Chapter 16

Chiyunyuexuan dismisses these accusations. He has his own statement: a few months ago, several counties in the south of Huayan suffered the worst flood in a hundred years. Yuliang county and Yanshan County are the most serious. Fuling pass, guarded by jiyunyuexuan, is only one county away from Yuliang. When he heard that the disaster of Yuliang was very serious, he took people and horses across the county to help the affected county. The area under the jurisdiction of chiyun Yuexuan is still abundant in food. He decided to take a part of it to help the victims of fishing beam. He supervised the convoy of grain transport to the fishing beam. On the way, he also listened to the Scout's report that Chaoting had allocated a large amount of relief money to the disaster area.

When chiyun Yuexuan arrived at the fishing beam, he found that the situation was wrong. A large number of victims have fled from famine with their children and daughters, and the victims of starvation can be seen everywhere on the road. Chiyun Yuexuan distributed the grain to the victims all the way. Before he arrived in Yuliang County, the grain he had brought had been distributed. Chiyun Yuexuan knows that these grains are only a drop in the bucket and cannot solve the problem at all. Most of the victims are still not rescued.

When chiyunyuexuan arrived at Yuliang County, it was a scene of dilapidation in the city. On both sides of the whole street, families were closed and fled. The disaster was more serious than he thought. He secretly visited several families who were unable to escape, only to learn that the local officials, together with the state officials, had divided up the money allocated by the court for disaster relief. The merchants in the city colluded with the officials, hoarded a lot of food and sold it at a high price. In order to survive, the people sold their houses, properties and children, and finally spent all their savings, but they still failed. None of the rich families, businessmen or officials in the city were affected by the disaster. Instead, they took advantage of the disaster to get the wealth of the country and forced the common people to a dead end.

When local officials learned that jiyunyuexuan had come here to inspect the disaster, they presented a grand banquet to flatter him and asked him to turn a blind eye.

Chiyun Yuexuan pretended to form an alliance with them, and contracted Yanbin building, the largest restaurant in the city, to entertain Prefecture and local officials who came to inspect the disaster. The gentry, celebrities and rich businessmen were also included in his invitation.

When these people enter Yanbin building, they find that Yanbin building has been guarded by chiyun Yuexuan's heavy troops, and they can only enter and cannot leave.

At the banquet of chiyun Yuexuan, there was no wine or meat, only the grains and porridge that were as clear as water, and the nest that had mildew. Now people know that things are not good.

Although several local officials have heard of the vicious reputation of chiding yunyuexuan, they all think he can't have any means when they see that he is young and has a beautiful face. Officials speculated that chiyun Yuexuan just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to gain some benefits and talked with him about the conditions.

Chiyun Yuexuan's indistinguishable peach blossom face always smiles: "since everyone is here, we will have dinner first and then discuss major issues. Unfortunately, because of the natural disaster, I can't offer you anything good. I think you are as hungry as the victims. You don't care. Let's start eating. "

These officials are used to eating big fish and big meat. They can't eat these things on the table. One by one, they begged chiyun Yuexuan to send their servants to get good wine and food at home, and chiyun Yuexuan answered with a smile. And let them tell their servants to prepare a whole table of good wine and food for each family. Chiyun Yuexuan quietly accompanies them to drink tea. Time goes by, and those people's eyes are green with hunger.

Half an hour later, the dispatched servants successively brought good wine and food to the host. Chiyun Yuexuan ordered the waiter of the restaurant to move the tables and chairs in the shop to the door, and there were more than 20 long banquets in the street. Local officials saw this and asked for the opening of chiyun Yuexuan. Chiyun Yuexuan smiled and waved downstairs: "OK, let's open the table."

The chiyun army downstairs dodged to open a path, and the people around rushed to the table to eat and drink. Officials, tyrants and gentry thought that the victims were coming to grab food and let the county magistrate send people to suppress them. The county magistrate gave a salute to chiding yunyuexuan: "these villains dare to rob the feast of the general, and the corporal hereby orders to kill them all."

Chiyun Yuexuan's face was very gloomy: "they are also guests invited by our general. These victims are the foundation of the country. Only through their hard work can the common people of Huayan and the officials of all levels of prefectures live a full life. However, when they encounter natural disasters, those of you who depend on them to support them, regardless of their lives and deaths, even divide up the silver that is allocated to the court to help them through the difficulties. Do you have a little compassion? "

When they heard this, they thought about their escape. Chiyun Yuexuan then said: "you don't want to solve such a serious disaster. You also collude with businessmen to store grain and increase prices. Do you know how many starving victims there are along the way? If you don't like the food I invite you to eat, you should know that thousands of victims in the city have become extravagant even to eat such food. "

Chiyun Yuexuan grabs a moldy nest head and takes the lead in eating: "today, I just want you to understand that those drinks and vegetables are what they should eat. What you should eat is the food that general Ben entertained you today. I can eat them all, can't you? "

They were afraid to scold yunyuexuan and get angry. They all grabbed the nest on the table and ate it. Several officials vomited on the spot. These people finally understand that this beautiful man like flowers is not to play with them. Chiyun Yuexuan orders the deputy general to press several vomiting officials on the ground, forcing them to eat the vomit, and there is a cry like a ghost crying and howling at the scene.Chiyun Yuexuan is not in a hurry. He drinks tea and slowly boils down with those people. At dinner time, chiyun Yuexuan asked them to send servants to pick up food and wine at home. Several squires and merchants, unwilling to do so, said one after another that they were not local officials and did not accept the control of chiyunyuexuan.

Chiyun Yuexuan played with an iron whip: "although you are not the court officials, you should also be punished for colluding with the officials to raise the price of food and disturb the market order. If you are willing to remedy it, general Ben will let you go as he sees fit. " All the squires want to get out as soon as possible. They are all talking about how to remedy it?

Chiyun Yuexuan said: "each person should pay 200 stone grain. If the grain is not enough, it should be converted into silver cloth." The squires thought it was too much. They tried to break in and were stopped by chiding yunyuexuan's men. Two squires, who had not lost their conscience, promised to pay for their food, and a few stubborn squires were scolded there.

Chiyun Yuexuan is wasting time with them. He has many means to deal with people. He can kill the enemy in the battlefield and throw away his armor. He can also make these corrupt officials cry and howl.

Chiyun Yuexuan drank tea calmly, and in front of those people, leisurely ate the white bread sent by the guards. At night, an official couldn't bear the hunger, so he scolded: "a man who looks like a woman, no one knows whether he is a man or a woman. He became a general by virtue of his sister's nepotism. How can you deal with us in private? We are officials appointed by the court. You have no such right. "

Chiyun Yuexuan didn't even look at him. He looked down and flipped through a book. Seeing that chiyun Yuexuan didn't speak, the official thought that he was guilty, so he scolded and rushed out. Other people also took the opportunity to rush with them, which was out of control. Seeing that the bodyguards are about to stop, chiyun Yuexuan grabs an iron whip from the table and draws the table in half with a brush. The abusive official splashed his head on the chest of chiyun Yuexuan and shouted, "kill people, the general of the hall has killed innocent people!"

Voice did not fall, chiyun Yuexuan step back, hands of the iron whip "whoosh" to entangle him. Chiyun Yuexuan raised his hand, and the official rose up with the arc of the iron whip. His body broke through the window and fell to the ground downstairs. The man spits out a mouthful of blood and stops.

Chiyun Yuexuan sweeps people with narrow and charming peach blossom eyes, not angry. The corrupt officials were frightened and trembled. Chiu Yun Yuexuan sat back in his chair, as if nothing had happened, and he picked up the book and looked at it. He said lightly, "tell your crimes honestly, and maybe I will punish you lightly."

All the officials had heard of the callousness and cruelty of chiding yunyuexuan, and had learned his methods. Next to him, they confessed the amount of silver embezzled. Chiyun Yuexuan asked the scribes to record on the record, and asked the officials to draw a pledge. They all expressed their willingness to withdraw from the coveted silver and begged yunyuexuan to let them go. Chiyun Yuexuan's eyes were still fixed on the book, and his head was not raised: "where is such a cheap thing? How much do you eat and how much do you spit out? "

The next morning, five or six businessmen handed over their money and grain to chiyunyuexuan, who distributed the grain to the victims at the gate of Yanbin building in public. Corrupt officials have asked their families to send silver to redeem themselves. The silver they handed over didn't satisfy chiyun Yuexuan. Chiyun Yuexuan sent people to the officials' houses to take their own hostage, or the children of corrupt officials, or their concubines, and then let them go out to raise money. The local official who was thrown downstairs was seriously injured and carried home for treatment.

In order to protect their lives, corrupt officials have pulled out their families. However, chiyun Yuexuan still hasn't let them go easily. In front of the busy victims, he made corrupt officials kneel in a row and their clothes fell to their waist. Chiyun Yuexuan holds the whip in his hand, and Jun's face is full of cruel color. He shakes the whip in his hand and "crackles" it on the corrupt officials. There is a sound of whip hitting the flesh, and a shrill cry. One of the county's prime ministers couldn't stand being tortured. He bumped his head against the wall and committed suicide.

The squire and the merchants were afraid that they would not be able to stop when they saw that things were going badly. In order not to provoke chiyun Yuexuan, they all promised to give more money to calm people down. Chiyun Yuexuan took out some of these large amount of silver coins to help the victims, and Wu Siyuan, the other silver pair's deputy general, took them to lead the nearby counties to buy food.

Five days later, the deputy general escorted the life-saving food purchased from the neighboring county back to Yuliang. Chiyun Yuexuan posted a notice to open a warehouse in front of the county yamen the next day.

Corrupt officials gathered together to secretly discuss countermeasures. They wanted to fight back.