Among the five people present today, including the four cabinet members and the non-staff member Xue Yu, the class representative Pei Yu has already spoken.

One against four.

Study committee member Xue Yu immediately followed up:

"Yes, Your Majesty, I obey your command."

Two against three.

The bottom line of the Minister of Revenue, Lord Xu, has always been flexible, and he has always followed the wishes of the Pei family, so he hesitated for a moment and replied:

"Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty."

Three against two.

Lord He and Lord Yao looked at each other and signaled to each other with their eyes:

What’s going on? Ask quickly!

Why should I ask? If you want to ask, you can ask. I won’t ask.

Forget it, I’m not sure. How about I wait and see?

It was passed by five votes, and everyone in the cabinet called him "Your Majesty" and bowed their heads in submission.

Three people make a tiger, five people make a chapter.

The first cabinet meeting under Su Fengyi's administration officially opened without any incident.

There are countless major events in the world every day, but at Su Fengyi's first cabinet meeting, the issue that he was most concerned about was the flood in Shaanxi and Gansu.

There are hundreds of thousands of disaster victims involved here, and Shaanxi and Gansu are the base camp of King Pingliang.

Lord Lei led a team from the capital a few days ago, first passing through Shanxi and then to Shaanxi and Gansu, investigating the flood situation along the Yellow River along the way.

Lord Lei and his entourage traveled light and fast. They were originally in Shanxi, and they would report back news from along the Yellow River every day. To sum up the situation in Shanxi, it was calm and there was no disaster.

But as soon as they entered Shaanxi, there was no news from Lord Lei and his entourage.

Su Fengyi asked Xue Yu:

"What's the current situation of the flood in Shaanxi and Gansu?"

Because Su Fengyi wanted to meet with the cabinet, Xue Yu wrote a briefing overnight yesterday, summarizing the contents of recent memorials in advance, just in case she asked questions.

So when Su Fengyi asked, Xue Yu immediately replied:

"Lord Luo has been sending urgent memorials every day recently, stating that due to the continuous heavy rains, the Yellow River has burst its banks and the number of victims affected by the floods in Shaanxi and Gansu has reached 200,000. Some victims have turned to banditry due to the disaster, and the bandit problem in Shaanxi and Gansu is becoming increasingly rampant.

Lord Luo requests the court to open the granaries and release grain as soon as possible to provide relief to the victims. At the same time, Lord Luo is willing to send troops to suppress the bandits and asks the court to provide military supplies. "

So Lord Luo only mentioned one thing in his memorial, which was asking for money and food.

Since they wanted food, Su Fengyi asked Lord Xu:

"How is the inventory of grain depots in Shaanxi and Gansu going?"

Lord Xu was going to present a memorial to discuss this matter today, and when he saw Su Fengyi asking, he said:

"I was just planning to meet with Your Majesty today to report this matter, but the team that went to the Shaanxi-Gansu grain depot has lost contact."

There were ginkgo trees in the team going to the Shaanxi-Gansu grain depot.

Lord Xu saw that Su Fengyi's face had darkened, and he quickly apologized:

"It is not that I intentionally delayed or concealed the truth. I just received the news last night."

From Xiu Gu, to Lord Lei, and then to Bai Guo, Su Fengyi has already lost three waves of people in Shaanxi and Gansu.

Xiu Gu was investigating the bandit problem, Lord Lei was investigating the flood problem, and Bai Guo was investigating the granary.

And these three things are very likely one and the same.

At this point, the flood in Shaanxi and Gansu is most likely not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.

A person flashed through Su Fengyi's mind, the King of Pingliang. He was definitely involved in this matter.

Su Fengyi once thought that Qiao Gui was a crazy gambler, but compared with the King of Pingliang who bet the lives of 200,000 people, even Qiao Gui could be considered a good person.

Pei Yu saluted and said:

"Your Majesty, I think this matter is quite strange. Could it be that someone hid his own soldiers among the bandits and used the official grain to support the enemy under the pretext of suppressing the bandits? Because they were worried that the imperial court would check the grain depot and the matter would be exposed, they broke the Yellow River dike, deliberately caused a man-made disaster, and then hid the soldiers among the refugees in order to avoid doing anything tricky."

Lord Yao was in charge of the Ministry of Rites. When he heard Pei Yu say such outrageous words, he was so frightened that his entire body was shaking:

"Master Pei, are you talking about Master Luo? His wife and children are all in the capital. If he really does this, it will be a serious crime that will punish all nine generations of his family. How can Master Luo be so cruel that he doesn't even care about his wife and children?"

As the adults were talking, Dan Gui suddenly brought a cup of tea over and whispered in Su Fengyi's ear:

"Your Majesty, Commander Zhu wants to see you, saying that a secret letter from the Jinyiwei secret agent has arrived."

Su Fengyi stood up and said to Pei Yu:

"Please ask Lord Pei to preside over the discussion with the other lords on the flood in Shaanxi and Gansu. We need to come up with a new charter today. I will be back soon."

The tea that Dangui brought in was just a cover. Su Fengyi didn't drink a sip and followed Dangui away.

Zhu Zhihui was waiting anxiously in the side hall. When he saw Su Fengyi coming in, he immediately began to report the bad news one by one:

"Your Majesty, the Jinyiwei followed the secret line of Prince Pingliang and lost it."

No matter what the King of Pingliang did, he always hid behind the scenes.

Therefore, in order to avoid being implicated in the kidnapping of the emperor, Prince Pingliang bid farewell to the emperor a day early, on the seventh day of June, and left Beijing first to create an alibi for himself.

When Prince Pingliang was living outside the palace to recuperate, the Jinyiwei were monitoring him day and night, so Zhu Qi asked Su Fengyi at that time whether he should stop him.

For Su Fengyi, it would be a bad thing if he captured the King of Pingliang in advance.

Not to mention that she had no evidence of Prince Pingliang's rebellion, and most importantly, as long as something happened to Prince Pingliang, the second master of the Pei family would not take action against the emperor.

Things have their priorities, so she asked Zhu Qi to let Prince Pingliang go first and send someone to follow him secretly.

But he is worthy of being the male protagonist of the original book. He still has capable people under him, who can shake off the pursuit of Jinyiwei with such a big goal.

After telling the first piece of bad news, Zhu Qi said the second one miserably:

"The Luo family members all left Beijing some time ago on the pretext of sending Lord Luo back to his hometown for burial. The Luo family is now an empty house."

Bad news, there is no worst, only worse. Zhu Qi took out the secret letter sent back by the secret agent of the Jinyiwei and presented it to Su Fengyi, saying:

"Someone sent this to the secret agent of the Imperial Guard."

Su Fengyi opened the letter, and inside the envelope lay a round ginkgo nut.

Ginkgo fruit, also known as white nut.

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