Huang Jin and Chen Hong looked at Xu Jie who was crying and couldn't help looking at each other. They felt deeply ashamed of themselves.

Jiajing is stubborn, but he is not a person with a heart. Seeing Xu Jie crying at such an age, he sighed and said, "Xu Aiqing, tell me everything!"

Obviously, the tears that were almost like a lake on the ground have proved that there is something hidden in this matter.

Xu Jie wiped away his tears, but begged again: "Although I feel wronged, I still ask the emperor to ask me to let this matter go through in a confused manner!"

"I asked you to tell me!" Jiajing never was a fool, and immediately ordered in a deep voice.

Huang Jin and Chen Hong are both sensible people and have already guessed the emperor's character clearly. Xu Jie is clearly playing hard to get, but he doesn't know which one he wants to sing.

Xu Jie sighed lightly, as if forced by the current situation, and then he spoke seriously: "Your Majesty, do you still remember the floods in Hangzhou, Songjiang and other seven prefectures last year!"

"This is a great disaster, how can I forget it!" Jiajing didn't know why Xu Jie asked this, but he still said lightly.

The disaster here caused a significant reduction in autumn grain to the southeast, and the court even reduced the taxes from the seven governments, causing a lot of "loss" of fiscal revenue last year. If it weren't for the great harvest of the Salt Administration and Guangdong Maritime Bureau, the end of last year's

The court may have made it even worse.

Xu Jie looked up at Jiajing seriously, and continued seriously: "Last year, floods occurred in the seven prefectures, causing the people in the southeast to suffer greatly. According to statistics, there were more than ten places in the southeast to destroy dikes, of which five were already in ten.

Without major repairs in the year, the Baihe Dike of the Huangpu River will be included!"

Huh?

Huang Jin and Chen Hong faintly captured something important, looked at Xu Jie in surprise, and also remembered that this was indeed the truth.

"Xu Aiqing, the ten places have not undergone major repairs for five years. Do you mean that these more than ten places of collapse are in the court?" Jiajing was a very smart man. Even though he understood the true meaning of Xu Jie's words, he did it.

Asked.

Xu Jie immediately knelt down on the ground, and said in a loyal tone: "I dare not! This was already the case in Songjiang Prefecture and other places last year. It was said that the collapse of the dike was due to the ineffective repair of the court, but the court vigorously provided disaster relief at that time.

The people are also eager to rebuild their homes, so this statement has not become a climate. I am just worried that the court will once again spread rumors by those who are interested in this investigation of the destruction of dikes and flooding of fields, which will cause the Southeast to fall into turmoil again."

At this point, the image of a loyal minister emerged naturally.

The reason why Xu Jie resigned and tried to calm the people was not for personal gain or to cover up his son, but he did not want the court to uncover the lid again, so that the people in the southeast would put the responsibility for the collapse of the dike on the court and Emperor Jiajing.

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Of course, Xu Jie's statement is wonderful, but it mainly depends on how Jiajing judges it.

If he thinks Xu Jie is quibbling, then all Xu Jie's efforts will be in vain; if he agrees with Xu Jie's statement, he must consider whether to uncover the lid.

In fact, the root cause of the collapse of the dam is really in the court.

When the Ming Dynasty was in a downturn, in addition to the southeast's anti-Japanese war, there were also various Taoist constructions, and purchase ambergris and other items at a high price. In addition, it also fulfilled Jiajing's ambition to build the outer city of Beijing.

But where did this money come from? When the court's fiscal revenue did not increase significantly, we naturally could only focus on some expenditures.

Water conservancy projects have always been hard for the present and benefited for a hundred years. The Jiajing Dynasty, which was eager to practice Taoism, was destined to be short-sighted. The imperial court naturally just passed by to save expenses. Many gentry were not keen on building embankments, and some responsible river officials' memorials were usually sunk to the sea.

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That's why the investment in river embankment projects is reduced every year. Coupled with the common greed, the little money for repairing embankments squeezed out by the court gave corrupt officials a lot of food.

If we talk about who is the culprit behind the more than ten "destroyers" in the southeast, we should point more to the current imperial court, and ultimately to the Emperor Jiajing who is addicted to practicing Taoism.

"There were such rumors last year, why didn't I know?" Jiajing said in a slightly confused manner.

Xu Jie didn't say anything, but Huang Jin on the side said, "I remember that there was indeed this incident. At that time, the prefect of Songjiang Zang Jifang reported, but there was no trouble, so the master probably forgot!"

Chen Hong looked at Huang Jin and then at Xu Jie on the ground, but chose to keep silent.

Jiajing looked at Xu Jie deeply, and asked in a gentle tone: "Xu Aiqing, Xu Kun really didn't instruct your slave He Jiu to flood the dike and the fields?"

"Report to Your Majesty, He Jiu is not my slave. All of this is He Jiu's one-sided statement!" Xu Jie began to defend himself at this time, and said with a reasonable and reasonable basis: "The incident happened suddenly, and I can't ask now. I am still alive.

Xu Kun at home! I just asked him to read books of sages since I was a child. I believe that Xu Kun could never do such a shameful thing. More than ten dikes were destroyed in the seven palaces, and I tend to collapse the dikes, which is definitely not

Man-made disaster!”

Chen Hong gave Xu Jie a thumbs up and found that this low-key old man was far more powerful than he thought. He was able to hold on until now to release his ultimate move. Not only did he clear his innocence, but he also made Yan Dang.

There must be a crime of slaughtering and framing.

Jiajing stood up from the cucumber, but came to the steps without saying a word, as if he was weighing something.

"My family is willing to bear the infamy, and I only hope that the emperor will stop investigating Baihedi to prevent being exploited by those who are interested!" Xu Jie said loudly with loyalty.

Jiajing looked down at Xu Jie and asked, "Are you really willing to do this?"

This is undoubtedly a solution. Seeing Xu Jie's resignation, the emperor no longer pursued Xu Jie's son Xu Kun's case of destroying the dike and flooding the fields, and Yan Dang naturally would not be concerned about this matter anymore.

Don't let it go.

However, the Xu family has to bear all the consequences. The people only think that the Xu family has done the destruction and flooded the fields, which will make the Xu family notorious.

"Thunder, rain and dew are all born by the king. As long as the people of the Ming Dynasty do not enter into turmoil, the king and father will not be criticized by traitors, and my family will be willing to bear this infamy!" Xu Jie replied resolutely.

Huang Jin and Chen Song looked at Xu Jie in this way. If they hadn't known that the word "loyalty" in the Jiajing Dynasty was the word "loyalty" that was the most important thing in the Jiajing Dynasty, they would have thought Xu Jie was really the biggest loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

"Xu Aiqing, please go ahead first, let me think about this matter!" Jiajing did not make a statement easily, but said lightly.

"I'm going to leave!"

Xu Jie gave the court honestly and then got up and left Wanshou Palace.

He couldn't guess what the emperor would do next, and whether he would really sacrifice him. Now that things have developed to this point, he has been actually betting.
Chapter completed!