Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 87 Small Report

In Dragon Head Palace, the Supreme Emperor is looking at the memorials of the past few days.

Most of these memorials are about the drought in Shandong.

The drought in Shandong is now the top priority of the imperial court, and everything has to give way to the drought in Shandong.

Looking at the memorials sent up, or the secret documents sent up by Jin Yiwei, the Supreme Emperor frowned.

I didn't expect the epidemic situation in Shandong this year to be so serious.

The Supreme Emperor sighed, stood up from the throne, walked to the door of the main hall with his hands behind his back, looked at the blue sky outside, wondering what he was thinking.

"What is the emperor doing these days?"

Dai Quan, who had been following the Supreme Emperor closely, quickly replied: "The Emperor is doing his best to raise food and grass, and is ready to support Shandong at any time."

After hearing this, the Supreme Emperor was a little surprised.

Now, it is Jia Rui who is doing his best to organize disaster relief in Shandong, and the emperor has a very bad impression of him.

Now I'm trying my best to raise food and grass and send it to Shandong. Isn't this giving myself eye drops?Can such a smart person as the emperor do this?
Mr. Taishang Huhuang was surprised for a moment, but soon a little relief rose in his heart.

The emperor still cares about the overall situation. In front of the country, what does this small personal grudge mean?
It seems that I made the right choice back then.

Just when the Supreme Emperor was still pleased, Wang Hao, commander of the Imperial Guards, hurried over.

"Report to the Supreme Emperor, the imperial envoy Jia Rui has sent it in secret."

"Oh, bring it here quickly."

Wang Hao quickly untied the package from behind and delivered it to the Supreme Emperor himself.

Dai Quan next to him finally opened the package and saw only a wooden box with a delicate lock on it. In addition, the edges of the wooden box were sealed with wax.

Dai Quan checked it and found that there was no trace of it being opened, so he sent it to the Supreme Emperor.

The Supreme Emperor took out his personal key and opened the box, only to see a thick memorial lying inside.

The Emperor Jiang took out the memorial, threw the box to Dai Quan aside, and then watched it carefully.

Most of this secret document is Jia Rui's report on what he did in Shandong during this period.

It mainly states that the severity of the epidemic situation in Shandong has reached the point of collapse.

Faced with this situation, the 30 dan of grain and 20 taels of silver given by the court were already a drop in the bucket.

In order to stabilize the situation, he planned to exchange all the grain and silver into chaff. In this way, he could obtain about 180 million tons of chaff, which could maintain the situation in Shandong until next summer's harvest.

When he saw this, Mr. Taishanghuang narrowed his eyes, and then a smile appeared on his face.

My vision is still very good, and Jia Rui did not live up to his trust. He was able to find another way out of this kind of difficulty and maintain the peace of Shandong.

The Supreme Emperor did not grow up in a deep palace. He had also followed his father on several trips to the south of the Yangtze River and north to the grasslands, and he also understood the affairs of the people.

He knew that in the face of such a severe drought, the food in the court was simply not enough. Jia Rui's ability to replace food with chaff was considered a skill.

But he didn't know that Jia Rui had also been sloppy in this memorial.

He counted in all 30 grains and 20 taels of silver, saying that he had exchanged 180 million dans of dross.

If nothing unexpected happens, Jia Rui will be able to steal at least one hundred thousand taels of silver next.

But this accident happened.

After that, Jia Rui wrote that part of the food sent by the Hubujie was refined rice, and the rest was all rice husk, which was inedible at all. The merchants did not want it at all, because it was worse than chaff.

At the same time, Jia Rui also pleaded guilty to the Supreme Emperor, saying that he was inexperienced when he came out for the first time, and the old fritters from the Ministry of Households played tricks.

The Emperor was so angry when he saw this that he kicked down the screen next to him.

The two people below, Dai Quan and Wang Hao, were very happy to see the Taishanghuang at first, but suddenly the Taishanghuang became furious, scaring the two of them so that they knelt down and pleaded guilty.

"Go and bring me the Minister of Household Affairs Li Jianming."

Dai Quan hurriedly ran out, rolling and crawling.

Within half an hour, Li Jianmin, the Minister of Household Affairs, hurried outside Longshou Palace.

In fact, on the way here, he had already asked the little eunuch who had summoned him what was going on?

However, the young eunuch had already received orders from Dai Quan, so he dared not tell him the matter, so he remained silent.

Because of this, Li Jianming, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, has always been worried.

After pausing for a moment at the entrance of the palace, the eunuch was hurried out and led to the main hall of Longshou Palace.

Li Jianmin had just stepped into the main hall of Longshou Palace, and before he could stand still, the Emperor, who was circling back and forth on the ground, walked up to him and kicked him to the ground.

Li Jianmin has been an official for so long, and has never seen the emperor lose such a big temper, so now he dare not stand up at all, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing again and again.

But the Supreme Emperor was still puzzled, escaped the dust from a eunuch, and smashed Li Jianming's head hard.

This time, Li Jianmin's head was bleeding immediately.

"Tell me, who told you to frame Jia Rui?"

Li Jianming, who was lying there, immediately understood what was going on when he heard this.

It seems that the Supreme Emperor found out about his tampering with the food and grass. Thinking of this, he immediately collapsed to the ground, unable to kneel.

The Supreme Emperor looked at Li Jianmin in disgust as he walked around the hall for a few times, then he stopped suddenly and looked in the direction of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

No wonder the emperor is now desperately raising food and grass. It turned out that he was looking for a way out because Jia Rui made a mistake so that Shandong would not be corrupted.

If Jia Rui's disaster relief is not good and Shandong is in chaos, then the emperor can take the opportunity to clean up the mess and gain fame.

The overlord narrowed his eyes.

"Li Jianmin was incompetent in doing things, took bribes, and was sentenced to prison."

"The emperor's improper employment caused the disaster situation in Shandong to change, and he was punished to shut up and think about it for a month."

The Emperor was really annoyed this time. The Emperor was too ignorant.

Originally, the Supreme Emperor thought that the emperor conferred Jia's daughter as a concubine to ease Jia Rui's relationship, but this time he desperately raised food and grass, and it was also for the country.

But he didn't expect the emperor to play such a big game of chess. First, he married Jia's daughter to relax his vigilance, then sent Jia Rui to the south to help the disaster, and then made a fuss about food and grass.

Is this step by step going to put Jia Rui to death?
The Supreme Emperor didn't understand, Jia Rui was just a favorite of his own, and also a subject, how could he threaten the emperor?
Is the emperor worthy of being so impulsive?
"I have passed on my will to order the salt merchants in Yangzhou to repay 30 taels of silver and send it to Jinan Prefecture in Shandong immediately. There must be no mistakes."

In the eyes of the Supreme Emperor, all the salt merchants in the world were his cash machines. As long as the court was short of money, the salt merchants would immediately repay the favor.

However, with the aura of the Supreme Emperor, the salt merchants in the world have no choice but to obey them obediently.

Not long after the Taishanghuang delivered the decree, Dai Quan rushed to the Hall of Mental Cultivation with his bodyguards.

Xia Shouzhong, the eunuch in charge of the harem next to the emperor, saw Dai Quan barging in with so many people and immediately went to greet him.

"Eunuch Dai, you broke into the Yangxin Palace with so many equipments. Could it be that you want to rebel?"

Dai Quan glanced at Xia Shouzhong disdainfully, and then raised the imperial decree in his arms.

"The Supreme Emperor ordered our family to deliver an edict to the emperor, do you still want to stop it?"

When Xia Shouzhong saw that it was the emperor's imperial edict, his heart dropped.

Xia Shouzhong wouldn't be like this if it was just the imperial decree. The main reason is that Dai Quan broke in with so many guards, which made people have to think deeply about the meaning.

Could it be that the Supreme Emperor wants to abolish the Emperor?
After thinking of this, Xia Shouzhong collapsed to the ground.

(End of this chapter)