Chapter 43: The Great Drought of Suhan
But he still handed the letter to Bai Mengtan.
Only then did Bai Mengtan read the contents of the letter clearly.
The letter was written by the King of Jin, and it was said. The land for grain planting originally set for foreign envoys had been finalized, but suddenly the ministers jointly signed a letter and rejected it. The reason was that the foreign envoys were not coming from a clear source, and the seeds of the grain they gave must have been ill-intentioned. He also wanted to take away all kinds of books from his own country from the Northern Qi Kingdom, obviously wanting to cooperate with his own country inside and outside, so as to take the Northern Qi Kingdom in one fell swoop. Your Majesty should not be bewitched by such wolf ambitions.
Under pressure, John and his others were temporarily detained in the dungeon and waited for the time being. And the King of Jin is now also unable to protect himself.
"These people are the opposite, and they don't even care about the majesty of the Son of Heaven." Bai Mengtan angrily threw the letter on the ground and kept stepping on it with his feet.
As if they were going to tear all those ministers to pieces and feed them to the pigs.
John, what a sin they were, those ministers really blinded their dogs. Other countries have made people who can bring food gods and gods, but who knows that when they reach the Northern Qi Kingdom, they will become guilty of rebellion? Know that John's house was far away on the west side of the sea. Even if it's down the river, day and night. It is also necessary to wander on the vast sea for two whole years, such a laborious and thankless task, which is not really intended to be befriended, and no monarch will make such a decision.
"No, I'm going to explain this to my father, John has absolutely no intention of rebelling." Bai Mengtan turned around and wanted to find Bai Chenyi.
"You come back to me." was stopped by Natsuya vine.
"Brother Shizi, John was brought in by me, and I must not do anything without it." Bai Mengtan anxiously explained, and his little face became a mess.
At this time, the wound that Xia Yeteng had finally closed was tossed by her, and the blood flowed directly from his shoulder to his wrist, and finally on the snow-white cuffs, it seemed to bloom a dazzling blood lotus.
Bai Mengtan was instantly frightened, and gradually regained his senses.
I saw that the thin lips of Xia Yevine had long lost their blood color.
"Brother Shizi, I didn't mean to." Bai Mengtan hurriedly supported him.
Bai Xiyang also stepped forward and helped Xia Yeteng to the side of the rattan chair to rest.
Xia Yetou whispered, "Tan'er, your father is not a faint king, he has his own decision on what is right and what is wrong." What we need to do now is to let the people of Qidu know that there are six grains. ”
"The people take food as the sky, and for the people, there is food that is convenient to grow cheap and can fill their stomachs, and no one will refuse. When the time comes, let the people sign the book of all people, and the water can overturn the boat and carry the boat. As for how those officials are refuting, do they really want to arouse public indignation? ”
"Brother Shizi is right." Bai Meng's dim eyes lit up.
Even Bai Xiyang, who was originally anxious on the side, had to admire Xia Yeteng's ingenuity, and in a short period of time, he was able to analyze this tricky matter.
It's a pity that the faint monarch of Yanbei Kingdom put such a good son in Northern Qi Kingdom but ignored it.
But how to let the people know about the existence of the six grains and win the hearts of the people. Coming back from the bamboo building, Bai Mengtan had been thinking about this question, although she knew that as long as she asked Xia Yeteng again. Shiko's brother would have told her the answer, but she felt that she couldn't rely on him all the time, because she had approached Natsuyoto to rely on his abilities before.
But over time, Bai Mengtan knew that one day Xia Yeteng would leave the Northern Qi Kingdom, and his ambition was far from here.
She can rely on him for a while, but she can't be for a lifetime. So she will try her best to make herself gradually stronger, to protect the queen mother, protect the Northern Qi Kingdom, and protect the people she wants to protect.
She wants to make Brother Shizi feel that she is there, definitely not to hold him back, but to add icing on the cake.
Back to bed.
The summer solstice weather is exceptionally hot, which makes Bai Mengtan extremely irritable.
She found a fan and kept fanning it.
His mouth called, "Zhuzhu brought me a glass of water." ”
A little maid rushed over when she heard the sound, and lowered her body, "Someone came to find the maid of Zhuzhu, she went out first, and the special slave maid came to find the third princess." ”
The little maid was very good-eyed, and Bai Mengtan looked her up and down and asked, "What's your name?" People you have there? How many years have you been in the palace? ”
The little maid poured her a cup of tea and replied, "The slave maid is named Jiale, a member of Su Khan, and has been in the palace for two years. ”
"It's been two years, have you been serving in the Zixuan Palace?" With a cup of tea in his throat, Bai Mengtan suddenly felt a lot more comfortable, and asked casually.
"No, I only came from Shu Meiren a few days ago." As soon as the little maid finished speaking, the person knelt in front of Bai Mengtan.
Bai Mengtan was surprised, and hurriedly asked, "Jiale, why are you doing this?" ”
Jiale's delicate little face was instantly filled with tears, and she twitched, "Third princess, I heard that the maids in the palace said that you are kind-hearted and a bodhisattva." It is also very good for the maids in your palace, Jiale begs you to save the people of Su Khan. ”
In fact, before coming to Zixuan Palace, Jiale didn't know how many times he had been tossing and turning with concubines and beauties in the palace. She was originally a person who had no desires and no desires, and she just wanted to spend her time in this deep palace peacefully. But God didn't want to treat her like this, her father was Su Khan's low county magistrate, this year Su Khan encountered a once-in-a-century drought, but the officials above have suppressed this matter in order to protect themselves, although Su Khan is not a rich place, but the people can live and work there in peace and contentment, and live freely.
But now the people are not living, this matter is really about to be known by His Majesty, her father lost his official position is small, but Su Khan's people are also not properly settled.
"What's wrong with Su Khan?" Bai Mengtan asked puzzled.
Some of her less important memories of her previous life began to blur a little, and she didn't know much about political matters.
But when it comes to disasters, she remembers that one year there were a lot of refugees in the capital of Qi, and the streets and alleys of the city were crowded with many begging people.
But later, when autumn was approaching, it rained heavily in various parts of Northern Qi, which almost caused flooding.
The refugees disappeared after the heavy rains, and the people in the city were talking about how most of them had gone home.
Jia Le saw that Bai Mengtan had the heart to ask herself, and no matter whether she could impress this time, the rumored arrogant and willful third princess in front of her.
As long as there is a glimmer of life to save the people of Su Khan, she will not let it go.
"Third princess, Su Khan is located in the north of the Northern Qi Kingdom, and there is no harvest in the arid land this year, and the people are miserable. Many people in Su Khan heard that the capital of Qi was here, and the land was fertile. Not far away, they trekked through mountains and rivers to come to the capital of Qi, but they could only gather in a desolate place on the outskirts and make a living by begging. ”
"Then you mean that you want me to save the people of Su Khan." Bai Mengtan was not stupid, so he naturally heard the meaning of her words.
"Ask the third princess to save them!"
Saving people, Bai Mengtan's face was melancholy. In his previous life, his grandfather's family was also emptied of the food for disaster relief by the officials above because of the drought, which led to the destruction of the Xu family.
In this life, Su Khan was only three years earlier than his maternal grandfather. Since Su Khan's people have to run thousands of miles to the capital of Qi, you can imagine the situation there, maybe as Jia Le said, everyone is forced by life, otherwise they would not have left their hometown and came to this strange place.
In order to prevent history from repeating itself again, Bai Mengtan felt that he should do something.
And she seems to have thought of a way to solve the problem of Liugu, the survival of the people of Su Khan, and the way to make those officials in the court obediently shut up, which can kill two birds with one stone.
"Jiale, would you like to accompany me to a place."
"As long as the people who can save Su Khan, the slaves and maids will listen to your arrangement from the third princess."
The people of Su Khan are kind to her, so even if she tries her best, Jia Le wants to gamble.
It's just that to her surprise, the nobles in the palace heard about the situation on Su Khan's side and avoided her, and she just said a word, and the third princess was willing to help her.
She didn't care about the three princesses in front of her, for whatever reason, she promised to help Su Khan, as long as she could save Su Khan, she was willing to bear all the punishments afterwards.
Bai Mengtan buys off the guards guarding the dungeon.
They followed the jailer all the way, and the lights on the walls of the dungeon flickered on and off, and the whole dungeon seemed lifeless.
Inside the bars were all sorts of people, dressed in rags. Many prisoners suffered injuries on their bodies, and the rotten flesh on their bodies was scattered after being whipped.
It's shocking.
Bai Mengtan only felt sick to his stomach. But she had to go and see John.
At last he made his way to the room where John was, and the cell opposite him was where his brother was being held with him.
"John." Bai Mengtan broke away from the jailer and called him lightly.
John lifted his bloodshot eyes, and the black skin supported him in a panic.
Jiale was frightened and hurriedly took a few steps back, Bai Mengtan saw her fear, reached out and grabbed her, signaling her not to be afraid.
John heard the voice, but didn't walk in front of Bai Mengtan.
Bai Mengtan knew that he was resentful of himself at this time, and no one would want to be charged with trumped-up charges and imprisoned.
"Brother John, I know you're mad at me, but trust me, I'll get you out."
"Save us out, you are really good at talking, you swore that you would help us introduce His Majesty the Emperor of the Northern Qi Kingdom, but you introduced the seeds of the grain that you brought us now, and wrongly accused us of saying that there was a conspiracy to rebel." John's voice was hoarse and tinged with anger.
He blames himself for believing in people wrongly, and he himself suffers, but the brothers who follow him are innocent.
"Brother John, what's wrong with your voice?" Bai Xiyan didn't promise her that he would arrange manpower in the dungeon so that John would not suffer here.
"What about me, do you still need to take care of it now?" He looked at Bai Mengtan with disdain, a group of people came to the dungeon last night, threatening them to hand over the rest of the food he brought.
He refused to speak, and inevitably suffered some flesh and skin, plus he had not slept all night, and his body was naturally a little tired.
"Brother John, I swear in the name of the descendants of the Bai clan that if I can't succeed in saving you, I will go to hell with you."
Bai Mengtan's oath is true.
"You deserve to go to hell."
John got up and rushed to the iron bar and stretched out his hands, as if he wanted to crush Bai Mengtan's neck, Bai Mengtan stood straight in place, waiting for the next punishment.
"Third princess, be careful." Jia Le hurriedly pushed Bai Mengtan away, and the person in front of John no longer Bai Mengtan immediately withdrew his hand.
The hat on Bai Mengtan's black cloak fell, and the whole person was pushed to the ground by the sudden momentum.
In the past, the handsome boy brother became a delicate little girl in front of John, and the temporary sense of gap suddenly surprised him.