After the seventh lunar day opened court, Wei Hui Prefecture sent an urgent dispatch over eight hundred miles; the citizens were outraged, numerous cases of disaster victims looting and besieging government offices had occurred. Xiao Yanyi was also searching for Fourth Master Xiao every day. Mr. Bao, serving as the Vice River Director, happened to be stationed in Wei Hui Prefecture, now trapped in the government office, unable to move, afraid for his life.
The Emperor ordered Shen Ji to personally supervise the grain relief. Shen Ji hastily led his men out of the Capital, chasing the grain convoy that had left the city on the thirtieth of the year. On the night of the twelfth, the door of the Governor Mansion was knocked upon; Shen Ji's attendant, with a deathly pale face, knelt before Fourth Master Xiao: "The relief grain within the Shandong boundary was completely looted by a group of disaster victims, even The Princely Heir Shen was injured."
