Afternoon.

Wenhe Temple.

Without Si Yujin, the court affairs are piled up. Although Gu Yao and Luo Song accepted the appointment to temporarily replace Si Yujin to handle government affairs, the two of them did not have as much authority as Si Yujin, and important concerts could only be issued after Chenguang had read and stamped them.

So Chenguang just finished dealing with Si Yujin's affairs in the morning, and was buried in the mountain in the afternoon.

In the past, only important matters such as the mobilization of soldiers and horses and the use of large sums of money and food would be reported to her for handling, ordinary things such as trivial civil affairs and some unimportant affairs in the army, the decision power is in the hands of Si Yujin, these affairs are heavy and boring, without Si Yujin, can only be done by Chenguang himself.

Luo Song and Gu Yao led several important ministers who participated in the daily deliberations in the outer hall to sift out the unimportant pieces and process them in batches, and at the same time served the important tasks that needed to be approved or sealed by Chenguang into the inner hall, and the number of those who were screened out was still amazing, Chenguang knelt in the inner hall, and after watching it for less than an hour, his eyes began to hurt, and his wrist holding the pen was sore.

She threw down the pen in frustration, her waist softened, and she bent over her back on the furry carpet in an odd position, and let out a long sigh.

Chang Xi was sitting on the side to watch a few difficult pieces from the local government for her, when she heard the movement, she looked up at her, and said with a smile:

"Your Highness is easy to hurt your waist when lying like that, what's sore, I'll pinch it for Your Highness?"

Chenguang didn't answer, his eyes stared straight at the roof of the shed, and after a while, he let out a long sigh.

She is not patient enough for boring things.

He crossed the threshold and walked in, holding a stack of pieces in his hand.

Chenguang sat up and looked at him hatefully.

Luo Song was so excited by this gaze that he put down the cantata, took out one of them, and sent it to Chenguang:

"Your Highness will take a look at this book first, this year from the beginning of the summer season to the present, Jiangzhou, Huizhou, Huzhou three states drought, the drought is accompanied by locust plagues, the three states together have starved to death thousands of people, the governor of the three states asked His Highness to open a warehouse to release grain."

"If I'm not mistaken, last summer was also a drought and locust plague in these three states, and at that time they also opened warehouses to release grain, right?"

"Yes. These three states have a long history of drought and locust plagues because of the fact that the loess plateau is mostly highland, with little water and little rainfall, and is very prone to severe drought. ”

"Even if the drought is not easy to solve, people in three states can't even get rid of a swarm of bugs? It's not a beast that will swallow life if taken out alone. The perennial locust plague has a long history, and the grain depot of the imperial court is not self-generated, so they still expect the imperial court to release grain to them every year? ”

"Locusts can fly, not easy to catch, and the local locust plague has a long history, the local people all believe that the locust plague is a natural disaster, every time there is a disaster, every household begins to offer to the locust god, and even the local yamen also burns incense."

Chenguang put his cheek on his cheek with one hand, looked at him, and said with a smile: "I thought of a way to get rid of locusts, and the whole people went out to catch all those locusts and put them in the pot, and eat them until they became extinct, and there will be no more such insects in this land from now on, how?" ”

Luo Song lowered his head and hooked the corners of his mouth, but he felt that this was not the time to laugh, he didn't know what to answer, and he didn't know what kind of expression to use to flatter, he was so uncomfortable now.

Chenguang stared at him and slapped the phoenix case.

Luo Song knelt down: "Your Highness is angry!" ”

"Send a locust catcher, and the grain will be released, but this is the last time, the state pastor of the three states, if you can't eat the locusts before the autumn of the next year, I will eat them! As a magistrate, they can't change the land and weather in the jurisdiction, they can only say that they are useless, but they can't even kill living creatures and insects, and they cry and wait for the court to release grain when there is a disaster, and they don't even bother to think about it, I think they are locusts! ”

"Yes! Obey the order! Luo Song hung her head, not daring to breathe, and when she was finished, she hurriedly responded and left the inner hall in a gloomy manner.

Chenguang flattened his lips, thought for a while, and said:

"Xiaoxi, you send a message to Chai Shao'an, ask him to change his route to Jiangzhou, and tell him that these three states are often in drought, whether it is to build water conservancy, or to plant drought-tolerant grain, in short, see if there is a way to make the local people have enough to eat. If it really doesn't work, if it's really not suitable for people to live in, they have to all move out. It's better not to do this, because the movement is too big and the treasury doesn't have so much silver. ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, there will be a way, it turns out that the part of North Vietnam is not the same, even the rice does not grow, and now it is not also dependent on trade to survive, there is no need to grow it yourself, it all depends on the trading of traveling merchants, and the three states of Jiangzhou will definitely have a way." I'll send a letter to Chai Shaoan and ask him to rush to Jiangzhou. ”

Chenguang nodded, she lazily held her face in one hand, and rummaged through the pile of chapters with the other hand, and took out one book after another:

"Since the beginning of the year, the music of floods, mudflows, plagues, diseases and locusts, this land, in less than a year, has been all in full force, what the hell is this place? In the past, in the desert, except for the lack of food, people starved to death every year, but there was not so much to do. ”

"In the desert, sandstorms and plagues are also very strong, but there are no floods and mudflows, and there are no locust plagues in the desert all year round, but the insects in the oases are much more powerful than the locusts." Chang Xi said with a smile.

Chenguang glanced at him, snorted, and returned his gaze to the recital: "Everything is consuming the money and food of the treasury, and if this continues, when the war starts, won't I be penniless and only be beaten?" She said angrily, picking up a piece of music and opening it, "What is this?" She frowned, "Zhang's big fool's marriage proclamation?" Chapter 2: The fool wants me to break off the marriage contract with Long Xiguo? I really sympathize with his mother, and finally gave birth to two sons, but it turned out to be a pair of fools! ”

Chang Xi smiled.

The two brothers of the Zhang family were the speech officials who only took office last year, they were upright and meticulous, and they were not afraid of offending the powerful, and they were promoted by Chenguang to become a speech official, and Chenguang gave him two nicknames - Zhang Da Fool and Zhang Er Fool.

Chang Xi thought that these two people were indeed not very smart, and they actually gave His Royal Highness the opportunity to urge marriage and persuade him to dissolve the marriage contract at this time.

Chenguang stared at Zhang Feng's recital for a while, smiled loudly, and said to Chang Xi:

"Isn't Zhang Da fool upright and stubborn, he actually asked me to think about the Jiangshan Society of Feng Ming Kingdom, recruit beauties, and draft concubines."

"Now there are many people in the court who are talking about the marriage contract between His Highness and Long Xiguo, and they are not opposed, but many people are worried that His Highness will let Feng Mingguo enter the shadow of Long Xiguo because of this marriage. A small group of people like Zhang Feng are more anxious, and they want His Highness to recruit Feng Ming as their husbands. ”