Cao Yi is worthy of being the most stable person.

Although he didn't speak much on weekdays and didn't have a strong sense of existence, the first official in this empire showed his style at a critical moment.

Even when the emperor fainted and there were no masters everywhere, he calmly gave a series of orders.

Including severely blocking the palace, no one is allowed to enter and exit for the time being.

It was not until Emperor Jinghe woke up that the atmosphere in the palace was not so stiff and panic.

But the severe lockdown continues.

No one in the palace is allowed to contact the outside world, and the palace can only enter, not leave.

Anyone who dares to have an affair with outsiders will be sent to the prison for nothing, no matter who it is.

In this regard, Cao Yi's decision was fully supported by the Empress Dowager, and General Bai Da was holding the empress dowager's handwriting and guarding Cao Yi.

Whoever dares to say that Cao Yi did something wrong, the empress dowager's handwriting will be thrown into his face - when the emperor cannot resume handling affairs, the empress dowager's imperial decree has great authority.

But there are still exceptions.

Late at night, I had to come to pack my carriage with night fragrance every day and slowly drove into a remote walled place near Longzong Gate.

The underground here is the end of the flush toilet drainage pipe in the palace.

All the filth was concentrated in the super iron bucket here, and then it was taken out by the eunuchs in the palace every day and put it in the bucket, and the carriage was pulled out of the city.

Other things can be ignored, but these filth must be cleaned, otherwise it will definitely overflow after two or three days, making it smelly and floating for ten miles.

Those who are in charge of this matter are all commissioners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and can be regarded as servants of the royal family. They have always been fixed and there are no changes.

Therefore, after checking the identity and carriage, Qianniuwei still let it go normally.

In the dark night, although there was an oil lamp, no one saw it. Just when the night incense bucket was handed over, an eunuch stuffed a note into the hands of one of the coachmen.

The coachman said nothing, and after making friends as if nothing had happened, he did what he should do after going through the inspection.

But when he returned to his home after handing over the shift, he immediately opened the note, copied it twice with a very thin pen, then grabbed two pigeons from the secret place, tied them to their legs, and quickly released the two pigeons.

The carrier pigeon flew in the slightly shiny sky and soon disappeared.

...

More than four hours later, it was the afternoon.

Jingzhou has only experienced heavy rain in the past few days, and the flood has washed away the embankment and is surrounded by a vast ocean.

The terrain of Jingzhou is very important.

It is located in the southern part of Hubei and can radiate the entire Hubei, and it can also facilitate the next step to Yueyang, Hunan, which is close to you.

Besides, Jingzhou is an important fulcrum on the Yangtze River, and the floods encountered here are the most severe.

Of course, the prince had to choose the most serious area to provide disaster relief.

After arriving in Jingzhou, the prince was very busy. He went out before dawn every day and came back late at night. He often rushes to eat and sleep, and never thought about taking a bath or something.

He is so busy that the people below are even harder.

Especially last time the prince gave locust disaster relief in Hubei and Hunan, and gave both kindness and power, which made countless people admire and respect it, so orders were prohibited and things were very efficient.

The prince's wife Sun Bin was originally supervising the transportation of food in the city, but suddenly saw Shen Mingqin running over in a hurry.

"Brother Gui Yu, something is not good!"

When he arrived in front of him, Shen Mingqin said this quickly.

Sun Bin secretly screamed that something was wrong and quickly pulled him aside, "What's wrong?"

Shen Mingqin handed him a note, "The No. 1 spy detective in the palace handed over the news, you can see."

When Sun Bin heard the "No. 1 spy detective in the palace", he was shocked.

This spy detective who was ambushed in the palace was one of the nails they finally laid, and was also the one who was closest to the emperor.

If the most urgent thing had happened, this spy detective would never have delivered the news directly.

He took it over and took a closer look at the fine font, and his eyes immediately widened.

In fact, there is only one line of words above, which is very simple to write.

"The main culprit of the grain reselling case has confessed and the emperor fainted."

Just a dozen words made Sun Bin take a breath of air conditioning.

The No. 1 spy detective didn't know who the main culprit was, nor what happened in the imperial study room, but he clearly transmitted the perceived information accurately.

Others don’t know, don’t Sun Bin know yet?

Yang Tao!

Yang Tao, the boss of the Ministry of Revenue Granary Storage Farm, must have provided the prince with it!

Hurrah!

This guy is really not afraid of death?

Are you not afraid that your whole family will go on the road together?

But such thoughts only existed in Sun Bin's mind for a moment.

The next moment, he panicked.

"what to do!?"

Sun Bin looked at Shen Mingqin.

He knows what they do.

If it is exposed, life will definitely be difficult to protect.

"What else can I do?" Shen Mingqin looked at the person standing in the distance, pulled Sun Bin outside, and said, "We have such bad luck, so we can only expect your highness to help us!"

What he said was that if this time it was not because of a flood, the emperor would not have seriously inspected the granary.

Sun Bin nodded, "What are you going to say?"

"Let's find Li Gaoshi first!" Shen Mingqin said, "As long as Li Gaoshi can help us speak, with your noble character, there will be no problem."

"But this time... the matter is too big, and we... Your Highness is really willing to forgive us?" Sun Bin hesitated a little.

"How can he not help us? How much money we get is used to maintain relationships? Isn't it for Your Highness?" Shen Mingqin said, "Besides, if Your Highness doesn't help us ministers, how can he become the emperor in the future? Who would like to help a monarch who can give up his subordinates at any time?"

"Well, what you said is reasonable!"

Sun Bin nodded and sighed again, "I really envy Li Gaojun! He doesn't have to get involved in these things, and he has no connection at all."

Shen Mingqin said: "Who told people to be lucky? They grew up with His Highness and have a good father?"

Li Gaoshi is Li Fan, and Li Fan's father is Li Xiutai, the Minister of Personnel. The majesty of the Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Personnel is not comparable to that of ordinary people?

Even Sun Bin's father, who was once the deputy prime minister, was not as good as that.

"Call Zhu Zhe, you can have him when you collect money, and you can't live without him when you work hard."

"Well, Lin Yao, who is in Beijing, has to count him."

"good!"

...

The two of them discussed and quickly went to find Zhu Zhe who was busy on the other side. The three of them came to Li Fan together.

Li Fan is very busy.

He was mainly responsible for the entire allocation of food and silver, and it can be said that his busyness in work was second only to the prince.

Seeing the three of them coming to the door, Li Fan was a little impatient: "If you have something to do, hurry up and say...Li Xin, how is your dredging work? Don't let the prince keep urging!"

The three of them looked at each other, but Shen Mingqin coughed lightly: "Gao Shi, call them all out!"

There were still many officials and civil servants in the lobby. Li Fan frowned when he heard this, and opened his mouth to say something, but he waved his hand first, "You go to the front yard to rest for a quarter of an hour."

"yes!"

A group of subordinates ran away in a swarm.

When they were exposed, Shen Mingqin stepped forward and handed the note to Li Fan.

Li Fan just glanced at it, and his eyelids blew: "Oh no! The prince is hard to do now!"

He stood up and said, "The Ministry of Revenue Granary and Storage Bureau has given the prince a lot of filial piety, and we have also taken the blame in the middle. This cannot be left out!"

"Brother Gao Shi..."

Sun Bin couldn't help but say, "It's not as simple as you think... It's not a matter of filial piety at all. We have been involved in it for a long time. We... we discussed with Yang Tao in the name of Your Highness."

Li Fan: "!?"

He gasped and then became furious: "How come you have such courage? How much food have you resold?"

"About...about..." Sun Bin hesitated for a while and said, "It's about 60 million stones!"

"More than 60 million stones!"
To be continued...