Chapter 894 Realgar Wine (Part 1)

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Since last year, the weather and rain that lasted for more than ten years in the Ming Dynasty seemed to have come to an end, especially in northern provinces, the sunny and rainy seasons are not in accordance with the schedule, but the Yi rains in spring and summer are always drought, and the Yiyang rains in autumn are endless, resulting in a poor harvest in the year and a meager harvest, and some fields even have no harvest.

This is a great problem in any dynasty. Because for an agricultural society, the main population relies on the weather to make a living and dig food from the ground. Once a poor harvest occurs, if the government does not remember the actual situation of the people suffering from disaster and urges land taxes as before, and treats taxes with violence, a large number of farmers will go bankrupt. Unemployed farmers will leave their hometowns, and a wave of refugees that is not as good as the foundation of the dynasty will be formed.

As an old minister who witnessed the Ming Dynasty struggling step by step from the quagmire, he was silent and not paralyzed by the peaceful and prosperous times with endless silk and bamboo. He knew very well that the people were difficult and the situation today was difficult. How could such a tragic incident happening under the chariot in the capital city?

Fortunately, in order to protect the stable implementation of the regulations and prevent low rice from hurting farmers, the court adopted the policy of "no surplus silver and excessive purchase of grain" in the six or seven years of continuous harvest, and had long hoarded enough grain for twenty years. Even if there is a large-scale poor harvest, no harvest, no disaster relief, and it has to open warehouses to provide disaster relief, which can last for five or six years.

He was not panicked at home, but he was not careless at all. Because according to his past experience, after the disaster, the court did not have no food to allocate disaster relief food, but why were they still starved? The main reason was that there was not enough food to provide disaster relief food, but after the governments at all levels were peeled layer by layer, the victims had few gains in the end.

In order to avoid disaster relief officials, they sent as much food as possible to the affected people. Shensilent sent troops to protect the regular warehouses in various places, and the Ministry of Revenue sent specialists to be responsible for the release of food. They kicked the cadet censors who were noisy all day to the province to supervise the entire disaster relief process. For local officials in the affected prefectures and counties, according to the severity of the disaster, the examination index was changed from the tax quota to the survival rate of the people. Shensilent emphasized in the court sending to various prefectures and counties that as much food as you are given, you must feed the people. If you burn more than a certain amount of people, you can burn this official uniform directly!

In terms of disaster relief, he showed a completely different attitude from taxation. When it comes to tax collection, he always asked for specific treatment. If it is understandable, the examination can be appropriately reduced to avoid local officials from forcing too much towards the people. However, he was silent and unconscionable about disaster relief. Last year to this year, more than 30 officials who failed to provide disaster relief and deducted money and food were investigated and punished one after another. They were severely punished, and it was useless for anyone to plead with love.

Under his strict control, local officials had to honestly provide disaster relief. Of course, silent did not only give the task but did not find a way. On the one hand, he ordered officials at all levels to resist disasters and save themselves, and promoted a drought-resistant and high-yield crop in various provinces - a sweet potato that had been introduced to the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years and successfully tried to grow in Fujian. On the other hand, he ordered the Ministry of Industry to organize the construction of water conservancy projects. In Zhili alone, it built more than 13 water diversion canals and dredged river channels for more than 2,000 miles. This not only effectively regulates the imbalance between space and time of water resources, but also allows a large number of young and strong people to eat, so as not to be idle and disturb the society.

This long-term natural disaster is not entirely a bad thing. At least, it has benefited greatly from immigration work in Luzon, Annan, Chameng and other places. It has long been known to go to Southeast Asia to get rich, but because it is difficult to leave its hometown, when it is difficult to get away from its hometown, the people will not consider leaving their hometowns and making a living in the distant Luzon. But when they can't even eat, instead of staying at home and waiting for death, many people will decide to try their luck and may be able to break a prosperous road.

With this mentality, there are many people who register soar. Under the pressure of taking the exam, local officials are much more comfortable to release people than before. Of course, this is also due to the factors of tax reform. The current whip method is to calculate taxes based on acres rather than the heads, which makes local officials no longer care about population mobility.

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It was very cloudy this day. After silently meeting the censor who was sent to various provinces to supervise disaster relief, the face was dark outside and could not be seen clearly. Just as he was about to order someone to hold a light, his guard who walked in quickly outside and attached himself to his ear and whispered: "Mr. Yu is here."

"..." Chen Si's heart sank, and after a while, nodded and said, "Let him wait for me in Zhilu." Then he was not in a hurry to go back, and lit the light to continue working.

After a cup of tea, the sky was getting darker and darker outside, and the wind blew, and the two windows in the room were clattering. After silent, he stood up and walked to the door and murmured: "It's going to rain and my mother is going to get married..." After saying that, he went to the cafeteria in the back hall to have dinner, and talked with several senior officials for a while before returning to his hut.

After Chen Si entered, Yu Yinna bowed, then stood up and stood on his right hand. There was no light in the hut, and only the outline of the person could be seen, but neither of them meant to light the light. Amid the whimpering wind, Chen Si spoke first: "Why are you here?"

"Any way of communication is not safe at this threshold, so my subordinates can only take the risk once." Yu Yin said quietly: "But don't worry, you don't have to worry. This palace is no different from our backyard."

"It's better to be careful." Chen Si sighed: "I have always felt uneasy in recent times..."

"Yes..." Yu Yin responded softly and said, "I have already discovered that the young emperor is preparing to take action at the birthday party of Queen Mother Chen on the fifth day of the fifth month. The reason I chose that day was because it was the Dragon Boat Festival again, and according to custom, we should drink realgar wine with strong colors and flavors. This wine is not easy to detect after the poisonous aconitum is dissolved, and the attack time can be delayed to twenty hours later."

"..." Although I was mentally prepared, after hearing Yu Yin's words, the silence was still bent down. The strong wind blew into the hall from all directions with a sharp whistling sound, and the windows were also shaking loudly by the wind. The guards outside quickly closed the window.

"Don't close." Silently said: "I'm so suffocating..." The guards had to stop and instead hold the window firmly so that it could not move.

Silently holding the coffee table, sitting slowly on the chair, looking at the curtains that were shaved, and said sadly: "I've always been lucky..."

"Sir, you should have given up your unrealistic fantasy." Yu Yin said quietly: "Actually, from the beginning, this was a game of chess to the death!"

"Are you going to the death..." Chen Si said dejectedly: "Is it rare that I really have to walk into a dead end?" It's strange that he said this. The wind gradually became smaller, but the sky gradually darkened. It was about to rain.

"It's not too late for lord to wake up," Yu Yin said softly: "There are twenty-seven ways to make the emperor die in a bad life, nine of which are not proved. The one I personally like most is to exchange the poisonous wine quietly for the emperor and let him suffer the consequences..." As if in order to answer him, the world was white, and a lightning flashed across the night sky, followed by a thunderclap, and it seemed to be blowing outside the door.

The heavy rain poured down with the thunder, and the silent hand waved slightly. The guard commander Liu Dadao immediately said to the guards: "Let them all go back!"

The guards quietly retreated. At this time, another series of lightning began to strike. Soon, a burst of thunder rolled over from the distance of the sky. Looking at Yu Yin silently, he asked slowly: "Junfang, do you think I am your loyalty or your ideal carrier?"

"This..." Yu Yin didn't expect Chen Si would ask like this. He said with a pale face: "Is there any difference?"

"Of course there is!" Chen Si raised his tone and said, "If you are loyal to me, you will only execute my orders honestly; if you regard me as your ideal carrier, you will kidnap my will!"

"Jun Fang, have you heard this thunder?" After the thunder rolled, he looked at him with a silent gaze and said, "How much does it have to do with you when the emperor has come to this point?"

"The emperor is above. If the subordinates have a little bit of intention, they will kill me immediately!" Yu Yin knelt down in the thunder and pointed at the sky and swore: "What the emperor did is definitely not designed by me! Sir should know that you and the emperor can only have one in the end, standing in this Ming court, which no one can change!"

"This is not something you should worry about." A silent gaze passed through the wide open window, looked at the rain curtain like a sky curtain outside, and said quietly: "You should know what I am most afraid of..."

Without thunder, Yu Yin still shook all over his body, and beads of sweat dripped down. He leaned over and knelt on the ground and said, "Master may have misunderstood. The third young master has looked for me, but I didn't see him."

"If you see him, you will never see me in your life." He sighed softly, "He wants to be Cao Pi, but he has to ask me if I want to be Cao Cao first. If you want to be Jia Xu, you are afraid that you will eventually become Yang Xiu..." In the end, the deep-rooted sarcasm could already freeze people.

Yu Yin's face was pale, and after hearing Chen Si's words, he immediately turned whiter. He raised his head high and said, "I am still the words ten years ago. The reason why I dare to make a decision is nothing more than a loyalty! If another thought is mixed in my heart one day, the heavens are disgusted by it, and the heavens abandon it! People and gods kill it together!"

"It's not okay to make a decision. Next time, I won't take you away without God!" Silence gathered enough energy there and shouted sternly: "Junfang, don't force me, don't force me!"

Another muffled thunder exploded, and Yu Yin felt like he was dripping in the rain.

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After some blows, Chen Mo ordered him to get up and sit down and talk. Now Yu Yin became much more honest and asked softly: "How should I deal with this game now?"

"How to deal with it?" Chen Si said sadly: "Even if the little emperor wants to harm me, he knows how to cover up my eyes and ears. What can I do as a minister?"

"What subordinates can do is neatly and necessities. Afterwards, including me, all insiders will disappear from this world. Keeping it into a headless unsolved case and a mystery for the ages." Yu Yin has reached a crazy stance for killing the emperor: "If the adults feel sorry for the previous emperor, then don't give orders and let me act without authorization!"

"Discard this idea!" Chen Shu shook his head and said, "Although the conflict between me and the emperor is not superficial, both the royalists and those who support me know this. If the emperor dies now, no matter how much evidence you have to show that he is natural, people will think of me." He picked up the teacup and found that it was empty. He casually put down his hand and said, "It is not the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, but the Ming Dynasty, which has been established for two hundred years and has not yet shown signs of a country destruction. Here, it is not about success, kings and defeated bandits, but about everyone who can punish the traitors! As long as I bear the reputation of monarchic killing, even if it is just a suspicion, I will lose the title of righteousness forever." He said with a bitter smile: "No matter how great our ideal is, what can we do without the support of righteousness?"

"That lord means..." Yu Yin simply stopped guessing and waited for silent answers.

"No need to say anything," Chen Si sighed deeply, "Ten years of reform have reached a dead end, and everything is entangled in the knot of imperial power. If you don't bring down this mountain, everything is like flowers in the mirror and moon in the water..." After a pause, he said with great difficulty: "Actually, I have thought about your thoughts. But I quickly denied it. Once, I have received the grace of the emperor for two lifetimes, let alone the temple. Just talk about the late emperor, treating me with brothers and brothers. If I murder his descendants, it will be better than beasts in the world. , I can't even pass this level myself. Secondly, the most important point is that my enemy has never been the self-righteous little emperor, or even the supreme emperor entrenched above the Forbidden City, but the slavery engraved in everyone's heart! If you don't break this, even if you kill the monarch, it is just a clichéd court struggle! If you don't believe it, you can read "Twenty-One History" and see that the emperors killed by their ministers are not one hundred or eighty. In addition to satisfying their personal ambitions and bringing disasters to the people, which one brings hope to this country?"

"Your Majesty said it is right," Yu Yin also sighed, "But the emperor is already eighteen this year. Even if you have your hands to cover the sky, how many years can you cover it? In fact, the reason why reforms have been in trouble over the years is directly related to the emperor's gradual growth. You are right. In this Ming Dynasty, there are always some people who are afraid of being slaves. They shouted that the emperor would take power and dictatorship. I am afraid that as the emperor grows older, such voices will increase."

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The initial dangerous period of my wife has basically passed. She doesn’t have to run to the hospital every few days, and she can finally write quietly.
Chapter completed!