Sir, I can do it!

When the night wind blew outside the door, the door of the study closed with a bang, and the brothers and sisters trembled in unison.After all, Wei Ru is a veteran who was killed by a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, so he has a fierce aura.

It's just that today's mother's birthday received such an ominous item, and the anger that could not be restrained sprang out.The brothers and sisters felt that the sweltering summer seemed to be getting colder.

Wei Xuan was very angry: "Is this a demonstration against my Marquis Mansion? How courageous! I will send someone to investigate right away, even if I dig three feet into the ground, I have to find that person!"

Wei Zhao grabbed Wei Xuan and shook his head at him.

Wei Xi's eyes flickered, and he said, "Ah Zhaocai was exonerated, and my elder brother was caught in the Xiaoxishan case and was dismissed. Now there is this human leather fan. It seems that there are many people watching our Houfu behind their backs."

"Is it Hong Kun? Or the one in the palace?" Wei Shuhua said angrily, "What will they do before they give up?"

Wei Zhao narrowed his eyes: "Hong Kun doesn't have the guts right now, as for Li Huai..."

"He won't openly oppose the Hou Mansion at this time, and even during this period of time, he has no time to take care of these." Wei Ru tapped his fingers on the table, closed his eyes slightly, and sighed: "The Fuling Weir has burst."

The brothers and sisters were shocked when they heard this.

Wei Xuan's face was a bit grim: "Didn't the Fuling Weir be reinforced five years ago? Besides, the imperial court allocated funds to repair the Fuling Weir every year. How could such a big weir burst so easily!"

Wei Xi said: "It would be good if half of the funds allocated by the imperial court fell on the Fuling Weir project. I remember that the last time Fuling Weir burst was in the ninth year of the Wei Emperor's reign of Chu State. Tens of thousands of people were forced to leave their hometowns. The nobles took the opportunity to annex the land, and when the people returned to their hometowns, the land was occupied, and the government ignored it. In order to survive, the people had to rent land and farm, and even sold themselves as slaves.”

"Later, there was great chaos at the end of Chu, and the people could no longer survive, so they revolted. But the nobles were so powerful that the uprising ended in failure. Until Qi Guogong led his army back to the hinterland of the Central Plains, Emperor Wu established Chu, and the Weinan nobles saw the general trend and turned against each other. At the beginning of Emperor Wu Established the country, unwilling to fight again, so she put the Weinan issue on hold until the complete collapse of the Later Chu, and then freed up to deal with the Weinan nobles. Fuling Weir was also renovated at that time, and it was extremely strong. Although the Weinan nobles fell silent, Emperor Wu knew that There are still hidden dangers."

Wei Xi took a deep breath, and said slowly: "This time, the breach of the Fuling Weir is probably due to the outbreak of a chronic illness." It was the Weinan nobles who were demonstrating to the royal family to express their dissatisfaction.Wei Xi didn't say this.

Everyone in the study was silent.

The aristocrats and the imperial power have ruled the world together for thousands of years. The aristocrats prospered while the imperial power declined.Even though Emperor Chu Jing tried his best to govern, he had to compromise with the pressure of the nobles.However, the state of Chu has gradually declined since Emperor Jing, and the aristocratic families have become more and more prosperous, and they can even influence the rise and fall of the dynasty.By the time Hengdi was rejuvenated, the stubborn disease had already penetrated into the bone marrow, and it was difficult to get rid of it.The Li family of Qizhou is also one of the nobles, but he clearly understands that if the dynasty wants to last long, it must break the shackles of the dynasty and the nobles ruling the world together.

However, it is hard to imagine the profound aristocratic background. The reason why Emperor Wu's dynasty was smooth was because of his cruel methods. After experiencing the wars at the end of Chu, many aristocratic families had not yet recovered, and would not fight against Emperor Wu with the fate of the whole family.Second, the Wei clan in Xiangzhou, the Qin clan in Liyang, the Wang clan in Yuanzhou, etc. are worried about the people and don't want another war in the world.The other aristocratic families gradually fell silent.

So far, the world has been peaceful for only 30 years, and the minions of the nobles can no longer hold back.The flood was just the beginning, the real disaster is the situation of those displaced people after the disaster.

"Father and son of the Li family are too impatient after all." Wei Ru lamented: "The situation in the world is not yet stable, and the Three Kingdoms are staring at each other. How can they throw their knives at the nobles at this time. Only poor innocent people, their homes are destroyed, and the banks of the Wei River I'm afraid it has already been reduced to a purgatory on earth."

But Wei Zhao could see it clearly: "The gang of silverfish in Weinan who eat people and don't spit out their bones, even if there is no pressure from Li Huai, I'm afraid they won't be honest for long."

"That's all. I'm afraid the central capital will not be safe and sound these days, you guys have to be careful in what you say and do. As for this human leather fan..."

Wei Ru lowered his eyes, and before he could speak, Wei Zhao said first, "Father, leave this to me."

Wei Ru looked at him for a while, then nodded slightly: "Okay. Remember, don't let your grandmother know."

"The child understands!"

The incident of the breach of the Fuling Weir has been reported to Beijing, and Li Huai's face was sullen during the entire court meeting, and everyone in the civil and military circles of the court was terrified.The Weinan nobles are flourishing, and there are many people in this court, whether they are descendants of the same family or nepotism.Now Fuzhou officials have not been escorted to Beijing, which is equivalent to a knife hanging on everyone's head.The emperor looked at them as if he was looking at a piece of meat on a chopping board.

Li Huai wanted to investigate the culprit of the breach of the Fuling Weir, and even more so, arranged for disaster relief.However, such an important matter is stuck on who will be the envoy for disaster relief.He sat on the noble dragon chair in the middle of the main hall, and looked deeply at his courtiers, the more he looked, the deeper his heart sank.

The background loyal to him is low, and the guys in Weinan can't be restrained.But he didn't dare to use it if he could hold it down.Disasters wait for no one. Once the 10,000+ refugees cannot be properly resettled, they will become disasters.

After thinking for a long time, Li Huai finally decided on the candidate for the disaster relief envoy.Wang Yi of the Supervisory Yuan was promoted to be the Xuan Fu envoy, and Chen Jinghuai, the Shaojian Department of Tongcha Beifu, was promoted to be the deputy envoy. Officials were transferred from various ministries, and they set off on the same day.

Wang Yi is a direct descendant of the Wang family in Yuanzhou, those guys in Weinan will take Wang's name into consideration.Although Chen Jinghuai came from a common family and was Hong Kun's subordinate, but Li Huai knew that this person had a resolute and upright character.With these two people going, the Fuzhou matter will not be a big mess.

Weinan officials could hardly absolve themselves of the blame for the breach of the Fuling Weir. Chen Jinghuai has already left Beijing. It won't be long before a large number of officials will be questioned.Weinan was originally a rich and prosperous place, and many people were staring at it. Therefore, in addition to disaster relief matters, the period between the court and the Central Committee was once again tense due to the struggle between the various factions.

Sun Li has been in a lot of trouble these days. As a servant of the Ministry of Officials, he has passed the official assessment of the central government every year, and he has reaped the benefits from the local government.But when he was impeached at this time, he couldn't tell clearly even if his mouth was all over his body.He accepted Weinan's filial piety, as long as he accepted it, he could do a lot of things.

He came to beg Lu Ding several times, but was perfunctory, and he couldn't rush too much.Not to mention that his whole body of honor and disgrace is tied to Xiangye, even the lives of the whole family are also tightly controlled by Xiangye.After all, it was an old fox in the officialdom. At this moment, he suddenly understood that Xiangye wanted to abandon him.

Early the next morning, it was reported that Sun Li, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, committed suicide in fear of crime. He even wrote the confession, and confessed several Weinan officials by the way, and Emperor Yuan was furious.So Wei Zhao hurried to Nanfu after breakfast to see if there was any definite news from Changsun Ke.

Wei Zhao walked in a hurry, at the moment the heat was rising, and he felt his throat was on fire.He drank a few cups of tea first, breathed a sigh of relief, and said just now: "Hong Kun really has the means, if he takes action, he won't leave any room for survival."

Changsun Ke said: "Otherwise, he wouldn't have sat in the position of Supervisor of Beifu for so many years. Of course, compared to Hong Kun, our Prime Minister is the real master."

Wei Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly: "It is Lu Ding who can make Sun Li willing to commit suicide. In my opinion, the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials will not escape Lu Ding's hands after all."

Changsun Ke was silent for a while, and said: "The Cui family in Qingzhou donated 30 taels of silver and 50 shi of grain for disaster relief."

Wei Zhao opened his mouth, lowered his head a little depressed, and didn't speak for a long time.

"Donating to the imperial court sounds good, but the wool comes from the sheep. I am afraid that the money and food will be returned to the family in the end, and the people should be grateful to him. It is really a good idea. .” Wei Zhao sneered.

Changsun Ke looked at him for a while, and then said: "The donation was proposed by Cui Sanniang, the daughter of the current head of the Cui family."

Wei Zhao's heart skipped a beat.

The current head of the Cui family is the elder brother of Lu Zhan's wife, Cui Shi, and this Cui Sanniang is Cui Shi's own niece and daughter.He would not be naive to think that this kind of thing was really brought up by a boudoir daughter.

"They are building momentum for Cui Sanniang. The reason is... to enter the palace." Wei Zhao said these two words with some difficulty.

Although the Cui family was a little more prosperous than when Emperor Wudi was at its peak, the children in the family were rarely up to date.The current empress has no children, if Cui Sanniang wins the prince in one fell swoop, the Cui family will not have no chance to fight for it.

"Although not many people know about this matter, the news is basically true. The Cui family will take action once the matter in Weinan is settled. Moreover, many children of the Cui family have entered Beijing this year. It seems that they have already started paving the way. gone."

After Changsun Ke finished speaking, seeing Wei Zhao's gloomy face, he said again: "The emperor also acquiesced. This can be regarded as an agreement reached between him and the Cui family. Otherwise, do you think that the Cui family has paid such a high price, so they are not afraid of fetching water from a bamboo basket?" ?”

Wei Zhao was discouraged, and he couldn't help but feel angry.

"It's fine if Concubine Feng is domineering, if there is another Cui Sanniang..." He pursed his lower lip, frowning so much that he could kill a fly.

"Lu Chengqian died because of me. Mrs. Lu wished that I would die early. If Cui Sanniang enters the palace, I'm afraid my sister's life will be even more difficult."

"The Cui family is not just Mrs. Lu's daughter. Cui Sanniang did not enter the palace specifically to deal with the Wei family. Since the Cui family is so willing to spend money, there must be a lot of plans behind it."

Wei Zhao nodded depressedly: "What you said is true. Even if there is no Cui family, my elder sister has no children for many years, and there are not a few people who stare at the rear behind her. It doesn't matter if there is another Cui Sanniang."

While hanging his head and feeling depressed, Wei Zhao suddenly felt a burst of sweetness in his mouth. Wei Zhao was startled at first, but when he came to his senses, he saw that Chang Sun Ke had turned red from his cheeks to the roots of his ears, but he forced himself to be calm.

"I've heard people say that if you eat something sweet when you're unhappy, you will be happier."

Wei Zhao wriggled his mouth quickly, then pursed his mouth, and looked at Changsun Ke with bright eyes blinking.

Changsun Ke was stunned for a moment, but soon understood.He spread out his palm and put it on Wei Zhao's jaw, and then, a warm fruit core fell from his palm.

Wei Zhao smashed the sweet taste in his mouth, then lifted his chin towards the plate of candied fruit in Changsun Ke's hand, and opened his mouth very consciously.

Changsun Ke: ...you are the one who is making progress.