Zai Chun couldn't sit still. One look at Er Mao's anxious face and he knew that the news would definitely not be good. The capabilities of the Chinese intelligence agency were obvious to all, and the Chinese must know the reason why the foreign devils were selling.
Zai Chun looked at the ministers in the palace and said, "Your Majesty! Please move to speak..."
Emperor Tongzhi's heart skipped a beat, knowing that something big had happened, and nodded, "Come to Meiwu!"
The monarch and his ministers walked around to Meiwu. No one was around to disturb them. Ermao did not dare to neglect and said, "Your Majesty! The disaster outside the capital is a hundred times more serious than what the court officials reported!"
"Zhili, Shanxi, northern Henan, northern Shandong... have all fallen, and the local squires have stopped providing disaster relief long ago!"
"Ah! How could this happen?" Zai Chun felt a chill in his heart, his feet softened and he sat directly on the stone bench.
"It's a rat plague, a very serious rat plague... After the snow disaster, there is a food shortage, and people have no way to survive, let alone rats! There are conflicts between rats and people grabbing food everywhere!"
"And the rats also brought the plague. Small-scale plague has broken out in many places. This disaster was too sudden! When the local squires saw that the situation was not good, they urgently stopped the relief. They locked the granary and never stopped. Willing to release food!"
"The less food there is, the more people go to the countryside to find food. Nowadays, in many prefectures and counties, even the roots and bark of trees have been dug up, and the mice are almost starving to death!"
"What's even more frightening is that with the rat plague,... nursery rhymes actually appeared in various places!"
"The squirrel wishes you a happy New Year every year, and the yellow mouse wishes you a happy New Year every year! In the Year of the Rat, the Rat wishes you a happy New Year, and it will be lively every year... Lively and lively, it's all good after the excitement, it's all good, it's over!"
"Your Majesty... nursery rhymes and prophecies have only aggravated the people's fear... There have been waves of refugees in some places!"
"Hehe...hehehe...hahahaha...this is my court, hahahaha...this is my country!" Zai Chun has completely understood the cause of the matter. The local official's concealment was due to the sudden change of the disaster situation. Serious root cause.
Er Mao wiped away his tears, "Your Majesty! The foreign devils have their own independent intelligence network. They have long known the true disaster situation from the refugees' mouths. They sold their stocks out of their disapproval of the market!"
"The same is true for Shanxi merchants and Chinese businessmen. They do business among the people and can better understand the truth of the matter. When the future prospects of the market are not good, who can't be safe?"
"Then...where is the Chinese embassy? They have known it for a long time, why didn't they tell me..." Zai Chun couldn't continue talking until he was halfway through speaking.
He himself has no shame in blaming the Chinese embassy. What does it have to do with you? Why should people share information with you?
Since the establishment of the Chinese Embassy, Cai Bixia has served as the special envoy. Her status is very special. This is the general specially selected by Xiao Letian!
With military status, the earliest batch of senior officers in the navy were the apples of the Ryukyu Tsai family's eye, and they were also disciples of the head of state, so they were considered to be Zai Chun's senior sisters.
Cai Bixia was in the capital and would give Zai Chun some care. In addition, Xiao Letian always cared about Zai Chun's every move, so Emperor Tongzhi was able to get a lot of care from his masters.
Needless to say, a little reminder from the intelligence side helped him a lot!
Zai Chun has always regarded this kind of help as a matter of course, but what happened today frightened him!
It turns out... what helped me... was just the personal friendship between master and senior sister. This was a personal relationship and not the Chinese people's feelings for me!
When the senior sister was away from the capital and the master was busy with diplomacy, these Chinese staff who stayed behind didn't even bother to talk to him.
Not to mention sharing information, I might even send you false information!
If Er Mao hadn't relied on his status as the adopted son of the head of state, I'm afraid the truth wouldn't have come out today!
"Haha... A lonely person... Only today did I know what a lonely person is... Hahaha..." Zai Chun staggered back with a sad smile. When he got to the plaque of "I'm in trouble for you" in Xinan Pavilion, His expression had returned to its former determination.
It is not only perseverance, but also has a metallic luster of steel. How can you govern this country without a heart of stone!
"Er Mao... tell the adults about the information you just obtained, and let them see what is going on in the Qing Dynasty!"
Er Mao told the information again with an expressionless face. The ministers were all dumbfounded when they heard it, and their faces were all blue, especially the officials of the Military Aircraft Department. After hearing this, they knelt down and did not dare to do it again. stand up.
The truth after the truth came out was even more horrifying. Local disasters intensified, and even nursery rhymes and prophecies appeared, but the local officials in the prefecture and county collectively concealed the truth!
Judging from the current intelligence, these bastards concealed the information for at least ten days!
Maybe in the eyes of these people, more than ten days is nothing, and the death of tens of thousands more people is just a few numbers on the memorial, and there will be no trouble.
Indeed, in the Middle Ages, the emperor could not see any difference between early relief for ten days and late relief for ten days. He did not even know the real number of local deaths.
Everything can be faked, this is an official game that has been played for thousands of years!
But people have forgotten that today's Qing Dynasty is no longer the era of isolation in the past, and Emperor Tongzhi's reform also brought many new things.
The stock market, a market that relies on commercial capital, has its own operating efficiency. Your local officials can hide it from the emperor, but you can't hide it from the sense of smell of the capital market!
As a result, the emperor didn’t know anything, and the capital market collapsed first!
"Come on, come on... My dear friends, let's discuss this! They are all mute? They are all silent... How should we clean up this mess now!"
"What are you going to do with these bastards who are deceiving the court? They are all talking...Why are you pretending to be mute!"
At this time, Chengzhi and other princes were finally resurrected. They were pampered princes who did not have to manage the specific affairs of the government. As soon as they heard about the local civil servants, they immediately started clamoring.
"Ah! It turns out that these scholars did dirty things! Damn... they actually let us, the Eight Banners, take the blame? The responsibility for the stock market crash actually rests on my head!"
"Weng Tonghe...Li Hongzao...where is your education? Baojun...Yinggui...how do you, the Minister of Military and Aircraft, manage it?"
"I was scolded in vain, and I shed so much blood in vain..."
"Shut up!" Prince Dun glared and scolded, "How long has it been? Do you have the right to complain? Is it more important for the court or for you personally?"
"If you dare to talk nonsense again, even if Long Live the Lord does not punish you, I will break your legs!"
When Prince Zheng saw Yi Pei with a murderous look on his face, he didn't dare to speak, and he walked back to the class with a pinched neck!
At this moment, there was a little eunuch kneeling at the door of the Yangxin Hall. He was too afraid to go in. Zai Chun caught him from the corner of his eye, "Who is kneeling outside? Why don't you come in..."
The little eunuch was so frightened that his teeth chattered. "Your Majesty... the telegraph room just... just received... the closing... point of the stock market..."
"Three o'clock... closing at three o'clock... 4933 points..."
"Ah! Drag him out and beat him to death... Beat him to death!" Zai Chun lost control and ordered with eyes wide open. Da Sixi and the others quickly dragged the unfortunate guy out and stuffed him into a mass grave and beat him to death.
"Ah...hahaha...God, this is my Qing Dynasty..."
