After Chu Xuanchen finished speaking, he went forward to greet Taoist Qingfeng in person.
This time he was able to detoxify, thanks to the master.
As soon as Master Qingfeng walked in, he saw Chu Xuanchen as if he had been reborn, and he immediately twitched his beard and smiled.
"Master is here, please sit down."
Chu Xuanchen said, and said to Feng'er: "Come here, serve tea."
"You don't need to be polite, Your Majesty. I'm here because I want to know if the poison in Your Majesty's body has been cured.
Seeing the prince's appearance, I knew that he must be solved.
This way, I feel relieved."
Qingfeng Taoist laughed.
Chu Xuanchen said: "Master is really wise. Indeed, my poison was cured by Yue'er.
This time I was able to detoxify my poison, thanks to the detoxification method provided by the master.
I have remembered the friendship between you and the master. When you look back, I will send someone to Qingfeng Temple to light ten more ever-burning lanterns."
Taoist priest Qingfeng smiled and said: "Your Majesty is kind-hearted. It seems that I can adopt a few more homeless children.
I would like to thank the prince for them first.
It’s just that, Your Majesty, what I want is not just a few ever-burning lamps, but the hope that there will no longer be homeless children in this world.
I want everyone in the Chu State to have a house to live in and clothes to wear, so that they don’t have to be homeless and have nowhere to live.”
Chu Xuanchen's pupils shrank, "Master, what do you mean?"
"Your Majesty has lived in the capital for a long time, and the place is prosperous, which is very different from the outside.
Don’t you know, the prince, that the world is no longer peaceful?”
Qingfeng Taoist said seriously.
"I have heard some rumors recently that the south of the Yangtze River is suffering from a flood that has never happened in a century, and the northwest is also suffering from a drought.
Because of disasters, people are displaced, their livelihoods are ruined, and they don't have enough to eat. Some people are even so poor that they change their sons for food.
I have been poisoned recently and am very unwell. I have no energy to investigate these matters.
Now that the master is here, please tell me everything you saw and heard on the road."
Having said this, he added, "Now that my poison has been cured, I have the energy to help them.
Moreover, the people are originally the subjects of the Chu family. As a Chu family member, I will never stand by and watch death without saving anything. I must shoulder the responsibility of saving the country and the people!"
Chu Xuanchen said seriously.
Hearing what he said, Taoist Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief.
He glanced at him appreciatively. It seemed that he had seen the right person. His Royal Highness Prince Li was indeed different from others.
Underneath his indifference and arrogance, there is a fiery and benevolent heart.
He also knew that he could be relied upon by the people, so he traveled thousands of miles to offer the antidote, and at the same time told him what he encountered on the road.
He said: "The floods in Jiangnan this time are much more serious than in previous years.
And according to my estimation, when the major flood season arrives in June or July, the floods will be even more serious.
When I came, a lot of farmland and houses had been flooded, and the roads were full of people fleeing the disaster."
"This is not the most heartbreaking thing. The most heartbreaking thing is that the imperial court clearly sent people to control the flood and also distributed some relief food.
As a result, all these disaster relief grains were embezzled by corrupt officials! The government officials protected each other and embezzled the disaster relief funds and grains, and all that really got into the hands of the people was rice porridge soaked with sand and rotten potatoes."
"People don't have enough to eat, so they have to pick wild fruits and dig weeds to satisfy their hunger.
When the wild fruits and weeds were dug out, they gnawed tree bark, ate Guanyin soil, or exchanged seeds for food.
Some people starved to death, and some were drowned by floods.
The emperor did not care about this matter. He and the court officials only cared about enjoying themselves and did not care about the people. Therefore, this is both a natural disaster and a man-made disaster."