The eunuch who went to deliver the decree left, and Zhao Ping pondered for a while and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Father, the news of Yuan Gao's suicide in fear of crime must not be hidden, and the queen mother ······ there."

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, "I'll go and say from your mother's side, the prison still needs you to take someone to investigate, to see if there is any suspicion that he faked suicide after killing, and report it quickly after finding out!" ”

"Yes, Erchen will go!"

After Zhao Ping left, the ministers who were summoned came one after another, but Zhao Junsheng found an unusual thing in the report from Liangzhou, the new governor of Liangzhou, Lu Shuang, said in the report that a large number of people from the Southern Dynasties from Shu have come to the border recently, and a large number of displaced people are coming to Liangzhou on the plank road from Shuzhong to Liangzhou.

After interrogation, they learned that a locust plague had occurred in Shudi, and because the court and local government of the Southern Dynasty did not deal with it in a timely manner, the scope of the locust plague became larger and larger, and the rice planted in the spring of this year was not completely ripe and was eaten up by locusts.

At this time, it happened to be the time when the crops were eaten up, and the people of Shudi, whose crops had been eaten, had no way to live, and some of them rushed to Qiandi, and some people poured in the direction of Liangzhou.

This is not tens of thousands, but tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, so many displaced people gathered here in Liangzhou, which has brought a great hidden danger to the safety of Liangzhou!

Zhao Junsheng ignored the ministers who came one after another, but immediately sent someone to call Lin Jinghui, the commander of the black-clothed guard.

Lin Jinghui arrived quickly, "Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a serious face: "I ask you, there has been a big locust plague in Shu, and now countless displaced people in Shu are pouring in the direction of my Liangzhou, and the pressure on the border has increased tenfold at once, why didn't the black-clothed guard report it?" Didn't you get the message? ”

Lin Jinghui was extremely surprised when he heard this, and said with his fists clenched: "Your Majesty, the minister has already submitted the relevant report ten days ago, didn't Your Majesty report report?" ”

Zhao Junsheng frowned and asked, "Who submitted the report?" ”

"It was personally presented by the minister, His Majesty was not there at that time, and the Qinzheng Hall was on duty by the eunuch Yuan Lian, and the minister handed him the transcript and asked him to forward it to His Majesty!"

Yuan Jian happened to be on duty at this time, his face turned pale, and he immediately stepped forward and bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, there is indeed such a thing, that day Your Majesty hid from Mrs. Hua, and happened to be not in the Qinzheng Palace, and when Your Majesty came back, the old slave presented the transcript of Commander Lin to Your Majesty, Your Majesty was upset at the time, didn't look at it, and put it on the imperial case casually!" ”

After hearing this, Zhao Junsheng immediately rummaged through the imperial case, he looked for a while and didn't look for it, frowned and said: "Whether it is sent by the General Administration Department with a transcript, or a secret recital, I have always been processed on the same day and sent to Zhongshu Province or sent someone else to dispose of it, it is impossible to keep it until the next day, it is impossible to keep the cantata ten days ago to stay now, where did that coito go?" ”

"Your Majesty, the old slave is indeed forwarded to Your Majesty, this kind of music is a big deal, no matter how confused the old slave is, it is impossible to forget this kind of thing" Yuan Lian knelt on the ground and cried.

Zhao Junsheng shouted: "Get out of here, check, start with the person on duty that day, don't miss a single one!" ”

Yuan Jian was about to get up, but he saw that there seemed to be something under the imperial case, and he hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, there seems to be something under the imperial case!" ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately stood up when he heard this, and Pei Jin immediately beckoned to several eunuchs: "Quickly move the imperial case away!" ”

Several eunuchs worked together to lift the imperial case aside, only to see a book lying under the original imperial case, a small eunuch stepped forward to pick it up and wiped it clean with his sleeve, and presented it to Zhao Junsheng with both hands.

Zhao Junsheng took it and opened it and looked at it, and said while reading: "That's right, it should be this one!" ”

Yuan Jian was immediately furious, looked at the other eunuchs in the hall, and asked loudly: "From ten days ago to today, who are responsible for the cleaning of the Qinzheng Palace and stand up for our family!" ”

The three little eunuchs knelt on the ground one after another, their faces colorless with fright.

Yuan Jian waved his hand and was furious: "Come on, drag it out and kill it with a cane!" ”

Zhao Junsheng raised his head and shouted, "Slow! ”

The other eunuchs who were about to drag people away stopped and looked at Zhao Junsheng, Zhao Junsheng said to the three little eunuchs who were in charge of cleaning the palace: "The three of you are very lucky, you didn't cause a big disaster, and this is the first time this kind of thing has happened, but this matter is very serious, and it can't help but attract attention!" I will not kill you, but I will give you a chance to mend your ways, and let you realize that even a cleaning errand must be completed meticulously and conscientiously, and each of you will receive thirty rods! ”

The three little eunuchs kowtowed again and again, "Thank you for your majesty's life, Your Majesty is blessed with gold!" ”

The ministers in the hall also breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, fortunately this piece was found, if it is not found, God knows how many people will suffer for it, after all, the loss of the piece is not a trivial matter, but a very serious matter, which indicates that someone is trying to cut off the contact between the ministers and the emperor, or someone is interfering with the emperor's understanding of the outside world.

Under Pei Jin's command, several eunuchs carried the imperial case to its place.

Zhao Junsheng has already finished reading Lin Jinghui's recital, which talks about the locust plague in Shu some time ago and the scene of the displaced people scattering to the south and north, and also predicts that a large number of displaced people may pose a threat to the security of Liangzhou's border defense.

Zhao Junsheng had already finished reading Lin Jinghui's recital, and he handed the recital sent by Lu Shuang to Pei Jin, "Take turns to take a look!" ”

Pei Jin took the piece and read it, and after reading it, he handed it to Dongfang Chen, looking at it one by one.

After everyone finished reading it, the piece returned to Zhao Junsheng, and Zhao Junsheng asked, "What do you think about this matter?" ”

Pei Jin arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the minister's opinion is to prevent these displaced people from entering the territory of our Great Qian, if it is only one or two thousand people, it will be fine, but if more than 100,000 displaced people all pour into the territory of our Great Qian, there will be a huge threat to the public security in the territory of our Great Qian, and there will be huge hidden dangers!"

In addition, the resettlement is a big problem, last year we were affected by the disaster in several counties, heavy losses, this time we really should not take over this hot potato! ”

Lu Xuan stood up and said, "Your Majesty, are our worries a little unnecessary?" The displaced people from Shu flocked to the direction of Liangzhou, and what they were most worried about should not be our Qianguo, but the defenders of the border pass of the Southern Dynasty. Not afraid that the pass will be occupied by displaced people? Aren't they afraid that my big cadres and horses will take advantage of the situation to fight into Shudi? ”

Dongfang Chen stood up with the dust and said: "Poor Dao thinks that the defenders of the pass on the border of the Southern North Korea will not easily open the pass and let the exiles into the territory of our Daqian, but in order to survive, the refugees may bypass the pass and try to find a mountain path to enter the territory of our Daqian!" You must know that mountains and rivers are not absolutely dangerous, as long as you are determined, even if there is no road in the mountains, the displaced people may dig a road, and they will not wait to die on the border! ”

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said, "So our border army can't stop it at all?" Can't stop it? ”

Dongfang Chen said: "If you really want to stop it, how can you not stop it?" As long as you send people to patrol the border line non-stop, once you find that someone is trying to cross the border, you will immediately kill them, and the displaced people will naturally be afraid and dare not cross the border easily, but after all, they are unarmed refugees, and they did not try to rebel, so killing them will hurt the heavens and the peace, but I am afraid that the soldiers will not be able to do it, who is not born and raised by the grandmother? Compare your heart to your heart, put yourself in their shoes, they are all poor people!

In the opinion of the ministers, we do not take the initiative to open the pass to accept the Shu displaced people, but we still have to order Lu Shuang, let him send more soldiers and horses to patrol the border, if the Shu displaced people who cross the border are caught, they will be concentrated first, and then the government will evacuate and resettle separately, place them together to make trouble, and prohibit them from leaving the resettlement place, and at the same time strictly order the pass cities around the country, strictly check the waist card, once a problem is found, immediately arrest, all handed over to the local government, is a thief fugitive by the government to deal with, If they have fled, they will be sent back to the resettlement site by the local government! ”

Zhao Junsheng's purpose in coming to these ministers was to arrange the government affairs of the DPRK and China, because he had to go out to inspect, and he couldn't face Hua Mulan and his old mother-in-law if he continued to stay in the palace, he was worried that Hua Mulan and his mother-in-law would suspect that there was something wrong with Yuan Gao's death, and then suspect that he instructed the people below to do it, after all, Yuan Gao's suicide was too sudden.

Now he doesn't need to find other excuses to go out to inspect, the appearance of more than 100,000 displaced people in Shu on the border of Liangzhou gave him a reason to go to Liangzhou to inspect, and this reason is very sufficient.

Zhao Junsheng said: "Liangzhou is the border of our dynasty and the southern dynasties, and it is a big granary, I have been going to Liangzhou to see, but there is no chance, now there are more than 100,000 Shu displaced people gathered outside Liangzhou, a mishandling will cause serious disasters, I don't worry, I must go there to see, today I brought a few of you here to explain the state affairs!" ”

Next, Zhao Junsheng arranged state affairs one by one.

After the arrangement was completed, Pei Jin arched his hand and asked: "Your Majesty wants to go out to inspect, and the ministers can't stop it, but now that all kinds of things have happened in the imperial court, if Your Majesty is not there, there are some things that the ministers can't decide." Qu Liangbo committed suicide in fear of sin, but he was afraid that the queen would be sad and sad when she learned about it, and she would not be able to bear the heavy responsibility of supervising the country! If the king of Shu is allowed to supervise the country, I am afraid that it will cause criticism from the government and the opposition, he is not the prince after all, if he is allowed to supervise the country, where will the prince be placed? ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and said, "The prince has been training outside for a few years!" In this case, I will issue a decree to recall the crown prince and appoint him as the prisoner! ”

In this way, the ministers left with peace of mind.

Zhao Junsheng returned to the inner palace with a nervous heart, and Hua Mulan was assigning the affairs of the royal business house to several eunuchs and palace maids.

When she saw Zhao Junsheng coming back at this time, she asked the eunuchs and palace maids to go down, greeted her and asked, "Why did you come back so early today?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a sad expression: "Just now, the warden of the Heavenly Prison came to report that the jailer found him when he was delivering food to my uncle this morning······ Committed suicide in fear of sin! ”

"What?" Mulan's face turned white instantly, and she took a few steps back and sat on the stool.