"Government affairs are very difficult recently."

Ji Yu let go of her, and the smile on his lips spread to the bottom of his eyes, "I can't do without Mrs. Xie, from now on, how about continuing to go to the palace?"

"..."

After a moment of silence, Xie Huairou bowed and saluted, "Yes."



The two reached a settlement.

After the awkwardness passed, Xie Huairou found that Ji Yu liked to touch her more and more, often when things just started, she listened to him bored, and he leaned towards her.

He even pinched her chin and kissed her cheek lightly.

Xie Huairou seemed to have nothing happened, as long as he didn't take any further steps towards her intimacy, he would let him obey.

The secret joy in my heart is also treated as if nothing happened.

After finishing the meal, Xie Huairou left the important matters that have been dealt with until the last report as usual.

"The negligence of the officials in charge of disaster relief caused the severe drought in Jizhou to worsen. All have been found out," Xie Huairou handed her the memorial, which contained a dense list, from top to bottom, the name followed by the place of dereliction of duty, " How should I be punished?"

"Strictly speaking."

Ji Yu opened it, she knew the list faster than Xie Huairou.He glanced over quickly, and said without hesitation, "I'll leave this matter to my sister."

"Your Majesty..." Xie Huairou could see hesitation on his face, but he still said, "Gu Zimei assassinated important ministers, accepted bribes, and should be executed according to the law, but I want to beg for him. It would be better to be relegated to Xiliang far away to perform crimes and make meritorious service." .”

"Are you pleading for Gu Zimei?"

Ji Yu looked at her in disbelief, put down the memorial and said, "It was he who came up with the idea to kill Luo Heng, instead of taking his life, do you want him to continue to be an official?"

The first time the food was lost was an accident, but the second time Gu Zimei realized who was doing the trick and was about to stabilize the person, but was startled by Luo Heng's beating. Balance...

Xie Huairou was silent for a long time, the words only circled in his heart, sighed lightly, and tried to continue to plead, "I beg your Majesty to spare his life."

"Why," Ji Yu straightened his back, "is there any relationship between that man and Mr. Xie?"

"No." Sensing her obvious displeasure, Xie Huairou didn't dare to intercede again, "Gu Zimei should be executed according to the law, it's absurd."

There was a moment of silence.

Ji Yu's eyes stayed on her calm face for a long time, he took a sip of tea, then sighed and said, "...Sister, let me think about it."



There was a severe drought in Jizhou, and the people were short of food.

When the imperial court came to disaster relief, they first copied the roads from the surrounding cities with grain storage, and sent grain to the nearest ones for relief. Jizhou was close to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the neighboring cities were rich and prosperous. It stands to reason that they would never fail to raise grain.

According to the law, it is a felony for merchants to drive up the price of rice, and they will be subsidized by the court if they supply grain at a slightly lower price, so merchants are very benevolent.

As long as the imperial court is willing to take care of it, all kinds of natural disasters in various places have been going smoothly in these years.

I thought it was the same for this disaster relief.

The merchants first sold the grain to the common people at a slightly lower price, and then waited for the grain from the south to arrive, and the imperial court subsidized the silver taels.

Unexpectedly, the people of Jizhou this time can't wait for the carriage to transport grain.

When the food stored by the merchants has long been exhausted, they wait and wait, but they still don't come.

The food for disaster relief from the imperial court has not arrived, but a batch of high-priced resold food has quietly appeared on the market. The price has increased from ten to twenty times the original price, and all the way up, chestnuts are even more expensive than meat.

In the end, those who had a little wealth couldn't stay any longer, abandoned their fields and fled, and died on the roads that were closed everywhere due to natural disasters.

The remaining poor people could no longer fill their stomachs by scraping bark and grass roots, so they had to die at home, and there were even tragic scenes of cannibalism in some places.

When the memorial was delivered, the whole country was shocked.

Jizhou was originally just a simple drought caused by locusts crossing the border and the absence of rain for a long time. Obviously, it can be cured.

How did this happen?

After the early dynasty, Ji Yu sent another minister headed by Zuo Youhuan to find another way to help the disaster.

He is a newly promoted capable minister and a person from Jizhou. Zhuge will not make mistakes after leading the army to detain food and do things.

The courtiers questioned the disaster relief minister headed by the Nanzhou prefect one after another.

Hundreds of shi of grain transported from the south to Jizhou were transported three times and disappeared three times. Every time, due to various reasons that occurred halfway, they could not be delivered to Jizhou, but high-priced grain appeared in Jizhou city out of thin air.

The courtiers were playing, and Ji Yu was also investigating.

When this matter turned out like this, she was calm on the surface, but she was extremely angry and disappointed in her heart.

For disaster relief in Jizhou City, Ji Yu originally dispatched from the minister of disaster relief to his deputy, and then to the army that escorted the food, all of them were his confidantes who were about to be promoted.I am ready to wait for them to come back, and those who should be promoted should be reused.

Never expected that disaster relief would turn out like this.

Even if a treacherous minister smeared history, if he embezzled more than half of the silver, he would not be able to get to this point.

These officials, big and small, from the north to the south, if not all of them made some mistakes on key points, it would be impossible for such consequences to occur.



Concubine Chen's father was from the south of the Yangtze River, and her ancestors were prominent, but after three generations, her family status became weaker and weaker, and her children gradually became only upright and minor officials.

Only her elder brother Luo Heng is different, he is a famous young Jinshi.

Luo Heng was known as a child prodigy when he was young. When he grew up, he was handsome, handsome and talented. He was the Zhilan Yushu of the Luo family.The decline of a family turned around by one person.

He was the deputy in this disaster relief, but died of illness suddenly on the way to Jizhou.

Luo Heng's wife went to Beijing to visit Concubine Chen in the name of visiting relatives. Although she didn't meet her, she finally handed her a letter from her family.

Concubine Chen passed the family letter to Ji Yu with red eyes.

The eldest brother, his ambition is unpaid.It is full of what he saw and heard along the way to disaster relief, as well as evidence that was quietly sent out after he noticed something wrong for the court to investigate.

Not to mention that Ji Yu had a good relationship with her since childhood, just because the young and promising Luo Heng was framed and died so unexplainably by a traitor, Ji Yu also had to compensate the Luo family.

The imperial edict a few days ago, the courtiers thought it was a joke of hers, but Ji Yu was serious.

Such fierce opposition made her quite annoyed.

Ji Yu didn't think about it for a long time, and still ordered Gu Zimei and others to be beheaded for public display.Those officials were exiled for crimes that did not amount to death, and even those who had little responsibility were implicated and dismissed.

The next day.

Ji Yu claimed that he was sick and did not go to court, and ordered Xie Huairou not to go to the palace to report.

The first time she begged her, Ji Yu still beheaded him, and he didn't really want to see her.

Most of the officials in the court who were waiting to be promoted were exiled, and they were tied up in their work, which made her a little tired.Due to "illness", he did not go to court for two consecutive days.

Ji Yu stayed in Concubine Chen's Palace all day, admiring flowers and playing birds, and refused to leave.

"It's been three days," Chen Dowager said, "Isn't Your Majesty busy with government affairs?"

"What are you doing?" Ji Yu lay lazily, opened the folding fan in her hand, and the shattered gold on the fan surface shone brightly on her face, "Life is boundless, political affairs are endless, and everything that exists is endless."

She fanned the wind again and again, and said in a drawn-out tone, "...it's almost gone."

"Alright, Your Majesty has worked hard."

Concubine Chen made her a cup of tea, and when it was brought over, there was a small plate of dried flowers beside it, "It's good to come to my place to steal half a day's leisure."

"Hey," Ji Yu got up and leaned back on the sandalwood rocking chair boneless, lifted the teacup with one hand, picked up a small saucer and poured the dried flowers in, "Is this flower delicious too? "

"Your Majesty, this is not for tea..." Dowager Chen held the white jade teacup which she had just picked up, she stood there for a while, and smiled helplessly, "Your Majesty! "

Ji Yu was stunned, and asked nervously, "What's wrong? Is this flower poisonous??"

Concubine Chen chuckled, "It's non-toxic. This is the elegant way for the children of the capital to drink tea. Put the flowers in a lacquer dish and water them with soup. When they bloom, add spices. The aroma is mixed with spicy and sweet."

"Oh," Ji Yu blew hot tea with his eyes downcast, and said indifferently, "I'm a farmer, so I don't understand this."

Concubine Chen shook her head with a smile, "Your Majesty, from the golden branches and jade leaves to the body of ten thousand gold, I am afraid that the five grains have never been divided. This is not a farmer."

The dried flowers are just blooming, floating half up and half in the teacup.

Ji Yu raised his wrist, just about to take a sip, but the whole teacup was taken away.

"The flowers are not protected from dust when they are dried. They are not clean and cannot be drunk."

Concubine Chen took the teacup and was about to pour it into the bronze statue next to it.

Her cup of tea is very particular. It takes a long time to collect the dew from making the tea, and it will be gone if it is poured out.

Ji Yu hurriedly leaned over and grabbed her sleeve to prevent it from being poured out, "It doesn't matter, since this flower has been washed before drying, it is clean, how much dust can it get into when it is dried? "

"No, it won't be good if you drink it and have a stomachache."

Concubine Chen was still about to fall, Ji Yu grabbed her wrist and was about to act coquettishly, when a maid's voice came from outside the door, "Master, thank you for coming."

Ji Yu looked up, and Yi'er was followed by the Right Prime Minister in a crescent-colored brocade robe.She wore a jade crown in her hair and fluttering sleeves. Ji Yu's heart skipped a beat when she usually dressed up when she came to see her.

There is a feeling of guilt when I played truant from school when I was young, and ran into the Taifu just after turning the corner.

"..."

Xie Huairou bowed and saluted, his eyes were flat, and he paused thoughtfully for several seconds when he looked at Ji Yu.

Following her gaze, Ji Yu saw that his hands were still clutching Concubine Chen's sleeves, and quickly retracted. When he sat back in the rocking chair, he still straightened his back, and then hesitantly raised his head and smiled at her. meaning.

Xie Huairou "..."

She lowered her eyes without saying a word, turned her head and just cupped her hands to report to Concubine Chen, "I have something important to report to Your Majesty..."

Concubine Chen looked back and forth between the two of them, sat down and picked up her cup of tea, took a slow sip and interrupted her, "Respectfully, Your Majesty."

Ji Yu "..."

Ji Yu turned his head, winked at Concubine Chen to show that he still didn't want to go back so early, and asked Xie Huairou in a warm voice, "What's your business?"

"Your Majesty, why don't you go back to the palace to talk about it?" Dowager Chen clearly saw it, but pretended she didn't see it and turned the teacup. "If there is something important, it's not easy to discuss it here. Go back."

Xie Huairou answered the words submissively, "Your Majesty, please drive back to the palace."

Ji Yu "..."

On the way back, Xie Huairou had already finished what he wanted to report.

It's not a big deal.

Ji Yu raised his eyes to look at her, and there was always a feeling that after she knew she was in Concubine Chen's palace, she deliberately found a trivial matter to drag her back.The website has been changed, the website has been changed, the website has been changed, everyone re-collects the new website, the new computer version, after everyone saves it, it will be opened on the new website, and the old website will not be able to open in the future,,

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