Zhao Yu glanced down and said calmly: "Speak."
Chu Ziwen, the imperial censor, bowed and saluted, and said with a serious face: "Your Majesty, the floods in Lingchuan Mansion have become more and more serious. The flood season started in late July and has lasted for more than a month. The dams along the river are in disrepair and have been washed away by heavy rains. There is absolutely nothing we can do in the face of the surge in river water. Now Lingchuan Mansion has almost become a vast ocean, and the people have been destroyed. Please make a quick decision to save the people from the fire and water."
As soon as the words fell, the entire Tai Chi Hall was in an uproar, and whispers broke out one after another.
"We only knew that there were heavy rains in Lingchuan Prefecture, but we didn't expect such floods to happen!"
"The disaster is so serious, what does the prefect of Lingchuan Prefecture do for food, and why is it concealed and not reported?"
"Also, if the embankment hadn't been destroyed by the flood, how could the flooding be so serious? It has been in disrepair for a long time? It seems that the Ministry of Works also needs to take care of it!"
Seeing everyone talking to each other in the entire hall, which was almost turning into a vegetable market, Zhao Yu frowned slightly and signaled Gao Lishi with his eyes.
Gao Lishi understood and swung the whisk down in his hand.
"Snapped!"
Only an explosion was heard, suppressing all the noise in the hall.
Gao Lishi looked at the people in the hall and said sharply:
"quiet!"
The Taiji Hall instantly became quiet.
"Chu Qing, please continue."
After hearing this, Chu Ziwen, the imperial censor, continued to report: "Your Majesty, I believe that the top priority is to appease the victims and prevent civil unrest. What's more, if anyone among the refugees is connected with the Qi State, the entire eastern coast may be plunged into chaos. In turmoil.”
Zhao Yu couldn't help but nodded when he heard this.
Lingchuan Prefecture is located in the southeast of Dachu, adjacent to Jinghai and Ningjiang Prefectures. Across the river from these two prefectures are the three Jiangbei Prefectures that were captured by Qi during the Ming Dynasty.
The civil uprising is not terrible. What is terrible is that Qi State sent troops to cross the river, echoing the civil uprising in Lingchuan Prefecture.
If that time comes, Jinghai and Ningjiang will be in danger!
"Minister, I implore your Majesty to open warehouses to help the people, and at the same time ask the neighboring prefectures and counties to do their best to accommodate the victims, and never allow the victims to turn into a civil uprising."
Zhong Yi, the Minister of Punishment, also made a memorial.
As soon as he finished speaking, a cold snort sounded in the hall.
"Hmph! Zhong Shangshu, opening the warehouse to put food in is easy to say!"
Ma Xinyi, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, stood up and said with a gloomy face:
"Not to mention the tens of thousands of victims, even if all the grain stored in the granaries of surrounding counties were transported to Lingchuan Prefecture, it would still be a drop in the bucket, and there would be no way to fill so many mouths!
What's more, you must not forget that although the past two years were good years, in recent years, the Dian Kingdom has been eyeing the southwest, and our army had to gather heavily here. These tens of thousands of soldiers were chewed by horses, and the frontier troops had insufficient food and grass. . The Queen Mother once issued an edict, ordering nearly one-third of the grain reserves in the Ministry of Household Affairs to be transported to the southwest to be used as military rations.
The remaining grain stored in several major granaries in Kyoto Prefecture can now barely supply the operations of Kyoto Prefecture and surrounding prefectures.
If the granaries are opened to release grain as Zhong Shangshu said, it is unknown whether the victims will starve to death, but the hundreds of thousands of people in Kyoto Prefecture, as well as you and my ministers, Your Majesty, will starve to death! "
On the dragon chair, Zhao Yu looked at the quarrel between Ma Xinyi, the Minister of Revenue, Zhong Yi, the Minister of Punishment, and Chu Ziwen, the imperial censor, and his eyes gradually narrowed.
The confrontation between these three people was actually the confrontation between the General of the Fu Kingdom and the Queen Mother Xuande behind the scenes. Even when Emperor Daxing was on the throne, such scenes were commonplace.
But today, Zhao Yu smelled something unusual.
In the past, it was just a simple verbal exchange, but today, even the royalist Chu Ziwen also participated. After a few rounds, Ma Shangshu broke out in cold sweat on his temples.
"Ma Shangshu, I would like to ask you, during the reign of Emperor Daxing, there were droughts and floods in our country. However, at that time, the Ministry of Revenue opened warehouses to release grains, but they released them as they were told, without any discounts. . How come in just a few years, the Ministry of Household Affairs doesn’t even have enough grain to open a warehouse for disaster relief?”
Imperial Censor Dr. Chu Ziwen asked with a sneer.
"You...surnamed Chu, you are slandering others and slandering your colleagues!"
When Ma Xinyi heard what the other party said, he was so angry that he trembled all over.
"Hmph, Master Ma, you know very well whether I am a slanderer or not!"
Chu Ziwen snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and robe, turned around and saluted Zhao Yu, who was sitting on the dragon chair, and said:
"Your Majesty, Chu Ziwen, the imperial censor, impeached Ma Xinyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, for accepting bribes and embezzling the grain reserves of the Ministry of Finance. The amount was very large! He impeached Ma Xian, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, for neglecting his duties, substituting inferior products, and even facing floods. The dams built by Lingchuan Prefecture will become soft as soon as they are soaked, and they will collapse as soon as they are washed away, otherwise, why would the floods be so severe that the lives of the people will be lost and the people will be displaced!"
Upon hearing this, all the officials in the palace subconsciously raised their eyes to look at the figure sitting on the dragon chair.
The storm is coming!
Ma Xinyi looked at the silent figure on the dragon throne, and his heart fell straight down.
Also, as the leader of the Queen Mother's Party, how could the new emperor find him so pleasing to the eye that he wished he could disappear from the court as soon as possible.
After hearing the two people's verbal exchanges, Zhao Yu couldn't help but be speechless secretly.
Good guy, this Chu Ziwen is indeed the number two figure in the Supervisory Council. He wants to impeach two ministers if they disagree with each other. His fighting power is simply off the charts.
"Two Ma Qings, do you two have anything to say?"
A moment later, Zhao Yu's deep voice sounded in the Tai Chi Hall.
"Your Majesty, I am very old. Most of the matters in the Ministry of Industry are handled by Zuo Shilang. What I said is not to shirk responsibility. All my colleagues in the ministry can testify."
Ma Xian, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, walked out of the queue tremblingly and said slowly.
As soon as he said this, Liang Zhuo could feel a murderous gaze directed towards him from the throne without raising his head.
Damn old man Ma!
Liang Zhuo cursed secretly in his heart and was about to come out to defend himself when he saw a figure flash past the corner of his eye, followed by a familiar voice that was no longer familiar to him.
"My lord, Liu Bo, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, is willing to guarantee with his life that Ma Shangshu will never say anything false. Since last year, Ma Shangshu often complained that he was ill at home, and all affairs in the Ministry of Industry have been handled by Liang Zhuo, the left minister."
You, you, you... Liu Laosan, you are adding insult to injury, you will not die!
As soon as Liu Bo said these words, Liang Zhuo felt dizzy and his whole body was cold.
On the throne, Zhao Yu nodded, indicating that he was aware of it, and then looked at the other party involved, Ma Xinyi, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue.
Sensing the emotionless gaze, Ma Xinyi, the Minister of Household Affairs, felt his heart suddenly sink.
I am a member of the Queen Mother's Party, but the relationship between the Queen Mother and His Majesty does not seem to be harmonious.
Even the most important coronation ceremony, Queen Mother Xuande did not show up.
Now, faced with such a situation, what should I do?
As the saying goes, ants are greedy for life, let alone humans?
Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and he calmed down. Until now, he could only bite the bullet and said:
"Your Majesty, all the grain stored in the many granaries of the Ministry of Household Affairs have been registered. Whether the minister is corrupt or not, your Majesty will know in one check! The minister has been an official for decades and has been working conscientiously. He has never accepted a bribe, nor has he ever embezzled half a penny of grain. ! Dr. Chu’s impeachment is a complete rant, made out of nothing! It’s a naked slander!”
After hearing this feeble explanation, Zhao Yu secretly sneered in his heart.
Oh, since ancient times, corrupt officials have always said this...
Chu Ziwen, the imperial censor, snorted coldly and said:
"Ma Shangshu, whether this is corruption or not does not mean that you have said otherwise. Although your Majesty has just ascended the throne, he has inherited the wisdom of the previous emperors and knows every detail at a glance! Your Majesty, I sincerely ask you to hand it over to the Supervisory Yuan for investigation, and we will surely find out Prove evidence that the Minister of Ma is greedy for money and food!"
Hearing this, Zhao Yu almost couldn't help laughing.
Good guy, it turns out that they are not just corrupt officials, the crow censors in this censorship station have also been the same from ancient times to the present.
As long as they give an order from above, they can pick out the bones from the eggs for you.
However, you can't say that these censors have no evidence and are completely false accusations.
After all, they have the right to hear rumors and report things. It is the instinct of these crows to listen to wind and rain.
