Poor family mother and son

This fellow!

The emperor almost laughed out loud, Hu Hengqiu is a kid, it's not unreasonable for me to like him!

"You!" Zheng Chunqiu was annoyed, when did Hu Hengqiu come?Why doesn't he know?Taking a deep breath, Zheng Chunqiu stabilized his emotions: "Master Hu, it's the court meeting, don't be joking."

No matter how angry you are, you can't offend this person.

It's too late to make friends.

Hu Hengqiu still had the same nonchalant expression: "No! I'm not kidding, just forget about it. What kind of things can she not do in your Ministry of Industry? Iron smelting? Casting? Blast furnaces are all designed by others! The knives made by them are better than yours. The ones from the Ministry of Industry are all good and cheap!”

"You..." Zheng Chunqiu was annoyed, but Hu Hengqiu interrupted him, patted him on the shoulder and muttered: "Don't talk about water conservancy projects, that, when people are choosing cotton test fields, they dig ditches, What's wrong with digging wells to divert water?
If you have to talk about river governance, building dams, etc., you didn’t do it alone, it was done by your department of water department, and you just approved a document; besides, there is a water supervisor, right Bar? "

Yes, big leaders generally do not do specific tasks, but are done by the lower departments.

The role of the big leader is to take the work from the emperor, collect the money from the household department, and then distribute it to others to do it. Of course, if the job is not done well, the big leader will also be punished.

A legal person, a person brought to justice.

As long as the emperor still uses people, Hu Hengqiu will naturally protect them, not to mention that Chu Qing is his subordinate, so protecting the calf is a must.

It's a pity that Chu Qing wasn't there, otherwise he would definitely have given him a nickname from the bottom of his heart: 怪恐.

Well, the surname is Hu, the first name is Hengqiu, the style name is Changfeng, and the nickname is Dangdang.

"Lord Hu, you're just bragging!" No matter how good Zheng Chunqiu's "endurance" was, he couldn't hold back at this time. He said all your work was useless, and it was still in front of the emperor.

What if the emperor listened to it?Do I still have to do it?

Hu Hengqiu moved his shoulders and said with a sigh: "Oh, if I didn't suffer from 'leaky shoulder wind' recently, I could lift it even better!"

After speaking, he ran to the front row and stood on the edge.

Are you allowed to discredit other people's achievements?Hmph, I want you to have a taste of it today!
"Cough...cough," the emperor coughed lightly: "Go back and study the drought and flood situation in various places, discuss it tomorrow, and retreat!"

This morning meeting can't be held, it's all beside the point!

The question was about the drought and flood situation, hey, people immediately changed it to asking for money, and then changed it to impeachment of Chu Qing!
Hu Hengqiu followed the emperor back to the imperial study, and soon came out again. The emperor just said: "Check!"

The emperor sent his courtiers away and asked them to collect information, just to let them have a prediction of the disaster, even if it was the contents of the reports sent from various places.

But contrary to expectations, the disaster did not affect them.

Even if the sky falls, and there are still tall people holding it up, if a disaster really happens, what impact will it have on these Beijing officials?
In fact, sometimes these people prefer natural disasters, because whenever there is a natural disaster, there will be people who cannot survive, and they will sell their land in order to survive.

The more severe the disaster, the less valuable the land, and the rich will buy the land and the people on the land at a low price, the land changes hands, and the farmers turn into tenants.

Disasters can really loot the middle and lower classes of society. Severe disasters will bankrupt small landlords and small merchants, and ordinary farmers will become tenants or refugees.

Therefore, if there is a drought, there will be a drought, and if there is no harvest, there will be no harvest. Anyway, these "superior people" will not only survive starvation, but also make a lot of money.

Don't think that imperial power is really supreme. The emperor governs the world. Yes, the development of a dynasty cannot be separated from the support of the people. Therefore, the emperor really governs the people.

The people are taken care of by the emperor, so they can take care of the land and wealth.

Anyway, whether it is disaster relief or relief, what is used is the treasury, not one's own bank.

The morning court on the second day was still a matter of nonsense, and of course the courtiers could not be entirely blamed, because the description and analysis of the drought situation in various reports were not very serious.

People don't always pay much attention to the final result of an event.

On the contrary, at night, when the emperor was walking in the imperial garden, a young eunuch came to report to Eunuch Li, saying that the Minister of the Household Department asked to see the emperor.

The emperor went back to the imperial study to meet him.

Liu Ju didn't care about finishing the ceremony, so he straightened up and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister went to the suburbs of Beijing this afternoon and dug the soil in several fields with his own hands. He didn't dig too deep. He saw this!"

As he said that, Liu Ju took out a handkerchief folded into a small square bag from his sleeve pocket, and opened it. Inside was a small pile of light yellow, cylindrical things, the length of which was less than the width of a fingernail.

"What is this?" asked the emperor.This thing looks like a long, thin rice, but with a small black spot on one end.

"Your Majesty, these are locust eggs!" Liu Ju dragged his handkerchief, his hands trembling: "These are eggs from a pit!" Sixty or seventy!

Now, the emperor trembled a little, disgusting!Fortunately, he thought it was some kind of rice.

"Your Majesty, the veteran dug holes in several places today, and found insect eggs in five or six out of ten places." Liu Ju continued.

Liu Ju was really excited and frightened at this time.

Before the emperor asked Tai Shicheng and the others about the weather, he didn't take it seriously, and even felt that the emperor was making a big fuss. It turned out that the root cause was here!
If I hadn't received a letter from that old fellow Huang Zhong at noon, I'm afraid I would still be complaining about the emperor asking for 30 taels while doing the accounting.

Because Huang Zhongxin mentioned that he must go to the fields to check, dig the soil with his own hands, and check if there is any possibility of locust plagues, so he gave up the time of reconciliation in the afternoon to check.

Old Huang is right. The treasury is not the emperor’s personal pocket. No matter how careful the Minister of the Household Department is, the next minister will still scold you for leaving the treasury empty and will never praise you.

The money in the treasury is for spending. As long as the money is spent on the emperor's heart, he will have dignity when he is old, and the emperor will give him dignity.

How to spend money on the heart of the emperor?It must be something that the emperor cares about. As the minister of the household department, he has to prepare money in advance.

Liu Ju is old and lacks physical strength, so he digs in the ground casually, only half a hoe deep, and sees insect eggs. If these eggs grow into adults, then...

Liu Ju shivered, 30 taels of silver is not enough to solve the losses caused by the locust plague around the capital, right?

"Your Majesty, look, do you want to..." Liu Ju still couldn't say the word "locust plague".

"Relief money, prepare as much as possible. The first batch, no less than 30 taels, will be ready immediately." The emperor ordered: "There is also relief food. In addition, you have to bring these things to the court tomorrow morning!" The emperor was referring to Those locust eggs.

"Decree!" said the emperor again.

There were Li Linghai, the chief eunuch, and Liu Ju, the secretary of the household department, by his side, so they acted immediately, one laying paper and grinding, and the other picked up a pen and waited.

"Turn the soil as early as possible depending on the sowing situation..."

"Collected eggs can be fed to chickens and ducks. Farmers have to drive chickens and ducks to the fields for grazing..."

"Where there are lakes, puddles, and waterlogged places, the husbands gather to harvest aquatic plants and dry them for firewood; if they are unusable, they are burned on the spot, so as to clean them up..."

According to Chu Qing's suggestion, the emperor repeated it one by one, from removing eggs, to removing locust gnats, to removing locusts... Liu Jufen wrote quickly, his eyes full of awe.

sky!Really worthy of being the Son of Heaven!Don't think you don't know locust eggs, but you are very knowledgeable about removing eggs, resourceful, resourceful, resourceful, resourceful, and tricky like a fountain...

With such a king, why should Daxuan not be prosperous?
*Note: Leaky shoulder wind - frozen shoulder.