After rebirth, I ran wild in the heart of His Highness the Prince

On that day, he punished a disobedient guard and beat him with a cane in full view of the public. No one dared to pull a tooth out of the tiger's mouth. What Qin Zhongwan wanted was the awe of the people.

She hasn't found out what the disease is yet, and lets everyone come in and out of the tent as they please. If the infection spreads, it won't be a matter of one or two lives.

Because the imperial court's disaster relief team was camped here, and you came to the area after hearing the news, several more tents were seen one after another to accommodate the victims.

They are here to provide disaster relief and rescue people, so there is no reason to push the victims away.

However, there are more and more people, and the food problem is imminent.

The floods destroyed the rice fields, and only one month after the tax payment, most of the food in the hands of the people was turned in or sold.

The four major local wealthy businessmen were squeezed out by Gu Siyuan, but that little food was just a drop in the bucket for the hundreds of disaster victims.

"How much food is left in the warehouse?"

Gu Siyuan was reviewing, and the man in charge of the granary shook his head silently, with a look of sadness on his face.

There was a shortage of food, so they gave porridge in the morning and evening, and only put dry rice in the evening. The white rice was stuffed with sweet potatoes.

"His Royal Highness, there are currently 240 people in the camp. Two meals of porridge and one meal of rice require one stone of rice. His Royal Highness the third prince in the library brought twenty stone of rice, and now only half of it is left."

After hearing the news, the victims are still coming here in a steady stream, just to have a good meal.

Most areas in the south of the Yangtze River were flooded. The people had neither food nor money, so they naturally rushed to them after receiving the news.

"There are twenty or thirty more people arriving every day. If the number of people in the warehouse keeps going like this for a long time, I'm afraid we won't be able to survive even ten days."

Gu Siyuan's face darkened after hearing this, and he immediately turned around and returned to the camp.

... Gu Siyuan leaned on the back of the chair behind him. There was a memorial with still wet ink on the simple desk.

He stared ahead and sighed invisibly.

The memorial stated the current predicament, and only hoped that the capital would come to provide food relief, or that a wave of food would be transferred from surrounding counties to relieve the temporary emergency.

"master."

"Send it as soon as possible."

The guard in fine attire didn't say much, and said with cupped hands: "Yes, I will definitely live up to my orders."

The curtains were lowered, Gu Siyuan's expression was normal, and the worry in his brows had been well hidden by him.

As the prince, he is the anchor of stability in the hearts of the people affected by the disaster. If he shows his worries, he is afraid that he will cause the people to talk about it and become anxious.

Gu Siyuan sent greeting notes to several prefects in neighboring Lin counties, hoping to mobilize a wave of grain, whether borrowed or bought, it would be great if it could meet temporary needs.

Although the surrounding Linxian County was not as serious as Xu County and was more or less affected by floods, and food was not as scarce as Xu County, the grain merchants were unscrupulous and began to raise prices.

Normally, one kilo of rice costs about [-] fen, but now with the addition of [-] fen, one tael of silver can't even buy half a kilo of rice. Even if you buy it, the rice will be mixed with fine gravel, and the quality will look even worse. It was Chen rice that had been stored in the warehouse for several years.

Although the people in the surrounding counties have not yet been displaced, they are still suffering due to the severely overpriced food.

The families of high-ranking officials naturally don't care about these few taels of silver, but ordinary people can only sell a few taels of silver for a year's harvest. They can't even buy half a stone of grain for a year's harvest.

There was no movement from the court, and there was no news about the memorial sent by Gu Siyuan. Three days later, in order to save food, rice soup accounted for most of the porridge, and more and more sweet potatoes were included in the rice in the evening.

Even so, there were too many people, and the food in the warehouse was reduced by more than half every meal, which made everyone panic.

The guard in charge of the food had a big blister on his mouth, which showed that he was anxious.

Even Gu Siyi compiled a letter and sent it to Kyoto.

In order to win over the people, he swore an oath in front of the people on the first day he came, saying that he would eat and live with them and would not enjoy more preferential treatment because of his noble status.

Now, the people's support has not yet been won, but Gu Siyi himself can no longer bear the hardships.

"This morning we had wild vegetable porridge, and we had wild vegetable porridge at lunch. In the evening we had a bowl of dry rice with pickles and radish strips. In that bowl of dry rice, most of the bowl was made of taro and sweet potatoes from the fields."

Not to mention the slightest bit of meatiness missing, there was no taste at all in Gu Siyi's mouth.

"What do you mean, father? There are so many people affected by the disaster now. Why don't we quickly purchase grain in Kyoto and send it to the south of the Yangtze River as quickly as possible?"

Gu Siyi complained, with resentment rising to the sky. He couldn't bring this matter to Gu Siyuan. After all, Gu Siyuan also ate and lived with the victims.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince could endure it, but the Third Prince could not, so Gu Siyuan had the upper hand in vain.

Thinking of these, Gu Siyi was scratching his head. The wild vegetable porridge was bitter and hard to swallow, and he didn't know how many bowls he drank.

"Your Highness, please be patient. The prince is now in charge of the disaster relief team. We just have to wait and see how the prince handles this difficult food. If it is not handled properly..."

Before the staff member finished speaking, Gu Siyi suddenly realized that the wild vegetable porridge seemed to be bearable.