"Grandpa was called into the palace today, but what happened?"
"Lingzhou disaster victims' riot..." the tone of the Duke of town was a little heavy: "the emperor called me into the palace to discuss the strategy of suppression."
suppress?
Xu Mingyi listened to these two words, and his heart sank. He asked, "does the emperor intend to send his grandfather?"
The Duke shook his head.
"It's just a discussion - and he intends to suppress the matter and doesn't want the news to spread in Beijing, which will destabilize the people."
In this case, local generals can only be sent secretly.
Xu Mingyi slightly straightened the corners of his mouth.
Suppress, suppress news——
This may be the coping strategy that many emperors will choose, but the key is that the emperor will take this as a lesson to think about the problem?
He won't.
Therefore, even if the Lingzhou incident could be put down soon, not long after that, there were riots, large and small, one after another. Even some local officials couldn't see it and rose up with the people.
Lingzhou is just a beginning.
"These people have only had enough food for a few years..." the Duke of the town sighed and said, "the folk customs in Lingzhou were simple. If they weren't very hungry, who would want to take their lives to rebel against the imperial court."
In the palace today, he once advised emperor Qingming that it was not advisable to blindly suppress violence, but the emperor thought he was indecisive. He said that if the court had a gentle attitude, it would only encourage each other's arrogance and expand the trouble, and even provoke more people to follow suit, which was not conducive to controlling the people's hearts.
His hearing was an eye opener.
Watching the emperor's lips open and close, planning strategies and pointing out everything, he even had a kind of intuition that "it's hard to end without subjugating the country"
Thinking of this, the Duke of the town felt even more heavy.
Do you want to fight again for the country you finally got?
Xu Mingyi's state of mind is not easy.
Even though the Xu family is also facing imperial suspicion and in danger, in any case, to be practical, they at least have food to eat.
So they are not the hardest.
But the current situation is so that the general situation of the world has been settled, and they can't stop anything.
What they can do is to preserve their own strength. After that day really comes and before the cruel overall situation, they can also have the ability to do as much for the people all over the world as possible.
But these are the big talk, and later.
Big things need to be done, and small things need to be done.
Far away, she can't take into account the victims who fled to the capital. Maybe she can try to help.
However, we can't do good deeds in the name of the town government - even if it's called doing good deeds, if it's too eye-catching, perhaps among the people who have a heart, it will become a good name and attract people's hearts, thus causing trouble to Grandpa.
After all, the imperial court also allocated relief materials. Isn't that a way to beat the imperial court in the face?
Even though these relief materials are far from enough to help the victims resist the disaster, and even most of them will be embezzled by various officials - on the contrary, the famine escape of those victims has become "insatiable greed" and "must be instigated to deliberately disturb the hearts of the people in Daqing".
Therefore, it is inconvenient for her to come forward to help.
But fortunately, it's convenient to have one person——
Her home is bright.
Jiao Jiao is the daughter of the long princess. She is not as sensitive as she is.
Jiao Jiao told her a few days ago that he had picked up a new face named ah Huai. Ah Huai was originally a refugee from famine - Jiao Jiao loved his house and Wu. When he saw Ah Huai shed a few tears and said something about the difficulties of the victims, he threw a lot of money for LAN Yan. What a reasonable reason.
And by Jiao Jiao, from a certain level, it is also equivalent to the royal family. If you can get a good reputation without spending money, you can only turn a blind eye to the promise of the dog emperor.
When Xu Mingyi had made a decision, he told his grandfather his idea.
The town Lord agreed and nodded his head.
He always advocated that if you have the ability, you should do more to repay the luck given by the world and the luck created by the current situation.
However, he still needs to remind his children with his own experience——
"We still need to act according to our ability. Things can't be done. If we lose discretion in doing good things, it's often not a good act in the end."
Xu Mingyi nodded seriously.
"Don't worry, Grandpa. My granddaughter wrote it down."
……
The heavy rain in the capital stopped at the beginning of the day. In Ningyang City, it was also the end of the rain.
Wu Chiu went out to do business in the morning, passed Yinxian building, entered the building in person, and asked Qiu miracle doctor to go to the house to diagnose his mother's son and wife.
Xu has been ill for some time.
When I rushed back to Ningyang from the capital, my body couldn't hold up. One accidentally caught the wind cold and couldn't recover for a long time.
Some wind and cold are difficult to deal with, and if they drag on for a long time, they can kill people.
Wu Tsui did not dare to be careless. He invited doctor Qiu a few days ago. Today, he asked someone to see if there were signs of improvement and whether the prescription needed to be readjusted.
Hearing Wu Shisun's invitation downstairs, Qiu caier hurried to her father's room.
"Father, I'll go too!"
"What are you going to do with me?" doctor Qiu glanced at his daughter.
"The wife of the aristocratic son is a woman's family member. The aristocratic family values rules and manners. In case anything is inconvenient for her father to see, her daughter can help you."
"Just you?" doctor Xia mercilessly laughed at her daughter.
Anyway, more than half of my daughter's illness has recovered, and I don't need to be careful about how to speak slowly.
After all, his daughter did not have the talent to learn medicine at all - from the moment when she blindfolded to feel the pulse for others when she was ten years old, she gave a happy pulse for a man, and said excitedly that it was very likely to be a boy, he realized that it was an immovable thing to teach.
"You should take me to play..." Qiu caier changed another move and began to play coquettish with her father's sleeves.
Doctor Qiu was in a hurry to leave. He was afraid that she would delay her time, so he had no choice but to say, "go, let you go."
Father and daughter took a carriage and soon followed Wu Tsui to Dingnan palace.
When the three came to the prince's courtyard, Xu was entertaining guests.
Sitting in the hall were a mother and daughter with exquisite clothes.
This woman is Mrs. Fu, the wife of the magistrate in the city. Today she specially brought her daughter to visit the doctor.
"Shisun is back."
Mrs. Fu quickly got up and smiled at the handsome young man who came in.
A beautiful girl of about 16 or 17 years old beside her also got up and saluted Wu Tsung. She looked up at him slightly and whispered, "ah Yan has seen Wu Shisun..."
Qiu caier, who follows Qiu's miracle doctor, looks at this scene and whispers "no good" -- he has met Wu Shisun when he has met Wu Shisun. How can he bring his maiden name?
According to her fierce eyes, there must be an enemy. That's right!
She knew that after Miss Xu returned to Beijing, Wu Shisun must not be clean around her - she must give Miss Xu a good look!