.“ Yu Futai, you are an understanding person, but you have been in Zhejiang for a short time, and you don't know how deep the water here is, and how many twists and turns there are. He Jinxian didn't let you go tomorrow, you still go, but not to buy land. You have to do something for me, and you have to do something for yourself. Yang Jinshan said solemnly.

"Father-in-law Yang, please say it." Yu Xinwu also knew in his heart that although the person in front of him didn't look so good-hearted, he must also have his own purpose.

"Take down all the lanterns from the boat! Tell everyone that the Weaving Bureau didn't take a grain of grain to buy fields! Yang Jinshan stood up and said word by word.

The nineteenth year of Wanli is not an ordinary cold, although it is also cold at this time in previous years, it is not as windy as this winter. The wind blew across the face, and it hurt like a knife. It is rare to see pedestrians all over the street, and occasionally one or two are also wrapped in their clothes and hurrying by. The snow on the roofs was blown up by the wind, and many people had frostbite on their hands and feet.

Shen Hui looked at the bleak scene outside the window, and involuntarily wrapped the clothes on her body, touching her stomach with her hand, she has always been nauseous and wants to vomit these days, she has been about to give birth for nine months, and she suddenly felt a little afraid in her heart. I heard the wet nurse say that giving birth to a child is the most painful thing in a woman's life, but there is nothing more than this. Watching my newborn child cry and cry that inner happiness cannot be expressed in words.

She sighed and began to knit her sweater again. Originally, he was going to weave it out for Lao Zhu to wear in winter, but he ran to warm Zhejiang, but it doesn't matter, he will still wear it next year. Once it's knitted, it doesn't take up space there.

"The people from Madame's palace have come to see you." The maid called softly. Shen Hui learned to knit sweaters from these maids, and she didn't know how to do it originally, but the people in the family were surprised. Few wealthy women like Madame have learned this kind of craft, and they all regard this kind of work as a lowly craft.

"Let him in!" Shen Hui said lightly, but a trace of joy climbed between the corners of her eyebrows. Lao Zhu's range of contacts is very narrow, and he usually doesn't have any friends at all. Jiang Fei: They didn't dare to come in order to avoid suspicion, except for the gang of people in the Jingshi Guard, almost no one would think of going to Zhu Yidao's house to sit - this kind of person usually can't hide, where do they dare to visit?

"Sister-in-law, I'm here again! What's so delicious? Wanli ran in with a hippie smile, today he didn't wear so extravagant, but he was dressed as an ordinary scholar, but Shen Hui still felt very weird, looking at him, he couldn't help laughing - Wanli is not tall, but very fat, and a little hunchback, wearing the scholar's clothes, the elegant smell is not much, and the smell of copper is very strong, like the shopkeeper in the store.

"Brother Zhu, what are you ......," Shen Hui looked at the clothes all over his body and covered his mouth, "Forget it, you don't have a mother-in-law at home, I'll make you a dress!" ”

"Don't, don't!" Wanli waved his hand in a panic, "Palace...... I have more clothes at home, but I don't want to wear them, so don't bother with my sister-in-law! ”

"How can that be?" Shen Hui now has a graceful and luxurious momentum in her gestures: "Anyway, I just have one piece at hand, and I can't wear it, so I'll wear it for you when it's finished!" ”

"This ...... Thank you sister-in-law! Wanli couldn't see it, but she had no choice but to push the boat down the river. Every year, the palace Shangyi Supervisor has to send some clothes, not because Wanli doesn't want to wear them, but because those clothes are too luxurious, a kind of cold, graceful and luxurious without any feelings. The people below didn't dare to send it, and the concubines waited for the emperor in the room every day, fortunately, no one thought of doing anything for him. Therefore, a warm current suddenly slipped through his heart.

"Your hand...... Why is it frozen? I don't know how to be careful, but this winter is surprisingly windy. Shen Hui said as she pulled out a bottle of ointment to prevent chilblains from the cabinet and handed it to him.

"Who's to say it isn't! But I'm surprised, it's such a cold day, and it should snow in several provinces in the southwest, so how can there be a big drought...... Isn't this snow a solution to all problems? Wanli said as he applied the ointment to his hands. Because of the frostbite on their hands, five eunuchs have been beaten to death, not because they don't pay attention to the emperor's life, but because Wanli himself doesn't listen. He never knew what chilblains were, and it happened to be cold this year, so he resolutely refused to apply ointment. The chamberlains handed it to him, he turned around and threw it into the frostbite, so that the chief eunuch of the chamberlain saw it, and without saying a word, several of the chamberlains who were in charge of serving were all killed!

Hearing his words, Shen Hui's hand paused. She didn't know whether she should say it or not, so she hesitated: "You really don't know? ”

Wanli looked at her with some surprise and said, "I don't know what? I don't know so much, what's wrong? ”

"Actually, the three southwestern provinces ...... The drought has been in place since September last year. It's just that no one has dared to report it, and the government has sent officers and soldiers to guard the main road, strictly guarding it, and strictly prohibiting anyone from going out to flee and beg for food. It was only in December last year that I starved to death, and I don't know how many people died, and it even seriously affected the training and combat of officers and men, and the government became anxious and had no choice but to report it...... How could you not know? Aren't you also a Jinyiwei? Shen Hui asked suspiciously. These news are all said by the people, because there are a few hometowns in Guizhou and Sichuan, and they know some of the situation. The worst family in Sichuan starved to death, and he was the only one left alive. It's not that he doesn't suffer, it's just that because his family is dead, he has to live even more in order to take on the heavy responsibility of continuing the incense!

The dead are gone, but the living will suffer even more, and then death will no longer be a sin, but a relief.

Wanli looked at Shen Hui dumbfounded, and the ointment in Shen Hui's hand fell to the ground, unaware.

"How so? Didn't they say that the drought had just begun?! Wanli, who came back to his senses, was furious, he was not worried about the people, but felt that such a big thing had happened, but he didn't know anything about the situation, which was the most terrible thing.

Shen Hui shook her head helplessly: "It's normal that you don't know, and now not many people in Jingshi know." The terrain of Sichuan is complicated, and there are only a few key roads, once they are desperately defended, how can those victims who have long been hungry and have no strength have the strength to break through? Besides, that's everyone's home, the house and the land are there, and who isn't looking forward to a rain from God, isn't it okay? As she spoke, she called the subordinate from her hometown of Sichuan in.

The eunuchs outside the door were trembling. Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, these really shouldn't be said by you, but you have caused a monstrous disaster! How could those people in the household department not know about the cabinet? It's not that I don't know that now is the critical period for Zhejiang to change rice to mulberry, who dares to report it? ! At this juncture, everyone is very secretive about the drought in the southwest, and even if they want to deal with it, they have to wait until Zhejiang basically completes the change from rice to mulberry!

The subordinates of his hometown of Sichuan moved to Shen Hui's room with a blank gaze - since he learned that his family was starving to death, he had become like this, living like a walking corpse every day. It's not that he doesn't know how to grieve, it's that he doesn't know how to grieve anymore.

"Tell me what you know?" As soon as the servant entered the room, Wanli asked impatiently, and as the door opened, he also saw the frightened eunuch at a glance. A cold gaze looked at the eunuch and the eunuch as if he were looking at a dead man, the eunuch was dumbfounded, his legs began to tremble, the emperor is making himself judge, he has heard something that he shouldn't have heard, so he must die!

Wanli just glanced at him, walked over, and closed the door with a gloomy face. The inner eunuch calmed down, as long as he kept his mouth shut, today's matter would be nothing, maybe he could save a small life. He suddenly began to envy this stupid subordinate, although he was already stupid, but at least he was still alive!

The servant's eyes were frozen, his lips kept shaking, but he couldn't say a word.

"Say! What do you know?! "Wanli couldn't suppress his anger, those officials hid it from me, and you didn't even tell me! Am I still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty? It's very good, even the Jinyi Weidong Factory doesn't come to report to me, they all treat me as air, and one day I will settle accounts with you!

"It's all dead...... It's all dead......" the subordinate muttered, raised his hand in front of him, as if he couldn't believe that he was still alive, and then looked at Wanli in front of him, still repeating that sentence. Suddenly, he closed his eyes, his face was extremely distorted, his mouth opened wide, but he didn't make a sound at all, and then he covered his face with his hands and slowly squatted on the ground.

There is no greater mourning than death. Shen Hui also looked at the scene in front of him with some sadness, Zhu Da really shouldn't have asked him this, he was already living on the verge of collapse every day, how could he bear such a stimulus?

Wanli eagerly walked around the room, the man had broken down and would no longer ask anything more from his mouth. It is impossible for Zhao Zhigao of the cabinet not to know, but why didn't they report it, just because one changed rice to mulberry? But even changing rice to mulberry is extremely difficult! What exactly do they want to do? The situation in Zhejiang is still relatively clear, but all the news is also known from Zhu Yidao, and the news from the government has always been empty talk such as "everything is normal, the situation is good"! He thought that he had grasped the situation of all the officials of the Ming Dynasty. But in the end, he's the biggest fool in the world!