"Weier," Luo Zhiqiu called to Luo Wei, "Second Highness will come down and talk to you about disaster relief."
Luo Wei then bowed to Long Xuan and said, "The floods in the south already need the imperial court's relief?"
Luo Zhiqiu asked Long Xuan to sit down and said to Luo Wei, "You are walking in the household these days. Do you know how serious the water problem is in the south?"
"Lan," Luo Wei didn't have Luo Zhiqiu's kind of people-oriented, and said to Wei Lan behind him, "Let Xiaoxiao prepare some refreshments." He didn't want Wei Lan and Long Xuan to stay together.
Wei Lan went out, and he also knew Luo Wei's heart disease, so he never came in again.
Long Xuan looked at Luo Wei's study. The books on the bookshelf were neatly arranged, but there were not many. There were pen, ink, paper, inkstone and some official documents on the desk. In terms of Luo Wei's current status, this study was not worth it. Call it humble.
"Actually, it's better for His Highness to go to his father's place." Luo Wei didn't want Long Xuan to stay with him, so he said to Luo Zhiqiu, "Isn't your Highness condescending by coming here, my son?"
"That's what you painted?" Long Xuan asked Luo Wei as if he could not hear the disgust in Luo Wei's words, pointing to a painting on the left wall.
"Yes," Rowe said. This painting is the water lotus in the pool in his courtyard. It was painted on a whim, and it was framed by Wei Lan like a baby and hung on the wall.
"I didn't expect you to be able to draw," Long Xuan said, he really didn't expect Luo Wei to be able to paint.
"Didn't you talk about disaster relief?" Luo Wei didn't want to talk about these things with Long Xuan, and said, "How much silver tael is your Highness going to allocate?"
"This is the detailed account I calculated," Long Xuan put the two books on the bookcase, and said to Luo Zhiqiu and Luo Wei, "You guys have a look first to see if there is anything wrong."
Seeing the ledger, Luo Wei felt troublesome, but he was in his own study at the moment, and there was no excuse to push it out, so he had to cheer up and read the accounts one by one.
"Let's see first." Luo Zhiqiu saw that Luo Wei was seriously reading the account, and he didn't carry a gun or stick when talking to Long Xuan, so he stood up and said, "Your Majesty let me go into the palace."
"You're gone, I can't read this account alone," Rowe said.
"I know your ability to settle accounts," Luo Zhiqiu said. "Today, I have to come up with a charter with His Highness. This is a life-saving matter and cannot be delayed."
"Can't you call more people to help?" Luo Wei still didn't give up and stayed alone with Long Xuan, and he didn't want to.
"Yun Qi," Long Xuan said, "I don't think my father wants to let too many people know how many silver taels are in the imperial treasury."
"This is for disaster relief," Luo Wei said, "and it's not for the treasury of the Ministry of Household."
"What if the disaster relief fund we calculated exceeds the amount of treasury silver?" Long Xuan said.
"How is this possible?" Rowe couldn't believe it.
"We don't have much money," Long Xuan and Luo Wei said honestly: "Did you not pay attention when you were in the Ministry of Housing?"
"Pay attention to what?" Rowe asked.
"The floods in the south have been raging since last year," Long Xuan said. "There was a severe drought in the northwest. Last year, we sent troops to Beiyan, and then we changed the course of the Tianshui River. The epidemic in Chuzhou has just eased, and there is another epidemic in Yunzhou. Reportedly, you should all know about these big and small disasters across the country, we have spent too much money on going out this year."
Luo Zhiqiu saw that Luo Wei was stopped by Long Xuan, so he clasped his fist at Long Xuan and walked out.
Luo Wei watched his father go out of the study, and said nothing, focusing on reading the account. This year, the fighting between the dynasties was not as fierce as in previous years. Another reason is that this year, in Dazhou, from the south to the north, from the west to the east, there have been many natural disasters. At this time, who wants to make trouble in front of Emperor Xingwu , it really has no eyes.
Just as Luo Wei and Long Xuan got together in the study to turn over the account books, Luo Zhiqiu was still on his way to the palace, when the streets and alleys of Shangdu were still celebrating the New Year, the long embankment in the south, known as Wanli, was in heavy rain and only rose. Under the double attack of the non-returning flood, the embankment broke. One collapse will collapse everywhere. Seeing the levee shattering like a clay sculpture in front of people, before they can feel panic, they have already been engulfed by the flood that rushed in front of them and suffered the top disaster.
The eight southern provinces and sixty-nine prefectures instantly became a swamp country, and the flood was like a monster, swallowing everything that could be swallowed, including countless lives.
People in Shangdu knew about this for a day. When Luo Zhiqiu walked into Emperor Xingwu's Changming Hall, Emperor Xingwu was annoyed by another incident. "Look at the emergency report from Xiangzhou in the southeast first." When Emperor Wu saw Luo Zhiqiu entering the hall, he said.
Luo Zhiqiu hurriedly took the urgent report from Zhao Fu, and only glanced at the urgent report. Before he could read the words on the urgent report, he almost didn't grasp the urgent report. This urgent report was actually written in human blood.
"Xiangzhou Weizheng is gone," Emperor Xingwu said in a hoarse voice, "This is the blood letter he wrote to me before he died."
Wei Zheng was the husband of Princess Ningguo, the half-sister of Emperor Xingwu, and the highest administrator of Xiangzhou. Luo Zhiqiu was even more shocked when Emperor Xingwu said that Wei's concubine was gone, and hurriedly read the blood book. "The barbarians are rebelling?" After reading the blood book, Luo Zhiqiu also lost his temper. He looked at Emperor Xingwu, almost suspecting that he was in a dream. The barbarians in Xiangzhou are the largest number of aliens in the southeast. They have always been peaceful, and a large part of them live in the rolling mountains in the southeast. How could they suddenly rebel? Wei Zheng has died for the country, so isn't the garrison in Xiangzhou finished
"I believe that I have always treated these barbarians well." Wei Zheng's blood letter was written in a hurry. .
Luo Zhiqiu's panic was only for a moment. After he calmed down, he said to Emperor Xingwu: "The barbarians are distributed in all the southeastern states. If they rebelled in Xiangzhou, the southeast seems to be too peaceful. Your Majesty, the barbarians rebelled. The reason, officials in the southeast will report it. The most urgent task is to transfer troops to the southeast. In this year of disasters, we must not let the southeast be in chaos!"
"You also said that the Yi people are distributed in the southeast, so the troops in the southeast cannot move," Emperor Xingwu said, "Transfer troops from outside."
"If you don't transfer troops from the southeast, I'm afraid that the distant thirst can't be quenched," Luo Zhiqiu said. "If the whole southeast is in chaos, how many troops will the imperial court send over to quell the barbarian rebellion?"
The monarch and his ministers faced a dilemma again, to transfer troops on the spot, or transfer troops from other provinces.
"Let's call the generals to discuss," Luo Zhiqiu suggested, military is not his forte, and when it comes to deploying troops to quell rebellion, Luo Zhiqiu weighed the pros and cons in his heart, but couldn't make a decision.
"Transfer troops from outside," Emperor Xingwu was assertive. He said to Luo Zhiqiu, "I can't let the barbarians in the southeast be united and be in flames everywhere. It's better than losing the southeast of my great Zhou."
There was a roar of thunder in the sky of Shangdu.
The doors and windows of Luo Wei's study were rattled by the thunder.
Long Xuan looked up at Luo Wei, and saw that Luo Wei was still buried in the ledger, unmoved by the deafening thunder outside. "You were afraid of thunder when you were young," Long Xuan asked Luo Wei, "Aren't you afraid now?"
Luo Wei didn't even look at Long Xuan, and said, "People will change. When I was a child, I was afraid that I won't be afraid now."
"Like I liked it before, but I don't like it now?"
Luo Wei stopped the pen in his hand, and finally looked up at Long Xuan with a blank face, and said, "Your Highness is right, don't care, it doesn't matter whether you are afraid or like it."