Chapter 1836 Inspection
Zhang Zhai was busy almost all night.
Cooking two pigs is not a trivial matter, even with Rong Li as the chef, it takes a lot of time.
“The meat is being cooked!”
“A lot of meat is being cooked!”
The new parents entered Zhang's house with their crying children. Wei Qing, who was driving the car, did not dare to get out of the car, while Li Guang accompanied the new emperor.
The two sniffed the strong smell of pork, and felt that Zhang Xuezhou and others were not ambiguous about eating when they returned to Chang'an City.
“It smells pretty good!”
Xindi smacked his mouth, and Li Guang pointed at Zhang Zhai.
"Do you want me to go to Dongfang Shuo to get some pieces of meat?" Li Guang asked.
"A gentleman doesn't take away people's food... That's fine, you go and buy some from him!"
The new emperor touched his waist pocket, and then took out a piece of broken silver.
After being busy for a long time, he felt a little hungry and felt that the fragrant food should not taste bad and would be quite good as a late night snack.
“Yes!”
Li Guang originally wanted to eat for free, but since the new emperor was willing to give money, he used the money to buy it.
He took the silver and then jumped out of the carriage.
Before he could knock on the door and enter the house, Li Guang saw the door open, and Wei Shaoer and Chen Zhang walked out happily.
“What, is this a quick cure?” Li Guangqi said.
“Dongfang Shuo is really a miracle doctor,” Chen Zhang said happily.
"He removed the thick cloth we were wrapped in and asked Qu Bing to crawl around on the ground. Nothing happened." Wei Shaoer said happily: "Qu Bing can crawl now. After a while, He should be able to walk and talk!”
"It's quite early to leave!"
Li Guang responded.
His words are neither yin nor yang, and are obviously quite unpleasant.
However, Wei Shao'er and others didn't care. They were extremely happy and hugged the child back to the carriage.
“Hey, Dongfang Shuo, are you at home?”
"Li..."
"I am Mao Yiyi, the guard of Pingyang Hou Mansion. I would like to ask if the meat you cook at home is for sale. I will pay for it!"
Seeing the meat in the distance Zhang Xuezhou stuck his head out, and Li Guang intercepted the other person's recognition of the name he wanted to say, quickly raised the broken silver in his hand, and said what he wanted.
“We don’t have an official document giving instructions, so we can’t sell meat at the market price, but since you want to eat meat, I’ll give you a piece,” Zhang Xuezhou replied.
"Then I will give you a piece of broken silver." Li Guang nodded and said: "This is a private gift, not a market transaction!"
There are various disadvantages in dealing with people in the court.
If there is no new emperor behind Li Guang, Zhang Xuezhou may really think of fishing for law enforcement.
Zhang Xuezhou glanced at the kitchen.
After receiving the broken silver that Li Guang threw over, he went directly to the kitchen to get two pieces of bone-in meat weighing one pound.
These bone-in meats belong to Rong Li’s pork-killing vegetables. They are cooked with some spices brought from Rongcheng and salt. They are stewed very well. If you can add some sauerkraut, it will taste better better.
"You don't want to give me a bowl!"
"Take the bones and stick to chew on them. I just returned to Chang'an City. I have nothing at home. I have to buy a bowl when dawn comes!"
Li Guang complained, and then had to take it with both hands.
Zhang Xuezhou had no choice but to reply.
The bowls used by Zhangjiazhuang people outside Chang'an City did not come out of thin air, but were taken from Zhang's residence. You may not know it, but after taking inventory, Zhang Xuezhou found that his house was also in a shabby state, and even lacked bowls and trays to hold food.
"Did your home get robbed?" Li Guangqi asked.
“It’s just that I was out for a long time and no one took care of me!”
“Are you hanging so much meat in preparation for a banquet?”
“I went back to Chang’an City I saw a group of homeless poor people on the road. They were eating grass every day to survive. I was going to give them some food at dawn! ”
Li Guang asked a few questions casually, and Zhang Xuezhou responded equally casually.
This left Li Guang speechless.
Their eyes were focused on the palace, and there was a natural gap between them and ordinary people. How could Li Guang know which household outside Chang'an City was hungry.
It is okay to let Li Guang fight, but it is difficult to let him help the poor.
Asking for meat, Li Guang nodded while holding the bone stick, and then strode out of the house.
"This meat is warm. It seems that the fire that cooks the meat has never stopped!"
"There are some sparks in the stove, so the meat is always warm!"
Li Guang got on the carriage and put it in the carriage. The meat was handed out.
The new emperor didn’t mind and took over the meat.
He looked at Li Guang, then at Wei Qing, then at himself, and then at the two kilograms of meat in his hands.
If Zhang Xuezhou hadn't come out to take a look, the new emperor would really have suspected that Zhang Xuezhou was engaging in some kind of "two peaches kill three people" trick.
This kind of meat was difficult for the new emperor to distribute, so he had to eat it himself.
“It tastes pretty good!”
The pork tasted surprisingly good. It didn’t have the fishy smell of pork. The meat was soft and not greasy. Xintei felt that he had eaten these two pounds. Bone meat is not a problem.
"His meat is rich in flavor. This meat must have been cooked a lot." Xindi said: "The weather is still hot at this time. Isn't he afraid of spoilage if he cooks so much meat?"
"Dongfang Shuo said that when he returned to Chang'an City, he saw a group of displaced poor people who gnawed grass to survive. He planned to give these people some food at dawn," Li Guang replied almost exactly.
"Displaced? Are there still poor people who need to chew grass to survive?" The new emperor said in disbelief: "I inspected the outside of the city at the end of the year and saw the newly added graves. Except for those who died of illness, there was no one outside the city. Belong to starvation, winter is over , there is so much food to eat in spring, summer and autumn, how can there be such poor people, even Dongfang Shuo can see it on the roadside!"
"I don't understand either!"
Li Guang Lian shook his head, indicating that he did not understand the life of people outside the city.
Xin Di was chewing on the pork bones and felt that the good-tasting pork was a little tasteless.
He still had to be a bit shy. It was difficult for the new emperor to see how the people of the Han Dynasty survived further away, but the city of Chang'an was at the feet of the emperor, and this was a place he could see after a brief inspection.
If there are people dying of hunger outside the city, this means that he is not qualified to be an emperor.
Measures including residents from outside the city entering the city to sell their belongings freely, including allowing outsiders to cultivate fields, and cracking down on homeless landowners are all tilted policies. Under the care of these tilted policies, as long as they are diligent and willing, Without encountering natural disasters, people outside the city can not only make ends meet, but also bring the food they grow into the city to sell.
There are Jinghe River and Weihe River outside Chang'an City. The river water is convenient for irrigation and the land is relatively fertile.
If it weren’t for the formulation of this kind of policy, these poor people would not have a share of these fields that are easy to open up.
The new emperor thought for a long time and still couldn't figure out who was in such misery.
"Xiaoyang was riding with Dongfang Shuo all the way. Why didn't Xiaoyang pay attention to this kind of thing... Yes, he was thinking about business and wanted to peel off one and a half taels of money from other people. I’m afraid it’s hard to see the hardship in my eyes!”
The new emperor thought for a moment.
“Wait until daybreak and go take a look!”
Inspection outside the city was not what the new emperor wanted to do during this trip, but he made a slight temporary change to his plan.
He also wanted to see why there were still such destitute victims despite Chang'an City's tilted policies.