Zundu and fake toot?The target of the strategy has become dark again

Chapter 132 The sickly proton turned black 40
The eunuch who planned to step forward to hold Jiang Ziyuan retreated.

"Your Majesty Shengming."

The young man deliberately gave a big gift.

"Your Majesty asked me how I knew this. I will tell you the truth. When I was traveling from Jiang State to the capital of Yan, I once met a Yan people crying. The sound was so sad that everyone who heard it shed tears——"

"I got off the carriage and asked why. It was really shocking for this dying man to tell all the old stories about his family."

Jiang Ziyuan's tone faltered and he deliberately stopped here. Everyone's curiosity was aroused.

Emperor Yan's complexion became visibly worse.

It can make the king of a country unable to control his emotions, and everyone never takes it seriously, but gradually becomes more interested.

Could it be that there was something fishy about the famine in Yan State ten years ago?
Someone who was watching the excitement and didn't take it too seriously asked, "Why are you so scared?"

"The famine was the first to break out in Qi County where they were located. The father and son went to the government to collect relief food, but were driven away with sticks. Some who persisted in begging for food in front of the government were directly treated as a mob and beaten to death."

"It is difficult for the people to fight against natural disasters after being hungry for so many days. How can they have the strength to fight against the government government armed with weapons?"

"Only a small number of his neighbors in the same county starved to death on their way to ask for help from the government. Most of the rest died at the hands of government officials, and they did not see a single bucket of relief food until their death."

"His father and his son were lucky enough to survive by eating dead tree bark, but because they went to the government to beg for food, they were labeled as 'rebels' and 'mobs'. They hid in XZ for ten years and did not dare to return to their hometown."

"After years of running around and worrying, that man's body has long been exhausted, and his life is not long. His son, who was only [-] years old, even died before him. The white-haired man sent the black-haired man."

A certain princess who did not know the sufferings of the world took a breath of air.

Even Wen Yao frowned.

She had only read one-sided records of the famine in books, but the inside story was more complicated than she imagined.

"I would like to ask the Yan State, which harvests in autumn and stores in winter, with hundreds of large and small granaries in various places, why was it unprepared when the famine broke out and millions of people died?"

After the young man finished speaking, he deliberately stopped again.

Someone immediately asked: "Is it possible that some officials are withholding food at all levels?"

Corruption in disaster relief is commonplace and occurs in all countries to a greater or lesser extent.

"When the disaster reaches a certain level, there is no point in hoarding food. Even if the disaster relief food is withheld at all levels, you will not earn much money, because the vast majority of the people have no money at all."

"What's more, in a national crisis, the risk of withholding official rations is too high. If you are not careful, tens of thousands of lives will be lost. If you are convicted later, you will lose your head. Which official would be willing to take such a big risk, just for a little money?"

Jiang Ziyuan is right.

There is a slang saying among Kyushu bureaucrats: A small disaster will make you gain money, but a big disaster will cause you to lose your legs.

What it means is that if the disaster is not serious, they can deduct some from it, but if it is a serious disaster, not only do they not dare to deduct the disaster relief subsidies, they will even pay for it out of their own pockets in order to reduce casualties.

There is no other reason. Once there are too many casualties, even if the data is falsely reported, they will be discovered and prosecuted when recruiting young men.

"So Ziyuan has reason to suspect that the grain stored in your country's granaries has long been embezzled. Only empty granaries can't save the hungry and cold victims no matter what."

"So it's not that the government doesn't want to distribute food, it's that it has no food to distribute. The food saved in good years has long been embezzled by officials before the famine broke out -"

(End of this chapter)