The Prodigal Son’s Happy Life - Chapter 435

[Chapter 435 Profit]

Emperor Chu’s eyes seemed to be emitting flames as he looked at Tang Zhengtong beside him.

“If I remember correctly, the grain stored in the various prefectures has been registered by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and people are sent to inspect it every year. Why can’t the grain be released?”

At this moment, Tang Zhengtong was already shaking like chaff through a sieve. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily.

“I will die!”

“Don’t tell me how to die! If you die ten thousand times, you can make up for the shortage of food. I kill you ten thousand times and it won’t be enough!”

Emperor Chu stretched out his hand angrily and pointed. Tang Zhengtong’s head said angrily.

When Tang Zhengtong heard this, he had a look of fear on his face. He raised his eyes, looked at Emperor Chu, and explained: “Your Majesty, this is definitely not the fault of one person, and the absence is definitely not a day’s cold! Your Majesty!”

Emperor Chu’s eyes narrowed slightly, he looked at Tang Zhengtong, and said coldly: “What do you mean by this? Tell me clearly.” When

Tang Zhengtong heard this, he was like a drowning man grabbing the last straw. The life-saving straw took a deep breath and said: “Your Majesty, the grain storage in the granary is increasing steadily every year.

In good years, the increase is more, and in disaster years, the increase is less. These are recorded in the records of the Ministry of Household Affairs. They are all recorded clearly.

Moreover, the Ministry of Revenue sends people to various states for verification every year, and the people sent every year are different. I

think

that if the facts are true as Mr. Zhou said, then the matter is too involved.

I understand that I have never profited from the grain storage of the Ministry of Revenue.

Therefore, in order to achieve this, the people in charge of grain storage in the Ministry of Revenue and the various state governments must have made false testimony.

Your Majesty, think about it, is it possible to achieve this?

I think it is impossible!

If it is possible, it must have happened since the late emperor and even Emperor Taizong, otherwise”

“Shut up. !”

When Emperor Chu heard this, he sternly scolded him, looked at Tang Zhengtong, and said angrily: “I thought you could say anything, but it turned out that you were just trying to shirk responsibility.

If this has always been the case, then I will ask you one question.

What’s the use of you!?”

After hearing this, Zhou Nan knelt down and shouted: “Chen Wan is dead!”

He knew in his heart that Emperor Chu’s words were not just for Tang Zhengtong, but also for Tang Zhengtong. Said to him.

Emperor Chu took a few steps and sat back on the dragon chair.

For the rest, he can guess it by himself without asking in such detail.

Why, as a military governor, didn’t he stop such behavior?

Why are Jiangnan and Liangdao unwilling to sell grain?

All in all, there is only one word – profit!

The food issue involves the interests of countless people.

Especially the interests of the gentry class.

In the Chu State, the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats jointly ruled the world.

Most of the civil and military officials in the imperial court came from the gentry class. If they wanted to eradicate this force, they would pull up the carrots and carry the mud with them,

which would cause huge turmoil in the entire Chu country.

Today, Chu is facing domestic and foreign troubles. Whether it is the Qiyan tribe in the north or the Duke of Guizhou in the southwest, it is a problem that they still don’t know how to solve.

At this time, there must be no big commotion!

Emperor Chu’s face became a little gloomy. He looked at the two ministers who were kneeling on the ground and shivered, and an inexplicable anger rose in his chest.

However, this anger accumulated in his chest, but there was nowhere to vent it.

After a moment, he took a deep breath, looked at Fang Xiu, who was sitting next to him and felt a little embarrassed, and said, “Fang Xiu, this is the first time I read your policy, and I just feel it is sharp and pointed. The ills of the imperial court.

But I thought that the officials in the state, the civil and military ministers in the court, and the rules and regulations of the imperial court were not so corrupt.

Now, I just understand what you said. Not a word of it is not true, not a word of it does not poke at me, Dachu, and the court!”

These words were already very harsh.

The state of Chu values the emperor’s humiliation and his ministers’ death.

If the old emperor’s words were spread and

heard by some so-called “people with lofty ideals” who were “righteous and dedicated to death”, they would probably go to the ancestral hall to apologize.

After Tang Zhengtong and Zhou Nan heard this, they also banged their heads on the ground and shouted: “I’m waiting for you to die!”

Fang Xiu was even more embarrassed when he saw this scene.

After all, he is also a subject.

The two of them put on this posture, sitting next to them, they always felt a little bad.

He thought for a moment and wanted to get up, imitate the two of them, and shout “Ten Thousand Deaths” twice.

Emperor Chu who was sitting on the dragon throne saw him and said: “The two of them are kneeling because they have betrayed my trust and the trust of the people in the world. Why are you kneeling? Sit back.” When

Fang Xiu heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched. He twitched, but did not refuse. He just cupped his hands and said, “Thank you, Your Majesty!”

The two ministers knelt on the ground, their heads pressed tightly to the ground, not daring to make a sound.

Emperor Chu was sitting on the dragon chair, looking at them like this, and said coldly: “Since you want to kneel, kneel here for a day and a night.

Without my instructions, you two will continue to do so. Kneel down!”

When the two ministers heard this, they breathed a sigh of relief.

This is called lifting it up high and putting it down gently.

His Majesty said this, which means that nothing serious will happen to the two of them.

“Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty!”

The two ministers maintained this posture and knelt on the ground.

At this moment, Emperor Chu’s anger seemed to have subsided a little.

He picked up the tea cup, took a sip, looked at the two ministers kneeling on the ground, and said slowly: “The memorial given to me by An Shuo, the governor of the Eastern Province of the Central Plains, said that today’s famine in the Central Plains is due to drought?”

When Zhou Nan heard this, although he did not raise his head, he hurriedly replied: “Reporting to your Majesty, it is indeed because of the drought.”

“But I have read the reports submitted by the state governments and found that this year’s drought is more serious than in previous years. “It’s a little bit, but it’s not enough to cause so many state capitals to be affected.”

Emperor Chu took another sip of tea and said slowly.

Obviously, the pile of memorials on his desk were all about the disaster in the Central Plains.

The disaster in the Central Plains has lasted for three full months.

Every day, a large number of refugees flow from the three plains to the capital.

In the past few days, the prefects of various states in the Gyeonggi region and the governor of Kyoto Prefecture have written letters one after another asking how to deal with these refugees.

These memorials took the disaster in the Central Plains to a higher level, second only to the attack on the Qiyan tribe.

It is urgent to resolve this matter!

However, he re-read many memorials and found that many of them did not even clarify the specific causes of the disaster.

Some state capitals said it was because of the drought, and some said it was because of the locust plague. What’s more, they even said that the floods were caused

by the same disaster. It was really ridiculous that drought and floods happened at the same time!

Therefore, the Emperor of Chu recalled Zhou Nan, the Jiedushi envoy who was far away in the North Road of the Central Plains, to Beijing just to ask for a clear answer.

What is the disaster situation in the Central Plains!

(End of chapter)