On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, although there was no martial law in Chang'an City, the Yamen of the City Defense Division and the Jingzhao Mansion were all ready for any situation. In the city, several lively places where lantern festivals are held have been added, and a large number of people are being prepared.

Liu Yu was also worried that those rebellious parties who had slipped through the net would take the opportunity to launch another terrorist attack, but from beginning to end, except for two rebellious parties who came out with knives to cut people and were stopped in time, nothing else happened. No casualties were reported.

At the time of the last watch, the crowd of the lantern festival has basically dispersed, after all, this is ancient times, and it is a cold winter, even if the people come out to join in the fun, they will never leave home for too long at night, the lively lantern festival lasts for almost more than an hour, starting from the time of the lights at night, and ending at the time of the last watch.

Liu Yu was originally waiting for news in the lobby of Jingzhao Mansion, ready to command this internal war to quell the riots. But because there was no situation, when it came to the last watch, Liu Yu asked Sui Yi and Li Mi to continue to be responsible, and he returned to the palace earlier, after all, today was the Shangyuan Festival, and the family was still waiting for him to go back.

In the years when the emperor was alive, every year to such a festive festival as the Shangyuan Festival, the palace would always organize some lively celebrations, and the palace would be lively on this day, and the palace could also experience the festive atmosphere. But after Su Yan ascended the throne, the harem began to wither, and now, there is not even a concubine in the palace, and no one is preparing for such a party in order to compete for favor. In the entire palace, except for a few red lanterns hanging out, let people know that this is the Shangyuan Festival, nothing else has been prepared, and it is deserted everywhere, only the occasional patrol of the Royal Forest Army.

to the inner court. The desertion felt slightly better. The female officers were not prepared. But under the instruction of Xu Xuanzhu, the female army guards were led by Lu Chuer, a showy daredevil, red lanterns hung everywhere, and there was one within a few steps, and the female army guards simply regarded the inner court as the back garden of their own home, and Liu Yue heard the laughter of hee-hee and ha-ha when he entered the inner court. Liu Yu couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the casual appearance of the female army guards, if there was some assassin incident in the palace. These women alone obviously can't maintain the security of the entire inner court.

"Husband is back?"

Liu Yu entered the door, Xu Xuanzhu greeted him, the family was still talking, but when they saw Liu Yu coming in, their voices stopped. Lin Meiren's attitude was the most abnormal, originally she was still talking and laughing with Qi'er, but when she saw Liu Yu, she immediately lowered her head, and she didn't even get up to say hello.

Liu Yu took off his coat and said, "There was a little chaos in the city, and now it has been resolved." ”

Xu Xuanzhu took Liu Yu's clothes and said, "The concubine listened to what Vice Marshal Xu said. She entered the city today and heard that there were people from Jingzhao Mansion and the Six Defense Division working everywhere in the city. The concubine guessed that something might have happened. Han Xiang looked for her husband in the afternoon, and just returned at dusk. ”

Liu Yu took the notebook handed over by Xu Xuanzhu, which was specially sent by Han Sheng, and if it was not urgent, these things would not generally be sent to the inner court. There are two copies in total. Liu Yu opened it and looked at it, one was about the preparations for the enthronement ceremony five days later, including the list of expenses, Liu Yue didn't want to worry about these, closed the book and opened the following one, it was the post-disaster reconstruction of the snow disaster in Guanzhong.

In the past, there was a little snow in winter, and it was a huge year of snow, but this winter there is too much snow in Guanzhong, and it is no longer snow, but disaster snow. In fact, the disaster relief in various parts of Guanzhong is not smooth, firstly, the continuous snow has blocked many roads, and the materials cannot be transferred in, and the other is that the winter is too cold, and the post-disaster reconstruction will generally wait for the beginning of the spring to warm up, and the winter can freeze to death after a long time outside the minus ten or twenty degrees. The most important point is that the imperial court's finances are now stretched thin, and there is no silver to provide for disaster relief.

The war for two years has made the court poor.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Liu Yu has not much to do in the face of this embarrassment. It's winter now, the Dashun Dynasty, which is dominated by agriculture, will not create food in this cold winter, and there will be no materials to relieve the disaster.

"Jiangnan's taxes are not well levied this year, and the husband may be able to start in this regard." Xu Xuanzhu saw that Liu Yu was holding the notebook and did not speak, so he suddenly reminded.

Liu Yu glanced at Xu Xuanzhu curiously, surprised by Xu Xuanzhu's knowledge of the government.

"How did Madame know?"

Xu Xuanzhu smiled faintly and said, "Actually, it's all about chatting with the sister of the Sui family on weekdays, and she often mentions it." Last year, just after the end of the war in Huaidi, the imperial court imposed tax exemption or less taxes on Huaidi and many places in the south of the Yangtze River. However, with the implementation of Nanyang Gan in Huaidi and Jiangnan, in fact, except for a few places in Jiangnan last year, the output was reduced due to floods, and most areas had bumper harvests. The magistrates collected two years of grain in advance in the name of military supplies, and less than half of it was shipped to the north, so why didn't the husband start with these corrupt officials to ask for food? ”

Xu Xuanzhu obviously did his homework, and Sui Yu said it very clearly. Liu Yu sighed slightly, in fact, this is also a mistake in political thinking that women who have no experience in politics and have a clean heart.

In Xu Xuanzhu's view, black is black, white is white, corrupt officials are corrupt officials must be suppressed, and they cannot be allowed to usurp the interests of the court and the people.

There is nothing wrong with these things in principle, but in practice it is difficult.

The crows in the world are as black as they are, but they are divided into big black and small black. In this era, if there were no desire for these corrupt officials to embezzle, they would not have done things for the court wholeheartedly, and they would not have thought of ways to perfunctory the court. Just like Xu Xuanzhu said about the corruption of the magistrates in the south of the Yangtze River, if there were not these magistrates who went against the will of the imperial court and collected two more years of local taxes, maybe the soldiers in the north would have starved to death, although they may have corruption, but now to investigate, the matter will be investigated more and more, and the food may not be recovered after the worst, the local chaos will be first, and the next year's tax will not be collected.

It is a contradiction to want to crack down on corrupt officials, but also have to rely on these corrupt officials, and even Liu Yu cannot solve this contradiction for the time being. Promoting Democracy? Liu Yue thinks about it and thinks it's a fantasy and unreliable.

Liu Yu put down the notebook and said, "If you save the province again, the imperial court will survive this winter first, and then you will find a way to do it for your husband as much as possible." I believe Han Xiang thinks the same way. ”

Liu Yu was helpless in his words, Xu Xuanzhu saw that Liu Yu did not take her opinion, probably because he felt that his hand was stretched too long, and lowered his head in shame. Liu Yu stepped forward and hugged her shoulders and comforted: "Madam, thank you for sharing your husband's worries." But the affairs of the court are a little complicated, and the husband will make it clear to you slowly. ”

Hearing this, the sad look on Xu Xuanzhu's face was relieved. The family began to prepare for the Shangyuan Festival, which was two hours late. (To be continued......)