Chief Clerk Lin desperately wanted to curse out loud.
What Han Zheng said was utterly nonsensical!
Did he not know that if the common folk had food, they wouldn't cause trouble?
But the question was, where could one find food at this time?
Initially, Black Stone County hadn't much grain to begin with, and the situation only worsened after the blockade of the county town.
"Our granaries in Black Stone County had been empty for a long time. If there were grain, the undersigned wouldn't just watch the common folk start a commotion."
Han Zheng sneered, "The granaries may be empty, but the grain stores are not. Some people, even now, are still trying to hoard grain to make a fortune, truly ignorant of life and death."
Chief Clerk Lin was taken aback, "Are you suggesting the Guo Family? But we don't have any right to force them to open their granaries and distribute grain, they bought it with real silver after all."