Su Jinqiang suppressed the anger in his heart, he just didn't understand that most of the famous and admired figures in later generations in this era were fame seekers.

The matter in front of him has come to the time to burn his buttocks, this Song Zhen is still entangled in the principle that military rations cannot be tampered with, and does not change, in fact, he secretly uses military rations to help Zhou, and then he can use the transported grain to replenish the warehouse, but he is just brainless and unwilling.

Su Jin took a few deep breaths, calmed down his mood a little, and patiently began the persuasion and education work, but from beginning to end, Song Zhen's head seemed to shake his head. The pill is general, and the left and right arcs are drawn, indicating that they resolutely cannot agree.

Su Jin finally became angry, and said fiercely: "Governor Song, no wonder I didn't remind you, if you don't want to be flexible, I'm afraid that chaos will arise in the city, and you will regret it at that time." ”

Song Zhen said with a dark face: "Envoy Su, this is the official's business, you don't need to worry about it, you don't need to interfere in the affairs of the city immediately, you can not raise food to relieve the urgency of my Yangzhou government, and the government does not have much hope for you, but to use military food to stabilize the price of grain, trap this government and a cadre of Yangzhou subordinate officials in a situation of disobeying the law, this government must not agree." ”

Su Jin sneered: "You are afraid that if you lose your black yarn and head, you will let the people starve to death and freeze to death, if there is a bigger leak in the back, can you keep your official hat with peace of mind?" ”

Song Zhen was furious, stretched out his hand to slap the table, and angrily reprimanded Su Jindao: "Lord Envoy, you are too presumptuous, this mansion is full of sincerity, looking up to heaven and earth and being worthy of it, but you are so unbearable by what you say; You are young, you don't think about your words and actions, and the government doesn't bother with you, but if you insult the personality of the official, don't blame the official for accusing you of slander in the court. ”

Su Jin laughed angrily and said: "You just hold your ridiculous noble heart and watch the people suffer, although I am young, but I will never be confused, I advise you, the disaster is in front of you, if you don't change your thinking, there will be big trouble, and when you want to be both loyal and righteous, it is impossible." Leave! ”

Song Zhen turned around with his sleeves and snorted, "Don't send it." ”

Su Jin rushed out of the room angrily, and almost fell down with a person who was walking towards him, Su Jin didn't even apologize, and went quickly.

The person who was hit was Song Quan, he rubbed his chest for a long time before he could breathe, looked at Su Jin's back and said, "What's wrong?" It's already a mess outside, and there's still a war going on here. ”

Song Quan walked into the house, Song Zhen thought it was a servant who came in, and shouted with his back to him: "Get out!" ”

Song Quan hurriedly said: "Daddy, it's a child, what's wrong with you?" ”

Song Zhen turned around, and said with a slightly pale face: "Quan'er is here, sit." ”

Song Quan said: "Why is Daddy so angry? The right child saw that Su Jin also went out angrily, did you quarrel? ”

Song Zhen sighed and said: "The imperial court doesn't know what to think, and sent such a food raiser to come down, and I didn't have the help of Sihao, but I came up with some foolish ideas, I didn't agree, so he made a lot of nonsense and alarmist, which is really a headache." ”

Song Quan said: "Daddy, he is the envoy of the imperial court, I'm afraid it's not good to be stiff, besides, this person has some ability, he can be respected by the saint at a young age, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have such achievements when he is so young." ”

Song Zhen reprimanded: "Have the ability? Do you have the ability to open a warehouse and use military rations to stabilize grain prices? Isn't this putting my life at risk? ”

Song Quan was surprised: "Su Jin actually wants to use the idea of military rations? ”

Song Zhen said: "If it weren't for that, how could I turn my face with him, this is not an ordinary crime, it is dozens of officials of Yangzhou City, is this a joke?" ”

Song Quan pondered for a long time, and suddenly said: "Daddy, perhaps, Su Jin's idea also has his reason, his grain in Luzhou has not yet arrived, borrow military food to turnover, and then replenish the warehouse, as long as you and him are tight-lipped, how can the above know?" Moreover, this move is for the sake of the people of Yangzhou, and he has no selfish intentions. ”

Song Zhen said angrily: "Confused boy, the 500,000 stone grain he said is purely imaginary, just by him, how can he get 500,000 stone grain?" What is Luzhou? It's just a barren small state capital, and he can only be self-sufficient after paying taxes for grain in good years, so why bring 500,000 stone of grain for him to transport, which is obviously a lie; According to my opinion, he is sick and rushed to the doctor, military food can indeed alleviate the urgent need, and the errand sent by the court can also be effective. ”

Song Quan thought for a while and said, "It's not like this, Su Jin shouldn't be that kind of person." ”

Song Zhen nodded at Song Quan's nose and said, "What do you know, people's hearts are sinister, how much can you understand?" Daddy, I was originally in the center of Bianliang, and I never offended anyone, but I was excluded here just because I opposed Fan Xiwen's strategy of attacking the border, how much do you know about officialdom. ”

Song Quan said unconvinced: "But in any case, Su Jin's move is beneficial to the people of Yangzhou, no matter how you look at it, I don't want to be selfish, besides, if the matter is revealed, how can I shirk what my father said, and the court will inevitably take him." ”

Song Zhen said unhappily: "Don't worry about this matter, Yangzhou is in chaos, you will take your wife back to Bianliang in the near future, don't cause anything here." ”

Song Quan didn't say anything more, and lowered his head and said, "I know." ”

……

The clouds are dense, the sky is gray, and the city of Yangzhou is lifeless for two days, and the air is stuffy like a thick gel that has stagnated, which invisibly teaches people to breathe and breathless.

The longer the years of peace, the less resilient people are to suffering.

The news that Wang Laoliu's family of four committed suicide by starvation spread far and wide, and the people of Yangzhou City have heard and witnessed many tragic situations in the past 20 days. The chaos caused more than a dozen deaths, dozens of injuries, and dozens of people were taken into prison by the government, and then witnessed the human tragedy of Wang Laoliu's family being staged in front of his eyes, hungry stomachs, empty rice buckets, empty money bags, and cold and biting weather, all of which made the endurance of the people of Yangzhou reach a critical point again.

There are more and more soldiers on the streets of Yangzhou, which is caused by Song Zhen's strategy of strict defense, but the fire of hunger has burned the minds of the people. When the wall climbed into the backyard of Mei Hanlin's house to feed the hungry people, all this suddenly became like a fire dropped on the oil floor, which instantly ignited a raging fire.

At that time, the people argued a few words, and the soldier gave him two slaps without knowing the times, which immediately aroused the anger of the man, and he fought back angrily, and broke the soldier's arm with a stick, and in anger, the soldier sent the man to the west with a knife, and the news spread, and it was like a frying pan.

After rushing through the sentry posts at Panqiao, some people shouted to go to big households to grab food to eat, so the storm surged, and the number of hungry people increased from dozens to hundreds, and gradually to thousands; They swept through the six luxurious mansions in the North City; They robbed food, beat people, and some of them even set fires with great discouragement.

The raging smoke rose into the sky, the prosperous and rich Yangzhou City seemed to suddenly become a hell, the rich family nursing home spontaneously organized to confront the mob, and the Yangzhou Xiang army also hurried to reinforcements, after a bloody and cruel killing, the people could not withstand the joint attack of the officers and soldiers and the nursing home, and scattered one after another, leaving seven or eight corpses and dozens of wounded.

At dusk, Su Jin rushed to the scene with Wang Dynasty Mahan, the scene was already under martial law, the soldiers cleaned up the mess and blood stains all over the ground, some people were busy extinguishing the raging fire, the corpses on the ground had been removed, and the people with broken arms and legs were dragged by the soldiers and shackled, ready to be sent to the cold and dark state capital prison.

Su Jin walked silently, watching silently, he had a strong self-blame, he was a grain envoy, he had been in Yangzhou for four days, not only failed to reverse the situation, but a bigger bloody case broke out, he felt guilty for his incompetence, and at the same time he was angry for Song Zhen's stubbornness and stupidity.

Su Jin knew that all this was just the beginning, and he was extremely eager to hope that Long Zhen would deliver the grain soon, but Su Jin also knew that this was impossible, and it would take six or seven days to arrive at the earliest, but could this fragile Yangzhou City survive these six or seven days?

Su Jin looked up at the gray sky and secretly prayed that it would never snow, once it snowed, the lives of the people of Yangzhou would be doubly difficult, and the official road after the snow would greatly hinder the progress of Longzhen's grain transportation convoy, which was the worst situation.

Su Jin raised his head, his thoughts were tumbling rapidly, and suddenly, his face was cold, and this coldness penetrated into Su Jin's heart like a cold current, making Su Jin's already anxious heart instantly turn into an ice cellar; Under his vacant gaze, the sky was sprinkled with goose feathers and snow.