This winter is very cold, Jingzhao Mansion cleans up a group of displaced people who were frozen to death in the suburbs every day, the cold wind is blowing, Chen Xuan can't help but shiver, and tightens the leather robe.

The porridge shed is not big, the three cauldrons are boiling porridge, and the two officials are struggling to stir, and when they saw Chen Xuan coming, the officials quickly stopped and came over to give a salute and say goodbye.

"Is there enough food?" Chen Xuan looked at the homeless people around him, all of them were dressed in tatters, with yellow faces and thin muscles, staring directly at the steaming cauldron.

"You can manage it for ten days. ”

"Ten days!" Chen Xuan nodded slightly: "The food is gone, you must go to the grain depot in time to receive it, remember that you can't starve to death anymore." ”

"Don't worry, as long as there is food, my subordinates promise that no one will starve to death again. ”

Chen Xuan smiled bitterly in his heart, during this time, the sky continued to snow heavily, and all parts of Jingzhao Mansion reported urgently, and many homeless people in various counties froze to death.

But Shang Shutai did not approve it for a long time, and it was easy that half a month ago, Shang Shutai approved it, and he actually asked him to raise his own grain, the four major grain depots in the imperial capital, seven or eight small grain depots, to provide food to Liangzhou Yongzhou, it is military food, and it cannot be moved.

There is the most grain in the world stored near the imperial capital, but Jingzhaofu is not a grain-producing area of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the grain of the imperial capital is transported from Jiangnan, Jizhou, Jingzhou and other places.

In the face of Shang Shutai's reply, Chen Xuan was very helpless, so he could only go to the emperor and ask for money to be allocated as soon as possible, and he went to Jizhou or Jiangnan to buy grain.

Chen Xuan was very clear about the disputes in the imperial court, he felt very lucky, he won the trust and reuse of the two emperors before and after, the first emperor promoted him step by step from a seven-rank petty official, and handed over such an important position as Jing Zhaoyin to him; the current emperor is still trying to protect him in the face of many criticisms, and in order to protect him, he even intends to send him to Jizhou to serve as the assassin, which is a great leap for him.

Jing Zhao Yin is an important position, but the history of a state assassin is more important, first of all, the grade is different, Jing Zhao Yin is the fifth grade, the history of the assassin is the fourth grade, Jing Zhao Yin is mainly responsible for local security, and the history of the assassin is a prince.

But Chen Xuan didn't expect that the music he asked for silver was still beaten back, for the same reason, the military salary was not enough, so the silver was used to help the hungry.

Chen Xuan suddenly understood, this is someone deliberately making things difficult for himself, he has no choice but to go up again, the displaced people outside the city continue to freeze to death, the impeachment of the imperial history, and finally attracted the attention of the emperor, the emperor was furious, reprimanded Shang Shutai, and ordered to allocate silver from Shaofu to buy grain and help the hungry people as soon as possible.

Chen Xuan was very grateful to the emperor for this move, and he could only do his best to repay the two emperors with death.

The situation of the hungry people is very bad, in addition to food, there are also clothes, and the hungry people generally do not have enough clothes to protect themselves from the cold, and many of them freeze to death every day.

Regarding this situation, Chen Xuan reported to the imperial court, and at the same time summoned the merchants in the city to solicit recruitment, and he also sent letters to those gate lord families and clans, asking them to donate used clothes, but to his disappointment, the vast majority of merchants did not respond, only chatted with a few merchants who donated some, the largest of which was donated by Hanhai Trading Company, and secretly begged him to keep quiet.

"How many cotton clothes are there?" Chen Xuan asked again.

The subordinate shook his head bitterly: "The cotton clothes are long gone, my lord, it can't go on like this, even if you don't starve to death, some will freeze to death." ”

Chen Xuan looked around, the hungry people were standing on the side, some well-dressed people were among the hungry people, they talked to those hungry people with children from time to time, Chen Xuan knew what they were doing, there were some people in the same clothes not far away, there were many children around them, most of them were girls.

Famine, famine, and homeless, their daughters are the biggest fresh blood of Qinglou.

The children shivered in the cold wind, their bare hands and feet were almost frozen, and they looked around in horror.

Chen Xuan sighed softly, this is something he can't stop it, these children were bought, I'm afraid there is still a way to live, otherwise, I am afraid that there are very few who can survive.

"Let's build a few sheds to keep out the wind and snow. Chen Xuan commanded helplessly, and his subordinates hurriedly agreed, and just about to do it, Chen Xuan stopped him again: "Prepare more firewood, by the way, the coal provided by Hanhai Trading Company is cheap." ”

Coal is also known as black stone, there is it in the mountains near the imperial capital, however, in the past, no one knew that this kind of stone could burn, but Hanhai Trading Company first quietly bought the mountain, and then sold coal in the imperial capital, they beat the coal into powder, picked it with water, and then made a round cake, and made a lot of holes in it, they called it honeycomb coal.

In order to popularize this honeycomb coal, Hanhai Trading Company designed a furnace that was much cheaper to use than to burn charcoal or firewood.

Now that honeycomb coal and stoves are popular in the imperial capital, Hanhai Trading Company has earned a lot of money, and in this solicitation, Hanhai Trading Company also donated a batch of stoves and coal.

"Good!"

The subordinate agreed, and seeing that he had no further orders, he turned around and carried it out.

Chen Xuan stood for a while again, and then got on the car and ordered to go back to the ya.

The carriage drove through the wind and snow into the city gate, and in the convoy waiting to enter the city, he saw the carriage of the Hanhai Trading Company, the convoy had more than a dozen carriages, the carriages were tightly loaded and covered with canvas.

This is definitely not coal, the coal is transported by ship, but like cloth, Chen Xuan looked at it silently, thinking about this Hanhai trading company, the owner of this trading company is a genius, it has only been a few years since he arrived in the imperial capital, and he has done such a big situation, and it is rare that this trading company is a little more kind than other trading companies.

When he was about to arrive at the yamen, he met the lord Bo sent someone to tell him that the emperor announced that he should enter the palace quickly, Chen Xuan hurriedly turned the carriage and drove towards the palace, and when he arrived at the palace gate, there were already many people waiting there.

After getting out of the car, Chen Xuan swept his eyes, and the officials were all guarding in the cold wind, wearing thick cotton clothes, still shivering from the cold, and complaining in a low voice.

The eunuch at the gate of Chen Xuanxian's palace reported, but the eunuch asked him to go directly to Shangshutai, and at the same time kept urging him to hurry, and the emperor was waiting for him in Shangshutai.

When Chen Xuan heard this, he immediately quickened his pace, almost trotted to Shangshutai, and saw Gonggong Huang at the door in the courtyard, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Father-in-law, under the trouble report, Jingzhao Yin Chen Xuan is waiting outside the door. ”

Gonggong Huang smiled slightly: "Don't worry, the emperor hasn't asked yet." ”

Chen Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and stood quietly on the side, the sound of the room starting to speak was not loud, but slowly, the emperor's voice became louder.

"Shang Shutai is too presumptuous! Why don't you report it to me to know! You just approve it casually! The war is tight! Isn't it that the grain has already been transferred! How much grain is still stored in the imperial capital? Ah! Pan Lian, you can answer!"

As he was talking, Chen Xuan saw that the king of Yanping County was also in a hurry, Pan Lian whispered a few words, Chen Xuan did not hear clearly, and the king of Yanping County also asked Huang Gonggong to report, and Huang Gonggong's answer was still the same.

The king of Yanping County breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly came over and stood beside Chen Xuan, and asked in a low voice, "Lord Chen, do you know something?"

Chen Xuan shook his head, and the king of Yanping smiled bitterly, this Chen Xuan has never been alone, and he has never heard that he has any deep friendship with that minister.

Do you know how many people freeze to death and starve to death outside the city every day? The imperial capital, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the district of the first goodness! So many people die every day! What do you tell the people of the world to think of me?"

Pan Lian said a few words, and the emperor was even more angry, and interrupted him loudly: "You don't want to push Chen Xuan for everything, Chen Xuan has no money or food in his hands, you are embarrassed to push the responsibility to him!"

The king of Yanping couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, and glanced at Chen Xuan sympathetically, Chen Xuan lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes as if he hadn't heard.

After listening to a few words, the king of Yanping County had a bottom in his heart, and he knew very well that during this time, the imperial court had launched a fierce battle around the candidates for Jing Zhaoyin and Jizhou Thorn History and Yangzhou Thorn History.

The emperor intended to let Chen Xuan serve as the assassin of Jizhou, but the local gate lords in Jizhou were unwilling, they recommended Bohai County to be too shou Ma Ren Ma to be righteous, and the king of Yanping County knew very well that this was the thousand-year-old family in Jizhou, mainly because the ancestor of the Wang family was behind the promotion.

On the contrary, there are constantly people in the court who are impeaching Chen Xuan, especially recently, when the imperial capital was stormy and snowy, many displaced people froze to death, and asked the court to cure Chen Xuan's crime of ineffective relief.

Due to the resistance of Shang Shutai, the emperor's will was difficult to implement, but Shang Shutai also went up several times, proposed their candidates, and the emperor did not agree, the two sides froze, Jizhou's assassin Zhang Yu was exempted, Jizhou is now unpresiding, and the victims of the disaster can only rely on the counties to resettle.

Fortunately, the counties still tried their best, the water of the Xinzhang River receded, and the counties organized manpower to repair the embankment before winter, but how to resettle the victims, the county had no choice, the reason was simple, there was no money!

Jizhou is rich, but seventy percent of the fields in Jizhou are in the hands of the gate valve family and the clan, Jizhou also has to bear the silver of Youzhou and the state, and the rest has to be given to the imperial court, and the repair of the embankment has spent the silver of the Jizhou treasury.

Jizhou also asked the imperial court for silver.

Chen Xuan and King Yanping knew very well in their hearts that the emperor had been suppressed for a long time, and the personnel adjustments that should have been made a few months ago had not yet been made, which was a great humiliation for the emperor, and the emperor absolutely could not bear it.

"Shang Shutai must take responsibility! You all dare to intercept such a high-stakes performance, what will Shang Shutai do!" the emperor almost roared, and the room was silent.

The king of Yanping County sighed softly, Shang Shutai is a little too much this time, according to tradition, the local sparse, in addition to military affairs, must be reported to the emperor, Shang Shutai can approve or reject some of the sparse by himself, there are many things in the world, and there are many recitals every day, the emperor does not have to look at everything, otherwise he wants Shang Shutai to do something.

In the history of the Great Jin Dynasty, this system often caused contradictions between the emperor and Shang Shutai, especially the relationship between Shang Shuling and the emperor, if it was harmonious, the emperor would loosen a little; if it was the opposite, the emperor would use this as an excuse to counterattack Shang Shutai, at the same time, this is also the beginning of the reorganization of Shang Shutai, in the history of the Great Jin Dynasty, such things, the history is endless.

Just thinking about it, I heard the question inside: "Has Chen Xuan arrived?"

Huang Gonggong hurriedly went in to report, and the emperor ordered: "Let them in!"

Chen Xuan and the king of Yanping County completed their official uniforms, and Huang Gonggong came out and let the two of them in.

There is a brazier in the room, and there is a warm cage, the emperor sits on the side of the warm cage, Shang Shuling Pan Lian Zuochen and Gan Tang are there, Pan Ji is not there as usual, and Qiuyun is not there, he died a month ago and recuperated at home. Peng Zhu and Xue Mi of the middle book supervisor, as well as the emperor's friend Zhang Meng, were also there.

All the important ministers of the imperial court are present!

"How's the situation with the hungry people?" the emperor asked without waiting for Chen Xuan's report.

After Chen Xuan respectfully returned the salute, he replied: "Back to the emperor, the minister set up seven porridge sheds outside the city, and every day at noon and evening, the porridge was given twice, and the hungry people could barely sustain themselves. ”

"The food can last for about ten days, but now the difficulty is the cotton clothes, the minister has set up some grass huts, but it is not enough, some merchants have donated some cotton clothes, but it is still not enough, and there will still be some weak people freezing to death at night. ”

The emperor's face was flushed, his expression was still a little excited, and when he heard that someone else was frozen to death, his brows were twisted: "Is there any way?"

"Yes," Chen Xuan said, "There are still Zhuangzi outside the city, some are empty, and some Taoist temples can also be set aside to let the hungry people spend the winter first." ”

After hearing this, the king of Yanping couldn't help but smile bitterly, the Zhuangzi outside the imperial capital is either from the royal family or from the family of the feudal king, so let these people let Zhuangzi out, even if it is a part, it is impossible.