Stop acting, Your Majesty, the queen knows you're faking it

Chapter 539 Why Are You Still Using Him?
"Your official's opinion?" Zhu Xiaohou didn't quite understand Chi Xinian's meaning, "Do you want to ask the lower official's opinion about the Pingxing disaster?"

"Yes." Chi Xinian nodded slightly, made a gesture of invitation to Xiaohou Zhu to take a seat, and then poured a glass of water for each of them, "I would like to hear your opinion on the occurrence and follow-up of this flood." Disaster relief, what do you think?"

"This..." Zhu Xiaohou turned his eyes around Chi Xinian's expressionless face.

He really didn't understand, what was this guy thinking?
Why, she suddenly asked herself this question?
But thinking about it, what she asked was not a question that could not be answered, so even though he had doubts, Lord Zhu Xiaohou answered out of respect: "In my opinion, this time, there is no need to be so troublesome. of."

"Oh? Tell me carefully?" Chi Xinian raised his eyebrows.

"If there were no water bandits to plunder, most of the embankments in Pingxing could be well reinforced. In this way, even if there is a lot of rain this year, a large number of people will not be displaced. This is one of them."

Pursing his lips, Zhu Ziping said again: "Secondly, the Pingxing government was defeated by bandits in the first few times, and there is still some time before the flood broke out. Although just a few days is not enough to change anything, but if they Just report to the imperial court for help, maybe... can save some.

"Thirdly, after the flood happened, the Pingxing government once again concealed the existence of the water bandits. When the imperial court sent people to relieve the disaster, they naturally did not consider the bandits.

"If the water bandits are more ruthless and attack the relief supplies again, then the people of Pingxing...

"Fortunately, the water bandit chose to stabilize first, and did not make any further moves."

Steady?

Chi Xinian suppressed the corner of his mouth, and did not discuss his speculation with Zhu Ziping.

She just turned the teacup and said, "So you think that the fact that things have developed to the current situation where it is quite difficult to clean up is because the Pingxing government has repeatedly concealed the existence of water bandits, right?"

"Yes." Zhu Ziping thought for a while, and felt that Chi Xinian's conclusion was correct, so he nodded.

"That being the case, most of the responsibility for the flood should be borne by the magistrate Xu. But..." Chi Xinian's eyes fell on the young master Zhu who was opposite him, and his tone was cold, "The young master was ordered by the emperor to investigate the inside story of the flood. After knowing where the responsibility lies, why didn't he directly report to the court to explain the fault of Xu Zhifu?

"Instead, let him still be in charge of the big and small things in Pingxing Mansion, and even continue to participate in disaster relief and bandit suppression?"

"There's a reason for this!" Zhu Ziping thought that Chi Xinian was blaming him for his failure in doing things, and quickly explained to him, "In fact, after we entered the territory of Pingxing Mansion, we more or less found something related to the water bandits.

"At that time, I wrote a report to the court.

"Originally, my mother and I had the same idea, and felt that this was caused by the prefect Xu's lack of rigorousness in doing things, and he should bear most of the responsibility.

"But after communicating with local officials in various places, I gradually discovered that this prefect Xu, who is not rigorous in reporting, is doing everything properly in other aspects.

"Including the clues obtained from patrolling around Pingcheng today, it all shows that this prefect Xu is a very good parent officer.

"The only thing he didn't do well in matters related to floods was that he didn't report the existence of water bandits in time."

(End of this chapter)