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Here's the anti-theft chapter, so you don't have to read it. Ten minutes on pinch, the author is very punctual.

This winter, everyone is destined to not be able to have a good New Year.

First of all, during the Great Dynasty Meeting, a letter from the Qintian Prison caused an uproar.

When the supervisor went to court, he told the emperor that "there is heavy snow in the north, and there may be hailstorms in Beijing", which was reprimanded by the courtiers one after another. The people who denounced it felt that there was no basis for this, and there was no report of the snow disaster in various places, which could only be regarded as a personal assumption, and should not be taken as a serious matter at the court meeting.

Originally, the Qin Tianjian was not a prominent official, but was only responsible for surveying astronomy and geography, correcting the calendar, and calculating the weather. Qin Tianjian deduced the weather based on the celestial phenomena, and only when the clear day was determined would the emperor carry out a series of activities such as sacrifices, hunting, and expeditions.

Most of the warnings of disasters such as ground movement, heavy rain, and drought do not come from the prediction of the Qin Tianjiao, but are sent by the subordinate officials of the Qin Tianjian in various places to observe the climate, the situation of animals and plants, and if there is a vision, they are sent to the Qin Tianjian in the capital, and then monitored.

This Qin Tianjian supervisor did not leave his house, only watched the sky at night in Beijing, and pinched his fingers to calculate that it was already snowing heavily in the north, and there would be a hailstorm in Beijing? Then why do you sacrifice heaven and earth? First of all, just offer the prisoner of Qin Tianjian to worship.

However, the supervisor continued to advance, saying that this prediction was not made by him, but from Zhang Xuan, the five senses Lingtai Lang who was responsible for observing astronomy. As soon as these words came out, half of the people who denounced them were reduced.

Many of these courtiers also believed in Taoism, and they were no strangers to Zhang Xuan, a Taoist priest in Longhu Mountain.

Although Zhang Xuan is only a small seven-rank official, he has a lot of background. He was born in a large family, and his ancestor was the Taishi Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who produced the "geodynamic instrument", "armillary sphere", and "guide car" Zhang Heng.

Zhang Xuan's family has a history of learning astronomy and calendrical calculations since childhood. Later, his family's old friend, the Taoist head of Longhu Mountain, went to his house as a guest, admired him greatly, and after obtaining the consent of Zhang's house, he brought him into Longhu Mountain to become a monk. At the age of ten, Zhang Xuan was given the "Confession", became a orthodox school, and began to systematically study astronomy, calendar, feng shui, and yin and yang.

Longhu Mountain is the altar of the "Zhengyi faction", the Zhengyi faction pays attention to self-cultivation and self-cultivation, and encourages disciples to actively enter the WTO and benefit themselves, so the disciples can marry wives and have children. The Zhengyi faction was also very popular among high-ranking officials and nobles, and many literati and scholars vied with each other to learn various health preservation techniques.

Because it is not good at alchemy, the reputation of the Zhengyi faction is very good, when the emperor revolted, he also sent Taoist soldiers down the mountain to assist, responsible for measuring the weather and surveying the water source, some of them who are good at medical skills have become "military doctors", saving the lives of many soldiers.

At the age of twenty-four, this Zhang Xuan became famous all over the world because he successfully predicted a ground movement, and was called into Beijing and entered the Qintian Prison. He is different from the officials who came from "officials" or "calculations" in the Qin Heavenly Prison, and once he enters, he will inevitably be quite excluded and cannot be reused.

But although his official position in the court is small, he has a four-rank Taoist priesthood in the "Zhengyi faction", so he doesn't think so, and he doesn't compete with them for fame and fortune. Moreover, he entered Beijing as an official only to avoid forced marriage at home, not for the official position, so he naturally looked down on him, but was more respected.

He is good at feng shui, and he is very famous in the capital, and sometimes when an official is unlucky, he will go to Qintianjian to ask him to take a look at the feng shui in the palace. Every time he went over the house to give a few pointers, these officials really went to the mold quickly, and they were even more convinced of him.

There are also people who want to open a mansion and set up a house, and ask him to survey feng shui, and they all have gains.

If Gu Qing looks at it, he can only say that he is a veritable "god stick".

Chu Rui, the emperor of this dynasty, didn't care about these gods and ghosts, so he didn't know anything about Zhang Xuan, who was a Lingtai Lang with facial features. Later, this Zhang Xuan "risked death" to him in the study of Zichen Palace, which made Chu Rui, an official, interested. When he carefully inquired about his origin, he learned that Lu Dao was also a famous person.

This is precisely because his performance is more convincing than Li Mao's "hearing what his cousin said", so Chu Rui decided not to let Li Mao play it again after discussing with his confidants and ministers, so as not to make the world sensitive and have twists and turns in what could have been done. Zhang Xuan originally cared about the common people in the world, and was not interested in factional struggles, and the emperor asked him to play, so he followed the emperor's wishes and worked with the supervisor to find out the disaster of the "heavy snow in the north".

If Qin Tianjian's performance only made some officials in the court suspicious, then the joint performance of the Guozi eunuch and the students later confirmed the crime of "concealing the disaster" by officials in Tongzhou and Fenzhou.

The cause of this incident was that a student of Guozijian rushed home for the New Year, but found that the road was frozen, the snow did not reach the thigh, and he could not take a step further north, so he had to turn back and stay in Beijing, and he couldn't help complaining.

The students who returned from the north felt the tragic situation of the poor people who had no clothes to protect themselves from the cold and no shelter on the way, and froze to death on the side of the street, so they came up with the idea of expressing their feelings and joined other students from Tongzhou and Fenzhou to play outside the palace gate together.

Guozi eunuchs and students jointly asked for the people's lives outside the palace gate, which was the first time in the more than ten years since the founding of the Great Chu State. This group of students and scholars marched from Guozijian Street through Zhongmen Street until Dongshi entered the inner city and then outside the palace gate, causing countless officials and people to look sideways along the way, causing a great shock in the capital.

These students shouted a petition outside the palace gate, asking the imperial court to provide relief to the victims and punish the evil officials who concealed the disaster and did not report it, which made many people applaud, but many officials who were supposed to be in charge of these things did not know much about this matter, and they couldn't help but be a little slapped in the face.

The impact of this incident was very great, and the emperor had to come forward to issue an edict, saying that he would send the imperial historian to find out the disaster and provide disaster relief on the spot without delay, so that the students dispersed.

The emperor met with the students who jointly played the game, and responded to the grievances of these Guozijian students, and also made these Guozijian students grateful, and they couldn't wait to immediately "smear their liver and brains" to thank Jun's kindness. Shilin also praised Chu Rui on the throne and wrote a lot of poems praising virtue.

The speech of this dynasty is much freer than that of previous dynasties, and now these imperial students of the country are "□□ and presenting their feelings" in white, which really attracted the attention of the emperor, and even achieved success.

Everything is advancing step by step according to the assumptions of Chu Rui, Li Mao and others. In the month of Layue, the students and the early morning jointly played, the emperor was furious, and at noon that day, he issued an edict and immediately sent the imperial history out of Beijing with a forbidden army to find out the disaster.

After going to court the next day, Chu Rui asked about the snow disaster, and the clan faction and the royalist faction were arguing again, arguing about the back-and-forth arguments between "how to punish officials" and "how to provide disaster relief", and there was quite a tendency to put on a tug-of-war.

All of this fulfilled Li Mao and Chu Rui's expectations.

Fortunately, they have a back hand.

Zhang Ning, the official of the "neutral faction" at the last time, played a concert and suggested that the local officials affected by the disaster should cooperate with the imperial history sent by Jingzhong, and first provide disaster relief in the local area. In this way, the immediate needs can be solved and the magistrates in these affected areas will not be delayed.

The reason why Beijing is backlashing so much against those officials who propose impeachment is that these local officials are inextricably linked to high-ranking officials in Beijing. The emperor was willing to press the matter of punishing the crime first, giving priority to disaster relief, giving the high-ranking officials of the clan a signal that "the emperor has once again compromised with them", and it is indeed a loss of virtue to not provide relief for serious disasters, so he did not hinder this matter anymore.

Once the decree is reached, it can be done very quickly.

In the various sections of post roads leading from central Beijing to Tongzhou and Fenzhou, nearly 1,000 people were immediately allocated to sprinkle soil and salt, clear the snow, so that the affected people could go south to avoid the disaster, and set up porridge sheds along the road, distribute winter clothes, and send soldiers to take care of the materials to prevent looting.

Officials and aristocrats, wealthy businessmen and celebrities in central Beijing also donated money and grain to set up porridge factories to assist in disaster relief.

The snow disaster at the end of the year is naturally a big touch, and it also has an impact on the New Year, but it is precisely because it is at the end of the year that the taxes paid in various places have been handed over to the state treasury, the treasury is abundant, and the household department Shangshu has the confidence to do things.

Naturally, the head of the household department wanted to show his face in this disaster relief, and he stayed in the ministry every day. The Ministry of Industry is responsible for cleaning roads, erecting beams and bridges, preventing hailstorms, and supervising the reinforcement of roofs and houses inside and outside the capital.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, it was the time of the sacrifice stove, suddenly there was a secret envoy from Fenzhou into Beijing, this secret envoy did not go from the post road, all the way was quite dangerous, and soon after entering Beijing, he directly entered the palace.

An official reported that Ma Cao, who was in charge of raising horses at the local horse farm, was burning horse carcasses. The official who sent the secret envoy was named Liu Peng, a senator from Fenzhou, and was detained by the pasture's Mu Cheng on charges of "local interference in military affairs" when he was investigating the situation. Another senator with the village soldiers of the pasture area has been facing off for several days with Ma Cao and the soldiers who are in charge of the grazing affairs.

When Chu Rui saw the report, he really even had the heart to eat those horse guards.

According to Zhang Xuan's speculation, the herdsmen of the tribes outside the northern Guanguan should have also suffered from the snow disaster this winter, and the snow fell more than that in the Guannei.

The people of these tribes live on cattle and sheep, and live on water and grass, and if the cattle and sheep freeze to death on a large scale, they can only take risks under the famine and plunder the border passes. They are strong soldiers on horseback, herdsmen on horseback, and most of the heavy troops of Dachu are arranged in the border pass in the west to defend against the counterattack of the Hu people in front of the war, and most of the border passes in the north are village soldiers, only a few elite soldiers, and the army will be redeployed in the coming year.

These war horses in Fenzhou are related to the battle situation that may occur after the beginning of spring, and Chu Rui has even decided to let the supervisor in charge of the "driving division" in the military department take someone to Fenzhou to personally inspect the loss of the war horses.

At this time, there was a situation of Ma Cao burning the horse corpse, which made Chu Rui, who was cautious by nature, have to think deeply about what kind of terrible state the pasture in Fenzhou has reached.

Fenzhou was hit by the disaster, and I am afraid that it is not that the local officials did not hide it and did not report it, but that they could not send it to Lu at all!

"Xuan Li Mao!"

When the emperor summoned Li Mao, Li Mao was taking his two children to the sacrificial stove.

Because the woman of the sacrificial stove must be avoided, Li Mao, as the only adult male in the family, had to take leave and go home.

Recently, the six departments have been very busy because of disaster relief, and he has been staying in the ministry for several days, and the two children did not dare to make noise when they saw the deep black circle under Li Mao's eyes, and obediently followed Li Mao to worship the god of the stove.

The main seat of the god of the stove is set up on the stove, and the tripod is displayed in front of the main seat, and there are offerings such as pig's head and fresh fish and straw horses tied with straw. After Li Mao took his two children to worship the god of the stove, he took off the old portrait of the god of the stove, asked Li Ming to seal the mouth of the god of the stove with the candy of the stove, and then threw the portrait and the grass horse into the brazier and burned it.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, they will welcome back the god of the stove, and it will be a lot of chaos.

During this period, there was no supervision by the god of the stove, and they were not afraid of the god of the stove making small reports, so they could drink and feast to their heart's content and have fun in time, even if they gathered to play dice, it was not out of line.

After twenty-three, it can be regarded as a complete beginning of the year.

Li Mao took a leave of absence for half a day today, and both the ministry and the emperor knew about the situation. The sacrificial stove is a major event, and at this time, the palace is fast to come to announce Li Mao, and several courtiers who live in Qingshuifang are speculating about what happened.

Li Mao received the emperor's edict, immediately went back to his room to change into official clothes, and immediately entered the palace, leaving the house without saying hello to the Fang family, who was dealing with his affairs in the back hall

The two children had just finished sacrificing to the god of the stove, and when they saw Li Mao being called away, one went to the East Garden to find his mother, and the other hurried to the West Garden to find the two gentlemen.

There is something in the house, except for Li Mao, there are only two gentlemen in the family who can discuss one or two.

It is said that Li Mao rode a fast horse to the palace city, and along the way he was wondering whether there was an accident in Tongzhou or Fenzhou.

If something happens in Fenzhou, it must be on the horse farm, and if something happens in Tongzhou, it must be a great event.

This political matter is no trivial matter, the two states are related to hundreds of people, Li Mao hopes in his heart that there will be no accidents in the two states, but the emperor is so urgent that he has to plan for the worst.

After he entered the palace and saw the saint, the salute was only halfway through, and Chu Rui really said in a deep voice:

"Li Qing, there has just been a secret fold stamped with the seal of the Fenzhou Senate. Something happened at the horse farm in Fenzhou. ”

Li Mao is the Duke of the Kingdom, so he didn't have to kneel when he saluted, but Chu Rui's words made him bend down and turn into kneeling, landing on his knees, and □ directly.

"The minister is guilty."

Li Mao was one of the squires of the military department, in charge of military selection, maps, chariots and horses, and armor. The current secretary of the military department is Li Shuo's old subordinate and takes good care of Li Mao. This Shangshu is already old, and most of the practice is done by Li Mao and another squire, and he will return to his hometown in a few years, and if there is no mistake at that time, Li Mao should be promoted to the secretary of the military department.

The horse farm in Fenzhou is directly under the "driving department" of the Ministry of War, and it has been established for eight years, and it has never made a mistake before. Fenzhou's horse-drawn carriages were specially used to provide good horses for the army, post stations and royal families, and the good breeds obtained from trade or other channels in various places would also be sent to the horse farms in Fenzhou for breeding.

Li Mao, as a deacon official of the Ministry of War, is also responsible for the accident at the Fenzhou Racecourse.

"Now is not the time to say that sin is not sinful. Look at this secret fold. Chu Rui picked up Li Mao and handed him the secret fold.

Li Mao thanked the emperor, opened the secret fold and immediately read it, and the more he read, the more frightened he became.

It turned out that there was a heavy snow in Fenzhou, and when it had just started, a local official in Fenzhou had already reported to his boss and asked to send an envoy. The political envoy of Fenzhou agreed to the letter of participation in politics from the left and right, and sent envoys to set off from the post station and enter Beijing to play.

Then the heavy snow in Fenzhou became heavier and heavier, but no one came to Beijing, and the political envoy who was the chief official was not in a hurry, and Liu Peng, the left senator, couldn't help but be suspicious, so he secretly sent someone to check, and found that the messenger was stranded in a certain post station and did not go to Beijing.

The reason was that the horses at the post station were frostbitten, and there were no horses to use, and his own horses and horses were frozen to death, and he himself had a cold and was sick in the post station. It's just that for some reason, there was no one to report or take care of the post station, which caused the messenger to almost die of illness in the post station due to the wind and cold.

Fenzhou produces horses, and there are at least five horses in each post station of Fenzhou Post Road who are responsible for transferring. Even if you get frostbitten, you can't have a horse without it. This senator named Liu Peng was serious, and he did not act rashly, but continued to investigate slowly.

Then it snowed heavily, and someone from the horse farm came to report it. In order to prevent healthy horses from being infected, Mu Cheng asked to burn the horse carcass and bury it on the spot.

The military and government of Fenzhou are separated, and the affairs of this horse farm are not under the jurisdiction of the political envoys, and reporting this matter is only a report. However, there was no horse to contact the post station, Liu Peng was really uneasy, and set off overnight, wrapped the feet of the mule and donkey with straw, and braved the heavy snow to rush to Lingyuan County, where the ranch in the north of Fenzhou is located.

When he arrived in Lingyuan County, he first found the local county magistrate and asked about the situation of the horse farm in detail, and after learning that there had indeed been a burning of horse corpses since the eighteenth day of the lunar month, he quickly found a Lang Zhong who was good at treating livestock to secretly check the horse corpses piled up outside the horse farm waiting to be incinerated, and confirmed that they were all frozen to death and there was no epidemic, and his heart was extremely shocked.

Liu Peng is a veteran who has experienced war and knows the importance of war horses. He was worried that something big had happened in the racecourse, and someone wanted to take advantage of the fact that the war horses were frozen to death, and secretly hid the war horses to make trouble, so he sent a secret envoy into Beijing, and at the same time showed his identity and personally negotiated with the chief officer of the racecourse, but he was forbidden to enter the racecourse, and was even detained by the arrogant soldiers guarding the racecourse.

Liu Peng is a left senator, the county official did not dare to make a mistake, and led the township soldiers to confront the soldiers of the horse farm, demanding the release of Liu Peng, but the local officials were not allowed to ask about the affairs of the soldiers and horses barracks It was a rule set by the emperor, and the township soldiers did not dare to force their way into the horse farm, and the two sides reached a stalemate.

This heavy snowfall involved many situations such as hermits, clans, horse farms, military and political affairs, and post roads, which was really unexpected. In the past, when the wind and rain were good, there were no disasters and famines, and these crises could not be manifested, but now natural disasters are all together, * swarming.

"In Yichen's opinion, the matter of Fenzhou Racecourse is quite suspicious. If it weren't for the horse farm officials secretly hiding the war horses, there was something wrong with these war horses. There are not even enough stagecoaches at the post station, which shows that the situation is really serious. ”

Li Maozhi said that he couldn't avoid this matter, so he simply invited himself to go on patrol.

"The minister invites himself to go to Fenzhou, and I hope that His Majesty will allow it!"

He is the Duke of Xinguo, and one of the chief officials of the Ministry of War, with a high and powerful position, and the people in the racecourse dare to be arrogant and unreasonable to the magistrates in Fenzhou, because there are rules set by the emperor. At this time, Li Mao went out on patrol, he was a senior official, and he was an important minister of the country, and the local officials must fully cooperate, Li Shuo was quite prestigious in the army, as Li Shuo's son-in-law, Li Mao was a suitable candidate.

Chu Rui was waiting for Li Mao's words at this time, and immediately rejoiced when he heard it: "I am very pleased that the Duke of Xinguo is loyal. Li Qing went to Fenzhou this time, everything is complicated, or there is danger, I need to carefully consider the other people who follow him, Li Qing will go back to the house first to prepare, wait for everyone to be ready, you hurry to Fenzhou! ”