Daily life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 86 The Flood
"Flood in South County!"

After receiving the urgent information from Nanjun, the faces of Ying Zheng and Mo Jun, who had just returned to Xianyang Palace, changed at the same time.

Nanjun is located in a tributary of the Yangtze River. Although it is rich in water resources, it is also more vulnerable to floods.It's just that the residents there have already had proficient coping skills for this, and it stands to reason that generally it will not cause too much consequence.

When Mo Jun took office in Nanjun, the water level rose once during the rainy season, but it didn't cause too much damage at that time.

"How's the loss?"

Ying Zheng and Mo Jun looked at each other, then asked the messenger in a deep voice.

The messenger said: "The flood in Nanjun happened half a month ago. At that time, it was the season when the crops were ripe. Many people had no time to rush to harvest the grain, which caused serious damage to the crops. Now there are already signs of food shortage in Nanjun."

Hearing this, Ying Zheng's expression changed again.

Food shortage.

This is definitely a word that the successive monarchs of the Qin State are most unwilling to hear.

After all, it has been 500 years since Qin was founded, but food shortage has always been Qin's biggest problem.

Ying Zheng's face was a little gloomy. He obviously didn't expect that he just came back from Bashu in a good mood. In the blink of an eye, this natural disaster hit him hard.

"Xuan Zhi Su Nei History."

"Yes!"

The guard below responded and quickly retreated.

The civil servants of the Qin State are divided into three officials and nine ministers, and Zhisu Neishi is one of the nine ministers, who are in charge of Qin's grain taxation.

Hundreds of years ago, the state of Qin had encountered countless famines, and it already had proficient laws to deal with it.

What's more, there is no other solution to such things as famines, nothing more than disaster relief and food shortage relief.

However, there is a problem that today's Zhisu Neishi is not an official of Yingzheng, but a person of Lu Buwei.

Therefore, when Zhisu Neishi, who had a relationship with Mo Jun before, entered Xianyang Palace, facing Yingzheng's order, he directly refused: "King Qizuo, I am afraid that I can do nothing about the relief, because now the treasury There is simply not that much food in the country.”

Ying Zheng's eyes sank, and he said in a trembling voice, "No food? Where did the so much food tax collected by the widow go?"

Although the emperor was angry, he laid down millions of corpses.

However, in the face of the furious Yingzheng, Zhisu Neishi, who is close to the age of knowing the fate, still has no change in his expression, but calmly responds: "In recent years, the king has repeatedly launched wars with foreign countries, and the treasury has already been consumed. Erjing, if the king doesn't believe it, he can send someone to the treasury to check."

Faced with Zhi Su Nei Shi's unceremonious rebuttal, and even opened his mouth to throw the blame on himself, Ying Zheng naturally became more angry, but the more angry, Ying Zheng became more rational, just looking at Zhi Su Nei Shi's His eyes gradually turned cold.

"I don't know what policy Zhisu Neishi has for the flood in Nanjun?"

Zhi Su Nei Shi bowed respectfully, and replied: "Forgive me for your incompetence. Now that the national treasury is short of food, if you want to find a good plan, I am afraid that the only way for the king to invite Mr. Xiangguo again is to have a chance."

Having said that, Zhi Su Nei Shi is also trying to see the truth, completely exposing his true purpose.

The goal is obvious.

He just wanted to take advantage of the flood in Nanjun to threaten Yingzheng to release Lu Buwei.

Hearing this, Yingzheng's eyes became colder and colder, and he said, "You are dignified to govern millet history, but you are helpless in the face of food shortages. Instead, you ask for the help of the prime minister. What use do you want me to govern millet history?"

Facing Ying Zheng's questioning, Zhi Su Nei Shi still had the same calm expression, just bent down and said respectfully: "I am incompetent."

Things have come this far.

The attitude of governing millet internal history is already obvious. They want to provide disaster relief, but there is no food.

Unless Lu Buwei is allowed to return to the court, he can find a way to "raise" food.

The reason why Zhi Su Nei Shi dared to face Ying Zheng with this attitude was naturally not without confidence.His confidence is twofold:
One is the remaining power of Lu Buwei,
These forces are now intertwined in various parts of the ruling and opposition parties, and even Yingzheng will find it difficult to solve them for a while.Just like the Zhisu Neishi in front of him, he is also one of them.

The second is the laws of the Qin State.

As the saying goes, do big things and be careful about small things.

In fact, people who really achieve high positions are often not afraid of the so-called catastrophe.The reason is simple. Once these catastrophes happen, they are often natural disasters.

In the face of natural disasters, even if human beings are powerless, it is reasonable.

It is always impossible to attribute the disasters caused by natural disasters to human beings. That would be too unfair to officials.

What's more, even if a catastrophe is caused by a man-made disaster, there are often not one or two people involved behind it. In this case, it is also very difficult to deal with the investigation.

So in the face of the flood in Nanjun at this time, even if Zhi Su Nei Shi did nothing, it would be difficult for Ying Zheng to use the law to punish him.

Unless there is clear evidence that he is slackening his post, or someone else did it, but Zhi Su Neishi failed, then Ying Zheng can have a reason to attack him.

"You step back!"

Ying Zheng behind the throne clenched his fists and finally spoke indifferently.

"My minister retire."

A hint of sarcasm flashed faintly at the corner of Zhi Su Neishi's drooping mouth, then he bowed his head and exited Zhangtai Palace.

Until Zhi Su Neishi left, the atmosphere in Zhangtai Palace was still dignified and silent.Behind the throne, Ying Zheng's eyes were lowered, revealing a bit of gloom under the dim candlelight.

People are not as good as God, and plans cannot keep up with changes.

The flood in Nanjun was undoubtedly an unexpected event. No one would have thought that Nanjun would encounter a food shortage at this time. However, if the flood came two years late, with the new rice seeds created by Mr. Mo, Yingzheng was sure to solve the famine.

But now, in the face of natural disasters, even Ying Zheng, as the king of a country, has nothing to do.

It is very obvious that Ying Zheng cannot release Lu Buwei at this time.

Now that the general trend has been completely in the hands of Ying Zheng, he only needs to wait another year, and when the [-] mu of new rice seeds mature, Ying Zheng can use the general trend to crush all hostile forces in one fell swoop, and take the power of Qin into his hands.

Yingzheng succeeded to the throne at the age of 13. It was not until Lu Buwei was placed under house arrest last year that he really began to manage the government personally.So it is absolutely impossible for him to fall short at this time.

Even if Nanjun was sacrificed for this, he would not hesitate.

A resolute and cruel look flashed across his eyes, just as Yingzheng was about to make his own decision indifferently, suddenly, he heard Mo Jun take the lead and said: "Your Majesty, let the matter of Nanjun be handled by the minister!"

Ying Zheng was taken aback for a moment, his original gloomy expression disappeared suddenly, he looked at Mo Jun in astonishment, and said, "Mo Qing, is it possible that you even know about disaster relief?"

Mo Jun shook his head and said, "Just understand a little bit."

Ying Zheng nodded and said: "I understand, I have heard that Mo Qing is a little proficient in farming and planting, and has a little understanding of businessmanship, medicine, and all kinds of strange skills."

Mo Jun was speechless for a moment.

Seeing this, Ying Zheng continued: "Since Mo Qing has requested this, then the matter of Nanjun will be handled by Mo Qing. If something happens in the middle, I can grant you the right to act cheaply."

After Mo Jun presented the 'first-generation improved rice seed', Ying Zheng's trust in him also increased significantly, and the power given to him is becoming more and more loose.

Before going to Bashu, Yingzheng gave Mo Jun the right to "kill first and play later".

And now going to Nanjun for disaster relief, he has given the right to 'act cheaply'.

These two seemingly simple sentences, to Mo Jun, are a completely different style of acting.

Mo Jun bowed his hands and said: "Thank you, my lord."

Finished.

Mo Jun led Hei Yu away from Zhangtai Palace.

And after Mo Jun left, Zhangtai Palace returned to calm again.

After a while.

Only then did Gai Nie say: "Your Majesty is thinking about the reward for Mr. Mo."

Ying Zheng glanced at Gai Nie, and said, "That's right! Mo Qing is dedicated to Qin, so I will not hesitate to reward you. However, Qin's domestic troubles have not been eliminated. If you give Mo Qing a high-profile reward at this time, it may not be a good thing for Mo Qing." Good thing!"

"But before that, Mo Qing has made great achievements many times, and I have never received a decent reward so far. If I continue to suppress this time, I am a little worried..."

Although Ying Zheng hadn't finished speaking, the meaning was already obvious.If you want the horse to run, you can't stop feeding the horse all the time!
After thinking for a while, Gai Nie said, "Why don't you write a letter to Lu Buwei, Your Majesty."

When Ying Zheng heard this, he immediately frowned and said, "What's the use of handing over the widow's letter to this person?"

Gai Nie said: "Although Lu Buwei is greedy for fame and power, he is also dedicated to Qin. I believe that he should have nothing to do with Lao Ai's conspiracy."

Hearing this, Ying Zheng frowned even deeper, looked at Gai Nie with deep eyes, and said, "Mr. Gai Nie means, is he pleading for Lu Buwei?"

Ge Nie shook his head and said: "I just think that there may not be a third way between Lu Buwei and the king."

After listening to Gai Nie's story, Ying Zheng was also slightly lost in thought.

Even Ying Zheng had to admit that Ge Nie's words did have some truth.Lu Buwei did cultivate a large force in the ruling and opposition parties, and even recruited [-] guests for fame, and compiled "Lu Shi Chunqiu".

However, for the throne, Lu Buwei never showed his ambitions from beginning to end.

Maybe he hid it so well that he didn't see it, but as far as the current situation is concerned, at least the incident of Lao Ai's conspiracy has little to do with Lu Buwei.

Even if Lu Buwei is now under house arrest by himself, it is only in the name of 'investigation'.

Thinking of this.

Ying Zheng also had some thoughts in his heart: "Perhaps, I really should have a good talk with him."

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the other side.

Mo Jun didn't know that Ying Zheng planned to negotiate with Lu Buwei.

At this time, he and Hei Yu were driving in a carriage and hurried to Nanyang.

Since Mo Jun dared to take over the task of managing the floods in Nanjun from Ying Zheng, it is naturally impossible that he was not prepared at all.

In fact.

Even if there was no such flood, Mo Jun originally planned to return to Nanjun sometime during this period.

There are two purposes:

One is to move. After all, after this food donation, with the contribution made by Mr. Mo, unless someone like Lu Buwei emerges, it is basically impossible for him to continue to stay in this remote place in Nanjun.

Second, since they were all about to leave Nanjun, they naturally had to eliminate some small troubles left by Nanjun.After all, Mr. Mo is very vengeful. He has never forgotten the small grudges he encountered in Nanjun before.

Coincidentally, this time, taking advantage of the flood in South County, Mo Jun planned to take advantage of the opportunity to deal with the flood, and simply deal with the two things together...
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