Chapter 171: Insect Infestation
Feng Mingguo has finally entered a short period of sunshine.
For the courtiers of the Feng Ming Kingdom, the day the new emperor ascended the throne was like a dream.
After that day, the Feng lord never came to the court again, and the new emperor did not go to the early court, because the Feng lord said that the new emperor was young, which was the age of reading and playing, and was not suitable for presiding over the court.
So Feng Ming canceled the early dynasty system, and changed to every day when King Lian led the ministers to discuss in the meeting hall, after the meeting, King Lian would go to the Phoenix Palace in person, and report the main content of the meeting to the Lord Feng. Although the form of the council hall is not much different from the original early dynasty, the name has changed, the location of the council has changed, and the atmosphere has naturally changed.
Compared with the previous speculation about the king's heart, worrying about the atmosphere, sitting in the main hall and going straight to the topic seems to be more efficient.
The court of the Feng Ming Kingdom soon calmed down, and people found that the young emperor's accession to the throne of the Feng Lord and the auxiliary government did not have a negative impact on the Feng Ming Kingdom, and after cutting off all the idle yamen and the officials who were eating in the corpse seats, the speed of the government affairs was accelerated.
The light period of the Phoenix Underworld is also the stage when the Phoenix Underworld is most prone to disasters.
In July, a serious insect infestation broke out in the three provinces and five prefectures of the Fengying Kingdom.
Once an insect infestation occurs in the Fengying Kingdom, it will be more serious than any other country, and it is a terrible pest that cannot be seen in the Central Plains. The bugs themselves carried the disease, spread it to people, and the disease began to spread. These pests not only harm people and animals, but also destroy crops on a large scale. The crops in the Fengying Kingdom were already scarce, and they were destroyed by pests, and until the end of the year, the disaster was not alleviated at all, and the dead bodies piled up, and the mourning was everywhere.
In order to suppress the disaster, the imperial court had to order the blockade of the three provinces and five provinces, and all those found to be infected with the disease in the plague area were executed to prevent the spread of the plague.
Since this order was issued suddenly in the early morning light of the epidemic, after being quickly executed, the plague was finally contained in the area of the five prefectures and did not spread to other prefectures and counties.
The geographical environment of Feng Ming is the hotbed of these pests, even if it takes a lot of manpower to exterminate insects, Feng Ming is such a geology, there is no way to completely eradicate it.
During the famine, there were more and more incidents of starvation to death, and civil tragedies occurred from time to time, which was a common occurrence for the barren and harsh Fengming Kingdom, but this year's famine was unusual, because there was a large amount of money and stored grain in the granary of the national treasury this year.
In previous years, everyone was accustomed to the poverty of the Phoenix Kingdom, and no one mentioned it, but this year they found that there was so much food and money, so they all took out their conscience that had not seen the sun for a long time, and ran to the Phoenix Palace one after another, and asked Chenguang to open a warehouse to release grain.
Chenguang refused.
Those people did not give up, ran to ask for three and four requests, and when they talked eloquently, the brilliance of a saint flashed between their eyebrows, and Chenguang thought to himself, if you usually grabbed less arable land, there would not be so many people starving to death, it is normal for people to starve to death in disasters, and it is the most terrible to starve to death in non-disasters.
At first, Chenguang had to deal with a few words, but after a long time, she got impatient and rushed them out, angrily warning them that whoever talked nonsense would send anyone to Wudao Mansion to deal with the plague.
The ministers knew that she was serious, and no one dared to come again, but they instigated Si Yujin to come.
This is the second time that Si Yujin has come to the Phoenix Palace because of disaster relief, and like the first time, he asked Chenguang to open a warehouse to release grain.
In the current granary of the Fengming Kingdom, in addition to a small amount of local grain from the Fengying Kingdom, more of it is exchanged from the Yanyun Kingdom and the Longxi Kingdom, as well as the grain purchased from the black market of various countries, because of the problem of origin, the cost of these grains is high.
Regarding Si Yujin's request, Chenguang strongly refused.
"It's been less than half a month since I last came to the Phoenix Palace, do you know how many people have starved to death in the past half a month?" Si Yujin was a little indignant at her indifference, and asked in a cold voice.
This is the case every day these days, everyone came to persuade her with almost the same words, Chenguang was impatient, put down the bamboo slip in his hand, looked at him unhappily, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone else is just that, you should know what the grain in the granary is hoarded for, right?" ”
Si Yujin looked at her and was silent.
Si Yujin knew, of course he knew, what was hoarded in the current granary was military rations, which were prepared for the future war that would lead to the destruction of the country if it failed.
Si Yujin couldn't say that he was disgusted with the war that Chenguang wanted to plan, but he didn't completely approve of it, he felt that the risk was too great, and it would do more harm than good to Feng Yingguo. Chenguang is too hasty and rash, and what Si Yujin doesn't like the most is uncertain adventures such as "fighting against the water" and "breaking the kettle". He believes that the national situation of the Feng Ming Kingdom is improving, and it should develop steadily, accumulate strength, and wait until the time is completely ripe before acting.
Chenguang didn't want to lead Feng Mingguo to do anything, she was just acting arbitrarily according to her preferences, Si Yujin couldn't feel her determination to command Feng Mingguo, she seemed to be only going to take risks because of excitement, he even doubted that if her ambition failed, she would throw a mess and run away by herself.
Si Yujin was deeply influenced by the ancient books of the Fengming Empire, and the theory propagated by the royal family of Longxi Kingdom is somewhat similar to the theory now, he believes that "the water will carry the boat, and the water will overturn the boat", he was a little dissatisfied with Chenguang's wanton behavior of not caring about the lives of the people, but because of Chenguang's strong strength, he had to follow her. He was completely opposite to Chenguang's style of acting, whenever Chenguang had a tough attitude and couldn't listen to his opinions, Si Yujin would become anxious.
"No matter what the grain is hoarded for, the three provinces and five mansions have been affected, a large number of people have died, and if you don't release food, more people will starve to death, as the Phoenix Lord of the Phoenix Kingdom, are you going to watch your people starve to death?"
"There is an insect plague every year in the country of Feng Ming, this year's food is exhausted, and there will be people starving to death next year, if you leave these grains, maybe no one will starve to death next year." Chenguang said coldly.
"The Phoenix Netherworld is already sparsely populated, and this year's insect infestation is so serious, after losing more people, even if the Phoenix Netherworld finally comes out of the desert, the withered country will not become a strong one."
"If there is land, there are people, as long as the land is big enough, do you still have to worry about people withering?"
Si Yujin didn't expect her to say this, and her words shocked him:
"You mean, as long as you are willing to submit, whether you are from the Phoenix Netherworld or not, you can live as a citizen of the Feng Netherworld on the land of the Feng Netherworld?"
His rhetorical question surprised Chenguang, she put one hand on her cheek, stared at him for a while, and said:
"Didn't I answer clearly enough?"
Si Yujin was silent, his face a little gloomy.
"What else do you have?" Chenguang asked in a faint voice.
Si Yujin paused, looked up at her, but didn't speak again, he turned around silently and went out.
Si Ba stared at him with a pair of eyes and left, and said to Chenguang in a dissatisfied tone:
"Your Royal Highness, King Lian is too unruly, His Royal Highness is already the Lord of the Phoenix, but he still thinks that His Royal Highness is his sister, His Royal Highness and him are the same auxiliary government."
Chenguang didn't speak, Si Yujin didn't pay much attention to whether her etiquette rules were in place, as long as the other party was obedient, she was not a rigid person. It's just that Si Yujin's words just now really surprised her, she inadvertently spied into a corner of Si Yujin's thoughts, he actually thought like that, which seemed a little bad.
Chenguang rested his cheek with one hand and fell into deep thought.
At this moment, the taciturn Fire Dance suddenly spoke, and said softly:
"King Lian, you take the 'Fengying people' very seriously."
Chenguang glanced at her and didn't speak.
Si Ba looked at Chenguang and then at Huo Wu, she had always been smart, but this time she really failed to understand what they meant, she was confused.
At this moment, Si Qi walked in quickly from outside, handed a letter to Chenguang, and said:
"Your Highness, this is sent from Qi'an."
Chenguang glanced at it, took it slowly, and took it apart.
The letter was sent from Heyilou, and it said two important things about Long Xiguo,
One is that after more than a year of rebellion, the rebels of the deposed prince Shen Huai were finally annihilated, and Mu Ye led the Mu family army to break through the last city occupied by Shen Huai, and the person who took the lead in capturing and killing Shen Huai in the mansion was actually Mu Ye's daughter Mu Han.
A chaotic party was completely eliminated, and King Jing, who was about to reach the end of his life, was forced to retreat to the frontier, still resisting stubbornly.
Shen Run got a respite, so a second thing happened, and he was finally ready to stand up.
Shen Run has been on the throne for more than a year, and if he doesn't stand again, the entire Longxi Kingdom will be uneasy, and he will definitely talk about what is wrong with the new emperor behind his back.
Chenguang was very curious if he had set up Bai Wanning, who had collapsed, or if he had found another white girl, or if he had picked a girl who was not from the Bai family.
She read the letter twice.
This is a strange letter, the letter says that Bai Wanning has entered the palace, but not the queen, but the concubine. Emperor Longxi told the world that he dreamed of the deceased princess at night, and was guided by the princess in the dream to break the rebels. He also said that that year was the princess's practice of Ji Xue to save Long Xiguo from the disaster, and the princess's kindness to Long Xiguo should not be forgotten, so the first princess Si was posthumously named the queen, nicknamed Huide.
Chenguang stared at the letter, and after thinking about it for a long time, he reacted to the princess mentioned in the letter, probably her.
She stared at the letter paper for a long time with a pair of big round eyes, and then suddenly spoke, "That's nonsense! That's nonsense! If this reason is made up, others will definitely think that Emperor Long Xi is a fool! ”
After a pause, she continued:
"I hate this nickname, what kind of ghost is 'Huide', what kind of nickname, Wencai? What about not losing to Cao Gong's literary talent? Use the text to take the nickname! ”
She put one hand on her cheek, and after thinking about it for a while, she still felt incredible, and she muttered with a strange face:
"Xiao Run, it's only been a little over a year, why have you become a stupid person?"