"I rushed at a young age to flatter Hongye. I could not promote the trend, but went against the yin and yang, causing the people to suffer in the deep water. The fault is my failure to help!"
"Huai'an has been plagued by floods for a long time, and it needs to be cured. The country should be people-oriented. When there is a disaster, it should be rescued urgently. How can we delay and look around and hesitate to make a decision? It is a sin for me not to think about the right person!"
"Today there are floods, the city is dilapidated and the people are displaced. I acted unclearly and improperly. The fault lies with me, and God wants to inflict harm on the people, so the world is suffering!"
"One of my sins is that I have a quiet nature and try to be comfortable!"
"My sin is that I rely on my intelligence and cannot listen to advice. The more I become cruel, this is one of them!"
"My crime is that I aim too high to become stronger, but my foundation is not stable."
"My crime is to exaggerate the prosperous times in order to cause chaos, and not to value people's livelihood in order to cause chaos to the country. This is what it is!"
"Thousands of sins have been committed, and the fault lies with me. If God has mercy on me, please don't sin on the people and ruin all lives!"
In Yong'an Palace, the old man quietly listened to Pu Bucheng finish reciting the edict of sinners that had just been revealed to the world, and the wrinkles on his face became deeper and deeper.
After a long time, he let out a long sigh and closed his eyes with a bit of entanglement and pain.
"Old man?" Pu Bucheng asked tentatively.
"We are also guilty!" The old man closed his eyes and spoke slowly, "My crime is to humble the world and respect my family and surname. The construction of Fengyang Imperial Tomb, Sizhou Ancestral Tomb, and the three major projects in Zhongdu cost millions of people's resources.
"There are countless amounts of rice and grain. The people are suffering from corvee labor. The fields are left in the wilderness."
"Knowing that the people are suffering but taking care of them, fulfilling my own selfish desires, yet never saying anything to rest and recuperate with the people, frivolous corvee and underpaying taxes, this is the behavior of a monomaniac whose words and deeds are not consistent!"
"Old man!" There was a pop, and Pu Bucheng was so frightened that he knelt down, "You...?"
"Children can be honest about their shortcomings, so what can't we do to lose face?" The old man sighed and smiled bitterly, "Over the years, we have always said that we are from a low background and know the difficulties of the people in the world. But at the same time, we use the people of the world to give us
Our Zhu family builds this and that. Sometimes we think about it and we shouldn’t, but in our hearts, we always feel that the world belongs to our own family, and we... ugh!"
"The world is yours, you are millions..."
"Yes, and no!" The old man interrupted Pu Bucheng, "There is a sentence in the imperial edict of Da Sun, which we often said thirty years ago. The country should be people-oriented. But now that I think about it, since I have been the emperor for more than thirty years,
, I said it, but gradually forgot about it!"
"It's good to sin against one's own edict!"
Pu Bucheng raised his head and said softly, "I don't understand these things, so I don't dare to speak nonsense. But where is your fault? Don't scare me!"
"Of course you don't understand!" The old man grinned, "You eggless eunuch, what do you know about national affairs?" After saying that, he closed his eyes again and murmured, "When the child is older, he has his own ideas.
Well, what the old man did may not be absolutely right. Only he knows what he wants to do and what he wants."
At this point, he sighed, "I can't control it!"
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"It is your fault, the emperor's drunkard's intention is not to drink!"
The rain was still falling, so densely that the edges could not be seen, and the sky and the earth could not be seen clearly.
In the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, in the minister's official room, Li Zhigang and several confidants gathered together and spoke in a low voice.
He has now come into the emperor's eyes, and has become more and more powerful. There are even rumors in the official circles that this minister may be a backup candidate for Nan Study in the near future.
Therefore, around him, there gradually became a group of "real people" who also did things regardless of means and only wanted official positions.
On his left is Hou Tai, the foreign minister of the Ministry of Etiquette, and further down, Zhang Sigong, the official of the Ministry of Justice, Zhang Yong, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Qian, the official of the Ministry of Etiquette, and several others.
These people may not have high official positions, but they are all people who do practical things in the yamen.
"What do you mean by this, sir?" Yuanwai Lang Hou Tai asked.
"I am puzzled by this!" Zhang Sigong pondered and said, "It was just a natural disaster, and the emperor issued an edict to blame himself. Isn't it a bit... to make a fuss out of a molehill?"
"You guys! So you have been in office for decades and you are still walking on the fifth rank!" Li Zhigang smiled.
"Sir, please stop being so pretentious and quickly give me some pointers to my subordinates, right?"
Hearing this, Li Zhigang was somewhat proud and tapped his fingers on the table, "Did the Emperor blame himself?"
"Our Ming Dynasty is so big, how can there be disasters and death every now and then?" Li Zhigang smiled again and lowered his voice, "The emperor is prepared to sin first against himself, and then against others!"
"Who is to blame?" The crowd's voices became urgent.
"Fengyang and Huai'an are the first to bear the brunt!" Li Zhigang squinted his eyes, "The general manager of Huaixi, followed by the Hedao Yamen!" He said with another smile, "The flood in Huaibei does not last for just one or two days. The so-called disease comes like a mountain, and it suddenly occurs.
With such a big flood, someone must be in trouble!"
"But is the Sizhou flood in the final analysis a natural disaster or a man-made disaster? Or is it caused by various reasons? You can't blame this crime on the construction of ancestral mausoleums and the loss of Sizhou's people's power, right?"
"It can't be said that it's a common man. The supplies are all over Gaojiayan, making Sizhou unstoppable, right?"
When he said this, everyone frowned and thought.
After a long time, someone sighed, "What a disaster!"
"Shut up, is this what you can say?" Li Zhigang shouted sharply, and then glared angrily and said, "When something happens, you have to take responsibility. We are officials just to take responsibility!"
As he spoke, he pondered slightly, "This is just on the surface, there is a deeper level..."
Everyone was busy listening, with inquisitive expressions on their faces.
"Our emperor does not do anything overnight, and he never procrastinates and procrastinates repeatedly in doing things. Next, the Yellow River project and the flood in Huaibei will be the top priority of the country!"
"But the things involved in water control are not as simple as manpower and material resources. Especially...ah! Right!"
Everyone knew what his voice meant, and they all nodded.
"With this edict of sin, everyone has been silenced. In the future, river governance will come first, no matter what the cost, whether it involves people or things!"
When he said this, he smiled again and lowered his voice and said, "The root of river management is land. Huaibei is the headquarters of those nobles in Huaixi. All the good land is in their hands? How can the people live?"
"There is also the salt industry in Huaibei. Does it cost money to regulate the river? We all know that the salt tax in Huaibei is... ah!"
Everyone understands his voice.
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the salt water of Lianghuai River has been put into the inner treasury and used for military expenses.
"But the salt farms and salt merchants in Lianghuai have probably made a lot of money over the years, right? The area in Huaibei is so poor that all that is left is salt. Private traders have been repeatedly banned, and the salt farmers are suffering day after day. And the internal taxes are turned over.
The salt tax from the treasury has remained unchanged for years.”
"You have only seen the surface. Think deeply, what does the emperor want to do?"
"Rule the river, divide the land, calm the people, and eliminate evil."
At this time, everyone suddenly realized.
Yes, the emperor has issued an edict to sin against himself, so whoever blocks these is a sinner.
"If you put these together, the emperor is playing a big game!" Li Zhigang tapped the table and said in a deep voice, "Where are the personnel and financial issues involved?"
Suddenly, Wang Qian was confused and asked, "While regulating the river, rectify the salt industry at the same time? Then... the emperor wants to control the entire salt industry..."
"I'm afraid not!" Li Zhigang shook his head and said, "I can't explain the salt matter in one or two sentences. But I think the emperor wants to hand over the salt industry to the Ministry of Household Affairs."
"Huh?" Everyone was stunned, with expressions of disbelief.
No one would push the money out, and the salt tax in Huaibei has always been spent by the royal family however they want.
"If you think about it carefully, where do the salt merchants in Huaibei like to go when they get rich?" Li Zhigang said with a smile.
Everyone was thinking, and Zhang Yong said, "Suzhou Yangzhou."
"Ha!" Li Zhigang smiled and stopped talking.
After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly stood up from the bed. If you want to read the latest chapter content, please download the Xingxing Reading app to read the latest chapter content for free without ads. The website no longer updates the latest chapter content, and the Xingxing Reading novel app has updated the latest chapter content.
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He took a deep breath of fresh air, his chest trembling.
Confused, confused, and all kinds of emotions came to my mind.
Where is this?
Afterwards, Shi Yu subconsciously looked around and became even more confused.
A single dorm?
Even if he was successfully rescued, he should be in the ward now.
And my body...how could I not have any injuries at all?
With doubts, Shi Yu's eyes quickly swept across the room, and finally his eyes rested on a mirror beside the bed.
The mirror showed his current appearance. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked very handsome.
But the problem is, this is not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads.
My previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look, this appearance is that of a high school student...
This change left Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was successful...
My body and appearance have all changed. This is not a matter of surgery or not, but magic.
He turned into a completely different person!
Could it be...that he traveled through time?
In addition to the mirror placed by the bedside, which was obviously not feng shui-friendly, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a look. The title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Beginner Breeders"
"Postpartum Care of Pet Pets"
"Evaluation Guide for Interracial Beast-Eared Girls"
Shi Yu:???
The names of the first two books are pretty normal, but what happened to the last one?
"cough."
Shi Yu looked solemnly and stretched out his hand, but his arm soon stiffened.
Just when he was about to open the third book and see what it was about, his brain suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a large number of memories came flooding back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
Internship pet breeder. The website is about to close. Download the Star Reading app to provide you with the great god and the thief of years. My grandfather is Zhu Yuanzhang.
Beast master?
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