Jing Zhaoyi worked hard, but at least there was porridge here in the capital. Returning to his hometown was a dead end, and many people were unwilling to leave.
What would it be like to stay half-dead outside the capital? If the emperor found out, would he still need the black gauze hat on his head?
Therefore, Jing Zhaoyi could only send people to drive them away. Those who were polite would just curse a few words, but those who were not polite would just beat them.
Public resentment boils over, but if they cause trouble, they will be arrested quickly.
This happened again and again, and after a few thornheads were caught, the victims naturally did not dare to resist anymore.
Then, the victims left one after another, and no one knew when the group of victims surrounding the capital had disappeared.
After hearing the news that the victims had left the capital, the emperor even praised Jing Zhaoyi, saying that he was reliable in his work.
But now it seems that after those disaster victims left the capital, where did they return to their hometowns?
The emperor was so angry that he asked people to investigate further, and found out that most of these victims had gone to other cities, and some had gone all the way to the south.
However, thinking about the disaster in southern Shu, it is impossible for those victims to go to southern Shu, right?
I'm afraid they went south and dispersed to other places.
When he thought that so many victims had gone to other places, turning the original place into an empty city, the emperor couldn't help but coughed up blood in anger.
If people were sent to provide disaster relief in time when a disaster struck, how could something like this happen?
Over the past year, he had been fighting to the death with the courtiers, and he was already exhausted. In addition, due to the cold these days, he only coughed slightly at first, but later, he started to have a low-grade fever and the cough became more and more serious.
It's become more powerful.
By now, my blood and energy were rising, and I was coughing up blood.
However, the emperor found that he was coughing up blood and immediately put away the veil in his hand.
If those courtiers learned that he was ill, their first reaction would probably be to make him a prince.
He is only over forty now, so he needs to set up a nest egg.
Especially the concubines in the harem, all of them rely on their families.
The emperor could imagine that no matter who he appointed as the prince, he would probably become a puppet in the future, which he absolutely did not want to see.
Over the years, he had worked hard to clean up the clan and his relatives, didn't he just not want to be a puppet emperor?
"Your Majesty, have a sip of tea!"
When the eunuch beside the emperor saw the emperor's pale face, a flash of worry flashed in his eyes, but he did not dare to show it.
He was an old man who had served the emperor personally since before he ascended the throne. He knew best that he could not guess the emperor's thoughts at will.
Even if you know something, you should treat yourself as if you were dead, close your mouth tightly and cover your ears.
But now the emperor's body, as someone close to him, naturally knows that it is getting worse and worse.
Once the emperor and the courtier, he was the emperor's personal bodyguard. If someone else became the emperor, his best end would be to guard the emperor's tomb.
If one of them fails, it is very likely that he will be given three feet of white silk and asked to follow the emperor underground to continue serving him.
Although he is a disabled person, all he wants is a way to survive.
Now it seems that he has to find a way out for himself.
The emperor pretended to be nonchalant and took the tea, took a sip and swallowed the bloody smell in his throat.
"Chen Fu, do you think I should establish a crown prince?"
When he put the tea cup into the hands of his personal eunuch, the emperor sighed, as if asking the eunuch, but also asking himself.
Chen Fu's eyelids suddenly jumped, and his already hunched waist became even lower.
"Your Majesty is at the peak of his power in the Spring and Autumn Period, but now everything is supported by your Majesty, both inside and outside."
After hearing Chen Fu's words, the emperor snorted from his nostrils.
"I know that you are considerate. However, there are probably many people inside and outside the palace who want to kill me."
Hearing these words, Chen Fu was shocked and immediately fell to his knees with a thud.
"Your Majesty, this old slave still wants to serve Your Majesty for eternity!"
"Hahaha... Qianqiu Dynasty, you slave, you dare to think about it."
When the emperor heard this, he immediately felt happy and burst into laughter.
When Chen Fu saw this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After serving the emperor to sleep, Chen Fu limped out of the palace.
"Godfather, my son is supporting you."
Seeing Chen Fu's appearance, a young eunuch cleverly stepped forward, stretched out his arm, and asked Chen Fu to put it on his arm.
It wasn't until he arrived at the place where he slept that a gloomy look appeared on Chen Fu's originally expressionless face.
It seems that I have to make a decision early on to find a way out.
However, he didn't have much hope for the princes born to the empresses in the palace.
The emperor now looks at these sons as enemies.
Fortunately, the oldest one is only ten years old.
If he had been a few years older, there's no telling what kind of accident might have happened.
But except for the few princes in the palace, the emperor's brothers who were outside the clan and were destined to the throne had basically been eliminated by the emperor.
Even Prince An, the late emperor's favorite, he could guess from the few words he heard from the emperor that Prince An had become a useless person.
Chen Fu felt the pain in his knee and couldn't help feeling a little irritated.
However, since those princes are no longer good, they can only look for suitable people among the descendants of those princes.
At this time, Zhou Tianci was immersed in construction. The newly arrived batch of victims greatly reduced his burden of lacking people.
Under Shi Jiang's suggestion, the original Shunan City was more than doubled in size.
Now that it has expanded, the dilapidated city wall will naturally need to be rebuilt.
Those who are willing to build the city wall will not only receive three meals a day, but also a pound of grain to take home for their families to chew.
Some families with only the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled are very happy with this kind of treatment. They no longer have to worry about their parents, wives and children going hungry.
If you have family members who go to a textile factory or vermicelli factory, you will be even more happy.
After all, no one is left to eat at home, and both husband and wife can earn food and wages.
This is something I would never have imagined when I was escaping before.
Compared with when they flocked to the capital, except for the porridge given by the officials and wives, the officials in the capital did not care about their life or death. They even did not want to give them the life-saving porridge in the end, and even chased them away.
leave.
When they left, they were full of despair.
But I didn't expect that another village would see a bright future. I was glad again that I listened to people's persuasion and came here to Shunan.
Because the commotion in southern Shu was too great, the emperor had already withdrawn those people who were monitoring the situation. Finally, they discovered something was wrong and immediately reported it to the emperor.
The emperor was furious when he heard the news.
It turns out that those victims who left the capital before actually went to southern Sichuan?