There was a dead silence around, Lingbao covered his undulating chest, holding his breath, almost suffocating his face red and faintly pale with a strange appearance, and it seemed that a feather could make a clear sound when it fell, and after a while, Feng Wei withdrew his eyes lightly, carefully held the box in his hand, lifted the bamboo curtain, and walked in.

The bamboo curtain shook slightly, and the door collided with a slight sound, hearing the chilling footsteps gradually drifting away, Lingbao's body seemed to be pulled out of his muscles and bones, and suddenly he was about to go limp down, and in the falling, Lingbao suddenly remembered something, nervously tensed his nerves again, unconsciously buckled the door, and let himself lean there silently and carefully gasp.

At this moment, Feng Wei had already put the box containing the secret letter in front of the case, and under the instruction of Emperor Jianheng, he turned to the inner room to take the key for safekeeping, slowly stretched the copper spoon into it, and with a slight turn, he heard "pop-" With a sound, the copper lock was easily opened, Feng Wei reached out and took off the copper lock, pinched it in his hand, and then carefully opened the pick, slowly uncovered the box, only to see an envelope with beeswax and vermilion seal clay lying quietly in it, Emperor Jianheng personally took it out, Feng Wei on the side had already handed over the silver piece, and Emperor Jianheng took it and cut the sealed seal.

Stretching out his hand, he took out the secret letter with two fingers, only to see Emperor Jianheng's hand shake slightly, and the thin letterhead was immediately unfolded in the air, Emperor Jianheng threw the envelope on the case, took the hem of the letterhead, and looked at it quietly.

In the quiet room, Feng Wei lowered his head silently, did not deliberately look, at this moment, Emperor Jianheng's face was slightly ugly, the corners of his lips inadvertently pursed and sank a little, a pair of eyes that were not angry and self-righteous were floating at this moment, and with the sound of "whoa-", Emperor Jianheng turned the second page of the letterhead under his hand again, and saw that at the end, the corners of his eyes finally raised a little arc, but it was even more nervous.

"Do you know who sent this secret letter?"

Hearing Emperor Jianheng's question, Feng Wei raised his head slightly, sensing the emperor's disappointment, and replied more cautiously: "Back to Your Majesty, the slave doesn't know." ”

Emperor Jianheng didn't speak, just sneered, and then shook the letterhead in his hand and said: "This is a secret letter from a river envoy in the south of the Yangtze River who avoided the officials above and dared to report to me. ”

Hearing Emperor Jianheng's words, Feng Wei was slightly stunned, and was a little surprised for a while, a river envoy is just a small seven-rank official, compared to the same grade of the county, the power in his hands is even smaller, in this Jingling, which is the Beijing official, it is really not in the stream.

However, a small river envoy dared to avoid the top officials at the top level and report the secret documents directly to the emperor, which is also amazing.

You must know that in the Daxing Law, the requirements for the upper and lower levels are extremely strict, and officials are not allowed to report to the higher levels, otherwise, even if the report is successful, it will still be reduced to three levels.

In this way, it can be seen how determined this little river envoy is to accomplish a mission that is so great for him.

"The secret letter says—"

Emperor Jianheng pinched the thin two pages in his hand, and there was no anger in his tone, but he definitely couldn't hear joy, Feng Wei lowered his head more carefully when he saw this, and then he heard the emperor's voice sound again.

"This year, it rained for half a month in the south, and the Yangtze River rose, breaking the Song'an embankment, and tens of thousands of people along the embankment were destroyed and displaced, all of whom poured into Jiangsu and Zhejiang to escape the disaster. ”

As soon as the words fell, Feng Wei raised his head almost in shock, his eyes were full of disbelief, such a big matter, but the capital did not hear the slightest news, there was no need to think about it, either the officials in the south did not report it and tried to deceive the superiors and subordinates, or someone in the court covered the sky with one hand and planned to cover up the matter.

And the next moment, Feng Wei seemed to suddenly remember something, and said quite worriedly: "Your Majesty, the Wujiang embankment downstream—"

Hearing Feng Wei's abrupt voice, Emperor Jianheng already understood the meaning, the people around the Wujiang embankment are not only more than the Song'an embankment, but also more fertile land, if the Wujiang embankment also bursts, then for Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is a greater trauma, I am afraid that next year's grain harvest will be greatly affected, when the time comes, those grain merchants will not be profitable, and they will take advantage of this to buy grain from grain farmers at low prices on the grounds of poor harvest and low grain quality, but instead hoard it, raise grain prices, and then sell it at a high price, so as to make huge profits.

Emperor Jianheng pressed the letterhead under his hand, and then pinched his eyes with his hand, and said with a little relief: "The letter also mentioned that the Wujiang embankment downstream has not burst, and everything is under control. ”

Hearing this, Feng Wei raised his eyes slightly and pondered, his eyes gradually filled with strange colors, and Emperor Jianheng, who was sitting there, had already taken this into his eyes, seemingly calm, but a burning and fierce fire was gradually spewing outward.

As everyone knows, in the past, when the flood occurred, the situation in the downstream was often more serious than that of the upstream, and the Wujiang embankment was personally supervised by Tan Wuzhen, and the Song'an embankment was allocated by the imperial court by the governor of Zhejiang and the governor and other officials, not only that, the construction of the Song'an embankment cost nearly 200,000 taels more than the Wujiang embankment.

But now, the Song'an embankment has burst, but the Wujiang embankment is intact, and the meaning seems to be needless to say, and it is also very clear.

"This river envoy is a bold person, and he dares to tell me in a secret letter that when the Song'an embankment was built, the officials below took advantage of the silver taels issued by the imperial court and made it shoddy, and the seemingly stable Song'an embankment was just an empty shell that would burst at any time. ”

Sensing Feng Wei's gradually dilated pupils, the corners of Emperor Jianheng's lips were already chilling.

As the king of a country, he worked hard for the country and the people, and dealt with hundreds or even thousands of court affairs day and day in the morning.

But these officials, who were far away from the capital, were openly and honestly exploiting the silver of the state treasury, building such a vulnerable embankment, disregarding the lives of the people like a mustard, and turning all his political achievements into bubbles.

Today, if it weren't for this small river envoy who dared to desperately cross the level of secret music, he would still be kept in the dark until now, and he would have become an incompetent king in the eyes of the people.

"Bastard thing—"

Hearing Emperor Jianheng's words that almost gritted his teeth, Feng Wei silently lowered his head, very close and cautious, and then heard Emperor Jianheng's cold and angry voice.

As for the bright side, it is said that I want to order the Hanlin Academy to sort out the ancient and modern anthologies and revise a book of the world, Xie Yun is to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for me to borrow the treasured books in the name of the imperial court. ”

Feng Wei was slightly stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help blurting out: "Your Majesty, you have to know the cabinet about this matter." ”

Emperor Jianheng sneered at the corner of his lips when he heard this, tens of thousands of people were displaced, such a big thing, but there was no wind in his ears, if it was said that Jiangsu and Zhejiang were concealing the report, he was afraid that he would not dare to give them more than a dozen dares, it can be seen that there must be someone in this cabinet who is really powerful and dares to suppress such things under his nose.

"Since someone wants to hide it, then I will be kept secret, and there is no need to inform the cabinet about this matter. ”

Feng Wei hurriedly bowed his head when he heard this, and at the same time, Emperor Jianheng turned his head and ordered: "By the way, let Han Zhen also follow, let the two of them mention the spirit of the twelve-point to me, don't startle the snake, and bring me the most authentic news when the time comes." ”

Hearing this, Feng Wei already understood Emperor Jianheng's plan.

This matter has to be investigated secretly, and the people sent there can't be too eye-catching, although Xie Yun is famous, but he is just an official under the military department, in the name of repairing classics, Xie Yun's identity as a family is also very suitable.

As for Han Zhen, that was the head of the Jinyi Guard that the emperor trusted and relied on the most, and the emperor naturally wanted to go with Han Zhen to contain Xie Yun.

Indeed, it could not have been a better arrangement.