Qi Hongxin thought about it carefully, stared at it, and saw Su Ziji making a gesture to the sky: "I can't think about it, occasionally one day, between the early hours of the morning, there was a sudden flash of inspiration, and I got this idea, or the will of heaven wants adults to cure the disaster." ”

"Providence?" Qi Hongxin opened his mouth wide, and was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, hesitated in his heart, and thought in a blink of an eye, there was nothing else possible except this.

Sure enough, even an official like Qi Hongxin, when he heard this, his face was better, he chuckled, and said in a rare soft tone: "Lord Su doesn't have to be modest, all this is the will of heaven, and it is also dependent on Lord Su to do things in a good way to have such a result, you can rest assured, this mansion will definitely report the chapter when you go back, and ask for credit for Lord Su." ”

He said with his mouth, but his heart was in doubt.

Thousands of years of grandeur, deficit holes are numerous, not to mention the previous dynasty, that is, the eleventh year of longevity, the emperor sent the household department to check the grain, the latter found that the fraud was amazing, but before he had time to report, a fire burned the granary and grain, and the deficit has not been able to be checked since then.

This is the fire dragon burning warehouse, of course, this method, not only the household servant can not conceal it, the emperor also knows, so the party is even demoted to three levels, but it is better than finding out and killing the head and stealing the house.

If this method had been known, a large number of corrupt officials would have escaped catastrophe by relying on this method.

The young man in front of him, coming up with this method, is it a blessing or a curse with the court?

But listening to Su Ziji, he coughed lightly: "In fact, this method is also difficult to popularize." ”

"Oh, how do you say that?" Qi Hongxin was very tired, and with the silver, he felt that his whole body was loose, and he was leaning crookedly on the chair, when he moved slightly, straightened his waist and asked.

Su Ziji stared at the silver treasury, and retracted his gaze in a blink of an eye: "In fact, if this method is to be successful, the gentry must first be rich, and secondly, there is one word-Gong!"

"Gong?" Qi Hongxin's eyes flashed.

"Indeed, the key to Xiaguan's method lies in the bustling world, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit, one hundred taels of silver, in exchange for ten times and twenty times the mining rights, this is a huge profit. ”

"This is small but big, so not only the gentry of this province, but also the three nearby provinces have people coming. ”

Hearing this, Qi Hongxin nodded again and again.

"And the lottery, the most afraid is the fraud, in order to make them believe that there is no fraud, the lower officials also spent a lot of thought. ”

Qi Hongxin remembered the various methods just now, and couldn't help but nod.

"But when a good law comes out, as soon as there is selfishness, it will be distorted. ”

"If the government uses this method again, I am afraid that some people will raise it to three hundred taels or five hundred taels and one signature, so that the big and the benefits are small, and there will be fewer people involved. ”

"Or the thirty-seven mines that were drawn by lot are all internal decisions, and those gentry are just foils, which is also very likely. ”

"In that case, after a few times, the method stinks. ”

"To be a person to have a public heart, think about the government, the government must be public, think about the world, and be selfish, although the public is not fair, I am afraid that it will become a method of expropriation and tyranny in the future - corrupt officials and corrupt officials use it to escape responsibility, and the gentry have to draw lots. ”

"This is the sin of the lower officials. ”

This is true, with Qi Hong's new experience, the officials will definitely do this in the future, and they can't help but sigh, and they nodded for a long time before they nodded, and said: "What you said is very true, I'm afraid that it will become like this in the future, and this official will also tell the court in detail." ”

"However, the current difficulties have been overcome, and the mansion will go back first, and you will finish it here......"

Because the matter was over, Qi Hongxin was busy with things, and he couldn't stay here for a long time, so he quickly went out of the hall door with Su Ziji, and as soon as he went out, he saw that the master's hat was crooked, and his face was ugly and he hurriedly ran over.

"My lord, something is wrong, the locust plague has broken out!"

This sentence directly covered the ice water in the cold winter, making Qi Hongxin, who was originally somewhat happy in his heart, freeze on the spot all of a sudden.

The next moment, he grabbed the arm of the master who came to look for him, and hurriedly asked: "The locust plague has broken out? How is it possible! I have ordered the whole province to cull locusts and exterminate insect eggs, how can it still break out!"

And not just an outbreak, or a sudden outbreak?

can make the master who is used to seeing big scenes with Qi Hongxin lose his temper, this is definitely not an ordinary outbreak, it must be very severe as soon as it erupts!

"My lord, let's go over and have a look first!" Seeing Qi Hongxin's eyes red, for fear that this one would fall down again in anger, Su Ziji hurriedly reminded him.

Qi Hongxin quickly suppressed this anger, tried to calm down, and nodded: "What you said is true!"

"Come, prepare a horse for me, immediately call the servants, and go with me!"

"Also, inform the county lieutenant that this time all the officials will be mobilized to maintain the peace of the whole house, and whoever takes the opportunity to rob will be killed. ”

Several small officials hurriedly agreed, paged people, prepared horses, and Qi Hongxin ordered sharply: "The silver treasury should be kept an eye on, whoever takes the opportunity to take a tael of silver, I will kill his head." ”

"Inform all the yamen in the mansion, all mobilized, and have the responsibility of inspection!"

"Yes!"

Qi Hongxin stopped talking and turned over on the horse, and although Su Ziji did not have a horse to ride, he also asked people to prepare a car, although the ox cart went slower, but this did not prevent him from seeing the locusts flying all over the sky when the time came.

Rao was mentally prepared, and when he saw this scene, Su Ziji's face immediately became solemn.

"Locust plague. ”

This is a plague of locusts, all over the sky, ash fluttering, black pressure on a large area, overwhelming, at a glance, locusts are "buzzing", swooping down, a field as far as the eye can see, is lush and lush, it is about to be harvested, now a rush, not a moment, it will become a red and yellow.

Not to mention the green of the earth, even a small part of the roots exposed on the ground were not spared, and the swarm passed, leaving only bare soil, and it seemed that the whole earth was trembling in the swarm of locusts.

Su Ziji's expression was solemn, since it had become a disaster, it was too late to save it now, and this stubble of crops could only wait for replanting.

Qi Hongxin's teeth creaked, and when he saw that the people around him were looking at him in panic, he suddenly became furious: "What are you still doing in a daze? Don't raise the fire yet, kill the locusts! Go quickly!"

He immediately asked the county soldiers, the officials, and even the officials who were on duty and not on duty, all the officials and the people, to work together to kill the locusts that were now flying everywhere.

But Su Ziji stood still, frowning slightly, staring at the locusts flying in front of his head in front of him, and quickly reached out and grabbed one, pinched it between his fingers, and looked at it carefully.

"Not true. He whispered, "That's not right. ”

Although there are many locusts that look like they are flying from other places, according to the growth period of locusts, locusts that can cause locust plagues of this magnitude and are so hungry and do not choose to eat should not be of this size.

Such a large scale is not normal, and neither is a locust of this size.

"Childe, this locust...... He was a little smaller. Coming along, Cen Rubai, who was also frowning and watching just now, also approached at this moment and said in surprise.