A few days later, God seemed to wake up from a nap, and rain fell from the sky, alleviating the drought.

Xu Qingyan still lives her little life, making talismans and practicing every day, and when she is tired, she goes to Li Xiaohan to chat, or goes to the backyard to tease the little tiger.

In the palace in the capital, Emperor Zhou Qing was furious, and the drought and locust plague reported from all over the country weighed him down

What made him even more angry was that the household department couldn't even take out two million taels of disaster relief silver.

"What do you want, the dignified household, a country's treasury can't even take out two million taels!"

Emperor Zhou Qing's face turned pale, and he threw the fold in his hand downward, just hitting Yu Sheng, the head of the household.

Yu Sheng was hit by the song, and he didn't dare to cry out in pain, and said with guilt on his face: "Your Majesty, Weichen is incompetent, in recent years, taxes in various places have been decreasing year by year, and the treasury has not ........been profitable."

Emperor Zhou Qing was even more furious when he heard this, "It is decreasing year by year, and you dare to say it, it has been smooth in recent years, where have the reduced taxes gone, ah ........, I ordered the Criminal Department to investigate this matter thoroughly, Li Zhengxin, if someone is found to be corrupt, it will not be forgiven, and those who embezzle millions will be connected to the nine clans!" ”

Li Zhengxin stood up and said: "The minister obeys the order." “

In the main hall, the silent needle drop could be heard, and the civil and military officials were so frightened that they didn't dare to breathe, and their backs were wet with sweat.

As soon as this order came out, I don't know how many people wanted to fall to the ground.

Today's personality is completely different from the predecessor Emperor Wen of Zhou, originally thought that there would be a big purge as soon as he took the throne today, who would have thought that there had been no movement in the past two years, and the officials below saw this, and they became more and more bold.

Emperor Qing of Zhou has only been on the throne for two years, and due to Emperor Wen of Zhou's tolerant policy, the court has long been filthy.

When he first ascended the throne, he wanted to get rid of these resident insects that sucked the people's fat and people's ointment, but too many officials in the DPRK and China were involved, and once he made a big move, he was afraid that it would cause the officialdom to be paralyzed.

Unexpectedly, his silence made these people more and more bold, Emperor Zhou Qing ignored the frightened ministers, and continued to review the folds in his hands, one by one asking for disaster relief, and he frowned.

In his hand, Emperor Zhou Qing didn't have the courage to open it again, and he read more than a dozen letters in one morning, all of which were asking for disaster relief.

But the treasury is so empty that it is difficult to sustain two million taels, not to mention that there are no two million taels, although this fold is the last one, but how can a county's disaster relief food cost 200,000 taels.

Hey, no, how could the memo presented by the prefectural order be here, how could the cabinet put it in=, is there any difference in this recital?

As an emperor, he has a lot of opportunities, and such a recital like a county order is generally not presented to him, and the lowest excerpts he reviews are the recitals of officials above the fifth grade.

If there is anything that cannot be handled, it will be submitted to him, and this letter can be presented to him by the cabinet, and I am afraid that the disaster will be more serious.

Before Emperor Zhou Qing opened it, his heart sank.

opened the recital, swept his eyes twice, and there was no lamentation all over the field, and after looking at it again, the haze in Emperor Zhou Qingdi's heart slowly dissipated.

On the third day of the seventh month of the year of Ding Mao, there was an outbreak of locusts in Xi County, passing through seven villages, and there was no grain and grass where the locusts passed through Beishan Village, and there were strange birds appearing to devour the locusts, and the disaster was dangerously controlled.

Twenty-five villages under the jurisdiction of Xi County, only seven villages were affected, the ministers pitied the people of seven villages, and wanted to open a warehouse to release grain, but the handwriting of the Lord of Futai had not arrived for a long time, and the people could not bear to endure hunger and hunger, so the ministers had to cut first and then play, knowing that they were guilty, and asking for the Holy Judgment!

The matter of the alien bird, the minister came to verify in person, the feathers of this bird are pure white without variegation, the eyes are red, and the body is nine feet long. According to the villagers, on the day of the locust plague, when the bird appeared to devour the locusts, the tail screen opened into a semicircle, and there was a hidden brilliance, and the villagers all said that this was a fairy bird!

Another minister thought that Xu Qingyan, the daughter of the Xu family, should be rewarded, because the son of the fairy bird was picked up in the mountain, so that the fairy bird devoured the locust and rushed ............."

The ministers below couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that the expression on the emperor's face seemed to be brighter, but they were a little curious about why the emperor was suddenly in a better mood.

The eyes of more than a dozen ministers turned to the first assistant of the cabinet in unison, Wen Xuyao was secretly proud at this time, he had already thought of it, so many disasters had been broken, the emperor must be in a bad mood when he saw it, and the emperor was in a bad mood, and they had to be unlucky.

Finally, there is a special excerpt, and it is not bad to hand it over to the emperor's heart, as for the master of Futai in the excerpt, I'm sorry, the dead friend is not the poor man, who let him have a subordinate who dares to participate in the official.

The subtext of Emperor Zhou Qing's heart at this time is: Where did he come from, but he likes it!

The vague sentence "The handwritten letter of Lord Futai has not arrived for a long time." This is a complaint brought to him, but he appreciates the officials who dare to join their superiors.

"Wu Feng, the county commander of Xinchengxi County, do you know who he is?"

The ministers below, you look at me, I look at you, they don't dare to speak, they haven't heard the name Wu Feng.

Seeing the expressions of the ministers below, Emperor Zhou Qing smiled coldly, knowing that it was definitely not the protégé of any of them, and they couldn't teach them to be stunned.

"This is Wu Fengshang's excerpt, all Aiqing should take a look." Then he respectfully took the fold from his hand and handed it to the ministers below.

After the ministers circulated it, their expressions were inexplicable, this letter could relieve the emperor's mood, which was not a good thing for them, and the words that gave Shangguan eye medicine made them lose their favor with this person.

The people who can stand here are all officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty, if everyone is like this Wu Feng, then how can they be officials.

"What do you think after reading it?"

The ministers complained in their hearts, and they had a fart feeling, but they had to pretend to be happy on their faces.

Fang De, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said loudly: "Congratulations to the emperor, the fairy bird from the sky controlled the disaster, and it was the emperor's grace that moved the heavens and the earth, which led the fairy bird to come to the world." ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a chorus of echoes below,

The corners of Emperor Zhou Wen's mouth are slightly raised, sycophant, although he also likes to listen to good words, but it is too much to boast like this, if he really touches the world, the fairy bird should descend in the palace, not a little-known farmhouse in Xixian County.

"Should the daughters of the Xu family be rewarded?"

"This is the emperor's grace, and it has nothing to do with the daughter of the Xu family." Fang De said again.

"Yes, this is the emperor's kindness, and the daughter of the Xu family just relies on the emperor's blessings, and should not be rewarded." The official waited for Lang Cui Ren to say.

You can't let Wu Feng succeed, otherwise wouldn't it strengthen his courage, he must press this matter down in front of the emperor, and it is best that the emperor can turn his head and forget him.

Looking at the ministers below who strongly opposed Wu Feng's request for merit, Emperor Zhou Wen knew what they were thinking, wasn't he afraid that he would promote Wu Feng, and the officials who dared to participate in the boss made them all tremble.

But he exactly needs such a person, and if he wants to purge the officials, he must have this kind of unafraid minister.

Born in a poor family, he has nothing to do with these people present, and he is really a suitable candidate.