The emperor always wants to promise himself

Chapter 303
Tsing Yi glanced at her with a smile: "What do you think? Of course it's silver! If it's 200 million gold, can I get it back? But I glanced at the records in this account book, and the large amount of silver has been added since the past two years. It wasn’t there before, if you started to be greedy when you first took office, it’s probably more than this number.”

Ning Zhao frowned and looked at Xiao Yu, and said in disbelief: "It is estimated that Mrs. Han suppressed him before and did not let him let go. Now that Mrs. Han has passed away, he has no scruples, so he started to collect money."

Xiao Yu reached out to take the account book, "These are the accounts on the bright side? They are so beautifully done, I'm afraid he can't do it with his brain."

"Master means—" As soon as Han Yi approached, Xiao Yu threw the account book into his arms: "Send someone to check, is there any cronies around Gou Buyuan who are particularly good at accounting? Come to me and ask him to explain where Gou Buyuan spent his money and who he colluded with."

"Yes."

Hanyi beckoned a Xuanyi guard and told him to go.

Xiao Yu picked up the real account book in Tsing Yi's hand again, and after flipping through two pages, she saw that it was densely filled with the gold and silver treasures collected over the years. It's done in one go, and a big hole is directly patched. Take this account book to check the warehouses, banks, and shops in Goubuyuan, and ask them to spit out the money. If it doesn't match, ask those concubines to ask for it, and collect the money. , without our hands, all the boxes are sealed and piled up in the Yongcheng government office, and the money can be used for disaster relief."

"This subordinate will send someone to handle it." Feng Jiang yelled, took the account book and led the people away.

Seeing that everyone was moving, Ning Zhao looked at Xiao Yu: "My lord, what shall we do?"

Xiao Yu walked down the steps: "Go to the government office to have a look, gather everyone together, first understand the disaster situation, and prepare to distribute cotton clothes and white porridge."

……

The government office in Yongcheng is in the east of the city, the terrain is relatively high, and the government office is very rich. When Xiao Yu entered, he saw a few government officials standing or sitting, lazily in a daze in the courtroom.

"Everyone in Yongcheng Mansion is more comfortable than the other."

Xiao Yu exhaled lightly, and then gave a clear drink: "Stand up for me——"

Those yamen servants were startled by the sudden sound, one of them jumped up from the chair, and one of them fell to the ground without standing still, and got up in a hurry.

They looked at each other, and after looking at each other, they looked at Xiao Yu suspiciously.

Xiao Yu looked at them indifferently, "This king is an imperial envoy appointed by His Majesty, and he has come to Suizhou to supervise and relieve the disaster. I don't know if I don't come. It turns out that Yongzhou City is like this."

The yamen servants looked panic-stricken, they pushed each other, pushed out a leader, the man helped his hat, and after standing still, he asked tremblingly: "You...you said you are the prince, Is there any proof?"

Xiao Yu untied the token from his waist and threw it over: "Look for yourself."

The yamen servant hurriedly reached out to catch it, took it over and took a look, and sure enough there was a big "Xiao" character engraved on it.

Immediately, his legs softened and he knelt down, "The little one has blind eyes, didn't recognize the lord, so I offended you just now, please forgive me, lord!"

The people behind also knelt down after hearing the words, "I have seen the lord, the lord forgive me!"

Xiao Yu looked at them coldly, and didn't tell them to get up, but asked: "Which one of you is in charge, the one who knows more about the snow disaster in Suizhou, stand up."

After a moment of silence, the leading yamen servant stood up: "Young Cui Zhong is the head of the yamen servants here. If you have any orders from the lord, just tell the young one."

"Go in and talk."

"Yes."

Xiao Yu and his group walked past the yamen servants all over the floor, but no one mentioned the matter of asking them to stand up. They couldn't figure out Xiao Yu's attitude, and the yamen servants did not dare to stand up without authorization, and just knelt on the cold ground.

Entering the lobby, Xiao Yu sat at the bottom, Ning Zhao stood beside her, Han Yi stood behind her, Xuanyiwei and Xuanying Army who followed were guarding outside the lobby, Cui Zhong walked in front of Xiao Yu, and stood in front of her. Under such pressure, I couldn't help but want to kneel down.

Xiao Yu warmed his hands and said, "Don't kneel down, just stand up and say, which of the five cities in Suizhou is the most severely affected, where is the lightest, where is the scarcity of supplies, and where are the victims of the most violent riots, where is the garrison?"

A series of questions came to him, Cui Zhong was stunned for a while, and then he slowly figured it out, he said: "Back to the prince, among the five cities in Suizhou, the disaster in Zuncheng is the worst, Yuncheng is the lightest, and the one with the most serious riots is Zhengzhou." It is Yuncheng, and it is also Yuncheng that lacks the most supplies."

"Since Zuncheng was the hardest hit, why is it Yuncheng?" Ning Zhao asked in bewilderment.

Cui Zhong looked at her, then at Xiao Yu, and seeing that Xiao Yu had no objection, he guessed in his heart that this girl was not an ordinary person, so he explained to her: "Miss doesn't know, Pan Ru, the magistrate of Yuncheng, is a bully." Lord Gou, after the snow disaster, Lord Gou ordered the grain to be transported to Yongcheng, and he immediately distributed half of the grain in the city. gone?"

Cui Zhong also couldn't understand Gou Buyuan's deeds, but after all, he was under the eaves, he had seniors and juniors, and if he didn't listen to Gou Buyuan, he could only lead his family to starve to death.

But now that Gou Buyuan was in prison, his backlog of dissatisfaction erupted, and he unconsciously brought a bit of disdain when he spoke: "At that time, there was another fight on the border, and Master Gou was frightened, and immediately sent Yongcheng and Yun The city's garrison troops have all been transferred to the border, and there is still trouble at the border."

"There was no garrison in Yuncheng, and the victims made a fuss. Pan Ru borrowed troops from the old city. Now the gate of Yuncheng is closed, and the victims and refugees are locked outside the city. No one is allowed to enter. The victims have nowhere to go. You can go, wander around."

Xiao Yu listened quietly for a moment, then suddenly asked: "What happened to those corpses outside the city?"

Cui Zhong was startled for a moment, and his face sank immediately, but he was not directed at Xiao Yu, but at Gou Buyuan.

"It's a long story, little one... Sigh!" He sighed heavily, knelt down again, and kowtowed, "Please forgive me, my lord, those people are actually victims of disasters in Yongcheng. All the shops in Yongcheng were closed, the rice and grain were running out, and the people went to the government when they were hungry, but Gou Buyuan refused to give it to them and only asked them to pay a high price.

But..." Cui Zhong showed shame on his face: "But the unarmed common people are not the opponents of the government servants, some of them were suppressed, and Gou Buyuan ordered these people to be driven out of the city..."

"You——" Ning Zhao clenched her hands tightly and said through gritted teeth, "So you let people go outside to fend for themselves? It was so snowy and cold that night...how can you bear it?"

(End of this chapter)