Those who can be comforted are comforted, and those who should be appeased are also appeased, and now they can only wait for Cao Song to arrive in Beijing.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Cao family is simply "declining and unlucky", either this is sick or that dismissed, Cao Hao, the head of the family, should be unhappy in his heart.

In fact, it does.

It's not for Cao Song's business, but it's time for the household department to get busy.

Zhang Tingyu is in charge of the Ministry of Seals, and the errand on the side of the Ministry of Household is naturally more on Cao Hao.

In order to show his "grace", he did not take Cao Hao's "part-time Ministry of Works" away, so every three days Cao Hao had to spare half of his efforts to deal with the government affairs of the Ministry of Industry.

Although the floods in the south have just come to an end, preparations for disaster relief this winter and next spring must begin.

The floods in the spring and summer of this year are once in a century, even if Li Wei has already mentioned the matter of damming and flood control, Yongzheng has also allocated money to the past, but the officials below have dragged out, and less than 30% of the people who really built the embankment and prepared the fortifications before the flood came.

In 336 prefectures and counties in 43 prefectures in six southern provinces, millions of Li Shu were affected. This figure is reported now, and there are some new states and counties, which have not been reported.

It is necessary to reduce or exempt taxes and provide money and grain according to the different disaster conditions.

This is a cumbersome errand, but fortunately, there are various departments responsible for the province, and Cao Hao, who is in charge of the hall, only needs to supervise.

In addition to the heavy government affairs of the Ministry of Household and Industry, what he was depressed about was the word "relief".

Since ancient times, there have been fewer officials in "disaster relief"?

He can have a clear conscience, but he can't guarantee that others won't lose their hearts.

If he continues to connive, not only will he be sorry for the people, but when the East Window incident happens, he will also bear the "crime of negligence".

Whether it is from the conscience or from the current situation of the Cao family, Cao Hao is unwilling to bear this crime.

Now the first thing he thinks about is to take precautions, think of a proper method, formulate the detailed rules for various disaster relief, and pass this through the royal approval to form a will. In this way, officials at all levels have a law to follow.

If anyone commits any of these crimes, no one else will be implicated.

He studied law in his last life, and in this life, he often turned to the Qing Dynasty, and now he finally found the time to "show his strengths".

In addition, Jiang Jian, a staff member from a criminal name, picked up the gaps and filled in the gaps, Cao Hao stayed up in the study until midnight every night, spent a small half a month of hard work, changed the draft three times, and finally drafted a disaster relief note.

On the evening of August 30, Cao Hao's relief slip was presented to the emperor.

There are more than 30,000 words in this article, starting from the officials of the household department, to the governors and envoys, to the Taoist platform, to the prefect, to the prefecture and county, to the small officials who do not enter the stream, and the scope of responsibility of each person in the relief is clearly marked.

This is not Cao Hao's fabrication out of thin air, but the division of duties and powers according to the disaster relief records of the household department over the years.

It's just that everyone's role in disaster relief was mostly conventional, and now Cao Hao is literal.

Then, the corresponding punishment is the slackness of errands, small mistakes, fallacies, etc., and naturally greed and blackmail are among the felonies.

Each of them is in line with the laws of the Qing Dynasty, and there is no transgression.

It stands to reason that since there is a punishment for a bad job, there should be a reward for a good job, but Cao Hao is not a fool, so he will not bother to think thanklessly about how to encourage and praise officials, etc., you can think of those and can do only Yongzheng.

Yongzheng was most disgusted with the officials' greed for ink, and when he saw this fold, he immediately understood Cao Hao's deep meaning.

This is a first-of-its-kind excerpt.

If this relief policy is carried out in accordance with the regulations, even if it cannot be put an end to the officials' greed for money and food, they will no longer be implicated as in the past.

An innocent person is wronged, and a correction of innocence is a shocking case.

Yongzheng's eyes lit up, and he raised his head and instructed Chen Fudao: "Go and invite Prince Yi." ”

Yongzheng was worried about the thirteenth elder brother's body and didn't want him to suffer from running around, so he left a duty room for the thirteenth elder brother in the side hall of the Qinzheng Palace. When the thirteenth elder brother was late on an errand, he stayed in the garden to settle down.

Because it was said that it was a big court meeting, Yongzheng Fang discussed the government with the thirteenth elder brother until late at night, and then let the thirteenth elder brother out, and the thirteenth elder brother was placed in the side hall.

Now, Yongzheng was hooked by this fold, so he couldn't help but send the thirteenth elder brother to come over to discuss.

One time less, the thirteenth elder brother came in with Chen Fu.

Yongzheng glanced at the thirteenth elder brother and instructed Chen Fudao: "Go get a velvet blanket." ”

Chen Fu went down in response, and the thirteenth elder brother looked at the clock, which was already approaching, and said, "Ming said that there is still a dynasty, and the emperor is better to settle it earlier......

Yongzheng pointed to the side of the kang, looked at the thirteenth elder brother sitting down, and said, "The thirteenth brother is not also placed!" I was about to sleep, but when I saw a good thing, I was refreshed again......" he said, picking up the fold from the kang table and handing it to the thirteenth elder brother.

In private, the two of them are less restrained by monarchs and ministers, and more at ease as brothers.

It's not that the thirteenth elder brother is pampered and coquettish, but he knows how to get along like this, and he thinks the most with the emperor.

"What a thick excerpt...... It's two inches tall......" The thirteenth elder brother took the fold and said with a smile.

Yongzheng smiled but didn't say anything, only raised his eyebrows, and motioned for him to open it.

The thirteenth elder brother opened it, put away his smile, and showed a little solemnity.

It is said that the thirteenth elder brother is now in charge of the household department, and he should first look at these folds of the household department, and then hand them to the front of the emperor according to the complexity and simplicity; It's just that the emperor is used to bowing down to everything, and the thirteenth elder brother's health in the past two years is not as good as before, but the emperor has seen the excerpt below, and he needs the direct approval of the holy judge, and the excerpt that does not need to be decided by himself will be assigned to the thirteenth elder brother.

Therefore, Cao Hao's fold, Yongzheng saw it first, and the thirteenth elder brother, the prince in charge, saw it.

At this moment, Chen Fu had already crept in, holding a navy blue camel hair blanket in his hand.

"Cover the prince on his lap...... Yongzheng commanded in a low voice.

"Who......a," Chen Fu replied in a low voice, and approached to cover the blanket on the thirteenth elder brother's legs.

The thirteenth elder brother was fascinated by it, and he didn't realize it.

Yongzheng smiled, picked up another unapproved fold and looked at it.

For a moment, the room was silent, except for the occasional flipping...... After a full quarter of an hour, the thirteenth elder brother raised his head, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then continued to look.

Yongzheng smiled and shook his head, and did not interrupt him, only instructed Chen Fu to light two more candlesticks.

The palace royal candlestick, one candlestick can light nine candles, all of which are one and a half feet high mutton fat white wax.

The two candlesticks were added, and the room was immediately brightened again...... After another quarter of an hour, the thirteenth elder brother raised his head again, but sighed heavily.

Yongzheng put down the pen in his hand and said, "Do you regret it?" ”

The thirteenth elder brother was surprised: "The emperor also remembered the events of the past? ”

Yongzheng said: "It seems that there is nothing wrong with using the word cautious at a critical time...... That year, I and my thirteenth brother were ordered by Emperor Ama to go to Jiangnan for disaster relief, but I didn't expect to make a fuss...... At that time, I was still thinking that there was the identity of the prince there, who would dare to fool me, but as a result, those silverfish colluded up and down, how much greed? It only suffers the innocent people ......"

The thirteenth elder brother sighed and said, "It's hard for Cao Hao to think of this, if he were someone else, I'm afraid it would be Xiao Gui Cao Sui...... Only he, an old man in the household department, knows that it is not easy to accumulate money and grain in the household treasury, and has been a magistrate, and knows that it is not easy for the people, so he will think of these ......"

Cao Hao seems to be "cautious" and refines the responsibility for disaster relief; But this "cautiousness" has lost its prudence again, and it seems to be more enthusiastic.

Yongzheng and the thirteenth elder brother glanced at each other, and both of them understood that Cao Hao's fold was a good thing for the country and the people, but for Cao Hao himself, it was "thankless", and he wanted to offend and warn a large number of people.

Yongzheng was very satisfied, nodded and said: "I finally got stingy, and I look like a famous minister......

The praise has already been praised, seeing that Yongzheng was interested, the thirteenth elder brother thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, this excerpt is very detailed, but it is mostly a money to prevent punishment, do you also want to supervise and reward one or two, show the emperor's grace?" ”

Yongzheng nodded with a smile and said, "It should be so." I want to let the ministers of the world know that those who dare to be greedy for ink will not be spared; A good official who is truly honest and the master of the people, I will not treat ...... badly."

* The next time, the Great Pilgrimage Meeting.

Although Cao's Mansion is close to the Forbidden City, Cao Hao still got up in the middle of the night because the holy car was stationed in the Old Summer Palace.

When he was about to arrive at Xizhimen, he happened to meet Zuozhu, and Cao Hao asked him to get into the carriage.

Although Zuo Zhu did a mediocre eight-share article, he would try to fall first, but because of his diligent reading in his early years, he read the four books and five classics steadily, and when he took the six-part pen post style, he was the same as Zuo Cheng, all of them were first-class, and he was given the top of the seven grades, and he also had to participate in the Great Dynasty Meeting.

"These days, there are a lot of things in the yamen at home, and I haven't bothered to ask, you have also moved over to the ancestral house for a while, how are you living?" Cao Hao asked.

Zuo Zhu said: "It's all good, the internal and external housekeepers are all the candidates selected by the second brother earlier...... The father-in-law doesn't have to worry about his son's side, and his son has grown up now......"

Cao Hao then asked, "What about over there, but are you still alive?" ”

Left "hehe" and said: "It's said that people are a little unaccustomed to it...... The son made a small kitchen, and the people in the grandmother's yard and the purchasers were also singled out, and they were not mixed with the others......

In this way, Mrs. Ning is not good at making trouble anymore, and she has no chance to reach out for housework.

Cao Hao nodded: "The world has multiple filial pieties, you do what you should do, take advantage of the righteousness, and others want to talk about it, but they also have to weigh it...... People are old, and their surnames are changeable and weird, so it's good that you know it in your hearts...... I still say the same thing, I didn't let your brothers be wronged when I was a child, and I didn't allow you to give yourself grievances and ......"

"Yes, father-in-law......" Zuo Zhu responded, hesitated, and asked: "Father-in-law, the second uncle is a military attaché, and he was dismissed from office because of the officialdom's right and wrong; On the second brother's side, did you also let him leave Jiangnan......

Cao Hao's earlier idea was also to hope that Zuo Cheng would have qualifications in the Sixth Department to make up for the lack of being born in the imperial examination.

But because of the current draft of the disaster relief article, Cao Hao's mind has changed.

Zuo Cheng is now in Hunan with Yin Jishan, Huguang and Liangjiang are the hardest hit areas by floods this year...... It's just that in that case, plus the credit of the previous inventory of the local official warehouse, Zuo Cheng's Tengda is not only in front of Zuo Zhu, but the gap between the two brothers will get bigger and bigger......

(To be continued)