Chen Qiyu had the 'magic weapon' given by King Jing, and he was no longer afraid of those officials and squires, so he closed the door and slept at home with peace of mind. { with }{ dream } щ{suimеng][lā} .

He hadn't slept peacefully for a long time, sleeping in a side room, alone, telling his subordinates not to disturb, he wanted to sleep well.

But it didn't take long for him to wake up with a rush of knocking on the door.

He came out with a cold face, looked at the door and said, "What's the matter so late?" ”

The family looked slightly panicked, and hurriedly said, "Master, Zhou Shangshu sent someone to pass on a few words." ”

Chen Qiyu's chaotic brain suddenly sobered up, Zhou Yingqiu was a special person, and his words needed to be taken seriously.

"What?" Chen Qiyu said.

Jiading paraphrased it word for word, Chen Qiyu frowned when he heard it, what did Zhou Yingqiu mean by these words? Did he say that he gave up his roots? Or is it that the direction of Suncheonfu's government affairs will change?

Zhou Yingqiu's words seemed simple, but in fact, they were foggy, which made him confused.

Chen Qiyu waved his subordinates away, closed the door and entered the room again, this time, he couldn't sleep at all.

Zhou Yingqiu is a close confidant of the emperor, and he has been in the court for many years, his words are definitely not untargeted, and they must mean something.

He couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, and he didn't fall asleep again until dawn, and he realized a little when he got up.

Chen Qiyu urgently gathered the officials of Shuntianfu, seriously discussed, and assigned tasks, the core of which was the two words 'low-key', he asked Shuntianfu to change its direction and implement the 'new policy' of the imperial court, as for the 'gentry paying taxes', he decided to let it go.

Chen Qiyu's words made Chen hear, Chu Zongxian and others were alert, they were indeed careless, and desperate to promote 'tax reform' may become the target of others.

The actions of Shuntianfu were instantly quiet, and every move, especially the government affairs, were all low-key, even if it was the Criminal Prison Division, the affairs of the Governor's Yuan were quietly carried out, and they were not rolled out in a big way.

The six ministries and the cabinet are the same, and apart from the long and tireless introductions in the newspapers, and the propaganda of the new policy, there is very little other information.

Although Liu Fengzhong's case has aroused heated discussions in the capital, due to the impeccable handling of the criminal department, there has been no excessive reaction for the time being.

The East Factory was originally very quiet, and after catching Liu Fengzhong, the door was closed silently.

The huge capital, like boiling water that has just boiled, is strangely calm.

The calmer the more perceptive the person senses danger!

Starting from Liu Zongzhou, some great Confucians and celebrities have left Beijing, and those big merchants have also transferred their business and fled from Beizhili, their sense of smell is terrible.

In the evening, Zhu Xu and others stood in front of a ridge field.

Zhu Xu was holding a dry and yellow rice stalk in his hand, and his expression was a little heavy.

The ground is very dry, and you can kick up dust when you step down, and you can see cracks in the soil in the rice field, and the rice seedlings in your hand are not only lacking in water, but also have traces of insect bites.

Cao Huachun stepped forward and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, the slave maid asked people to inquire, it has not rained in Tai'an for more than a month, and there are locusts raving freely. ”

King Ping clasped his hands on his stomach, looked at the fields, and said: "Your Majesty, the prince of King Lu played to his ministers a month ago, saying that there is a great drought in Yanzhou this year, and I am afraid that the harvest will be reduced by more than three percent." ”

Zhu Xu nodded silently, walked in Longjian, and observed carefully.

"Stop, who are you?" Suddenly, several thirteen or fourteen teenagers jumped out of the ditch not far away, holding sticks in their hands, all looking at Zhu Xu and the other group with a wary face.

King Ping glanced at Zhu Xu, and hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "We are from the capital, passing by here, and want to drink water in this place?" ”

The leader of a young man was fifteen years old, dressed in very tattered clothes, with a large chest exposed, and his face was dark, staring at Zhu Xu and the group for a while and said, "Let's go, there is no water here, follow the road you came from, about five miles is the town." ”

Zhu Xu looked at the fields with worried eyes. There is no sign of a bumper harvest at all, they are all sick, and I am afraid that a reduction of 30% is less.

Zhu Xu didn't care about the young man's words, and asked directly: "How much land does your family have, and how much grain can be left in a year?" ”

The young man's face changed greatly, and he pointed at Zhu Xu with a wooden stick and shouted angrily: "Who are you?" ”

Zhu Xu frowned, this young man's vigilance was a little too much.

Cao Huachun stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, bandits in the Shandong realm have been endless, and there were bandits here not long ago. ”

Zhu Xu put his hands behind his back and was silent.

Even if he has worked hard in the past five years, he still has a long way to go to change Daming......

The drought is getting worse and heavier, and there are more and more bandits, and when they gather, it will be an 'uprising', and from south to north, from large to small, there is no pure land.

'It's still slow...... after all'

Zhu Xu sighed lightly in his heart, everyone said that he was too anxious, could he not be in a hurry?

Now Daming's seemingly stable is that he has gathered a lot of money and food support in the way of 'robbery', which is not sustainable, as the disaster worsens, everyone has to lose weight, and the thinnest will be the imperial court. Once the treasury is empty, the consequences will be even more terrible than in history, and it is impossible to say that the power that has been forcibly piled up will collapse in an instant!

Zhu Xu shook his head secretly in his heart, when it comes to reasoning, he can't match one of the adults in the court with a hundred, no matter how worried he is, no matter how much he says, they will act according to what they see and hear after all, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find someone who is in line with his heart.

"Let's go." Zhu Xu knew that it was not easy to know something from the young man's mouth.

The teenagers were still very wary of Zhu Xu's group, even if they didn't look like bandits.

After walking for a while, Zhu Xu turned his head and said to Cao Huachun, "Send a few more people out to find out the specific situation, and don't alarm the place, I want to see the real thing." ”

Cao Huachun understood that the emperor felt confused, and bowed down and said, "Yes." ”

Zhu Xu didn't feel fooled, but deceived.

Whether it is the prefects and counties in various places, or those governors, governors, or even the six ministries, the cabinet is not honest, and the real reality is either not there, or it is hidden between the lines and is difficult to detect.

"No mother, vacuum hometown...... Believing in a childless old mother is against the eternal hometown......"

Zhu Xu and the others had just walked out of the rice field, and not far away, a group of people in white were holding up big sails, shouting as they walked.

"White Lotus Sect?" Zhu Xu almost blurted out, he had never seen it, but this outfit was too special.

Cao Huachun followed Zhu Xu's side and said in a low voice, "Yes, the White Lotus Sect has a lot of momentum in Shandong. They didn't make trouble, and they also helped the local yamen to pacify the people and donate money and food, so there was no pressure or prohibition. ”

Zhu Xu's expression moved, in his heart, the White Lotus Sect had always been in the position of a 'cult', and he thought for a while and said, "Let Jinyiwei investigate and see the number, scale, doctrine, and dispersion of the White Lotus Sect or other sects, etc., to be more detailed." ”

At this time, cults are the most demagogic and destructive.

"Yes." Cao Huachun said.