sinovels Chapter 31 Jiangnan
Chapter 31 Jiangnan
Before going south, Xie Chongjin and Lu Xuechao explained everyone's tasks to ensure that Yujing would not cause trouble if they left Beijing for a month.
They went south this time, not all for fun, but for disaster relief.
Changli divides the north and south by a Linjiang River, and the south of the Linjiang River is called Jiangnan, including Quling, Yunzhou, and Quancheng. The summer palace was built in Yunzhou.These three lands are the land of fish and rice, prosperous and rich, and have always been an important source of tax revenue for the imperial court.
It is rainy in the south of the Yangtze River. In recent years, there have been continuous torrential rains and floods, flooding countless farmlands.A large amount of rice is planted in the south of the Yangtze River. Once the farmland is destroyed, the people will have no harvest, and life will be sad.It was originally a rich place, but there are piles of victims, starving and dying everywhere, let alone paying taxes.In order to make the taxes reported to the court less ugly, local officials forced local wealthy businessmen to pay money and food, which also aroused the dissatisfaction of the wealthy businessmen with the court.
In the final analysis, the money that should have been used to build water conservancy projects was used by the players to build a palace.In flood-prone lands, without water conservancy construction, it is natural that there will be continuous disaster years.Failure to report a disaster is a capital crime. When local officials report the disaster, players either sit idly by or order disaster relief.However, when half of the imperial court was corrupt, most of the money and food for disaster relief were embezzled layer by layer, and what really fell into the hands of the people was only a thin porridge.If the disaster victims riot, the player will directly send force to suppress it, with simple and rude methods.
In addition to the five stats on the surface, the emperor in the game actually has hidden stats such as prestige and popular support.In the memory of the previous life, when Xie Chongjin was under control, there were disasters all over the country, floods in the south, severe drought in the north, and the people were in dire straits. The emperor only indulged in sensuality in Yujing and didn't care about anything, only killing refugees.This kind of thing happens too much, the prestige and people's hearts will fall to the bottom, and it will trigger the ending of being killed by the mob.
When Xie Chongjin went south in the past years, he always brought a group of concubines with him. The guard of honor was mighty and grand, and the local officials led the well-dressed "common people" to welcome him. If you are rich, you can drive back to the palace with peace of mind.As for the ragged refugees behind Guang Guang, they were all stopped by the officials, and they would never run in front of His Majesty and block His Majesty's eyes.
Fu Xinian is a talented person in the south of the Yangtze River. The first thing he did after he was admitted to the imperial examination was to state the disaster situation in the south of the Yangtze River and plead for the people.
Therefore, the first thing Xie Chongjin did after he got rid of the control and cleared the imperial court was to invest all the money obtained from the house raids into the construction of farmland, water conservancy, transportation, tax reduction and exemption, and open warehouses to release grain. These are major issues related to people's livelihood.
Xie Chongjin has sent imperial envoys to the south of the Yangtze River for disaster relief, but the heavy rain in the south of the Yangtze River a few months ago broke the road and bridge connecting Quling and Yunzhou. It has not been repaired yet, and the relief team was delayed on the road.According to the news from the front, it will take half a month before they can leave. Xie Chongjin will set off immediately, and it will be half a month before he arrives in Quling, so he can join the main force.
Xie Chongjin simply went to Jiangnan to see the disaster relief situation with his own eyes.
After arranging the affairs in Beijing, Xie Chongjin changed into his regular clothes and ordered someone to prepare a carriage outside the palace.
If you want to get to Quling as soon as possible, the best choice is to hurry up.But Xie Chongjin was afraid that Lu Xue would be overwhelmed, so he chose a comfortable carriage and hurried all the way, and finally arrived within half a month.
Lu Xuechao saw the carriage parked under the tree, and there was no one around, so she couldn't help but ask, "Where's the coachman?"
Xie Chongjin took Lu Xuechao's hand and asked him to use his strength to get into the carriage, then he sat on the front of the carriage, put on a mask, and held a whip in his hand: "Here."
"You're going to be my coachman?" Lu Xuechao opened the curtain and said in surprise, "This trip...is it really just the two of us?"
Not even a palace guard and coachman?
...This is too exaggerated.
"It's two people, it's two people, and multiple coachmen don't count as two people." Xie Chongjin didn't think it was an exaggeration.
After experiencing so many worlds where Lu Xuechao could not stay with him and where Yin and Yang were separated, once he regained his freedom, he could only wish to leave the whole world behind, leave behind all the troubles, and not care about anything, just stay with Lu Xuechao.
In so many worlds, he doesn't have Lu Xuechao.
Why can't there be a time when there is only Lu Xuechao in his world?
Why consider the people of the world?After being tortured for life after life, who can have the world in his heart, he only cares about Lu Xuechao in his heart.When he hated it so much, Xie Chongjin even thought that the world would be completely destroyed. He could pay any price including himself, just to be safe for the rest of his life, return to the sky, and be a carefree fairy under the moon.
...Don't fall into the mortal world, come to him, and suffer like this.
Xie Chongjin once thought so selfishly that he is not a sage, he will not have no hatred after being played by fate like this, and he will not be able to restrain the dark thoughts of self-destruction.But when he woke up and saw that Lu Xuechao was also working hard to revive Changli, he knew that he still had to shoulder the responsibility of a king.
They are not people who put their personal feelings above their family and country.
Xie Chongjin is busy with political affairs every day, and Lu Xuechao is also busy with official affairs.In the past few months, the two of them have been working hard for the important affairs of their family and country, and they rarely have the opportunity to be alone, and they have no time to talk about their personal affairs.Sleeping on the same bed at night, they were all exhausted, and fell asleep without any intimacy.
Steal half a day of leisure.He just wanted to get along with Qingshu day and night for half a month, without being entangled in business or disturbed by others.
Anyone other than Lu Xuechao seemed superfluous in his eyes.
"You are the emperor, even if it is a private visit, you don't care about your own safety." Lu Xuechao asked, "What if you meet an assassin?"
"It's not that no one is following, there will be secret guards to protect secretly, besides—" Xie Chongjin didn't think about it, "Who else can kill me except you?"
Xie Chongjin blurted out these words without thinking.He has met too many assassins in his memory, unless the player has not practiced martial arts for many years and wasted martial arts, and after Lu Xuechao's death, Xie Chongjin wanted to die, there is a dual influence of game settings and Xie Chongjin's own wishes, he will be killed by others .If Lu Xuechao was alive, only Lu Xuechao could kill Xie Chongjin.
Lu Xuechao died, Xie Chongjin didn't want to live alone.Lu Xuechao was alive, Xie Chongjin would never die, if he wanted to die, Lu Xuechao would have to kill him himself.
As soon as these words came out, the air suddenly condensed for a moment.Lu Xue pursed her lips and looked at him, then suddenly put down the curtain.
Xie Chongjin was startled, sensing something was wrong, and hurriedly opened the curtain, only to see Lu Xue turned her head away, her long hair hanging down covered the expression on her face.
"Qingshu?" Xie Chongjin called carefully.
Lu Xuechao didn't speak and ignored him.
Xie Chongjin said in his heart, it's broken, it makes people angry.
What he said was really not to blame Lu Xuechao.On the contrary, being killed by Lu Xuechao was something that Xie Chongjin felt happy and relieved, and there was nothing taboo about it.
Lu Xue lowered her head, her shoulders twitched, and her body trembled slightly.
Xie Chongjin panicked, quickly got into the carriage, grabbed the man's shoulders and pulled him over.Lu Xuechao didn't cry, but her eyes were red, obviously sad.
"I'm sorry, Qingshu, I said the wrong thing." Xie Chongjin was at a loss, and couldn't see the shadow of the emperor who planned the strategy at all, "I didn't mean to blame you...I can still be free if you kill me, I'm very happy. "
Not only was Lu Xuechao not coaxed, but his eyes became redder even more, his lips were bitten with tooth marks, but he still tried to hold back his tears, and Xie Chongjin's heart ached to death with his forbearance.
He knew that he had said something wrong, and he didn't know how to coax him now.
Lu Xue raised her eyes and asked calmly: "Do you think it will be a happy thing for me if I kill you?"
Xie Chongjin choked for breath.
...that would certainly not be a happy thing.
Not only is it not a happy thing, but I am afraid it is a heartbreaking thing.
He knew how sad that was.
He also... killed Qingshu.The taste of killing the one you love with your own hands is a pain that I can't bear to live even thinking about it.He was forced by others, and it was out of necessity to be careless. In terms of the degree of pain, it was the same.
He uncovered the sparse scars.
Their world is a game to the player, but not a game to them.It's not that if you stab me once, I'll kill you once, and we'll be even, and we won't owe each other.That's just comforting talk.
How could it even be evened?Every time they hurt each other, they cut the wound in each other's hearts deeper.It was riddled with holes and dripping with blood, no matter how you put it together, it would be difficult to restore it to its original state.
This is something they usually don't mention on purpose, but it doesn't mean that if they don't mention it, the problem will disappear.Often an unintentional act, a single unintentional word, touches the wound, and it can affect the heart with pain.
For example at this moment.
"Qing Shu, I'm sorry." Xie Chongjin didn't care about driving, the curtain was lowered, and the two looked at each other in the cramped space of the carriage.
Xie Chongjin looked apologetic, hating himself for not being able to speak properly.
But Lu Xuechao shook his head, his expression calmed down: "You don't have to apologize to me all the time. After you had memories of your previous life, you said sorry to me a lot."
Xie Chongjin lowered his eyes: "If you do something wrong, you should apologize..."
"It's not the fault of any of us, and there's no need for anyone to say sorry. If the husband and wife are always apologizing, wouldn't it be a rift? I don't want either...we have to be careful when we speak in the future, lest we touch each other's sad things, It's quite boring to go there every so often. No matter how good the relationship is, it can't stand that kind of wear and tear." Lu Xuechao looked at him squarely, "Just because I'm sad about the past doesn't mean you have to admit your mistakes. I will adjust myself, you Don't coax me, don't apologize, don't blame you for the faults that don't belong to you. Not only about me, but about Chang Li, about the father, it is not your fault. You are not the original sin, and there is nothing wrong with your birth. "
He's really a calm guy.The first time she would cry, but the second time her eyes were red and she refused to shed tears.
He knew that Xie Chongjin also had many sad things hidden in his heart, and he never said it out.Ben had already endured it very hard, if he bothered to coax him, Xie Chongjin would not be able to bear it.
Xie Chongjin paused, and pulled his lower lip: "What does this have to do with Father...?"
After that, he apologized to many people.And the father... died the day before his birthday.
"Huaiyun, I'm sad and don't hide it from you, and don't hide it from me if you have something on your mind." Lu Xuechao looked into his eyes, "You really never thought that the father died suddenly in his prime, just to give you this so-called The protagonist of the game... give way?"