Xie Shen on the side couldn't help but feel some sympathy for this imperial doctor. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Diagnosing a disease is something that can't be done with a pat on the head.

The so-called medicine and medicine do not die of disease, and the Buddha is destined to be a person.

If it is really a disease that cannot be cured, the Son of Heaven will die and it will not be cured.

But the imperial doctor definitely couldn't say in public that the cure was not good, so he had to respond with trepidation.

On the other hand, under Zhang Yong's arrangement, Jinyiwei's Tiqi has also been dispatched to begin a comprehensive investigation into the matter.

It turns out that it is very easy to investigate the things that leaders care about.

The results of the investigation were soon available.

The carriage that knocked down Old Man Du belonged to the Xiao family, a big family in the city.

After Zhu Houzhao's instructions, an official official immediately came to inquire about it, but Old Man Xiao did not protect his shortcomings, and immediately handed over the carriage driver who caused the accident to the officer.

Although the coachman was brought back by the officials, he was interrogated by the Jinyi guard.

At first, the driver insisted that the collision was an accident and said that he was willing to bear the medical expenses and medical expenses of Mr. Du.

But where would Jin Yiwei believe his words, and the coachman couldn't stand it after some torture.

In fact, this can't be said that the coachman is a coward. If it was the punishment of the yamen, he would definitely endure it. But there are too many ways for Jinyiwei to torture people, and it is really not something that ordinary people can bear.

In the end, the coachman admitted that it was his master Xiao Nanchang who knocked down Old Man Du.

It turned out that Master Xiao fell in love with Du Yun, the granddaughter of Old Man Du, and said several times that he wanted to accept Du Yun as a concubine.

Although the Xiao family is a big family in Tai'an, the status of the concubine is very low, only higher than the maidservant.

Old Man Du is such a precious granddaughter, how could he push her into the fire pit.

Therefore, Old Man Du made it clear that his granddaughter would never marry him Xiao Nanchang.

Old Man Xiao felt insulted, so he planned to find an opportunity to be Old Man Du.

It's definitely not okay to buy a murderer or something, it's too obvious. The best thing to do is to create an accident without knowing it.

Xiao Nanchang knew that Old Man Du would come to Tai'an City to sell medicine at a fixed time every month, so he arranged for his servants to wait in a carriage on the street outside the crude medicine shop.

As soon as Old Man Du appeared, he would whip his horsewhip and rush over to knock Old Man Du over and step on it again.

Old Man Du was not seriously injured when he was knocked down. It wasn't until he was kicked in the back of the head by a horse's hooves that he fell unconscious.

It turns out that killing people is still a professional killer, what a groom, a coachman, a domestic servant, and a retinue are too unprofessional.

And these people don't have a tight mouth, and they are all recruited when they are tortured.

Everything fell into place, and Zhu Houzhao was naturally furious.

He couldn't imagine that it was really because of personal grudges that the carriage deliberately hit people.

This old man Xiao is simply shameless, and he did something to kill people in order to vent his anger.

What's even more infuriating is that he dared to beat Du Yun's idea, which touched Zhu Houzhao's bottom line.

He already regarded Du Yun as a forbidden man, let alone a rich squire, even if any prince or nobleman could not think about it!

Zhu Houzhao immediately issued an order and ordered the governor of the state to arrest Xiao Nanchang.

On the day of his imprisonment, Old Man Xiao was beaten with fifty killings and was directly dying.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao would not let him die so easily, he instructed Jin Yiwei to use all torture methods to make Old Man Xiao feel pain.

Such shameless people must be dealt with by shameless means, which is called treating others in their own way.

If you don't do this, how can you be right, the old man Du who was knocked down and trampled by the carriage and is unconscious so far, how can you be right about Du Yundu girl?

Of course, Old Man Xiao will not be publicly executed.

Although he deliberately killed someone, after all, Old Man Du did not die.

Because of this, it is too far-fetched to sentence Old Man Xiao to death.

Old Man Xiao's execution was carried out in prison.

After being convinced that he had received sufficient punishment, the jailer hanged him or her as if he had hanged himself, and outsiders could not see the difference at all.

At this point, Zhu Houzhao's anger disappeared slightly. After His Majesty the Emperor calmed down, he did not implicate too widely, but only instructed the Tongzhi of Tai'an Prefecture to order the Xiao family to bear all the expenses of Old Man Du's recuperation.

This is, of course, for the sake of fighting for a breath.

Fortunately, Old Man Du Jiren has his own natural appearance, and he woke up after a long coma.

The imperial doctors all exclaimed miracles one after another.

"Your Majesty, this must be Old Man Du who entrusted His Majesty Hongfu to turn the corner."

The imperial doctor was not ambiguous at all when he took Zhu Houzhao's sycophant, which is understandable. After all, if he can't heal Old Man Du well, he will have to come to see him.

After this incident, Du Yun naturally learned Zhu Houzhao's true identity.

Although he knew that it would be sooner or later, Zhu Houzhao still felt a little lonely.

I'm afraid that the vague affection between the two is difficult to have again.

Although Old Man Du has woken up, he is greatly injured.

Du Yun did his filial piety in front of the bed, and the soup and water were never short.

Zhu Hou took care of it in his eyes, and he had a good impression of Du Yun.

When Old Man Du was finally able to get out of bed a month later, Du Yun could take a breath to catch up on sleep.

In the past month, she has been haggard a lot, and her eyes are even more red.

Zhu Hou took care of it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart.

He vowed to protect this woman and never let her suffer any more grievances.

It's August in a blink of an eye, and Zhu Houzhao has to return to Beijing after delaying it again and again.

Naturally, Zhu Houzhao wanted to bring Du Yun back to Beijing.

After all this, Du Yun admired Zhu Houzhao and promised to return to Beijing with Zhu Houzhao.

Although the element of repaying the favor is higher, Zhu Houzhao is still very moved.

Old Man Du has nothing to say, Zhu Houzhao is equivalent to his savior. If there was no imperial doctor to treat him with bloodletting, I am afraid that he would have passed out for the rest of his life.

Zhu Houzhao originally came to Mount Tai to seal Zen, although he did not make the trip, he hugged the beauty, and this wave was not a loss.

On this return trip, Zhu Houzhao was obedient, and did not choose the land route, but went north along the Grand Canal all the way to Zhangjiawan Wharf.

The most joyful of the holy driver's return to Beijing is the civil officials.

When the emperor is not in the capital, they feel unsteady for a day.

Maybe this is why a country cannot be without a king for a day.

Of course, Du Yun's name is a problem.

Even if Zhu Houzhao is the emperor, everything can't be done by temperament.

There is a whole process for canonizing an imperial concubine, and you can't be called a concubine without going through this process.

Of course, this does not affect Du Yun to stay by Zhu Houzhao's side.

After bringing Du Yun back to the leopard room, Zhu Houzhao and this beauty fought for a while.

After a long wait, Du Yun was officially canonized as a concubine, and rightfully became Zhu Houzhao's woman.

The courtiers did not have any opinion on this, and even the Queen Mother only asked a few words and then kept silent.

In this regard, Zhang Yongzhi is happy, and even said that Xie Ge is like a god and has magical powers.

Xie Shen naturally doesn't care, the emperor's women are not too much, as long as this concubine Du will not affect the crown prince's canonization, then it is all up to Zhu Houzhao to toss, he is happy.

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I have to say that Du Yun is deeply favored by Zhu Houzhao.

was not long after being canonized as the imperial concubine, she won the favor of the harem alone, and soon became pregnant with a dragon heir.

The balance of the harem was broken, and the most worried person was Concubine Liu, the biological mother of the little prince.

She was originally a palace maid, but by chance the emperor was fortunate enough to conceive a dragon species, and then her mother was canonized as a concubine by virtue of her son.

I thought that I would live a good life, but who knew that after the Son of Heaven toured Mount Tai in the east, he brought back a woman and named her the imperial concubine.

That's fine, the Son of Heaven likes the new and hates the old, maybe he will forget Concubine Du soon. But at this time, Concubine Du was pregnant with the dragon seed, and it was even more impossible for Zhu Houzhao to leave him.

If Concubine Du gave birth to a princess, it wouldn't be fine. If he gave birth to a prince, then I am afraid that there will inevitably be a bloody storm in the harem.

Concubine Liu is docile by nature and doesn't want to fight, but she can't help but think about her own future and the future of the little prince.

The harem is a bloody battlefield where only the strong can survive.

For this reason, Concubine Liu did not hesitate to ask for a relationship to find Xie Gelao, hoping that Xie Gelao could come forward to say a thing or two for her. I don't want the Son of Heaven to empathize with her, I just hope that she won't be too cold.

Of course, Xie Shen refuses this kind of thing.

The affairs of the harem are unclear, and if you rush into it, you are looking for death.

Xie Shen didn't have to care about anything else, but in the harem, Xie Shen maintained a high degree of vigilance, and he would definitely not make mistakes easily.

For courtiers, it is taboo to contact the concubine without permission. Although Zhu Houzhao trusts him, this is not an excuse for him to make an exception.

What's more, Concubine Liu is in a special situation, she is the only concubine who gave birth to an imperial heir for the emperor, and she is the most likely person to become the queen.

Xie Shen getting involved with such a woman will not only make Zhu Houzhao jealous, but also may be mistaken for wanting to interfere with the crown prince's canonization.

This is no joke.

Xie Shen really wants to have a good relationship with the future prince, and it is best to cultivate feelings from the baby.

But the problem is that the boy born by Concubine Liu may not become the prince. Now Zhu Houzhao is such a treasure, but the emperor is still very young, and no one can say anything about the future.

What if Du Yun gives birth to a prince? Or did some other concubine give birth to a prince?

There are so many women in Zhu Houzhao, and the desire is so strong, there are always one or two concubines who can compete to give birth to the emperor's heir, right?

Therefore, Xie Shen decided to wait and wait for Zhu Hou to make a crown prince before making a move.

This is the safest and wisest choice, and it is also the choice that can make yourself invincible.

Of course, Xie Shen would not take the initiative to contact Concubine Du.

Although he admired Du Yun very much, it was before she became the imperial concubine.

Now that she has been canonized as the imperial concubine, then everything is different.

The inner palace has the difficulties of the inner palace, and the people also have the difficulties of the people.

Since the beginning of autumn, there has been a food shortage in Beijing. The price of rice in the rice store has skyrocketed, and the people have reached the point where they cannot afford to buy shengdou rice.

This is because the Hangzhou section of the Grand Canal is silted, and a large amount of grain from the south of the Yangtze River cannot be transported to Beijing through the river.

The grain merchants in Beijing saw the business opportunity, so they hid the grain they had stocked up in advance, and let the price of grain rise wildly.

If it weren't for the imperial court opening a position and selling the stored rice at a parity price, the price of rice would not have risen to such a crazy level.

Of course, the rice released by the imperial court is only a drop in the bucket, and it is unrealistic to expect that these warehouses of rice can solve the grain shortage.

The approach proposed by the Cabinet is a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, we should step up efforts to dredge the silted section of the canal and transfer grain from the south of the Yangtze River to Beijing as soon as possible. The second is to strictly inspect the grain stores of the Beijing Division, and those who are found to be hoarding goods and strange people will be severely punished.

This did not conflict with Xie Shen's idea of elevating the status of a businessman.

Xie Shen wants to enhance the voice of businessmen and make businessmen more enthusiastic about politics. This is not to say that the greed of merchants can be tolerated endlessly.

He hoped that the businessmen he cooperated with would be Confucian businessmen who understood the general situation and took the overall situation into account, rather than profiteers who studied hard.

This strict investigation of the Jingshi grain store is a warning to those businessmen who are trying to make a fortune through crooked ways, and no one has any privilege in the face of national interests, and the same is true for businessmen.

Through the regulation and control of the imperial court, the once soaring price of rice finally fell, although it was still much higher than before the grain shortage, but it was within a reasonable range, and what the ****** and the imperial court had to do was not to completely control the price of grain, but to keep it in a relatively reasonable range. Excessive control will only deform the market.

However, this food shortage gave Xie Shen a warning, that is, the Ming Dynasty was too dependent on the Grand Canal.

Whether it is grain, silk cloth or porcelain, they all rely on this link between the north and the south for transportation.

If there is really an accidental large-scale silting of the canal, I am afraid that the entire Ming Empire will be paralyzed.

So, what's the best solution?

As the head of the cabinet, Xie Shen must face this issue head-on.

For this reason, he consulted with Wang Shouren, Gu Dingchen and others in the cabinet several times to discuss countermeasures.

Different people have different opinions, and Gu Dingchen seems that it is the best way to respond to all changes without change. The likelihood of a large-scale blockage of the Grand Canal is too low, and it is unfounded to worry about it.

Wang Shouren's view is more radical, and he believes that it is necessary to dig another canal. The so-called "rainy day" refers to this.

The two canals can not only increase capacity, but also avoid risks.

But digging the canal requires a lot of human and financial resources. After Hongzhi Zhongxing and Zhengde New Deal, the Ming Dynasty was in a thriving state.

If you dig the canal with the strength of the whole country at this time, you may have to eat up the old capital. Moreover, such a huge project is likely to arouse public resentment, and it would be a pity to make wedding clothes for others like Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui.

In Xie Shen's view, Gu Dingchen and Wang Shouren's views are too radical and the other too conservative, and they are not suitable for the current Ming Dynasty.

So he took a different approach and put forward a completely new point of view.

Establish a storage system around key state capitals to ensure food supply under special circumstances.

This is actually not a completely new proposition, after all, the Ming Dynasty has granaries in important cities such as Jingshi and Suzhou. But this is not enough, Xie Shen wants to establish a storage system based on a granary, not just a granary.

This includes transportation, rationing, etc., which is far from being comparable to a static warehouse.

Of course, this plan was ahead of its time, so Gu Dingchen and Wang Shouren couldn't understand it very well after hearing it.

Xie Shen took the trouble to explain the advantages of the warehousing system to them, and finally convinced the two that this model was conducive to the healthy development of Daming.

The next step is to explain the plan to the Son of Heaven.

As long as Zhu Houzhao agrees, then Xie Shen's warehousing plan can be officially implemented, and the network will be collected by dots and lines.

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