Humane Yongchang

Chapter 372
The court meeting of Yan Qing Palace.

The civil and military officials of the Han court stood in two groups on the left and right, waiting for a long time.

The civil officials were headed by Han Fei, the right minister, Li Si was the second, Gongsun Bai, Fan Zeng, and Wang Ting were the chief officials of more than [-] people.

The generals were stationed in the Quartet because of the generals of the Red Army Corps, including Li Xin, the general above, Li Zhong, Chen Feng, and more than a dozen generals including Zhao Shan, Zhang Er, and Zhong Lixuan.

"The king is here!"

Amidst the rhythmic shouts of the audience, Chen Sheng, who was wearing a multicolored bead and jade crown and a robe of mountains and rivers with a mysterious bottom, stepped into the hall with a blank expression.

In an instant, a majestic coercion that seemed to be invisible, with thousands of troops rushing in, rushed in, and the civil and military officials were as bold as Li Xin, and they all shrank their necks subconsciously.

The ministers turned around and pressed their palms towards Chen Sheng to the end: "Long live my king! Long live!"

Chen Sheng strode up to the hall without looking back, and said in a sonorous voice, "Get up!"

The ministers kept a bowing posture, moving their bodies with Chen Sheng's footsteps, and only got up after Chen Sheng ascended the throne.

After being seated, Chen Sheng saw that in the middle of the case, Zhou Zhouzheng was placing a volume of documents with the words "Fighting Cold and Disasters" written on it.

Chen Sheng just glanced at it, then closed his eyes, and said lightly, "Mr. Li."

Li Si came out and said respectfully, "The old minister is here."

Chen Sheng: "Tell me about the anti-cold and disaster relief regulations that your Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion came up with."

Li Si secretly raised his eyes and glanced at Chen Sheng above, and thought to himself, "Are you not very happy today, Your Majesty?" ', he replied with an even more respectful appearance: "Initiating the King, the old minister discussed with you all night last night, and agreed that there is no strategy for fighting the cold and disaster that can be more effective than the king's strategy of building a heated kang and concentrating on overwintering. ...Please forgive the stupidity of the old minister!"

Chen Sheng's brows wrinkled, resisting the urge to grab the scroll on the case and smash it at Li Si below: 'You discussed how to flatter me after discussing it all night? '

Li Si noticed the slight change in Chen Sheng's expression, and quickly added: "Last night, the old minister and all the adults checked the grain and fodder stocks in the counties overnight. Just reducing the ration by 50% is enough to mobilize 500 civilians to build a building before the heavy snowfall. There are 750 big houses with heated kangs, providing for [-] million to [-] million people to spend the winter together!"

Such a problem would not exist if Ji Zhou ruled the Kyushu period.

Not to mention the ruling class of Ji Zhou, can they see the bones buried under the beautiful snow scene covered with thousands of miles of plain clothes and thousands of miles of silver.

Even if they could see it, even if they would show great kindness, even if they could think of an idea like building a heated kang house to spend the winter in a centralized way, they could wave their hands and directly send hundreds of thousands of people to serve as corvée!

The so-called corvée means that the government forces the people to perform unpaid labor, including forced labor, miscellaneous labor, military service, etc. The unpaid labor here is not only not giving wages, but also food, clothing, and labor tools. people, provide it by themselves.

Not only did they bring their own dry food and labor tools, but the people who were drawn by the corvée had to tighten their belts, gritted their teeth and squeezed out the only livestock and grain they had at home, and exchanged them for silver coins to honor the overseers and pray to the overseers. They can raise their hands so that they can work and rest normally.

Every corvée, for the people who are drawn, is a catastrophe of bankruptcy, separation of wives and children, and nine deaths.

Since it is a catastrophe, there are naturally very few people who can go back alive.

When Xiang Liang was disarmed and returned to the fields, when he passed Chen County to meet Chen Shengzhi, he said, "Today send 30 people to build the Great Wall, tomorrow to send 30 people to build the Emperor's Mausoleum, and the next day to send 30 people to conquer Baiyue. How many people in the world are there?" It's not as simple as transferring 30 men to repair the city today and 30 men to dig graves tomorrow.

Rather, how many men in the world can endure such a death when hundreds of thousands of men die in one round, and hundreds of thousands of young men in one cycle?

In an ignorant era that believed in many children, many blessings, and spreading branches and leaves, the Great Zhou had been "peaceful" for 500 years, but the population had not exceeded 5000 million... It is conceivable how dark and cruel Ji Zhou's rule was. Yes, when you cut leeks, you always cut them by the root of the leek!
Hanting naturally does not have such a cruel and inhumane policy.

At least since Chen Sheng became the county governor of Chen County, he has never launched a single corvée. All the works of the Royal Court were built by the Red Army or the refugee engineering team under the Royal Court...Even when the King of Han was the most embarrassed, it was still unreliable. It's all about meals!

Having said that, I have to mention that in the eyes of the elites of Kyushu, although Chen Sheng is no different from a man-eating evil spirit, his support among the people under the rule of Han court is increasing day by day.

Even the aristocratic families who have rooted in the counties and villages and have the final right to interpret them, who have secretly distorted the decrees of the Han court and slandered Chen Sheng's morality, still could not contain the people under the Han court's rule. A wave of fanatical support and worship, and this wave eventually infiltrated the army through the routine thought transformation before recruit training!

Even if most of the people are illiterate, they have no chance to listen to the officials sent by the Han court to explain every decree issued by the king in the vernacular... But for their increasingly prosperous life, the people of the Han court In their hearts, there are numbers.

……

Chen Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, and the stern cold light that burst out of his eyes made all the civil and military ministers of His Highness tremble.

However, before they could be psychologically prepared, Chen Sheng grabbed the case scroll and threw it at His Royal Highness, and shouted angrily, "This is the charter that you discussed overnight? Rationing [-]%? Do you know how to reduce the ration by [-]%? , how many people will I starve to death? Is it possible that the knife can't fall on you, so you don't know why it hurts your skin?"

The angry shouts like tiger roars echoed in layers in the empty hall, like thousands of people pointed at them!
Li Si was taken aback, and his mind was in a rush. He didn't know what he did wrong, and he didn't know why Chen Sheng was so angry, but he still instinctively squeezed his palms and bowed to the end: "This minister is convicted, Your Majesty, rest your anger!"

Top cow?

nonexistent!

His Royal Highness all the civil and military ministers clenched their palms and bowed: "Your Majesty, calm down!"

Chen Sheng closed his eyes, gasped violently for a few breaths of the evil fire in his heart, and said as calmly as possible: "I have improved in martial arts, my mood is slightly deviated, and my words are too extreme, all the ministers forgive me!"

After a pause, he opened his eyes again and said categorically: "However, the matter of reducing rations is absolutely impossible, and we must think of other ways!"

This year's grain production has been severely reduced, and the grain storage in the various counties is prepared by himself. No one knows better than him how much grain is stored in the county!
Cut it by [-]%, which doesn't seem like much.

But in fact, this success is enough to completely collapse the ration ration system that was on the verge of collapse!

A life-or-death matter like food can never be saved once the system collapses.

Plus it's freezing cold...

The consequences could be disastrous!

Li Si's heart was in a mess. Han Ting's total reserves were there. He was not an immortal, so he could produce food?

He turned his cry for help to Fan Zeng...if Han Fei could see it, of course he wanted to look at Han Fei more.

Fan Zeng noticed Li Si's gaze and tried his best to shrink his burly body: 'You can't see me, you can't see me, you can't see me...'

Li Si moved his eyes speechlessly, sweeping across the many civil and military officials in the hall.

However, wherever his eyes swept, he silently lowered his already low head again, as if he suddenly discovered that the floor tiles of Yan Qing Hall were so smooth!

Chen Sheng was condescending, and saw all their little movements in his eyes.

He shouted impatiently, "Can't think of a solution?"

Li Si gritted his teeth secretly, clasped his hands and said, "The minister is incompetent, please punish the king!"

Chen Sheng stared at him intently, and said solemnly: "Is it unexpected, or do not want to think, dare not think?"

Li Si was startled, lowered his head and did not dare to say a word.

"Don't dare to say it, then I'll tell you for you!"

Chen Sheng exclaimed: "Where is Chen Feng!"

Chen Feng hurried out of the queue and bowed to the end: "The end is here!"

Chen Sheng took a deep breath, pointed at Li Si and said lightly, "Tell us, Lord Zuo, how many aristocratic families there are in Xuzhou and Yangzhou!"

As soon as this statement came out, it was not only Li Si who was shocked!

"Think again, Your Majesty!"

Han Fei, who had not spoken for a while, opened his mouth, his voice was condensed and loud, without the slightest fear.

"I thought twice!"

Chen Sheng sneered and said: "The king's grain is so nervous this year, when I deployed the grains of the various counties, I didn't take a grain of grain from them, but if I didn't do it, it would be as if no family offered to give me a grain of grain to the king's court. ...isn't they the ones who should think twice?"

Hearing the words, His Highness and his ministers were first shocked by the murderous intent hidden in his words, and then they all urgently thought about whether they still had enough food in their homes.

Your Majesty... I have an account in my heart!
Han Fei heard that Chen Sheng even said the words that should not have been said in front of the ministers, and knew that Chen Sheng had made up his mind and could not change it!

So, he just replied: "The royal court has its own laws!"

Chen Sheng took a deep look at him, shook his head and said, "Chen Feng."

Chen Feng waved his hand again: "The end is here!"

Chen Sheng took out a cast iron token from his waist, shaking his hand and volleying it into Chen Feng's hands accurately: "Holding my Wang Ling, acting on behalf of the emperor, I have selected the Wang Ting's capable judicial officials and formed a circuit court to thoroughly investigate Xu and Yang. Noble families in the state, must not wrong a good man who is kind to the people, and must not let go of a wicked man in a fish and meat village... Remember, you are acting on behalf of the monarch, and do your duty as a minister!"

Chen Feng held Wang Ling in both hands and was about to salute when Han Fei spoke again: "Your Majesty, Director Chen is a military attache and not a judicial officer. It is against the royal court system for him to preside over such important matters!"

Chen Sheng knocked on the case in front of him, and said in a more serious tone: "Although Wang Ting has three separate powers, the power of decision rests with me, and Chen Feng acts on behalf of the king, why not?"

Han Fei raised his head and faced the hall, his blind eyes seemed to be staring at Chen Sheng through the black cloth, and he said quietly: "My minister thanks Dawang Quanquan for his love, but Han Fei's parents died young, and he had no wife and no children by his side. What is there to be afraid of with the rest of the body? Since Han Fei is the chief justice of our Han Dynasty, if anyone wants to sacrifice the iron law of the Ming Dynasty, Han Fei should be free!"

His Highness's ministers kept moving the corners of their eyes, wandering between Chen Sheng and Han Fei.

Those who can be in this hall are naturally human beings.

However, it was really until this moment that they finally understood that this was not a battle between monarchs and ministers for power, but a scene of monarchs and ministers fighting to block guns with one heart and one mind!

"The right minister is serious!"

Chen Sheng sneered contemptuously, and said disdainfully, "A bunch of local chickens and rubbish dogs and people who sell their heads are not worthy of beating me as the leader of the big men and officials. If they have the guts to come, I will follow!"

Han Fei opened his mouth and still wanted to say something, but Chen Sheng had already slapped the case a few times and said categorically, "You have no jokes!"

Han Fei took a deep breath and squeezed his palms meticulously to the end while holding on to the wreckage: "My minister, thank you for your grace, long live my king, long live!"

Chen Sheng said lightly: "The Minister of the Right, please get up!"

After a pause, he shouted again: "Where is Li Xin!"

Li Xin suddenly came back to his senses, hurried out of the queue, squeezed his palms and bowed to the end: "The end is here!"

Chen Sheng stared at him and said with a light smile: "Have you heard the rules of my new army before I became an army?"

The Tiger Ben Army has just been formed.

The main reason is that during the Battle of Chenliu, the nearly 15 soldiers recruited by the Han court were all stuffed into the Huben Army, almost reaching a one-to-one ratio with the 15 Tuntian Army allocated by Chen Sheng to the Huben Army.

With such a large ratio of soldiers, it is not easy to ensure that there will be no internal chaos. Li Xin and Li Zhong spent some effort to break up the original system of 30 soldiers and horses. Reorganized into an army.

But it only has the embryonic form of an army, and it does not have any combat effectiveness at all. Even at this stage, Li Xin does not dare to send down armor and weapons... This is Chen County. Even if he has ten heads, it is not enough for Chen Sheng to chop!
Li Xin's spirit was lifted, and he replied without thinking: "The last general has been looking forward to it for a long time, just waiting for the king's order!"

"very good!"

Chen Sheng intensified his tone and said, "Before the winter, all of these [-] heated kang mansions will be handed over to your Tiger Ben army!"

"This is the first tough battle your Hu Ben army will face. Time, distance, engineering volume, and personnel deployment are all challenges!"

"But it's also an opportunity for your Tiger's Army. If you can mobilize all 30 Tiger's soldiers and win this tough battle with quality and quantity, your Tiger's Army will be considered a success!"

Li Xin had previously only thought that Chen Sheng would hand over part of the project to their Hu Ben army, and he was not afraid of it.

But at this moment, when I heard that Chen Sheng had packaged all the projects together and approved them to the Hu Ben Army, I immediately felt a little liver pain.

But in the face of such a person as Chen Sheng, in less than three years, he has trained such an invincible and powerful commander of the Red Army. He has no confidence to argue with Chen Sheng, nor the courage to argue with Chen Sheng. Secretly gritted his teeth, he clasped his hands heavily and said: "The last general will lead the entire army to go all out, and swear to live up to the king's trust!"

"Of course I believe you won't disappoint me!"

Chen Sheng encouraged him with a smile: "You are the first famous general in Kyushu to break through the imperial capital of a dynasty in ancient times, and now you are just leading the army to repair some houses. How can you be stumped Li Xin?"

Sure enough, after hearing this, Li Xin felt a thousand arrogance in his heart, as if it was really just a "merely muddy work"!
Li Xin: "At the end of the day, the king will be the king!"

Chen Sheng nodded with a smile and looked at Fan Zeng: "Fan Gong!"

Fan Zeng stepped out of the queue and respectfully bowed his hands: "The old minister is here!"

Chen Sheng: "Contact with Chen Feng for the important task of carrying grain and supplying the Hu Ben army, so please pay more attention!"

Fan Zeng waved his hands again: "This is the duty of the old minister, and I can't be the king to 'please'!"

Chen Sheng nodded kindly, withdrew his eyes and fell on Li Si in the center of the hall again. His eyes turned cold again, but his tone became more gentle: "Lord Zuo Xiang, this is the important task of centering and scheduling, but you need to worry more!"

The gentle words made His Highness Li Si's body tremble three times.

The gentle tone trembled once.

The word 'adult' trembled again.

The word 'you' trembles again...

When Chen Sheng's voice fell, he only felt that a big and thick red "death" had been written on his forehead!
Chen Sheng treats his subordinates with kindness and kindness, and rarely even uses a heavy tone.

But he will never forget how Chen Sheng slaughtered the aristocratic family in Chen County back then!
"Subordinate..."

Li Sixin said in a deep and deep voice, "I will devote my life to cooperating with General Li day and night to complete the King's entrustment. If there is another mistake, the minister will raise his head to meet him!"

"I never doubted your talent, but you always think too much, look forward and backward... Before the big right and wrong, you have no absolute position, or absolutely no position."

"That's all I have said, I hope you can think twice before acting!"

Chen Sheng closed his eyes tiredly, and said softly, "Tell me to the elders in each county that if there is not enough fuel, the houses will be demolished and set on fire for heating. Don't be reluctant, just save your life, and when the spring begins, Wang Ting will definitely help everyone rebuild their homes! "

"The king's teachings, the ministers have no teeth and dare not forget each other!"

Li Sichang bowed his head: "When the ministers return to the official temple, the king's grace will surely benefit thousands of people!"

"I'm tired!"

Chen Sheng waved his sleeves lightly, "Let's stop going to court today, if you have anything, leave it for tomorrow!"

As soon as these words came out, all the military officials under the Highness were relieved.

The atmosphere in the Yanqing Hall today is really depressing...

"The ministers and others retire, long live my king, long live!"

The crowd saluted, and Yuguan exited the Yanqing Palace.

Han Fei was in a wheelchair, and was pushed out of the hall first by two audience members. He looked back at the top of the hall.

Although he can't see it, he can feel that Chen Sheng is a little lonely today...

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