Shangshu Ye?

Hasn't she stopped him from going to control the water? What could happen to him in the capital?

Ye Qing was stunned for a while before asking, "Father? What's wrong with my father?"

Old Mrs. Ye choked and said, "He went to Jiangnan to control the water. As a result, the rainstorm in the south of the Yangtze River these days, mountain torrents broke out, destroying half of the reservoir embankment. The floods became a disaster. Your father was supervising the reservoir at that time and was swept away by the flood. His life and death are unknown so far..."

When Ye Qing heard this, his heart sank.

Ye Shangshu didn't listen to her advice at all! He went to Jiangnan to control the water!

Old Mrs. Ye came to the palace overnight to ask for help. After all, it was because of the unfavorable water control of Ye Shangshu.

If he really died while controlling the water, the emperor might not care, but if he was still alive, the crime of unfavorable control of the water would definitely not be able to escape.

Now the floods in Jiangnan are even worse, I am afraid that the emperor will be furious, and the only ones who can plead with the Ye family are she and the Queen Mother.

"Mother is relieved, and brother will definitely not be able to do anything." said the Queen Mother.

Now the Ye family has the highest official position. Although it is not as good as the three dukes and nine ministers in the court, it can still support the entire Ye family. If the Ye family is gone, the Ye family will really not be able to find a head of the family who can take the lead.

Old Mrs. Ye said sadly: "I am a son like Ting Xiu, and that is your own brother and father! Yun'er, you beg for mercy in front of Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to send more people to find Ting Xiu!"

As soon as the flood occurred, all the local people were displaced. The officers and soldiers in the yamen were not strong enough. They were responsible for dismissing refugees, but also looking for officials washed away by the flood. After the Ye family learned that there was something wrong with Ye Shangshu, the boy in the family took all the servants to Jiangnan to find Ye Shangshu, but after all, the manpower was limited, so it was far less than the court's soldiers who sent them to search for him.

The Empress Dowager immediately said, "If something big happened, the emperor must have discussed disaster relief with the court officials in the imperial study room. The Ai family will go to the imperial study room in person and ask the emperor to send someone to find his brother."

Old Mrs. Ye cried for too long today, her eyes were swollen. She said tremblingly: "I have to see people alive, and I have to see the corpse when I die... No matter what, I have to let my old woman see Ting Xiu again..."

"Mother, don't say these unlucky words, your brother may have been found! It's just that the news has not been sent to the capital." The empress dowager said while wiping her tears.

Compared to the grief of Old Lady Ye and the Empress Dowager, Ye Qing seemed particularly calm.

She asked: "Did my grandmother know where was the area in Jiangnan?"

Although Old Lady Ye didn't know why Ye Qing asked this, he replied: "Your father left Beijing and said he would say goodbye to me, saying that he would go to Lujiang, Yangzhou to do an errand, and that he would pass by the old house in Wujun on the way back and repair his father's grave."

Speaking of Shangshu Ye going to repair the tomb of the deceased Grand Tutor Ye, Old Mrs. Ye couldn't help but shed tears again.

Ye Qing was not very good at the world map of this world. He didn't know which counties and counties would be next to Lujiang, Yangzhou. He said: "After you return home, you send a message to your brothers who are looking for your father, and ask them to go to Lujiang to find the people in the local government office first. The people in the government office should know which area the reservoir was washed away by the flood. Let your brothers and others find a local person to lead the way and search downstream from the place where your father was washed away by the water, but if you have found a basin of a county, don't go down any further."

The flood was so fierce that if Ye Shangshu was taken out of the two counties by the flood, he would definitely be out of salvation after such a long period of drowning.

The assumption that Ye Qing made was that if Ye Shangshu was still alive, he must have been trapped in the counties and counties in the lower reaches of Lujiang River and was waiting for rescue.

If everyone looking for Shangshu Ye is looking for Shangshu in this area, it will increase the probability that Shangshu Ye will be found.

After all, Old Lady Ye has been a person who has experienced the most of her life. No matter how sad she is, she will not fall down easily. After hearing Ye Qing's words, she nodded repeatedly: "I'll go home and have someone bring a letter to Jiannan and the others!"

It is said that concern will cause chaos. When the Ye family knew that something happened to Ye Shangshu, they would inevitably be too anxious to get rid of their positions. Maybe Ye Jiannan and his friends went to Yangzhou area in Jiangnan and searched randomly. After all, they were all flooded. They were not familiar with the place and could not distinguish the place.

Ye Qing just pointed out these problems from a more rational perspective. But whether he can find Shangshu Ye still depends on God's will.

After she and the Empress Dowager sent Old Lady Ye out of the palace, Ye Qing thought that the Empress Dowager would take her to the imperial study to find Xiao Jue, but the Empress Dowager asked her to return to the palace to rest.

Ye Qing didn't understand the queen mother's meaning very much, so he said, "Auntie, I'll go with you to ask Your Majesty."

Although adding her seems to be of little use, she should do her best.

Except for Zi Zhu, the palace ladies who followed them were all the Empress Dowager's confidants. She didn't shy away from speaking: "Now the emperor is discussing water control with the ministers in the imperial study room, and we may not be able to see it when we go. The emperor was upset, and if he cried and begged for him at this time, he would just make him irritable."

It was almost summer, and the night wind was still chilly. The empress dowager closed her cloak and said, "After returning to the palace, you can count your private warehouse to see how much money you can get out. Tomorrow, I will ask the Ye family to send all the land deeds of several rice shops in the capital to the palace, and then go to find the emperor."

Ye Qing suddenly came back to the point that the Queen Mother said in Changshou Palace was just to stabilize Old Lady Ye.

Only the empress dowager himself should know how many of these things can be seen from the queen's position to the queen's position.

Ye Qing also understood the interests of the empress dowager.

She had previously analyzed the many disadvantages of the flood control incident to Ye Shangshu. Ye Shangshu did not hesitate to take on this job without hiding it. It is not difficult to see that Ye Shangshu was also confused by the interests behind the flood control.

Water control can be called fat, and there are definitely many benefits that can be harvested.

If you do your job beautifully, no matter how much you get, the emperor will turn a blind eye.

But if the emperor only gets the benefits but fails to do the matter, it would be strange if the emperor is not angry.

The Empress Dowager did not rashly ask the emperor, but she was not sure whether Ye Shangshu was greedy in this flood control. If she was greedy, how much she was greedy. Only by figuring out these can we estimate how much she would be punished by Shangshu Ye.

Even if Ye Shangshu really died in this flood control, Xiao Jue no longer pursued Ye Shangshu's negligence. The empress dowager had to help Xiao Jue at the most appropriate time so that Xiao Jue could remember the kindness of the Ye family.

After the flood, all fertile land will be destroyed, and the people will definitely be short of food. At that time, the court will have to open warehouses and release grain.

But the harvest has not been good in recent years. The granary in the court has to be supplied to the army outside Yanmen Pass. It is inevitable that it will not dare to release a large amount of food to the victims, which will only ensure that they are in a state of being unable to eat enough and not starve to death.

The Ye family provided food and money at this time, which solved the emperor's urgent need.

There are natural disasters in the failure to control water, but the move of giving food and money is all done by man.

Ye Qing had to sigh that he was worthy of being the queen mother and saw everything very thoroughly.

She had no impression of Ye Shangshu, a cheap father, and she was a little cold-blooded. If Ye Shangshu was really greedy and was killed, she would not have sympathy at all.

But what is more indifferent now is that if Shangshu Ye is finished and still implicated in the Ye family, all those who have been kinship with the Ye family will probably have to be in prison, and her life with the Empress Dowager will not be very easy.

What the Queen Mother does now is to do her best to protect the Ye family.

When he returned to Zhaoyang Palace, Ye Qing ordered someone to count her warehouse.

Because she grew up in the palace since she was a child, she received many rewards since she was a child.

Most of her warehouses are rich and valuable things, but there is not much real money and silver. Ye Qing asked Zi Zhu to measure everything in her warehouse at a discount on silver, and counted it in pieces. Ye Qing found that she could take out ninety thousand taels of silver in the warehouse.

Although he knew that Ye Qing was trying to save Ye Shangshu, when he saw Ye Qing put everything in the warehouse into a box, Zi Zhu still felt so painful that she almost cried.

After preparing for the money, the empress dowager took care of the rest, Ye Qing was idle again.

She thought about what happened to Mr. Ye should have nothing to do with Yang Xiang. After all, Mr. Ye robbed the fat man who originally belonged to Mr. Yang Xiang's party.

Ye Qing had asked Zi Zhu to order the little eunuch who served Xiao Jue's tea in the court. Now, the concubines in the entire harem are no one except the queen. The little eunuch naturally wanted to curry favor with the queen, so Zi Zhu didn't even have much effort when buying news from the little eunuch.

When he went to Changshou Palace to pay his respects the next day, Ye Qing ordered people to move all the things in his warehouse to the Empress Dowager's side.

The Empress Dowager talked about the floods in Jiangnan and said a few more words that the harem should reduce the food and clothing, which means that the concubines would raise money to save the disaster.

When the concubines saw the dozens of big boxes that Ye Qing brought over, they were almost angry. The queen gave so much, and if they gave less, they would be unable to say anything.

In the end, the money raised by the concubines became a considerable amount.

Ye Qing returned to his Zhaoyang Palace from the Empress Dowager and happened to learn that the emperor had already been on duty, so he still left several ministers to discuss matters in the imperial study.

What happened in the morning court, the eunuch who served Xiao Jue's tea told Zi Zhu all the time, and Zi Zhu told Ye Qing again.

Yang Xiang submitted a memorial to ask Xiao Jue to punish Ye Shangshu, and he should be removed from his official position regardless of life or death, and the men of the Ye family were no longer allowed to enter the officialdom.

Yang Xiang had many followers in the court, so many people naturally agreed with him when he said this.

In the end, only one Taifu Li stood up to speak for Ye Shangshu. Li Taifu and Ye Taifu were close friends. He was a clean minister. Although he didn't have many students, he had great prestige in the court. In the early years, the court relied on Taifu Li and Yang Xiangheng, but in recent years, there were more and more Yang Xiang's gangs, which made him somewhat unbalanced.

The two of them fought very verbally in the court, and finally ended with Xiao Jue losing his temper and resigning to court.

Xiao Jue has been busy these days. He discussed with several ministers last night whether to store military rations in the granary warehouse for a night, but in the end he was unable to discuss the result.

This morning, the Empress Dowager ordered people to send the money raised by the palace concubine and several rice and grain shops from the Ye family.

The salt merchants are rich in the capital, but the salt merchants are supported by the aristocratic families.

The Ye family is very smart and knows that they will definitely not be able to do the high-ranking families in the salt trading business, so they are all focused on the rice and grain business.

With this batch of silver and rice, he can indeed alleviate his urgent needs.

When Xiao Jue's eyes swept over the collection book of the palace concubine, he saw the thick book of Zhaoyang Palace. After he frowned, he called An Fu: "Return the Queen's things halfway back."

An Fu knew that Xiao Jue was working hard for the floods in Jiangnan these days, so he said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty... This book was sent after registering it in the Office of the Internal Affairs." If the queen was halfway back, where would the poor part be compensated?

An Fu didn't say the following words, but Xiao Jue already understood what he meant.

He pinched his eyebrows with two fingers: "Go back and fill it up from my private warehouse."
Chapter completed!