Chapter 3 Disaster Victims or People?

Empress Liang looked at the scenes in the picture, her whole body was cold, and she only felt faint for a while.

Three million?

What a terrifying, shocking number!

When Emperor Taizu Wu pacified the world and founded the Great Wilderness Dynasty, there were only hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the Qingzhou famine actually killed three million people?

This is a catastrophe that has never occurred since the founding of the Great Wilderness!

In any dynasty, when there is such a catastrophe in the world, the emperor will be considered to be wrongly seated and punished by God.

The picture in The Sims continues......

[There was an uproar among the courtiers, and the sound of each other was endless. 】

[As the emperor, you were also panicked, frightened by this news, and didn't know what to do at all? 】

[At this time, Zhou Zhenwen, the traitor you hated the most, bowed and spoke: Your Majesty, now, disaster relief and saving the people is the top priority, and I implore Your Majesty to open the granaries of the rest of the states and counties, and let Weichen go to the disaster area to give grain. 】

[You were just about to agree, and a minister came out: Your Majesty, Lord Zhou is a cabinet scholar, and he has a great responsibility, and the matter of food relief should be taken care of by my household department. 】

[You recognize the identity of this person, Gao Fengyu, the right attendant of the household department, an important member of the Qingliu Party, is quite powerful in the imperial court, and the Qingliu Party controls two of the six departments, and is a mortal enemy of the Tsing Yi Party. 】

[You take into account that Zhou Zhenwen is also a traitorous minister, but you don't worry about letting Gao Fengyu go alone, after all, the famine in Qingzhou is very widely implicated, and there are a large number of victims, and if you want to relieve the victims, you also need the cooperation of many capable ministers to deliver grain and grass to the victims. 】

[In the end, you ordered Zhou Zhenwen, a cabinet scholar, Gao Fengyu, the right attendant of the household department, and Wang Tian, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, to take charge of this matter together and jointly complete the relief of the victims of the Qingzhou disaster. 】

Empress Liang looked at the simulated future picture, and said in a deep voice: "The three parties check and balance each other, it is indeed the best way at present, I can only hope that Zhou Zhenwen, a traitor, will not even be greedy for the people's life-saving money!" Otherwise, even if I fight for the turmoil of the court and bear the infamy of a tyrant, I will kill you!! ”

Before the death of the first emperor, he left a lot of heritage to her, including the dead soldiers with strong martial arts, as well as a lot of soldiers and horses, gold and silver money.

With these backgrounds, Empress Liang Zhao felt that she had the strength to deal with Zhou Zhenwen.

Empress Liang Zhao thought so, but the next scene made her eyes split, and she scolded directly: "Traitor, traitor, damn it, you really deserve to die!" ”

In the picture, the members of the Tsing Yi Party under the command of Zhou Zhenwen walked into an underground money bank with the relief gold and relief grain from the imperial court.

All the disaster relief funds that the imperial court had raised with great difficulty were "embezzled......

Soon, the members of the Tsing Yi Party came out one after another with the bran and forage that the livestock had eaten, as well as the copper plates that had become significantly reduced.

The precious food for the relief of the victims was sold into bran and forage for the animals?

And embezzled a lot of disaster relief money, turning them from silver to copper?

Seeing this scene, Empress Liang Zhao felt deeply remorseful for her choice, how could she believe in Zhou Zhenwen, a traitor?

He's greedy!

Empress Liang Zhao never thought that Zhou Zhenwen would even be greedy for the grain, grass and money to save the lives of the victims?

The incident was quickly discovered by the other two officials, who found Zhou Zhenwen and questioned him about what he had done.

[Gao Fengyu, the right attendant of the household department: Lord Zhou, the disaster relief grain and grass and 100,000 taels of silver distributed by the imperial court were exchanged for copper coins and bran and forage for livestock, do you know about this matter? 】

[Zhou Zhenwen: Oh, I know about this. 】

[Wang Tian, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works: Lord Zhou, don't you feel ashamed? There are such corrupt officials in the Tsing Yi Party, and even the disaster relief funds of the imperial court dare to be greedy, as a cabinet scholar, you have an unshirkable responsibility! I will report this to Your Majesty and let Your Majesty punish them!" 】

[Who would have thought, instead of feeling guilty, Zhou Zhenwen smiled and said: Ashamed? No, I'm relieved. 】

[Hearing this, the faces of the two adults changed, and they looked at the cabinet leader and the leader of the Tsing Yi Party in great surprise, at this moment, they only felt that Zhou Zhenwen was crazy! He is still pleased with the embezzlement of disaster relief funds by the officials under his command? 】

Hearing Zhou Zhenwen's response, Empress Liang Zhao gritted her teeth with hatred, and couldn't wait to bite this big corrupt official to death!

How can there be such a brazen person in the world?

[Zhou Zhenwen: The two adults don't know! This pound of grain can be exchanged for three pounds of bran, which is equivalent to the grain that could have saved one person, but now it can save three people, isn't this worth my gratification? 】

[Gao Fengyu, the right waiter of the household department: But the bran is for livestock, not for people! ] 】

[Zhou Zhenwen: Are the victims still human? 】

[Wang Tian, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works: What? How could this phrase come out of the mouth of one of your cabinet scholars? In a frenzy! You're crazy, you're just crazy! 】

[Zhou Zhenwen: You must know that people who are about to starve to death are no longer humans, they are animals, as long as they can live, what kind of bran is there? That's the good stuff, grass roots, tree bark, dirt, all these can be eaten! 】

[Gao Fengyu, the right attendant of the household: These words, coming out of your mouth, are really shocking! 】

[Zhou Zhenwen: Of course you are shocked, you are just a scholar, you will only read the books of sages in the Hanlin Academy, learn the great principles of the people, and scold the injustice of the courtiers, have you walked through the disaster area? Have you ever seen the victims? 】

[Do you know what it's like to be thousands of miles away from the ground and covered with corpses? 】

[I've been there, and when I see these victims, my heart is cold! 】

[Have you ever seen a person who eats Guanyin soil and dies alive? 】

[Gao Fengyu, the right attendant of the household department: What is Guanyin soil? 】

[Wang Tian, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, also showed a puzzled look. 】

The same is true of the empress Liang Zhao, who saw this scene, she has never heard of this word, let alone knows what Guanyin soil is?

[Zhou Zhenwen: Look at it, you don't know, let me ask you again, have you ever seen a thousand miles of plains, and the bark and grass roots have been gnawed away? 】

[Yi Zi and eat, of course you have heard of it, for you, this is just four words in the history books. 】

[I've seen it with my own eyes! 】

[This...... If you change the child to eat, it's just a bunch of meat in the pot. 】

[You think I'm inhuman, don't you? 】

[Do you think it's just greedy for power and money? 】

[Qingzhou famine, don't say you don't believe it, I don't believe it, I personally went to the disaster area, where I went, looking at those victims, I knew that no matter how much relief food was issued by the imperial court, it would never be enough, there were too many people, if I didn't try to be flexible, I would die not three million, but five million, eight million! 】

[Wang Tian, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry: Even so, why do you want to send all the money to the underground bank, if you want to exchange it for bran, you can buy it from ordinary people? I looked at their accounts, and all the grain and grass and disaster relief money were exchanged for bran, forage, and copper coins, and the amount was much less. 】

[Gao Fengyu, the right attendant of the household department: That's right, on the ledger, officials large and small, as long as they participate in the disaster relief, are all embezzling this disaster relief fund, they are simply lawless, and it is not too much to cut off their heads more than a dozen times!! 】

[Zhou Zhenwen: Save the people first to save the officials, the officials can't live, what else can the people save? 】

[Tobe Right Squire Gao Fengyu: Ridiculous! ] It's a story for the ages!! 】

[Wang Tian, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry: According to Lord Zhou, the corrupt officials of all dynasties are loyal ministers? And the people of the world want to thank them for being greedy? 】

[In the face of the words of the two, Zhou Zhenwen just chuckled, stretched out his hand, and on the table of the two, dipped in water and wrote a big "official" word: the official word has two mouths, if you don't feed the mouth above, who will feed the mouth below? 】

[Who will distribute relief food to the thousands of disaster victims? Is it your right squire in the household department? Or are you the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, Lord Wang, going to send it? 】

[Or am I, a cabinet scholar, going to send it?] 】

[Doesn't it depend on the big and small officials in your mouth? 】

[Only when they are fed will they go to work for me, for the imperial court, and for disaster relief in Qingzhou! ] 】

[Do you know how many victims there are in Qingzhou? 】

[Fifteen million, almost all of the entire Qingzhou has fallen, going there for disaster relief is equivalent to going to the wolf's den to find meat, the slightest carelessness will risk being swallowed up by the victims, the hungry victims, they don't care whether we are the officers and soldiers who are disaster relief, or the officers and soldiers who oppress them, they only know that we have food, that's all. 】