In the evening, Li Chaosheng hurriedly returned to the county government after eating the big pot of rice, and asked Gu Zi to send someone home to bring a letter to the county lord of Changyu, and he will spend a night in the county government tonight.

There's no way sometimes it's so tiring to be a leader, no wonder some people will say that being the emperor is better than being the prince, the prince can eat, drink and have fun, and enjoy life to the fullest, but the emperor can't, if the emperor wants to be good, he must be in a working state all the time, otherwise the empire will definitely decline.

Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty after Zhu Di, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty after Yongzheng, they are all like this.

But if you let Li Chaosheng choose whether to be the emperor or the prince, Li Chaosheng will definitely choose to be the emperor without hesitation, no way, as long as the taste of power is tasted, he is not willing to give up.

Li Chaosheng hurriedly entered the office, and then was blocked in the room by Guo Bao of the Political Department and Yang Shubai, the first person in Lantian Ideological Coordinator.

"County Zun, you're back, if you don't come back, we're all ready to go to the disaster area to find you."

Guo Bao and Yang Shubai came over and said anxiously to Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng looked at the two of them in surprise when he heard this: "Why are you in such a hurry?" ”

Guo Bao looked at Yang Shubai at this time, and Yang Shubai said, "You say it first." ”

Guo Bao also bowed his hand unceremoniously and said: "County Zun, that's the case, according to the summary of today's intelligence of the Secret Spy Division, it was found that although the power of this earthquake did not reach the level of the legendary collapse of the sky, it was extremely widespread, and disasters occurred in Henan, Hubei, Shanxi and other places, and their political envoys all made a break to the court at the first time. ”

"Give Chongzhen an excerpt?"

Li Chaosheng frowned slightly when he heard this, this thing has not been done for many years, since Li Chaosheng married the sister of King Qin, even if he completely cut off contact with the royal family, and the Ming Dynasty's palace newspaper, as well as the internal assessment of the officials, all of them excluded Lantian, as if Lantian or the whole of Shaanxi is no longer the territory of the Ming Dynasty, except for the tax collectors who are reluctant to pay taxes in Lantian every year, almost all Ming officials have cut off contact with Lantian.

And today Guo Bao asked Li Chaosheng to give Chongzhen an excerpt, what is the purpose of this?

Guo Bao saw Li Chaosheng's thoughts and said with a smile: "County Zun, Chongzhen is suspicious and cautious, and short-term, rigid and self-serving, and even more ill-intentioned towards our Lantian, over the years, there have been many targets in all aspects, and Lantian is regarded as a confidant. ”

"And Henan, Shanxi, and Hubei are all on the fold, if we don't do it, I'm afraid it will become a thorn in Chongzhen's side, so that his careful eye will hate our Lantian even more, and I'm afraid it will target our Lantian even more."

Guo Bao looked at Li Chaosheng and said the pros and cons he thought, Li Chaosheng nodded slightly when he heard this, what Guo Bao said made some sense, it was just a fold, and he was not a person who wanted to save face and not be affordable, and he couldn't talk about weakening his reputation or anything if he wrote to Chongzhen.

Li Chaosheng thought about looking at Yang Shubai who was standing aside and not making a speech, Li Chaosheng likes to brainstorm and understand other people's ideas from all aspects, so as to check and fill in the gaps and make his plan more perfect, so Li Chaosheng asked Yang Shubai: "Old Yang, what do you think about this matter?" ”

"Show the enemy to be weak, weak its hostility, at this time a good way, if the county is operated well, a fold can be given to Chongzhen a Lantian suffered a natural disaster, and he is currently in a hurry, has no time to take care of other things, and has no mind to do other things."

"It's really convenient for us to do something."

Yang Shubai expressed his approval of Guo Bao's plan, and Li Chaosheng bowed slightly: "Very good, then I'll write an excerpt." ”

Li Chaosheng asked for a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and at this time Guo Bao grinded Li Chaosheng and said: "The county can be exaggerated, and the political envoys in other places have exaggerated." ”

Li Chaosheng thought for a while when he heard this: "I understand, Chongzhen and the people in the court want to see Lantian's unlucky appearance, let's satisfy them once." ”

Thinking of Li Chaosheng, he started writing, and the beginning was a few clichés, the specific content was that Lantian suffered heavy losses in the Dilong turning disaster, and the houses in the county collapsed, Li Chaosheng thought about it, and the actual number of collapses should be about five hundred, but Li Chaosheng thought about it and wrote directly: 30,000.

More than 30,000 houses collapsed in the county.

As for the affected population, more than 100 were injured and more than 20 died, so let's write more and multiply it a hundredfold, thinking that Li Chaosheng wrote: More than 10,000 people were injured and more than 2,000 people died.

After writing this, Li Chaosheng looked up at Guo Bao and said: "Wouldn't it be too exaggerated, multiplied by a hundred times, will people see the flaws at a glance?" ”

Li Chaosheng thought about it, but saw that Guo Bao's face was dark, and then he saw Guo Bao pointing to the disaster report on the paper and said: "County Zun, I have made you exaggerate, why did you write such a few people, you handed it to Chongzhen, Chongzhen doesn't treat us as a big trouble, the entire northwest has suffered a serious disaster, and you Lantian is fine." ”

"Is this called okay?"

Li Chaosheng listened to Guo Bao's words, his face darkened, and he pointed to the number on the paper that he thought was exaggerated, which had already increased the real death value by a hundred times, which was not exaggerated enough?

If this is put in the future generations and dare to report to the leader like this, the leader can tear it alive, do you believe it or not?

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao at this time and said, "I've exaggerated it a hundred times, what else do you want?" ”

Guo Bao sighed and said: "County Zun, you are too sincere, come and see how the political envoy of Henan Province gave the emperor a lesson." ”

Guo Bao took out a telegram from his bosom, which had just been sent from Henan today.

Li Chaosheng was not surprised that Guo Bao could know the content of the letter written by the political envoy of Henan Province to the emperor, now the secret spy department has been arranged very deeply, not to mention anything else, even in the palace of the Ming Dynasty, there are now intelligence officers of the secret spy department, which shows the strength of the Lantian secret spy department.

In fact, this is also normal, you must know that Lantian's largest food company, Ji Xiang Ji, in addition to the operation of its own store, all the rest of the profits can be assigned to the secret spy department, Ji Xiang Ji's annual profit is one million taels of starts, has been opened all over the Ming Dynasty, this amount of money, enough for the secret spy department to do a lot of things.

Guo Bao took out a telegram and reported: "County Zun, listen to the performance of the political envoy of Henan, Henan earthquake, the heaviest pond, the sky in the city collapsed, such as the end of the world, dust covered the sky, no five fingers were seen, heavy rain again, thunder and lightning, the houses collapsed, the damage was not less than 300,000, the people were crushed to death more than 50,000 people, miserable, miserable to see......"

"Knocked down 300,000 houses? Crushed 50,000 people?? How many earthquakes are there in Henan? ”

Li Chaosheng's eyes widened, and Guo Bao said when he heard this: "Returning to the county respect, it is lighter than Lantian." ”

"So many people died? Isn't this scientific? ”

Li Chaosheng was puzzled, Guo Bao continued: "County Zun, the real situation is that more than 3,000 people died in Henan, and the houses collapsed a lot, after all, most of them are yellow mud houses, which are not strong, but they are not as exaggerated as he said, and they have damaged 300,000 yuan. ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "Three thousand people dare to say that it is 50,000, it is more ruthless than me, no, he is exaggerated ten times, Lao Tzu is exaggerated a hundred times, why do you say that I am inferior to him?" ”

Guo Baodao: "County Zun, are we playing math games here?" Our Lantian is due to your wise leadership, so the disaster is not serious, but this can't be reported truthfully, otherwise our Lantian is an outlier in this pile of people, and won't it be more hateful? ”

Li Chaosheng smiled bitterly: "I already feel shameless enough, I didn't expect these political envoys to be more shameless than me, Guo Bao, you let me slow down, I haven't been so braggadocio for many years, and my thinking can't keep up." ”

Guo Bao said: "Then the county respects me and I will read you the disaster reports from other places, let's find inspiration." ”

"Hubei Governor Li Shouguang said in a fold: When the earthquake came, the ground cracked and the spring gushed, and it sprayed four or five zhang ......"

"Stop, did Hubei shake out the fountain, or broke the water pipe, this Li Shouguang really dares to say."

Guo Baodao: "At the epicenter of Xiangyang, 200,000 houses collapsed, during which the dead bodies were everywhere, no one was buried, and the stench was stinking, and the preliminary estimate was that there were no less than 70,000 or 80,000 casualties. ”

"This is better than Henan."

Li Chaosheng couldn't help but complain, Guo Bao continued: "This is what the political envoy of Sichuan said, the ground in Hanzhong is cracked, the black water is surging, and there are loaches tumbling during the period, I don't know where it came from, the river was dry during the earthquake, the mountain collapsed, the village was buried by the mountain, the city wall collapsed, the government government has been flattened, and as many as 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and civilians were crushed, and there were countless cattle, horses and livestock. ”

Guo Bao said to Li Chaosheng: "County Zun, look at the political envoys of the people, and finally know that they are selling miserably, and they want to be subsidized, look at what you wrote, and it is good to be wronged if two thousand people died?" ”

Li Chaosheng said with a black face when Guo Bao said: "This group of bastards are talking nonsense with their eyes open, aren't they afraid of thunder and crackling?" ”

Guo Bao said: "If God has eyes, I'm afraid there are few living people in this Ming officialdom." ”

"Lao Tzu feels that he has no offline performance for Chongzhen like this, but I didn't expect this group of people to be faceless and skinless."

Guo Baodao: "In the face of interests, these officials are easier to compromise than anyone else, although Chongzhen has now become a skinny donkey, but no matter how he is, he can still scrape off two taels of oil, they say that it is more miserable, and the benefits will be more in the future." ”

Li Chaosheng sighed and said: "The imperial court has no money, and this group of political envoys is making a lot of calculations, but it is estimated that they will not get much benefit." ”

"More or less, Chongzhen will definitely give some points, and it can't be too shabby, otherwise he won't be able to explain to the people of the world."

Guo Bao sighed and said, "This disaster is really worse for Daming. ”

Li Chaosheng heard what he said: "What did Chongzhen explain to the people of the world? This disaster is a natural disaster, what does it have to do with the emperor? ”

Guo Bao smiled when he heard this: "County Zun, sometimes you are extremely smart, sometimes your question is really naïve, what is a natural disaster?" Natural disasters are God's heavenly punishment to the emperor and the ruling class, and if it were not for the moral defects of the ruling class, God would not have sent down disasters. ”

"Heh~ nonsense, you also went to Lantian College to listen to the class, isn't this earthquake a natural phenomenon caused by the movement of the earth's crust, where did God punish him."

Guo Bao heard this and said: "County Zun, we understand this truth, but thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty don't understand, since ancient times, as long as natural disasters occur, it is the moral loss of the people in power, this is the deep-rooted thinking of the people, now what you say to them about the earth's crustal movement, it is unrealistic, and they will not believe it." By the way, the county honor, Yang Shubai came to you for this matter. ”

Guo Bao said and brought the topic to Yang Shubai, Yang Shubai stepped forward at this time and said, "County Zun." ”

Li Chaosheng looked at Yang Shubai and said: "What's the situation, there won't be this Lantian earthquake, the people think that my virtue is at a loss, right?" ”

Li Chaosheng looked at Yang Shubai and asked, Yang Shubai was silent for a moment and said: "Not at present, but the investigation department has arrested some of the people who made trouble after this earthquake, these people are sent by the imperial court, and some are sent by the rogue, they have seized this point now, and they are crazy propaganda everywhere in Lantian, this Lantian earthquake is a loss of virtue and virtue of the county, and if it offends the heavens, the heavens will descend on the disaster, if the county does not ask for God's forgiveness, I am afraid there will be a greater disaster, and the people of Lantian will be unlucky at that time!" ”

"The people believed?"

Li Chaosheng sighed in his heart when he heard this, Li Chaosheng is no stranger to this method, and there are often people who do this kind of thing in later generations, especially beautiful countries, who especially like to engage in such incidents in other countries.

There was even a war in the big oil countries, which is a terrible thing.

Li Chaosheng listened to Yang Shubai's statement, and understood the seriousness of this matter in his heart, it must be taken seriously, this must be other forces, and they feel that it is too difficult to take Lantian from the outside, so if they want to disintegrate Lantian from the inside, it can be said that they are not poisonous.

And Li Chaosheng is now more concerned about the thoughts of the people.

"Did the people believe it?"

Yang Shubai shook his head and said: "At present, there is no public support for this idea, the merits of the county are obvious to all, it is not who can slander the county with a few bad words, and the people are not stupid, it is not who stands up and says that the county is bad, they will believe it." ”

"They have a certain degree of discernment, but the county respect, since this matter has started, there will definitely be people who will continue to make a fuss in this regard, and the people may not believe it once, twice, but after a long time, there will always be people who are uncertain, which must not be guarded against, so we can't wait to ignore this matter, otherwise there will be disaster."

Li Chaosheng bowed his head lightly when he heard this: "Well, indeed, what do you think?" ”

Li Chaosheng asked Yang Shubai rhetorically.