After Tan Lun accompanied Xu Hai and others out of the black market, his expression was a little lost, he had worked hard for Taizhou Mansion these days, it was really a dream of sleeping, and he had a bright future, but after a visit today, he didn't expect the situation in Taizhou Mansion to be so grim. The operation is as fierce as a tiger, and when you look at the record of zero bar, how not to let people be disappointed.

"It's difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, this is due to the situation, and it is beyond the power of manpower, and Governor Tan has done a very good job." After Wang Meng noticed Tan Lun's loss, he patted him on the shoulder and gave him a word of encouragement.

"Tan has failed the emperor's grace and is deeply ashamed...... "Tan Lun still can't bear to be lost.

"Governor Tan is so dedicated to the people, the situation is still like this, Jingnan doesn't know how much erosion it has reached!"

Xu Hai couldn't help but sigh.

"Zhu Ping'an is like cooking pot ears to the people of Taiping, and the people of Jingnan are all cooking. There is no room for this time, and we can't delay for a moment, let's go to Taiping County quickly, call Taiping Zhi County, and go straight to Jingnan to get rid of this scourge for the people of Jingnan. ”

Zhang Wenbo took the opportunity to say, urging everyone to set off and go to Jingnan to bring the corrupt official Zhu Ping'an to justice.

"Yes, yes."

Peng Cheng and the others nodded again and again.

Zhu Ping'an was the main task of their trip, so Xu Hai and others, accompanied by Tan Lun, went straight to Taiping County.

As soon as Xu Hai and the others entered the boundary of Taiping County, they found that the situation in Taiping County was much more severe than that of Taizhou Prefecture.

The hungry people are as many as cattle and sheep, helping the old and the young to mourn all over the wilderness, just the bones of the victims who died of hunger, Xu Hai and others saw more than a dozen places, and there was no green in the endless wilderness, the grass and trees withered, and the red ground was hundreds of miles, because the hungry people ate all the leaves, bark, and grass roots that could be eaten.

"Is this a flood or a drought?" Looking at this tragic scene, Xu Hai and the others couldn't help but sigh.

When Taiping Zhixian learned that Tan Lun, the prefect of Taizhou, accompanied the capital on a mission, he organized the county officials and the old rich families in the squires to greet him, and sent people to drive away the displaced people at the north gate of the county to maintain his image.

However, when Taiping Zhixian was still organizing at the gate of the city, Xu Hai, Tan Lun and other people came. I happened to see the situation where Taiping Zhi County ordered the messengers to push and drive away the displaced people and whitewash the façade.

Seeing this situation, Taizhou Governor Tan Lun couldn't help but hold his forehead......

"I don't know that the superior and the government are coming to the county, and the lower officials can't meet them from afar, it's really a crime that deserves death......"

Taiping Zhixian recognized Tan Lun, the prefect of Taizhou in civilian clothes, and knew that the person accompanying him was a messenger from the capital, so he hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, his face was extremely embarrassed, as if his little daughter-in-law was caught in bed.

"Okay, don't toss the people, mess around!" Xu Hai glanced at him and said with a displeased face.

It is said that he is preconceived, just because of the scene at the city gate, Xu Hai's good impression of Taiping Zhixian has retreated, and his disgust has increased greatly. The local officials who drove out the displaced people and disaster victims and whitewashed the peace -- this kind of deception and superficial article was the most despised by the officials of the ministry.

"Yes, yes."

Taiping Zhixian was embarrassed and hurriedly ordered the messenger to stop.

A welcome scene that whitewashed the peace turned into a complete farce, full of spicy eyes.

Tan Lun, the prefect of Taizhou, was originally dissatisfied with Taiping Zhi County, but at this moment, he frowned even more when he saw Taiping Zhi County's clumsy performance. Taiping Zhixian is his subordinate official, Taiping Zhixian was caught cheating and was arrested, and his face was gloomy.

"I'm waiting for you to come, and you must know it. He also quickly changed his civilian clothes and went to Jingnan with us to verify that Zhu Ping'an, the magistrate of Jingnan County, had colluded with grain merchants, raised grain prices, and accepted huge bribes. ”

After Xu Hai waited for Taiping Zhixian to stop the farce at the gate of the city, he pulled a long face and said to him.

Sure enough, I came here for Zhu Ping'an, it seems that my letter has already reached the saint to listen, so wouldn't I come to work from time to time...... The embarrassed Taiping Zhixian suddenly lifted his spirits, looked excited, borrowed a squire's clothes on the spot, and took off his official uniform and changed into it in the corner behind the city gate.

Before going to Jingnan, in order to show and save the image of the city gate, Taiping Zhixian specially asked Xu Hai and others to take a look at their grain store in Taiping County, indicating that he had stabilized the grain price in Taiping County.

First, they came to Taiping Zhi County to invite them, and secondly, they came by the way, and Xu Hai and others also fulfilled the wishes of Taiping Zhi County.

Tan Lun, the prefect of Taizhou, watched this coldly, and inspected the situation in Taiping County with Xu Hai and others.

However, Taiping County is the same, or even worse, than Taizhou. Although Taiping County has also stabilized the price of grain, the price of grain is 500 Wen per stone, but there is no market, I saw a few grain shops along the way, and the same as Taizhou Mansion, there is no grain price, no grain to sell, many grain shops are closed, only one is still selling grain, and it is also a limited sale.

The grain market has been seen, and the black market has also been seen, and Zhang Guyi, a hundred households in Dongchang, has asked people to find a nearby black market.

As a result, the price of grain in the black market in Taiping County is outrageously more expensive than the price of grain in the black market in Taizhou Prefecture, the price is already 3,800 Wen one stone, and the scale of the black market is small, and the supply of grain is also pitiful, and the supply of grain exceeds demand......

After coming out of the black market, cold sweat broke out on the forehead of Taiping Zhixian, and the embarrassment and embarrassment on his face were worse than at the gate of the city, and he hurriedly expressed his attitude to Xu Hai and others: "Wait for the official to write a letter, and order the messenger to level the black market here!" ”

"Stupid!" When Tan Lun, the prefect of Taizhou, heard this, he couldn't help but reprimand Taiping Zhixian, "The black market has no fixed place, like the resurrection of leeks, can it be flattened for a while?!" The important task of Fang Jin's superiors is to verify the case of Jingnan Zhu Ping'an's collusion with grain merchants for corruption, so do you have time to wait for you here?! ”

"Yes, yes, the lower officials were out of proportion, and they almost missed the major affairs of the Shangjiao and the Fuzun......" Taiping Zhixian hurriedly bowed down and admitted his mistake.

"Let's go, go to Jingnan."

Xu Hai said expressionlessly.

So a group of people went straight to Jingnan from the south gate of Taiping County, and they saw a large open space not far from the south gate of Taiping County, and there was a dark and dilapidated shanty ruins left in the clearing, which seemed to have been burned, and it was supposed to be a gathering place for the victims, but it was burned at this time, and no one lived, and it was very depressed, and a group of crows who ate carrion flew and fell in the tattered shantytowns, and it seemed that there was their food in it......

"This was originally a resettlement area for disaster victims set up by the lower officials, but more than ten years ago, the county government had no food to help...... A few days ago, there was a plague here, and the people dispersed, and the lower officials were worried that the plague would spread, so they burned this place......"

Looking at the inquiring eyes of Xu Hai and others, including the people from Dongchang, Taiping Zhixian had no choice but to explain with an embarrassed face.

After passing through this resettlement area, we went all the way to the south and went straight to Jingnan.

This road is full of sorrow, miserable scene, when you are about to arrive in Jingnan, the situation is a little better, although the villages on both sides of the road are in ruins, the villages are empty, there is no one, there are few people for ten miles, but there is greenery, trees and grass can be preserved.

Further south, on the way, I saw many groups of disaster victims, bringing the old and supporting the young, and it seemed that they were fleeing in the direction of Jingnan.

Wrong direction, right?! How to flee to Jingnan, there are corrupt officials there who eat people and don't blink! It's hell on earth now!

"Ladies and gentlemen, where are you fleeing?" Xu Hai and the others couldn't help but stop a group of victims and asked.

"Of course, if you go to Jingnan, you have to go to Jingnan, everyone has something to eat." Some of the victims replied, with a look of determination and yearning.

What the?!

When you arrive in Jingnan, everyone has something to eat?!

Aren't you hungry and stupid?!

Xu Hai and the others were stunned, their faces were in disbelief, they felt that these victims were so pitiful, they wanted to go to hell to escape!