Chapter 175 174 Since ancient times, disasters and injuries have not been so miserable

I woke up early this morning and only had some breakfast. After a morning of the ceremonial ceremony, Wei Guangde followed the top scholar No. 1 and Tanhua's butt for a long time to eat dust. By the time the ceremony of praising the officials was over, he was already hungry.

People are iron and rice, but Wei Guangde is really afraid of hunger at this time.

In fact, it was not just Wei Guangde, but most of the other Jinshis who followed the way were in similar situations. Perhaps only the three riding horses and praising officials felt better.

When Wei Guangde saw the restaurant on the roadside, he couldn't help it. When he turned around and saw Lao Kan, Wei Guangde immediately waved his hand to greet him, and he had already walked towards the restaurant.

Lao Kan took the 77th place in the second grade this time, and his ranking was pretty good.

When he walked up to him, Wei Guangde said to him bitterly: "Brother Lao is here to greet him in the same year. Someone who knows me will ask you to go to the restaurant for a meal. I am so hungry."

Well, this test will take 300 people, and Wei Guangde will not invite them to dinner generously, that is, just ask people who are familiar with them to eat and drink.

At this time, I went to the restaurant alone in a Jinshi uniform. What would I think if I was seen by others in the same year?

It would be better to ask for work on this matter, and he went there to rest and order food.

"Okay, I'm hungry, so I'm just here to deal with it first."

Lao Kan is almost the same now. How can he not be hungry all the way?

Wei Guangde stepped into the restaurant to the second floor, occupied a few tables by the window and sat down. The waiter came over, lowered his head and shouted, "Master."

Wei Guangde's clothes were mainly known for his stay in the capital for a few years, not to mention that the streets are so lively today, so there is no need to ask.

Wei Guangde waved his hand and interrupted directly. He was too lazy to ask about the menu now, so he said to the waiter: "The store has many dishes to prepare, and follow the three tables first. Then it seems that you can prepare for many people. First, give it to you first.

I'll get the tea."

Now that the praises have just ended, Wei Guangde was too lazy to find Zhang Ji and the others, so he took good care of his Wudian Temple first.

This is the alley near the end of the street of Kuaguan on Yujie. When Wei Guangde came over, he saw many new Jinshi walking back along the avenue and looking for a restaurant on the street.

But Wei Guangde would not do this. There are so many people on the street. After watching their parade, many people will probably rush into the roadside tavern to eat and drink. Only when they can find a location will there be ghosts.

This restaurant is not big, there are about ten tables upstairs and downstairs.

Soon, Lao Kan brought more than 20 people from outside, most of whom were fellow villagers in Jiangxi.

When they went upstairs, Wei Guangde smiled and said, "Everyone is afraid it's like me. I'm going to be a part of the business today, so let's have something here."

Wei Guangde had already asked the shop to prepare tea. Everyone hadn't even had a sip of water along the way. At this moment, they were really tired and hungry and quickly sat on four tables.

"Come on."

Although we were talking about the three tables first, Wei Guangde also asked them to prepare. The two waiters came up and poured tea for everyone. Everyone tried to see if the water was hot and they drank it in one breath.

Soon, the waiter brought a few plates of wine and food, and a few pots of wine were served on each table. Everyone lost the temperament of a Jinshi. They picked up chopsticks and started eating, without saying anything nonsense like courtesy.

It's right.

Not long afterwards, another group of Jinshi came, and I don’t know how to find him here, but they were fewer than Wei Guangde and others.

There were only six tables on the upper floor and four were occupied by Wei Guangde and others. At first they thought of eating upstairs, but when they saw that there were only two tables left, they had to give up.

Everyone is a new Jinshi, just bow to each other on the stairs.

After a while, the tables upstairs and downstairs were filled with people coming from behind.

As Wei Guangde expected, the restaurants on the streets were already full of people who were cut down and lively, so where was their place?

When the food and food were served, Wei Guangde ate for a while but didn't feel hungry. He heard the sound upstairs and downstairs and smiled and said, "I see, this restaurant is the real Jinshi Building, and the upstairs and downstairs are all Jinshi.

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"Haha, I didn't think of the restaurant food in the past. Today I know what delicious food is."

"I came here early in the morning and stood until now. I was so hungry at that time."

After eating, everyone was no longer as hungry as before and started to laugh.

There were two groups of Jinshi who came upstairs to sit. There were not many people, both of them, six or seven people, and they each occupied a table. They knew each other, but they were not familiar with each other, and they just bowed to each other.

Not long after, the two tables over there ended the dullness of eating in a hurry, and they started to eat and talk while talking like Wei Guangde.

"Why didn't you see Jinda Jin Tanhua?"

Someone suddenly asked.

Lao Kan shook his head, "I didn't see anyone in the past. Maybe I rode back to the guild hall. I guess he was too hungry."

Four tables of Jiangxi Jinshi were mostly focused on Jiangxi. However, shortly after, Wei Guangde's attention was attracted by the topics mentioned by Shanxi Jinshi next door.

"Who said no? My family wrote that it was pretty good. The losses there were quite small. I heard that the next door to Shaanxi was just a miserable place, and more than 300,000 people were gone."

"Shaanxi is miserable. It is said that if we die in Shanxi, we are afraid there will be 200,000."

Then I heard the same year in Shanxi sigh there.

When the words came into Wei Guangde's ears, Wei Guangde felt funny.

Wei Guangde still has some memory of what they said before. It seems that someone has heard that the earth dragons in Shanxi and Shaanxi turned over, and that happened in December last year.

Well, Wei Guangde, who had experienced the Southwest earthquake in later generations, naturally knew that the magnitude 8 earthquake he had experienced personally was not as much as they said in a densely populated area.

He couldn't help it anymore, and Wei Guangde couldn't help but interrupt, "Several, is it so exaggerated to say this Shanxi earthquake?"

Wei Guangde does not deny that natural disasters such as earthquakes will definitely be huge, but he has some doubts about the loss of hundreds of thousands of people at any time, and strongly questioned them.

"Wei Chuanlu, we didn't say anything randomly. That's what the letter from home said."

A Jinshi who had spoken before hurriedly spoke.

"Yes, merchants come from time to time in the guild hall. Although we all listen to them, we are all fellow villagers in the country. No matter how hard we are, we will never curse our hometown people."

"No, I just said that the hundreds of thousands you said were a bit exaggerated. I'm afraid that it would be hundreds of thousands of people who were affected."

Wei Guangde smiled and said, he jumped from the third grade to the second grade to the first place to get the pass. Even if he didn't know about it before, he now knows him. Moreover, he was the first person to flatter the top scorer along the way, so he just went straight to

Being recognized.

"Yeah, the earth dragon turned over, hundreds of thousands of people were affected by the disaster, that's certain."

Zhang Ke next to Wei Guangde nodded in agreement and said in agreement.

"It's not the disaster, it's the dead."

"Can you hear it wrong?"

"Yes, treat the disaster as."

"No, Shanxi and Shaanxi lost a lot of people this time."

Soon, the Jiangxi Jinshi talked to the Shanxi Jinshi because of the disaster of the Shanxi earthquake. The Jiangxi Jinshi thought that the losses of hundreds of thousands of people were too exaggerated. You should know that the large counties in Jiangxi have only a dozen or two people.

Hundreds of thousands.

Well, there is naturally no result in such a debate. The Jiangxi Jinshi said frankly that he was a guess, while the Shanxi Jinshi heard about it from his family and asked about it from his fellow villagers.

"This time, Shanxi and Shaanxi suffered a lot of losses. As far as I know, it is more than you said."

At this moment, a man from the other table above the Jinshi stood up and said.

Wei Guangde looked at him and had a vague impression. He seemed to be named He Bangli, and his ranking in the palace examination was 150th place in the third place, and his hometown in Fuqing, Fujian. Because his ranking position was close to Wei Guangde, the two of them had said a few words before.

"Brother He said this?"

Wei Guangde was a little puzzled. He was a Fujian Jinshi, so how could he know the disaster in Shanxi and Shaanxi?

"Yesterday I had a party with my fellow villagers and heard people from Tongzhengsi say that Shanxi reported that the earthquake lost 100,000 people. After the earthquake, the disasters such as treatment and plague were nearly 100,000, and the loss of 200,000 was between 200,000.

strange."

Speaking of this, He Bangli sighed and continued: "There is even more miserable in Shaanxi. The earthquake directly suffered more than 300,000 yuan, and the loss after the earthquake was nearly 200,000 yuan. Weinan, Huazhou, Chaoyi, Sanyuan, Puzhou, etc.

There are huge losses in the area, and there are not one ten people left."

Wei Guangde was so excited when he heard the shocking numbers of He Bangli, such as 100,000, 300,000, and 200,000, and 200,000, and he couldn't help but say: "Brother He, how many casualties were there in the Shanxi earthquake? Is there any report from the local government?

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"There is still accounting in the local area, and more than 800,000 people have died at present."

He Bangli shook his head, then lowered his head and stopped talking. He Tingjin, who was also a Fujian Jinshi beside him, responded: "It's a pity that the imperial court's money has been corrupted by those corrupt officials. This time, Shanxi and Shaanxi suffered a major disaster in the Ministry of Revenue and the Cabinet.

It is said that there is no money to provide disaster relief, so later I moved out the money for the wall construction and deducted some border military pay and raised 150,000 taels of silver, 150,000 taels of silver."

After Wei Guangde heard He Bangli say the number "800,000", he was shocked and opened his mouth wide. This number was something he could not imagine and was too big.

However, He Tingjin then brought the topic to the corruption of the court. In his heart, Wei Guangde called the man the word "silly" but he didn't know if it was really stupid or fake stupid.

Although the imperial court had large amounts of taxes and silver in treasury every year, the money was to be supplied to officials and yamen inside and outside the capital, as well as the military pay of border soldiers in the nine major towns. In addition, the current Emperor Jiajing occasionally reached out to the treasury to get silver.

The deficit of practicing Taoism and worshipping rituals has long been severe.

Greed, all of you are a Jinshi, but you still dare to say the word "greed". Isn't this talking about people from your own class?

When it comes to corruption, all the Jinshis in the world are very "big corruption criminals".

However, the imperial court allocated 150,000 taels of silver for such a great disaster in Shanxi and Shaanxi, which was indeed a little too little.

However, as soon as this idea came to my mind, Wei Guangde was shocked. This is a misappropriated border fund. Now the North is still constantly being attacked by Altan Khan's troops. At this time, you compress your military expenditure.
To be continued...