Chapter 139: Enduring While Awaiting the Right Opportunity
Yin Fengshuo naturally did not dare embezzle relief supplies openly. That would have been no different from handing his enemies evidence against him.
Instead, he employed every conceivable excuse to delay their arrival.
One day, he claimed that repairs to the official roads had forced the grain convoys to take a lengthy detour. The next, he insisted that construction materials were in short supply and had to be distributed according to priority, with the Dongshan region unfortunately placed at the very end of the queue.
Every delay came with a perfectly reasonable explanation.
Every explanation complied with the laws of Great Qian.
Under normal circumstances, given Fang Xun's established reputation, a delay of ten days or even half a month would hardly have caused any serious unrest.
But now, in the eyes of Dongshan's people, Fang Xun had already become a monstrous official who would steal anything and dared to steal everything.
The relief supplies that never arrived were naturally assumed by the refugees to have been embezzled by him.
And before long, they themselves would have no food left to eat.