Xuanmen Xiaoguo Shi is divination again

Chapter 867 Showers
If...he hadn't tricked Yuan Lingwei into supporting some Western business prince.

If only the treasury had never been so empty as it is today.

If Fuli still has surplus food and silver to help the people.

So, will the current situation be better?
Bai Jingzhen stared blankly at the bunch of withered yellow grass nests more than a hundred paces away, his eyes couldn't stop being filled with confusion. At this moment, he couldn't tell where he was, and he didn't know what he had done before. What is right or wrong.

He seems to be wrong, and it seems that he never missed it at all.

The young man lowered his brows slowly, he stared silently at the lines in his palm, and followed the thoughts that just flashed in his mind one by one -

If he hadn't tricked Yuan Lingwei to support the Western Shang Prince.

Fuli's treasury would probably not be as empty as it is today.

However, the female emperor who occupies the ninth fifth position, and all the courtiers who are selfish and proud who don't know the suffering of the people, will be willing to spend large sums of real money to help these people who are like ants in their eyes" "Low" disaster victims?

——Yuan Lingwei, who still has the country and the ancestral foundation in her heart, may, but she may not have the ability to pay so much money in one go.

What's more, she has always been a stupid person with little brains, she doesn't know people clearly, she can't help others, and the silverfish under her are getting more and more greedy. In practice, probably less than eleven.

A few 10 taels is just a drop in the bucket for such a terrible natural disaster.

——Always only greedy for prosperity and wealth, Yuan Lingzhi, who is naive, cruel, cowardly and stupid, probably won't, she is afraid that acting rashly will offend the Lu family or her sister.

Most likely, she would pretend to be stupid, and would find excuses to shirk the blame, just like she used the phrase "the national treasury is empty" to prevaricate him today.

——The courtiers who put on airs all day long and stand aloof will not.

They are pretentious and have always looked down on ordinary people. Except when they hold up the sage books, they will pretend to read a few sentences "water can carry a boat", and they have long forgotten these things on weekdays.

They can no longer remember that they or their ancestors were once the most ordinary of all living beings in this world.

Thinking of this, a bitter smile suddenly appeared on Bai Jingzhen's face.

After all, it's not that Fuli is short of money and food, it's incompetence!

The Son of Heaven is incompetent, so he cannot control the officials.

Hundreds of officials are incompetent, so the court cannot be stabilized.

The imperial court is incompetent, so it dares to abandon all people in the world!

This is incompetence, the incompetence of the emperor, the incompetence of the officials, the incompetence of the court, and the incompetence of them to help all the superiors!

In the past, Qianping was not as good as they helped Lifufu.

But what does the Son of Heaven do when faced with such a natural disaster that can sweep one side?
The young man raised his eyes and looked up at the sky with red eyes. He remembered that in the spring and summer of last year, there was a lot of water in the dry and flat Jianghuai area. heavy rain.

——How did Emperor Yunjing do it?
When he got the news, he immediately sent his most valued son to Jianghuai for disaster relief. Carloads of money, food and water were sent to Jianghuai.

The Seventh Highness and the others probably noticed that the rain that year was unusual, or they had such a plan to prevent natural disasters——

After all, before the rice grains from the imperial court came down, His Highness took all kinds of supplies he had raised in advance and set foot on the official road to the south.

The flood destroyed the houses, so he brought tens of thousands of tarpaulin tents for marching; the flood destroyed the farm's seedlings, so he took out the grain seeds he had saved early.

After the water receded, in order to prevent a serious epidemic, he directed the officials to take the people to bury the corpses that had been soaked in water in an orderly manner...

Silver food is only the most basic thing, tents, grain, alum charcoal for water purification, herbal medical officers for healing, and even chickens and ducklings that are fast-growing and easy to survive, they all prepared ten carts.

They had made sufficient preparations, and the court was willing to spend all its manpower and material resources regardless of the cost. A flood that affected tens of thousands of people, under the concerted efforts of Qianping, was completely subsided in less than three months.

Today's Jianghuai has become the "granary of the world, land of fish and rice" for Qianping.

The people were happy as if nothing had happened.

——This is the difference of the imperial court.

Bai Jingzhen closed his eyes, then clenched his fists and strode towards the city.

Wen Qingchi was taken aback by his sudden movement, and quickly stepped forward to pinch the corner of the young man's clothes. The little girl's face was obviously worried, she slightly raised her head, her eyes hesitated: "Cousin ,Where are you going?"

Hearing the sound, the young man slowed down his pace expressionlessly: "Enter the palace."

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"Master Bai, you have been kneeling here for a whole day and night, get up quickly."

Outside the imperial study room, the old eunuch holding Fuchen bowed his body and lowered his tone. With a sad face on his face, he kept carefully testing Bai Jingzhen's tone: "Your Majesty will find it difficult if you do this."

The young man didn't respond when he heard this, he just quietly locked the emperor's study three feet away, his voice was indifferent and calm: "As long as His Majesty is willing to issue an order to exempt the two provinces from taxes."

"The humble minister will leave after receiving the imperial edict."

"Elder-in-law, if you have time to persuade the servants here, why not go in and ask the Holy Majesty for the humble servants—see if she can be gracious and bestow this blessing on the people of the world."

"You! Oh..." The old eunuch was almost choked by his words, he stared at Bai Jingzhen for a while, and finally sighed and shook his palm, "Then please wait here After a while, the old slave will go in and report back for you."

"Thank you." Bai Jingzhen nodded his jaw slightly, and after speaking, he raised his head and looked at the sky above his head. At some point in the sky, thick clouds like ink had accumulated, and several drops of water suddenly fell on his face.

The look of fear in the youth's pupils also suddenly thickened into a ball of black ink.

Two or three drops of water formed an inseparable net in the blink of an eye, and when the old eunuch came out of the house with his fly whisk in his arms, the rain outside was already pouring down.

"Lord Bai, what does your majesty mean, is she unwilling to bless the people, but our Fuli treasury this year is really too empty..." The old eunuch who came out of the house was full of confusion, and he gestured to the imperial court with his eyes as he spoke. In the study, "The imperial court is really short of this money."

"You'd better stop forcing Your Majesty." The old man said with a low eyebrow. At that time, the clothes on the young man's body were completely soaked by the rain, but his waist was still as straight as a green pine on a mountain.

"Furthermore... You see, God is willing to send rain, and the severe drought will definitely be over in a short time. You can go back safely, lest you get sick from the rain, Your Majesty should be in a hurry."

The rains...the droughts.

Bai Jingzhen grinned abruptly when he heard the words, and looked up into the eyes of the old eunuch with a sneer, blurting out whether it was sarcasm or sighing: "Elder-in-law, do you know what will happen when the heavy rain falls after a long drought?"

——It is a landslide, a mountain torrent, a severe drought followed by a severe flood, and a continuous plague after the severe flood.

The land after a long drought cannot hold water, and this rain has never come down to relieve any drought.

The young man lowered his head with pursed lips, and the phalanges curled up in his palms turned frosty white. He got up and brushed aside the oiled paper umbrella handed over by the little eunuch, dragging his numb kneeling legs , limping out of the palace——

Since then, he cut off the last bit of hope left in his heart for the Yuan family.

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On the [-]th day of the eighth month of the second year of Dingning, there was a shower of rain, and the severe drought began to break, and the rivers resumed their flow.

And in September, when the rain did not end, rivers and lakes broke through, landslides in Dongjun, and mountain torrents in Southern provinces.

　I don't know if you've ever been hungry.

　　I endured it, but it was passive, because of the somatization of depression, I became ill and couldn't eat.

　　Three days for the first time, seven days for the second time, and nearly half a month for the last time.

　　At that time, I would force myself to swallow at most two bites of bread every day, and more often I could only swallow a few cookies, break one piece into a dozen or even twenty pieces, and put it in my mouth bit by bit, until it melted, followed by saliva Swallow it.

　　And I can only buy that kind, because the taste is not strong, there is no oily smell after melting, and it is not too sweet. I forgot the brand. At that time, the small supermarket in the school sold it. A pack of eight yuan was enough for eight days.

　　If I don’t eat like this, I really can’t eat anything, including sugar, yogurt, and in the worst case, clear water. I will vomit, the kind of vomiting that directly vomits gastric juice and bile, and my back hurts, my stomach hurts, and my throat also hurts.

　　At the beginning, I had no experience when I was sick. I forced myself to eat every day, repeatedly ate and vomited, and I made myself a stupid dog.

　　I remember very clearly that the second time I fell ill was in the third year of high school, when I was taking the final exam and the last subject.

　　At that time, I really felt that I might be getting cold, I couldn't see anything in front of my eyes, and what I heard in my ears seemed to be separated by a layer of fog, my head was dull, and it took a long time to recover.

　　Writing these chapters my tears flowed uncontrollably.

　　It was so hard, I still had a choice at the time, and it was all so uncomfortable.

　　But the people in the book, they have no choice.

　　It feels really good to be able to eat.

　　When I think about it in the middle of the night, I will tell you.

　　Really, babies, life is very good now, you must learn to cherish yourself
　　
　
(End of this chapter)