Tang Mansion, located in a wide street in the outer city, this is the mansion of Tang Shiji, the second rank of the second rank of the dynasty.

As the head of the cabinet of the dynasty, the old man Wen Ge, Tang Shiji has always been the head of the court for the head of the Wen family, pointing where to fight, one mouth, one play, so that many ministers turned over and dismounted.

Today, Tang Shiji Tang heard the commotion outside the house, so he called the housekeeper to ask. The housekeeper cried and prayed with a sad face, saying that the people from the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division had set up the porridge factory in front of the Tang Mansion and were now giving porridge.

What do you mean? Soup kitchen: Set up the porridge factory in front of my house? Did the Five Cities Terracotta Division eat the bear's heart and leopard gall? Tang Shiji was angry at that time, and said angrily: "Go, call their commander!" ”

Not long after the housekeeper turned around and went out, he ran back again, and said, "Master, the gate is blocked by homeless people drinking porridge, and I can't get out." ”

The gate of the Tang Mansion opened, Tang Shiji took a group of house slaves out of the gate, and after directing the house slaves to drive away a group of homeless people who were blocking the door, he pointed to the porridge factory and said, "Who built the porridge shed here?" ”

A patrol captain of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division immediately stood up, sweating profusely on his forehead, and saluted respectfully: "I received an order yesterday to build the porridge factory here. ”

"Whose order?" Tang Shiji almost roared out.

Before the captain of the city patrol could speak, Li Tingbiao, who was patrolling around, came over with a few brocade guards, and answered: "It is the order of the East Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows that Lord Tang's family is poor, and praises the adults for their clean sleeves, and His Royal Highness is benevolent and righteous, so that the porridge factory is specially set up in front of the adults' mansions, so that the adults can take their families out to get two bowls of porridge to drink on weekdays, so that their poor family members can eat a little more." ”

After Li Tingbiao finished speaking, some homeless people and beggars shouted with envy: "Wow, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really benevolent, and he treats officials so well." ”

"Yes, I just hate that I was born with a hard life and was illiterate, otherwise I could also take the top spot and the like, and go to be an official and enjoy happiness, and I will have porridge to drink every day."

Tang Shiji was furious and said, "Fart! Tang Shiji, as the imperial history of the left capital, rarely burst out foul language, he pointed to the porridge factory and said: "Demolish the porridge factory for me!" ”

Li Tingbiao shouted violently and said, "Who dares!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was ordered to soothe the people, set up a porridge factory, and spread kindness, do you want to rebel by forcibly demolishing the porridge factory? ”

"You ......." Tang Shiji was angry, but he didn't dare to play tricks with Jinyiwei in person.

As soon as the thousands of homeless people and beggars around the porridge factory heard that the porridge factory was going to be demolished, they immediately aroused public indignation, pointing at Tang Shiji and scolding, and many people spat on him and scolded the dog official.

Some brave homeless people even picked up the stones on the side of the road and threw them at Tang Shiji, and for a while there was chaos in front of the Tang Mansion.

Tang Shiji was attacked by a stone and hit his head, only feeling a pain in his head, but there was no blood, so he hurriedly hugged his head and ran away, and slipped back to the Tang Mansion in embarrassment under the escort of a group of house slaves.

This scene immediately caused everyone to laugh, and the sound of laughter and scolding was endless.

A similar scene was staged at several other soup kitchens, and these ten porridge factories were guarded by several brocade guards to prevent the officials from forcibly demolishing the porridge factories.

The biggest official rank of the people in the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division is only the six-rank commander, and any official who jumps out of the capital can scold them with blood. But Jinyiwei is different, even if the first assistant of the cabinet comes to command Jinyiwei, and many officials have a shadow in their hearts about Jinyiwei, and they dare not contradict it.

After the transfer of the porridge factory, many homeless people and beggars are worried that the porridge factory will be transferred again, and if they can't find it for a while, it will affect their food and clothing, so every day and every night, there are countless beggars and homeless people, surrounding these ministers' homes, guarding the porridge factory.

Thousands of people were guarding the vicinity of the porridge factory, eating, drinking, and Lazar all here, and the smell was already stinking at the end of the day.

In the corners of the walls outside the ministers' offices, all kinds of garbage and feces are piled up, emitting a foul smell, and once it rains heavily, it is even more disgusting.

Moreover, some of the homeless people are not of high quality, and they often sneak over the wall to enter the homes of these ministers at night to steal some things, which makes the families of these officials feel in danger.

A few days later, Tang Shiji finally couldn't stand it anymore, found the Jinyi guard who was patrolling near the porridge factory, and pledged a few thousand taels of silver.

Jin Yiwei said that it was difficult to do, Tang Shiji gritted his teeth and directly donated 10,000 taels of silver, and Jin Yiwei smiled and ordered someone to transfer the porridge factory away, and notified the displaced people to go to the new soup kitchen.

As for the transferred porridge factory, it naturally went to the homes of several ministers who were supplemented, and Zhu Cihong had already planned it, and then did the same operation.

To Zhu Cihong's surprise, the porridge factory had just been set up in front of the second batch of supplementary ministers' mansions, and in less than a day, they took the initiative to donate money, spend money to buy peace, and asked for the porridge factory to be transferred.

After a few days, almost all the dozens of ministers who were playing at the banquet were tossed, and Zhu Cihong also received another 600,000 taels of donated silver.

The ministers have been tossed, and it is naturally the turn of the rich businessmen who were drawn by Zhu Cihong in a small circle. Donate those dozens of taels of silver, your family is very poor? This prince has observed public opinion and has come to take care of you, come! Dry this bowl of hot porridge!

Those ministers who were tossed were very unhappy and felt threatened, so they united and prepared to play Zhu Cihong's book.

Zhu Cihong naturally had a clever plan, he divided the donated silver 500,000 taels, loaded 20 carts, and transferred more than 1,000 Yongwei battalions to escort them all the way to the noon gate, and then Li Tingbiao took the brocade guards into the palace and personally sent them to Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen saw 500,000 taels of silver with white flowers, and suddenly his face was happy, what he lacked most now was silver, and Liaodong urged the army every day to pay for it, and it was about to provoke a mutiny.

These 500,000 taels of silver are simply timely rain, as soon as they are sent to Liaodong, the border army will be able to stop immediately, and they will be at ease and guard the pass.

Emperor Chongzhen was happy in his heart, as for those ministers who beat the prince's small report, aren't they just homeless people blocking the door, and no one died, how big is it that they are still impeached? If it's a big fart, can I change the prince without it? It's inexplicable.

Zhu Cihong took out another 10,000 taels of silver and asked people to send it to the household department, saying that it was the disaster relief silver that was returned to the household department, and he didn't want to owe the household department a favor because of this money.

The matter of silver was solved, and Zhu Cihong encountered another thing, I heard that the crown prince was giving porridge in the capital, and there were more and more displaced people rushing to the capital, and the beggars in various places were about to exceed 100,000!

Blindly giving soup porridge will definitely not work, we must find a way to completely solve the problem of displaced people, otherwise there will be more and more displaced people coming to Beijing, and the public security in Beijing will become worse and worse.

It is definitely not possible to close the city gate and not let the displaced people enter the city, this is the capital division, and the trade volume to and from various places every day is very large, if the city gate is closed for a long time, the entire capital division will be paralyzed, that is too terrible.