Rebirth: Degenerate S*ave Abuses Tyrant

"Wei'er," Luo Zhiqiu called out to Luo Wei, "Second Highness is coming down to talk to you about disaster relief."

Only then did Luo Wei bow to Long Xuan and said, "The floods in the south already need the imperial court's relief?"

Luo Zhiqiu asked Long Xuan to sit down, and said to Luo Wei: "You are walking in the household these days, don't you know how serious the flood in the south is?"

"Lan," Luo Wei didn't have Luo Zhiqiu's respect for the people, and said to Wei Lan behind him, "Let Xiao Xiao prepare some refreshments." He didn't want Wei Lan and Long Xuan to stay together.

Wei Lan went out, and he also knew Luo Wei's heart disease, so he never came in again.

Long Xuan took a look at Luo Wei's study room. The books on the bookshelves were neatly arranged, but not many in number. There were pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the desk, and some official documents were piled up. As far as Luo Wei's current status is concerned, this study room is nothing short of perfect. Call it crude.

"Actually, it's better for Your Highness to go to father's place." Luo Wei didn't want Long Xuan to stay with him, and said to Luo Zhiqiu: "Come to my boy, isn't it that His Highness condescends?"

"Did you draw that?" Long Xuan asked Luo Wei, pointing to a painting on the left wall, as if he couldn't hear the disgust in Luo Wei's words.

"Yes," Rowe said.This painting is of the water lotus in the pool in his courtyard. It was drawn on a whim, and Wei Lan took it and framed it like a treasure, and hung it on the wall.

"I didn't expect you to be able to paint," Long Xuan said, he really didn't expect Luo Wei to be able to paint.

"Isn't it about disaster relief?" Luo Wei didn't want to talk about these things with Long Xuan, and said, "How much money is your Highness going to allocate?"

"This is the detailed account that I calculated." Long Xuan put the two books on the desk, and said to Luo Zhiqiu and Luo Wei: "Please take a look first to see if there is anything wrong with it."

When Luo Wei saw the account book, he felt troublesome, but now he was in his own study, and had no excuse to push it out, so he had to cheer up and read the account one by one.

"Look at it first," Luo Zhiqiu saw that Luo Wei had read the accounts seriously, and he was no longer talking to Long Xuan, so he stood up and said, "Your Majesty let me go into the palace."

"You're gone, I can't finish reading this account by myself," Luo Wei said.

"I know your ability to settle accounts," Luo Zhiqiu said, "Today I will work out a regulation with His Highness. This is a life-saving matter and cannot be delayed."

"Can't we call more people to help?" Luo Wei still didn't give up, and he was unwilling to stay alone with Long Xuan.

"Yun Qi," Long Xuan said, "I think my father doesn't want too many people to know how much silver is in the imperial treasury."

"It's for disaster relief," Luo Wei said, "it's not for Kuyin from the Ministry of Accounts."

"What if the disaster relief funds we calculate exceed the amount of money in the library?" Long Xuan said.

"How is this possible?" Luo Wei didn't believe it.

"We don't have much money anymore," Long Xuan and Luo Wei said honestly, "Didn't you pay attention when you were in the household department?"

"Pay attention to what?" Luo Wei asked.

"Flooding in the south has been going on since last year," Long Xuan said, "There was a severe drought in the Northwest last year. Last year we sent troops to Beiyan, and then we changed the Tianshui River. The epidemic in Chuzhou has just subsided, and there is another epidemic in Yunzhou. Report it, you should know about all these big and small disasters all over the country, we have already spent too much money to go out this year."

Seeing that Luo Wei was stopped by Long Xuan, Luo Zhiqiu punched Long Xuan and walked out.

Luo Wei watched his father leave the study room, didn't say anything else, and concentrated on looking at the account.This year, the struggle between the court and the central government is not as severe as in previous years. Another reason is that many natural disasters have occurred in the territory of Dazhou this year, from south to north, from west to east. Who wants to make trouble in front of Emperor Xingwu at this time? , there is really no wink.

Just when Luo Wei and Long Xuan were looking through the ledgers together in the study, Luo Zhiqiu was still on his way to the palace, and the streets and alleys of Shangdu were still festive for the Chinese New Year. Under the double pressure of the non-retreating flood, the embankment broke.One place collapsed everywhere, people saw the embankment crumble like a clay sculpture in front of their eyes, and before they had time to feel panic, they were swallowed by the flood rushing in front of them, and suffered a catastrophe.

The eight southern provinces and 69 states instantly became a swamp country, and the flood was like a monster, swallowing everything that could be swallowed, including countless lives.

People in Shangdu still knew about this. When Luo Zhiqiu walked into Emperor Xingwu's Changming Palace, Emperor Xingwu was annoyed by another matter. When Emperor Wu saw Luo Zhiqiu enter the palace, he said.

Luo Zhiqiu hurriedly took the urgent report from Zhao Fu, only glanced at it, and barely grasped the urgent report before he had time to read the words clearly, it was actually written in human blood.

"Wei Zheng of Xiangzhou is gone," Emperor Xingwu said hoarsely, "This is the blood letter he wrote to me before he died."

Wei Zheng is the husband of Princess Ningguo, the half-sister of Emperor Xingwu, and the highest chief executive in Xiangzhou.When Luo Zhiqiu heard that Emperor Xingwu said that Concubine Wei was gone, he was even more frightened, and hurriedly read the blood book. "The barbarians have rebelled?" After reading the blood book, Luo Zhiqiu also lost his composure. He looked at Emperor Xingwu, almost suspecting that he was in a dream.The Yi people in Xiangzhou are the largest number of aliens in the southeast. They have always been peaceful, and a large part of them live in the rolling mountains in the southeast. How could they suddenly rebel?Wei Zheng has been martyred for the country, isn't the garrison in Xiangzhou all finished?

"I think I have always treated these barbarians kindly." Wei Zheng's blood letter was written in a hurry. It was very short and did not explain why the barbarians rebelled, so Emperor Xingwu could not know the details. .

Luo Zhiqiu's panic was only for a moment. After he calmed down, he said to Emperor Xingwu: "The barbarians are distributed in all the southeast states. Their rebellion in Xiangzhou makes the southeast look uneasy. Your Majesty, the barbarians rebelled. The officials in the southeast will report the reason. The most urgent thing is to send troops to the southeast. This is a year of disasters for me, so we must not let the southeast be in chaos again!"

"You also said that the barbarians are distributed in the southeast, so the troops in the southeast cannot be moved," said Emperor Xingwu, "Send troops from outside."

"If you don't send troops from the southeast, I'm afraid that the water in the distance will not be able to quench your thirst," Luo Zhiqiu said, "If the whole southeast is in chaos, how many troops will the imperial court send to quell the chaos of the barbarians?"

The monarch and his ministers were again faced with a dilemma, deploying troops on the spot or dispatching troops from other provinces, the harms were all there, and if one step was wrong, one step would be wrong.

"Let's call the generals to discuss it," Luo Zhiqiu suggested. The military is not his forte. Luo Zhiqiu weighed the pros and cons in his heart to counter the rebellion, but he couldn't make a decision.

"Deploy troops from outside," Emperor Xingwu said arbitrarily. He said to Luo Zhiqiu, "It's better not to let the barbarians in the southeast unite and make war everywhere, than to lose all the southeast of my Great Zhou."

There was a rumbling thunder in the sky of Shangdu.

The doors and windows of Luo Wei's study were rattled by the thunder.

Long Xuan raised his head to look at Luo Wei, only to see that Luo Wei was still buried in the ledger, unmoved by the deafening thunder outside. "You were afraid of thunder when you were young," Long Xuan asked Luo Wei, "You are not afraid now?"

Luo Wei didn't look at Long Xuan either, and said, "Everyone will change. I was afraid when I was young, but now I am not afraid anymore."

"It's like you liked it before, but you don't like it now?"

The pen in Luo Wei's hand stopped, and finally he looked up at Long Xuan, with a blank expression on his face, and said: "Your Highness is right, if you don't care, it doesn't matter whether you are afraid or like it."