Fast Time Travel: The Posture of the Female Supporting Counterattack

Chapter 74
Royal study.

"Queen Mother, let's take a rest and have something to eat." Nanny Wen motioned to Xiao Xiangzi to bring up the walnut porridge.

Lan Xi raised her head from a pile of memorials, rubbed her neck, "What time is it?"

"The empress dowager got green in a hurry, and it's been half a day." Nanny Wen walked behind Lan Xi and massaged Lan Xi with moderate strength, "It's almost the time of You."

Seeing that there are still half of the papers that have not been approved, Lan Xi said, "No wonder."

The burden must be reduced, but, now is not the time, so I can only roll up my sleeves and do it myself.

Lan Xi felt a lot more comfortable with something in her belly. Seeing Lan Xi's relaxed expression, Aunt Wen asked what she had been saying for a long time, "Why did the Queen Mother let Hong Ye follow Lord Bai to thoroughly investigate the harem? This Hong Ye..."

"Li Hongye, the daughter of Li Miqiu, a member of the armory, and Li Hongyu, her son, were dispatched to the palace because of the fire. Li Miqiu hanged himself." Lan Xi said calmly.

The Jiaku belongs to the Ministry of Officials, and it is a special archive for keeping the Jiali. The origin, native place, resume, performance appraisal of all officials who participated in the election and the appointment of officials, dismissal officials, and commissioned officials in the three provinces must be recorded and archived. These records The document is called Jia, Jia Li, Guan Jia or Jia.

The archives where the Ministry of Officials kept the personnel files caught fire at night, and the fire burned all the suspicious traces fiercely. The Dali Temple only found out that Li Biqiu drank alcohol on duty that night, and it was inferred that Li Biqiu was drunk and knocked over the candlestick, which caused the fire.

It sounds incredible that a drunk person started a fire, escaped unharmed, and then hanged himself in his own home.

Li Manqiu is dead and this case has become an unsolved case. Li's brothers and sisters were assigned to be slaves in the palace.

"The Empress Dowager knows that Hongye has something in mind, so why do you still do this? The servant is afraid that Hongye will do something that is not good for you." Wen Momo was puzzled.

"That day Li Hongyu died tragically in the washing house. When I learned that I had taken down the head nurse, I was going to kill her. It was I who saved her. I just asked her to go to the House of Internal Affairs to pick out some capable people. It was Hongye who brought you out of the imperial dining room." Lan Xi smiled and explained, "Nurse Wen, this is just my test for Hongye, even if Hongye doesn't bring you out, I will pick you up of."

"No, Empress Dowager, this servant will never dare to have such thoughts in his heart, this servant is just worried."

"Nurse Wen, don't worry, Hongye has already died once. The slaves in this palace and that courtyard, even the lowest maidservants, have a chance to climb up. Only Huanxiyuan and Jingxiyuan slaves of sin."

"Since I brought her out, and Hongye was so eager to tell me about her abilities, I think she must know something. Then why did the steward of Huanxiyuan want to detain the young eunuch secretly, and Li Hongyu?"

"Queen Mother, what do you mean, someone in the palace attacked the two brothers and sisters, but the steward and Yuan Buyan have already been killed, and the clues have been cut off."

The corner of Lan Xi's mouth twitched and she didn't answer Nanny Wen's question, she took a pen and continued to review the memorial.

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Daotai Mansion on the Jiangnan River.

Yan Jue traveled between the south and north of the Yangtze River for more than a month, and the disasters he saw were far more serious than what was written in the memorial.

The first wave of relief food and silver allocated by the imperial court did not go to the victims in full, but decreased step by step. In the end, the victims received less than one-third of the amount distributed by the imperial court.

Seeing the disaster victims in rags and homes, they had no choice but to rob the local grain stores and shops, and even broke through the confrontation between the government and the officers and soldiers, causing countless casualties, but the anger of the victims was more passionate, triggering a bigger riot, Yan Jue quickly checked the account books, Lei Ting took action to catch two typical examples, Cao Jun, governor of Jiangnan Prefecture, and Qin Yuzhi, governor of Jiangbei Prefecture, and executed the Fa on the spot.

Then, Yan Jue and Yu Zhishui supervised the officials in the south and north of the Yangtze River, re-registered the victims, and temporarily set up agencies in the south and north of the Yangtze River to distribute disaster relief money and grain, and uniformly distributed the disaster relief grain and disaster relief in full. payment.

Mobilize all the victims to go home and rebuild their homes as soon as possible. Those who are affected by the disaster and intend to go home early can receive another two taels of silver as the cost of building the house, and they will be exempted from taxes for three years.

If there are elderly people in the family who are over 70 years old, they can receive an additional two taels of silver as pension expenses. If there are two middle-aged men in the family, one of them can stay to assist the court in post-disaster reconstruction and receive monthly wages from the court.

As soon as the notice came out, the victims eagerly pledged their intentions to go home ahead of schedule. Yu Zhishui and Yan Jue stood on the high platform of Daotai Mansion and saw the victims carrying money and food, dragging their families back to their hometown. They couldn't help but look at the 20-year-old emperor next to him. I took a few glances.

"Your Majesty has a heart of love for the people. I thank His Majesty on behalf of these disaster victims."

Yan Jue looked at Yu Zhishui beside him, with a dark look in his eyes, "Master Yu has been doing his best for the victims these days, and the officials in the south and north of the Yangtze River have not slacked off, so the disaster relief will continue smoothly. I am a little puzzled."

"I don't know what Your Majesty is referring to, sorry for your stupidity."

"Why did you prevent me from taking down all the officials involved in the corruption case that day? You only punished the crimes of Jiangnan Governor Cao Jun and Jiangbei Governor Qin Yuzhi. Does the Empress Dowager mean anything?"

When Yu Zhishui saw the words "Queen Mother", Yan Jue's eyes turned into icicles, as if he felt that his whole body was covered with ice.

"Your Majesty, this is not what the Empress Dowager means, but what I mean by the minister." Yu Zhishui said calmly.

"Is this the experience you learned from assisting in disaster relief in Dafeng 28 and Dafeng 33?"

"Yes and no." Speaking of these two times of assisting in disaster relief, Yu Zhishui's eyes flashed a trace of confusion, His Majesty asked, how should he answer?

In recent years, the queen mother's dictatorship has caused all kinds of dissatisfaction in the court. The emperor was just a puppet emperor in his twenties. When mentioning the queen mother, Yan Jue's eyes were bloodthirsty and cold. He was definitely not the refined and cowardly emperor in the court.

"Your Majesty, the two disaster relief operations in Dafeng 28 and Dafeng 33 both triggered riots. A steady stream of victims poured into the capital, almost causing a crisis in the capital. Especially in Dafeng 33, riots broke out after the disaster. epidemic."

"Ah... now I have clearly remembered that there are countless corpses outside the capital, and there is no way to bury them. They can only be piled up on the spot and burned. I have never been on the battlefield. I am afraid that after the bloody battle, the blood will flow into canals and the corpses will be left lying on the ground. The tragedy in the wild is nothing more than that."

Yan Jue lowered his eyes and did not interrupt Yu Zhishui's words. The 28th year of Dafeng was the year when the Empress Dowager entered the palace, and the 33rd year of Dafeng was when the Empress Dowager assisted the government. In the past six years of 28 years, isn't it the time for the Queen Mother to reach the pinnacle of her life step by step?

(End of this chapter)