These years of being the queen mother!

Uh!

Isn't the minister asking this to show his duty?

Shi Shoufu was dripping with cold sweat, and when he was about to express his fear again, Zhu Cilin, who was wearing a bright yellow tuanlong round collar and a small dragon robe, interjected:

"I heard from Xiaodouzi that pork (pig) meat costs half a catty now. I think Master Shi is so fat, so it is worth more than pork. Empress, since Master Shi is useless, let him Let's sell it." Zhu Cilin's face was full of excitement, obviously already counting how much Shi Shoufu could sell with his fingers in his heart.

As soon as this child's words came out, no matter it was Empress Dowager Yang or Shi Shoufu, they all looked confused.And the little Douzi in Zhu Cilin's mouth knelt down tremblingly, begging for mercy. "The empress dowager forgives the sin, the empress dowager forgives the sin."

Shi Shoufu: "..."

Can he beat this little bastard who doesn't know how to respect his teacher!

"Pull people out."

Yang Lingyue was unable to support her forehead, and after secretly glancing at Zhu Cilin who was talking nonsense, Yang Lingyue turned to apologetically and said to Shi Shoufu: "Shi Aiqing, Tianlin is still young, it seems that you have to worry too much."

Upon hearing this, Shi Shoufu quickly put on a smile. "It is the duty of a minister to teach His Majesty."

Yang Lingyue nodded, directly ignoring the embarrassment caused by Zhu Cilin, and instead talked with Shi Shoufu about disaster relief and how to deal with officials in Shanxi and Shaanxi.

Speaking of which, disaster relief is still easy to handle, as long as you have money and food, you can get a perfect solution.But with regard to the handling of officials in Shanxi and Shaanxi, it is unrealistic to kill them and reassign officials, so Shi Shoufu proposed to punish only the culprits and leave the rest alone.Yang Lingyue thought about it, and no one can guarantee that the reappointed officials will be as clean as water. What if they are even more corrupt than the previous ones, so it is enough to punish the culprits and have the effect of killing chickens and monkeys. After all, I said earlier that Yang Lingyue does not dislike officials. Corruption, you can be corrupt, but the premise is that you must do something.In this way, she will turn a blind eye and close one eye to pretend that corruption has never happened, but on the contrary... Ximen Caishikou is waiting for your family!

After discussing the solution, Shi Shoufu left the main hall of Qianqing Palace.At this time, Yang Lingyue put on a serious face on purpose, called Zhu Cilin in front of her and said, "Tianlin, the queen mother asked you, did someone teach you this, or did you say it yourself?"

Zhu Cilin's small face was wrinkled like a steamed stuffed bun, and she said that a little scared. "It's my son's own thought."

"So it's none of Xiaodouzi's business?" Yang Lingyue raised her eyebrows, she really didn't know whether to be happy about Zhu Cilin's innocence, or to cry!Yang Lingyue, who had both emotions, asked Xiaodouzi to go get five boards to let him go, then turned to stare at Zhu Cilin and said:

"Tianlin, you talk nonsense again, be careful that your mother will let your imperial sister spank your ass!" Zhu Shuxie is a violent master, no matter who offends her, even the emperor Zhu Cilin will be slapped by her.Apart from her being a mother, Zhu Cilin was most afraid of her sister Zhu Shuxie.

Sure enough, when Zhu Cilin, who was a bit disapproving, heard that Yang Lingyue asked Zhu Shuyu to clean up her, she immediately said that she didn't dare.

Yang Lingyue thought that Zhu Cilin was young and admitted his mistakes, so she didn't punish Zhu Cilin too much, but ordered him to apologize when Shi Shoufu came to give a lecture the next day.She loves money so much at such a young age, but when she grows up, she can still get it. In order to prevent Zhu Cilin from becoming a Hanling Emperor who puts a price tag on his official position and sells it, Yang Lingyue feels that it is necessary for her to launch a series of targeted education on Zhu Cilin now.

Not to mention how Empress Dowager Yang, who is only 21 years old and has become a widow, joined forces with the violent princess Zhu Shuxi to clean up Zhu Cilin. Let's talk about what happened after the severe drought.Regardless of whether it was Chongzhen who came to power in the original history, or the young emperor who changed the country's name to Taichang, it was always in power during the Little Ice Age, and natural disasters continued every year.

As the saying goes, after natural disasters, there will be disasters.After this severe drought, which can be said to be the most serious in history and swept across the entire border of Shanxi and Shaanxi, it can be described as a thousand miles of barren land and no grass growing.Even in later generations, the disasters brought about by drought are very severe. Not to mention the direct and indirect economic losses, drinking water for humans and animals alone is a very serious problem.What's more, when the severe drought came, the government in Shanxi and Shaanxi had no food to save the people at all.Even though the imperial court made timely remedies and allocated a large amount of food and grass from Jifu near the capital (the area around the capital) and Tianjin, it still caused a large number of victims to die of starvation and thirst. The civil uprising broke out suddenly.

In March of the first year of Taichang, due to the shortage of food, Zhang Douyao, the magistrate of Chengcheng County, Shaanxi Province, secretly withheld half of the food because of the shortage of food and feared that the next batch of relief food would not arrive in time. The porridge from here is for the people to eat.

Because there was a case where officials at the upper and lower levels of the county government sold official food privately together, and not long ago, the governor who had just been charged with the same crime, was provoked by the rascals who were doing nothing all day long, and the civil uprising broke out like this.The people who were already hungry and red-eyed rushed into the Chengcheng county government with sticks and hoes, looted the food from the disaster relief officials, and killed Zhang Douyao, the county magistrate.

After the incident in Chengcheng, Shaanxi, the imperial court was outraged, and civil and military officials wrote to ask Empress Dowager Yang to send troops to suppress this natural disaster caused by farmers.

Zhu Cilin was ignorant of the situation, but Empress Dowager Yang had complicated eyes and said quietly: "So what if we suppress it? As long as our court doesn't do it properly, this civil uprising will still happen." Not much to ask for, but to fill the stomach.If the government that is in charge of the world and the people can't even help them realize this humble and small wish, then why can't the people resist this disappointing court in order to survive and have a full meal!

From Yang Lingyue's point of view, sending troops to suppress is just a way to quell the last move, and to treat the symptoms, not the root cause.If you want to cure the root cause, you can only repair water conservancy and develop farmland irrigation;.Mentioning this point, Yang Lingyue suddenly remembered that she punished those officials from the Ministry of Industry who only received their salaries and did nothing.Nowadays, in Shanxi and Shaanxi, the surface water sources are exhausted in large areas. Only by digging a large number of deep wells and extracting groundwater sources can the drinking water problems and farmland irrigation problems caused by drought be effectively alleviated.

Then I should...

Empress Dowager Yang closed her eyes suddenly, and then opened them: "According to the Ai family, the emperor's edict, and the imperial decree, there is a reason for the civil uprising that happened in Chengcheng, Shaanxi. A good minister, the Ai family issued a special decree to posthumously confer him the title of a third-rank Jiayi doctor, and his wife a third-rank Shuren with a good life."

Regarding Empress Dowager Yang's refusal to send troops to suppress it, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty looked at each other in blank dismay, and when they were about to raise objections, Empress Dowager Yang said: "The Ai family is also from a good family, not to mention the hardships, but the lack of clothing to keep out the cold and the lack of food to fill the stomach. The Ai family has eaten it all. The Ai family thinks that if we allocate food to the disaster relief in time, and there is no incident of officials selling official food privately, there will be no civil uprisings at all."

"Although there was a reason for the incident, they killed the magistrate of Chengcheng after all!" Feng Jiahui, the current minister of the Ministry of War, came forward and said: "Empress Dowager, I think that this group of troublemakers should not be completely let go, and they should be punished!"

Yang Lingyue raised her eyebrows, glanced around at the court officials, and finally focused on Wei Zhongxian, who was more and more like a deaf-mute tumbler. "What do you think of Duke Wei?"

Wei Zhongxian clasped his hands and replied: "I agree with Mr. Feng's statement, and you should punish the culprit."

"Then do as Feng Qing said." Yang Lingyue paused, and then said: "In addition, during the Tianqi period, the late emperor asked you to study the large water truck that can fetch and divert water from high places. How is the research going?"

Xue Fengxiang, who is currently the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and wrote the book "The History of Peony", came out with a confused face. He obviously didn't understand why the issue of large water trucks was involved, so he had to remain silent, trying to get away with being speechless!

Obviously, under the leadership of Wei Zhongxian, an old man, the increasingly dark Queen Mother Yang did not intend to let go of this literati who spent his free time collecting peonies, and simply ridiculed.

"Why can't you research it? Obviously the late emperor left a model, and you just scaled it up according to the scale. Such a simple thing has not been done until now. Tell me, why do the Ai family and the emperor want you to have a bunch of wine bags and rice bags... ..."

After finishing speaking, Yang Lingyue keenly sensed that something was wrong, and when she looked to the side, Zhu Cilin's face brightened. It was obvious that Yang Lingyue's words, "Why do the Ai family and the emperor want you to eat and drink?" touched his money-loving heart. Heart.Yang Lingyue thought with a dark face, fortunately there is a bead curtain in front of the dragon chair now, and the courtiers can't see her twitching face clearly, otherwise she would really stuff this brat back into her stomach to rebuild, just these limbs not working hard, The goods that don't distinguish between grains and grains are really going to be sold, and the money sold is probably not even enough to give the kickback to the toothmaid!

Wait, why did Aijia run to the horizon?

Empress Dowager Yang twitched her lips, decisively ignoring Zhu Cilin, who was constantly wringing her fingers to settle accounts, and turned to scolding Xue Fengxiang, who kept saying "the minister is panicked".

"Don't tell the Ai family the word panic. If you really knew the word fear, you would have done what you should have done. Wait for the Ai family to remember what it means to ask? Thinking about what the Ai family didn't think of, then fooling around. No way. Aijia put his words here, if those wine bags and rice bags of the end-of-life department can’t make a waterwheel designated by the late emperor this month, all of you will go to Shanxi and Shaanxi to dig deep wells for the people. Go for good fortune."

Empress Dowager Yang knew clearly that it was almost the end of March now, and those foreign workers from the Ministry of Industry were simply not capable of making the water trucks and overtime work she asked for, so she deliberately said this, otherwise, what would happen? It's an excuse to clean up the group of workers in the Ministry of Industry who have nothing to do all day long.

Therefore, after the "voluntary labor" of digging deep wells for free for the people in Beijing and Tianjin, all the employees of the Ministry of Industry will take their work to Shanxi and Shaanxi to dig deep wells for free for the people to drink and irrigate the farmland.Speaking of this, it really made the officials cry when they heard it, and the common people loved it.

The author has something to say: the second update is completed, so what? (づ￣3￣)づ╭?～