Chapter 374 Do as you wish

Meng Lanqing continued: "In Jingtian County, the stagnant water has reached people's waists. Nearly half of the 7,000 catties of rice and 10,000 catties of grain stored in the rice shop are soaked in the water. When the water is withdrawn, the parts of the shop near the ground are estimated to have rotted. , needs to be rebuilt... Preliminary estimates, at least 2,000 taels were lost."

  Quiet doesn't care much about how much property she has lost. She can earn and buy more when the property is gone. She just cares: "How are the people in the shop? Are you okay?"

   Meng Lanqing said: "Jingtian County is a little far from the Shihe River. When the water came, everyone ran to the roof to take refuge. There were no casualties in the rice shop."

   "That's good." Quietly nodded, exhaled a long breath, and then said again: "With such a big disaster, the imperial court should send officials to come to disaster relief, right?"

   Meng Lanqing said: "This matter has been reported for 800 miles in a hurry, and it is estimated that it will take two days for the emperor to know."

  Quiet: "..." This ancient communication and transportation is really too slow!

   "Then when the emperor allocates food for disaster relief, when will it be estimated?" Jing Jing asked.

   "If the emperor allocates food money and sends someone to help the disaster when he sees the emergency report, it will take time to open the treasury to get the food money and to arrive. It should take a month and a half at the earliest." Meng Lanqing answered truthfully.

   "Can the people of Jingtian County wait for a month and a half? By then they would all have starved to death!" An Jing couldn't believe it.

   Meng Lanqing said again: "If the emperor sees the emergency report and immediately orders to put food nearby, it will only take about seven days."

The emperor doesn't know about this yet, and it will take two days to find out. If he sends another 800 li expedited decree to release food nearby, it will take three or four days to travel from the imperial capital to the 800 li in Jingtian County. seven days.

   "Seven days... Now Jingtian County is full of water, and the people are cold and hungry. Can they survive for seven days?" Jingjing didn't know what to say.

   Meng Lanqing said: "Without the emperor's order, no one in the nearby official warehouse would dare to open the open grain."

   At this time, Xiao Changyi took out his token and threw it to Meng Lanqing, and said, "Let the counties near Jingtian County immediately open warehouses and release grain for disaster relief. If the old man is to blame, I will do my best."

"Yes!"

   On the second day, Meng Lanqing came again, saying that the grain in the official warehouses of the counties near Jingtian County was not enough for disaster relief, and could last five or six days at most.

   Quietly frowned: "Why is there so little food?"

   Meng Lanqing said: "Last month, most of the grains from the official warehouses were turned over to the national treasury, and they are waiting to be filled with taxed grains this fall."

   Quietly sighed: "Then we can only wait for the adopted father to allocate grain from the treasury." After a pause, "How much rice and grain does our rice shop have?"

  Meng Lanqing: "Including the soaked rice and grain in Jingtian County, the two rice shops have a total of 70,000 catties of grain and 30,000 catties of rice.

  An Jing didn't say anything immediately, but looked at Xiao Changyi: "Mr. Xiang..."

   Xiao Changyi said: "Do as you wish."

An Jing then said to Meng Lanqing: "The soaked rice and grains in Jingtian County should not be moldy yet. As for those that have not been soaked, they must be wet. You should make porridge and distribute them to those who have not been soaked. The people ate it, so that they could spend an extra day."

"Also," An Jing continued, "we are in the rice shop in Hecheng County. You keep 1000 kilograms of grain and rice in it, and the rest will be used for disaster relief, hoping that the people of Jingtian County will be able to Until the day when the treasury relief food arrives."

   (end of this chapter)