Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 57 Changjiong Official Records ([-])

Spring of the third year of Yuanguang

The Yellow River broke through Puyang, seized Sishui River, and entered the Huaihe River. The fields of sixteen counties were destroyed by the flood, and more than one million people were displaced.

Emperor Liu Che sent Ji An and Zheng to build the dam at that time. In order to keep his manor in Chenliu County, the prime minister Tian Fu said to the emperor: "The breaking of the Yellow River's embankment is the will of heaven. How can your majesty force the dam to be built? If you do this, God would be furious."

Emperor Liu Che asked: "Then what should I do? I heard that there are already hundreds of thousands of refugees in the land of Huai River."

"Eh..." Tian Fu was at a loss, he only wanted to keep his own manor, and he didn't think about the lives of the people. He was able to become the prime minister because of the power of the Queen Mother Wang Zhi.

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After returning to the mansion

Tian Fu hurriedly ordered to the maid beside him, "Go and call Wang Changjiong, Ph.D."

"Yes." The servant girl left immediately.

After a while, a handsome young man walked into the prime minister's mansion, saluted Tian Fu respectfully and said, "Student Wang Changjiong, pay homage to the prime minister."

"Guangming, come here, sit down, I have something to discuss with you." Tian Fu asked the handsome young man to kneel down on a soft mat, and ordered the maid to bring tea and water, and finally let the maid go out and close the door.

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As the maid left, Wang Changjiong, who had been sitting silently, saluted Tian Fu again: "Dare to ask the prime minister, why did you call the students here?"

This handsome young man Wang Changjiong is exactly the Wang Changjiong of the Liaodong Wang family, whose nickname is Guangming.

After being defeated by Wang Chaoge in the swordsmanship competition a few years ago, he completely gave up martial arts and turned to study the way of literature, studying various Confucian classics hard every day.

Finally last year, under the dual effects of his own profound talent and learning and the royal family of Liaodong's stuffing money, he was recommended by the Liaodong County Government as "filial piety and talent" to the Chang'an court as a doctor of literature in Suikezhong.

Afterwards, he was quite talented and relied on his relationship with the royal family of Liaodong to become a student of Prime Minister Tian Fu, and it was not in vain that the royal family of Liaodong sent Tian Fu every year.

"Now that the Yellow River is flooding, hundreds of thousands of people in the Huai River have become refugees. If it were you, what would you do?" Tian Fu cut to the chase and asked directly.

"Build dams and divert the water of the Yellow River back to its original course." Wang Changjiong replied without thinking, which is also a solution that normal people can think of.

"Eh..." Tian Fu was speechless. Of course he knew that doing so would solve the problem, but if he built dams and diverted the water of the Yellow River back to its original course, then his manor in Chenliu County would be submerged by the water of the Yellow River. unacceptable.

Of course, the problem of hundreds of thousands of refugees must be resolved, but the premise is that the interests of his prime minister cannot be infringed, otherwise Tian Fu would rather let hundreds of thousands of refugees become anti-people and be slaughtered.

"Teacher, what are your concerns?" Wang Changjiong directly addressed him as a teacher in order to further shorten the relationship with the current prime minister.

"Aside from this method, is there any other method?" Tian Fu was also embarrassed to directly say that he refused to build the dam because he wanted to keep the manor, so he skipped this topic and asked if there was any other method.

"Hmm..." Wang Changjiong thought for a long time, and then said with a smile, "Students have a way to get the best of both worlds."

"Oh? What is the best of both worlds?" Tian Fu also became interested.

"Using land for relief, the three difficulties will be solved by themselves." Wang Changjiong replied.

"What do you mean by using land for relief?" Tian Fu asked again.

"Let the students have a sip of tea."

"Haha! Of course you can."

After saying these few words, Wang Changjiong felt a little thirsty, so he took a sip of hot tea to moisten his throat and said with a smile: "The common people have fields but no food, merchants and rich people want to expand their fields but can't, let the people use their own fields from In this way, the people in the famine have food to eat, the merchants and the wealthy people also get the fields they want day and night, and the imperial court does not need to consume a single grain. Isn’t this a win-win situation? Isn't this the best of all three? This is the solution of the three difficulties!"

"This plan is very clever, ah ha ha ha ha!"

Tian Fu laughed loudly, thinking that this method was perfect, and it could solve the problem of hundreds of thousands of refugees without consuming a single grain of rice from the imperial court.

"Guangming has the style of ancient sages." Tian Fu praised, stroking his goatee with one hand.

"Teacher's absurd praise." Wang Changjiong hurriedly responded, and said humbly: "The student's talent is not as good as the teacher's."

After complimenting each other, Tian Fu asked about the relevant details: "If merchants and rich people take the opportunity to oppress the common people, what should we do if we take the opportunity to lower the price per mu?"

Wang Changjiong could see that the prime minister, Tian Fu, was still caring about the common people on the surface. In fact, the real meaning of this sentence was whether there was much room for manipulation here, and whether the merchants and wealthy people had room for manipulation. If so, I, Tian Fu It is also necessary to take the opportunity to operate and merge some acres by the way to strengthen the family business.

"Just temporarily set up a Huai Shang Relief Cao." Wang Changjiong replied indifferently. He has learned a lot in Liaodong and is already familiar with this method of using the slogan of benevolence, righteousness and morality to oppress the people.

"What is Huai Shang Relief Cao?" Tian Fu was puzzled again. Huai Shang he understood was the disaster-stricken Huaihe River Basin, but what is Relief Cao? It literally means a government agency specializing in disaster relief.But didn't Wang Changjiong tell him just now that there is no need to consume a grain of rice from the court?Why did another rescue Cao come to rescue the disaster?

"Let the prime minister's office take the lead to establish a relief cao."

"Anyone who wants to exchange grain for acres of land in the hands of the victims in the Huai River must report to the Prime Minister's Mansion in advance. Only merchants and rich people who have been approved by the Prime Minister's Mansion are eligible to exchange their own grain for the acres of land in the hands of the victims. Those who exchange grain for the victims' land without authorization will be fined, and they will be punished heavily!"

"In this way, only those good merchants and rich people can report to the prime minister's mansion to help the victims. Those bad merchants and rich people will naturally be excluded by the prime minister's mansion early on, so the people don't have to worry about being caught by those evil merchants Haomin took the opportunity to bully him."

Wang Changjiong spoke slowly, and Tian Fu was shocked by a few words.

This "Relief Cao" is too much for his appetite.

All merchants and rich people who want to take the opportunity to merge land in Huai River must report to the Prime Minister's Mansion in advance. As for whether it is good or evil, isn't it all a matter of his Tian Fu's words?
He Tian Fu thinks that whoever is a good merchant is a good merchant, and whoever Tian Fu thinks is an evil merchant and a merchant is whoever is qualified to annex land at a low price, doesn't it still depend on Tian Fu's eyes?

At that time, those relatives of his Tian Fu can report through the prime minister's office to "save" the victims, and other wealthy merchants, if they want to be good, they have to give him Tian Fu a good filial piety.

Thinking of the bright future ahead, Tian Fu laughed heartily: "Getting Guangming is like Gaodi getting Zhang Liang."

"Teacher, be careful!" Wang Changjiong kindly reminded that if someone listened to this sentence, it would be troublesome. It's too far away from Huai Shang, and it's impossible to merge it if you want to, but it's not bad to take the opportunity to sell some grain at a high price on Huai Shang, so as not to cause a flood, but our Wang family can't get any benefits.

"Ahem~" Tian Fu also realized that he was overjoyed, so he took a long breath and calmed down with a smile: "The old man will start to rescue Cao, and he must save hundreds of thousands of people in the Huai River. The duty of the great Han prime minister!"

"Teacher loves the people so much, even the three ancient sage kings, Yao, Shun and Yu, would be ashamed of themselves."

"Guangming, don't flatter me."

"Students are just telling the truth. Is the truth a compliment?"

"Hahahaha!"

(End of this chapter)