Chapter 580
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The good news was that before Hui Mo's wish to be reincarnated as a pig in his next life was realized, they found the last black curse and the token in a corner of the dock.
Hui Mo picked up the thing and wiped away the black ash on the surface. He was surprised: "Oh, a silver ingot?" Not only was it a silver ingot, but it was also a piece of burnt silver ingot. The cast seal at the bottom was half-melted. Only the words "ten mouths" and "success" could be vaguely seen.
He smacked his lips and said: "This should be 50 taels. I've been working with Shizi for so long, but I only have a hundred taels. Those children are beggars. They don't even have enough food to eat. Where did they get so much money? What does it mean to leave it as a token? "
Previously, the children had left behind small things like shoes and headbands, which made the token this time stand out even more. Ning Shu looked at the vague words on the silver ingot and frowned. The east was white, and the cool morning wind whistled in her ears. Countless mottled words flashed in the depths of her memory until a beam of white light suddenly appeared in her mind.
She snatched the silver ingot: "This is dirty silver! The hole in the middle is obviously smaller than ten, so it's not a hole, but a five. It's the fifteenth day of the natural selection. Do you remember it now? "
"What?" Hui Mo was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time: "Are you talking about the Hanjiang Prefecture that happened ten years ago?"
Ning Shu solemnly and slowly nodded: "Yes."
Hui Mo's face was blank for a moment, and then he recovered from the shock. There was no second person in the capital who knew better than Hui Mo about the terrible famine that happened ten years ago in the Hanjiang Prefecture. In the fourteenth year of the natural selection, the Hanjiang Prefecture suffered a once-in-a-century flood, causing countless fertile fields to be destroyed. The magistrate of the Hanjiang Prefecture led the people to fight the flood. Half a month later, the flood receded, and the people suffered heavy losses. Thousands of people were drowned and starved to death. It was not easy for people to survive the hellish winter. In the spring of the next year, they planted new rice and looked forward to new hope. They didn't expect that a bigger disaster was waiting for them. In the fourth month, when the new rice crops were growing like crazy, Han Jiang Prefecture did not have a single drop of rain for three months in a row. The water in the wells dried up, the newly planted rice died of drought, and the millions of farmland did not have a single grain of harvest. In order to protect his own merits, the Hanjiang Prefectural Magistrate concealed the disaster and did not report it. As a result, the people in the Prefectural Magistrate's manor did not have enough to eat. They had to eat dirt to fill their stomachs, and some even had to trade their children for food. It was like purgatory on earth.
Today was the Sage's 40th birthday. The city was decorated with colorful lanterns, a scene of prosperity and splendor. The red lanterns were bustling. The Imperial Household Department specially cast two hundred thousand pieces of new silver to congratulate the Emperor's thousand years, engraved with the eight characters "Heaven's Choice 15, Great Success Treasure Celebration", and offered sacrifices to the ancestors, all people celebrate together. Who would have thought that on the eve of the Emperor's birthday, a group of refugees from the Hanjiang Prefecture would rush into the capital, thus revealing the truth about the famine.
His Majesty was extremely shocked and immediately sent out six units to provide disaster relief. He also sent the 100,000 newly minted official silver to the Han Jiang Prefecture to solve the urgent situation. But something even more infuriating happened. The two hundred thousand Snowflake Silver had just arrived at the Hanjiang treasury, and before they could even spend a single ingot, it all mysteriously disappeared the next morning.
At this point, the people were filled with righteous indignation. Riots broke out everywhere, and the Hanjiang Prefecture's magistrate committed suicide to avoid punishment. At the time, the Prime Minister took the initiative to volunteer. First, he pulled out the Hanjiang Prefecture's magistrate's corpse, and then executed the entire family to vent the anger of the people. Then, he quickly recovered half of the silver. Finally, he held up his head and kneeled to the heavens. Only then did the flames of disaster, which could have overturned the entire Great Yue. It wasn't until two years later that the aftershocks of the famine barely calmed down. However, the other half of the silver was never found again.
A few years later, the case was gradually forgotten with the passage of time, and no one asked where the 100,000 silver was hidden.
But strangely, ten years later, the tainted silver from that year reappeared in the world, and in such a way that shook the entire city. Hui Mo looked at the silver ingot, and for some reason, felt a chill run down his spine. It was as if he had a premonition that the capital would be completely thrown into chaos.
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