The Kings Fight for the Throne] Chapter 4 Contemplation of the Hometown

Zhu Ci? In any case, the Queen of Chu had more opportunities to contact society outside the palace than other brothers. He asked Dong Ping to spend money to buy three sets of ordinary people's clothes, dressed up as the disaster-stricken person, and left Fuzhou City to check in to the upper reaches of the Minjiang River.

Dong Ping and others protect the safety of Emperor Hongguang in daily life, and they rarely go out to Nanjing. Look at Zhu Ci? Such a move, Dong Ping winked at Xue Ba, meaning that the eldest son of our Long Live King, His Highness, is really good. Being able to do this is a hundred times better than any emperor except the emperor since the founding of the country.

Xue Ba nodded, thinking that His Highness the King of Chu has great hope of inheriting the throne in the future, and the emperor is now pragmatic enough. Unexpectedly, His Highness the King of Chu has made even more excuses. It is really a blessing for the people!

After leaving Fuzhou City for about twenty miles, Zhu Ci? What he saw was not the scene he saw in the city. It is not an exaggeration to describe what he saw in the field. Due to the typhoon and the sea water flowed backwards, the coast of the Minjiang River was torn to pieces by storms, and even a decent house could not be seen.

Dong Ping and Xue Ba were also surprised to see the scene that was a hundred times more miserable than in the city. If the King of Chu had not suggested coming outside the city, they would have thought that what they saw was like in the city!

Zhu Ci? Before coming to a village, the typhoon should have been raging a month ago. It has been a month, but it is still so tragic. The unpleasant smell of a rotten corpse immediately sank his face. I remember that the governor of Fujian is Wu Dayou, an old minister who has only been in office for less than a year. Logically speaking, he has a lot of experience in politics. How could he deal with it like this? Could it be that what he saw in the city is like to act?

Zhu Ci walked through three larger villages and towns in a row, and did not return to the inn in the city until dark. Liu Xi and Li Guilouqing found that the prince who came back looked gloomy and did not look a little smile, and were all a little surprised.

Dong Ping and Xue Ba shook their hands gently and signaled not to disturb Your Highness. No wonder Zhu Ci was unhappy. There was a porridge farm outside the city, but the porridge farm was incomparable to the ones in the city. With a spoon, the rice grains inside could be counted. Another one. The number of victims was beyond imagination. The person who reported it said that the number of people suffering from disaster in Fujian and Guangdong was more than 2 million. However, no more than 500,000 were needed in urgent need of treatment. However, from what we saw outside the city, it was seriously inconsistent with the place where the report was reported.

Liu Xi brought hot water to Zhu Ci's bedroom, "Master, you should burn your feet! You must be exhausted after walking for a day." After hearing Xue Ba say that the prince had been leaving for a day, Liu Xi quickly ordered the shopkeeper to burn the hot water.

Zhu Ci was thinking about what to do when he saw Wu Da tomorrow! It seems obvious that disaster relief is not effective now. Although natural disasters cannot be fought against, the **s cannot be avoided. He asked Liu Xi while burning his feet, "You haven't been in the inn all the time, right?" Zhu Ci knew that Liu Xi was a person who couldn't stay idle. He was better when he was in Nanjing, but when he went out, he was more active.

Liu Xi nodded, "Because there are two guards in the inn. There will be no loss of seals and other things, so the younger ones are walking around the street."

Zhu Ci? Oh, "What's going on the street?" Zhu Ci? Just walked around the porridge farm, and didn't have time to see other places.

When Liu Xi heard the prince’s question, he mentioned what he saw and heard, from Liu Xi’s perspective. The recovery in Fuzhou City was better, and the sellers were all normal, and the rice prices did not fluctuate significantly. Liu Xi specifically asked what he thought Zhu Ci was more concerned about, but he saved Zhu Ci’s heart a lot.

After sleeping well all night, Zhu Ci, who had relieved the fatigue and fatigue, came to the Fujian Governor's Office, and Dong Ping came forward to greet him. The yamen runners informed him while letting Zhu Ci and others into the yamen.

Zhu Ci? I thought about it for a long time before going to bed last night. After my father reformed the administration, he greatly simplified the administrative link. The magistrate was directly responsible to the governor of the province, and the nine-rank official system that followed the thousand-year-old nine-rank official system also became the fifth-rank official system. The other yamen performed their duties and had little to do with direct administration. If disaster relief was not effective, then the problem was either the governor or the magistrate. It would not involve the local court's port yamen and other officials.

What surprised Zhu Ci was that Fujian Governor Wu Dayou was injured in a typhoon and his legs were still inconvenient to move, so he had to go to the inner house to visit the parents of the province.

Wuda has also brought his luck home. On the day when the typhoon hit, he returned to his yamen after handling business at the Port Office. He was hit by a typhoon on the way and was hit by a wooden pole as thick as a bowl falling from the sky, causing his legs to be injured.

Wu Da had seen Zhu Ci? When he saw Zhu Ci coming in a few times, he smiled bitterly, "I am injured and cannot pay homage to the prince. I hope you will forgive me!"

Zhu Ci? It's okay to do it. He first asked about Wu Dayou's condition. He knew that he was gradually recovering and felt relieved. "Mr. Wu, you have been injured. I wonder who has appointed someone to be responsible for disaster relief?" Zhu Ci? He originally thought that the problem of Wu Dayou's failure to rescue disasters was Wu Dayou's problem, but now Wu Dayou can't leave the yamen at all, so things will be pulled.

Wu Dayou was stunned for a moment, "The prince also saw that he was injured and could not even get out of the yamen. Therefore, he entrusted all the disaster relief matters to Wang Zhengzhong, the governor of Fuzhou." The governor is the local chief executive, but he cannot manage the port affairs. The port affairs in various places are directly under the imperial court. According to the rank, they are just in charge of the same level as the governor. Wuhan Dayou has difficulty moving and entrusts disaster relief matters to Wang Zhengzhong, the same level of the port affairs, and does not make any mistakes.

Zhu Ci knew that Wu Dayou had a relationship with Wang Duo, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. Although he didn't have a deep understanding of Wu Dayou, he knew that he would never smear Wang Duo on his face. So he told him what he saw and heard outside Fuzhou City, "Mr. Wu, I originally thought it was because of the great man that he was unable to provide disaster relief. Now it seems that I was wrongly blamed by the great man."

When Wu Dayou heard this, he didn't care about any injuries on his legs and sat up from the bed, "**, Wang Zhengzhong is so stupid!" Wu Dayou was originally a military general, but when he heard Zhu Ci's words, he showed his vulgar side of the warrior in a hurry.

Zhu Ci? After Wu Da’s mood stabilized, "Mr. Wu, I am a newcomer and I don’t know what happened in Fujian. The emperor just asked me to help with disaster relief. I still have to rely on the place. Now Master Wu is inconvenient, which makes me embarrassed."

Someone from Wuda is not stupid. He got angry and calmed down and touched his beard. "Prince, you have learned some tricks like this. The prince also knows that the prince has just taken office not long ago, so he is not afraid of the prince's jokes. If the prince is an official in this place, it is better to say that he is here to be angry than an official!"

Zhu Ci was also a little confused by the words of Wu Dayou, "Why did you say this? You are the head of Fujian Province, who dares to be popular with the adults?"

Wu Dayou sighed and Zhu Ci, after a long time, he said, "I guess the prince has heard of it. Jiangnan has always been a literati and is quite xenophobic. I am not only a martial artist, but I am a good man, but it sounds a bit like a general and a prime minister. I don't say it nicely, but it's just a use of small talents. The emperor transferred Wang Deren to Xijiang and served as the chief supervisor of the production and construction corps of the Western Xinjiang. It's really hard to arrange this place, so I arranged it here. If I explore the root cause, the emperor would still plan for the prince!"

When Zhu Ci heard what Wu Dayou said, he vaguely guessed that something was related to the succession of their brothers to the throne. "Can you say it clearly?" Zhu Ci also wanted to hear his views on these things from outsiders.

"The prince knows that the fourth prince had been a state-regulatory authority, and the driving force behind it was the officials of Jiangnan, mainly civil officials from Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi. These people have always talked about their hometown. They can be said to be firm supporters of the fourth prince, especially the family of the concubine Chen, the shopkeeper is important in Jiangnan Shilin. Although the national academy opened by the emperor broke this bad habit, the intricacies of the inseparable relationship cannot be eliminated by eliminating it." Wu Dayou thought about the wording, "The prince of Yuxing was transferred, and the suitable replacements were basically people related to the fourth prince. In order to restrain these people, the emperor could only transfer me here. Not only was I a military general, but I was not from a Jiangnan family. How hard this official was done was not something that the prince could understand!"

Wuhan University said it is true that Emperor Hongguang opened the Military Academy and the National Academy, which indeed strengthened the centripetal force of civil and military over the imperial power to the court. However, due to historical reasons, Emperor Hongguang focused on it and was more concerned about the Military Academy. After all, what was needed at that time was an army that could fight and win, while the National Academy had a slightly weak management. Over time, the National Academy, which could have played a better role, failed to play its due role due to historical reasons. Although the drawbacks such as party struggles were eliminated, it did not eliminate the old idea of ​​officials thinking about their hometown as a subject. This cannot be said to be a failure.

The magistrate of Fujian Province is good at Wuhan University on the surface, but he is a direct boss after all, but he does not take Wu University seriously at all. In addition to the orders of Emperor Hongguang, the cabinet and the six ministries that can make these county magistrates concerned, Wuhan University can be said to be unable to play with them. The poor disaster relief this time is that the officials are not coordinated enough and the government orders are not in line with each other. How can we treat the victims and provide relief to the victims well?

Zhu Ci? Thinking about the seriousness of the matter, but he didn't expect it to be so serious. He knew that his mother had no family members, that is, no help from relatives. He didn't think anything before, because Emperor Hongguang had always suppressed the forces of relatives, and even the Marquis of Pingding Gao Di dared to be too close to Ci Jiong. But when he came to the head, Zhu Ci realized that it would be different if it was related to whether it was related to the family or not!

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