Pei Yaoqing thought for a while and said directly, "You can't touch him?"
"It's still possible in the past, but now … Huanzhi doesn't know?"
Yao Chong didn't hide it either. "I'm telling you, I don't have so much power now. You know why."
"I'll go out in the afternoon." Pei Yaoqing agreed. He didn't want to give the money away.
Why should he give it to the Ministry of Revenue? It's not easy to get all the officials in our county!
"Huanzhi, boil the vegetables." Yao Chong had achieved his goal and asked Pei Yaoqing to take the boat. The boat sailed on Pei Yaoqing's side.
Pei Yaoqing took a look and picked up a bean sprout on the boat, "This is what the people in Chang 'an grow in the future."
"It's a vegetable." Yao Chong said. He admitted that Li Yi was definitely beneficial to the people.
The premise was to help the people. If it was an official like him, it would probably be the Prime Minister's magnanimity and virtue.
But he couldn't touch him. How could Empress Wang have a child in her belly? Of course, it was him who gave the medicine.
Since His Majesty ascended the throne, it was needless to say how much pressure he was under.
There was no Empress, but now there was.
Looking at the Empress's happy appearance and His Majesty's accommodating attitude, he knew it was a boy.
As for how he knew, young Dongzhu was here, and his medical skills …
Pei Yaoqing took another plate of mutton and said, "After a few days, the cabbage and radish will be finished. There will be bean sprouts, which can last until the beginning of spring."
"Indeed, people used to eat wild vegetables to allay their hunger. With the soybean oil, the consumption of grain in the people's home is small. Wild vegetables can also be fried, eaten raw, blanched, and dipped in sauce."
Yao Chong once again recognized that young Dongzhu should not appear in the world. There were countless living people.
"Eat first, don't waste. The price of the buffet is fixed. If you don't eat, you will be punished. I don't even dare to order Chang 'an."
Pei Yaoqing took six plates of dishes. Each plate was not much. There were only those on the boat.
Yao Chong didn't say anything, because this Heavenly Earth belonged to Her Majesty. If she couldn't finish the food, she would throw it away, and the price would remain the same.
If any minister threw away a pile of food every day, as long as there was an impeachment, they would at least have to submit a letter of apology.
Young Dongzhu's Zhuangzi Canteen would give some menus a separate sign: What's left in the morning, will be thrown away at night; what's left at noon, will be thrown away tomorrow morning; and what's left at night, will be thrown away tomorrow afternoon.
Then, the food was divided among the farmers, but they were reluctant to throw it away.
Pei Yaoqing boiled a piece of mutton and dipped it in the sauce. He turned his head to look at the pedestrians on the street below and said, "At this time last year, there were beggars on the opposite side."
"This is the East Market. Why are we going to the opposite side?" Yao Chong really didn't know.
"Because the food they are begging for is leftover food from the customers of the shops along the street in the eastern market. If they come to the front of the shop and disturb the business of the shop, the shop will not give it to them.
Sheng Ye Fang was opposite. If someone wanted to recruit workers, they would go there to look for them. That's why the eastern market is willing to give away leftover food. Last year, I was incompetent. "
Pei Yaoqing's eyes reddened as he spoke. Last winter, many people starved and froze to death, but he couldn't do anything.
Today, there wasn't a single beggar at Sheng Ye Fang. Instead, there were people standing there looking up at heaven and earth with envy.
You don't have to worry about that. If you're envious, then so be it. You just don't have the money to come up here to eat. It's not like you can't eat food from other places.
Yao Chong also didn't want to see people freeze and starve to death, so he looked down.
"Next year, if the ice lanterns don't work, I will ask Li Yi for a solution." Yao Chong promised. He didn't think it was shameful to ask for a solution.
Did the prime minister have to know everything? Knowing people, knowing people, and using them well was enough.
In fact, he had thought it through. Otherwise, what could he do? He really couldn't do it.
"Are there many cases?" Yao Chong saw that no one was begging, so he asked about the cases.
"Not many. I'm busy making money. If there's work to do, why steal and rob others? Most of the cases are about neighbors invading or things between men and women. There are victims and defendants. It's easy to catch them and not difficult to interrogate them.
The worst cases are robbery and theft. It takes a lot of effort to find people, and many of them can't be found.
Last year, many people died. They were strangled to death, killed with knives, and beaten to the head with sticks. Some people saw them and said what they looked like. Several people saw them at the same time, but said different things. "
Pei Yaoqing talked about last year's murder case. It was mainly robbery. If there was no money, they directly killed people and took their belongings.
As for conflicts and vendettas, it didn't matter. If you could find people, your family would be there if you ran away.
Now, it was a matter of whose chicken was suspected to have been eaten by the neighbor, whose woman was doing it with another man, whose man was doing it with another woman, whose man was doing it with another man, whose woman was doing it with another woman … The last two didn't matter.
"No one committed crimes because of laziness?" Yao Chong asked the key point.
"There are helpers." Pei Yaoqing told Yao Chong.
Helpers were paid to work. They would do any kind of work. Some even helped break people's legs.
In fact, it was the underworld. Some were organized, and some were scattered.
Pyong Kang Square had the most. They could find people at any time.
"They work?" Yao Chong didn't understand for a moment.
"No, they help recruit people. If they hire someone to work, they will be paid. If that person is sneaky, they can find the helpers who introduced them. The helpers will persuade that person."
Pei Yaoqing revealed the darkest side of Chang 'an. He didn't know much about Chang' an because he didn't know much about it.
Now, he used these people to deal with Chang 'an's secret matters. He would give them money.
Sometimes, they were even more useful than yamen runners. Didn't the yamen runners get paid for their work?
In Pyong Kang Square, there were 'big families', but there were also people with poor lives. They were recruited through various means. Some were even groomed as young girls.
There were also people who had many children and lived a poor life. They sold themselves or were sold by their parents.
For example, Gao Lishi and Yang Situ were from big families. When their families were wiped out, they were too young to be killed. They were cut off and sent to the palace.
There were also people who were sold to the palace for money to support the rest of the family. They also gave the children who were sold a way to survive.
Counting carefully, it was already considered a blessing to be able to live and grow up safely.
Yao Chong closed his eyes and sighed. He felt helpless. If it were him, he wouldn't be able to do anything either.
After sighing, he suddenly opened his eyes. "You should go to Li Yi in the afternoon and ask him."
"Can he handle the secret matters?" Pei Yaoqing felt that it was useless.
"At least he helped you settle the people for this winter. Before this year, did you dare to think that this winter would be like this? "
Yao Chong glared at Pei Yaoqing. How would he know if he didn't ask?
"Okay, I'll listen to Prime Minister Yao." Pei Yaoqing decided to go and take a look. He had other things to ask, such as what to do if the Ministry of Revenue wanted to rob them.
The two of them relaxed and ate slowly.
Guests arrived one after another. Needless to say, the third floor was already fully booked. There would only be seats if Yao Chong went up.
"Yesterday, Li Yi wrote, no, copied a lot of poems. I'll say it. Help spread it to Pyong Kang Square."
Yao Chong felt that if he didn't spread it, Li Yi wouldn't take the initiative to say it.
Unlike the literati in the capital.
They would write poems of sympathy for the two ducks, poems of chickens pecking rice, and all kinds of things. They would read it out loud, afraid that people wouldn't vomit.
As for Li Yi, he would say it casually without writing it down. It was as if he was just chatting.
Yao Chong was very dissatisfied. How could it be like this? Let me tell you.
He threw out the four poems that Li Yi had 'copied' himself.
One was Heavy Snow Crushing the Pine, Two were Yellow Orioles Commanding the Green Willows, One was Last Year at the Door, One was Pulling the Bow and Pulling the Strong.
At the same time, he also mentioned Brown Rock.
"So that's the name of the palace maids and eunuchs!" Pei Yaoqing understood this time.
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