different devil life

Asking someone to bring Ye Zhongsu's son, Xie Jin turned his head and left.

"Daddy..."

The young man in prison uniform saw his father and quickly crawled over.

"I don't have your son."

Ye Zhongsu kicked him away and roared angrily.

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Royal Palace.

Wang Zhong was correcting the memorial.

Because of the recent major reforms in the palace, memorials from many places were sent up one after another, and Wang Zhongzhong personally corrected them.

After reading a lot of memorials, Wang Zhong's frown became deeper and deeper.

People froze to death in several places, especially in some remote areas, where large-scale bandits appeared.

These bandits were extremely arrogant, not only robbing villagers, but also harassing passing caravans along the way.

Now in many areas, because there are no caravans in and out, the prices in the city have skyrocketed, and there is not enough food and grass. If this continues, not only will people freeze to death, but they will even starve to death.

Originally, Wang Zhong's plan was to divide the land, but after reading these memorials, he felt that there were three problems.

First: the victims.

Second: bandits.

Third: food!

Food is the most important thing for the people, and there will be chaos if there is no food.

"Big Companion, how is the purchase of grain and grass these days?" Wang Chong asked He Taigao on the side.

"The acquisition is underway, but the effect is not satisfactory. Many big families said that they have no food in their hands, but from the perspective of the old slaves, I am afraid that it is because they want to make a fortune for the country."

Whenever the country is in crisis, some businessmen will always hoard goods, raise the price of food, and make the country rich.

Therefore, Wang Zhong wanted to collect food and grass to help the victims these days, but he couldn't get much food and grass at all.

"Check, the people who wholesale grain and grass are mainly a few aristocratic families, I want to catch them all!"

At this time, I still want to make money, how can I solve my hatred if I don't kill a few.

The next morning, it was freezing cold.

Dozens of ministers had been waiting at the entrance of the Golden Luan Hall for a long time, but they still did not see the Golden Luan Hall open.

"Hey, I heard that there are a lot of disaster victims recently, and several merchants came to say that the convoy was robbed." A minister said sadly.

"It's not bad, the price of food in the city has doubled."

Chapter 637 Doing ideological work (for subscription)

"Strange, why didn't the emperor come to court early today?"

"I used to be notified if there was no morning court. What's going on today?"

A group of ministers were talking worriedly, and more people were discussing how to spend this winter.

Not to mention the one after another death, if food prices skyrocket, there will be big problems.

At this time, the door of the Golden Luan Hall suddenly opened.

But what was surprising was that Wang Zhong didn't let the ministers in, but walked out in person.

This made the ministers puzzled. These people had been outside for so long, and they wanted to rush into the Golden Luan Hall to warm up.

Unexpectedly, the emperor came out. Looking at this posture, it seemed that he was not going to let them in.

Although it was strange in my heart, no one dared to say anything, and could only stand with the biting cold wind.

And some ministers with active minds seemed to have guessed something, and quickly lowered their heads, waiting for Wang Zhong to speak.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

Wang Zhong stood in front of this group of ministers and did not let these people die.

Instead, feeling the piercing chill in the air, he said lightly, "Misters, do you feel cold outside?"

Upon hearing the question, all the ministers knew what Wang Zhongzhong said, and a few humble voices came: "Cold."

"Hmph, in my opinion, you are not cold. Look at all of you, wearing cotton clothes and trousers, how can you be cold?"

"These days, I went out for a trip, and the scene really worried me. The common people were suffering in the freezing weather, suffering from hunger and starvation, and countless deaths from freezing and starving, but what about you? Did you tell me this?"

Wang Zhong suddenly looked at Li Mingcai: "Li Mingcai, you were going to be beheaded that day, so I asked Eunuch He to rescue you at the first time. Why? It's not for you to help me in the future, build my country, and care for you. My people, but what achievements have you made so far?"

Li Mingcai hurriedly knelt down: "Old minister... this old minister is terrified. This old minister has failed the emperor's intentions. I deserve death for my crimes. I just ask the emperor to give this old minister a chance. This old minister will definitely do his best to benefit the common people."

In fact, Li Ming was quite loyal, but after the fall of the Lu party, he seemed to have lost his goal, thinking that he was trusted by Wang Zhong, and started fishing for three days and drying the net for two days when doing things.

If there is someone, Wang Zhong doesn't want to use such a person at all.

But now there is no one in hand, so he can only be used reluctantly.

"Okay, I will give you one last chance. I heard that you have been an official in the court for many years and know many merchants and gentry. I need them to donate a sum of food. Can you persuade them?"

"The minister must do his best."

"Very good. In addition, I hope you can find out those unscrupulous merchants who are hoarding goods, understand?"

"The minister obeys the order."

"And you, I know that you have some dealings with some merchants. I can ignore the past, but now the people are suffering and the people are struggling. I don't want anyone to make money for the country. One by one, each of you must persuade some merchants. Donate food and materials, if you can’t finish it, take off the black hat, take it to the prison, and search the house for interrogation.”

Wang Zhong's words scared a group of ministers into a cold sweat.

Knowing that this level cannot be passed, several ministers did have some business friends, and quickly kowtowed to say that they obeyed the order.

I don't have any business friends, and I'm already thinking about how to cheat those local tyrants and evil gentry.

After all, there are lessons learned from the past, and no one wants their home to be ransacked.

"Of course, food donations alone are not enough. I plan to set up a foreign affairs department to go to some rich countries to buy food. Who has this experience to go abroad?" Wang Zhong asked again.

"Your Majesty, those overseas countries are just barbarians. Going to these countries to buy grain will damage the prestige of our Great Yan Dynasty." An old minister said.

"yes……"

"Yeah yeah……"

To Wang Zhong's surprise, many ministers agreed.

This is really a bunch of pedantic people.

Looking at the faces of these ministers, Wang Zhong felt more and more that the imperial examinations should be reformed, including mathematics, geography, and even the humanities of some neighboring countries.

"Pedantry, extremely ignorant." Wang Zhong pointed at this group of people: "You say that they are barbarian countries, so let me ask you, do you know the population of those countries? What are the rich products? How about technology?"

The ministers looked at each other in blank dismay, asking three questions.

"You don't know anything, and you call them a country of barbarians. In my opinion, you are just a bunch of frogs at the bottom of a well. If you don't understand other countries well, how can you learn from each other's strengths?"

"The humble minister is convicted, and he must learn from the emperor's teachings." Someone directly admitted his mistake.

"The humble minister is also guilty, please punish the emperor."

"Please punish the emperor."

"Forget it, you have elected me a candidate from the coastal area in the past few days. I want to use the tea and porcelain produced in my country to exchange food and grass in neighboring countries. If anyone can do this well, I will appoint him as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Manages the entire Foreign Office trade."

All positions that can involve trade are basically fat jobs, and some ministers have moved their minds.

"I have a candidate for my minister. This person is good at literature and martial arts, and he is familiar with the laws of our Great Yan Dynasty. He will definitely be qualified for this position."

"Weichen also has a candidate. This person has experience in trading with nomads."

"Weichen also has..."

"Bring them all to see, I want to test them one by one."

"According to the order!"

"Go back all."

A group of ministers left until they left the palace. The ministers all felt that the current emperor had really changed.

Before anti-corruption, they thought that the emperor was just trying to consolidate his position of power.

Now it seems that it is not only necessary to fight corruption, but also to make Dayan Dynasty the real Cathay Pacific...Min An!

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In the harem, Zhao Luan summoned everyone in the harem.

"Meet the empress!"

A group of concubines and maids saluted Zhao Luan together.

"Get up."

"Queen, what did you tell me to come here?" Feng Chengcheng, who was standing at the top, asked curiously.

Zhao Luan replied coldly: "I chatted with the emperor for a long time last night, and learned that something happened in this world, which made the emperor feel worried. In order to share the worries with the emperor, I just asked the sisters to come over and discuss together."

"What the queen said was that the recent cold weather has killed many innocent people?" Feng Chengcheng said.

"good."

The concubines immediately started whispering.

"What does the outside world have to do with us?"

"Yeah, I've been a female celebrity recently, and my hands are covered with calluses."

"The harem cannot interfere in politics, these matters have nothing to do with me."

Hearing these words, Zhao Luan's face turned cold: "Although it is said that the harem cannot be involved in politics, we are now sharing the emperor's worries. If you concubines think that there is no need to share the emperor's worries, you can explain it to me. I will definitely talk to the emperor. clear."

Isn't this a sign that I will make a small report with the emperor?

Suddenly, a group of concubines dared not speak.

"Queen, I have a suggestion." Feng Chengcheng stood up, and now she was afraid of being beaten by Wang Zhong, so she followed Zhao Luan in everything.

"Concubine Shen, please tell me."

"Since entering the palace, I have saved some money, and my concubine is willing to donate part of it for disaster relief."

"Well, this is a good way." Zhao Luan nodded in satisfaction, secretly thinking that Feng Chengcheng has been trained by Wang Zhong to be quite obedient.

Your daughter can be taught.

What surprised Zhao Luan was that even though Feng Chengcheng said he was going to donate, a group of concubines didn't think about donating yet.

"I don't have any money, how about donating some clothes?"

"Me too. Originally, the money sent to the harem by the palace has decreased a lot, and I have been very poor recently."

"Me neither."

Zhao Luan sighed in his heart, people's hearts are still not in harmony.

"It seems that the concubines are not doing very well recently."

Wang Zhong walked in at this time.

In fact, he had been listening at the door for a while, deliberately not letting the eunuch tell him to come over.

Several concubines looked at Wang Zhong with guilty expressions on their faces, and then saluted: "See Your Majesty."

"Exemption."

Wang Zhong sat next to Zhao Luan, thinking about how to do ideological work for the concubines and donate money and materials.

First of all, it is certain that these concubines must have savings more or less.

After all, there is no expense in the palace. In the past, the national treasury distributed a lot of silver taels every month to let the concubines eat and wear. In fact, they saved all the silver.

If you don't take it out now, it is nothing more than the most common aspect of the ancients, short-sighted.