Now his grandfather is the Imperial Censor, and his elder brother is the Vice Imperial Censor. Both of them are incredibly stubborn. Han Zhongyu, however, is a latecomer who has surpassed his grandfather and is even more obstinate!
He passed the imperial examination at the age of eighteen and was eager to enter the Censorate. However, the emperor had a headache whenever he saw the Han family and did not agree to his request. Instead, he was assigned to the Procuratorate.
This guy used his iron-headed skills all the way. As soon as he took office, he arrested a series of bribery and corruption cases. Three years later, he arrested a series of people who cheated in the imperial examinations. From the sons of officials and relatives of the emperor who forcibly abducted women and lent money at exorbitant interest rates, to street scams and fraud, there was nothing he couldn't handle!
He offended at least half of the officials in the capital, yet in just six years, he still managed to rise to the rank of Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate, a third-rank official!
Oh dear! There's nowhere to reason with them!
Xie Yushu understood immediately after hearing what Yi Shuihan said!
The Han family is upright and incorruptible, and the court needs people like them. The emperor cherishes his reputation and naturally treats them with courtesy. However, there are too many people like this, which gives the emperor a headache. He had no choice but to transfer the stubborn Han Zhongyu to the Supervisory Council to fight against these parasites on his behalf!
As it turns out, the Emperor was wise!
Great minds think alike! She's just wondering if Han Zhongyu can save them! He's definitely someone to be reckoned with!
Xie Yushu understood the situation and chuckled.
"Brother Yi is so young, yet he's already the garrison commander of Chuzhou! He's truly a young talent! He's very admirable!"
Yi Shuihan arrogantly raised her chin.
"So-so, only slightly better than Tie Tou Er Yu!"
"Girl, if you ever come to Chuzhou, just look for me. I'll be of no use if you need anything!"
"Then thank you in advance, Brother Yi!"
"No problem!"
The group chatted and laughed as they entered the government office. As the saying goes, "A new emperor brings a new court," and now the government office was full of Han Zhongyu's men.
The situation inside the city was settled, and the people outside the city surrendered directly.
The big guy who threw Xie Tianqi was a captain surnamed Guo. He was not only skilled in martial arts, but also very efficient. He ordered several leaders to be beaten half to death, and all the others who surrendered were locked in the dungeon.
He then led the remaining brothers into the city.
The group held a brief meeting.
In order to eliminate future troubles, Yi Shuihan led most of his men to suppress the bandits, leaving a small group of Han Zhongyu to maintain order in the city!
The people witnessed the imperial envoy behead Zhang Zhidao, and they spread the news with great fanfare, many shedding tears of excitement! Upon hearing that the imperial envoy was going to distribute grain, they rushed home to get their sacks.
Han Zhongyu didn't waste any time and immediately began interrogating the city's granaries and other grain storage locations. After hastily eating a bite of food, he started organizing the distribution of grain at noon.
During the years that bastard Zhang Zhidao served as prefect, except for the two years of severe drought, the weather was always favorable. Logically speaking, the grain reserves in the granary should have been able to cope with one or two years of drought!
Moreover, he has never paid all the taxes levied by the imperial court.
If you pay a little bit every year to get by, or don't pay anything at all, you can say that you collect taxes every year but are in arrears every year. By any measure, you should have some grain reserves!
When Han Zhongyu and his group broke into the warehouse, they were shocked to find that the entire granary of the prefecture contained less than 100 dan of grain. If each dan of grain was 100 jin, then the entire prefecture had less than 10,000 jin of grain in its granary!
Even though he had no harvest in the past two years, the imperial court sent two batches of relief grain totaling 200,000 dan. These parasites, they really dare to do that!
Liu Qiang cursed angrily.
"These corrupt officials! They gave away a full 200,000 dan of silver, and not a single one to the people. If they had given even half of it, so many people wouldn't have died!"
Qu Xiaodie mocked
"Greed knows no bounds, even a snake trying to swallow an elephant can't keep up with his greed! Otherwise, how would he and his deadbeat son afford such delicacies and live a life of revelry every night!"
They don't treat ordinary people like human beings at all. What do they care about the lives of ordinary people? They're living a comfortable life!
Han Zhongyu underestimated their greed!
It is estimated that even these tens of thousands of kilograms of grain are only to deal with the disaster victims, to prevent them from starving to death, so that no one will be left to generate tax revenue for them next year!
No wonder the porridge distribution area outside the city is so clear you can see your reflection in it!
Originally, I planned to keep the people in their household under control first, and then deal with them after distributing the grain, but now...
With a wave of his hand, Han Zhongyu ordered all the original officials, yamen runners, and even their close relatives to be imprisoned and their property confiscated!
Fortunately, Yi Shuihan left behind quite a few people, and Han Zhongyu personally led these hundred or so men to search each house one by one!
It happened so suddenly, they had no idea what was going on!
These family members were originally enjoying the opera, playing cards, applying rouge and powder, and bickering over each other, when suddenly they were arrested and imprisoned, their headdresses and jewelry were stripped off, and there was a scene of wailing and howling!
Many people cursed Han Zhongyu, saying he was doomed if he dared to touch them!
Zhang Zhidao's wife was so arrogant that she wanted to send a message to the capital to kill Han Zhongyu, but Han Zhongyu didn't even give her a glance before she was dragged away!
"Knock down one, and the rest will be fed." These men were indeed wealthy. A total of 120,000 catties of grain were confiscated from their granaries. Zhang Zhidao's family had the most, with more than 50,000 catties confiscated from his family alone. His subordinates had 10,000 to 20,000 catties confiscated from some and 5,000 to 6,000 catties from others.
The common people were so hungry that they resorted to cannibalism, but these families not only had more children, but they were also all well-fed and healthy. Even if the drought continued for two more years, they wouldn't go hungry!
When the emperor was far away, Han Zhongyu realized the profound meaning of the phrase for the first time!
At this moment, Han Zhongyu was too exhausted to think about how many chapters of the Dao existed in the world. He couldn't see them and was powerless to do anything about them. He could only deal with what he could manage as soon as possible!
In addition to a large amount of grain, a large quantity of gold, silver, and copper coins, as well as clothing, jewelry, and other valuables were seized!
In addition, all the granaries in Tai'an Prefecture were investigated. The granaries in the entire prefecture were almost monopolized by the Zhang family, either under the name of Zhang Zhidao's wife or his nephew. Han Zhongyu simply seized them all!
A total of 150,000 jin of grain was inspected. Of the two batches of grain totaling 2 million jin, less than 300,000 jin remain!
While instructing his men to divide the grain in half, distributing one half to the people in the city and the other half to the disaster victims outside the city, Han Zhongyu submitted a memorial explaining the situation here!
At the same time, a team was sent out to purchase supplies such as grain, cloth, salt, and cotton.
Due to the severe shortage of food, only a small amount could be distributed as an emergency measure, which meant that each person would receive only about three jin (approximately 1.5 kg) of food.
To stabilize the emotions of the disaster victims, Han Zhongyu personally guaranteed that subsequent food and seeds would be directly distributed to their respective towns. Everyone could go home first and then go to the town to collect the supplies according to the number of people in their families. Only then did everyone receive the food and go home with peace of mind!
Xie Yushu and her siblings, along with the Liu brothers, were responsible for distributing grain outside the city. The hundred or so people who came with them were shocked when they saw the Liu brothers and Xie Tianqi dressed as constables.
"Young Liu and Young Xie, what brings you to wear these clothes and get involved in grain distribution?"
"That's right! Weren't you guys scouting and keeping watch in the mountains?"
"Hey Liu kids, this isn't fair of you! We all came here together, you can't keep all the good stuff to yourself!"
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