Are you full, sweetie?

Yunze had only been away from Mingdu for two days, and everyone in the house was looking forward to his return sooner.

Zhong Xing does not have any restraint.

The past few years have happened to be eventful years.

Droughts occurred in Changjun, Yangshan and other places last year. Zhong Xing asked the Ministry of Households to allocate funds to relieve the disaster. Since the beginning of winter, the officials of these two places have written letters saying that the people have settled down. In fact, [-]% of the money fell to these officials. hands.

In March of this year, all the wheat in Changjun was infested with fine insects. In just a few days, all the wheat died. The officials did not report to the central government. .

The prefect of Changjun is the noble concubine's father, the noble concubine is intelligent and beautiful, and Zhong Ji likes it very much. These days, she cries in front of Zhong Ji every day, begging Zhong Ji to spare his father's life.

Zhong Ji wavered, he couldn't help scolding the noble concubine: "Your father is greedy for hundreds of thousands of silver, how can I have the face to plead with him?"

The noble concubine covered her face and cried, "Although my father was greedy for the money, all the money was spent on Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager. The golden peony and pearl phoenix crowns that Chang County paid tribute to the Empress Dowager last year were worth thousands of gold, and they were discarded again." It takes a little effort for the craftsmen to create gems, daggers, gold and silver animal cages for your Majesty, and to capture rare and exotic animals for you. Others pay tribute to the royal family with melons, fruits, specialties and other worthless things. All the good things are dedicated to the regent. Only me Father is sincere to His Majesty and the Empress Dowager, and he thinks about everything he gets in the palace."

Of course Zhong Ji knew.

That's why he was entangled. Although the prefect of Changjun was not in Beijing, he was a minister Zhong Ji loved very much.

The noble concubine's face was full of tears: "The concubine is your majesty's concubine, and the concubine's father is half of your majesty's family. As the lord of the world, how can you let a prince bully you? You really can't be the master?"

Zhong Ji bit the bullet and pleaded with Zhong Xing.

Hundreds of officials in Changjun and Yangshan were still beheaded. Except for the family members who were killed, the rest of the family members were all convicted.

Too many officials were executed this time, and both the local and the Ming were shocked.

Because in the past, they were exiled, and beheading was too serious for everyone.

Zhong Xing has always had this kind of killing and decisive temperament. He is not afraid of offending others, only others are afraid of offending him.

The common people first discussed the death of the noble concubine, and some said that the regent had a crush on the noble concubine, but the noble concubine refused to obey, so the regent killed the whole family of the noble concubine in a fit of anger.It is also said that the noble concubine had an affair with the regent, and the cold war between the two caused the regent to kill her whole family, and she followed suit.

Palace secrets are always exciting.

Changjun and Yangshan are too close to Mingdu, until the refugees from these two places really arrived outside Mingdu, the people in the city stopped laughing.

They originally thought that the regent had just found a reason to behead someone. After all, the scriptures said that the regent only had to fabricate the charges for whoever he wanted to kill. They didn't expect that something really happened in these two places.

No common people are willing to allow refugees to enter the city. If these refugees do come in, it is difficult to guarantee the safety of most of the original residents.

So when they went out in late spring, Yunze, Wang Xihe and others didn't see what they wanted to see, and they were nearly robbed of their horses by refugees on the way.

The scenery is indeed beautiful, with green water and green mountains, Qi Dynasty has a vast territory, and the mountains and rivers have always been feared by foreigners.

When Yunze went out, Xu Jing stuffed a bag of broken gold and silver. All the gold and silver were given to the refugees he met. Although I don’t know if they can buy things with them, Yunze doesn’t have enough dry food to share. , The stuttering savings are only enough to give away to some children.

He, Wang Xihe and others rested in the village for a few days. The scenery here is beautiful, and the villagers living here have ample food and clothing.

Wang Xihe soon found out what happened in Mingdu, and he showed the letter to Yunze and the other two friends to read.

The other two frowned and said: "The prefects of the two places and the Beijing officials they colluded with were killed by nine clans, the rest of the officials involved were sentenced to death, and all their family members were exiled..."

Wang Xihe couldn't bear it, but with Yunze by his side, he knew the relationship between Yunze and Zhong Xing, so he couldn't say too much: "Is he crazy?"

Luo Xin, who was walking with them, said: "I really don't know what Zhong Xing is thinking. Even if these people rebel, the punishment is nothing more than that. How could he kill so many people?"

Another person said: "Since the founding of the country, there have been many major incidents hundreds of years ago, but no one has killed so many people. Even if they are guilty, it is enough to pay off the crime, or just kill the leading criminal officials. I really don't think so. He was wrong, although he has a strategy, he will definitely be a tyrant in the future."

Wang Xihe looked at Yunze: "Cousin, what do you think?"

Yunze shook his head: "I don't want to discuss this right now."

Yunze is not from this era. Even though he has stayed here for three or four years, studied the Four Books and Five Classics, and has a little bit of ink in his stomach, he is not from this era after all.

So he didn't know how to correctly evaluate Liao Wang Zhongxing.

Yunze couldn't sleep at night.

It was a cold night in the mountains, he tossed and turned on the bed, and finally put on his clothes and came out.

The moon is like water, and Yunze used to not be able to see a beautiful starry sky in the city, but after coming to Qi Dynasty, he can often see a very clear sky and a very bright moon.

The moon will be very big tonight.

Yunze filled a pot of spring water and made cold tea, and sat under the moon holding the teacup.

Wang Xihe didn't see Yunze when he woke up at night, so he also put on his clothes and came out: "Why don't you go to sleep?"

Yunze rubbed the center of his brows: "Maybe I slept for a long time in the afternoon, and I can't fall asleep at night."

Wang Xihe took the tea away from Yunze's hand: "Then don't drink tea. Are you thinking about the day's affairs? Luo Xin and the others didn't know that you were on good terms with some officials in Liaozhou, so they made a slip of the tongue and said everything in their hearts .”

Most of the men in the families like Wang Xihe and Luo Xin are going to be officials, so they are afraid of being implicated.

Baobuqi will implicate them one day.

Along the way, Yunze also saw those yellow and emaciated people, they dragged their children with them, and some even exchanged their own children with other people's children to kill and eat meat.

If Zhong Xing didn't use some means to deter him, such things would definitely happen again.

Isn't that what caused the war in Weizhou?

Since it's bad on the roots, it's festering everywhere, and that should just be the start.

Yunze said: "Cousin, the regent is indeed cruel, but he has to do so. If these people did not bring disaster, he would not kill them. It is wrong for the past emperor and the current emperor to indulge blindly."

Wang Xihe raised his eyebrows.

"Today is money for disaster relief, and tomorrow it may be military expenses." Yunze took a wooden branch and drew a map on the ground, "Weizhou is still in war, so it is impossible that no one is not interested in military expenses. In addition, What the county magistrate of Changjun concealed this time was a natural disaster. What if what he concealed was a man-made disaster? Changjun is so close to Mingdu. If there is a rebellion and no local officials report the truth, Mingdu will be lost. He is killing chickens and monkeys, warning other officials."

Wang Xihe didn't know what to say, he said flatly: "What you said makes sense. Cousin, you can see the situation in the court clearly, why can't you see clearly—"

Yun Ze raised his eyes: "What?"

"It's nothing." Wang Xihe said, "Let's go back and rest."

Yunze nodded and said: "He is currently employing people. If the Wang family wants to be looked up to by him, they can recommend some talented people to him. Although the regent is cruel, he has never killed any talented person in these years."

The Wang family has a wide network of connections, and the fathers of Fu Guogong and Wang Xihe both like to make friends with talents. These things are not difficult for the Wang family.

Wang Xihe cupped his hands: "Thank you, cousin, for your guidance."

Now that he came out, he had to be happier, and the next day Yunze let go of all his unhappiness. Because of the refugees, he, Wang Xihe and others set a new route.

Yunze knew that the Prince Regent of Mingdu could handle all the mess.

Sure enough, a month later, the refugees were almost settled.Zhong Xing asked the officials to set up porridge sheds outside Beijing, gradually sent them home, and exempted them from taxes for three years.

During the Chinese New Year, Yunze set up a pharmacy in Mingdu, Dang Gui and the maid in his yard took the contract of sale and went to work in the pharmacy.Yunze wrote a letter earlier, because many of the refugees were suffering from diseases, besides the pharmacy set up by the government, the pharmacy of Yunze also provided a lot of medicinal materials.

Two days before arriving in Mingdu, Yunze felt a little guilty.

Because Xu Jing assigned him homework and asked him to write two articles about what he saw and heard on the road, and it would be better to write two more poems—all of which Yunze did not do.

But before he went out, he was in a hurry, no matter what Xu Jing asked, he agreed wholeheartedly, and he agreed in front of Zhong Xing.

Yunze felt that he was ashamed of Mr. Xu's teaching, so he pretended not to come back, and directly hid in Fuguo Duke's mansion without going out.

When Mrs. Wang saw her grandson and grandson coming back, she was very happy and asked the cook at home to cook a lot of delicacies.

Wang Xihe didn't eat anything, and went to discuss the matter with Fu Guogong as soon as he came back.

Traveling in Yunze is very good, the only downside is that the food is crude, far inferior to the exquisite food in Mingdu.

Right now Yunze is happy with everything he eats, and after he is full, he lives in Fuguo Duke's Mansion——I will write about homework when he is free tomorrow, although he may not necessarily want to write tomorrow.

Following Yunze's guards, he secretly went to the Prince Regent's Mansion to report the news.

Xu Jing completely forgot the task he assigned to Yunze, so he couldn't figure out why Yunze didn't come back.

Xu Jing misses Yun Ze to death now.

Zhong Xing was not that scary when Yun Ze was at home, Zhong Xing seemed to enjoy being treated like a gentleman by Yun Ze, so he pretended to be decent.

As soon as Yunze left, Zhong Xing's indifferent nature was completely exposed. When settling the refugees outside the city, the officials were worried every day, wishing to raise their heads to see Zhong Xing.

Xu Jing asked the guards to urge Yunze to come back.

Yunze thought that Xu Jing urged him to hand in his homework, so he didn't listen to the guards at all, and warned the guards to only follow behind him, and not to go to other places to spread the word.

The next day Yunze still didn't want to write, so he went on a lake tour with Mrs. Wang.

Xu Jing had no choice but to complain to Zhong Xing that the young master didn't want to go home.

Zhong Xing frowned: "When did he come back?"

"The afternoon before yesterday." Xu Jing said, "Because you went to the military camp at that time, you didn't send anyone to inform you."

"Why doesn't he come home?"

Xu Jing didn't know either: "The guard didn't say anything, but said that the young master really likes the food in the Fuguo Mansion. Yesterday, he not only ate sweets such as red bean rice cake, almond tofu, water powder glutinous rice balls, soft fragrant cake, etc., but also ate a lot of food. The staple food, I drank a bowl of white fungus and lily before going to bed, I think it might be because the food in Fuguo Mansion is delicious."

Zhong Xing was displeased: "Find a way to get his cook here."

"Your subordinate asks someone to invite you again?"

Zhong Xing put down the scroll in his hand: "Go there alone."

These days, Marquis Anle went to the Prince Regent's Mansion to beg for someone twice, and Zhong Xing vaguely heard that Meng Biao was also looking for Yunze.

In case of any accident, it's better to let Yun Ze go home.