Poor Family: I reached the top by marrying a wife

Chapter 394 Poison Scheme

After Qin Ruyue led people to gather the refugees, Jiang Chen brought Mu Qingqing and Yuan Chunfeng to the hall.

"Mr. Yuan, I know you are very talented. Can I ask you how long this drought will last?"

"If it doesn't rain this year, how many people in Dajing will die!"

Jiang Chen looked at Yuan Chunfeng with concern.

"My Lord, I feel sorry for the people, but I cannot go against the will of heaven."

"But please rest assured, Lord Marquis. This drought will not last too long and should end before winter." Yuan Chunfeng sighed.

“It ends before winter!?”

Jiang Chen was stunned when he heard this!

"According to what you said, doesn't it mean that it won't rain from now until winter begins?!"

"How many people will die because of this!?"

Jiang Chen said painfully.

"My lord, I don't know. It all depends on the disaster relief efforts of the imperial court!" Yuan Chunfeng shook his head helplessly.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen looked at Mu Qingqing.

"Qingqing, in this situation, how does the imperial court usually provide disaster relief?"

Mu Qingqing sighed and said, "According to the situation in previous years, money and food relief were distributed."

"However, this relief grain will be resold on the way."

"And the money of the imperial court will also be embezzled by people."

"Besides, food is expensive in disaster years, and we can't buy much food, so..."

"This……"

Jiang Chen understood that the court's approach was just a drop in the bucket!

"My lord, do you have any good ideas for disaster relief? If so, you can report it to the court!" Mu Qingqing looked at Jiang Chen.

When Jiang Chen heard Mu Qingqing's words, he fell into deep thought.

He actually knows something about disaster relief methods.

The most classic one is work-for-relief!

……

However, there is a prerequisite for using work for relief, and that is to have enough food.

But the Dajing court was incompetent, and the grain distributed by the court to various places was pitifully small. If this was the case...

"hiss!"

Suddenly, Jiang Chen really thought of a good idea!

But it's a bit poisonous!

This made Jiang Chen gasp in surprise!

"Lord Jiang, have you come up with a good idea?"

Mu Qingqing saw Jiang Chen's look and asked hurriedly.

"I... do have some ideas, but I don't know... whether the court will adopt them."

"And if the court adopts it, I guess many officials will basically blame me for it!"

Jiang Chen said helplessly.

"The court will not accept it?"

"After the adoption, did the officials bear a grudge against you?"

"What is this...?"

Mu Qingqing frowned.

Jiang Chen sighed and said, "My method is to play with people's hearts."

"If the court is willing, they can send a well-known corrupt official, preferably a demoted corrupt official, to provide disaster relief!"

Mu Qingqing was shocked when she heard this.

"Sending corrupt officials to provide disaster relief, doesn't that give them the opportunity to embezzle money and grain?"

"What's more, what else can corrupt officials do besides embezzle and accept bribes?"

"Aren't you harming the people?"

Jiang Chen shook his head and said, "Miss Qingqing, you are wrong."

"Although corrupt officials are greedy, it does not mean that they are incompetent. As long as His Majesty the Emperor links this matter with the future and lives of those corrupt officials, this plan will succeed!"

"If you are effective in disaster relief, you will be promoted. If you are ineffective, you will be killed!"

"Besides, as I just said, it would be best if it was a corrupt official who was demoted!"

"These people, once demoted, are thinking about promotion. Can they not work hard?"

"Moreover, since they were corrupt officials in the past, the network of relationships behind them must be extremely complicated!"

"Moreover, they must have connections that ordinary honest officials don't have!"

……

"If we ask honest officials to provide disaster relief, they won't be able to get food, which is like a skilled cook having no rice to cook with!"

"It's more likely that the corrupt officials below will unite and target us!"

"But corrupt officials are different. First, they are corrupt officials, and the people below them will definitely give them gifts in order to embezzle money!"

“So the corrupt officials know very well who gave the gift and whether it is greedy or not!”

“The corrupt officials only know who to use!”

"What's more, corrupt officials are ruthless and will be promoted if they show that they are not corrupt!"

"Who among those below dares to block his path to promotion?"

"hiss!"

Mu Qingqing took a breath of cold air when she heard that!

Even Yuan Chunfeng looked at Jiang Chen in shock!

This is truly a god descending to earth!

Jiang Chen ignored the two and continued, "And there are many benefits to doing this!"

"First, there will always be corruption in disaster relief grain, but corrupt officials will certainly embezzle less for the sake of their careers!"

"Secondly, in order to stay in office and avoid being exterminated, corrupt officials will definitely rack their brains and come up with some dirty tricks, but it is certain that they will be disaster relief tricks!"

"Third, if the disaster is too severe, the court can order its confidants to take over the disaster relief work, and then use the name of this corrupt official to spread the news of killing refugees. The noble families in the world are particularly fond of fame, and they will definitely pretend to donate money to help the people in order to gain a good reputation!"

"This is the foundation of the world's aristocratic families. They will definitely take action!"

"With a two-pronged approach, the disaster will be greatly alleviated!"

"Afterwards, the imperial court pretended to be furious and directly killed the corrupt official to appease the public anger!"

"Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"

After Jiang Chen finished speaking, the room fell silent.

Mu Qingqing was dumbfounded, and looked at Jiang Chen with disbelief in her eyes.

……

She thought about it in her mind and knew that this method would work.

Corrupt officials are definitely more capable than loyal officials in some aspects, but they just don't serve the country.

If we force corrupt officials to give it a try, as long as they are under control, the disaster relief effect will be significant!

As for what comes next, it is to set up a game and get the noble families in the world to join in!

What a great idea!

She couldn't help but praise him, "Jiang Chen, you really impressed me today."

"With this method, at least hundreds of thousands of people will be saved from death in this disaster!"

"Haha, not only that, I have another way to stop those corrupt officials from embezzling disaster relief grain!" Jiang Chen laughed coldly.

"any solution!?"

Mu Qingqing asked in shock.

"Mix some sand and gravel into the disaster relief food!" Jiang Chen said coldly.

"What!?"

Mu Qingqing was shocked when he heard this!

"Sand and stones are put into the relief grain. How can the people eat it?"

"Haha, Miss Qingqing, do you think those refugees who eat tree bark and even soil would care about sand and stones?"

Jiang Chen laughed coldly.

Mu Qingqing was stunned!

Jiang Chen continued, "The vast majority of corrupt officials who embezzled grain sold the court's good grain and bought back old grain or inferior grain!"

"But if half of the grain is sand and gravel, will the grain merchants still want it?"

"This is equivalent to cutting off their sales channels."

After Jiang Chen finished speaking, Mu Qingqing finally understood why Jiang Chen said that this plan was a bit vicious.

This is not just a little bit, it's vicious!