Your Majesty, she doesn't want to flip the brand

Zeng Ling, who was standing aside, was forced to eat a bowl of dog food, and he still had to keep smiling and not show any dissatisfaction.

"By the way, if your power alone is limited by then, you can find a few people who share the same ideas as you and work together to set up a property." Zhou Xingzhi said a few more words to Zeng Ling before leaving, "But I hope , the place where you live is in the capital, do you understand what I mean?"

"Don't worry, son, the villain understands." After hearing Zhou Xingzhi's last words, Zeng Ling breathed a sigh of relief.If His Majesty values ​​him and trusts him for no reason, he still has to worry about whether His Majesty will kill the donkey, but after hearing His Majesty's request to settle in the capital, he understands that His Majesty is implying that he will keep his family in the capital. It is protection and silent threat.

Leave some handles in the hands of the superiors, so that they will not be overly afraid of themselves, and at the same time they will trust themselves a little bit more.

This trip out of the palace can be regarded as very smooth, and all the things that need to be resolved have been resolved. Zhou Xingzhi's preliminary arrangement has also begun to be implemented. The next thing she has to do is to wait until Zeng Ling earns enough money. The Yulin Army formed a certain combat effectiveness, and waited until the recruits on the border were successfully formed.

According to Zhou Xingzhi's estimation, if it is two years or three years, these three small goals will be achieved.What she has to do now is to keep a low profile, not to be too strong in the court, and then slowly insert her own people in like a frog in warm water.

But sometimes the changes are always so sudden. On the second day after Zhou Xingzhi returned to the palace, bad news came from Jiangnan. During the spring plowing period, if there is no way to solve this problem, the people in the four prefectures will have no harvest.

"What about winter? How was the winter last year?" Zhou Xingzhi asked with a slight frown.Drought cannot be formed in a short period of time. If there is a trend of water shortage now, then at least since last winter, the precipitation has decreased.

Sure enough, the answer of the Minister of the Household Department confirmed Zhou Xingzhi's thoughts, "Reporting to Your Majesty, according to the report of the Local Officials Department of the Household Department, since the beginning of winter last year, the rain in the Jiangnan area has decreased a lot. It's just that these situations have happened before, so it is not necessary to It has not been paid attention to, and both the government and the people feel that as long as spring comes, the situation will improve."

"Your Majesty, according to what I see, we must prepare for the severe drought in advance." The Minister of the Ministry of Officials stood up and said, "Money and food for disaster relief must be prepared in advance."

"Master Li is right." Zhou Xingzhi did not refute the words of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, but looked at the Minister of the Household Department, "Master Shangshu, do the granaries in those state capitals have enough grain?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is reasonable to say that there should be grain in seven or eight out of ten granaries, but last year a batch of grain was allocated to the border, some of which were drawn from the granaries of various state capitals, so now we should It’s less than half.” The Minister of the Household Department said, “As for the grain and grass in the treasury, it is pre-allocated for 30 soldiers on the border, and it cannot be moved for the time being.”

"Half of the food and grass, can the people live through a year?" Zhou Xingzhi asked, it's alright if the treasury is short of money, why is the food and grass also tense?

The Minister of the Household Department hesitated for a while, "Your Majesty, it may be barely enough if all of them are released, but at least [-]% of the local granaries must be stored for emergencies."

"Your Majesty, it's better to put aside the matter of recruiting new soldiers on the frontier, and wait until the disaster is over." The Minister of the Ministry of War stood up and said.

"The minister seconded the suggestion that there is no rush to recruit recruits, but the drought cannot be delayed." Following the Minister of the Ministry of War, several ministers expressed their views.

After hearing the conversation of the ministers, Zhou Xingzhi frowned even tighter. He was clearly discussing disaster relief, but why did the topic suddenly shift to the border recruits?If it wasn't for the fact that the Minister of the Household Department said this, she would have suspected that Prince Jia's people had deliberately set up this situation in order to make herself give up recruiting recruits.

"The best way to solve the drought is not to provide food, let alone give money to those people." Zhou Xingzhi relaxed his brows, "If you want to solve it, you have to solve it from the source."

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?" Minister Hubu was a little hesitant. If he wanted to solve the drought from the root, there would only be a heavy rain, but whether it will rain or not is up to God, and no one can intervene.

"I want to go to the south of the Yangtze River myself to pray for rain." Zhou Xingzhi said.It is impossible to give up the formation of a new army. We can only reluctantly sacrifice to the sky and ask for rain or something.

As soon as Zhou Xingzhi's words came out, all the civil and military officials in the hall were stunned for a moment, and Ye Chengxiang who stood in front of him was the first to react, "Your Majesty, the country cannot live without a king. Your Majesty should stay in the capital and pray for rain. Things can be delegated to others."

Prime Minister Ye's remarks were rather tactful, and the sensible people in the court knew that the so-called worshiping heaven was just a concept instilled in the people by the superiors, and it was completely a formality.If offering sacrifices to heaven was really useful, there would have been no disasters in the Zhou Dynasty.

"Your Majesty's words are wrong. Your Majesty is willing to go to the south of the Yangtze River to pray for rain for the people. That's a manifestation of loving the people like a child." Prince Jia's people also reacted.They also believe that offering sacrifices to heaven and praying for rain is a pretense to appease the people, and they regard the present as a great opportunity.

If Zhou Xingzhi went to the south of the Yangtze River to pray for rain with great fanfare, but the south of the Yangtze River was still dry, Zhou Xingzhi's majesty and prestige as an emperor would drop a lot. This is exactly what Prince Jia wanted to see.

Besides, none of the officials in the Jiangnan area is a fuel-efficient lamp.If the little emperor went to talk, maybe he would come back full of anger, so as to suppress his recent arrogance.It would be even better if Zhou Xingzhi could be forced to do some stupid tricks.

Zhou Xingzhi sat on the dragon chair, without any emotional expression on his face, he just watched the ministers below quarreling, so as to spy on some people that Prince Jia had left in the court.

One, two, three... seven, eight, nine, it seems that I still have people to clean up...

"Okay, I've made up my mind on this matter, so you don't need to say any more." After arguing for about a quarter of an hour, Zhou Xingzhi interrupted the quarrel, "Everything is simple for this trip, and I'm not here. At that time, I will trouble the prime minister to help me deal with political affairs."

"It's the great fortune of the Zhou dynasty that your Majesty cares about the common people. Your Majesty is holy." A censor knelt down to praise Zhou Xingzhi, and then all civil and military officials knelt down and saluted one after another.Seeing this, Prime Minister Ye couldn't say much, so he could only salute with them, and the matter was finalized in this way.

After the imperial court, the news that Zhou Xingzhi was going to the south of the Yangtze River to worship the sky and pray for rain spread like wind. Not to mention the capital, even the south of the Yangtze River began to spread the news three days later.

"Xingzhi, it's too risky for you to do this. If you don't succeed in praying for rain, those people will definitely blame you for the severe drought." If it is not done properly, it is still very inappropriate.

"Ning Xuan, don't worry, I'm the Son of Heaven, and praying for rain is just a trivial matter to me." Zhou Xingzhi said confidently.It may not work if the emperor is someone else, but if you are yourself, then it will definitely work.After all, she is also a person from the future civilization, and she also brought a brain.It is still possible to use some things reasonably to form regional rainfall.

"..." Ye Ningxuan couldn't help but glance at Bai Zhou Xingzhi, she was not the kind of superstitious person, "Xingzhi, do you know what happens if you fail to pray for rain?"

"Probably lower your prestige, and then come back disheartened." Zhou Xingzhi said casually, "But Ning Xuan, don't worry, praying for rain, I really will."

Ye Ningxuan didn't speak, just sat face to face with Zhou Xingzhi, looked at her quietly, and couldn't help sighing after seeing her overconfident look, "Look at this, this is written by Tsing Yi from silently. , I think it is much simpler than the current calculation method, maybe it can be implemented, and a lot of manpower can be saved by then.”

Forget it, the matter of offering sacrifices to the heavens and praying for rain had already been decided in the morning. Even if she persuaded Zhou Xingzhi to come back now, the matter of praying for rain was already a foregone conclusion.Since it can't be changed, then I should think about how to reduce the impact and help Zhou Xingzhi re-establish his authority as an emperor.

Zhou Xingzhi took the book, opened it casually, and flipped through it. When she saw the Arabic numerals on the book, her expression froze for a moment.

"The above things were written by Zhong Qingyi?" Zhou Xingzhi's expression became more serious.

"Well, Tsing Yi said that she read it in a book, but she couldn't find the original one, so she silently wrote the contents." Ye Ningxuan said.

Zhou Xingzhi closed the book, and started flipping through it from the first page. After carefully reading two pages, she confirmed one thing, Zhong Qingyi also came through time travel.

No wonder Zhong Qingyi's attitude towards her was so subtle. It turned out that she was not an ancient person at all, so she had no fear of imperial power in her bones.

"Ning Xuan, what do you think of Zhong Qingyi?" Zhou Xingzhi closed the notebook and put it under his hands.

"Tsing Yi gives me a good feeling, trustworthy, and capable." Ye Ningxuan truthfully expressed her thoughts.

After Zhou Xingzhi paused, "This time I went to Jiangnan, I just wanted to take you there, but I changed my mind now, and I think I can take her with me."

"Just because of this book?" Ye Ningxuan raised her eyebrows and asked.

"This is part of the reason." Zhou Xingzhi rubbed the cover of the book, "I think Ning Xuan is right, Zhong Qingyi may be a very talented person."

Zhong Qingyi is different in Zhou Xingzhi's eyes. Strictly speaking, Zhong Qingyi is different in this era, from thinking to acting philosophy, which is different from this era.Judging from what Zhong Qingyi wrote silently, she should have been a talented person before time travel.

This kind of talent is quite special to Zhou Xingzhi. If it is used well, it can help her a lot.

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