back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 696
The reason why Lu Chengqi asked this was because it was late autumn at this moment, and when the autumn grain harvest was poor, one could imagine how difficult it would be for Dongping Mansion.No matter how damned the governor of Dongping Mansion is, he has to get over the difficulties first.Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of people in Dongping Mansion would rise up and rebel.

The room was leaking due to continuous rain, the boat was late and the wind was blowing. The [-] forbidden troops stayed in Dongping Mansion for more than half a year, and they had exhausted Dongping Mansion. If not, Dongping Mansion could still save itself.Now through Li Ran's words, one can feel the food crisis in Dongping Mansion.Lu Chengqi just felt very strange, why didn't the supervisory department find out about this matter?

After the words fell, Lu Chengqi glanced at Xu Jingchun intentionally or unintentionally, and saw that he seemed a little confused, unable to figure out what was going on.

Lu Chengqi suddenly realized something, there must be something inside! "Li Qing, when did the drought in Dongping Mansion start?"

After inadvertently asking this question, Li Ran was stunned for a moment, and then slowly said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, it should have happened two months ago." , a delay of one month is normal.If it is rainy, it is common to delay for another two or three days.Li Ran said that it was two months ago, and he must have played it as soon as the governor of Dongping Prefecture found out about the drought, but it was a pity that the post station was too slow, and this was not a military situation, so it was delayed until now.Speaking of which, this is also a disadvantage.The decree is not clear, and the official's memorial is even slower than the "Dashun Minbao", what is this?However, "Dashun Minbao" is profitable, so it is reasonable for businessmen to hurry up.The current Dashun People's Daily has spread in the northern region within two days, and in Jiangnan and other places, depending on the region.In a prosperous place, it is naturally faster; in a poor place, it is slower.In general, it is still faster than the post road.

Two months, no wonder.Lu Chengqi understood a little bit, if it was really critical to Sheji, the Supervision Department must have reported it to him, and he wouldn't wait for two months.Fortunately, he is still sharing the worries of the people of Dongping Mansion, but he doesn't know that there is no danger now.Lu Chengqi, who was determined, said with contempt in his heart: "This Li Ran, I'm afraid that the world will not be chaotic!"

As soon as the thoughts settled down, Wen Yanbo, the political adviser, came out with his wat in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that after a catastrophe, there will be a catastrophe. If there is no precaution, the people in the city will not be spared!"

Lu Chengqi nodded. After the severe drought at this time, there will definitely be locust plagues, even worse.As for the plague or something, it must be prevented before it happens.Even the insecticides of later generations may not be able to kill locusts, let alone now?Once the locust plague comes, it will block out the sky and eat everything.So what worries Lu Chengqi the most is the plague of locusts, not the spring plowing in the coming year.If there is a locust plague, the crops planted in the spring will not survive.

"Your Majesty, I think..."

"No, Your Majesty, the subject disagrees..."

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The courtiers were all excited, if not for their well-dressed appearance, they would have been hawkers selling vegetables in the market.Lu Chengqi sighed with emotion, he had already been calculating in his heart, he watched these ministers wrangling with relish, and thought: "It was the Song Dynasty, the scene in the court was so ordinary, right?"

The ministers were arguing endlessly as if they had been spat with chicken blood, but Xu Jingchun frowned, thinking about how to deal with the little emperor's fury later.But he really didn't receive a report from the Dongping Mansion Supervisory Department. Why didn't he, the intelligence leader, know about the disaster?

Seeing that the court discussed for a long time, but did not come up with a charter, but Lu Chengqi listened to it more and more, and the discussion became more and more serious, and they all started to argue, and it almost turned into mutual criticism.So far, several factions in the court can be clearly seen.The ones who yelled the most were the admonishers headed by Yushitai, then Wen Yanbo's faction, then Xu Chongguang's faction, and finally the neutral faction who couldn't get a single fart out of three sticks.

Lu Chengqi rubbed his dayang acupoint, signaling for Gao Hao to stop them from arguing endlessly.Seeing that the whole morning has been wasted, these ministers are still saying some meaningless words, citing classics and criticizing their political opponents.What is it all about!

Gao Hao shouted loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet, Your Majesty has something to say!"

After the voices of these courtiers gradually quieted down, Lu Chengqi left a sentence: "Everything you say makes sense, and it is difficult for me to make a decision at the moment. Well, if you have a plan, write a memorial and submit it to the cabinet, and the cabinet will After the selection, I will make a decision. Today is the court, come here, retreat!"

All civil and military officials were silent for a while, Gao Hao immediately said reflexively after hearing this: "Retreat, the emperor will drive!"

"Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

Lu Chengqi didn't say much, and left the Daqing Palace first.Gao Hao hurriedly followed, but his running posture was really weird.Xu Jingchun looked at Lu Chengqi's leaving back, sighed in his heart, his hand holding the chao wat trembled a little: "I'm going to face the saint again..."

All the civil and military officials beside him were delighted to see him make a fool of themselves, and whispered something.Xu Jingchun knew that he must be gloating.If Chou Yinmao can't be said today, he, the director of the Supervision Department, is afraid that he will be replaced by someone else.Didn't that Le Quan always want to go further?

"Hmph, even if I go down, do you think you can escape the Supervision Department's means?" Xu Jingchun didn't like these civil and military officials with impure hearts. In his intelligence chief's view, these people They are all seedlings of great greed.The preconceived notion made the Supervision Department and the civil and military officials extremely hostile.And this is exactly what Lu Chengqi needs.

The officials gradually dispersed, Xu Jingchun deliberately left behind, then turned into the long corridor, and went straight to the Chuigong Hall.

As soon as he walked out of the corridor, he bumped into Lu Chengqi's personal eunuch Gao Hao. Xu Jingchun hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Eunuch Gao!"

"Director Xu, Your Majesty has an order." Gao Hao said with a smile.

"Your Majesty accepts the decree!" Xu Jingchun hurriedly saluted and was about to kneel down. Gao Hao quickly helped him up, made a concealed gesture, and said: "Your Majesty, don't say anything."

Xu Jingchun understood and waited for Gao Hao to finish.

"Come here with your ear... so, Director Xu remember?"

Xu Jingchun nodded and said, "I already know how to do it."

Gao Hao said with a smile: "That's it. I hope Director Xu will take care of himself. Our family is going to report to His Majesty."

"Father-in-law, walk slowly!"

After Xu Jingchun watched Gao Hao leave, he walked out of the palace with a heavy face.After returning to the Supervision Department, Xu Jingchun immediately ordered: "Go, get all the files of Dongping Mansion, I want to check!"

Le Quan suddenly came out from the shadows, and asked in puzzlement, "Why is this, Director?"

Xu Jingchun and him became more and more at odds. If it wasn't for his lack of transfer rights, he would have wanted to transfer Le Quan out of the Supervision Department. "Your Majesty's will, do you want to ask?"

Le Quan chuckled lightly, and said, "I don't dare to... go to work, didn't you hear the director's order!"

Xu Jingchun looked at Le Quan's back, and his suspicions became more and more intense: "In the Supervision Department, he is the only one who has the ability to conceal the files. Could it be..."

(End of this chapter)