"They've eaten hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain in just two days? While it's true that many people in Goryeo are starving and have nothing to eat, it can't be this exaggerated, can it?"

In Zhu Yunwen's view, there would probably be several thousand people in a city who would go hungry.

Goryeo had dozens of cities. If each city was allocated 10,000 catties of grain, it could feed several thousand people for about a week.

After all, it's just porridge. It's better to fill their stomachs temporarily than to have nothing to eat.

But it's absolutely unacceptable that a few thousand people could eat up 10,000 jin of grain in just two days.

Based on the situation in the capital city, there are approximately ten thousand people who are going hungry.

Hundreds of people starve to death every day.

Nearly 20,000 catties of grain transported from the capital were reserved in the Goryeo capital.

At the very least, it should be enough to feed them for six to seven days.

It's impossible for them to finish it in just two days.

Unless it's cooked into dry rice, Zhu Yunwen asked Fu Youde:

"Was the grain that was transported cooked into porridge or into rice? There's a huge difference between the two."

Fu Youde replied:

"Your Highness, this grain is for emergency relief, to help those starving people who have nothing to eat to fill their stomachs a little. Of course, it cannot be cooked into dry rice, nor can it be allowed to eat as much as they want."

So they just cooked it into porridge, and each person could only have one bowl per meal, to get through this difficult time.

Zhu Yunwen rubbed his forehead and said:

"That doesn't make sense. Considering the number of starving people and the amount of porridge consumed, it should have been enough to last a week. How could it have been eaten up in just two days?"

Fu Youde sighed and said:

"Although we estimated that there were 20,000 residents in this royal city, it seems that the number of people who came to eat porridge is far more than 20,000."

Zhu Yunwen, speaking in classical Chinese, narrowed his eyes and then said:

"Let's go and see for ourselves."