Your servant respectfully submits: This year's grain reserves in Suzhou are exhausted. The lanes lack food, th…
Your servant respectfully submits: This year's grain reserves in Suzhou are exhausted. The lanes lack food, the old and weak are displaced, and famished corpses gradually appear. The people are in panic. I have led my subordinates to persuade the wealthy to sell grain, temporarily aiding the poor. However, my strength is meager and may not be sufficient, and unrest may arise.
I beg the Emperor to take pity on this region and order the Ministry of Revenue to distribute grain from the imperial granaries to relieve the famine, to solve the immediate crisis and bring peace to the people. I bow in fear and await the Emperor's decision.