Su Jiudong excitedly held Wen Yiheng's hand: "This is very good, just like Wang Jian knows how to advance and retreat, and grasps the measure." ”

However, Su Jiudong's excitement didn't last long, and he was happy for a while and then became depressed:

"But this is good, but you have a deep grudge with Yun Mulin and the forces behind him in the court, they are eyeing you, if you resign and do not have the protection of Shang Shuling's position, I am afraid that the power of Zhu Guogong alone may not be able to protect you."

Wen Yiheng held Su Jiudong's hand, warmed Su Jiudong's little hand, which was still dry and refreshing in the summer, with his palm, and comforted Su Jiudong with confidence:

"You don't have to worry about this, I don't really want to resign and retire, it's just to avoid its sharpness, and when the time is ripe, the Holy Lord will personally invite me back to be the prime minister."

Su Jiudong smiled again, and his tone became relaxed and intimate: "You are so confident? ”

Wen Yiheng is well aware of the harm of conceit to people, but his military merits and strength at this time can match his current conceit, so he can return to Jiudong Dao so confidently:

"The husband is the only one who can't fight, so the world can't fight with him. I am confident that I am the only one who can take charge of the affairs of the DPRK and China, but I am forced to retreat due to the situation. However, this indisputable and retreat is only temporary, and without my help, the Holy Lord will only be more anxious about the situation between the DPRK and China. ”

"As for if they can really retreat with their whole body, Yun Mulin and they will definitely make a move. If they really send someone to deal with me, it will be a good opportunity for me to gather evidence of his secret liaison with the courtiers and the assassination of the senior officials in the court. ”

"Are you trying to use yourself as bait to lure Yun Mulin to the bait?" Su Jiudong retreated from his doubts, and at this moment, Su Jiudong was mostly worried about Wen Yiheng's personal safety: "I know that you have cultivated many secret guards to protect you, but this is too risky. ”

Wen Yiheng only responded to Su Jiudong with eight words: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger." ”

Obviously, Wen Yiheng has made arrangements for the future situation, and he doesn't want to talk about the "bait" thing, so the focus of the discussion between Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng is back to the most difficult drought in the western city.

Su Jiudong stared at Wen Yiheng After eating the medicinal food, he took the medicine bowl back to the kitchen and put it, and when he came back, he held Xu Guangqi's "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" in his hand, and casually turned to the volume about drought, sat down on Wen Yiheng's shoulder, and said slowly:

"I had experienced a flood in Quzhou, Gangnam Province, and I thought that the flood was the most serious of the common disasters except for ground movement. At that time, when I was looking through books and searching for floods, I also read about drought, and I never thought that drought was worse than floods. ”

"Drought may not only cause crop failure, cause famine, but also chain disasters such as locust plagues, epidemics, and even cause excessive displacement and mass riots..."

Wen Yiheng pulled the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" in Su Jiudong's hand, flipped through a few pages casually, and read slowly:

"The drought in Henan is all over the province, the grass is withered, the depth of the water is not full, the grass, trees, animal skins, insects and flies are all eaten, many people are starving to death, starvation carries the road, and the land is wild..."

"Cannibalism in a large arid area of Yongzhou; Guannei, Shannan Rice City, wood and stone pasta are exhausted, father and son and husband and wife are dissecting each other, and eight or nine out of ten are dead; Jinyang Fenshui and Zhanghe rivers are exhausted; The nine rivers of Pingzhou are dry, and Baiyangdian is dry. ”

Wen Yiheng subconsciously closed the book and looked at the cover again, carefully examined the four big characters of "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" on the cover, and said seriously: "I really haven't read this book, I didn't expect its analysis of the pros and cons to be so clear. ”

Su Jiudong replied casually: "It is estimated that the master taught you all the righteousness of the Five Classics, and the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" takes the concept of agriculture as the central idea, and it has little to do with the imperial examination, so it is not surprising that you have not dabbled in it." ”

Wen Yiheng casually pressed the book and Shi Yiqing's fold together and placed it on the stone table, and sat on the bench with his body completely relaxed, only frowning:

"If the drought in the West Surrender City is really as serious as Shi Yiqing depicted in the excerpt, then the more Yun Mulin suppresses the drought and does not let it play, the more he will be attacked in the future... It's all up to the Holy One to do with him. ”

Su Jiudong snorted lightly: "With Yun Mulin's unprofitable character, I can't understand why he wants to do such a thankless thing, isn't it obvious that he will send the handle to someone who cares." ”

When it came to Yun Mulin, Su Jiudong was still angry.

Since Yun Mulin killed Liu Yunniang, every time Su Jiudong saw Yun Mulin, he tried his best to suppress his hatred and anger. Yun Mulin will not get rid of it for a day, and this hatred will never be extinguished.

However, Yun Mulin, as the crown prince of the current dynasty and the prince of the country, will be the emperor of the Great Yin Dynasty in the future, and it is not easy to bring him down...

In view of Yun Mulin's difficulty in shaking this characteristic, Su Jiudong was even more determined to wholeheartedly help Wen Yiheng to compete with Yun Mulin in the court. 8090

Wen Yiheng said in a deep voice: "In the past few days, I will ask Xu Ming and them to investigate the few wealthy families in the city of Xidu, and then go back to Beijing, and I will definitely find out the reason why Yun Mulin concealed the drought." ”

Wen Yiheng's voice was like a boulder asking the ground, making people feel stable and reliable when they listened to it, and it was no wonder that Shi Yiqing could be sure that Wen Yiheng would definitely be concerned about the drought after hearing Wen Yiheng's statement.

The emperor lives up to his wishes. Two days later, the secret guards collected the situation of the wealthy Rong Di households in the city for Wen Yiheng, and listed the things that happened to the Rong Di rich households since they surrendered to the Dayin Dynasty and took root in the surrender city in the west.

Wen Yiheng looked at the dense names on the list, only to feel that his heart was also a mess, and he couldn't help but complain in front of Su Jiudong: "I didn't expect Yun Mulin to be deeply involved with these Rongdi people. ”

Su Jiudong stepped forward and glanced at it hurriedly, and instantly noticed the most eye-catching word "salt" among them, which was one of the several important words circled by Wen Yiheng with a red pen while checking it just now.

Wen Yiheng sighed: "I said why Yun Mulin was reluctant to expose the drought in Xishou City, because he was worried that he was operating and selling salt with some state officials and wealthy households in the city. ”

Su Jiudong asked suspiciously: "Isn't salt an official camp?" There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with having it shipped by state officials? ”

Wen Yiheng knew that Su Jiudong really didn't know about the court affairs system, so he patiently explained: "Official salt is indeed transported and sold by the government, but the prince cannot interfere in the special official camp of salt and iron. ”

"In recent years, with the further change of the salt law by the saints, the supervision of salt production areas has been set up, and salt households have been urged to produce on their own, and the salt tax will be added to the price of salt and sold to merchants, so as to increase financial revenue."

"So you mean, Yun Mulin meddled in the sale of the salt road?" Su Jiudong was sure that his guess would not be far from ten.

Wen Yiheng nodded lightly, his expression was nonchalant, it seemed that they were not discussing the major incident of the transfer of official salt to private interests, but ordinary trivial matters like drinking water and eating. Wen Yiheng opened his mouth a few words, but what he said was a major matter related to the imperial court's monopoly and people's livelihood:

Now Yun Mulin not only meddled in the salt road, but also cooperated with officials and wealthy Rong Di to make profits, and secretly transferred official salt at a high price as private salt into the black market. The white wolf with empty gloves steals the silver of the court... If the Holy One knew about it, it would be a sin of killing the head. ”

Although Su Jiudong could understand the meaning of Wen Yiheng's words, he didn't immediately notice the involvement, and still said with great confusion: "But this drought doesn't seem to affect the salt?" Then why did Yun Mulin insist on not letting him report to the Holy Lord? ”

Wen Yiheng couldn't help but pinch Su Jiudong's cheek with his hand, and sneered: "You obviously guessed the key point, why were you blocked in your thoughts on the matter of contact?" ”

"There is a great drought in Guannai Road, if the imperial court knows about it, the Holy Lord will definitely send a messenger to check on the disaster relief. The salt land in the western city was just west of the city where the drought was at its worst. If Qin sent to the south of the city to check and ask, he would definitely ask what was wrong. So..."

Wen Yiheng stopped talking, and both of them tacitly understood what Wen Yiheng was going to express next.

After a long time, Su Jiudong was able to make up for it: "No wonder those officials listened to Yun Mulin's words so much, it turned out that they were all grasshoppers on a rope." Yun Mulin made it clear that he wanted to conceal the drought, and they acted together and did not respond to the donations, and they were complicit. ”

"And those wealthy households in Rongdi, it is estimated that they also rely on the official salt as a private salt sales home... After surrendering to our court, not only did he not defend himself, but instead collaborated with corrupt officials to make black money. Aren't these rich people just muddy rich? You can still spend it with peace of mind. ”

Wen Yiheng said lightly: "The reason why bad people are bad people is because they are still at ease after doing bad things." ”

"Is there nothing you can do to control them?" Su Jiudong said the question that the people of the West Surrender City and Shi Yiqing wanted to talk about the most.

"Originally, they may not have been, but now that we are here, we will not sit idly by." Wen Yiheng's confidence at this time is like a leisurely stroll: "Aren't they unwilling to respond to the government's call for donations?" Then we'll find a way to get them to spit out the silver taels themselves. ”

Su Jiudong said curiously: "It's only been a quarter of an hour since I showed you this "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", and you have already thought of a way to get those officials and wealthy households to take the initiative to donate?" ”

Wen Yiheng pointed to the word "hunger" on the page and said with a smile: "Isn't this the way?" ”

"Hunger? What kind of solution is this? Su Jiudong suddenly realized: "You want to make those officials and Rong Di rich hungry?" ”

Wen Yiheng's eyes lit up, and he seemed to be very satisfied with the solution he had come up with: "There was a drought, and the victims suffered from hunger. The officials and the wealthy can't empathize with the victims, so we'll make them hungry in other ways. ”

"In other ways... How do you plan to operate? Su Jiudong's eyes rolled: "Don't say that you directly ordered them to go on a hunger strike and experience the feeling of hunger." This method is not good, and the officials and wealthy may not be willing to do it. ”

Wen Yiheng was already thinking about it, and he had the chance to win: "It's very simple, but it's just three 'to' words." Oppress people with officials, oppress people with power, and lead by example. ”