Chapter Ninety-Five: Disaster Relief (2nd Update)
"Do you think you should let the prince or Jiang Wuji go to Shudi?" Emperor Xining sat in front of the bookcase, took a sip of Longjing, and asked.
Huo Gang figured out that Emperor Xining's mind was a good hand, and he smiled, "Your Majesty actually has a holy judgment in his heart. ”
This time I asked him, maybe I was suspicious. I'm afraid that he will fall to the prince, or rather, I'm afraid that I will really become a loner.
Emperor Xining smiled and stopped talking.
"You old fox, can't you say something directly?"
"Your Highness's daughter is a daughter, and it is not appropriate to go to Shudi."
As a rule of thumb, after the earth moves, there are often small earth movements. If it rains heavily, it is very unsafe.
"When you sent him to Lingnan to quell the rebellion, you didn't say that he was a daughter." Emperor Xining put his hands on his knees, leaned forward slightly, and the corners of his mouth turned slightly.
Huo Gang was blessed to his heart, "At that time, His Highness still needed to be sharpened. This time and that time. ”
"Old Puff!" Emperor Xining scolded with a smile.
Huo Gang bowed his head slightly, but he felt a little unnatural in his heart.
Except for the crown prince and Jiang Wuji, whoever goes to Shu for disaster relief seems to be no longer suitable for them.
The monarch and the minister sat opposite each other, speechless for a while.
The lights of the Qianqing Palace were on all night.
In the early morning of the next day, Emperor Xining issued an edict to punish himself, and adopted the advice of the Duke of Chu, ordering the officials of Shu to provide disaster relief according to the local disaster situation, and the household department of the imperial court allocated disaster relief funds in a unified manner.
The treasury of the former dynasty came out with silver, and the harem did not lag behind.
After the queen mother and the queen discussed, the six palaces reduced their expenses, and the mothers of each palace donated some jewelry for disaster relief.
It's like this in the palace, and it's not good for each family to hold back the money anymore.
When Huo Shui'er learned the news, Huo Fuli was holding a small meeting.
Since Zhu Zhu went to the family temple, the old lady has not been able to go out, and she has been much cleaner for a while.
Yin Niangzi is reporting to her the recent expenses of the big kitchen, and after the last turmoil, she is more mature and stable. No matter how big or small, more attentive.
"The earth moves?" Huo Shui'er remembered the earth-shattering disaster in later generations, and it was still sad in later generations when medical and health care was developed.
Not to mention nowadays.
She was silent for a moment.
"All the proceeds of this year's Zhuangzi in the capital have been donated."
"Girl?" Zi Su was a little unsure, and after following Huo Shui'er, she slowly knew that the Huo family's highest income was not the ancestral property of Jinling, but the Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the capital.
Just donate it all? Not only Shiso, but even a few stewards were stunned.
"It's a little bit of a heart." Huo Shui'er didn't think money was so important.
I can help a little bit, now it's summer, I don't think it's wet, Shu is damp, and the people don't have a house to live in after autumn, it's really suffering.
"The girl understands righteousness." Shiso is convinced.
In the morning, the account books were sent to the East Palace in the afternoon.
Ji Yuan looked at the thick volume, and his throat choked for a while, his delicate and delicate turned out to be a woman who cares about her family and country.
No matter how moved he was in his heart, in front of everyone, his face was still well-behaved, "The Huo family's move, not only the orphans will remember, but the people in the disaster area will also remember." ”
Compared with those officials who follow the same form, they feel pain when they take out a little bit of silver, and the Huo family's action is not ungenerous.
When Huo Gang went to court, there were officials who were upright but from poor families even expressed their admiration and respect to him.
For a time, not only the courtiers, but also the people in Beijing also knew.
The vegetable farmers who purchase vegetables from the Huo family all year round even want to buy vegetables for half a year. It's just that Huo Mansion has been disciplined and doesn't take advantage of these small advantages.
The materials and silver for disaster relief in Shu have just left the capital, even if it is expedited, from transportation to the people, no matter how fast it is, I am afraid it will look like ten days.
Who knew that in just five days, Yushitai received an anonymous report again, the people of Shu had not seen a single rice, the disaster became more and more serious, and the government and the opposition were in an uproar.
The things that were worried about the imperial history at the beginning have now become the status quo, and Emperor Xining wants to ask the guilt, but he doesn't know where to start. He wanted to cut people, but he decided it himself.
was angry and anxious, but he still became the shopkeeper and hid in the Taoist temple to alchemy.
Leave Ji Yuan alone to clean up this mess.
"Your Highness, Lord Tobe Shangshujing asks to see you. I came early in the morning and stood for a long time. ”
"Nope. Let him go back and settle the accounts and see Gu again. Ji Yuan commanded while looking at the case.
"Yes."
"Your Highness, Miss Su, you're back."
The man didn't even raise his eyelids, but just casually asked, "Someone has found it?" ”
Lie Ying hesitated, "It's the Queen Mother." ”
"Grandmother has been looking for so long and hasn't found it, but this is like a god's help." Ji Yuan's intuition was greasy.
"Maybe Miss Su was ...... before Was it abducted by the Queen Mother? ”
"If it was abducted, Song Yunting would not ignore her." Ji Yuan got up, moved his sore neck, and immediately a palace person presented a refreshing tea soup.
"What does Your Highness mean that Miss Su wants to come back by herself?" Leeing thought it was strange.
"You ask Lone, who does Lone ask?" Ji Yuan glanced at him amusedly.
Lie Ying hurriedly pleaded, "Your Highness forgives your sins, and the lowly rank will do your best." ”
"It's useless for you to do your best, it is estimated that everyone will be in the capital soon." Ji Yuan stared at the white rabbit paperweight on the bookcase, thinking of countermeasures.
"So what to do? Otherwise, he will send some of his brothers to ...... on the waterway."
Ji Yuan interrupted him, "The Queen Mother's people dare to kill, tired of living?" "It's just a matter of blocking it before, tacitly, he refused to let the Queen Mother find Su Yu, and the Queen Mother was not angry.
At this time, everyone has connected it, and if it is intercepted again, it will not look good.
"But, master...... You're not going to Gangnam? Lieying was a little depressed and confused.
"It's not right to go to Jiangnan, the Manchu Dynasty and the military are staring at Lonely, where are you going?" Ji Yuan looked at Lie Ying with a confused expression, quite helpless.
"But this time, the girl of the Su family is back, and the queen mother must want her master to marry Miss Su, what should Miss Huo do?"
Ji Yuan frowned and thought for a moment, "Hmm...... In this way, tomorrow I will go to Kaiyuan Temple with Lonely. ”
"Yes."
Didn't the old monk come back? Go and let him think of ideas. It would be nice if Su Yu could have a conflict with his own life.
He stared at the wooden slip on the case, and thought of the Hubu Shangshu just now, the amount of disaster relief funds issued by the imperial court was not matched, if he hadn't received information, he wouldn't believe that someone was really so black as to eat the disaster relief silver.
Duke of Chu ...... Marquis of Zhongjing...... Wei Yuanhou ...... There is also a name, which was listed in Ji Yuan's heart and crossed out. It should be impossible......
Who could it be, with such a long outstretched hand?
There is a rumor in Jiangnan that there are so many clues that I can't figure it out. This trip to Jiangnan is almost imminent. At this juncture, Su Yu is back.
The flickering light and shadow jumped on Ji Yuan's thin face.
Su Yu disappeared in Jiangnan, Yin Si preached in Jiangnan, and now he is embezzling disaster relief funds, which seems to have nothing to do with Jiangnan.
He pointed to the place in the south of the Yangtze River on the map and drew a circle, who was doing it.
"Has the Tenth Prince come to spread the news?"
"Never."
"How many days?"
"Ten days."
"Hmm."
"Wang Yuanli, have there been any changes recently?"
"It's still the same as usual, in addition to going to the Ministry of Industry, I went to the Taiping Bookstore to find books, or to find "Meixi Four Notes", the shopkeeper of the bookstore said, these versions are not very different, I have never seen such a fool, and even those words can be picked clearly."
"Oh, there's a strange thing, Wang Yuanli didn't like to listen to dramas before, but he actually went to listen to a play yesterday."
"What are you listening to?"
"The Legend of the Phoenix."
"This Wang Yuanli, I'm afraid he can't be 'double loyalty and eight righteousness', and the court can't tolerate Yan Song's father and son." Ji Yuan muttered.
"He doesn't have any more contact with the county lord, does he?"
"Except for the fact that I met in the bookstore a few days ago, I haven't had much contact recently."
"Hmm." It must have been said last time, and Jiang Yu also saw it clearly.
"Keep watching."
"Yes."
"You don't have to wait for tomorrow to go to Kaiyuan Temple, let's go today." Ji Yuanfu thought that he was going to see that Hubu Shangshu tomorrow, there were many things, so it was better to do it immediately.
"Yes."