Dian Cui carried the title deed, and after thinking about it, he did not go to Jingzhao Yamen to hand over the silver seal, but returned to the house.

Yuan Zhiheng came home very late at night, and his face was very solemn. When Dian Cui asked, he realized that there was really an accident in the south. Huangzhou Mansion, Anqing Mansion, Fengyang Mansion and other places have successively had river embankment collapse accidents, the first two places are close to large lakes, most of the water flows into the lake, the disaster can still be controlled. The terrain of Fengyang Mansion is concave, and the flood water gushes out, almost submerging the entire mansion, and the victims are countless.

"Then Lord Qin, he ......" Dian Cuishang remembered that when they were in Hangzhou Mansion, Lord Qin, who was the governor of the Jiangnan River, took care of their family.

"As soon as this incident came out, although Lord Qin could not escape the blame, but at that time, it was Lord Wang of the Ministry of Industry who was responsible for supervising the construction of the river embankment, and Lord Qin had not yet taken office at that time, and this dereliction of duty was only because the local officials concealed it and did not report it, and he was guilty of not paying attention." Yuan Zhiheng frowned and sighed.

Today's court controversy, it seems that those people deliberately want to blame the Ministry of Industry for this disaster, but ten years ago, the imperial court built a river embankment in the south of the Yangtze River, but it was not only the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry. The ministry was responsible for allocating funds and even buying materials for the construction of the river embankment, which was the key, but no one in the court today mentioned it.

There are six departments of the imperial court, the head of the Ministry of Officials is Lord Xu, and the Ministry of War is inextricably linked with the Xu family. Several of them are former ministers of the queen's family, but in recent years they have been the most low-key and neutral. At the bottom of the ranking of the Ministry of Industry is the Qingshui Yamen, but it has never been involved in party disputes. This time there was a catastrophe, and naturally no one stood up to speak.

"Then Lord Wang and Mrs. Wang ......" Diancui and Mrs. Wang fell in love very much, and couldn't help but worry.

"Lord Wang has been dismissed, and now the saint has ordered him to stay in the mansion and not to go out, pending the arraignment of Dali Temple. On the Ministry of Works, Yang Shilang temporarily took the position of Shangshu. ”

"Fortunately, I was not taken directly to Dali Temple, otherwise Mrs. Wang would definitely not be able to stand it."

"This matter is not optimistic, the key Qin family is still involved, and the fifth brother is also going crazy." Yuan Zhiheng said: "The Holy Lord will send Qin to the three places to provide disaster relief and check this matter, I recommended the fifth brother in the court, he is an important member of the household department, and the household department must have a record of the affairs of the year, and he can also prevent others from doing trouble." ”

"When it comes to disaster relief, I don't think the ministry will stand idly by." Diancui is not as ignorant of the affairs of the court as ordinary women, when the husband and wife are together, Yuan Zhiheng will talk to her about some court politics, and she can also interject a word about her own thoughts, and she is smart, and some of the joints can also be understood.

Yuan Zhiheng nodded, this disaster relief and investigation are parallel, it is impossible for the saint to only send Qin Ruofu, naturally there is also a righteous envoy, and he thinks that he is a member of the ministry again.

If the officials go to someone, then it will be a big trouble. There is only one person in the world who does not know the corruption and corruption of the Xu family, but no one dares to say it rashly without evidence.

Fortunately, there was a turning point on the second day, when the dynasty was approaching, King Gong actually stood up and fought with Lord Xu, the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu, and asked him to do the disaster relief investigation by himself, the emperor actually made an exception, but also made the former Jiangnan Weaving is now the left senator of the General Political Department Cui Youliang Cui, and the household department promoted Qin Ruofu as a deputy envoy to assist in supervising King Gong's disaster relief case!

Cui Youliang is a retainer of Emperor Xu's concubine, and the emperor asked him to go, and the Xu family can be regarded as a little bit of a city.

Since the left senator of the General Administration Department is involved in it, as the right senator and the teacher of King Gong, Yuan Zhiheng naturally has a reason to run for this matter.

The disaster relief was urgent, and King Gong and they set off in a few days. Yuan Zhiheng found a way to go to the household department to investigate the old files.

Let's say that on the Yuan Mansion side, the two concubines sent by Emperor Xu Guifei were not idle, and they were obviously more active than before when they saw the stitches outside Yuan Zhiheng's study. Diancui was afraid that she would really ask them to find out something, and she would get into some trouble for her husband, so she thought of something to divert their attention.

On this day, Diancui cleaned up, went to the treasury to get some silver, and deliberately went out of the house with the winter snow.

Diancui's carriage went to Yuwang's mansion first, and handed a greeting post to the porter, and after a while, Yuwang's side concubine went out and got into Diancui's carriage. The carriage carrying the two of them first went to Jingzhaoyin's mansion, and then went to the two yamen under the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry.

Then the two of them happily entered a restaurant, ordered a few side dishes, chatted while eating, and talked happily.

"Gui and Concubine Yu, how did the two of them get together?" When Emperor Xu got the news from Yuan Fuzhong, she couldn't help frowning.

"It seems that the two of them have known each other for a long time, and the three places they went to today must be inseparable from the incident in Jiangnan!" The big palace maid beside the imperial concubine guessed.

"Tell them to pay attention to the movements of the Gui family, and send someone to Jingzhao Yin Yamen to ask what their intentions are." Emperor Xu Guifei commanded.

Yuan Zhiheng acted too carefully and carefully, and he was full of martial arts, so it was difficult for the people sent to him to get anything. But Gui's is different, whether it is inside or outside the Yuan Mansion, she can be kept in a tight spot.

However, after half a day's work, the palace people who went to Jingzhao Yin Yamen to inquire about the news came back and said that Gui and Concubine Yu seemed to have bought a large piece of land next to the official road near the outskirts of the city, and others did not know what to do.

"Buying land?" Emperor Xu Guifei pondered, she had heard of some business methods of the Gui family, but she attracted the side concubine of King Yu to join her, could it be that Yuan Zhiheng wanted to throw himself into King Yu?

King Yu's family has a lot of heirs, and he is the favorite son of the first emperor, and the current saint also attaches great importance to his younger brother. Even so, there are also King Gong and King Qi, Yuan Zhiheng has no reason to go to him near and far.

"What's going on in Jingyang Palace?" Emperor Xu asked again.

"Today, Mr. Yuan taught riding and archery lessons, and he praised the prince of Yuwang." The little eunuch outside the door hurriedly reported.

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"What about King Qi?" Emperor Xu asked again.

"Because of Niangniang's admonition, King Qi rarely goes to Yuan's Mansion anymore, but when he is taken by the juniors of the Xu family to go to some wine shops and restaurants, Princess Qi is about to give birth...... Niangniang, see if you can persuade Your Highness again, he ...... "It's Mama Ai who speaks."

"That's it, because of the things that prevented him from going to Yuan's Mansion, he has become estranged from me a lot, and he should be even more unhappy to say more. Princess Qi sent more people to take care of it, the child in her womb is the most important, don't let her be petty, some things should be hidden. ”

"Yes, sissy." Mama Ai hurriedly responded.

"Madam, why do you want to give a piece of such a good business to Concubine Yuwang?" Winter snow is incomprehensible.

"Naturally, in order to be more secure, although this matter has nothing to do with the floods in Jiangnan, after all, Mrs. Wang is also running for me. If there is nothing to do in the future, it will be fine, if it is criticized by someone with a heart, I have to do some explanation, and I will be involved with adults, but if I pull the concubine of King Yu together, others will always be a little more jealous, this is one of them. ”

"Second?" Dongxue felt that her wife was right.

"The second is that I want to save some money to do something else," Dian Cui said with a smile: "For example, if you buy some medicinal materials, the floods in the south of the Yangtze River will inevitably cause a lot of casualties, and the medicinal materials will definitely be in short supply in a few days, so we need to come in from all over the country as soon as possible." ”

At this time, her second brother was staying in the land of Sichuan and Shu for the matter of Miao Yin for making hairpins, and she must know that the land of Sichuan and Shu is rich in medicinal materials.

Diancui sent a letter to Gui Zhongqing, asking him to purchase three full ships of medicinal materials and transport them to the capital. After Yuan Zhiheng learned about this, he persuaded Diancui to let her second brother directly transport the medicinal materials to Hangzhou Mansion, which is closer to Huangzhou Mansion, Anqing Mansion, and Fengyang Mansion than the capital, and there is a Miaozhu Willow shopkeeper to answer them, so they should be worry-free.

Diancui was overjoyed when she heard it, and she was still thoughtful. Yuan Zhiheng was not happy, and said that according to historical records, there were many plagues after the flood, and the medicine in Sichuan and Shu was probably not enough, so if he dragged the relationship between the second brother in various places, he was ready to buy some.

He played this with the court twice, asking the court to allocate funds to collect a part of the medicinal materials from various places for disaster relief, but was retorted by Lord Xu, the secretary of the ministry, that the most important thing at the moment is to provide disaster relief and resettle the victims, and the victims are countless, and the silver from the court is enough, and the purchase of medicinal materials will lead to an empty treasury. And the account department that manages the treasury is as silent and inactive as ever.

Yuan Zhiheng, Li Sang and others were angry, but they were also a little powerless.

"What Xiang Gong said is extremely true, if there is a real plague, no amount of medicinal materials will be enough." Diancui frowned softly.

Yuan Zhiheng knew what she was worried about, but some words were not easy to say, the plague was not the best, but if a large number of medicinal materials were purchased, they would be hoarded in their hands, and no one dared to guarantee this.

Dian Cui thought for a while, and suddenly said to his heart: "There is a way, but I have to go into the palace to ask to see the queen's mother, and then call the sister-in-law of the Li family and the second sister-in-law of the Tang family to be together." ”

"Want to see the Queen?" Yuan Zhiheng thought for a moment and said: "I heard that tomorrow the queen is fasting, you and the two sisters-in-law can enter the palace by copying the scriptures, and today you can make the two girls in the south courtyard get out of the palace and go to the queen to explain their intentions, so as not to be abrupt." ”

"Good!" Diancui smiled and teased: "What girl, she is your concubine." ”

"Nonsense!" Yuan Zhiheng pinched her nose: "The husband didn't move a finger from them, and in the future, he found a suitable family for them, and it was also the queen's intention to protect each other." ”

"Yes, yes, I know, I'm paying attention to it, but it can't be done now, it's all up to these two girls and the two in the West Courtyard to fight for me to be more leisurely." Diancui said with a smile.

"Well, everything will be done according to Madame's wishes." Yuan Zhiheng doted.

On the second day, the two sisters-in-law of Dian Cui and the Li family and the Tang family entered the palace in the name of sending scriptures.

The three of them worshiped the queen, and after sitting down, Diancui didn't beat around the bush, and then said a rough idea of what he meant.

Now the floods in the three southern places have caused people, and not only the victims have been injured, but also the officers and soldiers who have gone to help and the local officials. As official dependents, they also wanted to contribute, so Mrs. Yuan took the lead in purchasing medicinal materials in various places and selling them to the people in these three places at the purchase price.

It's just that this medicinal material is sold at the purchase price, and it will definitely be more than fifty percent lower than the price in other places in the south of the Yangtze River.

When the queen heard this, she knew that her trip was of great use to King Gong, so there was no reason why she should not do it.

"The three ladies are righteous, there is no reason for this palace to tell you to work in vain, and the reward is naturally there, say, what do you want?" The queen laughed.

Dian Cui smiled slightly, and did not shirk, and said: "If this matter is done smoothly and the disaster is successfully passed, the concubine wants to open a medicinal herb shop in each of these three places and do some serious medicinal herb business, but this medicinal herb business and silk business at a glance, the tax has never been low......"

It turned out that she had this idea, the queen was angry and funny, this Gui is really a ghost elf, tunnel: "Okay, this palace will allow you to build shops in these three places, and the local government will be exempt from taxes for three years, are you satisfied?" ”

These three places were affected by the disaster, and in order to recuperate, all walks of life themselves had to pay light taxes in the first two years, and the queen was just a favor, and others could not blame anything wrong.

"Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother!" The two sisters-in-law who partnered with her were also very happy, although they invested less money, but if they were really exempt from taxes for three years, the income would be considerable.