Chapter 765: Natural Disasters and Man-made Disasters

That's it, when the two palace maids saw her, they insisted that Concubine Jin had never met Prince Ling in private.

That confession was that someone deliberately framed Concubine Jin.

The more they were like this, the more suspicious Qi Jun felt. If it was really nothing, why did they insist that Concubine Jin and Prince Ling had never met in private.

They must have looked puzzled.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, it is a fact that the torture is a trick, and the little eunuch who has been with him for five or six years knelt down in front of him.

said that the reason why he was beaten into a trick was because of Queen Xia's instructions.

The queen has a life, and he doesn't dare to disrespect a little chamberlain......

Qi Jun was angry at the same time, but he also calmed down and thought for a long time. In the end, it was concluded that Concubine Jin and Prince Ling must have secretly colluded.

This time, Wen Jin's palace caught fire and Concubine Jin died, I am afraid that Chu Wenjin deliberately did it in order to help Qi Ling get out of trouble. For the sake of Qi Ling, Chu Wenjin was willing to die. This is what Qi Jun can't forgive the most.

He asked himself and poured out his heart and lungs to her. Even if he was cruel to her, it was because he cared about her too much. But in the end, she chose to die for another man.

Since Chu Wenjin is unkind, he will not blame him for being unjust.

What she cares about the most is the Chu family, so he will drag the Chu family into the water. This time, no matter who it is, I don't want him to show mercy to his subordinates.

Although Qi Jun's idea is 108,000 miles away from the truth, there is one thing that leads to the same goal, that is, he does not mean to anger Nuan Yu for the time being.

This is also the true intention of Qi Ling's secret layout.

No matter what, even if this incident happens one day, it will not implicate Nuan Yu.

Qi Jun felt that the Chu family was an eyesore at the moment, and as for Nuan Yu, after all, she was Wei Chen's wife. He also wanted to use Wei Chen, so he would naturally turn a blind eye to Nuan Yu, so this time Qi Jun did not announce that Nuan Yu entered the palace together, but only summoned Old Madam Chu alone.

On the one hand, Lu Yue, who interceded for the Chu family, and on the other hand, Du Chun and the crown prince refuted Lu Yue's words.

This kind of thing is not a joke, since Qi Jun has opened his mouth, it must be ironclad evidence. It's just that because of the royal face, it's inconvenient to appear in front of people. Why bother to insist on pursuing it, murdering the emperor is equivalent to rebellion, the Chu family was accused of secretly contacting the prince of Beiyuan before, thinking that there is no wind and no waves, the Chu family has long been disobedient. Only then did he secretly instruct Concubine Jin to attack Qi Jun, but he failed, so he had to burn himself to death.

The old general of Chu listened expressionlessly as a group of courtiers led by Qi Tianzhi helped him compile a book of love and hatred.

Among them, there are many of his former subordinates, and a few of them even rely on him to get to where they are today.

Hearts and minds.

It's very fickle.

At the same time. Nuan Yu nodded to Qiu Ying and Zhiyun, the two girls glanced at each other, and then turned around and walked out of the room with an awe-inspiring face.

An hour later, someone found that a few grain shops had silently raised their prices, and they had risen by 30% at once. Subsequently, several grain stores raised grain prices, and the largest increase was even 50%. Tightly, there are rumors that the homeless people are besieging the city, and the food in the capital is getting less and less, I am afraid that it will not be long before the capital will have a food shortage.

So much so that in the afternoon of the day when the price hike rose, there was a long queue outside the grain stores.

And the news that the Huaiyang Dao Judgment Army was about to attack the capital also spread. Panic starts with a little bit.

Nuan Yu had dinner, and Zhiyun sent tonic soup. “…… The old lady confessed before going out, that is, her old man was not there, and the young lady's tonic soup could not be missing. This was boiled by Han's mother herself, and Miss used it somewhat. Zhiyun knows that Nuanyu has a poor appetite, at this time, she should meditate and raise her baby, but the capital is in turmoil, and the second young master is far away in Huaiyang Road, although there is a family letter every three or five days, but Zhixiang can see that this book is probably written by the second young master early in the morning. Because the delivery was so punctual.

With the current situation in Huaiyang Road, I don't know how many ~ days it will be delayed to send a war report.

This book is written every few days, and it can't be shaken. Therefore, Nuan Yu not only has to worry about the Chu family, but also has to worry about the second young master who is far away in Huaiyang Road. It can be said that she is multitasking, Zhiyun sometimes thinks that if she is Nuan Yu, I am afraid that she will not be able to hold it for a long time, but Nuan Yu looks a little haggard, and she can't see anything unusual at all. Nuan Yu took the soup bowl and slowly stirred it with a spoon.

"Is there any news in the palace?"

"The old lady did not suffer much, but was grounded. When the old general returned home, he locked himself in his study. The little general went out in the afternoon and has not yet returned. ”

"It's out there. How's it going?"

"Food prices have gone up, even though there are no people at the moment. But there are already faint signs...... The remaining silver, Mao Jin will think about transporting it back to the capital, and then listen to the instructions of the young lady. Find some wealthy people who are farther away and exchange them for silver, and then bring them back to the capital to help the homeless, Miss can only rest assured. "The weather is still cold, and the displaced people outside the city are killed and injured every day, and Nuan Yu is more worried about the people outside the city than the people in the capital. They are also the people of Qi State, but they are homeless and do not have enough food a day. "The slave maid heard that the porridge shop outside the city only put porridge once a day. And it's half a pot of water mixed with a bowl of rice...... If this continues, how many people will have to starve to death? Slaves and maids really don't understand, our Qi country can really die because of a famine? Aren't all the provinces have granaries? Aren't they also given out disaster relief money? But how can more and more people be displaced......

Nuan Yu slowly drank the soup.

While responding to Zhiyun's question.

"It is true that all provinces have granaries, but who knows if the granaries are full? Is there a corrupt official who secretly exchanged the grain in the granary for ......silver as private grain?" Nuan Yu's words were not false, there were several such earth-shattering cases at this time in his previous life. There were natural disasters in both lives, and the Qi country was also in turmoil for two years in the previous life, and the news of the misappropriation of public grain broke out during that period.

In the previous life, there were also displaced people outside the city of Ganning Road.

Someone organized merchants to donate grain, and she remembered that Ji's family donated hundreds of stones......

It was easy to survive the famine year, and the Ji family was also greatly injured because of this.

No matter how much it hurts its vitality, it hasn't reached the level where everything is chaotic now.

Nuan Yu paused and continued. "As for the money for disaster relief...... Haven't you heard a word? One hundred taels of silver, with layers of buckles on top. There is not one in ten that can really be used on the people...... As for whether the Qi State will destroy the country because of a small famine? Natural disasters and man-made disasters will occur, and once the chronic diseases accumulated over many years break out, they will naturally become menacing. ”

Zhixiang fell silent.

Her family also suffered at a young age.

Her father and mother died, so she sold herself into the Wei family. Later, he was assigned to Nuan Yu...... She had seen firsthand the inaction of officials in the aftermath of the disaster.

Therefore, nothing happens overnight, but accumulates over the years, and then erupts in one day.

"Let Wang Shu send batches of grain to the outside of the city in the name of the Chu family. Food comes out of my private property......"