It's not a good industry worth fighting for. Even if Yu Zizhen went there under the pretext of taking advantage of the situation, based on Mr. Jiang's understanding of Yu Zizhen, he could easily guess that she was actually going there to help.
He didn't get any benefits but ended up in bad reputation. He was almost crying because of Yu Zizhen's stupidity.
Yu Zizhen looked innocent and said, "I can't afford it!"
Mr. Jiang: ...
Mr. Jiang's blood boiled, and he was almost driven to death by Yu Zizhen's anger. At that moment, a little man in his heart shouted without regard for status, "Is this a question of whether you can afford it or not?!"
Given that Yu Zizhen has shown signs of being out of control, Mr. Jiang is determined to tighten his control over her in the future to prevent her from letting herself go and causing trouble.
Yu Zizhen now has two more pairs of eyes around him. However, whether these two pairs of eyes can keep an eye on Yu Zizhen depends on whether Yu Zizhen himself is willing to be watched by them. After all, Yu Zizhen has many ways to prevent them from doing anything.
However, in order not to intensify the conflict between her and Mr. Jiang, Yu Zizhen tried her best to behave herself in public for a long time.
While she seemed to be living a peaceful life, countless large and small clashes broke out between various factions in the officialdom of the capital because of the death of Lord Wei.
Privately, Yu Zizhen often helped people in Yang Shixian's group at their request, but openly, Yu Zizhen never let Mr. Jiang catch any handle on her.
Mr. Jiang thought she had finally grown up and become obedient, but he didn't know that Yu Zizhen was actually planning a big move.
According to the plot of the original book, when Yu Zizhen was thirteen years old, there would be a widespread drought and locust plague in Da Qi.
Affected by this drought and locust plague, four entire states of Da Qi were left with virtually no harvest. As soon as the disaster began to show signs of progress, local officials not only failed to address the problem quickly, but instead devised strategies to capitalize on the disaster.
When the disaster became unmanageable, they did not dare to report it to the court because of their guilty conscience.
To protect their own heads and official positions, they decided to keep the news secret after consultation. To prevent the news from leaking out, they even deployed troops to guard the intersections to prevent the victims from fleeing to other counties and letting outsiders know about the serious disaster they had taken great pains to conceal.
However, the disaster victims who could no longer survive in their hometowns would not sit and wait for death. They brought their families and risked their lives to cross mountains and rivers, or gather in groups to attack checkpoints.
Some speculators even took the opportunity to incite the people to rebel, inducing them to attack government offices and steal food and property.
The deaths of the corrupt officials in those four states were not a pity. After all, they were only paying the price for their greed and stupidity. But those ordinary people who were already struggling to make a living were so innocent.
Because of the selfishness of a few people, not only did countless people in the four affected states suffer casualties, but even the surrounding states and counties suffered soaring food prices and social unrest due to the influx of a large number of refugees.
Many of those who were forced to become refugees and flee famine with their families died on the way, filled with despair and pain.
Those who tasted the sweetness of rebellion soon began to be dissatisfied with just barely filling themselves up.
Following the corrupt officials and unscrupulous businessmen whom they hated, other ordinary people who had originally just lived a law-abiding life soon became the targets of their looting and oppression.
Those who had originally lived a law-abiding life, after losing their livelihoods, basically joined the ranks of the rebels, either voluntarily or involuntarily, in order to survive.
So like a snowball, the group of rioters grew bigger day by day.
In this case, how could these four states have enough food for them to consume?
Instinctively, they also regarded other states and counties surrounding the four states as their targets of looting.
At this point, this large-scale unrest could no longer be concealed.
When the news reached the capital, civil and military officials began to argue endlessly about whether the court should "provide disaster relief" or "quell the rebellion."
After they finally reached a conclusion, the chaotic army had spread like locusts, wreaking havoc on a large area around the four states.
During this period, they suffered a lot of manpower losses due to frequent conflicts with local garrisons and yamen runners, but who knew that every time they arrived at a place, there would be some new homeless people joining the team.
The speed at which the local garrison and yamen runners eliminated the rebels could not keep up with the speed at which the number of rebel troops increased.
By this time, the unrest had spread to more than one-third of the territory of Da Qi. Disaster relief alone, or simply suppressing the rebellion, was obviously no longer enough to solve the problem. So the officials in the capital did not need to argue anymore, and the court quickly decided on a response strategy of sending both troops and imperial envoys for disaster relief.
However, the officials in the capital had different opinions on the selection of the army and the imperial envoy for disaster relief, the number of troops to be sent, and the amount of relief money and grain.
By the time they finally finished arguing, the large-scale unrest caused by drought and locust plague had affected nearly half of Da Qi's territory and people.
The ship named Da Qi, which was already full of holes, was finally irreversibly destroyed because of this incident at an astonishing speed.
Yu Zizhen didn't care whether or when Da Qi would be destroyed, but she couldn't bear to see nearly half of Da Qi's people die, reduced to just over 30% due to lack of food and water and large-scale unrest, as described in the original plot.
She was busy from the first month of the year when she was seven to April of the year when she was thirteen. All the efforts she made during this period were for this natural disaster and man-made disaster that affected half of the people of Da Qi.
She studied frantically, amassed wealth, stored grain, purchased properties, and trained personnel...all in order to equip herself with the ability to turn the tide in this year and at this moment.
Jiang, Wen, Lu, Zhou, Chen, Meng, Zheng, Ji, Liu and other families who served Yu Zizhen and had been ordered to open up wasteland, purchase land and grain several years ago, and had been constantly replacing the old grain in the warehouse with new grain. There were also Fang Huaiying, Yang Shixian, Chen Hushan, Wei Heng, Mo Huaiyang and others who were considered Yu Zizhen's friends and had been asked by her to help store grain in the past two years. Although they did not understand what Yu Zizhen was going to do, they still helped her purchase and store grain according to her requirements or requests.
Even Fang Huaiying, Yang Shixian, Chen Hushan, Wei Heng, Mo Huaiyang and others, when Yu Zizhen asked them to help store grain, he still shamelessly wrote them IOUs first...
Because she went to them one by one privately to buy on credit, and while she specified the storage location, she did not make any requirements on the quantity, everyone just thought that she was interested in their local connections, so she came to them.
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