It stands to reason that if someone is caught red-handed for saying bad things, normal people will be more or less embarrassed, right?

It's a pity that Feng Xi is not a normal person.

"Why are you like this? Even if you trick this palace to work, and you still eavesdrop on this palace's scolding, it's really hateful. ”

glanced at Feng Xi with a smile, and Qi Xiao, who heard the words, was not annoyed, but walked slowly in front of her and said:

"I can't listen to you scolding me, can I?"

Feng Xi raised her eyebrows, and said in a rare and complicated tone:

"You're sick, don't you, do you listen to scolding you?"

Qi Xiao: "......"

Well, sometimes he really wants to knock this woman's head open and see what she's thinking all day long.

"I didn't mean to."

Feng Xi: "? ”

What wasn't intentional?

Sitting on a Taishi chair below, the young man removed the sharpness in his peach blossom eyes, and said in as gentle a tone as possible:

"I didn't mean to leave you here to preside over the overall situation. And I didn't expect you to give the order to enter the city and go straight to the fine work they left behind. ”

In fact, judging from his understanding of this Feng Xi these days, the other party is obviously a lazy person, and he should rely on him in the post station until he comes back.

"Do you think Hongu wants to fight these people?"

Glancing at Lin Qian and the others who were kneeling on the ground trembling, Feng Xi said straightforwardly:

"Isn't it that as soon as you run away, Li Ge Lao and others will always come to catch the strong men of the palace, forcing the palace to find something for them to do?"

Qi Xiao: "......"

took over the affairs of Xia Fuzhong with lightning speed, and Li Ge Lao and others, who were hurriedly appearing in front of the door: "......"

Well, their princess's idea is still so unexpected......

raised his hand to order someone to take Lin Qian and the others down, and Qi Xiao stopped Feng Xi, who wanted to go back to the house to sleep, and then confessed his plan with the emperor.

"Do you mean that our things are still there, and they will soon be transported to the city!"

"Great! The emperor is sage, the horse is wise, now we can rest assured that we can provide disaster relief! ”

"It scared the hell out of me, I thought we were going to ...... this time"

……

Hearing this, Li Ge Lao and the others were excited, and those officials who had wives and children to support at home and were still waiting for them to go back cried with joy.

After all, they had just seen the fate of Lin Qian and the others, and they also knew that if they couldn't get food, Lin Qian and the others' today would be their tomorrow.

"As you can see, there should be many people in the DPRK and China who are waiting to see our joke and continue to secretly exert their efforts for this joke. I won't say much else, I just hope that you will live up to the emperor's trust, be cautious, be loyal, and work with me and the princess to complete this disaster relief mission. ”

"Well said!"

As soon as Qi Xiao's words fell, Feng Xi took the lead in the seal and applauded:

"Your Excellency, please do your best to help the horse, what does the horse say about how you do it, as for the opinion of this palace, what can you say about this kind of waste?"

Really, this kind of grand occasion of being blocked by a group of people in the morning and begging to see her, she Feng Xi will experience it once in her life.

She has already exceeded her task today.

However, she didn't know that Li Ge Lao and the others agreed to her words seriously on the surface, but in fact, they had completely opposite calculations in their hearts.

Princess Zhaoming is a waste?

If it had been two days ago, they would have agreed with this answer.

But after experiencing a series of things such as the siege of mountain bandits, the removal of faint officials, and the pacification of refugees, they felt that the princess was not only not a waste, but also quite promising!

It's just that he has a future, and the horse is also a Taoguang and an obscure future......

Well done.

Whether they can go further in this official position depends on the two in front of them!

A simple mobilization meeting was held, and Qi Xiao, Li Gelao and others quickly went straight to the topic and began to take stock of the current situation in Liangzhou City.

According to the dossier brought by the Ministry of Households, Yanzhou is the smallest among the four prefectures in the Northland, and Liangzhou is the largest, with an average of 20,000 to 30,000 people in each of the four cities.

Of course, this does not include the surrounding villages and towns, as well as some mountain and wild retail households.

"There has been snow in the north for more than a month, except for Yanzhou, which is close to Hanyu Pass, and half of the people in the state have been taken in by the Guanzhong soldiers, and there are at least more than 50,000 refugees in the south."

As the first auxiliary minister, Li Ge Lao obviously knew the situation of the refugees very well.

According to him, the reason why these refugees went south is because the weather is abnormal this year, which has seriously affected the autumn harvest of the people in the north, so that the people who have to rely on food storage to survive the winter will have little food left in their pockets after paying taxes.

The people had no food, and naturally they had no silver, so not only did they not have enough to eat, but they also couldn't buy winter clothes and quilts.

If this is a normal winter day, they grit their teeth and maybe they can pass, but who knows that this year's snow is serious and the cold wind is coming......

If one of these is a natural disaster, then the other is probably a man-made disaster.

"The old minister also checked the file of the Ministry of Officials today, only to find out that Beidi changed four prefects one after another last year, and these four people are from two factions in the DPRK and China."

Li Gelao's words were vague, but everyone present knew that he was accusing the crown prince and the four princes, accusing them of ignoring the lives of the people of the four states for the sake of political achievements and subjugating the hearts of the people.

Yes, this year's snow in the Northland has been foreshadowed, and according to the past practice, the magistrate should report to the imperial court at the time of the autumn harvest and ask for a reduction in this year's taxes.

The imperial court is aware of the situation in the north, and as long as the northern land reports to the court, it will basically agree.

And once these taxes are reduced, these people will not say anything else, at least the food for the winter will not be so tight, to the point of two bowls of clear porridge a day, and rare rice grains in the porridge......

"Dog officials, all dog officials!"

Liu Wanshi, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, is the most upright, and he has suffered a lot for ten years as an official.

Despite this, he still couldn't see that these officials concealed the disaster and deliberately handed over the grain in the hands of the people in the north to the imperial court, expanding the disaster that would not have been so serious.

What's even more chilling is that this matter is likely to be instructed by the two major factions in the DPRK and China, and the crown prince and the fourth prince who are very likely to succeed to the throne in the future.

"Tsk, first harvest all the food, and then return the food when people are about to starve to death. With other people's own food, they are really talents. ”

Feng Xi held his cheek with one hand, looked at Qi Xiao with a smile and said:

"Well, they are playing with you and want to serve your hometown. None of this will cut them, and the palace will look down on you. ”

Qi Xiao's thin lips are slightly hooked, and there is a rare touch of bright color under his eyes:

"It's not, they have joined forces to make trouble, they want to make your money and harm your life, if you don't do it, I can't look down on you."

Feng Xi: "? ”

Boy.

Long Aotian learns things really fast, it's only been a long time, you can even talk back!

Regardless of the small doubts in Feng Xi's eyes, Qi Xiao said the third point of the refugees going south:

"There was a constant war in the Northland, and it wasn't until my father guarded Hanyu Pass that there was peace. Therefore, the government offices in the north are still rude, not to mention the dilapidated houses of the people? ”

Under the pressure of hunger and cold, even the house was crushed by the snow, what else could they do but walk?