Following the chamberlain to the side hall of the palace, Liang Yi slowly walked into the side hall after passing through the hall.
In the side hall, Emperor Zhou was looking through the memorials sent by Chu Mengde, with a very ugly expression on his face.
When Chu Mengde and Wang Deshui sitting on both sides saw Liang Yi's arrival, they stood up and saluted.
Because Ling Ziqi was injured, he took leave and went home to recuperate. He is expected to stay at home for a while.
Liang Yi slightly cupped his hands towards the two of them, then silently walked to the lower left corner of Emperor Zhou and stood there.
Although the prince has a noble status, there is no reason to sit down casually in front of the emperor.
After a long time, Emperor Zhou snorted loudly, smashed the memorial in his hand, and then cursed:
"These ungrateful things! They are worms that bring disaster to the country and the people! I am going to kill all nine of their tribes by digging up the foundation of the country!"
Then his face turned pale, his facial features twisted into a ball, and he leaned back on the seat in pain.
"emperor!"
"Your Majesty, please take care of your dragon body!"
Chu Mengde and Wang Deshui were shocked.
Emperor Zhou's personal servant, Eunuch Su, supported Emperor Zhou and anxiously ordered outside: "Quick, call the imperial doctor quickly."
Liang Yi walked straight to Emperor Zhou, raised Emperor Zhou's arm, and pressed Emperor Zhou's tiger's mouth with his thumb.
There is a Hegu point at the tiger's mouth of the human palm.
This acupuncture point has the effect of relieving pain, dredging the meridians and activating the meridians.
At the same time, repeated pressing can also calm the mood, making it a relatively versatile acupoint.
Liang Yi took less than half a cup of tea, and Emperor Zhou's face gradually calmed down.
At this time, the imperial doctor from the imperial hospital also hurriedly arrived.
After feeling the pulse and administering acupuncture, the imperial doctor did not come to any useful conclusion. He could only say that the emperor was suffering from anxiety, and then prescribed some medicine to calm the mind and nourish the qi.
Liang Yi sneered at the imperial doctor's diagnosis.
The imperial doctors in the palace were all timid and did not dare to prescribe strong medicines for unknown symptoms.
This is why many emperors in history died after recuperating from illness. Instead, there were many strange prescriptions among the people.
But this is normal.
The more valuable the patient's status, the more cautious the doctor will be.
After all, the cure is nothing more than a reward, but if the cure fails, the patient will be killed.
Doctor-patient disputes have indeed been a matter of millennia.
But then again, even though I was proficient in Chinese medicine, I didn't even see what was going on with Emperor Zhou.
When he was in Chaoyang Palace, he discovered that Emperor Zhou's face was pale and his breath was weak, but the frequency was very fast.
Liang Yi only sees this condition in patients with advanced lung cancer.
But Emperor Zhou's other conditions were very different from those of a cancer patient.
For example, patients with advanced cancer often become thin and skinny due to insufficient nutritional supply.
But look at Emperor Zhou, he is so fat from overwork...
It's obviously the breath of a dying person, but it doesn't look like it physically.
This left Liang Yi at a loss.
Judging from the current situation, Emperor Zhou will have to persist for quite some time.
After all, although he became a blockbuster at a poetry conference.
But it only retains the right to participate in chess, and it is still weak. If you want to win this game, you need more accumulation.
Emperor Zhou, who was leaning on the couch, didn't know what Liang Yi was thinking.
But even if he knew it, he wouldn't say anything.
After all, it was a fight for the right to be the heir, and family ties and the like had long since evaporated.
Just now I was so anxious that I had a splitting headache.
He saw Liang Yi coming to his side.
If Liang Yi chooses to send himself to see the late emperor at this time, he will not be surprised.
But unexpectedly, the prince just pinched his own tiger's mouth, and then the pain gradually eased a lot.
The kid was actually relieving his own pain.
Since the death of Queen Yizhuang, Emperor Zhou seemed to have become a different person.
There are no more fathers and sons in the palace, replaced by the father and his sons.
Even Liang Yi, his son with Queen Yizhuang and the prince.
When he was a prince, he did not show any preferential treatment to Liang Yi.
Even after Liang Yi became the prince, he no longer showed any unnecessary concern.
I don’t see you, but poor Princess Mingtong. She has not returned to the palace for more than ten years and has never met Emperor Zhou.
After Queen Yizhuang passed away, the happiest man in the world also died, leaving only a hard-hearted Emperor of Zhou!
He knew that he was not a good father, and his sons probably had little affection for him.
However, when the prince was relieving his pain just now, the worry in his eyes was real.
I couldn't help but feel a little moved in my heart.
But it was only for a moment. After the pain subsided, Emperor Zhou returned to his serious face again.
After returning to his right position, Emperor Zhou was back again.
"Prince, look at this."
After saying that, Emperor Zhou handed the memorial that Eunuch Su had picked up to Liang Yi.
Liang Yi didn't shirk it. After taking it with both hands, he looked through it directly.
This scene was witnessed by two important ministers, Chu Mengde and Wang Deshui.
The emperor's intention was already obvious, which was to involve the prince in politics and train the future prince.
Liang Yi did not shirk, which satisfied Emperor Zhou very much.
This proves that at least the prince can clearly see the current situation and his own situation, and he also has the intention to compete with the second and fourth princes for heirs.
Let’s talk about Liang Yi.
After opening the memorial, I resisted the discomfort of reading from right to left and analyzed it in detail.
This is a memorial about a corruption case.
It's normal. Chu Mengde is responsible for supervising all officials. Most of the memorials he submits are like this.
But the more he looked at it, the heavier Liang Yi's heart became.
When I saw what happened later, I even cursed in my heart.
These people even dared to embezzle the food used by the court to provide disaster relief. How many heads should they steal to sacrifice to the flag?
However, after turning the page, the heaviness in my heart turned into shock.
In the memorial, Chu Mengde densely recorded the grain that had been corrupted in small regular script:
"Changpingcang is short of 120,000 shi of grain"
"Yicang is short of 70,000 shi of food"
"The four Dacang prefectures of Xi'an, Baoding, Jinling, and Yong'an have a total food shortage of 200,000 shi."
"The capital's four warehouses are short of 1.3 million shi of food."
"There are gaps in all other prefectures and counties, totaling about one million stones."
One million shi of food? !
If this was not written on the memorial, Liang Yi would have asked if Chu Mengde, an old boy, had written it blindly.
One million stones of grain is equivalent to 500,000 taels of silver in current currency. In addition, it is a disaster year, and the price will rise more than ten times.
That's five million taels!
You know, the population of Dazhou is about 150 million, and the annual tax revenue is only 40 million taels of silver.
This corruption case cost one-eighth of Dazhou's annual income!
A corruption case of this level will go down in history.
Thinking of this, Liang Yi turned another page of the memorial.
On this page, Chu Mengde used smaller regular script.
The content of the previous page only shocked Liang Yi, but this page made Liang Yi's scalp numb.
I saw that the last page of this memorial was densely filled with names.
