My country is dying

Chapter 135 The Majesty of the Emperor

"It's here, naturally."

These words were so mysterious that Mi Le wanted to ask more questions, but Hou Junli clearly showed that he didn't want to say more.

She had no choice but to swallow the question in her stomach, and greeted the two daughters to take the carriage together again.

However, the way back to Puji Temple was not smooth, because it rained again within two days after the clearing, and it was getting heavier and heavier, making the way up the mountain extremely difficult.

It was three days after the group finally arrived at Puji Temple, and it rained heavily for three days.

Knowing that the emperor and the regent came to Puji Temple in person, the abbot of the temple took three hundred refugees out to welcome them in the face of heavy rain.

Mi Le was shocked when he heard the three shouts of long live, and immediately stepped forward to help the abbot to stand up.

"In terms of kindness, the abbot saved the people and gave everything he had, even at the risk of the temple being destroyed to accept the people, but I, the king of the country, did nothing. On behalf of the people affected by the disaster, thank the abbot for his rescue!" She said. Bow down.

The abbot was so frightened that he quickly supported her: "Your Majesty's words are serious, saving someone's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. How can a Buddhist believe in death!"

The two were talking, and the abbot personally helped Mi Le into the temple.

"The emperor looks more and more like a real emperor, Regent, don't you think so?" Xiao Qi watched this scene, and suddenly turned his head to look at Hou Junli.

Hou Junli looked at Mi Le's back quietly, curled his lips lightly, and said nothing.

A group of people entered the temple, because the rooms in the temple were given to the patients in need, so they could only temporarily make a few temples for the group to live in. To put it bluntly, they lived in the main hall of the Buddhist hall.

Mi Le didn't care about this. Facing the Liming people who were in urgent need of treatment, as the king of a country, it was naturally impossible for her to occupy the position of saving people.

"Regent, it's raining heavily now, how do we collect the net?"

The idea was proposed by Hou Junli, and after they settled down, Mi Le was naturally the first to come to Hou Junli.

"Your Majesty, don't worry." Hou Junli looked at the rain outside and said, "Those people will throw themselves into the trap."

Mi Le looked at him in surprise, "Travel yourself?"

"Yes, throw yourself into a trap." Hou Junli smiled lightly, "In less than three days, they will come over one by one."

The so-called three days hadn't arrived at all, and those officials from Linzhou City had already gone up the mountain.

More than a dozen officials, big and small, all knelt outside the temple, no matter how majestic the rain, they all knelt outside motionless, and the leader, the prefect of Linzhou City, even knelt there with a big box in his arms. You know, that is the evidence of their surrender.

When the guards brought up the box, Mi Le looked through Linzhou City's various expense accounts for the past three years one by one, only to realize that the matter was not just as simple as corruption and bribery.

"300 taels!"

Facing this huge number, Mi Le was too shocked to speak.She remembered Hou Junli once said that 30 taels of silver is the tax of a county for one year, and 300 million taels is equivalent to the tax of ten years. What a terrible figure!

The imperial court is trying every means to reduce taxes and let the people live a fulfilling life, but these people fill their pockets and become moths, corrupting the government and harming the people!
Mi Le was so angry that he was short of breath, and suddenly threw the account book on the eunuch's head: "I gave you official positions and powers, and I want you to do things for the people, not to corrupt you!"

(End of this chapter)