So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

One day, it was almost time to get off work. The eunuchs in the Imperial Household Department had work standards for checking and sorting. Xiao Yueshan felt dizzy after standing and serving all day. The memorials in her hand passed by like water, and suddenly a word caught her eye - "Jiangzhou riot"?

She quickly looked up who had made the report. It was Zhao Congjian, the Right Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate. Zhou Yao's father seemed to have said before that Lord Zhao of the Censorate admired Zhou Yao very much. She wondered if it was this Lord Zhao Congjian.

Zhao Congjian wrote in his memorial that at the turn of spring and summer, there was abundant rainfall, which caused flooding in the Han River. Since the affected area was mostly in Jiangzhou, Jiangzhou Governor Pan Xu was in charge of disaster relief, and Xijiang Dao Supervisor Zhou Yao was ordered to inspect. The early disaster relief deployment was orderly, and money and grain arrived at the government offices of various counties in Jiangzhou on time. Censor Zhou Yao personally went to various counties to verify the disaster situation, reported the number of casualties and destroyed fields, and personally inspected the affected areas. His boat was hit by wind and waves and sank.

Duan Pengjing, the censor in charge of Xijiang Province, then sent censor Luo Jun to investigate. Later, the Censorate received a report that Zhou Yao's shipwreck was an accident and that taxes and grain had been distributed to all counties.

But within two months, a civilian named Xu Guang in Deyang County, Jiangzhou, gathered a crowd to rebel. They not only broke into the county government office and killed the magistrate Cai Yongshou and his men, but also opened the granaries to release grain and declared, "Corrupt officials are in power, and the people are suffering. I am not afraid of death and will help the people!" The surrounding counties also showed signs of responding.

The Huainan Prefecture reported that the people were too greedy and had betrayed the emperor's grace, and approved the use of force to suppress the rebellion. However, Zhao Congjian believed that the disaster relief measures of Jiangzhou Governor Pan Xu were inappropriate, and bluntly pointed out that Duan Pengjing, Luo Jun and Pan Xu were complacent and neglected their duties, which led to the people's miserable lives and triggered rebellion, and requested a thorough investigation!

This was in stark contrast to the previous report from Huainan Prefecture that the flood had just subsided and the people had been resettled!

Xiao Yueshan's heart sank. Jiangzhou belonged to Huainan Prefecture, and the prefect Xie Wenchang was a good friend of Xiao Yueshan's father. Xiao's father entrusted Lord Xie to find Zhou Yao, but maybe this direction was wrong from the beginning.

She quickly flipped to the back of the memorial and saw that it said: The Ministry of Revenue has distributed all the relief money and grain, and there are only a few unruly people, so there is nothing to be afraid of. The request of Huainan Prefecture has been approved, and Kang Chengren, the captain of the Jiangzhou Commandery of the Left Army Command, has been sent to suppress the rebellion and eliminate the troubles. The eunuch who wrote the imperial edict had already written the approval as proposed.

Take human life lightly! These are the only four words in Xiao Yueshan's mind.

The plight of these poor people could not be heard by the emperor, and the so-called relief grain was probably embezzled before it even reached them. Now that the officials were forcing the people to rebel, they rebelled on their own for a way to survive, but they were brutally suppressed by force.

Even though they were at the end of their rope, these common people did not say they wanted to overthrow the emperor. They only said "to save the people". What crime had they really committed?

She was excited, but she knew that in the feudal dynasty, anyone who committed a rebellion would be punished. It was just that "Guang was not afraid of death". So could the villagers whom Xu Guang risked his life to save and the people who followed him get a way to survive?

Xiao Yueshan blurted out in excitement: "Why not allow a thorough investigation of this matter? There will be a great epidemic after the flood, and massacres will only make the people lose their hearts. Xunzi said: 'If horses scare the carriage, the gentleman will not be at ease in the carriage; if the common people scare the government, the gentleman will not be at ease in his position. If horses scare the carriage, the best thing to do is to calm them; if the common people scare the government, the best thing to do is to be kind to them.' At this time, it is better to provide relief, provide medicine, investigate wasteland, recruit refugees, and let them rest and recuperate, which will show more virtuous governance."

Everyone looked at her in horror, and Cao Hou's heart was beating like a drum, and he lowered his head. The room was completely silent. The Imperial Household Department had always been strict with etiquette, and no one dared to make a loud noise, let alone express political opinions in the palace.

In the eerie silence, Lu Dehou came out from the inner room and asked, "Who is making the noise?"

His voice was neither male nor female, and in order to appear calm and low, Xiao Yueshan was frightened and trembled in her heart. She thought that she had said it and would not regret it. "It's a slave." She had no choice but to answer.

"You ignorant thing, drag him out and beat him." Lu Dehou's voice remained flat, and he casually decided Xiao Yueshan's life and death as if he were crushing an ant.

Two eunuchs dragged her out without even giving her a chance to argue.

When the eunuch hit her with a stick, she vomited blood and thought that she might die here. "Where is the halo of the protagonist?" Xiao Yueshan couldn't help but think. Her eyes went dark and her head dropped.

After being beaten with twenty sticks, Xiao Yueshan passed out completely. The eunuch who was carrying out the execution saw that she was motionless, so he checked her breath and found that she was a woman. He hurriedly went in to report to Lu Dehou.

There was a traitor in the Imperial Household Department!? Lu Dehou couldn't stand it, so he went out to see what kind of audacious little girl it was, and he ran into Wang Huai'en.

"Is this woman from Shou'an Palace?" Lu Dehou still had that smiling expression on his face, with a dark light in his eyes. He looked at Wang Huai'en like a cheetah ready to pounce.

"Yes, sir, can you please have a word with me?" Wang Huai'en bowed respectfully.

"No need, just tell me what you want to say." Lu Dehou did not respond.

"This is a female official from Shou'an Palace. My wife and I made a bet on when Lord Lu from the Imperial Household Department would find the female official we sent. I didn't expect Lord Lu to be so sharp-eyed and sharp-eared that he caught her before she had been away for half a day. It shows that I lost the bet. This female official is really innocent. Lord Lu might as well let me take her back." Wang Huai'en didn't care how bad his excuse was. He just had an expression that said, "I believe it, who cares whether you believe it or not."

"Today I am only giving Lord Wang a favor. I don't want to see this person and this kind of cross-border things again. Lord Wang should remember this favor from me." Lu Dehou was afraid that the words "Do you think I am a fool?" were written on his face.

"Yes, I accept Lord Lu's favor." Wang Huai'en said with a smile, bowed again, and then took away Xiao Yueshan, who was beaten unconscious.

......

When she regained consciousness, she was in a dark room. She had been beaten to a bloody mess and was shivering in pain.

"Are you awake?" a cold male voice asked, "You are quite a brave woman. Tell me, what did you do in the Imperial Household Department?"

"Looking for clues about the disappearance of my husband, Zhou Yao, the Censor of Xijiang Province." She answered tremblingly but trying to speak clearly.

"Huh? You are Shen's spy, there is no need to be so high-sounding." He said sarcastically.

"Since Prince Jin already knows this, why bother asking questions?" She responded with the same sneer.

The man fell silent. Xiao Yueshan felt that he might have made a correct risky move.

"Unfounded speculation," he retorted.

If you don't want to admit it, then don't admit it. It's almost certain anyway. She curled her lips. "I wanted to report to Madam today that she will no longer be sent to the Imperial Household Department. Madam is not an ambitious woman. She just wants to protect herself. I want to ask the prince about his attitude. Are you willing to give Shen a chance to live, or do you want to kill her, or do you want to win over Shen for your own use?"

She had discovered some clues when she was in the writing room. The old emperor's move to let his younger brother Chu Yuanming assist in the administration was really strange. The emperor's uncle was in his prime and had just tasted power. Would he really return the power to his youngest son after he grew up? Did the old emperor trust his younger brother too much, or too much in the regents? Wasn't it because someone wanted to assassinate the young emperor that Shen Shi was able to save him?

"If the prince can win over the Shen family, it will be much easier to achieve his ambitions," she sighed.

The woman's face was pale due to excessive blood loss, but her eyes were big and bright. Even in the dark room, he could see the strange light in her eyes. Her cold lips casually revealed the words hidden in her heart, and Chu Yuanming only felt a surge of mania in his heart.

"If Mother Shen, the little emperor's most trusted mother, can do it and be in contact with the emperor every day without arousing suspicion, then it must be done without anyone knowing." Her long black hair spread out, and she murmured in a low voice like a ghost.

Chu Yuanming's reason told him that he should kill this dangerous woman immediately. She was powerful and strategic, and easily saw through his ambition. Moreover, she was too bold, and she even said something like regicide without any scruples. But it was this recklessness that deeply attracted Chu Yuanming. No one had ever dared to express his desire so nakedly in front of him.

He had read the policy papers she had written and heard many of her words. She was so special, and he really looked forward to doing this outrageous yet fatally tempting thing with her.

Xiao Yueshan herself was completely unaware of Chu Yuanming's orgasm at this moment, and she didn't know that he had already regarded her as a confidant. After all, she had originally traveled from a place where there was no emperor, and in her cognition, killing the emperor was indeed just a trivial matter in history.

Both of them were silent for a long time.

Xiao Yueshan didn't know what to say. She was just trying to trick Chu Yuanming and forced herself to guess that he intended to rebel. He was hiding his true intentions and planned carefully, without revealing any clues.

Chu Yuanming was caught off guard by her straightforwardness and didn't know how to respond for a moment. Now that he had revealed his identity, it would have confirmed his ambition to rebel. There would be no point in continuing the conversation without revealing his identity.

"Do you think Shen is willing to help me?" Chu Yuanming thought for a long time and decided to test it further. Anyway, she would not be able to prove that the person today was herself in the future, so she spoke to break the silence.

But the woman did not respond. Chu Yuanming waited for a moment and walked forward impatiently, but he did not expect that she had already fainted.

"Wai En, heal her, don't let her die." He ordered, and then left the dark room.