"Your Majesty, Henan, Hedong, Shannan, more than 130 counties in 42 prefectures, although the drought has been controlled, there are still many people who are homeless, and several large teams of displaced people are more than 100,000 people.

Yushi Zhai Hongliang was the first to stand up and said loudly.

Since the end of March of the ninth year of Chengping, to the end of February of the first year of Tianhe, nearly a year, the drought has affected most areas of Henan, Hedong and Shannan, more than 40 prefectures and more than 100 counties in the affected areas, in order to avoid servitude and natural disasters, millions of people have been displaced and homeless, although Zhao Zhi has made many pacification policies, but the imperial court finances are empty, and many policies and decrees are powerless in the end, and they cannot be implemented at all, and at that time, the Longyou War is the most intense moment, and the imperial court is also tightening its belt, All the money and food are supported to Longyou, and there is no money to carry out disaster relief.

In the end, it was the head of the household department that He Zhongkai put forward a feasible suggestion, let the hundred officials donate, and there was to borrow money from those rich merchants, the court at the cost of high interest, and finally borrowed a lot of silver, although it was still not enough, but it was finally able to barely sustain it, until July, the winged king Zhao He and Li Xun each donated a large amount of food, and the court began a large-scale disaster relief, and finally stabilized the disaster.

Although the disaster is stabilized, it does not mean that everything is over, the follow-up reconstruction work, and there are still a considerable number of displaced people are still homeless, which is a huge burden on the local and imperial courts, and there is a huge increase in the number of local armies since Chengping for five years, after the Jiangnan War, the number of local armies has increased to a certain extent, but not much, and the number of troops directly under the imperial court has increased greatly, from less than 300,000 at the beginning, to nearly 500,000, the increase in the army, its consumption of money and food, naturally has increased greatly, Coupled with the two subsequent Longyou wars, although a great victory was achieved, but the imperial court's finances deteriorated rapidly, to the beginning of the ninth year of Chengping, almost to the point of no continuation, local officials are better, can be used on the spot, and officials at all levels in the capital, except for the scholars, the vast majority of officials, have not received the Yulu for nearly a year, which is a great threat to the stability of the government.

After all, if you can't eat enough, who else can you expect to be loyal to political affairs and the court?

He Zhongkai said loudly: "This matter is still being planned, and it is not appropriate to discuss it in the court before the plan is complete." ”

Zhai Hongliang said angrily: "Plotting and plotting, I don't know when it will be, if it goes on like this, I don't know how many homeless people will starve to death, is He Xiangguo's words too casual?" ”

was questioned loudly by a small imperial history from the seventh grade, in front of so many ministers, He Zhongkai's face suddenly became extremely ugly, and his heart was even more troubled.

"Zhai Yushi, please pay attention to your words, you are just a small imperial history, and you are not qualified to question me."

was said to be a small official, Zhai Hongliang was even more angry: "The court discussion, and everything can be said, what does it have to do with the size of the grade?" As Xiangguo, you deceive me like this, which is really not what Xiangguo should say. ”

"Zhai Hongliang, when I press you with officials, don't slander me nonsense."

He Zhongkai was also very angry, and his voice was much higher.

"You just said that."

"You're messing around."

The more they talked, the more angry they became, and there was a quarrel.

The scene is a little unusual, many ministers are looking at Liu Chongji in the imperial history again and again, this is your subordinate, you should come out to stop it, for these looks, Liu Chongji pretended not to see it, he didn't want to come out to stop it, but he didn't dare, Zhai Hongliang is a brainless, a tendon, and now his emotions are obviously stimulated, if he comes out rashly, he doesn't say that there is no effect, maybe he will get himself in, and he can't get off the stage like He Zhongkai.

Although Zhai Hongliang's official position is small, he is the imperial history, Taizu set the rules at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the imperial history has the right to speak freely, even the emperor cannot let him shut up at will.

There are two celebrities in Yushitai, one is Zhai Hongliang, and the other is Zhou Qing, both of them are Jinshi who have been in Chengping for seven years, their personalities, temperaments, and tempers are very similar, they are all the kind of tendons, the same people, it is naturally easy to come together, Zhai Hongliang and Zhou Qing's personal relationship is excellent, Zhou Qing's temperament, including Li Xun, has been taught, and Zhai Hongliang is better than Zhou Qing, and people like this either hate to death, or like it very much, such as Liu Chongji, the chief official of Yushitai, Zhai Hongliang is extremely appreciative, he was just promoted from the imperial history document to the imperial history junior eunuch two months ago, although the grade is the same, but he has the qualifications to listen to the government of the previous dynasty.

Zhai Hongliang and Zhou Qing have a lot of similarities, but some things are too far worse than Zhou Qing, Zhou Qing is the champion and the first, young and ambitious, handsome, and lofty, and such a character, he quickly got Zhao Zhi's attention, arranged him to Li Xun, and was very open to be reused, so that his talent could be displayed, and his career started very quickly.

And Zhai Hongliang is not as lucky as Zhou Qing, with the same background and excellent talent, but unfortunately, the imperial examination did not go well, and he was nearly forty years old, so he was admitted to the Jinshi, and he was short in stature, his appearance was not good, and he was ugly, and he had such a stinky temper, most people hated it and stayed away, but fortunately, Liu Chongji admired Zhai Hongliang a lot, otherwise he would be old at most in this life, and he would be released as a county magistrate, and it would be the end.

Zhai Hongliang became more and more energetic the more he talked there, there was a look of you being Xiangguo, I was not afraid, He Zhongkai trembled with anger, his face turned red, and finally he could only keep his mouth shut, he was the minister of political affairs, and today he quarreled with a small imperial history in the lobby, whether he won or lost, it was already an extremely embarrassing thing.

Zhao Zhi leaned back on the chair, and looked at the two arguing there with a calm face, without any words, or Liu Congxi was a little unbearable, and said loudly: "Zhai Yushi, please pay attention to your emotions, don't roar at the court, mess up the etiquette." ”

Zhai Hongliang glanced at He Zhongkai hatefully, and bowed to Zhao Zhi to ask for guilt, but Zhao Zhi just said lightly, 'Stand down', without any emotion.

Zhai Hongliang has long been dissatisfied with He Zhongkai, since March of the ninth year of Chengping, after the drought in various places became more and more serious, the imperial court's finances could not make ends meet, He Zhongkai as the head of the household book, in charge of financial power, did not think about the local disaster, but in order to please Zhao Zhi, taking advantage of Zhao Zhi's birthday, Shang Yan, Hengshan King Zhao Ke, and the fifth son of the emperor who had just been crowned King Ji Wang Zhao Heng, said that the residence of the two princes was old, and it was recommended to cast a new house to show the emperor's father and son's affection, and Zhao Zhi, who was in a good mood, also agreed. A lot of money was spent for this, because after the disaster broke out in full swing, the imperial court had no money to use, which buried a huge hidden danger, in Zhai Hongliang's view, this was completely He Zhongkai's fault.