As soon as Xia Yuanji saw Zhu Laosi's black and smelly face, he couldn't help but think of the big black faces of the two mastiff crushing dogs of the Yang family's Zhuangzi, which were almost the same black.

And just like the two mastiffs who have beaten the invincible hands of Zhuangzi and didn't like to bark before, the current emperor doesn't like to talk nonsense before killing......

Xia Yuanji knew that he was slandering the king, which was a typical disrespect, but how to look at Zhu Laosi's murderous face and wanted to laugh?

Zhu Laosi, who was sitting on the dragon chair and looking at the ministers, his face became more and more gloomy, and he looked at Xia Yuanji, who was not in his mind, and snorted coldly: "Xia Yuanji? What are you thinking? ”

As soon as he heard Zhu Laosi directly call his name, and even the word Aiqing was omitted, Xia Yuanji's heart suddenly tightened, and then he contacted the old farmer who knelt at the palace gate, and his heart was even more uneasy.

After thinking about it for a while, Xia Yuanji bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is thinking about the old peasants kneeling at the palace gate, what is the matter that can make more than a hundred old people kneel outside the palace gate?" ”

Zhu Laosi sneered: "What's the matter? What did you do in your household, you don't know in your own heart? ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Laosi turned his head and instructed Wuxin: "Go and bring all the old farmers at the palace gate to this hall." ”

Unintentionally hurried away, Zhu Laosi got up from the dragon chair, paced back and forth, and said, "The world is peaceful? Building a new capital? A rich treasury? Treasure money slowly starting to circulate?

Bullshit!

Just now, I saw more than 100 old farmers from Handan kneeling there at the palace gate, do you know what they are doing here? They're going to come and ask me if I can give them a way to live! Means of subsistence! ”

Xia Yuanji looked at his colleagues suspiciously, then glanced at the big guys in the hall, and then lowered his head like the big guys.

The familiar scene in front of him reminded everyone of the fear of being dominated by Emperor Hongwu during the Hongwu period - if this matter cannot be solved today, it is estimated that the scene of the office with a flail will be reproduced in the Yongle period.

Zhu Laosi looked at the courtiers below who bowed their heads, sneered, stretched out his hand and pointed at the courtiers and said angrily: "Guess what, what can make more than 100 old peasants enter Beijing to sue the emperor regardless of life and death?" Well? ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Laosi directly set his eyes on Chen Qi, the imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Procuratorate: "I remember, when I just went to the court, there were still people who asked Yang to go crazy, and the people belonged to your Yushitai, right?" ”

Chen Qi came out of class with a confused face, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, it is to supervise the imperial history Chen Mo." Please behead Yang crazy, because of this, the thieves are exploited, and the people are not happy. ”

Zhu Laosi suddenly laughed, and his smile was a little crazy: "The people are boring? The Metropolitan Procuratorate does have the right to hear about the imperial history, but what have they heard? How many people in Shuntianfu are scolding that Yang is crazy? Did anyone in the border city he ruled scold him before? How many people have benefited from him?

Rumors? Why did the Metropolitan Procuratorate hear that the people of Shuntianfu were not living well, but the lives and deaths of the people in other places were completely ignored? When did the Imperial Historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate become a person who won his name? ”

Looking at Chen Qi, who was silent with his head bowed, Zhu Laosi sneered and said: "No wonder Yang is crazy and scolds your Yushitai officials like mad dogs, I don't think I'm wrong!"

Preparing the edict, Yushi Chen Mo falsely accused his colleagues, spoke falsely without evidence, dismissed his post, and assigned Yang Mad's subordinates to work! ”

Chen Qi bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, minister, don't dare to obey the edict!" ”

Zhu Laosi stared at Chen Qi and said, "Don't dare to obey the edict? ”

Chen Qi said: "Yes, the minister does not dare to obey the edict. The Imperial History Observatory originally had the right to hear about the Imperial History, and as for what happened, His Majesty should send a division to verify it. Although Chen Mo was wrong, he was not guilty, so he did not dare to obey the edict. ”

Zhu Laosi sneered, pointed at Chen Qi and scolded: "Get out!" Get out to the palace gate and kneel! ”

Chen Qi bowed to Zhu Laosi again, and then slowly retreated out of the main hall and went directly to the palace gate.

Xia Laosi saw that the matter was going to make a big fuss, and he couldn't help but go out of class and played: "Your Majesty is angry!" ”

Zhu Laosi saw that there were still people who dared to jump out, and immediately stared at Xia Yuanji with an unkind expression: "You let me be angry? It's good for me to calm my anger, but who will calm the anger of these more than 100 old farmers? ”

After reprimanding Xia Yuanji, Zhu Laosi looked at the more than 100 old farmers who had just entered the hall, waved his hand and said, "You don't need to salute, just sit down." ”

Seeing that more than 100 old farmers were all confused, Zhu Laosi simply walked down slowly, and after coming to the middle of the old farmers, he sat on the ground, waved his hand and said, "The big guys sit down, and I will talk to everyone like this." ”

After all, most of these more than 100 old peasants were bolder - after all, they were all ready to lose their lives before, and now that the emperor let him sit down, what would he not dare?

Zhu Laosi looked at the old farmer who sat down slowly, and then said with a smile: "Oh, this time has passed for a year or two, and the last time I was in Nanjing, I had seen my father talk to the people like this." At that time, I was thinking, when I was the king of Yan in Beiping, I had to treat the people under my rule the same as my father.

But I never thought that now that I am the emperor, I have forgotten my original intention, so that it is my fault for the emperor to cause trouble to the big guys. ”

Zhao Lao Wu suddenly pointed at Zhu Lao Si and said, "You're not?" Didn't you just now? ”

Zhu Laosi laughed and said: "Yes, I was going to go out to visit a relative just now, but I never thought that I happened to meet a big guy to beat me, so didn't I come back?" ”

Suddenly reacted that he seemed to have scolded the emperor, Zhao Lao Wu's face suddenly changed greatly, suddenly changed from sitting to kneeling, and bowed to the ground: "I scolded the emperor just now, please punish the emperor!" ”

Zhu Laosi laughed and said, "You sit down first, let's talk slowly." If you want me to say, this emperor is not good, he should be scolded, you are right, I am not afraid of you scolding, I am afraid that you will hold back the fire in your heart and not scold it.

Just now, my brother asked me, saying that he wanted to ask if the emperor was in the same group as those thieves who harmed the people, so didn't I call these officials over?

When my father rebelled against the Yuan, he relied not on those thieves who harmed the people, but on the people of the world like you, so I must be with you. ”

beckoned to Xia Yuanji, and pointed to a little open space beside him, Zhu Laosi said, "Come, you come over too, talk to the big guy." ”

Xia Yuanji walked to Zhu Laosi and sat down with a confused face, and looked at the old farmer beside Zhu Laosi with a confused face, and suddenly he didn't know what he should say.

When Zhu Laosi saw Xia Yuanji's appearance, he said directly: "Handan has been flooded for many years, but the government has been urging excessively, so that the people have lost their land, and even sold their children and daughters to survive. These old brothers came to Shuntianfu just to ask me, the emperor, if they still give everyone a way to live? Xia Shangshu, you are the official of the household department, can you tell me? ”

Xia Yuanji hesitated for a long time, and finally said to many old farmers with an old face: "It's my fault as a household official!" The elder brothers may not know that we, the court officials, are all in the capital or Shuntian Mansion, and we really don't know about the floods in Handan for many years, otherwise, even if we don't say it, Your Majesty will definitely let the household department open a warehouse for relief.

If the old brothers don't believe it, but if they inquire about the Liaozhou flood and the Linqing water disaster the year before last, the imperial court will open a warehouse to release grain, and it is impossible to watch the people suffer and ignore it. ”

Xia Yuanji's words fell, and Zhu Laosi continued: "No matter what, anyway, there must be something wrong with me, the emperor, I can't stand everyone, I'll give you an explanation today!" ”

After a deep sigh, Zhu Laosi said directly to the old farmers: "The taxes owed by Handan in previous years are exempt!" Including this year's and next year's taxes, all free! No matter how much you should collect, you can get rid of it to the big guys, and then pay for it to make up for it, okay? ”

Zhao Lao Wu hesitated and said, "What's that, who is lying inside?" Can there be so much money? ”

Xia Yuanji said in a timely manner: "The internal money is the emperor's private money, and the emperor said that all the taxes owed by everyone will be exempted, and then he will pay for everyone with his own money!" ”

As soon as he heard Xia Yuanji say this, Xu Da hurriedly waved his hand and said, "That's not good, that's not good, how can we let the emperor pay for us?" We just want to ask, can we slow down and pay it two years later, so we don't have to force it so tightly. ”

Zhu Laosi waved his hand and said to Xu Da: "Old brother, it's the fault of the emperor, then I have to admit it, I can't keep letting the big guy suffer, right?"

It is said that the emperor is the Son of Heaven and the people are the people, so you say, I, who is the emperor, can watch my own people suffer? From the opening of Pangu to now, he doesn't have such a reason, right? ”

After thinking about it, Zhu Laosi said to Xu Da again: "By the way, all the old brothers, as well as the villagers in Handan who didn't come, all have sons and grandchildren at home, right?" ”

Xu Da nodded and replied, "Yes, every family has it, if there are no sons and grandchildren, we won't come to you together." Just like this Zhao Lao Wu, his two sons, seven grandchildren, all of them are good young men, and they are famous for ten miles and eight towns, if it weren't for the floods that couldn't survive for many years, I was afraid that the matchmaker who said the matchmaker would be able to step on the threshold of his family. ”

Zhu Laosi hummed and said: "It's good to have more children and grandchildren, and I, the emperor, are the same, there are several sons in the family, and there are also several grandsons." Sometimes I also have heads, and they all say that it is not easy to raise children, and I also say that I am half the size and eat poor people, and I don't know the difficulty of raising a baby.

Now Handan is difficult to become like this, and there are many children in the family, even if the tax arrears of previous years are exempted, this life is not easy, right? ”

Zhao Lao Wuyi slapped his thigh, sighed and said, "Who said it wasn't?" But no matter how hard it is, he has to live, doesn't he? ”

Zhu Laosi hummed and said: "If the old brothers can trust me, then I have a way, so let's talk to the big guys?" ”