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Chapter 254 Zombie City
Not long after, Dai Sizong came, and after taking Chang Meirong's pulse, he confirmed that she was pregnant.

Tomorrow, he and Li Shanchang will go to the north to help the people. After confirming his guess, Zhu Biao is in a complicated mood.I froze for a while.Only then did he smile, and told Sanbao to go to Qianqing Palace to tell Lao Zhu immediately.

Chang's tightly grasped Zhu Biao's hand, with tears in his eyes.

In the evening, Lao Zhu asked the inner court to send a lot of supplements, and moved all the good things from the palace, and the piled up people had nowhere to go.

Chang Meirong was called to speak by Empress Ma, while Zhu Biao checked the account books in the dormitory, looking coldly at the two officials in charge of the accounts from time to time.

"Trash!" Zhu Biao picked up a stack of account books and threw them on the ground: "An extra 20 taels of money? Are you pig-headed? What about profits, no!"

In addition to the silk for palace and official use, the Weaving Bureau also sells silk cloth, which is profitable every month. In the past two months, not only the funds have exceeded 20, but even the profits have disappeared. The accounts are in a mess. There is no evidence.

"I'm telling you, you have to see the accounts clearly, and if you keep fooling around like this, be careful of your heads." Zhu Biao's face was livid, and he threw away the account books, "Let Shen Qiancheng handle the accounts from now on. His daughter ran away. Let him do it!"

Thinking of whether Shen Zhiren left without saying goodbye, without even leaving a letter, Zhu Biao felt annoyed.

When she walked to the door, Chang Meirong heard Zhu Biao's voice. She wondered why His Highness was so angry with the two officials of the Weaving Bureau.

When the two officials went out, they happened to see Mrs. Chang coming in. They lowered their heads and said, "I have seen the Crown Princess."

"Go down."

Chang Meirong walked to the door, glanced at Zhu Biao, and poured a cup of tea: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you, if someone spreads it, I'm afraid it will cause criticism."

With a cold face, Zhu Biao threw down the account book and said to Chang Meirong: "In the past few months, the funds have exceeded 20 taels, and the silk sold outside has not been returned. The accounts of the Weaving Bureau and the Salt Bureau must not be sloppy. How can you stay calm?"

"The concubine knows, Your Highness."

Zhu Biao held his forehead for a while, walked over and looked at Chang Shi and said, "When Gu is away, let Yu'er and the others do what is needed, and don't get pregnant."

Early the next morning, Zhu Biao took He Qing and the doctors to Kaifeng with Zhu Xi, Zhu Di, and Li Shanchang.

Nanzhili and other prefectures and counties have gathered a lot of idle people, and now there is still one or two months to celebrate the New Year, which is the slack time for farming.

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The farther north you go, the colder the weather is, and the moon cannot be seen in the vast snowy land. Many houses are covered by snow, only a few roofs are exposed, and some houses are scattered on the flat ground like buns on snow hills.

Zhu Biao looked at the wilderness from the outside of the carriage. The snow in front of him was the road shoveled out in advance by hundreds of Beijing troops.

Thousands of miles to the north, covered by snow, only the rustling of marching troops.

Li Shanchang held the roll of map Zhu Biao gave him in his hand, and was wearing a thick cloak with a collar made of white bear skin.

He changed hands occasionally, and immediately moved the other hand to the stove to warm his hands and feet.

In the other carriage, Zhu Xi took out the wine container from the bundle, took a sip into his mouth, and wanted to groan comfortably.This Daming Wuliang Xuequ is really delicious, with some fruit flavor.

Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Xi and said, "Second brother, drink less, we're almost in Kaifeng."

"Fourth, don't worry about it. I can't be happy when I'm out of the palace? Look at the fief you're going to guard in the future. It's a dead city."

Zhu Xi was very dissatisfied, he was not the eldest brother, nor was Kaifeng his fiefdom, it was really unlucky for him to leave the palace alone and come to caress the people in this icy and snowy place.

"I don't think so. Miao Yun said that Kaifeng was one of the most prosperous in the Song Dynasty, but now it's just temporarily in decline. She said that I should help the eldest brother to appease the people, not because I will be the King of Zhou at that time, but because we are brothers. "Zhu Di didn't like to listen to Zhu Xi's words.

"Fourth brother, I heard you right, a man, you listen to a woman, hahaha..."

Bangbang's voice sounded, and Zhu Di lifted the curtain of the carriage, and it turned out that he had already arrived.

Li Shanchang put down the map in his hand, and got out of the car behind Zhu Biao: "Your Highness, we are here, be careful of the slippery snow road."

"Come here, help Li Xiang." Zhu Biao signaled Sanbao to go.

Even the soldiers who practiced every day had difficulty moving forward in the ice and snow. The wind and snow froze the houses and trees into big ice lumps.

The people gathered from the south of the Yangtze River brought simple snow-shoveling farm tools and shoveled them as they walked. The snow stuck to their clothes and armor.

Li Shanchang ordered the officials to immediately go to the prefect and officials of Kaifeng Prefecture, arrange for quick snow removal, and call the local people who have no salary.

The carriage was difficult to move, so Zhu Biao asked Zhu Xi and Zhu Di to get out of the carriage, and Sanbao also organized a group of soldiers and people to clean up the open space outside the city, and tried to put the grain they brought so that it would not be soaked by snow water.

Then transported to the city.

In the distance came the sound of soldiers beating the gong, and the sound spread far away, and many houses in the city were lit with faint candlelight.

But some houses are pitch-black, and there are no footprints of pedestrians in the snow.

Entering the city, I don't know who yelled, and everyone shouted: "Someone is coming from the south, the imperial court has sent someone here."

Zhu Biao suddenly slowed down, and there were several people lying on the snowdrift in front, which were just dug out by local officers and officers.

Li Shanchang was full of anger, and shouted to the group in front: "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and call the victims."

"Return to Your Highness, Prime Minister Li, someone in front was hit by a collapsed building and was frozen." Sanbao ran back and told Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao was stunned for a while, Li Shanchang didn't say anything, and walked forward quickly, Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Biao, and immediately followed.

The frozen people were covered in snow and mud and couldn't see their clothes clearly. Their limbs had long been stiff. Not far away were scattered grains, frozen in the ice and unable to pick them out.

A child in the crowd saw a few grains of rice in the snow, rushed out of the crowd and lay down in the snow, picking rice grains and stuffing them into his mouth.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Biao's face was very ugly. Li Shanchang knew what Zhu Biao meant, the muscles of his cheeks trembled, and he immediately said, "Call the prefect of Kaifeng."

"Go back to His Royal Highness, the Prime Minister, I can't find Liu Zhifu." Those were two county magistrates under the Kaifeng Mansion, kneeling in the snow and crying.

"Look and call Liu Ruiming here." Li Shanchang scolded, "Someone died in the snow, why didn't he send someone to search and rescue him?"

"Do you eat dry food?" Zhu Di immediately slammed his hand on the county magistrate's face with red eyes like an angry leopard.

Soon, the faces of five or six stiff corpses in the fused soil were washed clean, and the official uniforms on their bodies became clear and frozen on them.

"Liu...prefect." The local official behind him called out in surprise.

Li Shanchang looked at the dead man in front of him in surprise.

Zhu Biao didn't say anything, he walked over with big strides, looked at Liu Ruiming, the magistrate of Kaifeng who had been dead for a long time, and took a deep breath.

Several people were in a walking posture, and now their limbs were frozen by the snow.

The people who came out of the house knelt on the ground and wept bitterly when they heard that it was Liu Zhifu.

From the few words in the mouths of the people, Zhu Biao learned that this Liu Ruiming is a rare and honest official. Last year, he led the people to open up wasteland and repair river embankments to prevent flooding, which won the hearts of the people.

"What's the matter with you, let the dignified magistrate come out to appease the people? You have died here for so long, and no one knows?" Zhu Biao looked at the two county magistrates kneeling on the ground.

"His Royal Highness, we..."

The county magistrates in Kaifeng thought that Liu Ruiming, the prefect, had abandoned the city and fled. They didn't expect that the prefect Liu was actually buried here to death by the collapsed earth walls and snow.

It is a pity that such a magistrate died, and the people naturally wept for him.

"Li Xiang, ask someone to carry Liu Zhifu's body to the Kaifeng government office. The same is true for these officials who froze to death. Inform the family members. Call the people to the government office, gather together, clear the heavy snow, and find out the number of deaths as soon as possible."

"The minister obeys the order."

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