Ziwei City, in the Golden Palace.
After hearing Gongsun Quan's words, Xiahou Ba was stunned for a moment. The officials behind him also stared at each other, not knowing what to say.
However, the Emperor Chu was very calm and said depressedly: "I might as well tell you that last night, I felt guilty and restless. I climbed up to look far and saw the hundred-foot-long fire dragon. It nodded three times at me, and then rushed eastward. I didn't sleep all night, I wonder what this dragon was going to do? It turned out that it was going to burn my Xingluo Cang..."
As he said that, he looked at the officials and asked in a deep voice: "Is there anyone from the Imperial Heavenly Prison?"
All the officials looked at a short and strong old man at the end of the class.
"My husband, Wu Shen, deputy chief of the Imperial Heaven Supervision, please bow to Your Majesty." The old man Wu Shen had no choice but to go out to respond to his order.
Wu Shen is a famous Qi scholar in the world. He was recruited by Emperor Gaozu into the Imperial Heavenly Prison twenty years ago. In terms of reputation, he was far above Jiang Jianzheng who was busy and waiting to die. Before, because of the stars worshipping Ziwei, he had an unhappy relationship with Jiang Jianzheng, and never entered the Imperial Heavenly Prison again. But today it is a great dynasty, and the Beijing officials above the seventh rank are not absent, so he also came.
"It turns out to be Dr. Wu," Emperor Chu Shi's expression turned up and said loudly: "You are the one who is the most knowledgeable person in the celestial phenomena of Daxuan. Please help me and the Grand Master."
"This..." Wu Shen was caught off guard and had to consider it on the spot: "The old minister was not in the Imperial Heaven Prison last night and did not witness the arrival of the Fire Dragon with his own eyes, but according to the descriptions of His Majesty and thousands of witnesses, this should be a bad omen."
"Of course, please explain it more clearly." The first emperor nodded slightly.
"There are floods this summer and fires in winter. This is the Dragon King in all directions showing his power. If Your Majesty and the court do not cultivate virtue, there will be a severe drought in the next year." Wu Shen explained with a tough forehead. He is not nonsense. Generally, after a flood, there will be drought in the next year. This is common sense.
"How to remedy it?" asked the initial emperor with a serious expression.
"As soon as we come, please send envoys immediately to sacrifice to the Dragon Kings of all directions and the Star Lord of Fire De and pray for their forgiveness. But more importantly, Your Majesty and the court should reflect deeply, work diligently and love the people, and God will respond to it. There should be a rainfall to relieve the suffering of all people."
"Well, I understand." The Emperor of the First Nodded, then stood up from the imperial bed and said in a deep voice: "Since that is the case, the Ministry of Rites will immediately handle a sacrificial matter. In addition, this time I will not hold any official responsible. All nations are guilty, and the crime lies with me. I will fast and worship for seven days and personally apologize to heaven."
After a pause, the Emperor of Chu said slowly: "Also, the most important thing is the victims. I decided to squeeze out a million stones of grain from the inner treasury to make up for some losses in the Xingluo Warehouse."
As he said that, he glanced at Xiahou Ba and several dukes and said, "You have received the kindness of the country in the world, and all the people support the family with their anointing and blood. Now it is time for the family to repay the people. The remaining four million stones will be produced by your seven families. Do you have any opinions?"
Xiahou Ba couldn't help but look as if he was ashen. He never expected that the other party would actually create a fire dragon to resolve his killing move. This move was extremely wonderful, because once he had something to do with the dragon and the heaven, the final right of explanation would fall into the hands of the emperor. No matter how powerful the Grand Master Xiahou was, he would still be a mortal as long as he could not sit on the dragon throne for a day.
Of course, mortals have no say in God's affairs...
Xiahou Ba did not expect that the killing situation he had carefully designed was actually cracked by the other party in such a ridiculous way. This made him suffocate to death. For a moment, how could he feel to understand the emperor's words?
He didn't say anything, someone said nothing.
"I have no objection. Even if I sell the goods, I will squeeze out food to help the victims." Lu Shang said with a sigh.
"The same is true for me." Wei Kang also expressed his opinion.
Once the two dukes made their statements, the rest would look too ugly if they didn't speak.
When Xiahou Ba came to his senses, the six dukes had already agreed to the emperor's proposal, which made him feel a little worried. He could only say in a muffled voice: "For the minister of the Central Secretariat, I will protect the herds of all people for His Majesty. Donating food and disaster relief is naturally a responsibility. My Xiahou family is willing to pay one million stones..." As he said that, he glanced at the six dukes and said: "You can pay five hundred thousand stones for your family."
"Thank you for your understanding, Master." The princes also breathed a little relieved.
"That's it." After so much trouble, the initial emperor was exhausted, waved his hand and announced his retreat.
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All officials came out of the Golden Palace, and their faces were filled with incredible expressions. They thought that the Grand Master would take advantage of this fire, not to mention a great prison, but at least he would cut off Lu Xin's head to establish his authority. Who would have thought that this kind of magical twist occurred. In the end, not only Lu Xin was unscathed, but the old Grand Master also had to pay one million stones of food out of his own pocket to make up for the losses.
This made all officials feel very uncomfortable, thinking that Xiahou's family was hit by evil forces? Why did they lose face and inner self in Lu Yun and his son? Such a thing is really unprecedented? Could it be that the father and son are the nemesis of the old teacher?
"Do you believe the fire dragon burning the warehouse?" An official whispered to his friend beside him.
The friend curled his lips and whispered: "Thousands of people have seen it, and His Majesty also said he saw it. Does it matter if I believe it or not?"
"Then Lu Xin's level has passed?" the official asked in a low voice.
"I don't think it," the friend shook his head and said, "The old teacher will not give up."
As the two were talking, they suddenly saw Pei Qiu, Xie Xun and Cui Yan standing not far ahead, as if they were talking about something. The two quickly stopped talking, bowed their heads and bowed...
"Oh..." The three princes were frowning and were in no mood to pay attention to the salutes of the officials.
"This is called sitting at home, and disaster comes from heaven." Xie Xun pulled his beard depressedly and said, "Why are you doing it all the time? The unlucky ones are us?"
"Oh, Your Majesty spoke with the celestial phenomena, so we can only bleeding obediently." Cui Yan also looked helpless.
"I'm still worried about taking it out?" Pei Qiu spread his hands and cried to the two of them, "Not to mention 500,000, even 200,000 stones, I can't take it out for a while."
"We have a better situation, but if we take out 500,000 stones, we may not be able to get through this year's end." Xie Xun also said in a muffled voice.
Although they have a big family and a big business, they also spend a lot of money. They spend hundreds of thousands of mouths all day long. At the end of the year, all kinds of expenses and rewards are overwhelming. They are still very difficult to use for their own use, and now they have to spend a lot of money, so they are naturally very uncomfortable.
"What can I do? Tighten my belt." Cui Yan was Shangshu Ling after all, so he should be taller.
Chapter completed!