The disciples of Mingyue's Renzong in Qin Dynasty

The next day, in Xianyang of the Qin Kingdom, there was a grand court meeting, and hundreds of officials went to the palace. Everyone knew that this time was to decide the actions and fate of Guangluqing Chen Ping, one of the nine ministers.

And everyone knew that Chen Ping had reached the limit of what he could do, so they were all prepared to keep it in storage for a few years, and when the incident in Zhao Guo passed, Chen Ping would still recover.

After all, it doesn't matter whoever goes to the mess of Zhao Guo, Chen Ping can't be blamed, and he can only be blamed for his bad luck.

But when the eunuch Xuan Chen Ping met, everyone looked at Chen Ping, who was fat and round, and couldn't help but want to read his book. The world is in a catastrophe, how did you manage to become so fat?And the king has already given you the opportunity to complete the funeral three months in advance, try to be as decent as possible, but you are so fat, do you really not care about our censor's office?

"Your Majesty, Zhao Guo is suffering. I have been ordered to supervise the five counties of Yunzhong, Yanmen, Taiyuan, Shangdang, and Daijun. Under the catastrophe, the people have no means of living. Since October last year, the people have no more grains. Wrap your belly!" As soon as Chen Ping entered the court hall, he immediately fell to his knees in front of Ying Zheng and complained pitifully.

Ying Zheng looked at the fat Chen Ping, and listened to his complaints. He didn't know how to deal with it. What you said was true, but the common people had no food for half a year. As the head of the five counties, But you are fat like a ball, how can you let the widow save you?

"Master Chen, let's report the disaster situation first!" Chun Yuyue, the official censor, said.

Chen Ping nodded, looked at Yingzheng and Baiguan and said: "Since the Qin State cut off the five counties of Yunzhong, Yanmen, Taiyuan, Shangdang, Dai, and five counties for disaster relief in October last year, the land of the five counties of the old Zhao was 300 million. The common people will never see the five grains, and the people will not be able to live, so this time I return to Xianyang, just to beg the king to give some more grains, crops, and grass to the people of the five counties!"

Ying Zheng nodded. Although Chen Ping had been away from Xianyang for a long time, in the court, he was still very familiar with the road, and he only talked about the disaster situation in the five counties instead of his own policy mistakes and casualties, so that officials at all levels could not pick It's too big of a problem, after all, Chen Ping has been offended, and if you say "you do what you want," that's sending yourself into the fire pit.

"Master Guang Luqing seems to be avoiding the important and paying attention to the minor. He didn't mention the casualties of the people in the five counties at all. It seems that he doesn't care about the lives and deaths of the people, otherwise he wouldn't be so generous!" Chun Yuyue didn't intend to let Chen Ping go.

As one of the Confucian masters, Chen Ping killed so many Confucian disciples and hung their heads on Handan city to demonstrate, how could Chunyu Yue let Chen Ping swallow his anger.

"Casualties, where are the casualties?" Chen Ping was stunned looking at Chun Yuyue. He had been in the five counties of Zhao State for three years. Except for the bloody suppression at the beginning, there was no death after that. Anyone who starved to death No, where did the casualties come from?

"Master Guang Luqing thinks we are all fools? In the year of the catastrophe, even in Qin State, the three counties of Longxi, Beidi, and Shangjun suffered varying degrees of casualties. How can the five counties of Zhao State be avoided?" Chun Yuyue said sharply.

"That's because you are useless. I have presided over the affairs of the five counties so far. Except for the bloody suppression at the beginning, no common people have died of natural disasters since then." Chen Ping looked at Chun Yuyue and said.

Ying Zheng could only help his forehead when he heard Chen Ping's words, how can you let the widow save you!In such a severe drought, if one person does not die, you have to be more realistic in concealing the report!Even if you say more than 20 or [-] people died, the widow will protect you.

If you don't die alone, are you a fool when all the civil and military officials in Xianyang are fools?

Sure enough, as soon as Chen Ping finished speaking, Chun Yuyue immediately jumped out and said, "Master Chen thinks that the great king Ge Xianyang civil and military officials are all fools. In such a catastrophic year, there were no casualties among the people. Master Chen thought that he was Shennong reborn!" , Gu Shen is not dead?"

Chen Ping was stunned, then looked at Chun Yuyue and said, "A Taoist master gave an early warning about the drought, and the king personally ordered all the counties to take precautions. explain?"

"Master Chen is really eloquent. Since the drought, for three years now, the rivers and canals in various places have dried up, the crops have not been harvested, the people are destitute, and starving for thousands of miles. How to avoid casualties? Even in Guanzhong, many canals have dried up. How can the five counties of Zhao fight against the drought?" Chunyu Yue was so angry that he wanted to hit Chen Ping on the head with a jade plaque.

"The five grains and crops are not harvested, and even pastures are difficult to grow. Therefore, why can't the people feed on cattle and sheep? In the five counties of Zhao, there are three super-large horse farms, no less than ten cattle and sheep pastures, and more than one million cattle and sheep. , Due to the lack of grass, I ordered the slaughter of more than one million cattle and sheep to distribute to the people, and the dried beef and mutton were easily prepared in exchange for tens of millions of catties of fish and shrimp. How could the people starve to death?" Chen Ping looked at it with an idiot look on his face. Said to Chunyu Yue.

After the war between the two clans, the cattle, sheep and horses that were driven back to Yunzhong County, Yanmen County and Taiyuan County were all counted in tens of millions. Even the five counties of Zhao State could not afford to raise so many horses, cattle and sheep even if they were exhausted. In addition, the drought was severe However, the pasture was not enough to raise so many horses, cattle and sheep, so Chen Ping ordered the slaughter of cattle and sheep to feed the people.

Daily labor is not exchanged for food stamps, but meat stamps are given priority.

In addition, cattle and sheep are rare things. When will the common people eat them? Therefore, Chen Ping sold them to the Qi State at a super low price, and exchanged them for lower-priced seafood, which were used as meat tickets in exchange for the common people. How could there be starvation to death?

Is he so fat because he can only eat horses, cattle, sheep, fish and shrimp every day to satisfy his hunger? , what can he do?

"So, Aiqing is saying that none of the people in the five counties of Zhao starved to death, and the people all feed on horses, cattle, sheep, fish and shrimp?" Ying Zheng asked.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the people of the five prefectures are suffering. Every morning and evening, they eat horses, cattle, sheep, fish and shrimp, and there is no grain. How pitiful it is. King Wanwang will distribute food and grass to the people of the five prefectures to overcome such a catastrophe!" Chen Chen Ping said seriously.

Ying Zheng looked at Chen Ping, I have a question about MMB, I don't know if I should say it or not, you frankly call the big fish and meat a bitter meal, have you ever thought about us courtiers and kings who split a meal into three meals for disaster relief? ?

Poor people can only eat beef, sheep and seafood. Are you sure you are speaking human language?

"It's cold, it's hopeless, let the teacher come and take him back!" Ying Zheng felt bitter in his heart, as long as Chen Ping's attitude of refusing to accept the law, no one could save him!

"Why don't you say that the people live on minced meat?" Chun Yuyue was also very angry.

As a censor doctor, he has seen cowards, and there are many who confessed to cowardly; he has also seen stubborn people who resolutely refused to plead guilty, and there are not a few of them.

However, like Chen Ping, who not only pleaded not guilty, but also boasted like crazy, Chun Yuyue said that the old man had never seen such a brazen person in his life!

"Don't you want to be an official? But it's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice. Except for meat, Zhaozhi's five counties don't have any grains, so how can they be minced meat!" Chen Ping was angry when he thought about it. Meat is delicious for one meal, and two meals are not bad. Three meals are also very good, but let you eat for a year, and the meals are all meat without any vegetables, that is a nightmare!

The reason why he is so fat is not because he eats a lot of fish and meat, but he doesn't see any green vegetables.

"You...you...you..." Chunyu Yue was very angry, pointing at Chen Ping, he was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while, if not for the officials beside him to help him calm down, maybe he really wanted to Be pissed off.

"Come here, take Chen Ping down and try again later!" Ying Zheng held his forehead, Chen Ping, Chen Ping, you have to be soft and plead guilty. Get up, put it down gently.

Now, you are openly provoking Yushitai and ridiculing all the disaster relief officials by the way, who dares to come forward to save you!

Headache, it's a real headache, you were fine in Xianyang, why did you become like this when you put it outside?

Is it true that power breeds ambition, and in the five counties of Zhao, without comfort, there will be lawlessness?

"Well, we can only take him down first, and put him in custody pending trial. Then he will be handed over to Han Fei, Li Si, and Xiao He for interrogation, and that's over!" Ying Zheng thought from the bottom of his heart that he was really disappointed with Chen Ping.

He handed over Zhaozhi's five counties to Chen Ping, and told Chen Ping to also hand over the Eighth School of Yulin, the personal guard army, because he was his junior, so how much trust was there, but Chen Ping failed him!

"Your Majesty, no, the disaster is getting worse. I invite you to cook Chen Ziping to comfort the people of the five counties who died because of his reckless administration!" Chunyu Yue jumped up again with a sigh of relief, and said.

Chen Ping must not be taken into custody, otherwise nothing will happen to Chen Ping. After all, half of the new officials above the court are promoted by Chen Ping, and they will be left for later trial. Who knows when they will stay!

"Your Majesty is unfair, what is your fault?" Chen Ping was also dissatisfied, and he worked hard, but when he returned to Xianyang, there was no one to greet him, and there were angry curses everywhere, and even shouted to cook Chen Ziping. Until now, I don't know who I provoked.

He can understand that the people of the five counties of Zhao State hate him so much. After all, the bloody cross order made them leave their homeland, and some rebels died under the sword, but he is not Huo Huo Qin!

Ying Zheng was also stunned, looking at Chen Ping, the widow is saving you, do you know that?You have killed so many Confucian disciples, and the entire Confucian school is waiting for you to have an accident to make trouble, and you still say that the widow is unfair!

"Your Majesty, I ask you to cook and kill Chun Yuyue. As a royal censor, he governed Shangjun, but caused casualties in Shangjun. If he is passive and sabotage, he should be killed by cooking!" Chen Ping said.

"???" Ying Zheng was stunned. Are you trying to kill each other?

"The five counties of Zhao are in a state of disrepair, and I thought Xiao He was elected as the chief of the five counties of Zhao to preside over the affairs of the five counties!" Han Fei opened his mouth to divert the topic.

"Han Fei, do I have a grudge against you?" Xiao He stood behind Han Fei and cursed in a low voice.

This time, it was a three-year court meeting, and all foreign ministers had to return to Xianyang to report on their duties, so he also came back.

It's just that the fifth county of Zhao is a mess. If it's done well, it's its job. If it's not done well, it's dereliction of duty. Chen Ping is a good example. Let him take over the fifth county of Zhao, isn't it sending him to die?

"Han Fei, I have a grudge against you?" Chen Ping also looked at Han Fei with dissatisfaction. I managed to manage the five counties of Zhaozhi in an orderly manner. What did Xiao He want to do when he went to pick peaches?

Han Fei looked at Chen Ping and was speechless. As Ting Wei, I was saving you, but you actually brought the matter back again. Forget it, forget it, there is no way to save it, wait for death!

"Please cook, Chen Ziping!" Chunyu became happier. He was worried that the king would follow Han Fei's words and divert the agenda from the court, but Chen Ping would kill himself!

"Please cook, Chunyu Yue!" Chen Ping also looked at Ying Zheng and bowed to invite him.

Then he thought about it, and continued: "Also, Xiao He, Cao Can, Han Fei, Sima Yuan..."

A dozen or so names were called in succession, all of which were the top officials in charge of disaster relief in the state of Qin this time. Except for Lu Buwei and Fusu who were not named, one of the others counted as one, and Chen Ping named them all.

"???" Xiao He, Cao Shen, Han Fei and other disaster relief envoys were all stunned. Are you going to die and give up treatment?

It doesn't count if you die, but you want to drag us all into the water?

In a catastrophe year, it is normal for people to die, but not as many as you, and compared to the catastrophes recorded in history, we have achieved the ultimate, what else do you want?

"It's a no-nonsense person!" Lu Buwei smiled slightly, the five counties of Zhao Zhi were corrupt, and the dead were normal, but as soon as Chen Ping started making jokes, it became, as long as the dead are guilty.

In that case, none of the disaster relief envoys in the entire state of Qin is innocent.

Therefore, if the king wants to punish, then all disaster relief envoys will be as guilty as him, Chen Ping.

"General Wang Ben has nothing to say?" Chun Yuyue also knew what Chen Ping wanted to do, so he turned his finger on Wang Ben. As long as Wang Ben complained about Chen Ping, Chen Ping would definitely die.

After all, Wang Ben is the highest sergeant officer in the five counties of Zhao, and he and Chen Ping are both Zhao Guo's disaster relief envoys.

However, after Chun Yuyue finished speaking, everyone looked at Wang Ben, only to realize that the originally powerful Wang Ben had also turned into a chubby look, and they all doubted whether he could hold a sword!

Wang Ben was originally watching the fun, and wanted to see how Chen Ping would swear at people, but who knew, someone actually came to him!

"Well, forgive me for speaking bluntly. Compared with Lord Guangluqing, the general is not targeting anyone. The general is saying that everyone here should be killed!" Wang Ben said.

"Shut up!" Wang Jian panicked, he didn't have time to say hello to Wang Ben in advance, and he didn't even meet Wang Ben when he came back. Who knows, now that Wang Ben is also drifting away, he actually directly pissed off all the disaster relief envoys.

Quiet, deathly quiet, everyone couldn't believe their ears, we can understand you Wang Benting and Chen Ping, but what does this big move mean?

"You won't be as stupid as Wang Ben, right?" Meng Wu looked at Meng Tian worriedly and said in a low voice.

"General Wang Ben said what I wanted to say, they are really dereliction of duty!" Meng Tian nodded and said.

"It's over!" Meng Wu looked up at the sky, and then glared at Chen Ping. My good son, the future successor of the Great Qin Guowei, was brainwashed by you like this?Damn you, Chen Ping, return my son!

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Han appeared next to Ying Zheng, and spread out a bamboo slip on the table in front of Ying Zheng.

After reading it carefully, Ying Zheng was stunned, then looked at Zhang Han and asked, "Is this true?"

"Well, Shadow Secret Guard and Luo Wang went to the five counties of Zhao respectively, and the results are the same!" Zhang Han said, this secret memorial was signed and signed by him and Bai Zhong, it is authentic and reliable.

Ying Zheng nodded. Although he didn't know how Chen Ping did it, he was very happy. He deserved to be his junior brother, and he lived up to his trust.

Bai Zhong and Zhang Han said that they were also very confused. They traveled all over the five counties of Zhao Zhi, thinking about starving for thousands of miles, but when they arrived at the first village, they saw all the people working collectively under the supervision of the army. , eat together, but not a little rice and vegetable leaves, only fish, shrimp and dried meat!

Then they thought they had exposed their whereabouts, and Chen Ping deliberately showed them, so they went from Taiyuan County to Dai County, Yanmen County, Shangdang County and Yunzhong County, and the results were the same.

Finally, they arrived at Shangdang County, because here is the closest to South Korea, if there are people fleeing, it must be faked by Chen Ping.

what's the result?They asked a person in Shangdang County what to do about a natural disaster?

The people asked them back, they were starving to death, why didn't they eat minced meat?

Therefore, on the bamboo slips in front of Yingzheng, there was such a sentence, and the people of the five counties asked, why not eat minced meat in a catastrophic year?

This is a question asked by the people. If an official asks this question, Ying Zheng will be killed if he does not die. But this is a question asked by the people of the five counties!

Chapter 519 Chen Ping's Glorious Moment

Although there are handwritten letters by Zhang Han and Bai Zhong, Ying Zheng still can't understand. Even if there are a large number of livestock brought back from the war between the two clans, and the three major horse farms and hundreds of pastures in Zhao State itself, they cannot support the number of Zhao Guo. There are millions of people.

In particular, although such a catastrophe is rare, it is not unprecedented in history. If cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle can solve the problem, so many people will not die in history.

The most important thing is that the people don't know who is really good to them, why wherever Bai Zhong and Zhang Han go, the people don't have any gratitude, but everyone is shouting to cook Chen Ziping.

Chunyuyue also has a blood book jointly signed by the people of the five counties of Zhao, please cook Chen Ziping!

It is impossible to forge it. As the imperial historian of the Qin State, Chun Yuyue dare not use fake documents to slander Guanglu Qing, one of the Nine Ministers!

In the audience, Chen Ping was still scolding with the other officials. Anyway, they were mocking the officials in various ways, saying that they should all die for dereliction of duty.

Li Si didn't dare to speak at all. Everyone knew that the candidate to replace Lu Buwei would be chosen between him and Chen Ping. Therefore, if he dared to speak now, people would think that he was making trouble.

It's just that Li Si couldn't understand what Chen Ping was doing, so he mocked all the officials, even Xiao He, Cao Can and others who belonged to Chen Ping's lineage were also among the ranks of officials who were promoted by Chen Ping.

"Let's retreat from the court! Chen Ping stay!" Ying Zheng didn't want to hear them continue to quarrel, because he was also curious about how Chen Ping was able to manage that no one starved to death in this catastrophic year.

All the officials were also tired of scolding, knowing that it would not be so easy to get rid of a Jiuqing, so they needed to go back and make a long-term plan, so they all bowed and resigned.

So all the officials dispersed, but Lu Buwei, Li Si, Han Fei, Li Mu, Wang Jian, Meng Wu and other people who had really invited and actually held power stayed.

"Enough scolding?" Ying Zheng looked at Chen Ping with complicated eyes, mainly because he was too curious.

"Not yet!" Chen Ping is not afraid, he will be arrogant when he has made great achievements, especially Xiao He, Cao Shen, and Han Fei are still there.

"Then continue when you're full, tell the dining room to prepare food, and continue when our Master Chen is full!" Ying Zheng looked at Zhang Han and said.

"Ah, it's not necessary!" Chen Ping shook his head. It is a great honor to eat with the king, but he doesn't want to eat with Xiao He, he should be alone!

"Tell me!" Ying Zheng said, throwing the handwriting of Bai Zhong and Zhang Han in front of Chen Ping.

Chen Ping picked up the results of the joint investigation by Shadow Secret Guard and Luo Wang, looked at Bai Zhong and Zhang Han, and said speechlessly, "What do you want to know, Lord Bai Zhong and Zhang Han, just ask me directly?"

Ying Zheng was also embarrassed for a while, after all Bai Zhong and Zhang Han were ordered by him to investigate, it would be disgraceful to speak out about this kind of distrust of ministers!

"Master Zhang Han wanted to investigate. My original intention was to go directly to Handan and ask Master Chen!" Bai Zhong directly dumped the blame on Zhang Han. He is different from Zhang Han. The Shadow Secret Guard is the Qin King's personal guard, and outsiders can't touch it at all. , but Luo Wang belongs to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

If Chen Ping really moved into the prime minister's mansion, then he would be his immediate boss, and he was also afraid that Chen Ping would make him wear shoes.

Zhang Han glanced at Bai Zhong, and it was he who wanted to investigate thoroughly, but didn't Bai Zhong also agree!

Li Mu waved his hand, took the bamboo slips into his hands, read them carefully, then looked at Chen Ping in surprise, and passed the bamboo slips to Wang Jian calmly.

He had known that Chen Ping was a terrifying political talent, but he could not have imagined that he could achieve such a level. Most importantly, he could not figure out how Chen Ping did it.

After Wang Jian, Meng Wu and other soldiers had read it, they passed the bamboo slips to Li Si and others, and finally handed them over to Lu Buwei.

"Impossible!" Xiao He said directly, he was frantically calculating the situation of cattle and sheep in the various pastures of Zhao State, and finally got the answer that it was impossible to feed the millions of people in Zhao State.

"So you said you were dereliction of duty, but you still don't admit it!" Chen Ping mocked again.

"Master Chen, let's talk about how to do it!" Lu Buwei said, and he also calculated in his heart that even if he cooked sheep and slaughtered cattle, he couldn't afford to support so many people.

"I used to be your Shangguan, now I will tell you why I am your Shangguan!" Chen Ping looked at Xiao He and Cao Can and said.

There are always subordinates who want to harm me. Today, I will tell you that one day I will be your boss, and I will always be your boss.

Xiao He and Cao Shen chose to remain silent. You are a boss and you are awesome. Let's see how you do it.

"Master Guoshi has arrived!" Zhang Han said suddenly.

"Please!" Ying Zheng hurriedly stood up.