Emperor Phoenix Policy: Feng Qingtian

Chapter 287 Signs of Riot

Seeing Shen Wenqing approaching swiftly like the wind, Feng Jin was taken aback for a moment, thinking that he was going to say something confidential to her, but when she felt that he was going towards her lips, Feng Jin immediately became annoyed, and raised her hand, and Shen Wenqing It was swept out by a strong wind.

"Wenqing, what do you want to do?"

Feng Jin looked down at Shen Wenqing with an extremely displeased expression.

Shen Wenqing slowly got up from the ground, Feng Jin controlled his strength, Shen Wenqing was not injured, he lowered his eyes and said nothing.

Feng Jin took a deep look at him, said in a somewhat heavy tone, 'There will be no next time', and then continued to walk towards the bedroom.

Shen Wenqing followed in silence, Feng Jin didn't say anything more, this matter just passed away, the relationship between the monarch and his subjects was as usual, as calm as if nothing had happened.

From June to July, the weather has become hotter, and ice cubes have been continuously sent into the imperial study room. Even so, everyone in the imperial study room is still sweating.

Feng Jin sat on the dragon chair, with a face full of anger, and smashed down a stack of folding papers. The forehead of Luo Zhong, the governor of the Northeast, who was kneeling in front of him was smashed, and blood dripped onto the carpet. He prostrated himself on the ground, Shaking like chaff all over.

"There was a severe drought in the Northeast. There was no rain for more than two months. The people had no crops and even starved to death. You have been hiding it. What is your intention?"

"Your Majesty, calm down. I thought it would rain soon. In previous years, there was a drought. At most, it didn't rain for more than a month. Who knows what happened to this year's weather. It hasn't rained. It's rumored among the people..."

Luo Zhong faltered and refused to say, Pei Xiu's eyes flashed, "Is there any rumor among the people?"

Luo Zhong cautiously looked at Feng Jin who was sitting on the dragon chair, "I dare not say anything."

Seeing his cowering look, Feng Jin became even angrier. In a fit of anger, he smashed the teacup down. Luo Zhong subconsciously dodged, and the teacup burst into blossoms on the ground, "Say!"

"It is rumored among the people that because His Majesty is in charge of the government, Yin and Yang are reversed, and righteousness is not happy, which provoked God's wrath..."

"fart!"

Feng Jin slapped the table heavily, and the long pear tree table collapsed under her palm!The memorials were scattered all over the place.

Luo Zhonghe had never seen such a queen before, and was dumbfounded with fright.

"Your Majesty's appeasement is nothing more than folk rumors. People are ignorant, coupled with severe drought and desperate, so they believe such nonsense."

Pei Xiu said quickly, trying to appease Feng Jin, Lord Qi and Song Ming also appeased her one after another, persuading her to calm down and take care of her dragon body.

Feng Jin was so angry that his face was livid, and his chest was heaving violently. After listening to everyone's words, he managed to calm down, and said coldly, "It is because the people are ignorant that they follow what others say! The reason why three people become tigers, dear friends, understands better than I do. I would not believe it if there was no one secretly instigating such rumors after a severe drought.”

Feng Jin paused, then continued, "If the rumors are not found out this time, I'm afraid there will be other rumors soon, saying that I am against the sky and not qualified to sit on the dragon chair, that as a woman, I should The emperor, taking charge of the government, opening a women's school, and a series of things are acting against the sky! Only then will God be furious and bring down natural disasters!"

The courtiers clattered to their knees and shouted: "Your Majesty, calm down!"

Pei Xiu pondered for a moment, took a step forward, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty has been enthroned as the emperor for seven years. It is imperative to take charge of the government, and it will not cause too strong a reaction. I think it is a matter of women's education." , caused dissatisfaction among some people, is there such a rumor?"

After the empress came to power, women's education was put on the agenda. Feng Jin acted vigorously and vigorously. If some courtiers objected, he immediately suppressed it with iron blood. In addition, Pei Xiu did not object, so did the other courtiers. With the empress' order, Shen Wenqing will finish it in three to five days After this incident, the women's school in the imperial capital is in full swing. Five or six schools have been opened, and the houses are full. The women who come to school include widows, married women, and girls from poor families. If this continues, the women's school will be very fast. It will extend to the whole week.

But the queen can suppress civil and military officials, but she cannot suppress the voice of the people.

The old-fashioned and moralists all said that the empress's move violated the will of heaven, violated the legacy of the ancestors, and was indecent. It is immoral to let women go to school openly. Many people even went to the gate of the girls' school in the imperial capital to curse the women who came to school.

Feng Jin handed over the matter to Pei Xiu, but Pei Xiu was not as easy-going as Shen Wenqing, and immediately asked the officers and soldiers patrolling the city to arrest the troublemakers, throw them all into prisons and beat them severely, and they were locked up for a few days. The cells in Rijingzhao Mansion were almost overcrowded, so Pei Xiu opened the dungeon of the Ministry of Punishment and stuffed the extra people in.

As soon as this trick was used to scare the chickens and monkeys, those sour and sloppy scholars all shut up.

The emperor was suppressed by bullets, but in other places, the sky was so high that the emperor was far away, and Feng Jin was a little out of reach.

After hearing Pei Xiu's words, Feng Jin snorted coldly, "If those stubborn donkeys annoy me, I will kill them all!"

There was no sound in the imperial study room, Luo Zhong knelt on the ground, trembling non-stop, Feng Jin's sharp and deep eyes swept over his face, "Even if there are rumors among the people, don't you just let the drought spread and not report it to the court? ?”

"I dare not, Your Majesty calm down!"

Luo Zhong's body trembled even more, "I have been trying to find a way to solve the drought, but my ability is limited, and the grain in the government's grain depot is also limited. I have transferred a batch of grain to northern Xinjiang before, and the remaining There is not much food, so we can barely appease the people."

Pei Xiu continued, "What Master Luo said is true. In May, a batch of grain was dispatched from the granary in the northeast to send to northern Xinjiang. This is something we do every year, because it is closer to northern Xinjiang, so we can It saves a lot of manpower and material resources, and every June when the grain matures, the granary will be replenished, but this year..."

However, due to the severe drought this year, the granary was not only unable to make up, but also bottomed out.

"But you shouldn't hide this matter! Wait until the matter is out of control before reporting it to the court!"

"A humble minister, a humble minister..."

Luo Zhong couldn't speak, Feng Jin was a little upset and irritable, she didn't know what was going on in this man's mind, it was nothing more than fear of affecting his political achievements, affecting the triennial official assessment, and wanted to wait and see if he could solve it by himself.

It's a pity that God didn't give me face this year. Waiting and waiting, things got troublesome, people starved to death, and the people were about to rebel. They couldn't hide it before reporting to the court.

Such things happen every year, and such officials are everywhere.

Feng Jin felt a little powerless, and felt even more annoyed and irritable looking at Luo Zhong, who was shivering and pale, "Go away, I'm upset when I see you!"

Luo Zhong knelt and crawled to the corner.

When something happened, we had to find a way to solve it. Feng Jin put Luo Zhong's matter aside for the time being, and dealt with him after the drought was resolved.

The next days are for disaster relief and appease the hearts of the people. Feng Jin sent imperial envoys to investigate the disaster situation, appease the hearts of the people, and check the folk rumors to see if anyone is secretly instigating.

There is no food in the Northeast, and the grain is transferred from the Bohai granary closest to the northeast. However, there is not enough grain in that place, and I am afraid that it can only solve the urgent task. The most important thing is to transfer a large amount of grain from the central granary with abundant grain. .

However, the central granary is more than 1000 miles away from the northeast. In order to prevent the team from encountering bandits on the way, Feng Jin recruited an army of 500 people from the local area to escort the grain.

But something went wrong, the food was robbed, and the 500-man army was wiped out.

The news was urgently sent to the imperial capital at [-] li on the third day. At that time, Feng Jin read the excerpts all night, and worked hard for disaster relief for several days, exhausted both physically and mentally. When the news arrived, Feng Jin swayed and almost fainted .

Pei Xiu was the closest to her, and quickly supported her, "Your Majesty, calm down!"

Feng Jin closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths, then slowly opened her eyes, and said coldly, "Check! The army of 500 people, all the food was robbed, it can't be done by bandits, there are not so many bandits." People, you don’t have the guts! Check! See if someone has colluded with bandits and greedy for food!”

The imperial decree was sent down layer by layer. On the one hand, the missing grain was thoroughly investigated. On the other hand, a small batch of grain was quickly transferred from other granaries for emergency. They're about to riot.

When there is a riot, it is not only a matter of suppression, but more of the farmland will be destroyed, the people will be killed and injured, and the people's hearts will be unstable. It will be even more difficult to regain their vitality.

But the second batch of food was robbed again. This time, the army of hundreds of people was wiped out again.

After the news came, Feng Jin was so angry that he knocked down the third pear tree long table in the Imperial Study Room.

(End of this chapter)