Hearing Zhao Dahu's words, the empress couldn't help but glance at Lu Chen in some surprise.

Is there really another mystery?

How did he see it?

But after a while, she thought about it and thought that although Lu Chen had been in the ministry for less than half a year, he had not only worked in the engineering department closely related to the affairs of the Ministry of Industry for several months, but also served as the governor of the two states for a month, overseeing the military and political affairs of the two states, and now he was the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry.

And with his loyal temperament, no matter what position he is in, he will be conscientious and handle government affairs as properly as possible.

Having handled so many government affairs in person, his ability to govern must have improved a lot.

He may not be able to pay attention to the details that others can't notice, and he may not be able to hide the affairs of ordinary officials, but he may not be able to hide them from him.

Of course, if this was replaced by other officials, if they could shorten the construction period and complete it ahead of schedule, proving that their new charter was effective, after confirming that there were no obvious problems, it is estimated that they would have been eager to report to the emperor, how would they care about the reason?

As soon as she thought of this, the empress looked at Lu Chen's eyes and gradually showed a strong sense of appreciation.

"Your Excellency."

Zhao Dahu was silent for a while, organized his language, and then slowly spoke:

"To tell you the truth, before you came here, although we had been serving more than a month of labor in the Wuji Palace, we were doing it very slowly, because we didn't do our best every day."

As soon as these words came out, almost all the laborers lowered their heads in unison, and at the same time peeked at Lu Chen and the empress with anxiety.

Although Lu Xianggong is a rare good official, but one yard to one yard, after learning that they dared to be lazy in the matter of labor, no one dared to ensure that Lu Xianggong would not be angry, and then do official business and punish them.

Under the anxious gaze of everyone, the empress frowned slightly, still contemplative, but Lu Chen's eyes suddenly moved, and a look of understanding flashed in his eyes.

After a moment's thought, he grasped a key point.

I see, no wonder these people seem to have suddenly erupted into a small universe, even if they faced those ruthless evil officials before, they had the audacity to secretly leave their spare strength and hide their clumsiness.

In the next second, as if to confirm his guess, Zhao Dahu continued: "And ordinary people like us can't see the road clearly almost every night, and they are worried all the time on the construction site, for fear that they will be accidentally stoned to death, and they are distracted a lot, and they can't do much work at all."

Speaking of this, he paused slightly, then cautiously glanced at Lu Chen and the empress, and saw that the two of them did not show anger on their faces, but were thinking about something, and suddenly his heart was slightly relieved, and then continued:

"Your Majesty, Lord Lu, don't look at the long hours we used to work every day, but in fact, after one day, the work we do is not as good as the current half a day."

After listening to Zhao Dahu's story, the empress thought for a moment, and then asked softly: "That is to say, the previous officials treated you very poorly, not only did they not eat well and dress poorly, but they also beat and scolded you at every turn, but Lu Qing treated you very well, so you tried your best to work for Lu Qing with gratitude, right?" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Dahu and the laborers suddenly looked embarrassed.

That's not a very easy question to answer

After all, the empress is the emperor, even if she is controlled by the queen mother as a puppet, she has always stayed in the palace, she does not have to worry about food and clothing, and it is impossible to know much about the suffering in the world.

It's just a rough idea.

Therefore, she is supreme and naturally cannot truly empathize with the poor people.

But Lu Chen was different from her, after the empress spoke, he just groaned for a while, and then sighed heavily.

"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood."

He turned his head to look at the laborers and said, "The reason why they refuse to work hard, and risk being abused by the officials under supervision, is probably because they want to live, but they are just trying to survive." ”

The voice was light, but the words spoken were heavy.

Hearing this, the empress couldn't help but be stunned.

"Lu Qing, why do you say that?"

Lu Chen glanced around at everyone.

"The imperial court conscripted labor, except for providing a little ration and a tattered tent that I don't know how long it took to use, there was no other supply, and even that ration had to go through the hands of an unknown number of people, and in the end it fell into their stomachs, but it was just a clear soup and little water."

"And as long as it is labor, almost all of it is extremely heavy work, and now it is early spring, the cold wind has not dispersed, there is no warm spring, and the weather has become more and more severe in recent years, even the people in Gyeonggi have some broken cooking, and more people have no surplus food, in this case, the laborers not only have to face high-intensity labor, but also suffer from hunger and cold, and they have very little rations on their bodies, if they don't want to try to save some energy, desperately save life-saving rations, how can they survive until now?"

"As the pillars of a family, how can they go back to support their parents and raise their children alive?"

As soon as these words came out, the people's noses suddenly became sore, and their eyes gradually turned red.

At the same time, almost all of their eyes showed a look of happiness.

Lu Xianggong turned out. Understand them, know their difficulties!

And after listening to Lu Chen's explanation, the empress suddenly realized.

"Lu Qing, you mean, if they don't save their physical strength, it will be difficult for them to return alive in this labor?"

"Exactly."

Lu Chen nodded, and was about to say more, when Zhao Dahu didn't know what he thought, he suddenly knelt on the ground and said loudly:

"Your Majesty, what Lu Xianggong said is right, if we want to live, we must find a way to save our physical strength, and we must survive until the end of labor no matter what, otherwise, Xiaomin has old and young, if he dies here, Xiaomin's home will be destroyed, and we must not only live for ourselves, but also for our parents, wives and daughters, and we must try our best to survive."

At this, his voice became a little choked.

"For this reason, we risked our lives to hide from those evil officials, and used all kinds of means to save effort and steal life under their noses, and later, Lu Xianggong came, so that I could wait to be fed and clothed, and with rations in my stomach, my body would have the strength to do my work easily, and Lord Lu also completely relieved my worries, so we naturally had to work hard."

Hearing this, the empress completely understood.

I see

Without worries, you can naturally move forward and then create miracles.

In the final analysis, this incident is essentially the credit of Lu Chen, if it weren't for his efforts to override public opinion, forcibly adjust the proportion of project expenditure, reduce the cost of excess raw materials, increase the labor cost that should have been paid, and transfer the benefits embezzled by those moths to the laborers, this is the current situation that is quite incredible.

Thinking of this, the empress couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

Facts have proved that Lu Chen's astonishing move is not emotional at all.

Whether it is Xia Yan's incident, or the water control turmoil in Sui and Yu Prefectures, or the Liangzhou Incident, as well as the change of course of the Ministry of Industry, all prove his vision and foresight.

What is Amazing Talent? What is a Minister of State? What is Musou Warrior?

And this is!

If such a Wang Zuozhicai is not reused, is there anyone in this world who is worthy of her reuse?

Lu Chen didn't know how to read minds, so he naturally didn't know what the empress was thinking at this time.

After Zhao Dahu finished pouring out his true feelings, he suddenly stood up.

"Your Majesty, before the laborers of Wuji Palace came over, even the most basic survival became a problem, under this premise, who would dare to spare no effort to work and contribute to the court? So."

As he spoke, his eyes lowered slightly, and at the same time he suddenly stood up and arched his hand to the empress.

"Weichen believes that although these people are suspected of sabotage, but this matter is the fault of the court first, and the mediocre officials and evil officials are unkind, so they can't be blamed for being unjust, not only are they not guilty, but the court should introspect itself, please let Your Majesty know it."

Seeing that Lu Chen actually solemnly stood up to advise the emperor for his humble grass people, Zhao Dahu and the others were immediately moved to tears.

"Lu Xianggong"

They looked at Lu Chen's back and opened their mouths, but they couldn't say a word.

"Don't worry, Lu Qing."

The empress replied without hesitation, "I am not a faint monarch who does not distinguish between right and wrong, since it is the fault of the court, I have not fulfilled my due duty to the laboring people, but I am harsh everywhere, the people swallow their anger, there is no riot, I am already worthy of the court, how can I be harsh?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and the stone in their hearts finally fell to the ground completely.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Lu Chen raised his voice.

As soon as the words fell, the people immediately reacted, hurriedly knelt heavily on the ground, and bowed to the empress.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

The empress smiled slightly, and then looked at Lu Chen steadily.

"Lu Qing, it seems that in addition to the way of the emperor, there are many things I have to learn, and in the future, I still have to bother Lu Qing to teach me more about the way of governing the country, so that I can understand the real way to help the world."

Hearing this, Lu Chen immediately bowed down again and said word by word:

"Weichen takes the order!"

This picture of the monarch and the minister getting along with each other, at this moment, was deeply imprinted in the hearts of everyone around.

In the empress and Lu Chen, Wang Qi and Zhang Xuan even felt a shock that the glorious and prosperous world was in front of them.

…………

As expected, the completion acceptance passed without incident.

And the acceptance results are much better than the prescribed standards.

Immediately afterwards, the news of the early completion of Wuji Palace soon spread.

In the court, although Wu Yue, who was the head of the household, was expressionless, he was shocked in his heart.

This Lu Chen is really amazing!!

This guy is really not an ordinary evil sect.

He naturally knew about the project of Wuji Palace, and he was quite familiar with it, after all, the project money for the renovation and the New Yuan Grand Ceremony was approved after he carefully confirmed the amount and basically controlled the expenditure to the limit.

Obviously, he didn't increase any budget, and he didn't ask the empress for help, but he just adjusted the cost ratio, and he was able to complete the project ahead of schedule, and the quality was impeccable, which was perfect.

This deal is really worth it!

It also gave him the feeling of opening the door to a new world.

As the money bag of the imperial court, he was extremely sensitive to the income and expenditure of the treasury, and seeing Lu Chen's brilliant performance after the implementation of the new regulations of the Ministry of Industry, various ideas instantly appeared in his mind.

At his age, he even had the urge to humbly ask Lu Chen for advice.

And after Lu Chen's ability to turn decay into magic was verified again, Wu Yue's heart suddenly had an ominous premonition.

He suddenly thought that since Lu Chen came to prominence, every judgment was almost extremely accurate, and every time he wanted to do something, he could do it, no matter how unreasonable things were, they would become natural in his hands.

That being the case, the coal ......

As soon as he thought of this, he thought of the Black Mountain that almost every province in Great Xia contained, and the inexhaustible amount of coal buried under the Black Mountain.

In an instant, he shuddered involuntarily.

Should... No way......

Of course, Wu Yue was not the only one who was shocked by the fact that Wuji Palace was completed ahead of schedule because of Lu Chen's change of course.

Almost all the courtiers were shocked by this incomprehensible fact.

And just when the courtiers had to slowly digest this unbelievable fact, a silver-white figure quietly came to Taihe County, which was only more than three hundred miles away from Luojing.

"General."

In the county government of Taihe County, the county commander Li Yongcheng looked at Gu Simiao, the general of the Shenwu Dynasty who suddenly visited in front of him, with a surprised expression.

"Have you really decided to want Wujia Village, Lujia Village and other villages near Montenegro as your food town?"

Li Yongcheng deliberately mentioned the word "Black Mountain", reminding Gu Simiao that those villages are not good places, and it can even be said that those villages are the poorest in the entire Sili area.

He didn't want to think about it, but when he found that there was no grass there, he regretted using it as a fief, and then blamed him for not making it clear, and came to him to settle accounts.

General Shenwu's anger, he can't afford a small subordinate idle county order.

However, Gu Simiao nodded expressionlessly.

"Hmm."

Such a crisp and neat performance suddenly made Li Yongcheng unable to rectify.

"And that's not all."

Without waiting for him to respond, Gu Simiao spoke again.

"Ben is going to take the whole of Montenegro into a fief."

There was a hint of coldness in his voice, which was completely different from the soft tone when he talked to Lu Chen in Luo Jing before.

She took the time to come to Taihe County today, naturally for the sake of fiefdom and food.

And choosing Montenegro as a fief was her plan.

It's not that she has a unique vision, it's purely because Lu Chen's Tiangong Division is studying coal, no matter how others question him, she will show her attitude with her actions.

It had been a while since she left Luojing, so naturally she didn't know that Lu Chen had once again turned decay into magic and shocked a group of courtiers, and Luojing's news would not have spread so quickly to Taihe County, a proper inferior county.

Hearing this, Li Yongcheng was completely shocked.

"General, do you want to stop thinking about it?"

Gu Simiao shook her head and said, "Don't think about it, go through the formalities immediately and issue the documents." ”

After a pause, she said impatiently: "Ben will have to rush back to the barracks later, and I am tired of Li County Ordering to help Ben General complete the formalities as soon as possible, and it is best to complete it today." ”

Hearing this, Li Yongcheng was speechless.

Are the big guys in these years so weird in temper?

He had heard of Gu Simiao.

After destroying the demon, the great hero who eliminated the traitor for the country was knighted because of the duke, but he inexplicably refused the position of the county duke, and then chose Taihe County as a county duke.

Now Montenegro has been chosen as a fief.

This girl's brain must have been kicked by a donkey, right?

(End of chapter)