I have been experimenting with medicine in the Palace of Longevity for 30 years

Chapter 105 Famine
"Hey, this King Lu is exceptionally smart. As long as there are rumors that someone has a background of the third rank or is an official in the court, this Lord Lu King will not move at all."

Shao Anjing explained, and then added: "However, if you often walk by the river, your feet will never get wet."

"The year before last, this King Lu severely injured a distant relative of a third-rank martial arts senior, and took away a treasured sword."

"The senior of the third grade of martial arts came to the door, and King Lu immediately returned the treasured sword and offered him a thousand taels of silver."

"No one can match the speed of seeing the wind and steering the rudder."

Tang Longshan asked: "Is that enough for that senior?"

"So what else?"

Shao Anjing said: "Backed by the Daxuan imperial family, if this senior dares to kill King Lu today, he will be hunted down by the dragon guards all over the world tomorrow."

"Besides, it's just a distant relative, so in the end, I can only collect the money and swallow this bad breath."

"Ugh"

Tang Longshan frowned, thinking hard for a long time, but finally he couldn't understand, so he let out a long sigh.

He Ping'an's face was as usual, since he came to Zhongzhou for a trip to Zhongzhou, how could he ask Wu Sheng to go out if he didn't do something earth-shattering?

This Prince Lu, of course, has to arrange for him.

"Alright, Immortal Master Tang, let's stop here today."

"Everyone, don't take it to heart. Wherever it is said, just throw it there."

Shao Anjing: "If I go out of this door, I won't recognize it."

Although Shao Anjing's cultivation level is no lower than that of King Lu, he is also afraid of his status, and if he can do one thing less, it is better to do one less thing.

Three days later, Tang Longshan saw that everything in Lu County was normal, and no one was missing anymore. He thought that even if Ding Lanxiang would not die, his cultivation had been completely destroyed, so he probably would not come again, so he bid farewell to Shao Anjing and left.

Shao An was eager to return home, and after sending Tang Longshan and the others away, he also went to Huaiyang County of Zhongzhou, which was the seat of Zhongzhou.

The flying boat quickly swept towards Xuanyang, and in just four days, it had already stepped into the boundary of Yongzhou.

Arriving here, Tang Longshan was obviously relieved, and the speed of the flying boat slowly slowed down.

He Pingan looked out through the porthole of the flying boat, and saw a county below that was sparsely populated, full of hungry people, and there were not many trees left. The vast land was completely dead gray.

He couldn't help asking, "Master Tang, what's below?"

Tang Longshan was meditating at first, glanced down, and frowned into a Sichuan character: "This is Xinfeng County, Tiannan County, Yongzhou. How did it become like this?"

After finishing speaking, with a thought in his mind, the flying boat drew an arc in the air and landed on the Xinfeng County Government Office.

"Where is the magistrate of Xinfeng County?"

Tang Longshan escaped from the flying boat and floated in mid-air, his voice was like Hong Zhong Dalu, and it spread throughout the Xinfeng county government office in an instant.

Within three breaths, a man in his thirties, wearing black gauze, a blue official uniform, and embroidered with the pattern of 鸂鶒, ran out of the county office in a hurry, his steps faltering slightly.

Seeing the flying boat made in the Palace of Longevity floating in the air, he bowed down to Tang Longshan.

"See the Immortal Master of the Palace of Eternal Life, the next official is Gu Jinke, the magistrate of Xinfeng County."

Tang Longshan glanced at Gu Jinke, and then asked: "I am the Xuanyang Changsheng Hall enshrining Tang Longshan. What happened to Xinfeng County, why are there corpses everywhere?"

Gu Jinke quickly replied: "Tang Immortal Master doesn't know that there is a severe drought in Tiannan County this year, and the people have no crops. In winter, most of the people have eaten up the grain stored last year, and this caused a famine."

Tang Longshan asked suspiciously: "Should such a big matter be reported to the county government?"

Gu Jinke said: "It has already been reported, and the county government is also unable to protect itself. The whole Tiannan County is full of corpses. It is not uncommon for people to eat their own sons."

"Our Xinfeng County is still in a relatively good situation."

Tang Longshan continued to ask: "The imperial court, the governor of Yongzhou, do they all know about this?"

"As early as a month ago, the governor of Yongzhou had already reported to the court."

Gu Jinke looked distressed: "But until now, I haven't received any documents from the imperial court for disaster relief."

He Pingan frowned. The imperial court has a method of subpoenaing among the state capitals. It stands to reason that if the subpoena is sent to the imperial court, it will be approved soon.

Tang Longshan asked: ""Can you open the warehouse first? "

Gu Jinke shook his head again and again: "Master Tang Immortal, absolutely not. Opening a warehouse to release food without permission is a capital crime of beheading."

Tang Longshan nodded. He knew that there were rules in the Daxuan law, but he blurted it out in a hurry.

He Pingan scanned Gu Jinke with his spiritual sense and found that his stomach was mostly chewed grass roots and bark, with only a small amount of grain residue and some white clay.

At this time, two or three officials walked out of the county government office, each of them was yellow and thin, and they paid homage to Tang Longshan and the three of them weakly, and then sat down at a random place, as if they might faint at any time.

He Pingan was surprised and said: "Didn't the imperial court give you a salary?

"Why are you so hungry?"

At this time, a middle-aged man dressed as a pawn replied: "Your Majesty Gu is a clean and honest official. He asked someone to exchange most of his salary in Xuanyang for food, and asked him to send it back to the common people for distribution."

"So the entire county government, except for the granary, has no food in stock."

He Pingan was immediately in awe, and combined with the results of his spiritual investigation, this Gu Jinke was a rare honest official.

It's a pity that it's a bit too conservative. Even if you take all your own salary, it's just a drop in the bucket for the rations of a county.

Tang Longshan frowned tightly, unable to speak for a long time.

Neither opened a granary to release grain, nor did Emperor Jiaming send people to help the disaster. Could it be that he really wanted to watch the people of Tiannan County starve to death?
But without Emperor Jiaming's permission, even he would not dare to open a warehouse to release grain.

Opening a warehouse to release grain today may set foot on the guillotine tomorrow.

At this time, Jiang Yishan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked, "Why do those people who starve to death have such big stomachs?"

Gu Jinke replied: "This is caused by eating dolomite.
Yongzhou, which is close to the north, is very cold and freezing in winter. In addition to the previous severe drought, the grass and trees are almost dead, and even grass roots and bark have become rare things.

Most people have nothing to eat, so they can only go to the mountains to scrape a kind of white clay called dolomite.

Eating a small amount can barely satisfy your hunger, but after eating too much, you will become a big belly ghost, unable to excrete, and finally die of abdominal distension.

He Ping'an's heart moved, isn't this the Guanyin soil that the people often ate during the famine in the previous life?
Just changed the name, but the effect is almost exactly the same.

"Ugh"

Tang Longshan let out a long sigh, even the immortal master, there was nothing he could do to help such a large-scale famine in a county.

At this moment, a ray of light flew towards the distant horizon.

In the blink of an eye, the light had already flown to the sky above the Xinfeng County Yamen, and there was a man in white clothes Shengxue with a stern face standing on top of a black flying sword.

Before the flying sword landed, several people felt the murderous aura of the man in white.

The man in white was in the air, looking coldly at the county government office below, stretched out his hand, and a burst of mana poured out, and opened the granary in the county government office below, thousands of catties of grain flew out of the granary, floating in the midair of the county town.

All of a sudden, all the bags containing grain exploded, and in Xinfeng County, grain fell from the sky, like a rain of grain.

It happened to be very ingeniously controlled, and all of them fell in the street, making it easy for people to pick them up.

"Who are you?"

"Dare to forcibly open the warehouse to release the grain?"

Gu Jinke's complexion tightened, and the official seal appeared in his hand. Confucianism and Taoism skills were in operation, so he wanted to stop the white-clothed swordsman.

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