"Set it aside." Ye Chen didn't really want to eat.

"Yes." Shilang Ram obediently put the medicinal food aside, and the position he chose was just right, so as not to disturb Ye Chen's office. It won't make him reach when he wants to.

"Your Majesty has a headache, I have learned the method of kneading acupoints in my hometown, which can relieve fatigue, if Your Majesty wants, the concubine can rub it for you." Shiro Ram said tentatively.

"Hmm." Ye Chen did not refuse, this princess was by far the most satisfactory concubine to him.

It was comfortable and peaceful to get along with.

If it was someone else who came just now, if you didn't take a bite, you would definitely not be forgiving.

Ye Chen slowly closed his eyes, and his original anxious mood was indeed relieved a lot.

"How did your family call you?" Ye Chen suddenly spoke.

A hint of nostalgia flashed in Shiro Ram's eyes, "My grandmother called me Langlang. ”

"Langlang... Lang Lang... It's a good idea. Ye Chen put these two words in his mouth and chewed them repeatedly.

Shilang Ram smiled faintly, the king of the Chen Kingdom is really a gentle person, and his face is handsome and extraordinary.

"How about I call you Langlang in the future?" Ye Chen asked.

Shiro Ram was stunned, was he asking for his own opinion?

"Naturally." Shiro Ram said as a matter of course. It seems that this king is not only gentle, but also not an overbearing person. It is no wonder that Chen Guoneng is getting stronger and stronger, and it is a blessing for the people of the world to have such a king.

"Do you have any touching tunes from your hometown?"

"Your Majesty wants to hear me, so I will sing to Your Majesty." Shiro Ram has a soft voice by nature, so every word she says can warm people's hearts.

"Sing two more words." If it doesn't sound good, forget it. Ye Chen thought to himself.

When Xie Chuan came, he saw this scene.

Ye Chen lay down, put his head on Shiro Ram's lap, closed his eyes, and looked like he was enjoying himself.

Shilang Ram was singing a tune, putting his hands on the sides of Ye Chen's temples and rubbing them gently.

What a beautiful picture. However, recently, the girl of Sparrow Spirit was angry with him because of a trivial matter.

Shiro Ramen could feel Ye Chen's breathing steadily, and he seemed to be asleep. So after seeing Xie Chuan, he put his hand to his lips and made a shushing gesture, signaling Xie Chuan to wait for a while.

Xie Chuan raised his eyebrows, wait? Impossible.

"Minister Xie Chuan, join Your Majesty! I wonder what is the important matter of His Majesty's summoning of his ministers? Xie Chuan's voice was very loud, not only did Ye Chen sit up in shock, but even Shilang Ram was startled by him. Is this man so bold that he is not afraid of the king's rebuke?

Ye Chen's sweet dream was interrupted, and he was a little annoyed for a while, he just woke up and forgot that Shilang Ram was still on the side, and directly complained to Xie Chuan: "You kid has no place to use his strength?" ”

"Your Majesty recruited a minister?" Xie Chuan looked indifferent.

"Don't talk back!" Ye Chen knew that it was his own pot, and he was annoyed and angry.

"Yes, I obey." Xie Chuan's tone was a little teasing.

"Okay, okay, don't make trouble, I'm looking for you to have something to do, come and sit." Ye Chen pointed to the cushion next to him.

But Xie Chuan didn't move, staring behind Ye Chen.

Ye Chen suddenly realized that something seemed to have been forgotten by himself, and as Xie Chuan's gaze slowly turned back, he saw Shiro Ram smiling in his eyes, staring at him without blinking.

Xie Chuan secretly said that this princess was afraid that she was going to be unlucky, and Ye Chen was also looked at by her, how could he let her go out and spread the word?

"Look at what! See?! Ye Chen was a little angry. What are you looking at me for? That's you. ”

Xie Chuan stared at Ye Chen with a look of disbelief, pointing at himself.

Ye Chen actually blamed him for watching Princess Tubo, did he blame the wrong person?

"I ...... She ......" Xie Chuan pointed at himself and pointed at Shiro Ram.

"Look!"

"I ...... Okay, I don't look at it, is she going to be here when we talk about things? Xie Chuan admits defeat, he is the one who should not be watched. This Ye Chen is finished, he dares to guarantee that this Ye Chen will be folded in the hands of this woman.

"The concubine stepped back first." Shiro Ram got up and saluted in amusement, and exited the imperial study.

Xie Chuan nodded: "It's quite interesting." ”

"What are you doing? Let's take down the Sparrow Soul first. Ye Chen said sarcastically.

The retribution was unhappy, and Xie Chuan's mood was depressed all of a sudden.

"Come and sit down." Ye Chen greeted again.

In front of outsiders, Ye Chen is a king who abides by etiquette and rules of words and deeds.

In front of Xie Chuan, he is not so particular, although Xie Chuan is young, he is also considered to be old and disrespectful, after all, he will have to get along for decades in the future, how tiring it is to pretend. Anyway, he was like this in front of Ye Xuanyuan.

Xie Chuan and Maizhi's former wife, that is, Ning Ge's sister, have some to do with each other.

Ye Chen is with him in the palace, but he should know that he will not be left behind.

"But what's going on?"

Xie Chuan and Ye Chen both put down their hippie smiles and became serious.

"Lu Pengyun has just come from Diancheng and needs to come back." Ye Chen briefly explained the matter and added some of his own analysis. The issue of retrieving bees was also mentioned.

"Actually, I always thought that you had a problem with General Li's handling." Xie Chuan was blunt.

"But the bees are much more powerful than you think, and with so much going on, I feel more and more that it was a wise decision to take them back." Ye Chen retorted.

"Have you ever wondered, cause and effect? You think that sometimes you are the effect, but in fact you can be the cause. Xie Chuan asked. He knew that every king sat in that position, and he would be suspicious of the people below, which was a common problem that emperors were indispensable to.

Thinking of this, Xie Chuan decided not to dwell on this issue, and continued: "Okay, let's not talk about this for now, I want to show you a letter now. ”

With that, Xie Chuan took out a piece of letter paper from his cuff and put it on the desk.

Ye Chen picked up the letter, opened it, and began to look.

The letter is very long, but what Ye Chen can understand is very short. Because it's full of weird symbols.

Even if Ye Chen can only understand a little, the amount of information in it is not large, the grain and grass flow north, and there will be a great drought in the sky, involving other countries.

"How did this letter come about?" Ye Chen had already received a letter from Ye Xuanyuan, and knew that there might be an abnormality in the side plug.

Ye Chen always thought it was the north at first, but now it seems that the south is not too peaceful.

Xie Chuan took the letter written by Tang Sha to Ye Chen for the first time, and this letter only arrived today, and the speed of the eagle used to transmit the letter was the fastest among all the messenger speeds.

"My sister gave it to me." In Xie Chuan's heart, Ning Xiaoming had already been his sister.

"Your sister? Do you have a sister? Ye Chen was confused.

"Ning Xiaoming." Xie Chuan solved his doubts.

Ye Chen didn't care why Ning Xiaoming knew these things, but combined with Lu Peng's return to Beijing, the credibility of the matter in the letter was much greater.

"What the letter said, there is a lot involved, so I just showed you, and the back is the specific growth data of some grain northward flow, as well as the toggle curve of prices after the great drought in the sky...... "Xie Chuan didn't leave those things in Tangsha, and explained the data in turn.

At this time, Ye Chen knew what kind of person his younger brother was looking at, a god man he didn't understand.

Maybe only such a person will make Ye Maizhi bend his waist.

"How credible is that there will be a great drought on this day?" Regarding the flow of grain, Ye Chen only needs to go to the household department to verify it.

"Ninety percent." That's how Xie Chuan trusts Tang Sha. In fact, it is not only because of Tang Sha, but also because there have been some abnormal weather recently.

Autumn is supposed to have autumn rains, but this year, there hasn't been a single rain since the beginning of autumn.

This year's grain harvest is much worse than usual. It is impossible to eat the autumn harvest completely in the days to come. Those merchants are afraid that they will also sit on the ground and raise prices.

Tang Sha has a certain theoretical basis for making this judgment, and she is afraid that the Lanila phenomenon and the El Niño phenomenon alternate.

The last flood could make all the villagers near Hengshan move away, and Ye Xuanyuan's army moved quickly and notified them properly.

So most of the losses were some houses, and there were very few casualties.

Ye Chen only felt his forehead jump suddenly, did he do something sorry to God? Is he a mischaracterist? Why did he only succeed to the throne for seven or eight years, and such a complicated matter fell on him?

Ye Chen and Xie Chuan both knew that the drought was not the most terrible, but the most terrible thing was actually the locust plague caused by the drought.

Tang Sha also said in the letter that generally 15 to 20 percent of the soil moisture is the most suitable for locusts to lay eggs.

Xie Chuan could understand it, but he couldn't stop it.

Once there is a great drought, then human beings are extremely small in the face of such disasters.

"Xie Chuan, do you say I want to sacrifice to the sky." Ye Chen rubbed his eyebrows.

The emperor's sacrifice to the heavens has been a major event since ancient times, and once a disaster occurs, the emperor will sacrifice to the heavens to pray for blessings, and even invite Taoist priests to do the law. Worship the three officials.

The heavenly officials bless, the local officials release their sins, and the water officials relieve misfortunes. Cast a golden dragon and jade slip to pass on the prayer.

"Just keep it simple." Xie Chuan didn't believe in gods, and Tang Sha's influence on his thinking was too great, so he inexplicably stopped believing in these gods and ghosts.

The son does not speak of strangeness, force, chaos, and God.

But in many cases, worshipping the heavens is just a means for the king to comfort himself and appease the people.

"If this is true, Xie Chuan, what do you think I should do?" Ye Chen suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

"Divert water, store water, store grain, set up inspection and inspection departments, and strictly enforce laws and regulations to put an end to corruption. Allocate funds to build houses, settle the homeless, and save palace expenses. Pay attention to the medical center. Deploy military defense. "What Xie Chuan said is just a big thing, and the meticulous good needs to be implemented little by little.

Ye Chen pondered Xie Chuan's words and did not respond.

"Actually, you don't have to worry, the War King's side must have already made a foolproof plan, and Sister Ning also knows these things, she will definitely have a countermeasure. Cheng Lixue, the richest man in Chen Guo, also got very close to Sister Ning. This person is not small, he is reliable, and his nature is not bad. Things are not as difficult as you think. Xie Chuan reassured.

Yes, people are often unable to use their own reason to think about problems when they are anxious. In fact, the situation is not as complicated as imagined, and they still have time to make corresponding countermeasures.

"You should draw up a countermeasure for me as soon as possible, and then implement it when Lord Lu returns to Beijing." Ye Chen said simply.

"Yes." Xie Chuan nodded.

"In two days, it will be the renewal of the covenant, you remind Ning Ge and let him be careful in everything." Ye Chen suddenly remembered this incident.

After Ning Ge sent Shilang Ram back to Beijing, Ye Chen asked any of the three parties to leave, but directly sent them to the northern military camp to visit and study, and by the way to see how the renewal covenant was carried out.

But among these people, Ning Ge was the one Ye Chen believed in the most and was also the most reliable.

"I will, if it's okay, I'll go back and work things out first." Xie Chuan said.

"Go ahead, you have to be careful of these yourself, it hasn't been peaceful lately." Ye Chen reminded.

"Then I'm leaving, you have to be careful, I think a lot of people may want your life now." Xie Chuan was born in the market, and sometimes he speaks straightforwardly.

And Ye Chen's favorite thing about Xie Chuan is this, he has no scheming, and he doesn't hide it. What is there to dislike about such a courtier?

In addition, it seems that Xie Chuan is not only a personal talent, but his friends are not simple characters.

Naturally, in Ye Chen's heart, the most powerful is his younger brother. On the one hand, he still has some envy and jealousy on the one hand. But it is more of a distress and gratitude to Ye Xuanyuan.

If it weren't for Ye Xuanyuan, he might not be able to sit in this position. Ye Xuanyuan regarded him as his own brother.

Ye Xuanyuan's dedication to Chen Guo, he saw it all. There was another thing that also made Ye Chen feel guilty about Ye Xuanyuan.

It's the matter of his own mother.

He knew all the things that the queen mother did back then. In order to make himself a king of God, her exclusions and advice back then were all imprinted in his mind.

It wasn't until later that Ye Xuanyuan helped him suppress those forces that opposed him, and those who were ambitious, and went to the frontier by himself. The queen mother only began to change.

Maybe everything the current queen mother does is to atone for the mistakes she committed before.

After all, his mother is his own mother, and he can't push his mother out with his own hands.

What made Ye Chen even more guilty was that Ye Xuanyuan actually knew about it. With Ye Xuanyuan's ability, it is impossible not to find out. But he didn't say anything, he didn't do anything.

Ye Xuanyuan knew that he was favoring his mother, so in front of Ye Hangyuan, Ye Chen would never be able to raise his head.

The same is true for Empress Dowager Chen, she is not small, and naturally she knows in her heart that Ye Xuanyuan knew that she killed Zhang Guifei. But Ye Xuanyuan pretended not to know anything.

How many years has Empress Dowager Chen lived, and all kinds of people have seen it, how can she not see Ye Xuanyuan's character?

is still a person, as long as that person's conscience is not completely extinguished, there will eventually be sympathy, pity, guilt, sadness and other emotions that human beings should have.

Ye Chen knew that Chen Guo could do without him, but he couldn't do without Ye Xuanyuan. Yes, this is the case, no matter who the emperor is, as long as Ye Xuanyuan is willing to support it, Chen Guo will get better and better.

Is he too useless? As soon as he encountered something, he began to retreat, and he was still an emperor.

Isn't it war? Isn't it just drought? The soldiers will block, and the water will cover the earth. In addition to him, he has thousands of people, so he has nothing to fear.

Ye Chen exhaled deeply, and his shoulders were much lighter. It's time for him to make a career, too.