After I disguised myself as a man, I became everyone's white moonlight

Chu Xi's heart moved. In the original owner's memory...she was truly as capable as any man. She was proficient in riding and shooting, even better than all the princes. No wonder Zhou Yichen's first reaction was that she was giving in.

"Your Highness, you misunderstood. I didn't give in."

Zhou Yichen looked at Chu Xi for a while, not knowing whether he had received a letter or not. He continued riding with him on the hillside waiting for the team to catch up.

"Come with me to the carriage. I have some memorials to show you."

Chu Xi's eyes moved slightly, "Yes, Your Highness."

When the carriage caught up with them, they abandoned their horses and got on the carriage, one in front and one behind.

According to Zhou Yichen, several million taels of silver for disaster relief had already been sent out in advance by Lord Wu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

They were only an hour ahead of them, and at their speed they would catch up in less than half a day.

Chu Xi got in the car, and as soon as he sat down, he habitually straightened his robe and put it neatly.

Zhou Yichen took a look and a smile appeared in his eyes. He didn't say anything, but took out a few documents from a stack and handed them to her.

Chu Xi had just come in and met up with Zhou Yichen and the others at the restaurant. She hadn't had time to learn the language of this world, so her mind was already in a mess before she even opened the memorial.

Classical Chinese is not the most troublesome thing; the troublesome thing is the traditional Chinese characters.

It's true that Chu Xi is a graduate student, but she hasn't learned much about traditional Chinese characters. Looking at this, it's like a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

Once you open the fold...

As expected, it was traditional Chinese characters. Fortunately, she recognized most of the traditional Chinese characters on the letter. For those that she didn't recognize, she could guess the general meaning by guessing.

Zhou Yichen saw Chu Xi open the letter and looked at it quietly without thinking much about it.

"There are 18 villages flooded in Yunzhou, and more than eight of them have been hit by the epidemic, with more than 300 people infected. These are all reported by my informants. The statistics are from two days ago, and I'm afraid the number will increase now."

"Local officials are so corrupt nowadays. As the leaders of the country, they treat human life so lightly. What else do they care about?"

Chu Xi replied straightforwardly, "The black hats and heads on their heads."

Um...

It fits the original owner's personality very well.

Zhou Yichen almost forgot what he was going to say next after hearing Chu Xi's words.

"...You're right, they only care about themselves after all."

Chu Xi put down the memorial in his hand and opened the other two to read. The other two were also reports on the disaster. The disaster was indeed urgent. Judging from the contents of the memorials...

In just three days, more than fifty people have died. This number may not seem scary, but who knows if there are some that they have not found or are concealing.

An average of seventeen people a day is not a small number.

"If this goes on, what hope is there for our Great Zhou Kingdom? The officials will follow suit and the officialdom will be dark and corrupt." Zhou Yichen's face was as cold as ice.

"..."

This speech is quite similar to that of the angry young people in the Republic of China period.

Chu Xi turned his head and glanced in the direction of the curtain, "Your Highness, please be careful with your words."

After Chu Xi's advice, Zhou Yichen was unwilling but no longer as indignant as before.

Chu Xi did not have Zhou Yichen's urgent desire to change the corrupt dynasty.

First, you can’t even protect yourself and can’t take care of other things. Second, you can’t be a savior. Not everyone can be a savior.

To put it bluntly, under imperial management, such a situation will eventually occur, and a clean officialdom is impossible.

The clear distinction between high and low status leads to injustice itself, and even in later generations, it is difficult to achieve a clean officialdom.

Zhou Yichen looked like he was going to make drastic changes to the practices of Yunzhou officials, which made Chu Xi feel that he was worthy of being the male lead. He gave people a different impression from the beginning.

But she still gave a few suggestions, whether as Zhou Yichen's confidant or as a bystander.

"Your Highness, His Majesty is not asking you to remove those officials when he lets you go this time. You may be able to find some evidence against a few important officials and replace them, but you cannot replace all of them."

"His Majesty has never stopped being wary of you, and several princes are watching your every move. We must be cautious on our trip to Yunzhou."

Zhou Yichen was reminded by Chu Xi and immediately came to his senses, "I know."

*

Yunzhou.

The large group rode at full speed all the way and arrived in Yunzhou in two days. Zhou Yichen, Chu Xi, and several other officials and imperial physicians who were traveling with them were all shocked when they entered Yunzhou City.

There were only a few officials waiting at the gate of Yunzhou City, and all of them wore white face scarves.

The fact that they covered their noses and mouths with white scarves for fear of being infected made them realize that the situation in Yunzhou City might be much more serious than what was reported in the memorials.

Without thinking, Chu Xi went to find the white face towels that their entourage had brought with them, and asked Chu Erfa to distribute them to all the people who had accompanied them. Hundreds of soldiers and several accompanying officials all wore them.

As for Zhou Yichen’s, it was given to him by Chu Xi personally.

"Your Highness, this is an emergency, so you'd better wear it. If you fall, there will be no one to guard Yunzhou City."

After spending two days with Zhou Yichen, Chu Xi roughly knew how to persuade Zhou Yichen.

Zhou Yichen lowered his head, hesitated for a moment, and finally put on the white face scarf.

Only after entering the city did they realize what hell on earth was. What they saw outside was a desolate scene. There were no civilians entering or leaving the city gate, only soldiers blocking the entrance.

Once we entered the city, the streets were deserted, with no pedestrians passing by and every household had their doors and windows closed.

"Where are the patients with the epidemic placed?" Zhou Yichen asked.

"Reporting to His Royal Highness Prince Yan, the patients are all locked up in a dyeing workshop in the south of the city. It has now been sealed off and no one else is allowed to approach."

Yunzhou officials quickly reported it.

“How many patients are there?”

The official's eyes flickered as he looked at several Yunzhou officials who were traveling with him, as if they were trying to collude and come up with a number.

"Tell the truth. If you tell me even a single word is false, you will lose your heads."

Chu Xi knew that this kind of people needed to be intimidated, so without saying a word he drew his sword and put it on one of them's head.

"Three thousand..." The official with the knife at his neck was almost frightened to death. He blurted out a number with a trembling voice.

Chu Xi, "!" They really dare to hide it!

The three accompanying imperial physicians felt weak at the knees. Three thousand was a huge difference from the three hundred mentioned at the beginning. They had already brought as many medicinal materials as they could, for fear that more patients would appear later.

They brought enough people to fight for a thousand, but they didn't expect that the three hundred were fake and the three thousand were real...

"You deserve to die. You didn't report the three thousand infected patients truthfully?" Zhou Yichen was so angry that he snatched the sword from the attendant next to him and pointed it at the official who said three thousand.

Officials, "......"

This time I was completely scared to death.