Raising Wolves

The weird atmosphere was successfully broken by Zheng Yao.

They were all interrupted, and it would be inappropriate to pursue it any further. Lu Qing coughed lightly, and patted Ning Juan on the head with the manuscript in his hand: "What are you doing so fiercely?"

This little boy has never had a good temper with anyone other than him since he was a child.

It's not easy for Mr. Zheng to eat public meals.

The surrounding dark guards twitched their eyes.

The dignified son of heaven, like a child being scolded, was not annoyed. Instead, he happily rubbed against Lu Qingze again, very sticky, and said in a good-tempered voice, "I was wrong about the teacher."

I made a mistake on my lips, I dare to do it next time.

Lu Qing glanced at him: "Take it, let Master Yu copy it and send it to you, it's really yours."

"Yu Shurong didn't come here for this." Ning Juan immediately complained, "It's for another matter."

Is there anything else that is worth visiting by Yu Shurong himself in his busy schedule?

Lu Qing frowned: "What's wrong? Is it related to the epidemic?"

When the disease in Jiangyou is dormant, the symptoms are similar to those of ordinary wind and cold. After three to five days, the onset will begin, and a long torment will begin, with vomiting and diarrhea, and no water. up.

During this period of time, the imperial physicians studied day and night and tried many prescriptions, but none of them had a good effect on the disease, at least they could make the patients feel better.

Because the disease is contagious, only patrolling soldiers and doctors can enter the sick center. Every day, someone counts the patients and reports them.

The disease was still spreading in the sick center. Fortunately, the sick house was built far away from Ji'an City, so that it would not infect the people in the city.

The plague on Jiangyou was not mentioned in the original book, and Lu Qing hadn't dabbled in this aspect, so he couldn't help, and could only rely on doctors to overcome it.

Ning Juan took off the mask on Lu Qingze's face, picked up a document from the desk, and handed it to him, "No, it's another matter."

He was so angry that he wanted to kill someone.

Look at the teacher's eyes more slowly.

What are you doing taking off my mask?

Lu Qing accepted the document in a daze, and Ning Juan's slightly condensed voice came from his ear: "I think they don't want to live anymore."

Lu Qing didn't quite understand at first, so he opened the document.

First of all, there is a secret letter on the document, which was handed over by Jin Yiwei. The weather is hot, and it is inconvenient to distribute porridge every day, and there are rice grains distributed outside the city. Those who observed it for two days were convinced that they had come to claim disaster relief food.

Lu Qing frowned slightly: "These people are even greedy for some relief food for the victims? Have you figured out their identities?"

In the past, I heard that some places will mix some soil into the porridge, just to prevent these people from pretending to get more money, so that the really hungry victims can eat porridge.

Didn't expect this to happen.

Ning Juan nodded: "It's the owner of the grain store in Ji'anfu City." A cold sarcasm flashed in his eyes, "He's very good at doing business."

After receiving the grain, he took it back to his own grain store, and sold it mixed with it, buying and selling without money.

Since Jiangyou suffered a severe flood, merchants in various prefectures in Jiangyou have been driving up grain prices.

Not to mention the victims of the disaster, even the people who were not affected by the disaster will soon be unable to eat.

Lu Qing frowned and looked at the document below, which was reported by Yu Shurong.

The construction of the dam these days requires a lot of rubble and other materials. Seeing the opportunity, the stone dealer sold the rubble several times to the government. At first, Yu Shurong felt that it was not easy to report this kind of thing to Ning Juan, so he went there in person. Talk to those merchants.

When the ordinary people were starving and thin, these merchants were still all dressed in gold and silver, and they were so rich that they were found, and they also plausibly said: "The flood has caused huge losses to our business. There are still hundreds of people waiting to eat hot food, Mr. Yu, I sold it to you at a low price, what do we eat? The disaster victims are human beings, and we are also human beings!"

"Master Yu, we also want to do business. We all have difficulties, and you should be considerate of us."

"If we don't sell it, will the government still want to snatch it?"

……

Yu Shurong was dumb-mouthed, and was dumbfounded by what he said, and finally he was respectfully invited out of the mansion, and only then did he realize that he was furious.

After that, he went several times, but he really couldn't cope with this group of people. He was worried about the delay, so he had no choice but to report it.

After reading it, Lu Qing finally understood why Ning Juan was so popular.

He glanced at the list of merchants attached at the end, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "If I remember correctly, these people..."

Ning Juan was leaning against the table with his arms folded, and Lu Qing was looking at him while he was reading the documents.

Just looking at Lu Qingze, he felt calm in his heart, and his anger subsided a little: "It seems that the teacher has also remembered."

The names of the merchants mentioned by Yu Shurong all appeared in Zhao Zhengde's account books.

Although most wealthy businessmen can't compete with the government, they still have to feed on the grass if they have plucked the wool, otherwise how can they continue to plunder in the future?

Zhao Zhengde just beat them with a stick and gave them a sweet date. While asking for a huge amount of money, he gave these people various conveniences for mutual benefit.

Over time, for the sake of convenience, these businessmen would take the initiative to hand over a large amount of money to them. In contrast, Zhao Zhengde turned a blind eye to what they did.

This is what makes this group of people so arrogant.

It is really full of five poisons.

Lu Qing rubbed his forehead: "Guoguo, what are you going to do with these people?"

Ning Juan touched his upper and lower lips and spit out two words: "Kill it."

Confiscated house, beheaded.

The cleanest solution.

Lu Qing paused while holding the teacup.

He also hated these speculative profiteers, but seeing Ning Juan's posture, he was going to kill everyone involved.

This made him think of the murderous tyrant in the original book, and the protagonist of the original book who exudes a silent threat in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

He has been trying to straighten Ning Juan over the years, but he is afraid of over-tightening.

Ning Juan is the emperor, in his position, if he is a pure evil person, it will be a disaster for the whole Qi, but if he is a pure good person, it will not only be a disaster for Da Qi, but also for himself.

Lu Qing has been carefully balancing Ning Juan's nature, trying to teach a generation of Mingjun.

He frowned, opened his mouth, and was about to say something, when Jin Yiwei came outside to report: "Your Majesty, you asked everyone to bring them here."

Lu Qing didn't make a sound yet, his eyes went dark.

This little bastard, his first reaction was to pick up the mask and cover him up!

Ning Juan put on a mask for Lu Qingze without changing his face, and took up the posture of His Majesty the Emperor: "Bring it up."

Lu Qing supported the mask, swallowed the words back to his throat, and decided to deal with the little bastard at night.

After a while, several middle-aged men were brought into the study by Jin Yiwei. They were all dressed in silk and satin. They were either rich or expensive. They all bowed their heads and kowtowed, and shouted in unison: "The grass people kowtow to Your Majesty."

Lu Qing half-closed his eyes, and guessed the identities of these people, which probably have a lot to do with the secret letter and documents he just read.

He secretly looked at these wealthy businessmen who had been extorted and colluded with Zhao Zhengde and others.

These people were blackmailed by Zhao Zhengde and others. They were victims, but they were also accomplices. They were even perpetrators who took advantage of the disaster to make a fortune.

Ning Juan looked pale, ignored the people kneeling on the ground, walked to the desk, and casually picked up the booklet.

It was quiet in the study room, only the slight sound of pages turning.

When these people were taken away by Jin Yiwei, they had guesses in their hearts, but they didn't panic too much.

After all, although they raised the prices of stone and grain, they did not dare to sell sky-high prices to the government. If the emperor wanted to be held accountable, they would move out of their previous rhetoric and voluntarily cut the price in half, so that they could behave themselves in front of the emperor.

But I didn't expect that the little emperor would be a disgrace when he came up.

Several people secretly exchanged glances, sensing some unusual atmosphere, they all hesitated.

what happened?

After a while, they heard Dao Qingrun's voice from the side: "Everyone, do you know why His Majesty called you over?"

Hearing the sound, those few people realized that there was still one person sitting in the room.

His Majesty is standing, how can anyone sit?

Several people couldn't help turning their heads, cast their gazes over there, and saw the mask on the young man's face in white, and their hearts suddenly realized.

Businessmen got information faster than ordinary people. As soon as they saw the masked man, they guessed Lu Qingze's identity.

The round-faced wealthy businessman in charge swallowed his saliva, looked at His Majesty's unmoved expression, and said cautiously: "Is it because of the transaction between the grassroots and the government?"

Lu Qing took a sip of tea unhurriedly: "I didn't say that. This master proposed it on his own initiative. It seems that he thinks there is something wrong with your transaction with the government."

...was brought in!

As soon as they met, they accidentally handed over the initiative, and the face of the round-faced rich businessman changed slightly.

At the same time, the silent and dignified young emperor who was standing by the desk also looked over.

The cool and faint eyes shrouded several people, and the invisible sense of deterrence was heavily suppressed, and they looked at everyone with ice, making people breathless.

Several people broke out in cold sweat almost immediately. The originally planned process could not be carried out at all. The goatee kneeling behind the round-faced rich man was the stone miner. He couldn't help shaking, and said tremblingly: "Stone mining and transportation Because the price of the flood is expensive, it is not the original intention of the grassroots... But, the grassroots feel that the river right is in dire straits, and building dams is a move to benefit the people, and the stone materials will be folded in three, what does your majesty think?"

Although afraid, but the nature of the businessman, he still subconsciously bargained as a business.

Lu Qing smiled slightly, and looked at another wealthy businessman: "What do the rest of you think?"

The first person opened his mouth to discount the price, and no matter how reluctant the remaining people were, they could only follow suit: "It should be, it should be."

Lu Qing took another sip of hot tea, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty and I are very pleased and touched by your kindness, but I am a little curious."

The round-faced wealthy businessman has noticed that Lu Qing is not as harmless as he looks, and feels a little uneasy in his heart: "Lord Lu... what are you curious about?"

"I'm curious," Ning Juan said coldly, his slightly sinking voice covered the obvious boyish voice, and every word hit people's heart heavily, "What's your relationship with them?"

The few people were stunned for a while, and it took a while to wake up, and followed Ning Juan's line of sight to look back.

A few people dressed as refugees were escorted behind me at some point, their mouths were gagged, and they turned their heads when they saw them, crying for help.

In an instant, the expressions of the two middle-aged men changed.

Before they could react, a few pieces of paper flew in front of them lightly, and the voice of the young emperor came from above his head: "Can you explain it?"

The pawn paper with the bet drawn on it floated down, and landed in front of the round-faced rich businessman impartially.

The names of several of them are written on it!

Several people recognized what it was, and after being stunned for a moment, their faces lost all color in an instant, a chill rushed from the soles of their feet to the top of the Tianling Gai, they kowtowed their heads without thinking, and begged for mercy in trembling voices: "The grass people are guilty! Grassroots guilty!"

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. Your Majesty knows that the grassroots were forced!"

"Caomin doesn't dare anymore, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, there are old mothers, wives and children in Caomin's house..."

Ning Juan looked at the kneeling people on the ground expressionlessly, with murderous intent in his eyes.

As long as he gives an order, Jin Yiwei will immediately drag these people down, chop off their heads, and hang them on the city wall for public display, so as to deter all profiteers on the right side of the river who take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune.

His eyes slid over these people, and fell on Lu Qingze who was looking at him with slightly pursed lips.

Although the young man's figure is thin, but his back is straight, he sits there quietly, his whole body is covered with an aura of non-eating fireworks, which is always like snow and moon, and there is a sense of distance that is hard to reach.

But as long as his gaze falls over, it makes people feel in a trance that it seems to be touchable.

After a moment of silence, Ning Juan said in a low voice, "Because you were indeed coerced at the beginning, I won't punish the felony."

The few people who were still scrambling to kowtow all froze.

Just now, they really felt the young His Majesty's undisguised killing intent.

Therefore, I suspected that I had heard wrong.

"Now Jiangyou is in trouble," Ning Juan looked down at them with his hands behind his back, "What can you do?"

Several wealthy businessmen kneeling on the ground heard Ning Juan's meaning.

Is life more important than money?

No matter how profit-oriented a businessman was, when faced with this decision, he immediately reacted, kowtowed and said: "Caomin is guilty, Caomin is willing to spend all his wealth, provide a place for the common people to work, and relieve His Majesty's worries and problems!"

The rest of the people also reacted: "The grass people are convicted, and the grass people are willing to cooperate with the government to distribute food for free..."

"Building dams is a part of the grassroots' responsibility. In the future, the grassroots will not take any money and deliver the stones themselves!"

These words sounded extremely sincere, but the mood of the young emperor remained unchanged, there was no emotion in his dark pupils, and he watched them silently.

Several people panicked and became nervous.

It is said that you are not joking, Your Majesty...will not contradict what he says, will he?

After the messy voices in his ears disappeared, Ning Juan said coldly: "Take your people back, and next time, bring your coffins to fetch them."

Several wealthy businessmen haven't reacted yet.

Lu Qing rubbed the edge of the teacup, and added slowly: "Your Majesty, you can go, or do you want to stay and have dinner together?"

Who dares!

A few people didn't dare to say any more, they kowtowed again, and retreated like a quail, which was quite different from the chicken thief who came with an abacus.

Lu Qing looked at Ning Juan, showing a sincere smile: "It is useful to keep them, Your Majesty has done a good job."

Ning Juan stared at him, carefully observed the corners of his slightly curved lips under the mask, and gently tugged at the corners of his lips: "Is the teacher happy?"

"It doesn't matter if I'm happy or not," Lu Qing said sternly, "What matters is what His Majesty thinks."

Ning Juan carelessly fiddled with the Yanping screen beside him.

Does it matter what he thinks?

What he thought was that if he didn't kill those people, it would make Lu Qingze happy.

It is not impossible to let them go.

The matter was settled, and Lu Qing glanced at the mountain of official documents on the table again, rolled up his sleeves: "Why are there so many, give me half of it."

Ning Juan felt sweet, and didn't want to bother Lu Qing: "No, I'll do it."

Lu Qing didn't think much about it: "Then I'll go back first."

Ning Juan's face changed slightly: "Don't go!"

"If I don't help you, what are you doing sitting here?"

Ning Juan suddenly felt dry-mouthed and shy, pursed his lips, and whispered, "Teacher, sit by the side with me, okay?"

Lu Qing was puzzled: "Not good."

"..." Ning Juan was silent for a while, closed his eyes, divided up half of the documents, and put them on the opposite side, "Teacher, take your time."

The teacher and the student sat in the study room, facing each other with a pile of official documents.

Lu Qing opened it and checked, and found that it was all official documents from various governments.

When he first arrived at Jiangyou, after arresting Pan Jingmin and others, Ning Juan was furious and ordered Jin Yiwei to arrest all the officials who failed to control the water, and sent them all to prison.

If it wasn't for the fact that disaster relief was more important, I'm afraid they would all be brought up for questioning immediately.

Now the government offices of various prefectures are empty, and the prisons are full. The people below are anxious, afraid of accidentally doing something wrong and being held accountable, so they simply report everything in detail.

The two went to Hongdu Mansion in the morning to solve similar trivial matters.

All bits and pieces, big and small things are overwhelmed, and even Ning Juan has to ask Ning Juan's opinion on how many resettlement houses need to be added in a certain government.

It's just too complicated.

The young and vigorous Emperor His Majesty was full of energy, and he only slept for one or two hours a day, and he didn't seem to think there was any problem.

But this is just a document of a province, what will happen after he takes power in the future?

Lu Qing raised his eyelashes, glanced over the mountain of documents in front of him, and glanced at the little emperor.

The bright sunlight leaked into the study room, outlining the handsome and clean outline of the young man, and also clearly reflecting the exhaustion visible to the naked eye.

Ning Juan's eyes were already slightly darkened.

In the original book, the tyrant is highly centralized, causing blood to flow inside and outside the court.

One of the reasons is that he can't rub the sand in his eyes.

Anyone who takes bribes, kills, kills anyone who fishes and eats common people, kills anyone who eats vegetarian meals with corpses... The intention is good, but the water is so clear that there are no fish, the harsh rule did not make Daqi go further, and the consequences of repression , is a large-scale uprising.

Lu Qing naturally didn't want Ning Juan to embark on such a path.

He had wanted to bring this up a long time ago, but he knew the stubborn side of Ning Juan's character, so he didn't speak rashly.

Now that Ning Juan has learned how to let go of those wealthy businessmen in Jiangyou, now should be the time to mention it.

Being stared at by Lu Qingze, Ning Juan felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles. He tried his best to ignore Lu Qingze's gaze, but in the end he raised his head with red ears and couldn't bear to ask: "Teacher, what's wrong?"

Lu Qing rested his chin and tapped the pile of things in front of him with his fingertips: "Guoguo, what do you plan to do with the officials involved in the incident and sent to prison?"

Ning Juan paused for a moment: "Does the teacher want me to be lenient?"

Lu Qing shook his head, emphasizing his tone: "I said, what matters is not my thoughts, but yours."

Ning Juan lowered his eyes and looked very serious: "Teacher really wants to hear my thoughts?"

Lu Qing nodded.

"I think," Ning Juan's dark eyes were as cold as ice, and his tone was cold, "Throwing them into the corpse pit, shooting them with random arrows first, and then covering them alive is the best ending for them." .”

Lu Qing was silent for a while.

He suddenly discovered that he could understand some of the tyrant's actions in the original book, such as now, emotionally, he agrees with Ning Juan's thoughts.

But intellectually...

As if realizing that his tone was too cold, Ning Juan quickly adjusted his expression, and smiled kindly at Lu Qing: "It's just thinking about it."

He slowly picked up a document and opened it, his tone slowed down: "If everyone is killed, it will not be effective in scaring chickens and monkeys. There are too many vacancies everywhere, which will not be conducive to Jiangyou's recovery. Those who make big mistakes will be punished." , Those who make minor mistakes will be temporarily put back in their original positions and will be punished afterwards. They must have been locked up in prison for these days, and they are honest enough not to dare to idle anymore—Jiangyou has too many chores, and I shouldn’t be trapped in the study by chores among."

Ning Juan's voice still had a youthful air, but it was clear and solemn.

Lu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, staring at Ning Juan, somewhat relieved: "Guoguo looks more and more like an emperor."

Ning Juan's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't speak.

In fact, he is not the benevolent monarch that Lu Qingze expected. He is like a wolf who naturally likes to see blood. For those officials who commit crimes, he just wants to kill them all.

But for Lu Qingze's sake, he is willing to be magnanimous, and to be a benevolent king with a sense of relaxation in Lu Qingze's mind.

This will make Lu Qing happy.

As long as all Lu Qingze's expectations of him are met, Lu Qingze has no reason to leave, isn't there?

Although some officials who committed crimes will be released to work in the future, the current work still needs to be solved first.

Lu Qing was in a good mood, calmed down, and began to help Ning Juan deal with it.

The study room was quiet, only the slight rustling of pages turning and pens falling on the paper, the atmosphere was peaceful and quiet, the hidden guards and guards were guarding outside, not to disturb the two of them getting along.

But the silence didn't last long.

Zheng Yao came back from the prison at lightning speed again, and brought good news: "Your Majesty, Pan Jingmin has been recruited!"

Lu Qing was slightly surprised: "So fast?"

Zheng Yao bared his white teeth, showing a slightly ferocious smile: "I used a little trick."

After being gouged out by Ning Juan, he quickly suppressed the evil spirit on his face, so as not to scare Lu Qingze.

Lu Qing was not frightened, and curiously took the paper with a bloody fingerprint on it, and looked at it together with Ning Juan.

Pan Jingmin truthfully confessed his relationship with Wei Herong.

He pays filial piety to Wei Herong, the chief assistant of the cabinet, every year. Over the years, there are millions of dollars, so his official career has been magnanimous, and he was promoted to governor of Jiangyou at a young age.

When he came to Jiangyou and took control of the military and political power, Pan Jingmin focused his attention on ordinary people, and cleverly set up a name to collect fire consumption privately. The fire consumption was as high as 50.00%. A net worth of millions of silver and hundreds of thousands of gold.

Wei Herong promised that in two years, he would be transferred to Nanzhili.

This is another reason why he is holding onto the news of the flood on the right side of the river - it is all linked to political achievements.

Unexpectedly, this matter got bigger and bigger, and directly covered the emperor.

Originally, in Pan Jingmin's mind, Wei Shoufu, who monopolizes power, is much more terrifying than His Majesty the Emperor. As long as he kills Wei Herong and does not betray Wei Herong, Wei Herong will save him. After all, he still has evidence of contacts.

Wei Shoufu made a move, so what can the emperor do?

But he didn't expect that idiot Zhao Zhengde swore that the ledger had been washed away by the water, turned around, and the ledger fell into the hands of the emperor.

Days of torture had already exhausted Pan Jingmin, and Zhao Zhengde's account book was the last straw that crushed him.

After reading the status paper, Ning Juan raised his eyelids: "Where is the account book?"

Jin Yiwei searched every inch of Pan's house some time ago, but he couldn't find Pan Jingmin's private account book, and the correspondence records with Wei Herong.

Zheng Yao's mouth twitched: "This..."

Seeing his hesitation, Lu Qing became interested instead, and turned his eyes enthusiastically: "Oh?"

Ning Juan nodded helplessly towards Zheng Yao.

"Pan Jingmin is suspicious by nature. When he learned that His Majesty went south, he felt guilty and was even more frightened, so he wrapped up the account book and hid it in..." Zheng Yao paused for a moment, with a strange expression on his face, "In the dung pile of Pan's pigsty."

No matter how conscientious Jin Yiwei is, he won't be so dedicated that he wants to pick up shit!

Lu Qingze: "..."

The one named Pan really belongs to you.

Ning Juan tapped the table with two fingers, and said expressionlessly, "Take Pan Jingmin to Hongdu Mansion and ask him to take out the ledger by himself."

There is no need to send his own people to dig it out, Zheng Yao immediately stretched his eyebrows, showed a very bright smile, grinned and said: "I will do it now!"

Zheng Yao rushed out like a black whirlwind, and with a slap, Chang Shun, who was walking in the door on tiptoe, was almost smashed into a piece of paper.

Zheng Yao has always looked down on eunuchs, but Chang Shun is the person who serves Ning Juan, even if he disdains Ning Juan, he doesn't dare to refute Ning Juan's face, so he quickly grabs him, says no, and then walks away muttering.

Chang Shun was knocked dizzy, entered the door, and said in a daze, "Your Majesty, this servant went to find Mr. Lin to get Master Lu's handkerchief back, but Mr. Lin washed the handkerchief..."

After speaking, he noticed that Lu Qingze was also in the room.

Chang Shun's hand holding the handkerchief trembled slightly.

Lu Qing was confused, stretched out his hand in great confusion, hooked the handkerchief to his fingertips, and looked at it slowly.

Then he raised his eyebrows, looked at Ning Juan, and the corners of his red lips were about to smile: "Oh - Your Majesty, explain?"

Ning Juan: "..."

With a sullen face, Ning Juan scolded Zheng Yao and Chang Shun in his heart again.

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