The news soon spread in Cloud City, and that night the emperor summoned several ministers into the palace in the Changping Hall to discuss the countermeasures for the southern floods.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the disaster relief silver should be allocated as soon as possible to appease the people who were affected by the disaster." The Ministry of Industry Shangshu said softly.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that those displaced people should be stopped from entering Cloud City first, so as not to let them spread the epidemic to the people in the city." Tobe Shangshu Road.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks it's ......" The official secretary was interrupted by the emperor's words as soon as he spoke.

"Enough, can't you have some other way? Can you talk about a disaster relief strategy, saying things that some three-year-olds know, what do I want you to do? The emperor said angrily.

After a while, the emperor restrained his emotions and said lightly: "Hubu, first allocate one million taels of silver to settle those displaced people outside the city, and don't let them enter the city." ”

"Back to the emperor, this ......, I'm afraid this ......, I'm afraid it can't be done." The book of the household department is difficult.

"Why?"

"Back to the emperor, there are not so many silver taels in the household."

Hearing this, the emperor was furious, "How can there be no silver taels, isn't there a tax of the people?" Aren't you guys filling your pockets? ”

"The emperor is wronged, last year's construction of Tongquetai cost a huge amount of money, using the revenue of the national treasury for nearly three years, and this year's tax revenue is also because the drought in the north has decreased, and the tax collected can only fill a fraction of the cost of Tongquetai." Tobe Shangshu knelt down.

What the? It turns out that his treasury can't even get a million taels of silver? is so poor that such an emperor is probably the first.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a eunuch singing outside the door: "The Queen Mother has arrived in ......."

When I heard that it was the Queen Mother, I arrived. The emperor was a little dissatisfied when he ascended, why did she come, didn't she let her recuperate with peace of mind? Come over at this time, don't you think he's annoying?

Although the emperor was a little disgusted with him, the queen mother, since the other party came over at this time, he could only take over, after all, one more person is one more way.

Thinking that the Queen Mother had already entered the Changping Palace, her eyes swept over several ministers, and she felt a little emotional in her heart, and the people who came to discuss were only the faction that supported them. And most of these people are incapable. As for those who were able to solve the matter, none of them came.

"Your Majesty, the mourning family came here at this time to discuss with you, this matter should be handed over to King Chen to deal with, when your father was alive, he once dealt with the matter of the floods in the south, in these matters, he has a certain experience, and it is most appropriate to hand over this matter to him."

The queen mother's words attracted the approval of the people present, indeed, King Chen is indeed superior to the current emperor in handling many government affairs, if King Chen is willing to go, it is naturally a good thing, what if King Chen refuses to interfere? So what?

"Come on, quickly invite King Chen into the palace. Remember, it was to invite King Chen into the palace, not to pass it on. "The emperor especially emphasized the word please, inviting people to come, that is, to consult with people, and passing on the order with them, and the matter of the flood in the south cannot be delayed, at this juncture, to rely on King Chen, there must be a posture, isn't it?

Outside King Chen's mansion, where is a luxurious carriage parked, the eunuch is waiting on the side, and the little man guarding the door has already gone in to invite the prince, but he has been waiting for a stick of incense, and he has not seen the prince.

"Little brother, why don't you come out when you see the prince, do you want to go in and ask again." The eunuch said to the little man who was keeping vigil at the door.

"Father-in-law, didn't someone already go in to invite the prince just now? Maybe the prince is drunk and not easy to wake up. ”

"Ah...... Drunk? How can this be good, the emperor is still waiting in the palace. ”

"Father-in-law, please wait, maybe the prince will come out in a while." As soon as the words fell, I saw King Chen walking out in his middle coat.

"The slave greets the prince, and the prince is safe." The eunuch saluted respectfully.

"Oh? It turned out to be Gonggong Fu, did you come to King Chen's Mansion late at night? ”

"Lord, the emperor asked the servants to invite you into the palace."

"Father-in-law, didn't the emperor explain what happened?"

"Back to the prince, you know, the floods in the south, the flood broke the embankment, and many people's houses were also washed down by the flood, and now those displaced people have come to Cloud City, the emperor wants to ask you to give an idea."

"Oh, well, you wait for this king to go in and change his clothes, and then come back, you can't wear a middle coat to see the driver." King Chen said lightly. As for what tricks the emperor wants to play, he is not interested in paying attention, what he cares about is the arrangement of the hundreds of thousands of people, and yesterday he received a report from the palace in the army that the situation of the floods in the south is even more tragic than what is written on the fold.

"Okay, then you can hurry up." Fu Gonggong said softly.

After a while, he saw King Chen change into a regular suit and walk out, King Chen glanced at the carriage, "The carriage is too slow, this king rode into the palace, you just have to catch up behind." After finishing speaking, a little servant led a black horse to the gate of King Chen's mansion.

King Chen grabbed the saddle with one hand, jumped onto the horse, and "......" the horse galloped away, like a black whirlwind.

In the Changping Palace, the emperor was sitting on the dragon chair and worried, and when Gonggong Fu went to pass on the king of Chen, he sent other eunuchs to the palaces to invite important ministers, but none of them have come over until now.

When he was worried, he heard the eunuch singing loudly outside the door: "Lord Chen has arrived ......"

Hearing that King Chen entered the palace, the emperor had a score in his heart, if King Chen refused to come, he really didn't know what to do.

"Minister, see the emperor." King Chen bowed his hand.

"Brother Wang, I invited you into the palace so late, just for the flood in the south, I don't know what kind of plan Brother Wang has?"

Brother Wang? King Chen was really going to vomit when he heard his words, usually they weren't so close at all, didn't they all call him King Chen? This fierce call for Brother Wang is really a little unacceptable.

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know much about this matter, and I ask the emperor to talk about it carefully, and the minister also wants to deal with it."

"I don't know what to say, this is Xu Chengshou's report, you can see for yourself." After finishing speaking, he asked the eunuch to hand the fold to King Chen.

King Chen carefully read the content of the fold, this damn Xu Chengshou actually lied about the facts, the deaths and injuries of the people in this flood were very heavy, but in his mouth he said that only a dozen people died, it was really a damn thing.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid the content on the fold is useless, it's been ten days since the incident, and the current situation still has to be investigated on the spot."

"Then I will entrust this matter to you, brother Wang. When you come back, what do you want? The royal brother will give it to you. ”

"Okay, it's good that the emperor remembers your words, and when this king comes back, he will definitely come to trouble you." After speaking, King Chen walked out of the Changping Palace.

Early the next morning, the holy decree had already reached King Chen's mansion.

When Chu Lixue learned about this, she was really worried about King Chen, the current treasury is empty, where is there so much silver and two disaster relief? And King Chen has to come to the scene after the disaster, will those people be angry with King Chen? People are irrational under the rage, and those are some unarmed ordinary people, so they can't be suppressed by officers and soldiers.

The people in Yuncheng heard that this matter was handed over to King Chen, and the stone in his heart fell to the ground, although King Chen was a cold-faced prince, but it was still very good to the people of Beichen. In the hearts of the people, he is the candidate for the emperor.

At that moment, King Chen summoned the Shangshu of the Six Ministries to discuss the matter, but unexpectedly, the Shangshu of the Hubu was drunk in the restaurant and caused trouble and told the matter of the emptiness of the treasury.

Hearing this, the people were also shocked in their hearts, their Beichen treasury actually had less than 5,000 taels of silver, and these silver taels were not enough to make up for the deficit of the Tongque Platform built by the emperor.

When King Chen arrived at the scene, he saw that the fields were full of hunger, and the corpses were piled up all over the ground, "Lord Xu, wasn't the embankment built the year before last?" Why is it so vulnerable? ”

"Lord, please look, these ...... These are some tofu projects, those businessmen are insatiable, they use some inferior materials, and this year the tide is earlier than in previous years, so ...... Oh yes...... "Lord Xu really can't go on, he hates those corrupt officials and profiteers very much, and actually disregards the safety of the people for their interests.

King Chen looked in the direction of Lord Xu's finger, and sure enough, these newly built embankments only looked very solid on the surface, but in fact they were full of sand inside, not to mention that the tide was high early this year, even ordinary floods could not withstand it.

"Lord Xu, who built the river embankment here? Who is the overseer? ”

"Back to the prince, the superintendent is the former superintendent of Lord Qi, and last year he was transferred to Yuncheng to be the secretary of Honglu Temple. As for the one who built the embankment, it was Lord Bai's brother-in-law, Su Tong. He had a business here at that time, and because he was a relative of Lord Bai, Lord Qi handed over the construction of the embankment to him. ”

"Was there no more cost-effective merchant than him at that time?"

"Yes, but the other party has no power or power, so naturally they can't compete for it, and later Lord Qi also drove away other merchants here, not only this embankment, but even the stone bridge downstream was built by Sutong."

"What? And that stone bridge too? King Chen looked at the pedestrians on the bridge in disbelief, the flood was still rising, the flood continued to hit the stone bridge, and the seemingly solid stone bridge might suddenly collapse at any time.

However, at this moment, the stone bridge suddenly cracked, and the bridge deck was broken in an instant, and the people on the bridge also fell into the water, and the people were caught off guard.

Seeing this, the officers and soldiers led by King Chen, as long as they knew how to water, all jumped into the water to save people, and for a while, the cries and cries for help converged, and the miserable sound was like a soul-chasing order issued by hell......