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During the next few days in Xiaoci County, Situ Yue began to visit mountains and rivers. The shade in the mountains made her linger. One day, she went to a valley and saw the peaks and mountains on both sides, and a river passing through the valley. Call the accompanying officials over to this place and tell him that she wants to choose this place as the burial place.

The accompanying official from the Ministry of Industry was in his 40s, with a dark, thin face and a goatee. He spoke weakly, "My lord, isn't this a good place according to Feng Shui?"

"Can it hurt your children and grandchildren?"

"will not."

"Then let's go here. My children and grandchildren will naturally be buried next to my father, so let me be quiet here."

"My lord is young and energetic now. He built a mausoleum here, and it will not be used in 50 to 30 years. The tomb will collapse in [-] years. This place is cold and cold, facing the river, according to the flow rate of the river... the silt is silted up... ..”

Situ Yue turned his head to look at him, unexpectedly, this is a water conservancy expert.Even how much sediment has been deposited in a year can be calculated clearly.

"Really? Even if the tomb is reinforced, the king's tomb will be destroyed within a hundred years, right?"

Goatee nodded.

"That's great. This king never thought of leaving a mausoleum for future generations to look up to. Besides, throughout the ages, how many nights have disturbed the sleep of the dead, and there are so many people buried with this king. People who play this king's idea I'm afraid there will be more. Just here, while Situ's family is still sitting still, the people guarding the mausoleum are still stationed in Xiaoci County, let the mud bury here, let the king just lie quietly and forever. Just here Yes. You come with me.”

A group of people came out of the valley, and Situ Yue drew a map on the ground with a branch, and asked Goatee, "Not long ago, did you hear that the Yongzhou Canal flooded? If you were an officer, how would you repair the canal and manage it?"

The goatee immediately regained his energy, his eyes were astonishingly bright, he broke a branch at random, and sketched on the map drawn by Situ Yue.

"Just connect the Yongzhou Canal and the Grand Canal, and build another canal that can irrigate [-] acres of land on both sides of the river, and the imperial court does not need to distribute the silver grain for water control every year, unless there is a major flood, and the silt can be dredged in time, so that the harvest can be guaranteed every year. .”

"Can you cure water?"

"Minister meeting."

Situ Yue narrowed his eyes and looked at him for a while, then asked him, "How long will it take to dig the canal?"

"ten years."

Situ Yue has little knowledge about water conservancy, but it is not an option to transfer money to the south of the Yangtze River every year to buy materials to block the Yongzhou Canal, not to mention that the money is rarely used on the Yongzhou Canal, and many people are corrupted.

"Pack up your things and go to Beijing. This king has written a letter and reported it to you today. If you have real skills, grandpa will naturally entrust you with important tasks."

The goatee is all over the ground. "When you come to Japan and Hanshan, you must repay the prince's kindness."

Situ Yue chuckled, "If you want to repay me, you will divert the river next to my mausoleum and flood my mausoleum."

Han Shan flinched.

After Han Shan entered Beijing, a fat and smiling official from the Ministry of Industry came. Situ was too lazy to remember his name, and asked them to hurry up and fix her so that she could return to Beijing as soon as possible.

The emperor originally wanted to tour the south in autumn, but he didn't make it. At the beginning of autumn, the Huns in the north had already been snowed heavily, and countless cattle and sheep froze to death. The high-nosed and deep-eyed Huns went south to plunder.

The emperor canceled the southern tour, ordered the soldiers and civilians of various ministries, and prepared to send troops northward to raise food and grass. Naturally, it was a major event among major events.

The Minister of the Household Department is old and can't sit for long periods of time. The two ministers are obsequious. If they want money and food, the Household Department doesn't have any.An edict was issued to quickly recall King Rong, lead the affairs of the household department, and raise food for the army.

At this time, Situ Yue was looking through the county annals leisurely. He had read one county annals five times, and he was bored in the post station every day.After receiving the edict, he took Qin Wu and went straight to the Zhili warehouse without rest. There were still two large warehouses of grain in the Zhili warehouse, which were prepared for the disaster year. After returning to the capital, he neither returned to the palace nor went to the imperial city, but went straight to Lucang. As the name suggests, this is the official warehouse for distributing Lumi to officials. Lumi every month and Luyin at the end of the year It is distributed from here. The grain here is of high quality and there is a lot of grain. At the same time, this is also a wartime reserve granary. Because it is a Lucang, I dare not open it easily. Before confronting each other, the guards of the palace abandoned the warehouse and fled.

Watching the troops of the military department who escorted the grain and grass take away the grain in bags, Situ Yue went to the yamen of the household department and asked the small officials of each department to bring their own dry grain rolls and use their abacus to calculate the consumption time of this batch of grain and grass.Because of the cane punishment she gave at the household department during the last disaster relief, no one dared to sing the opposite tune, and everyone cheered up. At night, the household department was brightly lit and the gate was open. Officials were invited out from their homes, and if anyone was unwilling, the guards of Prince Rong’s Mansion directly pulled out the officials and ransacked their kitchens and granaries. If there were Zhuangzi’s, it would be better, and Zhuangzi from outside the city would be copied together, for the crime of neglecting state affairs One after another, they were thrown into prisons. If any profiteers raised the price of food, their homes would be ransacked and exiled immediately.

Situ Yue himself worked hard all night, and he counted on Bara who was in Thunderbolt all night.Three months of grain and grass have been squeezed out from the granaries of the imperial courts, and there will be no more. Now it is early autumn, and in a month or two, it will be early winter. By the end of next spring, it will still be protracted.Situ Yue stared at Qiu Liang, his eyes almost turned green, thinking about how to distribute the autumn grain.

The advance army had already contacted the Huns cavalry, and the food and grass for the next three months had been dispatched. On the second day, in the court hall, the generals asked for battle one after another. The emperor looked at the list handed over by the household department and was quite satisfied, and then added [-] troops. A few veterans went out to fight, hoping to wipe out the north in one battle. The spirits in the court looked at the direction of the wind and stuffed the scrolls of King Canzuo back into their sleeves.

Situ Yue took root in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the old Shangshu took the notice to tell him to return to his hometown with a wink, but the emperor didn't keep him, and appointed Situ Yue to be the Minister of the Household Department in a blink of an eye.

Situ Yue rolled up his sleeves and wanted to check the accounts of the previous years.

Everyone in the Hubu thought it was the same as last time, the plague god left after finishing his work, and they never thought that he would become the Minister of the Hubu.They had to work overtime before the bedding rolls were put away, and they didn’t dare to complain. They cheered up, biting steamed buns and pickles to calculate the accounts, money and food. After the calculations, they had to press their fingerprints on the appendix.

The other yamen in central Beijing breathed a sigh of relief when they saw it. Those old officials who had accumulated many years remembered that when the first prince was there, they all sighed with emotion, "A son is not like a father." Wang here, it was a thunderstorm, and it couldn't stop for a moment.

There is also no lack of people in the household department who have connections and don't work.These people don't know how to make calculations and only write poems, and they don't understand economic matters and only write articles.The work assigned to them can't be finished and it will add to the chaos. Situ Yue is as big as a fight. She doesn't respect the disciples of saints by nature. , no matter which prince's uncle you are, or which noble master's father in the palace you are.They all went to boil water, and the small officials who were working were beating their chests because they choked on steamed buns. Those who didn't work had their servants to deliver their food, and after eating, they even praised each other's cooks, which was simply unreasonable.

The well-connected and talented ran early to find a way to move the place, and those who were okay and incompetent had to boil water. Fortunately, they were not used to pour tea and water for the working officials, but they still saved a little face.For a while, the officials of the official department received the benefits softly, and those far-sighted officials of the official department did not dare to accept any benefits, "If the emperor thinks of asking this master to investigate the official department one day, what happened today It's just a handle, if King Rong catches it, he will either be dismissed from office or go to prison."

The household department has been clearing up the old accounts of previous years for ten days in a row, and the news is not difficult to spread. The heads of the chambers of commerce in Beijing have passed the news to their respective chambers of commerce.Situ Yue used to be a businessman. This era looks down on merchants, but what the merchants do cannot be replaced by farming commoners. They formed various chambers of commerce. This is a kind of interest group. Collusion, the place where the chamber of commerce does business is the source of intelligence for these officials.

Various chambers of commerce in Jiangnan spread the news back to Jiangnan, making the Jiangnan officialdom headed by the Zhen family even worse.The four princes are still in the south of the Yangtze River, the six kings made it clear that the horses and chariots must be investigated to the end, the three kings obstructed everywhere, and the four kings acted as a golden oil among the brothers, often making love with each other.The Eight Kings sang poems and poems with those scholars all day long.King Rong in Beijing wants to check the accounts of the household department in previous years. However, there are many deficiencies in the tax money Jiangnan paid to the household department in the past years. The most important thing is that the Zhen family owes too much salt road tax and payment Store food.

Originally, Zhen Yingjia thought that when the emperor made his southern tour, he would present beautiful women to blow the wind in his ears, and with the pleadings of the old matriarch and his sister, the Zhen family could take a break.Unexpectedly, when the Xiongnu went south, King Rong was in the middle to allocate grain and grass, which made people breathless.

Zhen Yingjia was in a hurry at home with her bags.

The old nobles in Beijing are also having a hard time.

In the past, when the first emperor wanted to build a palace, as usual, the Ministry of Household Affairs came out and cried and complained that there was no money. The first emperor asked where the money went?The Ministry of Households replied that it was lent to various families and has not been taken back yet.The nobles of various families who borrowed the tax money from the treasury cried together and the days were so difficult, so the late emperor did not mention this matter any more.Up to the current generation, this routine is still the same, and it has developed to the point where there is no money for anything. The emperor wants to send troops, has no money, no food, and wants to provide disaster relief. There are only so many ministers, if there are more, there will be no more, it is really impossible, you take this life of the minister.In this case, if Situ Yue the emperor would definitely say bluntly, that's fine, Aiqing, in that case, I will take your life first.But the emperor wants face. He was afraid that people would say that he treated his subjects harshly, so he gritted his teeth and said, Aiqing is a loyal minister, and then he was helped up. It is not Aiqing's fault, after all, it was Tai-zu and Taizong's time The silver owed by everyone is not repaid.

After a long time, everyone's courage has grown, so many of the old nobles in Beijing and the younger generation don't know that their families have money owed.It's just that there are people who know, thinking that people will die, and the ancestors who signed and signed the pledge have passed away, so these children and grandchildren naturally want to let go.

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