The eldest daughter of the peasant family just wants to start a career

Chapter 73

The distance between them was too far, and the figure was blocked by the room, so she could only vaguely see many people walking back and forth in the room through the window.

After staring at it for a while, after confirming that there was no new news, Mu Zhixu left.

For the past few days, she has been staying in the cave and guarding, day and night turned upside down, and she can't go anywhere during the day, just to catch up on sleep.

The firewood stored in the cave before was almost used up, and she planned to bring some more back home this time.

The most indispensable thing in the mountain forest is wood. Most of the surrounding vegetation is green. Except for the small grass trees, the towering trees still have lush branches and leaves as usual, and occasionally withered yellow leaves fall off.

It is better to dry the branches for firewood, as this kind of branches with moisture are not easy to cut or ignite.

Mu Zhixu plans to stock up some more firewood this time, and take a look at the surrounding situation by the way.

The weather has not rained for a long time, and most of the surrounding water sources have dried up. There is no water source for support, and most of the soil has withered and yellowed.

Not long after Mu Zhixu left, he noticed that there were more and more withered and yellow trees around.

She went to fetch water from the creek before, and noticed that the water in the creek was slowly decreasing. If the weather continued to be so dry, the water in the creek might not last long.

However, there are so many dead trees in the periphery, which is convenient for her. The dead trees don't need to be chopped with an axe. With a flick of a hand and a foot, the branches will be broken, which speeds up her speed of collecting firewood.

In the imperial city, several ministers knelt on the ground tremblingly, waiting to bear the wrath of the holy majesty on the dragon chair.

Emperor Rongqing sat on the dragon chair and looked at the memorial that was mounted on a fast horse in his hand. He couldn't help being furious. He threw the memorial in front of several ministers with all his strength.

"Snapped!"

A voice of fury came at the same time,

"Drought in the north, so many ordinary people have been displaced and turned into refugees, why no one reported it! How are you all doing things!! You still think I'm dead, and you don't even report such an important thing!"

"I don't dare, we really don't know! Your Majesty, calm down!"

"Holy Majesty Xishu! We rushed over as soon as we heard the news!"

The few ministers kneeling on the ground obviously knew the content of the memorial, so they kowtowed and begged for mercy without even reading it.

"Calm down! How can you calm down my anger! With so many people displaced, where does the relief money I allocate from the treasury go every year? And the prefect of Linzhou, how did he become a prefect? ​​Refugees Fleeing to a place, not opening the city gate to prevent them from passing, not distributing food, and letting tens of thousands of refugees pile up at the gate, isn’t this just to make them rebel! Stupid! Stupid!”

Emperor Rongqing couldn't help but get angry when he thought of the lines he saw on the memorial just now.

There are at least several 10 people in the several cities in the north, all of whom are his people, and now all these people have become refugees.

If the drought had come suddenly, he wouldn't have been so angry, but the drought in the north had been going on for many years.

During the reign of the first emperor, there were also droughts in Beifang, but every time they received timely relief, so the consequences were not serious, and there were very few refugees.

Although Emperor Rongqing loved beauty, he also fulfilled his duties to the country during the 13 years of his reign, and never slacked off on state affairs.

Regardless of drought or waterlogging, he allocates a large sum of money and food from the national treasury every year, and even subsidizes it from his own private treasury.

(End of this chapter)