On that day, when the Son of Heaven Liu Qi ordered Wang Cheng to pass the edict, Zhi Du was acting in the court lieutenant office to handle the criminal case file, and as soon as he heard that the soldiers came to report that the Son of Heaven ordered Wang Cheng to come here to pass the edict, he hurriedly went out of the court lieutenant office to greet him.

Hearing what Wang Yan said, the matter in Hedong was so urgent, His Majesty even said that there was no need to go to the palace to meet him, but hurried to Hedong.

Immediately, Zhidu put down the criminal case file in his hand, took the scepter of the Son of Heaven, and rushed to Hedong by car.

Zhidu's trip is very different from Liu Rong, there are only dozens of people accompanying him, which can really be described as a light car, and along the way, he didn't think that Liu Rong and others would encounter heavy snow blocking the road.

After only two days of this, Zhidu passed through Hangu Pass and arrived along the river.

However, because it was late, it was not suitable for the boat to sail at night, so he rested for the night at a nearby post station, and arrived in the east of the river in the early morning of the second day.

As soon as he entered the realm of Hedong, the soldiers who came with Zhidu asked: "I wonder if we will go to Anyi City, the seat of Hedong Governance?" ”。

Zhi Du said: "If you don't go to Anyi, immediately transfer to Fenyin."

"No!".

However, when Zhidu stepped into the territory of Fenyin, the first person he saw was not Liu Rong, the eldest son of the emperor, nor Xu Teng, the county commander of Fenyin, but the Taishou Shentu Gong of Hedong who had been waiting here for a long time.

Shen Tu Gong and Zhi Du are very familiar with each other, and as soon as they saw Zhi Du coming, they immediately invited him to Fenyin County.

Zhidu originally wanted to go to Fenyin to see Liu Rong first, but when he saw that Shen Tugong was so gracious, it was difficult to refuse.

Although Zhi is a cool official, and he has the favor of the Son of Heaven to be ranked as a high-ranking official of the court of Jiuqing, he himself also knows the way to be an official.

After arriving at the Fenyin County Ya, Shentu Gongdang ordered the attendants to pass a few dishes of wine and food, and wanted to drink them with Zhidu.

He raised his glass and said, "Captain Zhi Tingwei is here, and the ministers will personally entertain him."

At that time, Zhi Tingwei's feat in Jinan County was a model for my Han family."

Although Zhi Du was unusually cold, he was still a little happy to hear Shen Tu Gong praise him like this.

At that time, Zhidu was only a small lieutenant general in the palace, and he was not liked by His Majesty, but he still seized the opportunity of the rampaging of Jinan Zhonghaoqiang at that time, and asked Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, to order him to go to Jinan County to rectify Haoqiang, and finally won the eyes of Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, and was reused by the Son of Heaven, and became the court lieutenant of Jiuqing............

Although Ran Zhidu was a little happy, he still said with a cold face: "You can't be praised by Shentu Taishou like this."

"I don't know what Your Majesty sent Zhi Tingwei here this time?"

Hearing this, Zhidu also raised his wine glass, looked at Shentu Gongyan in front of him, and said, "Why am I here, don't Shentu Taishou know?" ”。

Shen Tugong smiled embarrassedly: "Wang Tingwei said bluntly."

After drinking all the wine in his hand and putting down the wine glass in his hand, Zhi Du immediately questioned Shentu fairly: "There has been a great drought in Hedong for several months, why does Shentu not report to the Son of Heaven!" ”。

Shen Tugong didn't expect it, and Zhi Du began to get into the main topic, "This...... In this ......, Tingwei may not know that the lower officials have shown a neglect of the Son of Heaven, and the great drought in Hedong is not a one-day thing, and this summer, it should have been a rainy season, but there were only three rains between two months, and it was only a drizzle.

And when the officials were about to report to the Son of Heaven, they happened to encounter the rebellion of the five kingdoms of Wu and Chu, and His Majesty and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were already anxious about the rebellion, so the ministers did not dare to report the drought in Hedong to His Majesty, which ...... distracted His Majesty."

After finishing speaking, looking at Zhidu, who had a cold and aggressive face, Shen Tugong said again: "So it has dragged on to this day."

Although he has already made up for the deficit of the official warehouse, he is still a little weak in the face of Zhidu Shentu Gong.

For the officials in Hedong, Shen Tugong did not worry too much, because all the officials in the entire Hedong were pulled into this feast of sucking the blood and sweat of the people.

They are all people in the same boat, and if one of them has an accident, the rest of them will also be doomed............

Since he and Zhou Yangyou ordered to eradicate all the powerful and powerful in Anyi City, the rich and powerful merchants in the entire Hedong have all been rumors and soldiers, but one day, this butcher's knife of Taishou will reach in front of him............

After hearing that a prince came to Hedong, he had the heart to report to this prince, but the iron also had to be hard, and there were few of these heroes who were clean, and most of them were people who bought the grain of the root warehouse and sold it, and they were afraid that if they reported the mistakes of the officials, they would not escape death.

Since ancient times, the people did not fight with officials, and there was a saying that a strong dragon did not suppress the head snake, this Shentu Gong and Zhou Yangyou were the head snake in Hedong County, even if there was a real dragon Liu Rong, they did not dare to offend Taishou easily.

I'm afraid that after the time comes to report Taishou, as soon as the prince leaves, his entire family will be slaughtered.

"Is it really as Shentu Taishou said?"

Shen Tu Gong said stubbornly: "There is no deception,"

In this way, Zhi Du didn't say much, got up and bowed his hand to Shen Tugong, "I still have to go to see His Royal Highness the eldest son of the emperor, so I will leave!" ”。

Shen Tu Gong naturally got up immediately to send Zhi Du out of this Fenyin County Ya, and watched Zhi Du leave in the car, Shen Tu Gong was relieved, and then he only felt that his back was in a cold sweat in this winter.

As soon as he returned to the mansion and sat down, he sighed with emotion: "Zhi is worthy of the name of the goshawk!" ”。

At this time, Shen Tu Gong already knew that this person had come here, and it was definitely impossible for him to come here and walk around......

It must be murder to appease the wrath of the Son of Heaven.

He said to himself in a frenzy: "Why don't you kill all the heroes of Hedong?" ”。

But after thinking about it, he said: "It is still not possible to only kill the powerful and not the officials!" ”。

In this way, Shen Tugong hit Zhou Yangyou again, although he and Zhou Yang were in the same bed at this time, but this was only because the two were tied together at the moment, if this matter was over, they would definitely fight to the death.

And Shen Tu Gong thought of a clever plan to get the best of both worlds, one can overcome this difficulty, and the other can suppress Zhou Yangyou.

Long before coming to Fenyin, Shen Tugong inquired clearly, Liu Rong only went to two counties in Hedong, one of which is Xinyuan County, where the Marquis of Beiping is located, and the other is the current Fenyin County.

However, the county orders of these two counties are all Zhou Yangyou's people, thinking of this, Shen Tugong secretly said: "Zhou Duwei, don't blame Ben for being too ruthless!"

With the heads of these two thousand stone county orders, it should be able to calm the anger of His Majesty ......."

Immediately, Shen Tugong began to plan how to pull these two counties into the water and be scapegoats.

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And Zhidu came out of Yayi in Fenyin County, and even when he arrived at the place where Liu Rong was stationed.

As soon as it was passed, the soldiers outside the door immediately led Zhidu into the barracks.

Liu Rong was still thinking about who his father would send, but when he heard that the soldiers guarding the camp came to report that the person who came was Tingwei Zhidu, Liu Rong not only sighed: "It seems that Dad is going to be ruthless to rectify the rule of the officials in Hedong, and even Zhidu has sent out a big killing weapon, and the water in Hedong is getting darker and darker!" ”。

"Ministers and Lieutenants Zhidu, meet Your Highness", Zhidu saluted.

As soon as he saw Zhidu in the account, Liu Rong got up and said: "I never thought that my father would send Zhiqing to Hedong."

Zhidu arched his hand again, "Your Highness should not be like this."

Liu Rong has long been accustomed to Zhidu's cold tone, and Liu Rong has often seen Zhidu in the Tingwei Office since his father Liu Qi sent him to the Tingwei Office to act in Chang'an's prison. However, no matter how Liu Rong is close to Zhi, he turns a blind eye and does not hear it, and it seems that he can no longer tolerate anyone except the Son of Heaven.

Later, Liu Rong sighed with emotion: Zhidu is somewhat similar to Chao Cuo............

And when he heard that Zhidu said that the Shicai Shentu Gong had invited him to the Fenyin County Ya, Liu Rong still asked, "Does Shentu Gong have anything to say about the drought in Hedong?" ”。

And Zhidu repeated Shentu Gong's words to Liu Rong from beginning to end.

When I heard Shen Tu say that he did not report the drought in Hedong to the Son of Heaven because of the rebellion of Wu Chu, he was afraid of distracting the courtiers and His Majesty.

Liu Rong, who was angry, scolded on the spot: "Piff! Capital crime! ”。

I am afraid that this reason can only coax a three-year-old child, and it has been several months since the imperial court put down the rebellion of Wu Chu, and he still dares to use the rebellion of Wu Chu as an excuse......

Then Liu Rong asked Zhi Du again: "Father sent Zhi Qing to find out about this matter, I don't know what Qing has planned."

"Your Royal Highness, the minister plans to go to the two granaries of Hedong Root Warehouse and Wet Warehouse in the near future to check how the grain storage in Hedong Granary is!"

Hearing this, Liu Rong nodded, this Zhidu really has two brushes, and he can see this important place at a glance.

The price of grain in Hedong has skyrocketed several times, and there are millions of stone of grain in the root warehouse and wet warehouse.

Liu Rong also thinks that someone will definitely have the idea of fighting the granary.

"Zhi Qing's words are reasonable, but it will take some time for Zhi Qing to check so many grain accounts, why don't you take the master father Yan to check with Qing together?"

Although the master father Yan is Liu Rong's subordinate, he is still nominally a person who is under the management of Zhidu, so of course Zhidu knows who the master father Yan is.

Ran Zhidu did not refuse Liu Rong's intention this time, and after some thought, he arched his hand and said: "The minister will thank His Highness for his kindness."

Hearing this, Liu Rong smiled and ordered the attendants on the side to come to the big tent of the lord's father.

This time, the master's father asked Liu Rong to accompany him to Hedong, and when he was leaving, he thought that he would definitely do something with His Royal Highness this time. However, in the past ten days, nothing happened, which made the master father upset, and secretly complained: It is better to stay in Chang'an with Zhang Tang, maybe there is something to do............

As soon as he heard the news of His Royal Highness's edict, he immediately tidied up his clothes and followed this attendant to see Liu Rong.

Seeing that the master father was here, Liu Rong immediately said: "Zhiqing was ordered by the Son of Heaven to go to Hedong to thoroughly investigate the drought situation in Hedong, and I will soon check the number of grain stored in the root warehouse and wet warehouse, I want to send you to assist Zhiqing in checking the granary, Qing is willing!" ”。

Although it's not a big deal, it's better than being idle all the time, so I saw the master's father salute Liu Rong and "obey the order."