System, help me be an empress

Chapter 74
Liu Jiye left the imperial study in a daze, but he didn't expect to meet Rong Yingran who had been waiting for him for a long time at the gate of the palace. For some reason, he was inexplicably guilty: "Mr. Rong, haven't you left yet?"

Rong Yingran was thoughtful: "I just remembered that I have to ask you an important matter."

"Your Excellency, just ask, and your subordinates will know everything."

"Did you ask Your Majesty the cost of running the newspaper?" Rong Yingran asked.

"What cost?" Liu Jiye was a little confused.

"Looks like not." Rong Yingran sighed, "Without money, it is difficult to move an inch. Don't ask His Majesty asking for money, where are you going to find a place to run a newspaper!"

"Do you need to be paid for writing newspaper manuscripts, do you need to pay for newspaper printing, do you need to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones. No, I have to go back and ask His Majesty for money."

"Master Rong, wait a minute." Liu Jiye hurriedly pulled Rong Yingran back, "I think we can overcome what you said. The location of the newspaper can be in the temple where I used to live, and the manuscript can be prepared by myself." For writing, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone will be deducted from my salary first, as for the cost of printing, I will also pay in advance, so you don’t have to trouble Your Majesty, right? When the newspaper is officially published, the situation will naturally improve.”

"Then what if you lose money?" Rong Yingran hated that iron could not become steel.

"If it loses money, it must be that the newspaper has a problem, and I should be responsible for it."

"...What did Your Majesty tell you?" Rong Yingran clearly remembered that before Liu Jiye entered the imperial study, he was like a broken stone that could not be warmed. Asking for something in return... a living Bodhisattva?

Could it be that Your Majesty has learned to change his brain?
Seeing Liu Jiye's honest appearance, Rong Yingran was powerless: "Forget it, let me handle the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and printing. The public school happens to have ready-made people who can do these. You are responsible for writing the manuscript well, and strive for a Within a month, the first newspaper can be issued smoothly."

"The subordinates must do their best."

Rong Yingran looked at Liu Jiye's back as he was walking away, and seemed to understand why Xu Youxi valued this person so much. This character is indeed noble enough.

"Liu Zhuangyuan, go slowly." Rong Yingran seemed to have thought of something, and quickly caught up with Liu Jiye who was leaving in a hurry, "The newspaper is not a trivial matter, you don't have to worry about it all, Rong is too busy with public school, but you can do it." I recommend a helper for you."

"Who is it?" Liu Jiye slowed down.

"Su Huaihe, official minister." Rong Yingran paused, "Although Rong doesn't have a close relationship with him, I have heard for a long time that he is very talented. Maybe you can ask him to finish the newspaper manuscript with you, or you can check Filling in the gaps.”

"Thank you, Master Rong, for your reminder. This subordinate will visit Master Su later."

Rong Yingran finally sensed something was wrong at this moment, it was strange, why did Liu Zhuangyuan call himself a 'subordinate'?
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After Xu Youxi assigned the task of "newspaper" to the two of them, he continued to correct the memorial. The more he looked behind, the more he frowned.

In Luzhou in the south, it rained heavily for more than forty days, and the seedlings were injured;

The flood in Pingshun Prefecture submerged half of Guo Chengshe;
In Wenxia County in the north, there was a severe drought for two months, and another locust plague occurred.

【Ding! 】

[New mission: Save Luzhou 0/100]

【New Mission: Save Binh Thuan Mansion 0/100】

[New mission: Save Wenxia County 0/100]

"Zhou Yuxue, Grand Master Xuan, Shaofu Yao, Bao Shoufu, Lord Meng, and Lord Du, went to the palace to discuss political affairs." After Xu Youxi finished speaking, he continued to stare at several memorials and read them repeatedly.

[Friendly reminder from the empress system: The fate of the country is coming to an end, and it is in the state of the last years of the dynasty, and natural disasters are prone to occur frequently. 】

[Friendly reminder from the female empress system: the host can choose the simple mode, and after joining the White Lotus Sect, shout out 'the king and the general will be kind to each other'.After the establishment of the new dynasty, the National Games will undergo new changes. 】

"Are you insulting my IQ?" Xu Youxi looked at the system prompt, speechless.

From ancient times to the present, which emperor has turned against himself!

[Ding, the empress system has received feedback from the host and is updating ing. 】

Xu Youxi thought about the countermeasures, and waited for a few people to come to the meeting hall by the way, and couldn't even eat lunch.

Several ministers of the humerus of the court were invited to the meeting hall, and Zhou Yuxue distributed several memorials recording disaster information to several people for reading.

"Your Majesty, with such frequent disasters, the imperial court must try to intervene." Meng Zhiqian was worried.

But Bao Shoufu pondered for a while: "Your Majesty, Luzhou is too far away from Shangjing, and it is inconvenient for the imperial court to intervene. After the rain disaster, I am afraid that the next year's harvest will be most affected. Let the officials appease the people's emotions first, and the nearby cities can provide relief. It shouldn't be too difficult. I feel that the court should focus on the flood in Binh Tsung Prefecture."

"I agree with Bao Shoufu's idea. The disaster relief in Pingshun Prefecture is the most important thing. Pingshun Prefecture is only one or two days away from Shangjing. I am afraid that the local refugees will flee to Shangjing again. I am most afraid that there will be a plague after the flood. Then It's really troublesome." Young Fu Yao Dacheng frowned, "Drought and rain disasters still mainly affect the local harvest, as long as the imperial court does a good job of food relief, it will not be too difficult for the two places to tide over the difficulties."

"What is good food relief?" Du Zhiyi was impatient, "Natural disasters are so simple! Drought and locusts, you don't have to care about the extent of the drought, how many locusts are born, and how many crops they eat, will it affect the situation?" If you don’t know anything about harvests in neighboring counties, you can dare to say that it won’t be too difficult to overcome the difficulties?”

"What else do you agree with? I don't agree anyway. Food relief, where to get the food, how to appease the people, don't talk nonsense every day. I think you only know how to manage the emperor's feet. Anyway, you can't get into trouble if you come to Beijing. It’s a trivial matter, even if the people who died in the disaster would be fine as long as they die farther away!”

Master Du cursed and attacked indiscriminately, and it was unknown if he had hit someone's pain point. The rest of the people shut up almost at the same time, and the meeting hall fell silent for a while.

Although Xu Youxi looked solemn, he couldn't help but wonder, do locusts have to be deep-fried to taste better?

"I also feel that the imperial court has to intervene to manage the disasters in several places." Xu Youxi regretfully did not express her thoughts on fried locusts. As the emperor of a country, if she eats fried locusts by herself, it means she cares about the people.

If she dared to tell the people affected by the disaster to eat this kind of food, the rumors that the new emperor was cruel and heartless and disregarded the life and death of the people would be spread among the people tomorrow.

"Discuss the three places one by one, starting from Wenxia County." Xu Youxi was about to take the initiative to control the field.

"As for the locust plague in Wenxia County, I feel that we can encourage the local people to hunt and kill locusts, and give appropriate lures."

"But there will always be a day when the locusts will be wiped out. I am most worried about the drought in Wenxia County. If there is no rainfall, how will the local people survive?"

"Your Majesty, there have been droughts in Wenxia County for eight out of ten years. The local people have the habit of storing water, and the crops will also choose drought-tolerant species. This year, it will become so severe. I am afraid that it is due to the concurrent drought and locust disasters. .” Bao Changnian explained.

"Ten years and eight droughts, what kind of life the people are living, it shows that the problem in Wenxia County is imminent, and we must find a way to intervene immediately." Du Zhiyi did not give Bao Changnian any face, and directly interrupted Bao Changnian Years.

(End of this chapter)