Chapter 895: Old Matters Chapter 895: Old Matters Editor: Atlas Studios Overjoyed at receiving the silver, the vendor took on the posture of a storyteller and said in a soft and excited tone, “Governor Yu has been in Guangdong since he was a county magistrate, and has been here for almost 20 years.
Even if his ancestral hotown isn’t in Guangdong, he’s still considered a local tyrant.
On the other hand, the magistrate was appointed by the new dynasty and was new here.
Although his official position is high, he has to listen to Governor Yu.” The vendor said, “The magistrate is a good official.
After only arriving here for half a year, he found out that the fishern who shifted away from the coast were having a hard ti.
Therefore, he discussed with Assistant Commander Wang to relax the mariti ban and let the fishern catch seafood.
This way, at the very least, they could catch so seafood in exchange for so grains.
However, Governor Yu disagreed saying that he feared that the pirates would kill those fishern.
“As pirates also like to go ashore to kill people when the tide is high, this is indeed a problem.
So, the magistrate and Assistant Commander Wang discussed bringing the navy to sea for training.
This way, they can support the fishern.
“The fishern are endlessly grateful.
They are suffering and soone starves to death almost every day.
They say that it’s better to take a gamble at sea than starve to death.
Even if they’re killed by pirates, it’s better than being eaten after starving to death.” Mu Yangling was shocked and asked, “At that ti, there was already cannibalism?” The vendor sighed.
“That’s right.
At that ti, life was too difficult.
The dynasty had just changed and a war had just ended.
The only reason I didn’t starve to death was because our family still has two acres of thin land and I have a skill.
Those fishern only have the ability to fish.
If we didn’t let them fish, wasn’t that as good as killing them?” “But the mariti ban has been going on for 20 years…” “The ban was on the ports, and not on those further away from the coast though.
The soldiers also knew that the livelihood of the people was difficult, so they turned a blind eye to it and let the fishern go out to fish.
So fishern could even sail a small fishing boat into the sea and catch a lot of fish.
Therefore, although everyone’s life was difficult, at least they wouldn’t starve to death.” The vendor said in a low voice, “But at that ti, Governor Yu went crazy for so reason and banned all these coasts.
Not a single fisherman was allowed to enter.
Everyone could only wait for death without work.
At that ti, the Guanyin Temple outside the city was filled with fishern begging for kaolinite1.
However, if they ate too much of it, it could be fatal.
Many children couldn’t withstand the hunger and ate a tad too much, causing them their lives…” Tears flashed in Mu Yangling’s eyes, and her face was cold.
The guards behind her also had ugly expressions, and the vendor looked at them in shock.
A guard quickly patted his shoulder comfortingly and said, “This is the first ti our Madam has heard this, and she just feels sorry for the children.
You must be startled, right?
Use this money to buy so wine to calm down.” The vendor hurriedly bowed and took it.
Smiling, he said, “But things are great now.
Considering Magistrate Fan is a duke, Governor Yu definitely won’t dare to deceive him like he did to the forr magistrate.
In addition, with Prince Rong around, everyone now has a way out.” Mu Yangling asked, “Who was the assistant commander you ntioned just now?” “That’s a hero.
In the past, with him around, although they often lost against the pirates, they won two or three out of ten tis.
Those pirates were also a little wary and didn’t dare to go overboard.
However, he was frad for embezzling the military salary and ended up losing his official position.” “How do you know he was frad?” “Is there a need to ask?
You can tell with your eyes.
If he was greedy for the military salary, would his family be so poor?
I heard from the old vendor that not only was Assistant Commander Wang not corrupt, but he even purchased so weapons for the navy with his family’s money.
Otherwise, the navy would be even more useless.” “Your magistrate died in battle.
Why would he, the magistrate, personally go to the battlefield?” Mu Yangling asked.
“I don’t know about that.
I only know that the pirates were always harassing the coast at that ti, so the magistrate and Assistant Commander Zhou brought people to fight the pirates.
In the end, the magistrate died in battle.” Seeing that she couldn’t get anything out of him, Mu Yangling took out a copper coin and handed it to him.
She smiled and said, “It’s been hard on you to rember so much.
Go back and tell the person behind you that I’ll rember these words.” The vendor’s face stiffened and he chuckled.
“Madam, you must be joking.
How can there be anyone behind ?” Instead of arguing, Mu Yangling just smiled and turned to leave.
The vendor heaved a sigh of relief when he saw them walk away and hurriedly closed his stall and headed ho.
The guard asked Mu Yangling, “Your Highness, were they waiting for us here on purpose?” Smiling, Mu Yangling said, “I wasn’t sure before, but I am certain now.
I’m afraid there are many people in the market waiting to tell the sa story.” “What’s their motive?
To seek justice for Assistant Commander Wang?” “No matter what the reason is, as long as it’s the truth, it’s fine.
Tell this to the Duke and let him deal with it.” “Aren’t you going to tell His Highness the Prince?” Mu Yangling shook her head.
“This is a matter of Guangdong.
His Highness and I are only here to save the Duke.
Moreover, I don’t fancy their sneaky actions.
Now that Yu Cheng is being suppressed by His Highness and the Duke, they can openly go to the governnt office to lodge a complaint or go to the Fan Residence to look for the Duke and His Highness.
But instead of doing that, they stopped on the way.” The guard opened his mouth and said, “Your Highness, they might think that you can make the decision on this matter.” Mu Yangling said in surprise, “How can a woman like make the decision?” Mu Yangling had always felt that she was a virtuous wife.
Although she often gave Qi Haoran suggestions, they were only limited to suggestions and she would not directly interfere with his work.
It was naturally good if he took her advice.
If he didn’t, she wouldn’t force him because she couldn’t guarantee that what she said was right.
Perhaps the path he decided to take was the right one?
Therefore, she had always felt that she was a standard housewife.
However, everyone obviously didn’t see it the sa way.
It had only been one night, but the navy who had followed Mu Yangling back had already spread her archery skills and divine strength throughout the entire Guangzhou City.
Her current image was incomparably glorious.
No one would believe that she wouldn’t interfere in Prince Rong’s outer estate matters.
If that wasn’t the case, why would she follow Prince Rong to Guangdong and even go out to sea to save the Duke?
Obviously, both sides didn’t have the sa standards.
“Then, Your Highness, are we going to continue shopping?” Mu Yangling thought for a mont and smiled.
“Let’s go to the port to join in the fun.” At this mont, the vendor said to the old vendor with a vexed expression, “Uncle Ping, do you think I have ruined things for the general by exposing my tracks?” The old vendor sighed and said, “It depends on our luck.
But Princess Consort Rong shouldn’t be such a petty person.
Let’s wait for two days.
If no one cos looking for us, we and the general can only count ourselves unlucky.” The vendor gritted his teeth.
“Then are we going to continue being cowards?” The old vendor drank his tea in silence.
If Assistant Commander Wang wanted to stand up for them, his subordinates would not be willing to be diocre.
If they could not return to the navy, so of them would probably take the risk and go out to sea to beco pirates.
This was the last thing he wanted to see, which was why he planned this eting.
There were many of them on the street, and Princess Consort Rong would also stop at other stalls if she hadn’t taken an interest in their stall.
In any case, he would have a way to pass the ssage to her.
He had calculated everything, but he didn’t expect the Princess Consort to guess that they did it on purpose.
The old vendor sighed.
That was why he said that this was luck.
He had already done his best.
Although it was a pity that he did not succeed, he did not regret it.
a type of clay that poor people ate during periods of famine in order to survive
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