Chapter 72 Opening the Granary and Distributing Grain
The morning in Lin'an Prefecture was not peaceful as usual, but rather filled with restlessness caused by hunger.
While the news of Prefect Liu Deshui's arrest was gratifying, for the starving people, beheading a corrupt official was not enough to feed them. The loss of government relief grain was like a huge boulder weighing on everyone's hearts.
Outside the prefectural government office, tens of thousands of displaced people had gathered.
They were ragged, with empty eyes, holding broken bowls in their hands, silently surrounding the yamen, like a group of ghosts awaiting judgment.
“Your Highness,” Yingyi rushed in, covered in sweat, “outside…”
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