I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 195
Huang Zhun's words, different people have different opinions, and the meaning of complimenting Li Tian is very obvious.

The hidden meaning is that His Majesty only has decisions, no matter what your business is, what are you fussing about.

Everyone was speechless, seeing that several cabinet ministers had this attitude, they couldn't get any answers they wanted.

After a while, everyone now began to say goodbye silently.

After sending everyone away, only Yang Rong, Huang Zhun and others remained in the study.

"Shiqi, His Majesty seems to be really angry this time, the situation may not be as good as imagined!" Yang Rong asked first.

"Zirong's words are true, but the corruption of food storage in Taicang is just a trivial matter.

I'm afraid that His Majesty will be impulsive and act too hastily, and it will cause some disasters, which will be bad. "

"Then why didn't you, Shiqi, go to the palace overnight to persuade you?" Huang Zhun asked suspiciously.

"Hey, do you think the old man doesn't want to, it's just that His Majesty hasn't summoned him, maybe he has other plans!"

"Although we are not cabinet ministers, we are only courtiers after all. If we extend our hands too far, His Majesty will inevitably think that I am too busy."

"But just waiting like this is not an option."

"Then what else can we do? For now, we can only take one step at a time. I hope His Majesty will not be so impulsive!"

the next day.

The capital, which experienced a rare rainstorm yesterday, finally ushered in a beautiful sunny day.

But for those victims who have lost all their belongings in the flood and have no food, no matter how good the weather is, they don't care about their hunger.

Just when they don't know where to get something to eat.

Suddenly I heard the sound of gongs and drums on the street, someone beating gongs and drums and shouting,
"Mr. Zhou's family is giving out porridge. All the people who were affected by the disaster yesterday can receive it."

After hiding in the ruined temple for the whole night, the dizzy victims who had been hungry for a long time rushed out, and immediately surrounded the porridge shop that had just been set up.

Almost all the victims hiding in the streets and alleys rushed out, holding pots and bowls in their hands, wanting to beg for a bowl of hot rice porridge.

A group of Wuyang Wuyang rubbing shoulders, no less than 200 people.

Some of them were clearly fine at home, but they still smeared their bodies with mud when they saw someone handing out porridge for free.

He painted his face in disfigurement, pretending to be in a disaster, and mixed in with the real victims.

The cunning of small citizens and common people can be seen in general.

The person who delivered the porridge knew in his heart that these people could never be all disaster victims.

Although this street was also washed away by water, only a few dozen households were seriously affected, with no tiles to cover their bodies, and no food for the night.

But the family didn't care either. They didn't intend to worry about people's suffering at all, but they did it on purpose.

The host said it was Zhou Yuanwai, but in fact, no matter what Yuanwai was, it was clearly a minister of the court.

Chongjingfang, Beijuxianfang, Jiaozhongfang, Nanjuxianfang, etc., in these disaster-stricken places, similar porridge shops abound.

In some relatively dense places, there are even five or six porridge stalls on a single street.

This makes for a very funny and weird scene.

As soon as a disaster victim came out of his dilapidated home, he was immediately surrounded by three or five big men dressed as servants.

That sallow and emaciated man thought he was being robbed by a bully, and felt aggrieved.
"I am like this, you still want to rob!"

Unexpectedly, those guys in different colors and different styles of servant clothes stepped forward and grabbed this person.

"Are you a disaster victim!"

The victim was so frightened that he almost cried out on the spot and tremblingly said,
"Should...should be!"

"Yes, let's go, go to my porridge shop to have porridge!"

"Why go to your house, go, go to my house!"

"Go to my house, I won't beat you!"

A few servants fought over each other, and a few words were not speculative, and they actually started fighting.

The victim was even more baffled by them.

"When will the porridge senders start a fight to get people to eat porridge? Could it be that the world has gotten so good!"

How did he know that the so-called porridge shop was just a cosmetic project.

Early in the morning, Li Tian, ​​who had only slept for two or three hours, was woken up by Huang Yan who hurried over to report the results of the interrogation.

While flipping through the confessions of Guo Wenyu and Lu Zhen, he listened to Huang Yan tell him about the interesting things he had just met on the street.

"What, there are still people fighting to win over a disaster victim."

"It's absolutely true. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it."

Li Tian was a little surprised, "What's going on here? Could it be that the big households in the capital took the wrong medicine collectively? When did they become so caring!"

Huang Yan explained in a timely manner, "This old slave has also heard about this, but I don't know whether it is true or not."

"Oh, let's hear it!"

"The old slave heard that many people gathered in front of Xia Shangshu's mansion last night, and those who served the porridge got his advice.

Although the banners are different, in fact, most of the congee senders are officials from the DPRK and China. "

The corners of Li Tian's mouth curled up slightly when he heard this.

Feeling amused in his heart, "This Xia Yuanji is really a cunning old man. He was afraid that his idea would not be adopted by him, so he secretly played this trick."

But this is also good, with the hard work of these officials, I am not in a hurry to worry about the lack of relief for the victims.

After a brief glance, it took Huang Yan all night to sort out the confession.

Li Tian became a little impatient.

The list of officials involved in Guo Wenyu's confession is not too many, not too many, more than 30, most of them are Korean and Chinese officials, but there is no military general.

On the list of Lu Zhen's confessions, the military generals accounted for the majority, but the civil officials in the court were not very talkative.

Looking at the two lists, there was such a big discrepancy, he knew that the list must not be complete.

At the same time, he also knew that Huang Yan must have done something in it.

But he was not so angry about it now.

Instead, I have a headache, how to deal with these people, especially those generals who hold military power.

Killing them all in one go would be a pleasure, but the backlash caused afterwards is definitely not something that the Little White Emperor, who has only been in office for a month, can handle.

But if you don't kill it, if you don't deal with such a big corruption case, if you don't deal with a few people to frighten the officials, they might think that they have no guts or courage.

After thinking about it, I still feel that it is not easy to deal with, so I still plan to discuss it with Yang Shiqi and the others before making a decision.

Then he glanced at it again, stood quietly aside, and said playfully to the extremely respectful Huang Yan.

"Huang Yan, you must have made a lot of money this time!"

Huang Yan had been prepared for a long time, and fell to his knees with a plop.

"Don't dare to lie to Your Majesty, it is true that many people have handed over notes to this old servant, but this old servant has rejected them all!"

"But there are still some reckless masters who will say anything to the old slave, and the old slave knows that His Majesty is troubled by money recently.

I just feel that the money came from a bad way, so I just accept it, and I will give it all to His Majesty when the time comes. "

As he spoke, he took out a stack of thick banknotes and treasures from his pocket.

(End of this chapter)