Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 66
Under Jia Qiong's death threat, Zhou Hui worked hard, jumped up and down, and kept going everywhere to speed up the process.

Finally, before noon, all the people in Hukou City were moved to Dongshan Mountain, and a large amount of supplies were rushed up the mountain.

Jia Qiong sat in the county government until the officers who were sent to monitor the water conditions on the embankment came to report that the water level of the Yangtze River was beginning to rise rapidly. He led the last group of laborers carrying supplies to withdraw from the county.

Standing on the top of the mountain, Jia Qiong witnessed the flood peak coming with the power of heaven, roaring down like a giant dragon.

The dam built of sand, gravel and soil was vulnerable to the flood peak and was washed away in an instant.

The water from the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake found their outlet, and countless floods poured out. The rolling torrent swallowed up Hukou County in an instant, and then rushed away in all directions. As far as the eye could see, residential buildings in the city collapsed in pieces, and thousands of hectares of fertile farmland were turned into Zeguo.

In late May of the 16th year of Longqing, floods broke out in many places in the Yangtze River Basin, especially in Jiangxi.

Countless people have been displaced, and the number of people affected by the disaster is hundreds of thousands. There are too many victims, and relief from the local government alone cannot last long.

In recent years, disasters have occurred frequently in various parts of Dachu. The imperial court was already in financial difficulties. With so many places affected by disasters at once, it was impossible to raise enough money and food for disaster relief in a short period of time.

Because of the early warning from Jia Qiong and others, Hukou County rushed out a lot of supplies, but compared with the huge number of victims, it was still stretched.

After the flood receded slightly, Jia Qiong rushed to Raozhou Fucheng and used his identity as a member of the Jinyiwei Qianhu to learn about the disaster situation in various places at the local Jinyiwei.

He had a premonition that in the near future, there would be a human tragedy in Jiangxi, with people dying of hunger and people exchanging children for food.

Jia Qiong thought about it all night, and the next day he ordered Jin Yiwei to send a letter to the Jinling family at once.

After receiving the letter, the Wang family quickly transferred 100 million taels of silver from various businesses, purchased large quantities of grain from Huguang, Zhejiang and other unaffected areas, and went to various places to provide disaster relief and relieve people in the name of the imperial court.

Because they were afraid that the food would be misappropriated by corrupt officials, all disaster relief matters in various places were handled by the Wang family's own business.

Therefore, although they were providing disaster relief under the banner of the imperial court, the people only remembered that it was the Langya Wang family who rescued them.

The people in Jiangnan were grateful to the Wang family, but they didn't know that of the 100 million taels of silver, 40 taels were provided by Jia Qiong.

The common people and civil and military officials didn't know it, but Emperor Longqing knew it well.

Because when the Wang family contributed money to provide disaster relief, Wang Mu had already gone to the Dao Mi Zhe to explain the whole story.

Knowing that Jia Qiong had made so much money from selling books, Emperor Longqing, who was going crazy from poverty, was really jealous, but he had no other thoughts this time.

Thinking that Jia Qiong and the Wang family were willing to spend so much money to help the people, Jia Qiong even spent all his wealth for this.

Emperor Longqing couldn't help but be greatly moved, and his impression of him instantly soared.

Emperor Longqing immediately issued an order to move Wang Han, the chief envoy to Guangdong, as governor of Liangjiang, with the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War, to take charge of disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction work.

Wang Yu, the left and deputy censor of the imperial court, was moved to the right of the Ministry of Personnel. The deputy censor and the minister were both senior and third-rank imperial officials. This was a horizontal transfer.

However, the Minister of Civil Affairs holds some power in personnel affairs, and his power position is not comparable to that of the deputy censor of the capital, and may not even be comparable to that of the censor of the capital.

Moreover, it is possible for the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel to join the cabinet as a bachelor, but it is absolutely impossible for the deputy censor of the capital, so this is definitely a move to the right.

In addition, Emperor Longqing also issued a decree to confer Wang Yuyan as the head of Funing County.

The title of county head was originally reserved for royal women, and its rank was equivalent to that of a second-grade royal wife. Very few women with foreign surnames could obtain this title.

This can be regarded as a disguised form of granting a wife, which is equivalent to Emperor Longqing transferring the reward that should be given to Jia Qiong to his future wife.

Of course, except for the Wang family, no one else knew that Wang Yuyan was canonized because of Jia Qiong.

When Jia Qiong learned about it, he felt that he had suffered a big loss. He spent 40 taels of silver, but he got nothing, but he changed the title of county head to his future wife.

The county lord's rank is much higher than that of his Qingqi Captain. After getting married, he will be lower than Wang Yuyan. How can he have the majesty of the head of the family.

He had to sigh in his heart that Emperor Longqing still knew how to play.Of course, Jia Qiong did this not entirely because he had a benevolent heart, but improving the favorability of the royal family was also an important factor.

From this point of view, he must have made a lot of money, otherwise Emperor Longqing would not have given Wang Yuyan the title.

Of course, Jia Qiong cannot allow herself to work hard for several years and return to before liberation, and the Wang family cannot simply spend tens of thousands of their family's wealth to do good deeds.

Jia Qiong needs to increase the favorability of the royal family, which is not available to the Wang family.

So in his letter to Wang Mu, he offered the sugar purification formula as a killer weapon.

In the current market, white sugar is a serious luxury product. The quantity is very small, and only a small amount of it flows in from the Western Regions.

Moreover, these so-called white sugars are only brighter in color than the brown sugar and brown sugar produced in Dachu, and they are definitely not pure white.

The formula provided by Jia Qiong is not only extremely low cost, but also produces white sugar as crystal clear as snow and as sweet as honey.

If a small amount is put on the market, it is absolutely no problem to exchange a pound of sugar for one tael of gold. This is a good deal with huge profits.

He also agreed to split it [-]-[-] with the Wang family, which would definitely bring him more profit every year than publishing a book.

This will not only make up for his losses quickly, but also make a lot of money.

Jia Qiong chose to take it out at this time because he felt that the time was ripe. The Wang family was now well-known and no one would dare to come up with the idea of ​​​​white sugar formula.

Jia Qiong plans to make a fortune from this first, and at a critical moment, he can also present the formula to Emperor Longqing as his own certificate of investment.

Jia Qiong and others were stranded in Jiangxi for more than a month due to floods.

During this period, they not only participated in the Wang family's disaster relief work, but also organized the victims to carry out post-disaster reconstruction, and were deeply loved by the people.

However, they did good deeds without leaving a name. After the flood completely receded, they retired with their achievements and hid their achievements and fame.

The people in Hukou County only knew that when the flood came, a group of young scholars saved their lives by reporting the flood in advance, and also helped them survive and rebuild their homes.

However, the common people didn't know it, and it was impossible for the local government and the Jinyi Guards not to know about it, so their good deeds would eventually reach the ears of Emperor Longqing.

Jia Qiong and the others were on the road again, but because they were delayed too much in Jiangxi, they had to hurry up.

After more than five months and numerous hardships, they finally arrived at their destination, Yueyang, Hunan, on the first day of September.

Yueyang Academy is located on the north bank of Dongting Lake. It was built in the early Northern Song Dynasty. It entered its heyday in the Southern Song Dynasty and became a well-known academy throughout the country.

Although it was destroyed by war, it was quickly rebuilt in the early days of the Chu Dynasty. Since then, it has been one of the most famous academies in Jiangnan.

Today, among the five major academies in the south of the Yangtze River, Hunan alone has two, namely the Yuelu Academy in Changsha and the Yueyang Academy by the Dongting Lake.

The other three are Bailudong Academy located in Wulaofeng, Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi Province, Yingtian Academy located in Nanjing, and Wuyi Academy located in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province.

If you want to become a major academy as famous as these academies, it is of course necessary to have excellent results in the imperial examinations. Secondly, you must also have your own unique teaching philosophy.

In recent years, Wansong Academy's imperial examination results are obvious to all, and the academy's teaching philosophy has been recognized by many knowledgeable people.

This time, the five major academies invited Wansong Academy to attend the gathering, which was not only a recognition of Wansong Academy, but also an inspection.

As long as Wansong Academy's performance this time can be recognized by the public, it can become a parallel existence with the five major academies.

When Jia Qiong and the others came to Yueyang, there were only two days left before the official gathering, and the other four major academies had already arrived.

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