area51novel Chapter 795 A Wooden Man Without Emotions
Chapter 795 A Wooden Man Without Emotions
Chapter 795 A Wooden Man Without Emotions
August in Chang'an is not as clear as the sky, on the contrary, it is even hotter.
Yunchu thought it might be caused by the El Nino climate, but he didn't have any evidence to prove it.
In fact, everyone has noticed the abnormality of the climate. The winter of last year was much colder than the previous winters, especially the snow fell frequently, and it snowed heavily all at once. Yunchu's favorite Xiaoxue didn't show much at all last winter.
Chang'an was originally a city with distinct seasons, but something has gone awry in the past few years. After winter, summer comes violently, so that spring is extremely short.
The summer is hot and dry, but there is no rain, which has a great impact on Chang'an's farming. Fortunately, there are dense water networks near Chang'an. The water from the Qinling Mountains kindly irrigates this plain.
The situation on the dry plateau far away from the water network is not so optimistic. The huge evaporation has depleted the few water sources on the dry plateau, and the autumn grain harvest is a certainty.
This time, 30 prefectures and counties on the dry plateau, including Tongzhou, Suidao, Fengxian, Hancheng, Heyang, Fuping, Yongshou, Binxian, Changwu, Xunyi, and Chunhua, were affected, with [-] victims.
From Yunchu's point of view, these prefectures and counties belonged to the Weibei Dry Plateau.
The autumn grain harvest in the Weibei dry plateau has nothing to do with Chang'an City. Unfortunately, it was an instinct in the Tang Dynasty that people left their hometowns to go to rich places to eat in disasters.
Therefore, the vicinity of the affluent Chang'an Plain has become the most desired place for the victims.
Originally, there was nothing to say about this, but since Chang'an is the imperial capital, the government would not allow the people to move to Chang'an on a large scale.
Numerous painful lessons in the past have shown that when refugees arrive in the capital, they will often have a great impact on the government, and there may even be fears of overthrow.
The sixteen guards led by Xue Rengui have blocked the possibility of the people in the Weibei dry plateau moving to Chang'an.
Therefore, when the people on the Weibei dry plateau dragged their children and their daughters in the wilderness and begged the government soldiers to allow them to go to Chang'an for food, Xue Rengui in Chang'an city sat on the edge of the iceberg in the Yunchu Office, and wanted to speak several times. And stop.
Yunchu didn't know what Xue Rengui was embarrassing. It was his army that blocked the victims from the Weibei Plateau from reaching Chang'an, and it wasn't Yunchu who didn't care about it. For now, he couldn't get in front of him by going through the procedures.
Yunchu was holding a small red clay teapot, sipping tea slowly. He knew what Xue Rengui was here for this time, and he was ready to agree to Xue Rengui's request to help the victims.
However, if Xue Rengui didn't say anything, he would never take the initiative to bring it up.
The sequence here is very important. Yun Chu took the initiative to mention it, in the eyes of some people, it was plotting against the law, and Xue Rengui took the initiative to mention it, it was Xue Rengui who was planning to plot against the law.
During the time when Liu Rengui, who stayed behind in Chang'an, was called to Luoyang for questioning by the emperor, the decisions in Chang'an City needed to be made by the two deputy stay-at-home guards.
Disaster victims are always the most difficult things for officials. If they are done well, there is no merit, and if they are not done well, they will be beheaded.
The disaster victims may be grateful, but this kind of gratitude like the Buddha of thousands of families is poisonous to officials.
Not to mention that the victims on the dry plateau in Weibei are not yet under Chang'an's subordinates. Cross-border relief of victims and shelter of refugees seems to be a sign of winning the hearts of the people and preparing for rebellion.
Furthermore, helping the victims will inevitably harm the interests of the local people. No matter how rich Chang'an City is, if the food that should belong to Chang'an is used to help the victims, the people of Chang'an will not agree.
It's not that Chang'an is ruthless. In the past many years, Chang'an City has allocated countless grains to outsiders. As a result, the people in Chang'an City have not received any rewards that can be sold.
Yun Chu was an official in Chang'an. No matter how paranoid and selfish the Chang'an people were, he could only stand on the side of the Chang'an people. At least on the surface, he wanted to let the Chang'an people know that the officials who managed them were not prodigal sons.
If Yunchu wanted the gratitude of the victims for a little fame, what awaited them would be the fate of being spurned by the local people.
Yunchu is managing the affairs of Chang'an, so of course Chang'an City has a surplus of food, and there are still a lot, not to mention the food in the official warehouse, Changping warehouse, Yunchu will definitely go to the official warehouse every half a month Check it out.
The main function of the Chang'an official storehouse is to supply the army, and the government needs it. If you want to use it, you need the emperor to speak.
As for the function of Changping warehouse, it is to prevent the fluctuation of food prices in Chang'an City, and also to prevent the disaster year in Chang'an. The use of the food in the Changping warehouse will definitely alarm the people of Chang'an, and there will definitely be a large-scale mass incident.
The rest can only use the grain in Chang'an market. If Yunchu is willing to sacrifice Chang'an City's lucrative winemaking industry every year, he can save hundreds of thousands of tons of grain.
Moreover, Yunchu was also planning to do the same, the people on the Weibei plateau were starving, and it was inappropriate for Chang'an City, which was close at hand, to be drunk and drunk.
This will bring long-term hatred to Chang'an, which is not conducive to local unity.
Therefore, Yunchu has been waiting for Xue Rengui to speak first. After all, the first speaker in Chang'an City is Liu Rengui, the second speaker is Xue Rengui, and the third speaker is him, Yunchu.
"The memorial of a certain family has been sent to Luoyang for eleven days, and so far, not a single word has been sent back. Three days ago, a certain family sent a memorial to His Majesty again, but there was no news of it.
Xue Rengui drank a lot of tea here at Yunchu on an empty stomach, and when he got up, his stomach rattled, as if a big animal had just finished drinking.
His bearded face, though, was pained and constipated.
Yun Chu put down the small teapot, tapped the table twice with his knuckles and said, "As long as the governor gives the order, the people in Chang'an City will definitely be mobilized to deal with this famine together."
Xue Rengui picked up the new tea brought by the handymen again, took a sip irritably and said, "Liu Rengui is in Luoyang, he never farts, and there is no reply to my letter to him.
As far as the current situation is concerned, the disaster victims on the Weibei Plateau are still moving closer to Chang'an, and the soldiers and horses under a certain family can stop them for a while, but not forever. "
Yun Chu said slowly: "The famine has only just begun, and the victims in the Weibei Plateau are still able to support themselves. If we decide early and make arrangements early, the pressure on the government will be less. If we continue to hesitate like this, something unbearable will happen."
Xue Rengui hesitated again and again before opening his mouth and said with difficulty: "Could you allocate a batch of food to a certain family first, deal with the matter in front of you first, and then continue to wait for the news from the court?"
Unsurprisingly, Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Unless the disaster victims enter the border of Chang'an, I will not transport even a grain of grain out.
You also know that the imperial court is currently having a large-scale investigation team that is about to arrive in Chang'an, and I am the main object of investigation. At this time, brother, don't bring trouble on me. "
Xue Rengui left the Wannian County Yamen with a long sigh. After all, he was unwilling to let his official career be damaged for the sake of those victims.
Before Xue Rengui left, Mi Dayong from Wannian County quietly entered Yunchu's room, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, this is a time of crisis. You must not transfer the grain from Chang'an out of the country." Chang'an, Chang'an food, can only be eaten in Chang'an."
Yun Chu nodded and said: "Master Mi is right. Those people in the court have already set their sights on Chang'an. Until now, they haven't figured out the real intention of these people coming to Chang'an. Do you have any news?"
Master Mi stroked the thick beard on his mouth and continued in a low voice: "Xiaguan has an uncle from a distant house who served as the censor in Dongtai. This time he is in the team that came to Chang'an. Li Jingxuan, the servant of Dongtai, is in the hands of Li Jingxuan, who has not mentioned the specific official affairs of Chang'an to the rest of the censors.
However, even if he doesn't say it now, he will definitely say it when he comes to Chang'an, and we will know everything by then. "
Yun Chu clasped his fists together in a rare way and thanked him, "So, there will be Master Lao Mi."
Mi Da narrowed his eyes with a smile and said: "Since it is not good for Wannian County, my subordinates will naturally be diligent in running around."
Seeing Mi Dayong leave quietly and close the door respectfully, Yunchu was very satisfied with the new master.
In fact, since he came to Wannian County, the first director was not a good person. After him, all the directors were good subordinates.
The previous Master Liu went to Nanchong County, Guozhou, as a doctor in Wensanguan, and went directly to the fourth rank. He was promoted from a middle-level and lower-level official to a real middle-level official, and jumped to the fourth rank. The threshold of an official is also the top choice in the assessment of the Ministry of Officials. At the age of less than 50, he still has a lot of money to make.
Chief Registrar Liu is considered to be the best among the previous chief registrars in Wannian County, and the worst chief registrar is also at the level of a fifth-rank official. He is an important official of any prefecture or county, and the worst one is a magistrate of an upper county.
Wannian County is an iron-clad county magistrate, and Liushui's chief secretary. No matter who comes to Wannian County to take the post of chief secretary, as long as his head is clear, there will always be a good future in two or three years.
The emperor was going to give Yunchu a promotion, and the seal of the Lord of Lantian County was already engraved, but at the end of the day, he became the deputy left-behind of the fourth grade of Chang'an City, which was worthless to Yunchu.
And this promotion was not due to the emperor's kindness, but Yun Chuao's experience.
The disaster victims are a disaster for the rest of the states and counties, but not a bad result for Chang'an.
As long as people in the Tang Dynasty can dig out a bite to eat from the fields, they will never go to the city to work for others. There is a lot of land, even so, it is still not easy for various workshops and shops in Chang'an to find a hardworking and willing man.
Well now, the victims are here. From the perspective of Yunchu, the city manager, the victims have few choices. This time, they should be able to select enough faulty labor for each workshop and store in Chang’an from the 30 victims.
A good city manager will not bring too much emotion into his work. If he does, he will go into a misunderstanding.
The so-called disaster victim crisis, for them, they need to find opportunities to develop the city from the crisis and turn the disaster into a driving force.
(End of this chapter)