Chapter 147: The Royal Cat Dispatches the Rats
Since the winter of the fourth year of Yuanyou, there has been heavy snow almost everywhere in the north.
The urgent report for help received by the General Administration Department every day was sent to the Qinzheng Palace all the time, and the diligent emperor Liu Heng was reading the chapter all night, and the officials of the cabinet and the six ministries had already arranged their shifts, and they followed the emperor to deal with disaster relief during the New Year.
Xia Shouzhong took the food box in Baoqin's hand, and the two whispered a few words.
"Please also ask the girl to return to Niangniang, these days the emperor is afraid that he has no intention of going back to the harem to rest, let Niangniang rest early. By the way, the emperor said that the white fungus lotus seed soup cooked by Niangniang is very good!"
Huqin bowed on his knees, and then walked to the harem in the wind and snow. Xia Shouzhong watched Baoqin leave, with a smile in his eyes: The women of the Jia family are not stupid, and it is comfortable to deal with smart people.
Crunch......
The little chamberlain pushed open the door of the Qinzheng Hall with a very good eye and welcomed Xia Shouzhong in.
Emperor Liu Heng almost buried the whole person in the fold, and under the slightly dim candlelight, Xia Shouzhong persuaded him with some distress: "Emperor, rest, just leave the less important matters to the cabinet to deal with......
As he spoke, he opened the food box in his hand, and four dishes plus a bowl of delicate rice porridge were steaming, causing a gurgling sound from the emperor's abdomen.
"Sent by the Phoenix Seaweed Palace?"
"Concubine Xian Niangniang asked the girl holding the piano next to her to just send it, and Niangniang also said that let the old slave persuade the emperor to rest early, and only when he is energetic can he better handle political affairs!"
Xia Shouzhong put the meals on the table by the stove one by one, and chattered about the trivial matters in the palace: "The queen mother also asked the old slave to persuade the emperor, saying that the court is raising so many officials, and everything is tiring to the emperor, so it is better to rush home and farm......
"The queen mother is really ...... Whew!"
Liu Heng not only did not get tired of Xia Shouzhong's chatter, but laughed.
He commented on the fold in his hand: The thousand-year-old king of the 80,000-year-old turtle, the turtle shell is engraved with words to pretend to be auspicious, and he can do less to manage the two lakes for me. This year's rice has grown up, remember to send some rice to Beijing, last year's rice tasted good.
After thinking about it, he added: Remember to buy rice money for farmers!
"This Cao Jiuren, I don't know where to get an old turtle, and the three words engraved with the saint are auspicious? What nonsense!"
Although he complained, Liu Heng shook his head with a smile, put the fold away, and came to the stove to sit down.
While serving the emperor for dinner, Xia Shouzhong said with a smile: "Fourth Master Cao has been close to the emperor since he was a child, and it is not once or twice that he messes around. Didn't he go to Sichuan and Shu in person the year before last, and caught two iron-eating beasts and said that it was a divine beast under Chiyou's seat. I guess I want to ask the emperor for a reward, so that I can show off with my colleagues."
"Never grow up!"
Compared with his brother Cao Jiugong, Cao Jiuren is not a martial artist, and the only good thing is that this person can always faithfully carry out his orders. In the strategic place of Huguang, Liu Heng can also feel more at ease.
Thinking of Huguang, Liu Heng suddenly stopped his chopsticks, frowned and asked, "By the way, are Shi Nai and Shi Ding still planning about the foreign appointment?"
Xia Shouzhong nodded and replied, "According to the secret report of the Dragon Guard, the Shi brothers first went to the Zhenguo Mansion a few years ago, but Uncle Niu did not agree, and they went to the Beijing Palace...... In the end, there were people from the Governor's Mansion, the Military Department and the Ministry of Officials who received the gift from the Shi family. Among the vacancies reported by the officials, the Sichuan Metropolitan Commander and the Huguang Metropolitan Commander and the Huguang Metropolitan Commander and the Commander of the Huguang Metropolitan Department lacked a Metropolitan Commander!"
Scold!
Liu Heng smiled sarcastically and continued to pick up the chopsticks.
He took a bite of food, chewed it for a while, and said coldly, "Since they want to go, let them go." However, if the Governor's Mansion, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of War are to be delayed a little longer, I want to see who they will go to to do this. Let's ask how much money the Shi family spent on these two errands!"
"There is one more thing, Emperor, today Mr. Qingteng took Xiao Jia Lang to Wanping County......
Xu Jin took Jia Cong to Wanping County, it can be said that every word and deed is under the attention of the Dragon Guards.
Before Jia Cong could return home, the Dragon Guards had already sent the recital to the palace. Xia Shouzhong thought of the rebellious words that Jia Cong scolded,
I really don't know whether to say that Jia Cong is bold or innocent.
"Go to his mother's Zhaoyuan prosperous era, go to his mother's country to be strong and the people to be rich, and go to his mother's heavenly kingdom......
Liu Heng repeated what Jia Cong scolded when he was angry, and asked Xia Shouzhong: "Big companion, do you think Jia Cong's scolding is right or wrong?"
Xia Shouzhong shook his head, nodded again, and finally sighed, "Emperor, that's how the old slave was sold into the palace back then!"
He didn't say right or wrong, but Liu Heng experienced the sadness in this answer.
A bowl of millet can be exchanged for a small baby, which can also be called a prosperous age?
"Fuck the Zhaoyuan Prosperous Age!"
Liu Heng also scolded a rude remark, and then told Xia Shouzhong: "Tomorrow morning, my companion will go to Rongguo Mansion to spread my message, the mice are all rising, and the royal cat will not catch it?"
After Gyeonggi suffered another heavy snowfall, the cabinet immediately ordered the household department to allocate a large amount of silver and grain to the state capitals again.
Xu Jin couldn't take care of taking his apprentices anymore, so he stayed directly in the duty room of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, arranged for local inspections under the imperial history, and joined forces with the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to investigate the cases received during the disaster relief.
There were still three days before the poetry meeting of Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Cong, who was originally lying on the table and meditating and recalling the Juntian Law, Fangtian Juntax Law, a whip law and other changes, was driven out of the capital by the emperor's dictation.
Wrapped in a thick coat, Jia Cong sat in the carriage and began to catch rats from Wanping County.
Of course, he also went to the palace before leaving Beijing, after all, if the name is not right, it is not good, and by this opportunity, Jia Cong asked the emperor for an official: Qin sent to inspect the military and political affairs of Beizhili.
Commonly known as the North Zhili Nine Prefecture Patrol, the Minister of Qincha!
However, this official was temporarily appointed by the emperor, and he had no grade, no rank, no money, Jia Cong paid for the boss to do things by himself, and he obviously wanted to offend people.
For example, at this time, Jia Yumao Qincha Minister Cong was sitting in the hall of the Wanping County Ya, and the officials of Wanping County were kneeling neatly in the hall.
"A snow disaster, nearly half of the people have changed owners, what a powerful means. Hu Youwei, haven't you ever thought about where the food will come from when taxes are collected this summer? Will those landlords pay you taxes?" Z.br>
Sometimes Jia Cong really wanted to open the skulls of the waste and take a look inside to see if it was all filled with water.
Those noble relatives and famous men bought land, and it was impossible for them to pay taxes to the government. When the time comes, the grain tax is not even, and the assessment of the officials will directly come to the middle and lower levels, isn't it a good future?
Judging from the information collected by the Dragon Guards, Hu Youwei did nothing bad except for matching up to buy land for the old men in the capital.
On the contrary, he did not greed for a tael of silver, and did his best to help the victims. Originally, if he had dealt with the disaster relief matter in An'an, and did not get involved in the annexation of land by various families in the capital, how could he have to raise it to a higher level......
"The lower official is guilty!"
Hu Youwei was also single, he took off his black gauze hat and kowtowed to confess, and the rest of the county princes, lords, etc. followed and knocked their brains into a bang.
Wanping is the closest state and county to the capital, and almost none of the officials in the county have escaped, and they are all involved in these dirty things.
Of course, in their opinion, this kind of thing is nothing at all, after all, every time there is a famine, everyone does it.
It's a reasonable thing to agree!
Jia Cong slapped the shocked wood with a snap, and said coldly: "You are guilty, but you still have to keep your head, and someone needs to clean up the mess in Wanping County."
Subsequently, according to the severity of the crime, he cut down the most serious crime of Wanping County Cheng and the history of the canon on the spot, leaving the county commander Hu Youwei and the lord Bo Sun Sheng.
"Hu Youwei, Sun Sheng......"
As Jia Cong's cold voice came, the two people who were frightened by this young master's cruelty immediately fell to the ground: "The sinner is here!"
I only heard Jia Cong say: "You have copied all the land and property that you have robbed and plundered since the winter snow of last year, and all those who oppressed the people, involved human lives, and plundered the people will be arrested and brought to justice. Whether you can survive or not depends on whether you can make meritorious deeds!"
"Adult ......"
Hu Youwei with
Sun Sheng shouted almost at the same time, his face full of embarrassment.
"Huh? Say something if you have something!"
Hu Youwei gritted his teeth and bowed down and said, "My lord, the lower official is just a small county order, out of the county seat, the order of the lower official is not as effective as a hao slave in the countryside!"
"Then kill!"
Jia Cong beckoned to the accompanying captain of the Dragon Guard: "Wang Hu, from today onwards, you will follow Hu Youwei with the official seal letter to arrest people, but there are people who resist the law, and there is no mercy!"
Wang Hu took the seal letter, hugged his fists and said, "The last general will take the order!"
The wind and snow are still there, and the disaster relief porridge shed at the gate of Wanping County is still steaming to maintain the lives of the victims.
Hu Youwei went out of the city with a team of dragon guards, and after confiscating the Zhuangzi bought by Lai Shangrong, he immediately aimed the butcher's knife at the newly "purchased" Zhuangzi of a clan, and then the news immediately spread to all directions with extremely fast news.
Zhuangzi, a noble relative all over Wanping County, was raided by Hu Youwei and his team. When the slave thugs but resists, the dragon guard pounces on him and sends a knife.
In less than a day, the prison in Wanping County was crowded with people, including Lai Shangrong, who was originally a powerful man in the newly placed Zhuangzi.
Before evening, the troika stopped in front of the door of Rongguo Mansion, Jia Yu looked at the three gilded prayer cards on hand, and sneered: "Go and tell these three that Lord Yucat is crazy and even copies his own house, and Ben Bo can't control this son." If you have a problem, go to the palace to find Your Majesty, Lord Yucat is now surnamed Yu!"
Jia Jiu snorted and laughed: "General, if they dare to go to the palace to find Your Majesty, where will they come to our house to make trouble." But the little third master's trick is ruthless enough, first stab himself, and then stab others, they won't make too much trouble! However, the Lai family has also received the news and is instigating Mama Lai to go to Rongxi Hall to cry!"
Jia Yu waved his hand indifferently and said, "Let her go, don't make a fuss, the old lady doesn't know that her dog has begun to fight with her master." When San'er digs out the people behind Lai Shangrong, we will do it immediately. After the heavy snowfall, the Lai family will be completely wiped out of the capital!"
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