Logically speaking, if you are caught on the spot by saying bad things, normal people will be more or less embarrassed, right?

Unfortunately, Feng Xi is not a normal person.

"Why are you like this? Just just cheating me into work, but it's really hateful that I can eavesdrop on me scolding."

He looked at Feng Xi with a smile. Qi Xiao was not angry when he heard this, but just walked slowly to her and said:

"I can't listen to you when you scold me, right?"

Feng Xi raised her eyebrows and said in a very complicated tone:

"Are you sick? Do you listen to scolding you?"

Qi Xiao: "..."

Well, sometimes he really wants to knock on this woman's mind and see what she is thinking all day long.

"I didn't mean it."

Feng Xi: "?"

What wasn't intentional?

Sitting on a magistrate chair below, the boy took away the sharpness in Taohua's eyes and said as gentle as possible:

"I didn't mean to leave you here to take charge of the overall situation. And I didn't expect you to order to enter the city and directly meet the detailed works they left behind."

In fact, based on his understanding of Feng Xi these days, the other party is obviously lazy and should have stayed at the station until he comes back.

"Do you think I want to meet these people?"

Looking at Lin Qian and others kneeling on the ground trembling, Feng Xi said straightforwardly:

"Are you running away, Mr. Li and others come to capture the strong men in my palace in old age, forcing me to find something for them to do?"

Qi Xiao: "..."

Taking over the affairs of the Xia Mansion with a flash of lightning speed, Li Ge Lao and others who were hurriedly appearing in front of the door: "..."

Well, their princess’s idea is still so unexpected…

He raised his hand and ordered people to take Lin Qian and others down. Qi Xiao stopped Feng Xi, who wanted to go back to the house to sleep, and then confessed his plan with the emperor.

"Mr. Concubine, do you mean that our things are still there and will be transported to the city soon?"

"That's great! The emperor is wise and the prince-consort is wise. Now we can provide relief to the disaster with peace of mind!"

"I was scared to death, I thought we really wanted to..."

...

Hearing this, Li Ge Lao and others were very excited, and the officials who had wives, children and children at home were still waiting for them to go back were even more excited.

After all, they had just seen the fate of Lin Qian and others, and they knew very well that if they could not produce food, Lin Qian and others would be their tomorrow.

"As you all saw, there should be many people in the court waiting to see our jokes, and constantly secretly exert their efforts for this joke. I won't say much else, I just hope that you will live up to the emperor's entrustedness, be cautious, and be loyal to your duties, and work with me and the princess to complete this disaster relief mission."

"Well said!"

As soon as Qi Xiao finished speaking, Feng Xi took the lead in the seal applauding:

"My lords, please do your best to assist the prince consort. What do you do if the prince consort says? As for my opinion, what can I have for such a waste?"

Really, this grand occasion of being blocked by a group of people in the early morning to ask for a meeting, Feng Xi would have experienced this time in her life.

She had already completed the task by making up the numbers today.

However, she didn't know that Li Ge Lao and others agreed to her seriously on the surface, but in fact they had a completely opposite conclusion in their hearts.

Is Princess Zhaoming a waste?

If it was these two days ago, they would definitely agree with this answer.

But after experiencing a series of things such as bandits surrounding, dismissing unspoken officials, and appeaseing refugees, they felt that the princess was not only not a waste, but also quite promising!

It’s fine if you have a future, but the prince-consort is also a person who keeps his or her low profile and has an unlimited future...

Work hard.

Whether their official position can be further improved depends on the two people in front of them!

After a simple mobilization meeting, Qi Xiao, Li Ge Lao and others quickly got straight to the topic and began to take stock of the current situation in Liangzhou City.

According to the files brought by the Ministry of Revenue, Yanzhou is the smallest among the four northern prefectures and Liangzhou is the largest. Each of the four cities has an average of 20,000 to 30,000 people.

Of course, this does not include surrounding villages and towns, as well as some retail investors in the mountains and fields.

"The snow has been suffering from the north for more than a month. Except for Yanzhou near Hanyu Pass, half of the people in the state were taken in by Guanzhong soldiers, there were at least 50,000 refugees going south."

As the first auxiliary minister, Li Ge Lao was clearly well aware of the refugees' situation.

According to him, the reason why these refugees went south was because the weather this year was abnormal, which seriously affected the autumn harvest of the people in the north. So much so that after the people who had to save food for the winter had very little left in their bags after paying the tax.

The people have no food, so they naturally have no money, so they not only cannot eat enough, but also cannot buy winter clothes and quilts.

If this was a normal winter day, they might be able to get over it. Who knew that this year the snow was severely affected by cold wind...

If one of these is natural disasters, then the other is probably man-made disasters.

"The old minister also checked the files of the Ministry of Personnel today and found that the Northland had changed four prefectures in succession last year, and these four people came from two factions in the court."

Mr. Li said this implicitly, but everyone present knew that he was accusing the prince and the fourth prince, accusing them of disregarding the lives and death of the people in the four states for political achievements and conquering the hearts of the people.

That’s right, there are signs of snow disasters in the north this year. According to previous practice, local officials should report to the court during the autumn harvest and request a reduction of taxes this year.

The court is clear about the situation in the north, and as long as the north is reported to the north, the court will basically agree.

Once these taxes are reduced, these people will not say anything else. At least the food for winter will not be so tight. It is so tight that two bowls of porridge a day, and there are rare rice grains in the porridge...

"Dog officials, they are all dog officials!"

Liu Wanshi, the Minister of Works, was the most upright person and suffered a lot after ten years of being an official.

Despite this, he still couldn't stand these officials concealing the disaster and deliberately handed over the food in the hands of the people in the north to the court, so as not to have such a serious disaster.

What is even more heartbreaking is that this matter is likely to be instructed by the two major factions in the court, the prince and the fourth prince who are likely to succeed to the throne in the future.

"Tsk, I will collect all the food for people first, and then return the food for people when they are about to starve to death. I will use their own food to play a magic weapon that descends from the sky. They are really talented."

Feng Xi held his cheek with one hand and looked at Qi Xiao with a smile and said:

"Hey, they are playing with you to cut off the firewood and want to take over your hometown. If they don't cut it, they will look down on you."

Qi Xiao's thin lips curled slightly, and there was a rare bright color in his eyes:

"That's right? They have joined forces to make trouble and want to seek your money and kill your life. If you don't take action, I will look down on you."

Feng Xi: "?"

Good guy.

Long Aotian learns things quickly. How long has it been? You can even talk back!

Regardless of the little doubts in Feng Xi's eyes, Qi Xiao expressed the third point of refugees going south:

"The wars continued in the north, and it was not until my father guarded Hanyu Pass that peace could be found. Therefore, the government offices in the north were still crude, let alone the dilapidated houses of the people?"
Chapter completed!