In Wu Mansion Study.

Zhao Hao was startled by Wu Shilai's appearance, and saw his mouth full of bubbles, his cheeks sunken, and his eyes were thick and dark, just like he had been rubbing mahjong all night for ten days...

"Uncle, don't you sleep a little longer?" Wu Kangyuan asked Wu Shilai who was yawning.

"I won't sleep anymore, I'll go to the palace to have a banquet later." Wu Shilai greeted Zhao Hao and sat down, joking and laughed: "At this time of year, Guangluqing will be greeted by officials to greet his ancestors. Your old brother is a lucky life, so he actually let him escape."

Zhao Hao knew that the emperor granted the courts and officials on New Year's Day, and the banquets of the vassal state envoys were traditions of the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that as many as 2,000 people attended the banquet. When the cold season was so cold, the dishes of the officials naturally became cold after the red tape. They felt uncomfortable in their stomachs and wanted to scold Guangluqing's mother...

After greeting Uncle Wu, the two chatted for a few words, and Zhao Hao turned the topic back to the beginning.

"What happened to my uncle just now?"

"Hey, look at me on the fire." Wu Shilai pointed at his mouth and said, "It was all caused by them."

"Didn't they all drive out of the capital?" Zhao Hao asked in confusion: "I saw the shacks that had been on the road twice, and they were all completely demolished."

"The city is peaceful, but outside the city is in chaos. Shuntian Prefecture manages the seven counties and five prefectures of the capital. It is not a place as big as the capital. We have to take care of the chaos outside the city." Wu Shilai smiled bitterly, took a sip of strong tea to cheer up, and broke down Zhao Hao:

"The reason for the court cleaning up refugees this time is quite complicated, so I won't say much. But no matter what, refugees will not understand the difficulties of the court. Many of them have actually found work in the city. Although they don't have much money, they can finally live..."

Zhao Hao nodded. There was a very important reason why the people of the Ming Dynasty abandoned their families on a large scale, which was that they would not have to pay taxes or work hard, nor would they have to pay responsibilities from the government.

In this way, they only need to make a small amount of money to support the whole family.

For many people who are overwhelmed by taxes, the benefits of being refugees allow them to overcome the pain of leaving their hometowns.

"As a result, the court tried every possible way and drove everyone out of the capital, but they were unwilling to go home." Wu Shilai continued to sigh and said, "I wandered around towns outside the capital, resulting in a surge in cases of stealing and even robbery and murder."

"Didn't it mean that the two empresses and His Highness the eldest princess set up a porridge factory in the Baiyunguan area, and all walks of life in the capital also donated money actively. Will not starve a refugee to death?" Just as Wu Shilai said something to Zhao Hao, Zhao Hao would not give him a full explanation.

"It's just that I can't starve to death..." A look of compassion appeared on Wu Shilai's tired face: "But families like you and me want to celebrate the New Year, and refugees also want to celebrate the New Year!"

"..." Zhao Hao was struck by lightning and suddenly froze there.

"They are also fathers, husbands, and sons. It's fine for the whole family to spend their lives eating porridge, but as the end of the year approaches, who doesn't want to buy a firecracker for their children? Don't want to improve it for the elderly? Don't want the wife to have a flower on her?" Wu Shilai said with tears in his eyes:

"The court did not allow them to make money on their own hands, so they spread their resentment on the people outside the capital, steal and cheat, and even robbed them in groups!"

Wu Shilai was a person who suffered in Guangxi for more than ten years. After all, he understood what the people think better than ordinary officials.

But the more I understand, the more I feel more painful than those officials who are confused and obedient...

"The capital is the most stable place. If you dare to commit crimes against the wind during the Chinese New Year, the court will naturally punish you strictly. The prisons of Shuntian Prefecture, Wanping and Daxing counties are already full of prisons, and more than a dozen boards have been broken... Of course, there are guilty and deserved evildoers among them. But most of them are ordinary people who are forced to steal the cat."

He regrets it very much now. He did not strongly advise Xu Fan to not expel the refugees in one-size-fits-all manner.

But whether it is Wu Shilai or Xu Fan, they all judged that if the refugees were driven out of the capital, if they did not want to starve to death, they would have to go to Liangxiang, Gu'an, and Xianghe to make a living.

The capacity of the county towns below is limited, so the refugees can only be dispersed and even go to Baoding, Tianjin and other places to survive. In this way, the pressure of relief in each prefecture and county is not high, and the difficulty of control is greatly reduced. By the spring of the next year, they can be repatriated to their original homes.

Of course, some people will die on the way back and forth, but when nearly 200 million people in the Ming Dynasty did not die thousands of people?

In Xu Fan's view, as long as the problem can be solved, the cost can be ignored...

But neither the two nor the elder Xu Ge Lao would have expected that the two empresses and the eldest princess would take the lead in providing relief, and even raised nearly 100,000 taels of charity funds, which basically ensured that the refugees could not starve to death.

Who will embark on the road of life and death in the ice and snow? More than 100,000 refugees are all stranded outside the Beijing, and there are unexpected changes that the rulers have...

Forbidden City.

In the corridor outside the back three halls, the eldest princess sat in the phoenix carriage carried by four eunuchs, preparing to take her children home to take a rest.

Last night, the three of them stayed in the palace to accompany Emperor Longqing's family to stay up to the New Year, and the genius stopped until the fourth update.

The three of them took a break from the Queen's place, and as soon as the palace gate was opened, they rushed home to take a break.

The eldest princess was sitting in the sedan chair and yawning, suddenly she heard Liu Shanggong whispering to remind: "The Imperial Concubine is here."

She quickly rubbed her eyes, lifted the curtain and saw a phoenix carriage with the same regulations slowly coming from the opposite side.

The eldest princess said in her heart: 'It seems that she had just taken Zhu Yijun to ask the emperor for help...'

She quickly took a deep breath, drove the fatigue away from her face, and made herself radiant again.

Then the eldest princess ordered people to park the sedan chair on the side of the road, asking Li Chengen and Li Mingyue to get out of the sedan chair and wait for Concubine Li's phoenix chariot to come.

In a moment, two phoenix carriages met in a corridor made of vermilion-red high walls.

Concubine Li's sedan chair also stopped, and then the two empresses lifted the curtain at the same time, revealing the kind smiles of the whole family.

"Empress, respect the throne of the dynasty, and the fortune will last forever."

"Your Highness, I respect the throne of the dynasty, and my blessings will last forever."

Unfortunately, they cannot be called sister-in-law and sister-in-law...

The eldest princess' sister-in-law is Empress Chen, and Concubine Li is not worthy of it.

After Li Chengen and Li Mingyue also greeted Concubine Li, the eldest princess asked with a smile:

"Is the Imperial Concubine just back from the Qianqing Palace?"

The two sat in their own sedan chairs, whispering to each other.

"Yes, I took Yijun to wish His Majesty a New Year. This child was so sad that he could even recite a few auspicious words, which made people sweat..."

"How could it be? Children are cute in everything." The eldest princess looked into the sedan chair of Concubine Li.

"Is Your Highness looking for Yijun?" Concubine Li smiled and said, "If he were in the sedan chair, he would have been clamoring to play with his cousin."

"Oh, Your Majesty has left Yijun?" The eldest princess was slightly surprised. Today is the New Year's Day ceremony, so Your Majesty has no time to coax the child.

"Yes, Your Majesty said he would take him to court and let all officials and foreign envoys meet Yijun." Concubine Li couldn't help but be happy, and her voice was like a magpies chirping:

"I also said that I would announce the establishment of the prince. I feel a little anxious. But how can we, a woman, mix with such a national event? I dare not say one more thing..."

When the eldest princess heard this, her smile on her face was obviously frozen for a moment, and then she immediately said with joy:

"Is that so good?"

After a moment of surprise, the eldest princess hurriedly presented her most sincere, warmest and most joyful congratulations to Concubine Li.

She smiled again, and heard that the woman who was about to be crazy and was confused for a long time, and then made an appointment to come to celebrate her grandly on the other day, and then she bid farewell to Concubine Li Yiyi.

When the curtain fell, the smile on the eldest princess's face also melted...
Chapter completed!