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Chapter 324

The scope of this locust plague was very wide, and in addition to Qingzhou Mansion, Xuzhou Mansion was also affected.

However, Cheng'an County, Qingzhou Prefecture, was the least affected county, and most of the more than 20 villages here used herbs developed by Du Bangchun.

A few days ago, Zhou Ruiyuan and Li Zhifu mentioned this herb to the prefect of Xuzhou Prefecture, but they did not believe the Zhou family, and felt that the Zhou family, as a trader, wanted to take this opportunity to sell herbs to make money.

However, it was only after the locusts came that they learned that they regretted it.

Due to the large-scale damage in many places, there is a shortage of food.

One by one, they flocked to the Zhoujia rice shop to buy rice.

Zhoujia rice shop has not only not been affected by the locust plague, but the output is still unabated, so the villagers in more than 20 counties in Cheng'an County are still getting better and better.

Du Bangchun saw that Xuzhou Mansion was seriously affected, so he proposed to Zhou Ruiyuan to give soup for disaster relief.

After hearing this, Zhou Ruiyuan immediately sent people to set up porridge sheds in more than ten county towns in Xuzhou Prefecture.

Du Bangchun led people to give porridge in person, and also distributed herbs to the villagers to prevent locusts.

When the villagers received this herb, they learned that there was such a good thing, and later they learned that it was the former prefect of Xuzhou Mansion who rejected the kindness of Qingzhou Prefecture Li Governor and Zhou County Order.

They repented one by one, knowing that if they let the Zhou family take this herb, their grain would not be eaten by locusts.

Du Bangchun did not stay in the porridge shed, took a carriage, and after checking each porridge shed, she was ready to go home, but she was stopped by the people of the former prefect on the way.

"Shopkeeper Du, we adults want to invite you to the house. The person who came was a small guy, with his chin raised and a proud face.

After Du Bangchun thought about it, he smiled and said, "Okay, I'll ask this little brother to lead the way." The

little girl turned around, asked people to lead Du Bangchun's horse, and took her to the mansion of the former prefect.

The former prefect was not a good official in the past, nor was he a bad official, and he was in charge of the people below in a decent manner on weekdays, but when he encountered major events, he was timid and only took care of himself.

It was because of such a letter that he was reluctant to send someone to Cheng'an County to get the herbs that could drive away locusts.

This time he invited Du Bangchun to come, in fact, he had something to ask for, several villages near them were out of food, but the soup porridge was far from enough, he hoped that Du Bangchun could come out with some silver, so that he could help these victims.

However, when the capital learned that there was a locust plague here, he had already allocated 200,000 taels of silver, which was enough for him to help these victims.

However, this original lord saw that he was the big one in Xuzhou Mansion, so he secretly swallowed the silver, and was ready to ask Du Bangchun for some silver to make an appearance for the people in the capital.

When Du Bangchun walked into the mansion, the former prefect personally greeted him, "Shopkeeper Du, you are here, please take a seat."

After speaking, he instructed the maid behind him: "Quick, go and pour tea for the shopkeeper Du." "

Yes, sir. The maids hurriedly retreated, turned around and went up to pour tea for Du Bangchun.

Soon a cup of good dragon well was served.

Du Bangchun took a sip of the cup and said with a smile: "Lord Yuan, your tea is not bad." The

former prefect hurriedly said: "It's just some old tea, and it's not a good tea."

Du Bangchun half-squinted his eyes and said with a slow smile: "It seems that Lord Yuan still has good tea here, and usually this is a good Longjing, and our Zhou family can only drink it a few times a year."

The original prefect was stunned for a moment, looked at the cup on the table next to Du Bangchun with cold eyes, and then secretly glanced at the little maid.

The little girl was so frightened that she hurriedly lowered her head.

Du Bangchun diverted the topic and asked bluntly: "What is the matter with Lord Yuan coming to invite me to the mansion?"

The former prefect accepted the coldness in Fang Cai's eyes, and said with a smile: "I heard that the shopkeeper Du is a well-known good man, and now more than ten counties in our Xuzhou Prefecture are affected by the locust plague, I don't know if the shopkeeper Du can be kind and give some silver to help these victims."

Du Bangchun picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea slowly, but did not reply for a long time.

The original prefect squinted his eyes and continued: "It is said that the shopkeeper Du has a lot of money, and it should be a gesture to take out some silver.

Du Bangchun put down the cup in his hand heavily, "Lord Yuan, you may have forgotten that there are porridge sheds of our Zhou family in many counties in Xuzhou Prefecture, and these porridge sheds of mine should have saved many of the victims here. The

original prefect seemed to know that she would say this, and continued to laugh and said: "This porridge shed is a porridge shed, your Zhou family is so rice, it shouldn't cost much silver, and it is hard work, it is better for the shopkeeper Du to give me the silver directly, and I will do these things."

Du Bangchun showed a sneer on his face, this former prefect would really make wishful thinking.

She decisively refused: "Lord Yuan, in terms of silver, our Zhou family is also powerless, and since the porridge shed is opened by us, then our Zhou family will be responsible for it to the end, and we don't need your adult to interfere." The

original prefect gradually became angry when he heard this, he really didn't expect this Du shopkeeper to be so sharp-toothed.

His face gradually sank, and he looked around, seeing that Du Bangchun was alone, he suddenly had other evil intentions.

"Shopkeeper Du, don't be in a hurry to draw conclusions, stay in our house for a while, and then think about what to say. "

He's just trying to keep her here.