Political Affairs!Perhaps, this matter can be done!

In the Palace of Political Affairs, when everyone bowed their heads in contemplation and had no good ideas, Bai Fan spoke up!

"Your Majesty, I may have a way to survive these ten days!"

Li Er immediately asked, "What is the solution, tell me quickly!"

"The place where the drought started is the junction of Hedong Road and Hebei Road. The North Korea-China grain transport team is still ten days away from arriving, so they have to collect grain from local wealthy households. I am afraid that others are unwilling to send grain, but it is far away from Qinghe Cui's Very close, it belongs to Qinghe Cui's territory!

I have a way to get Cui to take the initiative to provide food relief! "

what?

All the civil and military officials were stunned, this kid is not bragging, how could the Qinghe Cui family be kind enough to help the court?It would be kind of a noble family not to take advantage of the national calamity to make a fortune!Those people are all selfish, who cares about the lives of ordinary people?

Li Er didn't believe it either, but he still wanted to hear Bai Fan's explanation!

Bai Fan said to himself, "Three months ago, the minister started to deploy the business of Cui's medicinal materials, and now the effect is good. A few days ago, Cui's sent someone to negotiate with me, but I didn't agree. He, Cui, set up an ambush on all sides If you kill me, you should live forever!

But now that the country is facing a crisis and the land is thousands of miles away, I really can't bear to see the tragedy in the world, so I am going to negotiate peace with the Cui family. The condition is that the Cui family is in Hebei and east of the river. Where they can, they will open a warehouse for ten days! "

Everyone was shocked again. No one believed that Bai Fan could make Cui Shi bow his head in three months. When did this happen?How do we not know?

"Boy, what you said is true? That subordinate of yours really did it? I have been busy with disaster relief in recent days, and I really haven't paid attention to this matter!" Li Er asked in surprise.

"It's absolutely true, now [-]% of Cui's medicinal material business has been taken over by the beggar gang, so they have to bow their heads!"

Li Jiancheng smiled happily, "That subordinate of yours is a talent, why don't you transfer to the household department to work as a beggar merchant, it's a bit of a waste!"

Bai Fan waved his hands again and again, "What did father-in-law say? It is because of him that the beggar gang can guarantee that no one will starve to death. If you take him away, what will the hundreds of thousands of beggars in the world do? Everyone points at him Let's eat!"

"Okay!" Li Er applauded loudly, this kid was able to solve such a big trouble by doing it unintentionally!

"Boy, it's really rare for you to let go of your personal grievances and help the country.

Your subordinate surnamed Liu has made great contributions this time. He was able to feed hundreds of thousands of poor people for the Tang Dynasty by himself. I will confer a title on him! "

"I'm busy on behalf of the beggar gang merchant Liu, thank you Your Majesty!"

After this discussion, Bai Fan quickly sent someone to reach an agreement with the Cui family. The Cui family distributed grain in the name of the imperial court for ten days in Hebei and Hedong. Help me survive!

As for the grievances between Bai Fan and Cui Shi, Bai Fan also sent a message to Cui Shi, that there is a wrong and a debtor, and he will find the parties to resolve it, and it has nothing to do with the rest of Cui Shi!

After Cui Junsu heard about this incident, he sighed in his heart, Cui Shi was tricked by this kid again!

This incident, not only this kid has gained a good reputation in the court, but if it is spread out in the future, the people in Hebei Province and East Province will miss his benefits!

At the same time, the Cui family will also be split because of Bai Fan's last sentence. Bai Fan is no longer the enemy of the Cui family, but only the enemy of his brother Cui Junchuo!

As a big family took the lead in releasing food for ten days, other families also began to release food for show under the pressure of the court. After all, they belonged to five surnames and seven families. If the family does not take action, the public opinion of the government and the public will be unfavorable in the future!

And after ten days, the first batch of life-saving food from the South was successfully distributed on the state roads in the north. At this time, the students taught by Bai Fan in the academy finally began to show their hands and feet!

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Chapter 153 Cui Bows Her Head to Make a Deal

In the city of Zhuojun, the capital of Youzhou, the new general Chai Shao is worrying about one thing!

There was a severe drought in the north this year, and the entire Youzhou and the entire Hebei Road were disaster areas. A few days ago, there were refugees on the west side of Youzhou. Fortunately, the local Cui family agreed to the court to open a warehouse to release grain!

Now ten days have passed, Cui's grain release has ended, and the grain and grass in the middle of the court have arrived. Chai Shao shouldn't be anxious at first, but it is precisely because of this that Chai Shao is a little worried!

We have already dispatched food transport teams from all walks of life to go to various places for disaster relief, but the bad thing is here. When the disaster relief team went there, it was fine and went very smoothly. The local people lined up to welcome them!

But when the convoy came back, the common people refused to let them go, saying what would we eat if we left the convoy?

In the end, a big joke was made. When the convoy came back, people from all over the country followed the convoy.

Although the food transport officer had clearly told them that food was being delivered in a steady stream and would be delivered every few days, the refugees didn't believe it. In this catastrophic time, where did the court get so much food?Never heard of it before!

Since the imperial court said so, it means that there is food in the state capital, and everyone should block the state capital and guard the big granary in the state capital, at least it is better than starving to death at home!

So I don’t know whether it’s intentional or a coincidence. When people from all over the country saw the refugees fleeing, those who couldn’t make it through also joined in one after another. The team became bigger and bigger. In three days, several big cities in Hebei Province were surrounded by refugees. No, people don't make trouble, just wait for the meal to be sent by the government to eat!

In this way, refugees gathered in various places again, causing Li Er to be shocked!

Didn't you just appease the refugees?The warehouses have already been opened to release food, why not only did the refugees not decrease after ten days, but they gathered more and more?And it's like the smoke of war everywhere, as long as it's a big city, it's surrounded by refugees?Could it be that someone is interfering with it?

For this matter, Li Er immediately sent his confidant elite messengers to investigate, but the answer he got made Li Er dumbfounded!

Among the people, there are many old people who have gone through troubled times. Everyone has never seen anything. Drought, locust plague, war, plague, as long as people over 30 years old, basically these kinds of sufferings have been experienced!

It was just ten years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and there were still five years of fighting in the world. Before the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were disputes at the end of the Sui Dynasty. There were constant wars for years. At that time, everything was obtained by fighting. During the period, there were countless natural and man-made disasters, who cares about the common people?Who cares about natural disasters?

When natural disasters come, the harvest is not good?As long as it is not under your own rule, and the people who die in your territory are not the people in your own territory, which way will the anti-king take care of it?

If there is an accident in our own territory, well, in order to survive, we can fight and snatch it, and we don't have to worry about it, it's nothing more than a matter of victory or defeat!

So no matter what, it is the lower-class people who suffer from the disaster!

When natural disasters meet war chaos, whoever manages the life and death of the people, sells children and daughters, trades children for food, etc., as long as they can survive, basically anyone will do it!

Even in times of natural disasters, when there was no war, the imperial court faced a catastrophe, or prayed to the heavens, or opened warehouses to release grain everywhere!

But the food is also very limited. Basically, the imperial court can’t hold on within a few days. In the end, everyone still has to flee, escape from the disaster-stricken hometown, flee to the place where there is food, water, and rich harvest, and survive the disaster year. Going back to the hometown again, this is the unanimous view and opinion of the old people!

This year is good, who has ever seen a catastrophe year, the imperial court sends food to the village, so that every household can survive the disaster by staying at home?No one believed it. Instead of believing such a ridiculous lie, it would be better to escape early while still having rations!

So big cities all over the country were besieged, Li Shimin's case was not used for the first three days, and it was full of memorials discussing this matter!

From Li Shimin's point of view, this matter is good or bad. The bad thing is that the people still don't trust the Tang court!

The good thing is that the people are not completely unbelieving, at least they are still trying to believe, otherwise they would not have fled to the vicinity of the big city, but fled south collectively all the way!

Regarding this matter, Li Shimin has nothing to worry about, so let it be, the common people like to be closer to the city!Anyway, there is food everywhere!Of course, if all the people in the periphery gathered together, it would save the trouble of transporting food!

But the emperor thought so, but the besieged chief officials didn't think so. So many people gathered together, and they had to feed them every day. The so-called much ado about nothing, what if these people gathered together and caused trouble?

There are more and more people, what if someone gets a disease and eventually a plague breaks out?Therefore, after receiving the emperor's edict, knowledgeable officials wrote the matter again!For example, Chai Shao!

When Chai Shao was worried about this, his servants came to report that a student from Zhongnan Academy asked to see him!