Zhao Xing acted as a trick actor and pretended to say: "I am the magistrate of Yulin County, and I will report to the emperor. The new emperor ascends the throne. There will be auspiciousness in the sky. Not only will Yulin be in good weather, but Qilin stones break out of the ground."

This was not compiled by Zhao Xing, so what Dibao said at that time.

"At that time, Long Yan was very happy and praised the official very much. He was promoted to three levels and became the prefect of Yan'an." The fat man followed him to help him with the support.

Mr. Huang's face turned red, but he still insisted: "The inspector censor verified it at that time, so it was correct."

Zhao Xing smiled, walked directly to the door, and opened the door of the lobby.

Everyone didn't know what he was going to do, but the guards nervously held the guy and were alert.

Zhao Xing turned around, smiled at them, then stood at the door and shouted outside: "Young and young men, are there any refugees from Shaanxi? Please come here, I have something to ask." Then he said tightly: "I am the Jinyiwei, just ask questions, no matter arresting refugees. If you tell the truth, there are meat buns, if you deceive or pretend, hehehe, my Jinyiwei prison also has a place to eat, drink, and bamboo board massage. I have figured it out."

Almost all beggars were beggars on the street. When they heard that there were meat buns, they were eager to try it out for a while. But when they saw Zhao Xing wearing a Jinyiwei uniform and a last reminder, everyone retracted their necks.

After Zhao Xing called out three times, an old man with white hair came over with a grass mark on his head, and was hungry and dying. He knelt down on the street for Zhao Xing: "The little old man came from Yulin, Shaanxi, and now he will reply to his master."

Zhao Xing took a few steps forward, quickly pulled the old man up, and then shouted loudly to the back: "Xiufen, hurry up and bring a bowl of rice soup to feed the child."

If your intestines are hungry, you will eat them hard and will kill the child. The right way is to take the rice soup to drain it.

Xiufen quickly came over with a bowl of porridge, squatted down and fed the dying child, tears flashing in his sympathetic eyes.

Seeing that his granddaughter was taken care of by kind people, the old man followed Zhao Xing to Mr. Huang tremblingly. Zhao Xing recommended with his hand: "Old man, this is Mr. Huang, and his father is a good official in the Ming Dynasty. Because he wanted to investigate the matter in Shaanxi, he specially ordered the young master to visit the people and find out the truth about the severe drought in the northwest. Today, in front of this young master, you will tell the truth about what you know in all your heart. Don't exaggerate or hide it. If it is beneficial to Mr. Huang, I will have a reward."

Facing Mr. Huang, the old man did not kneel down and bowed to his body: "I have met Mr. Huang in Yan'an County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province."

Mr. Huang looked a little unhappy at the time, and then turned to surprise, and finally was shocked.

What Chongzhen was unhappy was that this old beggar actually refused to kneel down to him, but he had kneeled down to Zhao Xing.

What was surprised was that this old beggar was actually a student, at least a scholar. The scholar did not take it for granted when he saw an official, and he did not worship himself, which was the character of a literati.

But what shocked him even more was that all the students who were supported by the Ming Dynasty had become beggars along the streets, so what had the northwest become.

In shock, Chongzhen said to Guo Guangsheng: "Why did the old man fall into this? Please tell me in detail."

Guo Guangsheng sighed, shed tears before he could say that, and wiped the tears with his torn sleeves and said, "Oh, Shaanxi and I are so bitter."

This sound of pain was filled with endless sadness and suffering.

"I passed the scholar when I was young, but I failed to pass the imperial examinations until today."

The imperial examination is a single-plank bridge that millions of people cross a single-plank bridge, and it is not surprising that there are everywhere like Guo Guangsheng.

"Originally, the emperor's kindness was a month of a few buckets of rice and hundreds of firewood and grass. In addition, I exempted my two sons from corvee and tax exemption from land. Although I was still poor, I had no worries about food and clothing."

The Ming Dynasty was the most generous in raising scholars. Not only did they give scholars above the scholars who were unable to become officials every month, they also exempted the family from labor service for five places, and at the same time exempted the tax on the land under their name. In fact, if a scholar did not freeze to death and gain fame, relying solely on the rent given to the local people in his name, he would be enough to achieve a well-off life. Other gray incomes, such as helping others to sue by their status as not kneeling in front of the county magistrate, etc., can enjoy a lifetime of blessings even if it is difficult to make progress.

"But with the passing of God of Heaven, the court's grace was gone."

Chongzhen was furious at the time and knocked on the table: "What? No? This is impossible." Seeing Zhao Xing and the old man's surprised expression, he felt that he was in trouble and immediately explained: "I have relatives in the Ministry of Revenue. He pays all over the country every year to deduct rice and grain from the students' entitlements from the taxes paid to the Ministry of Revenue every year. The same is true in Shaanxi, why did this happen?"

Guo Guangsheng smiled sadly: "Who knows about officialdom? I asked a few times, but I was beaten out by sticks and lost all my gentleness."

Chongzhen beat the table again: "The Ming Dynasty has raised scholars for hundreds of years. Even the ancestors and the current emperors should respect the Confucian scholars when they see Confucian scholars. He dared to do this, and the county magistrate should die."

Guo Guangsheng ignored the young master's anger and continued: "The rice in the granary area is gone, but it has happened to the year after the drought. In the end, the rain has not fallen for more than two years, the seedlings have not grown, the cattle and sheep have died of thirst, and even people have no water."

"What?" Chongzhen suddenly stood up in surprise and took his chopsticks to the ground. Wang Chengen ran over immediately and wanted to help. Chongzhen pushed him away: "Didn't the governor of Shaanxi Yansui and the governor of Shaanxi say that the new emperor ascended the throne, and auspiciousness came from the sky. Is the weather in Shaanxi good for three years? How could this be like this?"

Guo Guangsheng lamented again: "That was because they deceived the new emperor and concealed the superiors and subordinates, and under natural disasters, it was because of this that man-made disasters were caused."

"So what's wrong with this?" This was a refugee from Shaanxi. Zhao Xing caught him casually. This should definitely be true. For this reason, Chongzhen was already a little discouraged. After sitting down, he was a little listless.

"In order to please the new emperor, officials at all levels not only did not provide relief under such natural disasters, but continued to force the imperial grain and national taxes to the people, and even to kill humans, they had to pay off the original owes. For a moment, the entire northwest was in chaos, and I didn't know how many families had been forced to death. In my village, less than a hundred families, I forced five people to death and arrested seventy mortgages. Even if the emperor did not give money, grain and labor service, I could not escape. My only son was also arrested to pay off his debts and sold him to a slave in unknown places. When I escaped, I didn't know how to live or die." This was already full of tears.

Zhao Xing hurriedly comforted him, and Chongzhen hugged his head with both hands and was speechless.

Because of the She'an Rebellion in the southeast and the war situation in Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty's treasury had long been empty. When he was a brother, there was also the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian, who was desperate for money, and was plundering and supporting him.

But Wei Zhongxian, who harmed the country and the people, was eliminated by himself, and those who harmed the people were of course abolished by Wei Zhongxian. As a result, not only did the national treasury almost lose input, but the income of the treasury was greatly reduced.

But the places where money is spent have increased a lot. One of Yuan Chonghuan's western Liaoning is a huge bottomless pit, not to mention anything else. Just a brother's death is a terrifying expense.

Although my brother repeatedly told the people to be simple at the bedside when he died, and his sister-in-law, Queen Zhang, was also sympathetic and repeatedly reduced his plans to report. But his brother was a child and was a lifelong man. His brother treated him as a brother as his father. How could he make his brother lose his grief and honor behind him?

Therefore, I heard that the northwest is in good weather, and at the suggestion of the ministers, there was no new emperor who ascended the throne and celebrated the world's taxes.

But in order to show the grace of his new emperor, he issued an imperial edict to pardon the money and food that the people of the world had accumulated.

But, who would have thought that this world would be like this? Officials who deceived their subordinates and concealed their superiors had reached this point. Are the officials in the world, especially the censors, really as their own professions credible?

At this time, Wang Chengen took a small step and whispered a few words in Chongzhen's ear.

Chongzhen struggled out of depression, and then he lost his mood to ask. Looking at the sky outside, he said to the fat man: "It's getting late today, so let's go here. Fortunately, there are two days left to rest, and I'll talk about it tomorrow afternoon."

Zhao Xing said yes.

Chongzhen said to Zhao Xing: "Take this gentleman back to your home to settle."

Zhao Xing grinned and said, "How can I place my house in a small and cramped way?" But how dare the emperor refuse to obey the order, so he had to agree.
Chapter completed!