Liu Yan was lying on the bed, looking sideways at his main palace Niangniang Nianghua.

After giving birth to the prince, Queen Hua added a bit of charm, and felt more charming and moving than before. It's just that Queen Hua injured her body during childbirth, and then her physical condition became a lot weaker, so Liu Yan didn't bother her with state affairs anymore. In the case of Empress Dowager Li last year, Empress Hua offered Liu Yan a plan and successfully reversed the crisis exposed, but instead forced Empress Dowager Li to be impetuous, and even made a stupid move, and as a result, she sent herself to the grave. Although the incident eventually led to the unfortunate death of Liu Xian, the king of Chu, this accident was not something that Empress Hua could have expected. After that, Empress Hua no longer cared about government affairs, and concentrated on taking care of the harem and taking care of her body.

Speaking from the heart, Liu Yan is very willing to stay by the queen's side and have fun with her day and night, but unfortunately Queen Hua's current physical condition is difficult to bear such grace, so Liu Yan often does not dare to have fun. Empress Hua also understood the reason, so she always persuaded Liu Yan to go to the palace of other concubines.

"Your Majesty, why are you still restless? Aren't you tired of reviewing a day's work? Seeing that Liu Yan refused to go to bed, Empress Hua asked.

"Why aren't you tired, it's just that I still want to see my queen more, and I'm going to Concubine Jing's palace tomorrow, so I can't see each other."

"The emperor is really duplicitous, Concubine Jing is gentle and virtuous, doesn't the emperor like it very much?"

Liu Yan scraped the queen's nose with his index finger and said with a smile: "Where can Concubine Jing compare to you, if it weren't for what you said, I wouldn't want to go to her, why would I be jealous again?" ”

Empress Hua sighed when she heard this and said: "The concubine is weak, and it is difficult to accept the emperor's grace of rain and dew, but the concubine does not want the emperor to stay by the concubine's side every day." What woman would want her husband to spend the night with another woman? ”

Liu Yan didn't feel moved when he heard this, turned over and pressed the queen under him and kissed her.

Early the next morning. As soon as Liu Yan finished washing, a eunuch came to report: "Master Wu is waiting for the decree outside." Said that there was an urgent matter to ask to see. ”

Liu Yan frowned when he heard this: "What's so urgent, I can't even wait for the early dynasty?" ”

Empress Hua persuaded on the side: "Lord Wu is so anxious, there must be something important, the emperor should go and have a look." ”

Liu Yan kissed her lightly on the face and said, "I know, my virtuous queen, the widow will go." ”

As soon as he saw Liu Yan, Wu Sicheng immediately greeted him and saluted: "Weichen disturbed the emperor, please forgive the emperor." ”

"You talk less nonsense. Something to say! Liu Yan waved his hand to get him up.

"Emperor Qiqi, I just received an urgent report that the north bank of the Yellow River has burst."

"What?" Liu Yan's only remaining sleepiness suddenly flew out of the clouds, and he hurriedly asked, "How is the disaster?" Is the loss big? Say it! ”

"Returning to the emperor, the section of the embankment is thirty miles west of Weizhou City, and the water depth is several feet in a radius of hundreds of miles, countless houses have been washed away by the flood, and tens of thousands of people have died, and the specific number is incomprehensible. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, and even the walls of Acropolis City have been nearly collapsed by floods. ”

Liu Yan listened to the buzzing of his head and said hurriedly: "The loss is so heavy, it is simply the collapse of the entire river embankment!" How does Acropolis City control water! ”

Wu Sicheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty." Now is not the time to ask, the people are in dire straits, or the first to rescue the disaster. Wait until the disaster calms down to find out the cause of the incident, and the officials who will be held accountable are yes. ”

Liu Yan exhaled fiercely. calmed down and said, "You're right, immediately report the matter to Shangshu Province." The Ministry of Industry immediately dispatched personnel to assist in repairing the embankment, and spent 5 million taels of silver from the Ministry of Household Affairs to purchase grain and seeds from various surrounding areas and transport them to the disaster areas. Officials from nearby localities should also actively raise funds and materials for disaster relief and transport them to the disaster areas, and if there are squires who are willing to contribute money and food to help, they will all be awarded false official positions. If it is not enough, it can be borrowed from the merchants in the name of the royal family for the time being, and it will be transferred from the treasury when the disaster is calmed. In addition, the affected areas will be exempted from paying taxes for three years. ”

"Yes, the emperor is wise, and Weichen will do it."

"Wait, they'll do it, and I have something else for you to be responsible for. In the course of this disaster relief, you will send someone to secretly investigate, and those who dare to take the opportunity to embezzle disaster relief funds must hand over the actual evidence to me! Also, what caused this disaster, I will send Dali Temple to find out about this matter later, but before that, you must first start investigating clearly. You should do these two things immediately, so as not to give the responsible person a chance to annihilate the evidence! ”

Seeing that Liu Yan's response to the sudden disaster was in good order, and he had insight into the strange parts of the disaster, and was able to make corresponding instructions in time to find out the cause of the matter, it can be seen that Liu Yan's way of governing the country has become more and more mature, Wu Sicheng felt relieved in his heart, and immediately bowed his head deeply: "Weichen obeys the order." ”

After Wu Sicheng left, Liu Yan didn't take advantage of it, and walked straight to the court - his heart fluctuated so that he couldn't sit down at all, and Liu Yan pondered while walking: This disaster came too suddenly, not to mention anything else, the five million taels of silver disaster relief money alone made this year's finances even worse. Due to the war with Goryeo and Tuqi at the same time, the military expenditure in the past two years accounted for more than half of the national treasury revenue, so the expenses for the national economy and people's livelihood became stretched, although the former emperor Liu Yutong saved a large amount of wealth as a support, but generally speaking, the treasury income in the past two years is beyond its means, and the treasury will be emptied one day in the long run. If the problem of Goryeo and Turyeo cannot be resolved within a few years, then it will inevitably face a situation of increasing taxes to support the war, which will greatly affect the daily life of the general public; The occurrence of this disaster, itself caused heavy casualties and huge economic losses made it difficult for the surrounding areas of Weizhou to recover in a few years, Weizhou is located in the north and south waterway traffic hub, the damage to the road system here will make it difficult to transfer materials from the south to the north, it is difficult to assemble materials to provide the necessary supplies for the army. As a result, the overall battle plan that was originally scheduled to attack this year will be stillborn before it has even begun.

What a coincidence, wouldn't Providence allow me to wage war against Tuqi this year? Thinking about it, Liu Yan couldn't help but look up at the sky, as if there was a god there who could answer his question. (To be continued......)