In the Nuan Pavilion, the earth dragon is burning hot.

Emperor Jing continued to review the memorials.

After returning to Beijing to meet with several courtiers in private yesterday, this memorial was delivered to the palace like snowflakes.

The main content is to urge funding for flood disasters.

Emperor Jing kept shaking his head and sketching one stroke after another.

The imperial court's allocation must be allocated, but it is not the right time yet. As an emperor, I cannot just talk nonsense.

You can't say that you have found an artifact called Infinite Gongde that can turn things around.

If it fails, I don't know how to record it in Qianqiu Shibi, but I think I should have become a joke...

After all, even he had never seen such immeasurable merit and virtue, and he was even more unsure of it.

To him, Fang Zhengyi's method was like a drowning man grabbing a piece of driftwood. It was better to grab this glimmer of hope than to make up for it afterwards.

Fang Zhengyi is a capable official who can create miracles, and he is willing to take a gamble!

After all the memorials requesting funding were rejected one by one, Emperor Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

Then I started to worry again, fearing that tomorrow the ministers would have to seek explanation from me again, and this situation would last for several more days.

Just as he was thinking about it, a little eunuch outside the door suddenly ran in: "Your Majesty, the prince wants to see you."

"Let him in!"

Seeing the prince coming, Emperor Jing couldn't help but smile, and asked, "How do you feel about walking around the capital for a day?"

Li Yuanzhao said with a confident look: "I probably understand."

"Oh? Where have you been today?" Seeing him like this, Emperor Jing had an unfavorable premonition in his heart.

"My son only went to the outer city today and then came back in a hurry. But you can see the whole thing with a glimpse. There is no point in seeing too much!"

Emperor Jing's face darkened.

The prince was in a state of disbelief. He just looked at an outer city and then ran to him and swore an oath.

He also said that a glimpse of something can tell the whole story, but because of his young age, Emperor Jing endured his displeasure and kept a kind face.

"Then come and listen!"

Li Yuanzhao took a deep breath and said: "I'll tell you now. If you say something bad, please don't blame me!"

"But it doesn't matter! I don't blame you for whatever you say today."

"With all due respect, the situation in this capital is beyond my imagination!"

"Oh?" Emperor Jing adjusted his sitting posture and became serious.

"Let's start with the streets. The arrangement of the houses is chaotic, and the houses are also built erratically! It's obviously a lack of planning!"

"As a result, people's lives are inconvenient, and lawlessness is more likely to breed in dark corners. According to my opinion, the imperial court should coordinate the planning, build neat and uniform houses, and then sell them to the people!"

"The imperial court can get money, and the people can also get better houses!"

Emperor Jing closed his eyes and leaned on the chair, tapping the table with his fingers from time to time, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Well, good, let's continue!"

Hearing Emperor Jing's encouragement, Li Yuanzhao gradually became more confident.

"There is also the sanitation of this street, with sewage flowing across the street and garbage everywhere. We should follow the example of Taoyuan County and re-pave the ground, set up health officers, and prohibit people from dumping garbage."

"At the same time, underground pipes should be repaired, and it is best to move all the dirty water and garbage away!"

Emperor Jing opened his eyes, looked directly at Li Yuanzhao and said, "Do you know how to repair the pipes? Where should the dirty water and garbage be transferred?"

Li Yuanzhao waved his hand and said confidently: "The pipeline can be built near Jiangling Port and the garbage can be thrown directly into the sea!"

"How long is the pipeline? How much silver will it cost and how many people will be recruited?"

"How can we continue building pipelines if we encounter high mountains or low valleys along the way?"

“After repairing the pipes, how can we transfer the dirt away?”

Emperor Jing immediately asked a series of questions.

Li Yuanzhao was a little embarrassed, standing there speechless, and then suddenly an idea flashed.

He said plausibly: "These are all fine, they are not issues that I should consider! If this errand is left to me, I will let Fang Zhengyi handle it!"

"It is said that there is a specialization in the arts. What I want to learn is the art of the emperor! I don't think about these trivial matters in advance. The right way is to catch the big ones and let go of the small ones!"

Oh, a trivial matter? This ignorant beast!

Emperor Jing said expressionlessly: "Okay, let's skip this item and go straight to the key points!"

Seeing that his father was "speechless" by what he said, Li Yuanzhao immediately became energetic: "Okay! I'll get to the point directly!"

"Today, I went to a hundred people's homes and took a look. That house can't be called a house at all, but a poor house."

"At that time, there was a meal being cooked in the house. It was a pot of fish soup. It looked unappetizing. Moreover, this kind of soup was specially cooked for patients."

"My son asked them for their daily food. I wonder if my father has ever eaten it. It is a kind of porridge cooked with yellow rice."

"My son also tasted it twice. The sour and bitter taste is still disgusting when I think about it."

As he spoke, Li Yuanzhao really recalled the previous moments, eating unpalatable porridge in a dark room, and spending his days like this.

Li Yuanzhao's heart also twitched, and he said with a heavy face: "The life of the people in Dajing is too hard, and they actually eat this kind of food... I feel really uncomfortable when I see it."

"My son also gained some insights from this matter..."

"Wait a minute!"

Emperor Jing suddenly sat upright and said seriously: "Did you really eat that yellow rice porridge?"

When he heard that he was questioned, Li Yuanzhao immediately became angry: "Really! Eunuch Guo can testify!"

"Call Guo Banban!"

Guo Tianyang trotted all the way into the Nuan Pavilion. Emperor Jing asked: "The prince went to the people's homes today and tasted the people's food. Is this possible?"

Guo Tianyang was uneasy, fearing that the emperor would know about the prince eating and vomiting, but after taking a look at Li Yuanzhao's expression, he felt at ease again, so he replied: "Return to your majesty! It is true that the prince felt pity for him after eating."

That family has ten taels of silver."

I didn’t expect that… I didn’t expect that!

Emperor Jing suddenly felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart.

Although the prince does not strive for advancement, has no knowledge and skills, is not diligent in his limbs, does not distinguish between grains, has no ink in his mind, is illiterate, and has no heart...

But he actually has a benevolent heart towards the people!

And you see, he actually has some ideas!

If you are not good in other aspects, you can work hard and study more and catch up sooner or later, but as an emperor, having a heart that cares for the people is the biggest difficulty.

Originally, Emperor Jing was still worried about the future of the prince, but now it seems to be changing for the better...

Emperor Jing originally wanted to keep a straight face so as not to make the prince proud, but the more he thought about it, the happier he became. Fortunately, he laughed outright: "Hahahaha! Okay, this is my Qilin'er!"

"Yuan Zhao, if you can take the initiative to contact the people, understand the people's sufferings, and care about the people's urgent needs, this life will not be in vain... I am very relieved..."

"Come and tell me what you think!"

Guo Tianyang was relieved when he heard that it had nothing to do with him.

Li Yuanzhao received high praise from Emperor Jing, and he felt happy in his heart. He said happily: "That's right! My experience is the most important, and the way to strengthen the country and enrich the people lies in it!"

A bad premonition came to Emperor Jing's mind again, but now he was in a mood of excitement and couldn't bear to interrupt, so he motioned to Li Yuanzhao to continue.

"The masters in the palace once taught me that the reason why the people live in hardship is because they don't know how to study and don't read classics! But do the people of Taoyuan County read any classics?"

"I don't think so. The books in Taoyuan County are neither classics nor poems. But why can the people of Taoyuan live a prosperous life?"

"It can be seen that the problem lies in literacy! The vernacular is easy to understand, and it is easy and hassle-free for the people of Taoyuan to learn it. Therefore, many people can read. Doesn't it mean that they are educated if they can read?"

"In my opinion..."

It’s that damn vernacular again! Ever since he read that indescribable book, The Golden Magistrate, the prince has been obsessed with evil!

The joy in Emperor Jing's heart was washed away a lot, and he said lightly: "That's enough, that's it for today."

"Wait a minute! I have a lot more to say!"

Li Yuanzhao kept talking more and more, feeling that his theory was so exquisite that it would be a huge waste if he didn't finish it.

"In my opinion, the imperial court should vigorously promote writing in the vernacular! In this way, the whole country will be educated, and the future will be promising! Poverty will be eliminated accordingly!"

"Under the feet of the majestic emperor, the common people live like pigs and dogs. They eat rotten porridge and live in shabby houses. It can be seen that education is not effective and there are problems in the formulation of national policies. If..."

Li Yuanzhao talked without emotion, and gradually began to dance, completely unaware of Emperor Jing's face, whose face was getting darker and darker.

Guo Tianyang's face turned green when he heard that he was talking about the lives of the people in the capital like pigs and dogs, so why didn't he slap his own father in the mouth? Has the prince lost his head?

"If I become the emperor, I must let the people of the world..."

"Get out!"

"There are still some things that have not been finished"

"roll!!!!"

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Chapter completed!