"Grandpa was summoned to the palace today, but what happened?"
"The victims of Lingzhou are rioting..." Zhen Guogong said in a serious tone: "The emperor summoned me to the palace to discuss strategies to suppress it."
Suppression?
Xu Mingyi felt a little heavy when he heard these two words, and asked: "Does the emperor intend to send grandfather there?"
The Duke of Zhen shook his head.
"It was just a discussion - and he deliberately suppressed the matter, not wanting the news to spread in Beijing and destabilize the people."
Under this situation, we can only secretly send local military commanders to send troops.
Xu Mingyi straightened the corners of his mouth slightly.
Suppression, suppression of information——
This may be a response that many emperors will choose, but the key is, will this emperor take this as a lesson and think about where the problem lies?
He won't.
Therefore, even if the incident in Lingzhou could be calmed down quickly, not long afterward, riots of various sizes appeared one after another. Some local officials even looked down upon it and led the people to rise up.
What happened in Lingzhou was just the beginning.
"These people have only had enough food for a few years..." Zhen Guogong sighed and said: "The folk customs in Lingzhou are originally simple. If they were not extremely hungry, who would want to risk their lives to rebel against the imperial court.
"
In the palace today, he had advised Emperor Qingming that it was not advisable to blindly suppress violently. However, the emperor thought that he was indecisive. He said that if the court's attitude was gentle, it would only increase the opponent's arrogance, expand the trouble, and even provoke more people to follow suit.
This move is not conducive to controlling public sentiment.
What he heard was eye-opening.
Seeing the emperor's lips opening and closing, strategizing and directing everything, he even had a vague intuition that "it is really difficult to end the country without subjugation"...
Thinking of this, Duke Zhenguo felt even heavier.
After finally conquering the country, do we have to fight it all over again?
Xu Mingyi's mood was not easy either.
Even though the Xu family is faced with the emperor's suspicion and is in a crisis-ridden situation, no matter what, to put it more realistically, at least they still have food to eat.
So, they are not the hardest.
But the current situation is like this, the general trend of the world has been decided, and there is nothing they can do to stop it.
What they can do is to preserve their own strength so that when that day comes and before the cruel situation, they can still be able to do as much as possible for the people of the world.
But these are all in the bigger picture and are an afterthought.
There are big things to do, and there are also small things to do.
She was too far away to take care of them for the time being. Maybe she could try to help those victims who were fleeing toward the capital.
However, it cannot be done in the name of the government of the country - even if it is a so-called good deed, if it is too eye-catching, it may become a good name among those who are interested and win over people's hearts, thus causing trouble for my grandfather.
After all, the imperial court has also allocated disaster relief materials. Isn't this a way of slapping the imperial court in the face?
Even if these disaster relief materials are far from enough to help the victims withstand the disaster, most of them will even be misappropriated by various officials - and the fleeing behavior of those victims has become what the court calls "greedy" and "must be deliberately ordered by others."
It disturbs the hearts of the people in Daqing."
Therefore, it is inconvenient for her to come forward to help.
But fortunately, it is very convenient to have one person——
Her house is bright and bright.
Jiao Jiao is the daughter of the eldest princess and is not as sensitive as her status.
Jiao Jiao told her a few days ago that he had picked up a new face named A Huai. This A Huai was originally a victim of the famine. Jiao Jiao loved the house and reached Wu. He shed a few tears when he saw A Huai and talked about the difficulties of the victims.
Later, he spent a lot of money on Lan Yan. How reasonable this reason was.
Moreover, having Jiao Jiao come forward is equivalent to the royal family coming forward in a certain sense. It is expected that Emperor Yi Gou will only turn a blind eye to the matter of getting a good reputation without spending any money.
Xu Mingyi roughly made up his mind and told his grandfather his thoughts.
The Duke of Zhen nodded in agreement.
He has always advocated that if you have the ability, you should do more to repay the luck given by the world and the fortune created by the current situation.
However, he still has to remind his children one more thing based on his own experience——
"You still need to do what you can. Things can never be done. If you lose your sense of proportion in doing good deeds, it will often not be a good deed in the end."
Xu Mingyi nodded seriously.
"Grandpa, don't worry, my granddaughter has taken note of it."
…
The heavy rain in the capital has stopped for the first time. Early that morning, in Ningyang City, it was also cloudy and rainy.
Wu Chao went out to do errands early in the morning. He passed by Yinxian Tower and entered the building himself. He asked Divine Doctor Qiu to come over to diagnose the illness of his mother, the Crown Prince.
Mr. Xue has been ill for some time.
When I rushed back to Ningyang from the capital, my body couldn't hold on any longer. I accidentally caught a cold and could not recover for a long time.
Some winds and colds are difficult to deal with, and if left unchecked for a long time, they can kill people.
Wu Chao did not dare to be careless. He had invited Doctor Qiu to visit him a few days ago, and today he asked someone to see if there were any signs of improvement and whether the prescription needed to be readjusted.
Hearing that Wu Shisun came downstairs to invite him, Qiu Caier quickly ran to her father's room.
"Father, I'm going too!"
"Why are you following me?" Doctor Qiu glanced at his daughter.
"My wife, the Crown Prince, is a female relative, and the family values rules and propriety. If there is anything that is inconvenient for my father to diagnose, my daughter can help you."
"Just you?" Doctor Xia mocked her daughter mercilessly.
Anyway, my daughter's illness is more than half healed, and she no longer needs to be cautious or speak softly when dealing with her.
After all, his daughter really has no talent for studying medicine at all - from the moment when she was blindfolded and took someone's pulse when she was ten years old, she found a man's happy pulse and said enthusiastically that it was most likely a boy.
From then on, he realized that this was something that could not be taught.
"Just take me for fun..." When the move failed, Qiu Caier tried another move, waving her father's sleeves and starting to act coquettishly.
Doctor Qiu was in a hurry to leave, fearing that she would waste time by pestering her like this, so he said helplessly: "Go, go, let you go."
The father and daughter rode a carriage and soon followed Wu Chao to the Dingnan Palace.
When the three of them arrived at the Prince's Courtyard, Mrs. Xue was entertaining guests.
Sitting in the hall was a mother and daughter dressed exquisitely.
This woman is Mrs. Fu, the wife of the city magistrate. Today she brought her daughter to visit the doctor.
"Shisun is back."
Mrs. Fu stood up quickly and looked at the handsome young man who walked in with a smile.
Next to her, a good-looking girl about sixteen or seventeen years old also stood up and saluted Wu Chao, raised her head slightly to look at him, and said softly: "Ayan has met Wu Shisun..."
Qiu Caier, who was following Divine Doctor Qiu, looked at this scene and secretly said "No" in her heart - she had met Wu Shisun before she had seen him, so why did she still give her maiden name?
Judging from her vicious eyes, this must be an enemy situation!
She knew that after Miss Xu returned to Beijing, Wu Shisun's side would definitely not be clean - she had to keep Miss Xu safe!
