"What on earth do you want me to do in the palace?"

    "Pick people."

    "Or pick someone?"

    "Different."

    Xiao Yun said with a smile: "this time, old man Leng, you have to tell your majesty to let him choose a very slippery person, even some greedy guys. It''s best to be the kind of high-power one. This time, such a person is needed to do a big thing!"

    ……

    Your majesty chose a man without thinking about it.

    Wu Xi.

    Dongge bachelor, subordinate to the cabinet.

    He''s a powerful man.

    In the position of mingmian, it is even higher than Qiu Lao.

    However, because he is cunning, greedy, unpopular, and his status is naturally not obvious, he is always oppressed by Qiu Lao in political affairs.

    And his majesty appointed him as an official, which was disaster relief!

    This time, the Manchu civil and military were stunned when they heard the news.

    Originally, disaster relief is a very important thing. If Wu Xi is allowed to supervise, I''m afraid most of the money will have to be greedy by him!

    At that time, it will be worse for the state of Qin!

    But this is your Majesty''s order. Although we have doubts, we have to implement it.

    In fact, your majesty is full of doubts.

    I don''t understand why Xiao Yun made such a request.

    But

    Many things happened before. Your majesty didn''t listen to Xiao Yun.

    Now things have come true one by one, so I tried.

    After all, he really has no good way now.

    After hearing the appointment, Wu Xi was also full of doubts.

    He walked straight out of the queue, With a bitter face "Your Majesty, there is really not much food in the national treasury now. There are too many places outside that need disaster relief. Even if all the national treasury granaries are opened, it is just a drop in the bucket. How can it not be enough! Your majesty gives this job to a humble position. Naturally, the humble position has to work hard, but there is no clue about it. If your majesty has instructions, please make it clear Ah! "

    An old man in his seventies directly wiped his tears in the court. Obviously, this appointment is more bad than good for him.

    But your majesty doesn''t know what Wu Xi should do?

    He wanted to shout directly and wanted to know what to do? Ask Xiao Yun!

    But you can''t say that.

    I can only sigh and say, "Aiqing, don''t worry. Since I appointed you, naturally you have talent and can handle this matter well."

    "Ah?"

    Wu Xi can''t accept such a far fetched reason.

    Next to Qiu Ge, the old man sighed and came out and said, "Your Majesty, the gap in disaster relief is at least hundreds of thousands of stones. This is only a place to report. If those places are hidden or unreachable, I don''t know how many gaps there will be, but our Treasury granary is only 100000 stones, which is too far from disaster relief."

    "100000? Why so little?"

    His Majesty''s eyebrows wrinkled at once.

    100000 sounds like a lot. In fact, it''s really a lot, but if it''s put on a large base, it''s really not enough.

    The first-class officials in the court have a salary of 3000 stones every year, which is 100000 grain. To put it bluntly, even the officials in the state of Qin can''t afford it!

    How can he not be surprised and in a hurry?

    Old Qiu Ge sighed: "Your Majesty, the previous earthquake and natural disasters have consumed a lot of grain reserves, and the subsequent rebellion has not only destroyed many granaries, but also spent money on grain in the process of extermination. In addition, the disaster relief later. As a result, the natural Treasury is empty, and now there is a plague of locusts... Alas, it''s difficult to do at this time."

    After all, old Qiu Ge couldn''t help but come out and help Wu Xi say a word.

    Wu Xi looked grateful.

    In fact, the Manchu civil and military were more or less grateful to Qiu Ge.

    After all, he didn''t say "what did I say?!"

    Locust plague is not sudden.

    Early warning.

    If we had destroyed those fields directly according to the proposal, what would be the current situation?

    Now, even in the capital, people can feel the impact of the locust plague.

    All kinds of grain stores were robbed and closed. Everyone was waiting for a storm and prayed that they could survive.

    Where else?

    Just the snowflake like memorials these days can let the man Dynasty Civil and military understand how terrible it will be ahead!

    Especially those who have experienced these things can understand how many people will starve to death.

    Even hungry people are not qualified to chew bark, because everything that can be stuffed into their stomach has been eaten up by locusts!

    What about the rest?

    When the road dies of hunger, the child changes its food.

    In the past, this word only existed in books, a simple introduction.

    It''s hard to imagine what''s going on.

    And in fact.

    Hungry skinny children will be sent to other people''s homes by their parents in the morning.

    He didn''t know what was going to happen.

    Just confused and ignorant, they will be told that they will not be hungry soon, and there will be food soon.

    So he sat in the kitchen full of hope, waiting for a good meal, or no good meal. He just needed to fill his stomach, make his stomach a little more comfortable, and cheer up his weak body.

    But what is waiting for is just a firewood knife.

    He was caught in the head and cut his neck violently. The blood will not be wasted and will flow into the pot in front.

    Then he cut off his head and buried it in the yard behind the house. The rest of his body was cut into small pieces with a knife and thrown into boiling water.

    Or some parents are reluctant to give up their children. Most of them are women, or mothers.

    Put on the clothes you only wear once in your life, took a rare bath, and then went out of the door.

    His expression was indifferent and his eyes were desperate. He put his head on the kitchen board, then cut it off, turned it into meat and filled the stomachs of several families.

    The food will also include her children.

    Her children will not know that their mother will never come back. They also don''t know that what they eat is!

    Maybe I know.

    But in the face of hunger... They may choose to ignore this.

    A hungry man cannot be called a man.

    Not even a beast.

    It''s just a crazy, crazy, desperate group of insects struggling to survive.

    There is no more miserable person in the world!

    There are not many dignitaries who know such things.

    After all, I haven''t touched or seen it with my own eyes. The only thing I know is the simple and heinous words in the books.

    But Wu Xi knows!

    Different from what the world knows as greed and shamelessness.

    He has seen such a tragic sight.

    Even experienced!

    In the early years, his ancestral home was in Nanzhou, where there was a rebellion. After the rebellion, don''t care if you are a powerful man or not. You don''t have to wait for hunger.

    The most precious treasure, the brightest pearl, cannot be exchanged for a steamed bread full of dust.

    The reason why he is greedy and accumulates wealth in every way may also be because he has experienced these.

    At least Xiao Yun thinks it may be so.

    So when Xiao Yun knew his Majesty''s choice, he was very happy to come to Wu Xi''s residence for the first time.