Unparalleled Concubine

Yang Rong, the new censor of Yushitai.

This censor doctor is also a ruthless character who has been in Yushitai for a lifetime. When Yan Gu was the censor doctor, he was the censor Zhongcheng. After the old Yan Gu resigned, Yang Rong took a step forward as a matter of course Doctor Yu Shi.

He is only in his early 50s this year, so he can be regarded as a very young imperial doctor.

The censor came out of the class, bent over to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, there has been waterlogging in the south, drought in the north, and earth dragons turning over in the southwest. I think this is an ominous sign. Your majesty should fast and bathe, burn incense and pray." God, for the blessing of God, you should stop shooting and hunting around for fun, so as not to attract more ominous things."

Everyone in the future knows that natural disasters are natural disasters, but people in this era will not pay attention to this. After the publication of a book called "Spring and Autumn Fanlu", all natural disasters in the world will be blamed on people's heads God, and this person is naturally the co-lord of the world, His Majesty the Supreme Emperor.

Not only scholars believe in this theory, but even some emperors themselves believe it, but whether they believe it or not, the emperor must accept this theory, because this theory of interaction between heaven and man is the source of the term "Son of Heaven". It is the foundation of "monarchy granted by heaven".

At the beginning, it was a set of things concocted by a certain evil emperor in order to consolidate his position, but in the end it became one of the shackles of all emperors.

Emperor Taikang said with a sad face: "Yang Qing, there are disasters everywhere. I have relieved all those who should be relieved, and those who should be exempted from taxes are also exempted. You can't blame everything on me, right?"

Yang Rong knelt down directly, bowed his head and said: "Please, Your Majesty, for the sake of the great Jin country, and for the sake of the hundreds of millions of people of the Great Jin!"

Li Xin couldn't stand it anymore.

Some people take it too far.

"Your Majesty, I think that Mr. Yang is wrong."

Li Xin came out of the shift, bowed his head and said, "During the Chengde period, my Great Jin Dynasty had good weather, but in the Taikang period, why are there disasters everywhere?"

Yang Rong said angrily: "This is the warning from heaven!"

Li Xin sneered and said, "My lord, what you mean is that His Majesty's lack of virtue has provoked the wrath of God, so the Great Jin is in trouble everywhere?"

Yang Rong snorted, bowed his head to the emperor, and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister just asked His Majesty to burn incense and respect the heavens, and this Marquis of Jing'an said anything else."

In this era, except for the emperor himself, no one dared to say anything wrong with the emperor.

Even if there is a lot of anger and resentment, it is only the treacherous ministers under Sheng Tianzi's hands, and the emperor has been deceived.

Li Xin took a deep breath and said to Emperor Taikang.

"Your Majesty, I think that someone among them must have falsely reported natural disasters with malicious intentions. Please investigate this matter thoroughly!"

Chapter 386 The tacit understanding between the ruler and the minister

In this era of extremely underdeveloped communications, deception is a common operation. As long as you can completely eat it in one place, it is not uncommon to lie about the disaster situation.

In some places, the drought has lasted for more than ten years, and the people are still alive and kicking.

But in the past, those people lied about the disaster, mostly because they wanted to make money, but now that Taikang is in power, there are constant disasters everywhere. Emperor Kang.

As for motivation...

If it wasn't for His Royal Highness Qi Wang, who was in Fan Guangling, who was undecided, or Li Shen, Marquis of Pingnan, acted preemptively behind the scenes.

Emperor Taikang's expression changed suddenly upon hearing this.

The Emperor Taikang frowned, turned his head to look at Yang Rong, the censor doctor, and asked in a deep voice: "Yang Qing, are all the disasters you reported true?"

Yang Rong was also a little taken aback.

Their censor Taifeng heard about the incident, and they never talked about evidence, so he naturally didn't dare to confirm it.

The Son of Heaven turned his head to look at Zhang Qu at Shangshutai again, and said, "Master Zhang, these disasters should have been reported to Shangshutai from various places, and then sent up by Shangshutai. Has Zhang Xiang confirmed it?"

Zhang Qu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, the affairs of the court have been heavy recently, and the old ministers have not had time to investigate the disaster situation, but the Ministry of Household Affairs sent the censors from Shangshutai to accompany them, and those censors wrote back to say that there is no problem. "

The emperor smiled coldly.

"If I remember correctly, from the beginning of this year to the present, there have been more than ten places where the whole country of the Jin Dynasty needs disaster relief. At first, I thought it was a bad year, but now that the Marquis of Jing'an mentioned it, I also want to understand it. tricky."

The Son of Heaven glanced at Yang Rong indifferently, and said, "The people at Yushitai can't be trusted, the Ministry of Punishment."

Zhou Qian, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, bowed his head and left the class.

"The minister is here."

"Order the Ministry of Punishment to go to various places to verify whether the disaster is true. If there is any falsehood, immediately dismiss all officials from the local government office on the spot and bring them to the capital for questioning."

"I obey my orders!"

After the emperor said this, he was silent for a while, and looked at Yang Rong lightly: "In the past, Yang Qing used natural disasters to talk about things, saying that I lost my virtue. I want to ask Yang Qing, which thing did I lose my virtue?"

Yang Rong was speechless.

Since the Emperor Taikang came to the throne, he can be said to be well-behaved and obedient. He basically handles the government affairs according to the wishes of several prime ministers. He will ask Yang Rong to say what is wrong in a while, but he really can't tell.

The emperor took a deep breath and continued: "Yang Qing is a highly respected veteran. I will not embarrass you. If the Ministry of Punishment finds out that the disasters in various places are true, I will burn incense to sacrifice to heaven and plead guilty to heaven. Yang Qing, you, a royal censor, don’t do it.”

Yang Rongchang sighed, bowed his head and said: "Minister, thank you Your Majesty."

The Son of Heaven turned his head to look at Li Xin again, and Li Xin also raised his head at this moment, and the two of them smiled tacitly.

Next, there are some routine things in the court meeting. This court meeting has been held from morning to noon. At noon, the emperor and all the civil and military officials have dinner in Weiyang Palace. It is not until late afternoon that the court meeting ends. Go, all civil and military officials return to their posts.

Li Xin and Zhou Qian, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, were left behind and called to the study to discuss matters.

The two of them did not enter the study together, but went in one by one. First, Zhou Shangshu was called in. After talking for about half an hour, he came out of the emperor's study. At this time, Li Xin was waiting at the door. After seeing this slightly thin Dongguan Shangshu, Li Xin bowed his hands to him.

"Zhou Shangshu."

Zhou Qian hurriedly returned the gift: "Li Shilang is polite."

Li Xin said with a smile: "What did Your Majesty say to Zhou Shangshu?"

After a little hesitation, Zhou Qian replied, "It's nothing more than asking the Ministry of Punishment to find out the truth about the disasters in various places."

Li Xin chuckled: "How does Zhou Shangshu plan to investigate?"

"Of course we should check the facts."

Li Xin shook his head and said: "Zhou Shangshu is a well-known upright person in the court, the younger generation is here to persuade Zhou Shangshu, Zhou Shangshu listen to it?"

Li Xin's current position in the imperial court is detached. Although his official position is not at the extreme, but he only cares about the emperor's heart, which makes him have a taste of his own school, and Zhou Qian does not dare to neglect.

He cupped his hands and said, "Li Shilang, please tell me."

Li Xin looked solemn, and said in a low voice: "Secretary Zhou Shang said, when we get to the bottom, no matter whether those people lied about the disaster or not, they must have lied about the disaster."

"At least half of the eleven places where there were disasters were false reports. Does Zhou Shangshu understand?"

Zhou Qian looked up at Li Xin, thoughtful.