On the day Zhao Shizhen left Beijing, Emperor Xiao Wanli in the Forbidden City was punished by his mother to kneel for an hour.

For no other reason, the little emperor was overjoyed by the coloring of the big copper ball, and couldn't sleep excitedly, so he ran to Kunning Palace with dark circles under his eyes early in the morning to inform Empress Dowager Li of the news, he wanted to sweep away the Quartet in the internal conquest of the universe, and his shoes ran away.

Before the matter was said, after her husband's early collapse, her only wish was to raise the little emperor Wanli as an adult, and Empress Dowager Li, who could take on the big responsibility, first set a punishment, and knelt for half an hour without the state of a king.

Xiao Wanli was frightened, stammered his great idea for the world, and then was fined for half an hour - it is not in line with the core values of the Chinese Imperial Family!

There is nothing else in the core values of the imperial family of the Chinese Empire, kings and officials must know that the people are the second to the noble society, and the second is the lightest, regardless of whether the emperors of the previous dynasties have done this well, the education they have received since childhood is this ultimate goal, the pursuit of national peace and security.

"Mencius" has more than 35,000 words, which is the most important of the "Four Books", and it is a compulsory examination point for the imperial examinations of all dynasties.

It's a great success to conquer everywhere, does such an emperor sound like a hegemon is majestic enough, and the people live comfortably?

Expanding territory is a blessing for future generations, and tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people have become casualties on paper, even if future generations do not seem to feel it particularly much.

But what if everyone had their own parents, wives and children, and everyone had their own story?

The emperor did not know the weight of life and death, and talked lightly about war.

Empress Dowager Li felt that kneeling for an hour was not wronged.

But the little emperor felt that he had been wronged, and knelt under the stone steps at the gate of Kunning Palace, his body was drooping his head, his eyes were closed, and his mind was full of different colors on the armillary sphere, and there were words in his mouth.

"Don't let me fight, I want to fight...... Blue, green, white, yellow, even if you punish me for kneeling for an hour, wait for me! ”

Empress Dowager Li didn't blame anyone, she just sat at the gate of Kunning Palace and watched Wanli bow her head and admit her mistakes, and while secretly wiping her tears, she violently drove away the palace maids and eunuchs who interceded for the emperor.

It is said that Yan's father is a filial son, the little emperor has no father early, and the woman is weak and her mother is strong, so Empress Dowager Li can only give up her mother's loving identity and educate the emperor like a strict father.

Zhao Shizhen, the initiator of the emperor's punishment for kneeling, did not know anything about what happened in the Forbidden City, and yesterday he led several horsemen and guards to receive the disaster relief money embezzled by the household department outside the city, and stayed at Yulinyi overnight with the 500 internal guards who escorted the silver taels.

After a good night's sleep, he rushed to Xuanfu in the early morning, and when he arrived at Yanqingwei, he saw Jiang Yuelin, the commander of the capital division and the official.

Zhao Shizhen came with an official position, and this disaster relief stained Chen Mu's silver light, and he was hung up in the household department to be sent to foreign affairs, a seven-grade civil official.

Don't look at the small official, he also brought the emperor's disaster relief edict and the cabinet to pass the letter of the chief official of Shanxi Datong, and transported more than 70,000 taels of silver behind him, and there were eunuchs, brocade guards, and Beijing camp sergeants around him, which was very majestic!

Of course, the eunuchs, Jinyi, and Jingjun are not taking care of him, there are four Nanyang Military Banner Army who really take care of him, and the rest of them are taking care of the 70,000 taels of disaster relief silver, as long as the letters and edicts are there, it is actually harmless for Brother Zhao to be there.

"Commander Jiang, in Zhao Shizhen, has long heard Chen Shuai mention the prestige of commanding the battle in the Juma River."

Jiang Yuelin was annoyed, I heard that there was an edict to send a household department to call him, and he galloped over on a fast horse, his nose was not a nose and his eyes were not eyes, even if he saw Zhao Shizhen following left and right and was a brocade and a eunuch, he still didn't want to deal with him.

The courtesies of the line are all thoughtful, but there is no superfluous word.

For no other reason, he was very busy, the generals on the Xuanfu side were not effective in encircling the victims, and the affected people in Datong ran to the face of the donkey race, and the huge Juyong Pass was guarded by him, and the people were not allowed to pass.

It's not from the Ministry of War!

However, as soon as he heard Chen Shuai, Jiang Yuelin blinked and asked Zhao Shizhen, "Chen Shuai of the Nanyang Military Mansion?" ”

Zhao Shizhen looked at the black talk, nodded with a smile: "Yes, I am a member of the Staff Bureau of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Nanyang Military Government, and I came to Beijing on business. ”

After all, the old department, because Chen Mu was there, fell into a lot of benefits, not to mention that now Chen Mu is powerful in Nanyang, Jiang Yuelin naturally smiled, but when he heard that Zhao Shizhen was going to hold the edict to transfer troops, he sighed, glanced at the people behind Zhao Shizhen and said: "Your Excellency, please follow me to the customs first, you can't go to the fork in the road, and Yanqingwei can't enter." ”

Zhao Shizhen heard that Jiang Yuelin had other intentions in his words, that is, the Destiny Silver Soldiers approached Juyong Pass and camped at the pass, and followed Jiang Yuelin towards the pass.

After several miles away, almost as soon as he saw the pass, he heard the chaotic noise on the other side of the pass, he glanced at Jiang Yuelin, and saw the commander of the helmet shook his head, and took him to the city without saying a word.

Zhao Shizhen was dumbfounded.

People, the city is densely packed with people, and the people who fled from Datong to Xuanfu are either sitting or lying, dragging their families and mouths in the road for several miles.

"This ......"

"There was a great drought in the west, and the governor ordered all the guards to strictly guard the army, and the price of grain rose sharply, and the governor and officials from all over the country issued an order to all guards, first, to put grain and give porridge, and second, to strictly guard against death, and not to let the victims cross the border."

"I just want to know how they got here!"

Jiang Yuelin was so angry that his whole face drooped when he mentioned this, and said: "Everyone wants to be a good person, anyway, they don't have a pass, let it go and say that the road is complicated and the soldiers are scarce, and in the end, the people are all put here to Lao Tzu." ”

"Lao Tzu also wants to let it go, but his mother has something to do with it, this has to be put over, and the master of Jingshi is not allowed to pick up Lao Tzu's official?"

"The porridge has also been given, the sweet potatoes outside the mouth have grown well in the past two years, and more than half of the grain stored in the guard has been released, if there are one or two thousand people I can feed in Yanqing, and I can't put it in the west. At first, people built wooden sheds and porridge sheds outside the guard, and seven days ago the grain was enough for April, but yesterday it was only enough for half a month. ”

"In the morning, when the porridge was thin, the people ran to the pass to enter Shuntian."

"You are from the staff department under Chen Shuai, you give your brother an idea, I let the people go, how can I get rid of the crime." Jiang Yuelin raised his elbow and touched Zhao Shizhen, and whispered: "I sent all the soldiers to Wanquan, saying that it was to assist in defense, and only five hundred were left at the pass, and then I said that I couldn't hold it, do you think I can get away with it?" ”

Zhao Shizhen looked at the victims of the pass, and then looked at Jiang Yuelin, and blinked in a daze: "Why do you want to get rid of the crime, the hungry people have no food to eat, so they have to cross the border and enter Beijing, and bring the government to provide disaster relief silver, as long as you buy rice and grain in Xuanfu, the dilemma will be solved." ”

"It's not a matter of silver taels now, if it's normal, these people are not short of that little money to buy grain, it will rise to four taels at noon on three taels and one stone in the morning, how much silver is enough to buy grain sent by the imperial court, I Yanqing Wei soup porridge has lost thousands of taels of silver!"

Zhao Shizhen was already at a loss, "So expensive? ”

"Huh, so expensive?" Jiang Yuelin sneered, raised his arm and pointed: "You ask how the government collects taxes, it's strange that the price of grain is not expensive when it catches up with the disaster!" ”