Ziwei City, on the Golden Palace.

Listening to Gongsun Quan's words, Xiahou Ba was stunned for a while. The officials behind him were also staring at each other, not knowing what to say.

However, the initial emperor made up his mind, and said depressedly: "I might as well tell you that last night the widow was restless, climbed high and looked into the distance, and also saw the hundred-zhang long fire dragon, it nodded three times at the widow, and then rushed to the east. The widow didn't sleep all night, and he didn't know what this dragon was going to do. It turned out that it was going to burn the widow's Xingluo Cang......"

As he spoke, he looked at the hundred officials and asked in a deep voice, "Are there any people from Qin Tianjian here?" ”

All the officials brushed their eyes and fell on a short and stout old man at the end of the class.

"Wu Shen, deputy supervisor of Weichen Qintian, knock to see Your Majesty." The old man Wu Shen had no choice but to go out to work.

Wu Shen is a world-famous qi scientist, who was recruited into the Qin Heavenly Prison by Gaozu twenty years ago, and his reputation is far higher than that of Jiang Jianzheng, who is waiting for death. Before, because of the celestial phenomenon of the stars worshipping Ziwei, he and Jiang Jian Zheng had an unpleasant quarrel, and he never entered the Qin Heavenly Prison again. But today is the Great Dynasty, and no one above the seventh rank of the Beijing official can be absent, so he is also here.

"It turned out to be Dr. Wu," the Initial Emperor's expression perked up when he heard this, and he said loudly: "You are the most knowledgeable person in my Great Xuan, hurry up and solve the doubts of the widow and the Grand Master." ”

"This ......" Wu Shen was taken off guard, so he had to consider it on the spot and said: "The old minister was not in the Qin Heavenly Prison last night, and he did not witness the birth of the fire dragon with his own eyes, but according to the description of His Majesty and thousands of witnesses, this should be a bad omen. ”

"Of course, you can make it clearer." The Initial Emperor bowed slightly.

"There are floods in the summer and fires in the winter this year, this is the dragon king of the Quartet is exerting his might, if Your Majesty and the court do not cultivate virtue, I am afraid that there will be a great drought in the coming year." Wu Shen explained stubbornly. He's not talking nonsense, it's common sense that after a flood, there will be a drought the next year.

"How can I remedy that?" The Initial Emperor asked with a serious face.

"As soon as I come, please send an envoy immediately to sacrifice to the Dragon King of the Four Directions and the Fire De Star Monarch, and pray for their forgiveness. But more importantly, Your Majesty and the court should deeply reflect on themselves, be diligent in government and love the people, and God has its own sense, when there is a rain to fall, to relieve the suffering of all the people. ”

"yes, I see." The Initial Emperor nodded, then stood up from the imperial couch and said in a deep voice: "Since this is the case, the Ministry of Rites will immediately handle the sacrificial matters. In addition, this time the widow will not hold any official accountable, all nations are guilty, the crime is in my body, the widow will fast for seven days, and personally ask the heavens for their guilt. ”

After a pause, the Initial Emperor said slowly: "Also, the most important thing is the disaster victims, the widow decided to squeeze out a million stone grain and grass from the inner treasury to make up for some of the losses of Xingluocang. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Xiahou Ba and several dukes and said: "You have received the grace of the country, and the people have served the gate valve with anointed blood, and now is the time for the gate valve to repay the people, and the remaining four million stones will be issued by the seven of you, do you have any opinions?" ”

Xiahou Ba couldn't help but turn pale, he never expected that the other party would actually make a fire dragon to resolve his killing moves. This trick can be described as extremely wonderful, because once it is related to the dragon and the sky, the final interpretation will fall into the hands of the Son of Heaven. No matter how powerful Taishi Xiahou is, as long as he can't sit on the dragon chair for a day, he will still be a mortal.

Mortals, of course, have no say in the affairs of God......

Xiahou Ba didn't expect that his well-designed killing game would be used by the other party with such ridiculous means to break the past so lightly. This made him almost suffocate to death, for a while, how could he be in the mood to pay attention to the emperor's words?

He was silent, but someone was silent.

"The minister has no opinion, even if he smashes the pot and sells iron, he will squeeze out food to relieve the victims." I only heard Lu Shang say angrily.

"It's the same with the minister." Wei Kang also said.

As soon as the two dukes made a statement, the rest of them didn't speak, it was too ugly.

When Xiahou Ba came back to his senses, the six princes had already agreed to the emperor's proposal, which made him feel a little unbearable on his face. I had no choice but to say in a muffled voice: "For the minister, this Chinese book order, for Your Majesty to guard the herdsmen." It is naturally the duty of donating food for disaster relief, and my Xiahou family is willing to pay one million stones......" As he spoke, he glanced at the six national justices and said, "You can pay 500,000 stones for each family." ”

"Thank you for your understanding." The grandfathers were also a little relieved.

"So be it." After tossing for so long, the initial emperor was also tired, waved his hand, and announced his retreat from the dynasty.

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Hundreds of officials came out of the Golden Palace, and all of them had incredible colors written on their faces. They originally thought that the Taishi would take advantage of this fire, not to mention raising a big prison, at least to cut off Lu Xin's head to establish his authority. Who would have thought that there was such a divine turn, and in the end, not only was Lu Xin unharmed, but the old lady had to pay one million stone of grain out of his own pocket to make up for the loss.

This made Baiguan feel very uncomfortable, and said that Xiahou Valve is colliding with evil? How can you continue to lose face and linings on Lu Yun's father and son? This kind of thing is really unprecedented, right? Could it be that the father and son are the nemesis of the old lady?

"Do you believe the fire dragon burning warehouse?" An official whispered to a friend on the side.

My friend pursed his lips and whispered: "Thousands of people have seen it, and Your Majesty also said that they did, does it matter if I believe it or not?" ”

"Then Lu Xin's pass?" The officer asked in a low voice.

"I don't think," the friend shook his head and said, "The old lady won't give up." ”

The two were talking, and suddenly saw Pei Qiu, Xie Xun and Cui Yan, the three princes, standing still not far in front of them, as if they were talking about something. The two of them quickly stopped talking and bowed over......

"Alas......" The three grandfathers had sad faces, and they were not in the mood to pay attention to the salutes of the officials.

"This makes a man sit in his house, and evil is from heaven." Xie Xun pulled his beard depressedly and said, "Why are you messing around, the unlucky ones are us?" ”

"Alas, Your Majesty has spoken through celestial phenomena, and we can only bleed obediently." Cui Yan also looked helpless.

"Can I take it out, I still need to worry about it here?" Pei Qiu spread his hands and cried to the two of them: "Don't say 500,000, it's 200,000 stones, and I can't take it out for a while." ”

"We're in a better situation, but if we take out 500,000 stones, I'm afraid we won't be able to get through this year." Xie Xun also said in a muffled voice.

Although they have a big family and a big business, they also spend a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of mouths sit and eat all day long, and at the end of the year, all kinds of expenses and rewards are overwhelming. Self-use is still stretched, and now there is a lot of extra expenses, which is naturally uncomfortable.

"What can I do? Tighten your belt. "Cui Yan is still a scholar after all, and his posture should be a little higher.

"Alas, that's the only way, it's a big deal that Lao Tzu's birthday banquet won't be held......" Pei Qiu waved his hand frustratedly, and continued to say some ugly words, but saw that Xiahou came over unharmed.