"Why are you working so hard?" What Zhao Qi still couldn't understand was that the Emperor of Da Qi in front of him seemed to be too diligent.
Queen Zhao took a closer look at Zhao Qi and found that Zhao Qi's brows were full of vitality. It didn't look like he was pale due to something heavy. Then she realized that she might have misunderstood.
"Then let's discuss the surprise for the emperor..." Zhao Qi looked at the sleeping Emperor Daqi and asked with an extremely hesitant expression.
"Slow down for now, wait until the emperor has nothing to worry about." Empress Zhao thought for a while, the surprise would have to wait until the emperor has leisure time to be considered a surprise, and now it can only be regarded as a burden.
Qi Xingyun slept for three hours. He suddenly opened his eyes, gasped, sat up, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a shocked look on his face.
Queen Zhao looked at the emperor who was sitting up and asked with concern: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"
"I had nightmares about floods in the south of the Yangtze River. Tens of millions of people lost their land and worked together to conquer the capital. I dreamed that I died on Wenhua Tower." Qi Xingyun replied, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
Queen Zhao covered her mouth, frightened by the emperor's words, and said quickly: "Your Majesty, dreams are the opposite. Mr. Zhang Ge has already presided over disaster relief in the capital, arranging disaster relief and distributing relief food, etc. The emperor does not need to worry too much. "
Qi Xingyun did not believe that dreams were prophecies. He tended to think about things day by day and dream about things at night. He was thinking about the floods in Sujiang, so he naturally dreamed about it.
"Wang Yun! Send Mr. Zhang Ge's letter and prepare the car. We will drive back to the capital in a moment." Qi Xingyun wiped the sweat from his forehead and shouted loudly as he got up and lay down.
"You can pack up later, so you don't have to rush back to Beijing." Qi Xingyun said to Queen Zhao.
Zhao Qi had been working hard with him for several days, and it was still a bit hard.
"Yes." Queen Zhao said without hesitation.
Although she had already received the news that Qi Xingyun was returning to the capital, and had already packed up and prepared to return to the capital with the emperor, she was ready to do what the emperor said.
She didn't want to cause trouble to the emperor when he was busy.
The construction of Jingcheng Chidao is indeed an extremely wise decision! Qi Xingyun felt more and more that his original decision was correct.
At this time, it only takes two days to rush back to the capital from Aries City. No matter what trouble occurs, we can make it in time.
"I asked Mr. Zhang Ge not to follow the work-for-relief approach of the work-relief hospital. We will wait until the people have stabilized and resumed production before talking about work-relief."
"The top priority right now is to let the people eat, wear clothes, and not suffer from the cold, and let the doctors and students from the Royal Hospital go to the disaster area."
Qi Xingyun looked at Zhang Tingyu's notes and asked Wang Yun to memorize them.
Work-for-relief is conditional.
A sudden and large-scale disaster like a flood can lead to a civil commotion if you are not careful. Food is given only when you work. The hungry people of Daqi who have just experienced the flood, you let them work?
That is stimulating a popular uprising!
A few caring people took the lead and raised their voices, but they joined hands with dozens of states and counties to suffer the consequences.
The method of providing relief through work is not a universal approach. If relief through work is applied to any disaster, good governance will turn into bad governance.
Qi Xingyun used work for relief in the past, and the relief was a military disaster, but now it is a flood, and there is an essential difference.
"Your Majesty is kind and his kindness extends to all directions." Wang Yun wrote down what Qi Xingyun said and flattered him along the way.
Qi Xingyun ignored the obedient words and continued: "There is also the matter of the Suzhou magistrate escorting him to Beijing. Let's postpone it for the time being and let him perform meritorious service and provide disaster relief to the people."
Qi Xingyun's imperial edict to depose the prefect of Suzhou arrived in the capital and was quickly implemented.
But Zhang Ge was in Zhazi and begged for the Suzhou magistrate's favor.
Only then did Qi Xingyun understand why when he was in the capital, he was so busy all day long that he couldn't even finish the review. He felt that the entire Qi Dynasty was like a big funnel with too many things to handle. When I arrived in Qianzhou, I received various questions every day asking An Zhazi why.
These are all unspoken rules of the Da Qi Dynasty. The emperor is on an expedition to Liaodong County. He is located at the northeastern end of Da Qi. The war is more important than anything else.
The courtiers will immediately hand over all kinds of difficult matters to the Queen of the Supervisor and the Minister of the Auxiliary State to solve them.
This is all to prevent the emperor from being on the front lines and worrying about fires in the backyard.
The prefect of Suzhou did send a letter of greetings to the emperor, but he also reported the disaster situation in Suzhou to the court and cooperated in disaster relief.
OK.
Only then did Qi Xingyun understand the essential difference between Beijing officials and local officials.
It's too difficult to be a small official.
Although the Suzhou prefect has the highest official rank in Suzhou, he is still a prefect. If Zhang Tingyu hadn't interceded for him, this man would have been in trouble even after being imprisoned in the capital.
And he has ten thousand mouths, but he can't explain the unspoken rules clearly.
The reason why unspoken rules are unspoken rules is that they are rules that cannot be put on the table.
The prefect of Suzhou acted according to the unspoken rules, but he was a bit ungrateful. He did not report the disaster to the emperor, but reported it to Zhang Tingyu?
The Suzhou magistrate went to Xing Prison, and the Minister of Punishment had to accuse him of being disrespectful.
Otherwise, wouldn't it mean that the emperor misunderstood his ministers on this matter?
When it comes to choosing between the emperor being right or the emperor being wrong, no matter how upright the Minister of Punishment is, he can only choose the emperor is right with his eyes closed.
After Qi Xingyun figured out the twists and turns, he sighed again and again.
"Zha Zi from Qin Tian Jian asked if the praying platform has been built in advance to wait for the emperor to return to Beijing?" Wang Yun handed a zha Zi to the emperor.
"Why, Qin Tian Jian is going to ask me to ask ghosts and gods instead of the common people?" Qi Xingyun opened the book and said with a sneer.
However, Qi Xingyun hesitated again and again and decided to build a prayer platform to pray for the people in the flood-stricken areas.
The reason is very simple. It doesn't matter whether the emperor believes in ghosts or gods. What matters is that the people believe in it. Zhong'an did this to stabilize the people's hearts.
Qi Xingyun was very concerned about his posthumous name. After much consideration, he agreed to build a prayer platform to pray for the people in the disaster area.
Daqi's Baixin believes this, so it would be weird for him not to pray for blessings.
Qi Xingyun traveled all the way in a hurry. When he returned to the capital, he didn't even enter the city. He first went to Zhonghun Mountain outside the city to worship.
Buried here are the loyal souls who died in the war for several years. Every time Qi Xingyun went out or returned to the capital, he would rush to the loyal soul mountain to offer sacrifices, staring at the tens of thousands of names and asking himself.
Do you owe them anything for what you do and the government?
This is Qi Xingyun's habit of introspection. He doesn't think he is so wise, and he won't forget where his roots are because the courtiers photographed too many horses and floated to the sky.
"This year, I recaptured Liaodong County again. Da Qi soldiers killed tens of thousands of Han soldiers in formation. The Han people were defeated. They professed peace talks. I thought that Liaodong County's footing was not stable, so I asked the civil servants to quarrel with them and argue with them. Beat them next year!"
"I destroyed the entire Qianzhou City, and now I am preparing to build a new city..."
Qi Xingyun stroked the inscription of the Loyal Soul Inscription and murmured. There seemed to be a voice whispering in his ears, but it seemed as if there was no sound.
