After my mind was read, I became the emperor's favorite

Chapter 8 When an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent

Qi Mingze walked into the main hall and tapped the table lightly with the back of his fingers.

The sound of Lang Lang's reading gradually stopped.

"Hello everyone, I'm Qi Mingze, and I'm your temporary teacher today."

Qi Mingze gave a brief self-introduction to the group of children.

Everyone is familiar with this handsome and gentle young man.

Although the Wuwei Marquis's Mansion had fallen into decline, the Wuwei Marquis did not like this legitimate son.

But his knowledge was indeed unquestionable, and Master Hu often took his articles for them to appreciate.

Qi Mingze basically didn't know any of the twenty or thirty students in the audience.

But since there is free labor here, he doesn't have to identify people one by one.

[The system generates a seating chart.]

After the previous trials, Qi Mingze basically knew most of the functions of the system.

So now he has no scruples and lets the system shine in its familiar field.

[Host, I'm so useful, how about we bind one?] A form automatically generated in front of Qi Mingze.

What followed was the system's voice recommending itself again. Seeing that Qi Mingze ignored it, it was not discouraged.

Just let him use it. Once he gets used to it, he will become dependent on it. Humph.

In the middle are the crown prince and four royal family members, and the rest are the direct descendants of the eight great families and the legitimate sons and grandsons of high-ranking officials above the third rank. At the very least, they are brothers and cousins.

This lineup of study companions is quite luxurious, and these people will be the undoubted princelings in the future.

"No matter what happens in the future, at least His Majesty truly values this nephew now." Qi Mingze sighed.

However, looking at ancient Chinese history, how much brotherly love did the royal family have?

[Yes, the young prince lost his father at birth, and his mother, because her family was restless, was detained in the Empress Dowager's palace. It can be said that the Emperor raised him single-handedly.] The system reviewed the information and made a summary.

【Well, that's even more appropriate.】

"It happened suddenly, and we wanted to avoid disrupting the teaching of other teachers."

"We won't be teaching the Four Books and Five Classics in this class. Let's just discuss current affairs."

[Host, so this is what you were planning.] The system suddenly understood.

It was also worried that the host wouldn't be able to teach the liberal arts well, but the host didn't teach anything and just started a topic discussion.

The main goal is to allow everyone to speak freely, but I'm really worried for nothing.

The textbooks here are different from those in ancient China. If the characters were not in the traditional Chinese language, I would be illiterate.

[If I were to teach the Four Books and Five Classics now, wouldn't that be misleading the students?] This class will serve as an opening discussion.

These seven or eight-year-old children were very well-mannered. When they heard something new, they just looked at him with bright eyes and did not whisper to each other.

The young prince was very interested when he heard that they were asked to discuss political affairs. After all, as someone at the center of power, how could he not want to get involved?

"On the 25th day of the sixth month of the seventh year of the Qiwei reign, torrential rain fell for ten consecutive days in the ten prefectures south of the Yangtze River, breaking the dikes in the upper reaches of the Huai River.

As a result, nearly 100 counties in the middle and lower reaches were flooded, and nearly 1,000 people died.

Two hundred thousand people were displaced, leaving their homes and wandering around...

There are currently 5,000 refugees wandering around the outskirts of Beijing, and the majority of court officials believe that the victims should not be allowed into the city.

Now the court has no money to build dams and no food to provide relief to the victims.

Today’s issue is the resolution of that matter.”

Qi Mingze narrated to the students what he heard at the court meeting.

However, these data did not match up logically, so Qi Mingze called the system again.

[System, this data is probably incorrect. The data mentioned at the meeting is probably underreported.]

[Yes, host. At the same time as the heavy rain in Jiangnan, a severe drought occurred in Longxi Road.]

The system immediately retrieves these data in the background and compares them one by one.

[Combined together, nearly 20,000 people have died, 500,000 people have fled the disaster, and the direct economic losses have reached 600,000 taels of silver.

There was no harvest, but people still had to pay rent and labor service, so they had no choice but to sell their fields and land.

In addition, unscrupulous merchants control the rice market and arbitrarily raise prices.

[The major families took advantage of the situation to borrow heavily, and the people of both places suffered terribly.]

The system not only has data but also images, which really makes the whole system stiffen its fists.

[Alas, when an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent.]

Although he had guessed it, Qi Mingze couldn't help but sigh when he heard the data.

It's no wonder that the emperor wanted to purge the aristocratic families. Few people in power could tolerate this practice of making a fortune from national disasters.

Jun Linyuan's face darkened as he heard this in the next room, and the air pressure instantly dropped to freezing point.

He slapped the square table next to him with one palm, and the table instantly broke into pieces.

"What is this for?" Huo Le'an was startled and immediately dodged the wood chips coming towards him.

Jun Linyuan lowered his eyes to hide his emotions. The Governor of Longxi, the Governor of Jiangnan, the Wei family, the Xue family and all the major families were all doing well.

He dares to deceive his superiors and hide such a big thing from his subordinates. I wonder when things get changed, he will be the last to know.

"It's okay, I just heard something upsetting again."

Huo Anle knew that he was worried about disaster relief, so he didn't say anything more. He just listened to the discussion with great interest.

"First, let's analyze the most important problem now." Qi Mingze guided step by step.

When children first come into contact with policy discussion, let them take the lead. You can let go after they get used to it.

The young prince pondered for a moment and said, "First of all, we must provide relief to the victims. We cannot leave so many people alone.

The people in the suburbs of Beijing should be properly arranged. They are all citizens of the Xialin Dynasty and should not be allowed to starve to death."

Seeing that the prince had spoken, others began to express their thoughts.

"We also need to rebuild the dikes in the upper reaches of the Huai River to completely eliminate the hidden dangers by treating the root cause." King Mu's second son added.

"Help the victims rebuild houses and resume farming."

"Count the disaster losses and distribute disaster relief funds accurately."

"Take care of the elderly, women, and young children. They are all vulnerable and are most likely to die if you don't make good arrangements."

"Help the lost find their relatives and support orphans affected by disasters."

"..."

The variety of proposals was even richer than those in the imperial court. Qi Mingze wrote them all down so that he could formulate a precise plan later.

[Host, how come these kids are more comprehensive than those courtiers?] The system was shocked.

The things we argued about for a long time at the court meeting turned out to be worse than this ordinary discussion class.

Children's thoughts are free-spirited and their thinking has not been confined by rules and regulations.

Especially since these children are carefully raised by large families, it is not surprising that this effect occurs.

Those adults, on the other hand, have their own thoughts, interests, and concerns.

Some things are not unknown, but we just don’t want to say them or cannot say them.

Therefore, sometimes these children are the best breakthrough point.

Qi Mingze narrowed his eyes slightly, curled his lips and smiled softly, looking like a storm was about to come.

[Host, your smile gives me a bad feeling!] The system felt like its scalp was about to explode.

This half-smile, this meticulously planned operation to lure the prey into the trap step by step, is the host really not a fox in disguise?

Forget it, it’s not me who’s unlucky anyway.

A moment of silence for the children! A tribute to future “disaster relief heroes”!

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