Chen Qiyu had the "magic weapon" given by King Jing, and was no longer afraid of the officials and gentry, so he closed his door and slept at home with peace of mind.

He hadn't slept peacefully for a long time. He slept in a side room, alone, telling his servant not to disturb him, and he had to sleep happily.

But not long after, he was awakened by the anxious sound of the servants slamming the door.

He came out with a cold face, looked at the door and beat the servants and said, "What's going on so late?"

The Ding looked slightly panicked and hurriedly said, "Master, Zhou Shangshu sent someone to pass on a few words."

Chen Qiyu's chaotic brain suddenly woke up. Zhou Yingqiu was a special person and his words needed to be taken seriously.

"What do you mean?" Chen Qiyu said.

The servant's remarks were word-of-mouthed, and Chen Qiyu frowned. What do Zhou Yingqiu's words mean? Did he say he was squandering the foundation? Or was the government direction of Shuntian Prefecture to change?

Zhou Yingqiu's words seemed simple, but in fact they were confused, making him confused.

Chen Qiyu waved his back and closed the door and entered the room again. This time, he couldn't sleep anymore.

Zhou Yingqiu was the emperor's confidant and had been in the court for many years. His words were definitely not aimless, but they must mean something.

He tossed and turned and couldn't sleep until dawn. He didn't fall asleep again. He got up and realized something.

Chen Qiyu urgently summoned the officials of Shuntian Prefecture to discuss and assign tasks seriously. The core was to say "low-key". He asked Shuntian Prefecture to change its direction and implement the "new policy" of the court. As for the "gentry's tax payment", he decided to let it go.

Chen Qiyu's words made Chen Sowen, Chu Zongxian and others alert. They were indeed careless and they were desperate to promote the "tax reform" and might become targets for others.

Shuntian Mansion's actions instantly became quiet, and every move, especially government affairs, was kept low-key. Even the affairs of the Criminal Prison Department and the Governor's Office were quietly carried out without being spread out.

The same is true for the six ministries and cabinets. Except for long and long articles, untiring introductions and promotion of the new policy, there is only a small amount of information in the newspaper.

Although Liu Fengzhong's case has caused heated discussions in the capital, due to the impeccable handling of the Ministry of Justice, there is no excessive reaction for the time being.

Dongchang was very quiet. After grabbing Liu Fengzhong, he closed the door silently.

The huge capital city was like boiling water just now, calming down strangely.

The calmer the more dangerous the keen people feel!

Starting from Liu Zongzhou, some great scholars and celebrities left Beijing one after another, and those big merchants all transferred their business and fled to Northern Zhili. Their sense of smell was so terrifying.

In the evening, Zhu Xu and others stood in front of a ridge field.

Zhu Xu was holding a dried, flat and yellow rice pole in his hand, with a heavy expression.

The ground is very dry, and you can raise dust by one step. You can see the soil cracks in the rice fields. The rice seedlings in your hand are not only lacking in water, but also traces of insect bites.

Cao Huachun stepped forward and whispered, "Your Majesty, I have someone go and ask, Tai An has not rained for more than a month, and there are locusts rushing."

King Ping held his hand on his stomach, looked at the fields, and said, "Your Majesty, the prince of Lu reported to his minister a month ago that it was a severe drought in Yanzhou this year, and the harvest will probably be reduced by more than 30%.

Zhu Xu nodded silently, walked around the Longmen, and observed carefully.

"Stop, who are you?" Suddenly, a few thirteen or fourteen boys jumped out of the ditch not far away, holding sticks in their hands, all looking at Zhu Xu and other people with a look of vigilance.

King Ping glanced at Zhu Xu, then hurried forward and smiled, "We are from the capital. We pass by here, want to drink water in this place?"

The leading boy was fifteen years old, dressed in a very ragged manner, with a large chest exposed, and his face was pitch black. He stared at Zhu Xu and his group of people for a while and said, "You go, there is no water here. Follow the way you came, it will be about five miles away to be the town."

Zhu Xu looked at the fields with a worried look. He could not see any signs of a bumper harvest at all. He was sick, but he was afraid that the decrease was 30% less.

Zhu Xu didn't care about the boy's words and asked directly: "How much land does your family have and how much food can you leave in a year?"

The boy's face changed drastically, and he pointed at Zhu Xu with a wooden stick and shouted angrily: "Who are you?"

Zhu Xu frowned, and the boy's vigilance was a little over.

Cao Huachun stepped forward and whispered: "Emperor, the bandits in the mountains and east have been endless. There were bandits here not long ago."

Zhu Xu held his hands behind his back, silent.

Even though he has tried his best in the past five years, he still has a long way to go to change the Ming Dynasty...

The drought is getting heavier, and it is relatively more and more bandits. When gathering, it will be an "uprising". From south to north, from large to small, there is no Pure Land.

‘After all, it’s slow…’

Zhu Xu sighed in his heart, everyone said that he was too anxious, how could he not be anxious?

The Ming Dynasty seems to be stable now. It is because he gathered a large amount of money and grain support in the form of "robbery". This method is not lasting. As the disaster worsens, everyone will lose weight, and the thinnest will be the court. Once the treasury is empty, the consequences will be even more terrible than in history. It is said that the power accumulated by force will collapse instantly!

Zhu Xu shook his head secretly. When it comes to reasoning, he was not as good as one of the adults in the court. No matter how worried he was, no matter how much he said, it was ultimately more and more difficult for them to act based on what they saw and heard. It was becoming more and more difficult to find someone who matched his feelings.

"Let's go." Zhu Xu knew that it was not easy to know something from the boy's mouth.

The teenagers were still very alert to Zhu Xu and his group, even if they didn't look like bandits.

After walking for a while, Zhu Xu turned to Cao Huachun and said, "Send more people out to find out the specific situation. Also, don't disturb the place, I have to see the real one."

Cao Huachun understood that the emperor felt fooled and bowed and said, "Yes."

Zhu Xu didn't feel fooled, but was deceived.

Whether it is the memorials of prefects, counties in various places, the governors, governors, or even the six ministries, the memorials of the cabinet are not honest. The real reality is either not available or there is an obscure line hidden between the lines, which is difficult to detect.

"The mother without birth is empty, and the hometown is empty... I believe in the mother without birth, and I will be able to rebel against the hometown of eternal life..."

Zhu Xu and others had just walked out of the rice fields, and a group of men in white were standing up with large sails not far away, shouting while walking.

"White Lotus Sect?" Zhu Xu almost blurted out. He had never seen it before, but this outfit was too special.

Cao Huachun followed Zhu Xu and whispered, "Yes, the White Lotus Sect is in the mountains. The east is very popular. They do not cause trouble, but also help local governments to appease the people and donate money and grain, so there is no suppression or ban."

Zhu Xu's expression moved. In his heart, the White Lotus Sect has always been the position of the "cult". He thought for a while and said, "Let the Jinyiwei investigate and see the number, scale, doctrine, distribution, etc. of the White Lotus Sect or other sects, and need to be more detailed."

Monsters appear in troubled times. At this time, cults are the most devastating and the most destructive.
Chapter completed!