Chapter 94 Surprise
After Emperor Jinghe issued the order, he returned to the imperial study room to rest.
He would not return to his bedroom. The disaster is so urgent now that as an emperor, he must keep watching the situation. Even if it is bad news, he must receive it as soon as possible.
However, he had been busy for several hours. After sitting on the chair, he fell asleep unconsciously.
The emperor's imperial chair must be very large and spacious, similar to the one in the Golden Palace. There are pillows on both sides of the top, which is convenient for you to lean on your side when you are uncomfortable.
Jing Hedi just slept like this. Two palace maids were slapping him gently behind him. There were several buckets of ice cubes opened from the ice cellar next to him, emitting a burst of air conditioning, which ignored the heat of summer.
Now the hottest time of the year, when the palace consumes the most ice cubes, on average, it has to use several thousand kilograms every day.
Especially in the past few days, the court ministers have been trying their best to get their lives in Wenyuan Pavilion, and every day, Ice cubes are delivered to it one by one, and ice milk tea, ice cream, etc. are all brought in like water.
Originally, an old minister like Prime Minister Cao Yi, who was fifty-six-year-old and deputy Prime Minister Nangong Ji, who was sixty-year-old, didn't like to eat sweets.
But since they discovered that eating ice can make their mind more clear, they have to eat several ice creams and drink several glasses of ice milk tea a day.
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty..."
In a daze, Emperor Jinghe heard Zhao Shou's voice.
He suddenly joined together and said nervously, "What's wrong?"
"Your Majesty, no news came from Wenyuan Pavilion, but the prince was waiting outside the palace and wanted to see the emperor." Zhao Shou said in a low voice.
"What are he here to do?" Jing Hedi rubbed his brows, but said, "Let him come in."
"yes!"
After Zhao Shou went over and gave orders, shortly after, Prince Mingyu entered the imperial study.
"Father, my son also saw the locust plague today." After the salute, the prince looked uncomfortable, "I didn't expect that there would be such a terrifying natural disaster in the world. How miserable should the place where the disasters are affected along the way!"
"Well, Mingyu, if you can feel the pain of the common people, you will not put yourself in a high position. In this way, you can pity them and take good care of them. It will be a good thing for you in the future." Jing Hedi smiled with some relief.
"I think it's not enough now." The prince bowed to the end: "Father, I want to go to Lianghu area."
"oh?"
"As the prince, I have the responsibility of inspecting all directions, just like the eldest brother did before." The prince said in a deep voice: "Every prince has to go to various places to go, take a look, and feel the suffering of the people. In order to avoid spending his whole life in the deep palace, being paralyzed, thinking that the world will always be peaceful, and in the end, someone will not know... Isn't this the ancestral teaching given by Emperor Taizu?"
Jing Hedi laughed silently, but shook his head again: "Mingyu, it's not that I don't want you to go out, but...ah!"
"Brother, that was an accident, and it was on the frontier." The prince said: "I went to the two lakes in the heart of the empire. Not only were there Yulin Guards, but there were also General Tang Hui, the Longteng Guard, who also provided disaster relief for Yunmengze. If in this case, I still encountered an unexpected situation, then the world would soon be no longer owned by our Liu family."
“Bad talk!”
Emperor Jing He was relieved and worried, and scolded him again.
"There are many fertile fields in the Jingji area, but they are far from comparable to the Two Lakes area. This time, the Two Lakes area will definitely be severely damaged, and more importantly, the man-made disasters after the natural disaster." The prince said firmly, "At this time, the general of Tang may not be able to suppress it. Only when the sons go by themselves can they act as compassionate with the momentum of thunder and without worrying about offending anyone."
After he said this, the emperor was really a little moved.
The prince is not bad at all, and he is well-behaved in recent years and has no fault.
He is already twenty-seven years old this year and has become more mature in dealing with people. Don’t worry about being too reckless and being fooled.
And as the prince told me, Emperor Taizu himself hoped that these heirs of the empire would go out, look around, and learn about knowledge that could not be learned in books and in the court.
In order to be afraid that he would encounter the tragic incident of the former crown prince, he kept keeping him in the capital, which delayed his study.
Although the former prince was a lifelong pain, he could not give up because of choking. He just refused to let the prince practice because of worry, right?
This time, the Two Lakes area was hit hard. He went there not only to shock the corrupt officials, but also to have a rare experience in dealing with complex matters. It can be said that there are many benefits.
As for the safety issues...
If there are any problems in the two lakes, thousands of horse thieves can emerge to attack the prince, and Emperor Jing He really feels that this country will be lost soon.
After all, over the years, the people in the Two Lakes have lived a better life. The Land of Fish and Rice has given them a lot of confidence, and there are no such things as bandits and bandits.
If so, the Six Guards Field Army stationed in the Gyeonggi area is not a vegetarian. It has been encircled and suppressed several times in the past century, and each time it went very smoothly.
"Father!"
Seeing Jing Hedi move, the prince was about to take advantage of the heat to strike, but unexpectedly, there was a loud shout outside the imperial study room.
"Your Majesty, happy event! Great event!"
It’s Zhou Ming’s voice.
Zhou Ming is the third among the three general managers of the palace. His most important task is to assist the embroidered ward guards to monitor the world.
He held a group of elite forces in his hand, which belonged to the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but Gao Jing couldn't control it.
On the contrary, he can also supervise various things about the embroidered ward and obtain his own information.
This formed two sets of intelligence systems to avoid the emperor becoming blind and deaf when the embroidered ward guards were unreliable.
The responsibilities of this eunuch in charge were not arranged by Emperor Jinghe, but were taken from Taizu.
In the past two days, Zhou Ming has also made every effort to activate his intelligence system and is busy all the time.
Zhao Shou reacted quickly and ran to the door, opened the door and asked, immediately let Zhou Ming in.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty is so blessed!"
The thin Zhou Ming knelt down when he entered the door and shouted: "The news from Qiu County and Kao County is concentrated on the use of chickens and ducks, which has a very killing effect on locusts and insect eggs! Now that the locusts have passed, the river bank on their side can still preserve at least 30% of the rice ears! Not all of them have been gnawed!"
"What!?"
Emperor Jing He was excited and said happily: "Get up and say, is this true?"
Zhou Ming stood up and nodded, "This is what the spies reported to the old slave. They dare not invite the holy family on this. They must have such an effect before they dare to say it... I believe that in two days, the Governor's Office of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the
"That's great! It's great!" Jing Hedi slapped the imperial desk with joy, "Thirty percent...thirty percent is good!"
The prince was also happy and said, "Congratulations to Father, this also represents God's favor to you and our Dakang Dynasty!"
"Hey, this is all thought of by that little guy Mingqi." Jing Hedi said with a smile: "This guy really has a good brain, saying "concentrate superior forces, annihilate the enemy on a large scale, and save the most important assets."
Then I asked me to issue an order to gather the chickens and ducks together in the most fertile fields. I was a living horse at the beginning, but I didn't expect it to be effective!"
The prince was surprised, "Can he come up with such a clever plan? This is in line with military tactics!"
"This child is smart, but he is tired and has a lot of thoughts. He often has extreme ideas..." Emperor Jing He said carefully: "Crown Prince, you will succeed to the throne in the future. When you encounter difficult things, you can listen to his opinions, but you don't have to adopt them. It is better to exercise the government in a steady and peaceful way."
"yes!"
While agreeing, the prince thought to himself, what did Mingqi say, which made his father feel extreme and undesirable?
On this side, Emperor Jinghe had already ordered Zhou Ming: "Send someone to Jinshui River and focus on both sides of the Bian River to see if the effect is really that good."
"Abide by the order!"
Zhou Ming got up and went out.
Emperor Jinghe looked at the prince and said, "If you want to go, please prepare well. I will let General Zhang Tieshuai, the General of the Cavalry Guard, and 5,000 soldiers and 2,000 Yulin Guards be responsible for your safety throughout the process."
"Thank you, Father!" The prince was overjoyed and finally had the opportunity to display his talents.
Zhang Tie, the general of the Cavalry Guard, is a famous calm general among the imperial guards. He strives to be stable in his work. In his previous battles with the grassland people, no one has ever been able to break through his defense.
With him guarding the prince, even if he encounters great misfortunes, he will definitely support the reinforcements.
In fact, in the Lianghu area, there are 10,000 Longteng Guards led by General Tang Hui of Longteng Guard to supervise disaster relief in Yunmengze. Now, they have brought another 7,000 people over, and it suddenly seems that they have too many troops.
It is no wonder that Jing and Emperor mobilized so many troops, and the Dakang Dynasty could no longer bear the loss of the second prince.
"But you have to take care of the people in the East Palace. If there are any acts of disturbing the people in the local area, you must not be careless." Emperor Jing He said casually.
"My son understand!"
The prince was a little embarrassed and a little ashamed.
"The most important thing you go to the Two Lakes this time is to see how they do it. The less measures to kill people, the better. If you have something to do, discuss with the governor, the governor, and the supervisor before making a decision." Jing Hedi said: "If you leave the ministers with the impression that you are bloodthirsty, it would be bad, and it would be a huge problem for your future governance."
"Sons are taught."
Looking at the prince's excited face, Jing Hedi refused to say to him "one portion of rice, three portions of bran".
The prince was full of enthusiasm. It would be better not to talk about such things for the time being, so as not to face these unspeakable embarrassment too early.
It is definitely not good for an emperor to know nothing, but if dark things are involved from the beginning, it would be even worse.
Chapter completed!