Chapter 189: A Million Mistress (16)
The emperor sat majestically on the throne, silently watching the ministers below to discuss, since the founding of the dynasty, the capital is the first time to encounter ground movements, and few officials present have experience in dealing with ground movements.
More officials panicked, thinking that the earthquake in the capital must be a sign from heaven, either a traitorous minister, or the life of the Great Ying Dynasty is short.
As for the conjecture that the emperor has no virtue, they don't dare to speak rashly even if they think of it, so the emperor himself has to say it.
The courtiers wiped a cold sweat and finally discussed the results, one was to blame someone for the fault of the ground movement, and the other was to actively relieve the disaster.
Some of the officials have been promoted from Yunnan-Guichuan, and they still have complete experience in dealing with ground movements.
After discussing for two hours, Jing Zhaoyin's excerpt was also presented, and this time because of the emperor's timely warning, the number of casualties in the capital was only a few dozen, and hundreds of houses collapsed.
Compared to the danger of ground movement reported from other places, it is really insignificant.
The courtiers listened to the report of the victimization, and their hearts settled down.
The next thing is to sing praises and say that His Majesty is destined by heaven.
Hearing that the scope of the disaster was not large, the emperor was in a better mood and said: "It's not that I have the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, but this Liu Xiangu can predict the occurrence of this earth movement in time, Liu Xiangu, come out." ”
Liu E walked out from behind the pillar and saluted: "Xiaomin greets Your Majesty." ”
"Hurry up, please."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
She stood in the center of the hall with her eyes downcast, and the courtiers around her cast different glances at her.
In the end, a courtier stepped out with a wat board in his hand: "Your Majesty, this Liu Xiangu can come to Your Majesty's side, which shows that I should be in the dynasty for thousands of years, Your Majesty is a god-given holy monarch!" ”
The courtiers said impassionedly, and the ministers on the left and right looked at each other, and knelt down in unison and said that Your Majesty is a godsend.
Liu E also knelt.
His Majesty laughed and said, "Okay, good, Aiqing." The top priority is the safety of the affected people, Zhao Aiqing, Liu Aiqing. ”
"Wechen is here."
Two first-class masters are listed.
"God gave the Great Ying Dynasty auspiciousness, and the people should bathe in God's kindness, and the collapsed houses will be financed by the treasury and renovated by the Ministry of Industry."
"Your Majesty loves the people like a son, and it is a blessing to the people."
Next is a series of fancy kneeling and licking Your Majesty, Liu E'an is guarding herself and doing her own mascot.
After the dispersal of the dynasty, the emperor immediately wrote a holy decree to make her a national teacher, and gave her a mansion and property.
The squire of the Ministry of Works personally went to the post station to meet her and asked her what she thought about the renovation of the National Teacher's Mansion.
The mansion given to her by the emperor is the mansion of the third-rank official who made a mistake and was raided, and the geographical location is superior, and everything that should be there is there.
Liu E is not picky and has no opinions.
Due to the few requirements and the short construction period, the Ministry of Engineering sent people to simply repair the eaves, tidy up the flowers and trees, clean the room and courtyard, and soon she lived in this spacious mansion with her own servants.
Since the earthquake, Liu E has been asked by the emperor to accompany her.
From time to time, the emperor asked about some disasters and the life of a certain little eunuch, and Liu E answered very accurately.
Liu E was very excited when she saw the emperor, as if she regarded this kind of thing as a game, and thought that she couldn't go on like this, or one day the emperor would have a whim to see the fate of officials......
Then she's done.
Once she obeys His Majesty's will, before taking office, calculate whether an official is loyal or treacherous, rich and noble or poor, whether he is a husband and wife and a beautiful woman or a concubine who destroys his wife, whether he is full of children and grandchildren or cut off children and grandchildren.
Isn't it just to expose all the old backgrounds of officials?
She didn't want to be an enemy of the Manchu officials.
So when the emperor asked about the fate of a little eunuch again, she said that the fate of people would become more and more inaccurate, especially for court officials, with the emperor's dragon qi blessing, she was not sure.
The emperor, though upset, accepted her words.
Later, when she was summoned again, she said that she was sick, saying that she had spied on the will of heaven to extract her vitality, and from then on she should try to count as little as possible, and use her divine power to predict disaster weather or good luck.
After attending the event, she vomited blood from time to time, fainted, her face was pale and her lips were bloodless, her face was haggard, and she was yellow.
She closed the door to those who came to ask for fortune telling.
After bribing the two imperial doctors with her superb fortune-telling skills, the emperor also believed that she was fragile.
It was two months after the earthquake, and the people had recovered from the damage caused by the earthquake and had resumed their lives.
All the people who had gone to the northwest, southwest, and south to inquire about the situation returned, and the emperor summoned her, and the result of her prediction was of course accurate, and the emperor rewarded her with some money.
After she accurately predicted three more disasters, the wind direction of the people was a little wrong.
Liu Ya Liu Ye said that the people outside said that she was a disaster star, which could only bring disaster, and bad things would happen as soon as she entered the palace.
The two maidservants were very angry, and said distressedly: "The national teacher has to die every time they predict, for whom, not so that they have time to escape, so that the court can have countermeasures to minimize the harm, but they said this, if there is no disaster next time, don't say it, don't say it, they will know that there are benefits for you." ”
Liu E shook her head, some disasters can be avoided, some disasters can't be avoided, corrupt officials, bandits, and powerful families still exist, even if they predict the disaster in advance, their lives will not be much better than before.
In the final analysis, it is the government, not her, that guarantees the lives of the people.
The government can't deal with the contradictions, and the people are easily guided, so don't they blame her?
What's more, her current status is obtained by predicting disasters, and at this point, passive sabotage is digging a grave for her reputation.
Prediction is wrong, and not prediction is even worse.
Liu E wrote to ask for a saint, and the emperor was very surprised, two years have passed, and this is the first time that the national teacher has asked to see him.
Liu E said that she knew that the war in the north was fierce, and the grassland tribes raided from time to time and wanted to go to the north to help.
He also said that she was empty in the capital, and she only saw the disaster coming, and the rest had no effect at all, and she felt uneasy.
The emperor eventually agreed to her request.
The appearance of Liu E made the people believe that the Daying Dynasty was the destiny of heaven, and the swiftness and timeliness of several disasters and accidents made the Daying Dynasty's strong reputation spread to the surrounding countries.
This year, dozens of smaller states paid tribute and asked to become vassals of the Great Ying Dynasty.
At this time, Daying was leveling the four seas and the country was strong, but some tribes in the north were still thieves and tried the bottom line of Daying Dynasty repeatedly.
The emperor was also in a dilemma.
Liu E went to the northern battlefield as a secret weapon.
At the beginning, the weather was predicted every day, and the soldiers were much more convenient, and they won a few small battles, but it was not of much use to the whole battle.
It wasn't until three months later that Liu E predicted that there would be a once-in-a-century snowstorm on the grassland, so the emperor transferred cold materials in advance, and the soldiers took advantage of the plight of the grassland tribe's livestock, cattle and horses freezing to death to fight a great victory, capturing 3,000 enemies and 6,000 horses.
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