Martial: I Started The Technological Revolution In Ancient Times

"Choose someone."    

"Or choose a person? "    

"[It's different.]"    

Xiao Yun smiled and said, "This time, Old Man Leng, you will go. You have to tell His Majesty. Ask him to choose a very cunning person, or even a greedy one. The best is still the kind with a high position. This time, we need this kind of person to do a big thing! "    

...    

His Majesty did not even think about it and chose a person.    

Wu Xi.    

The East Pavilion Grand Secretary was under the Cabinet.    

He could be considered a person with real power.    

His position on the surface was even higher than Elder Qiu's.    

However, because he was cunning and greedy, he was not popular, and his position was naturally not obvious. Therefore, in terms of political matters, he was always suppressed by Elder Qiu.    

And the official position that His Majesty appointed him was actually a disaster relief service!    

At this moment, all the civil and military officials were stunned when they heard the news.    

A disaster relief service was originally an extremely important matter. If Wu Xi were to supervise, most of the money would be corrupted by him!    

At that time, it would be no different than adding salt to the wound for Qin Country!    

However, this was an order from His Majesty. Although everyone had doubts in their hearts, they had no choice but to carry it out.    

Actually, His Majesty himself was also filled with doubts.    

He did not understand why Xiao Yun would make such a request.    

But...    

Most of the things that happened before did not listen to Xiao Yun.    

Now that things had come to fruition one by one, he gave it a try.    

After all, he really did not have any good ideas now.    

When Wu Xi heard the appointment, he was also filled with doubt.    

He walked out of the queue and said with a bitter face, "Your majesty, there is really not much food in the national treasury now. There are too many places outside that require disaster relief. Even if we open up all the granaries in the treasury, it will only be a drop in the bucket. How could it not be enough! Since His Majesty gave this job to him, he naturally had to do his best. However, he had no clue about this matter. If His Majesty had any instructions... Please speak clearly! "    

An old man in his 70s wiped away his tears in the court. It was clear that this appointment was more of a bad thing than a good thing to him.    

But how would His Majesty know what Wu Xi should do?    

He wanted to shout out, wanting to know what to do. Go and ask Xiao Yun!    

But he couldn't say that.    

He could only sigh and say, "My dear minister, don't worry. Since Zhen has appointed you, naturally you have the ability to handle this matter properly."    

"Ah?"    

Regarding such a far-fetched reason, Wu Xi was somewhat unable to accept it.    

Prime Minister Qiu sighed and walked out. He said, "Your Majesty, there are at least hundreds of thousands of stones missing from the disaster relief efforts. This is only a report. If we don't report to the higher-ups, or report to the higher-ups that we can't reach... I don't know how many holes there will be, but the granary of our national treasury... At most, it's only 100,000 stones. It's too far away from the disaster relief efforts."    

"A hundred thousand? Why is it so little?"    

His Majesty frowned immediately.    

One hundred thousand sounded quite a lot, but it was actually quite a lot. However, if it was placed in a large number, it really wouldn't be enough.    

The salary of a rank one official in the Imperial Court was three thousand stones per year. It was one hundred thousand grains. To put it bluntly, even the officials in Qin Country could not afford it!    

How could he not be shocked? How could he not be anxious?    

Prime Minister Qiu sighed and said, "Your majesty, before the earthquake, the natural disasters had already consumed a large amount of stored food. After the rebellion, not only did it destroy many granaries, but it also destroyed many granaries. We also need to spend money on food, as well as the subsequent relief efforts. As a result, the natural treasury was empty, and now there was a locust disaster... Sigh, it's not easy now."    

After all, they were on the same side. Prime Minister Qiu could not help but speak up for Wu Xi.    

Wu Xi's face was full of gratitude.    

In fact, all the civil and military officials in the court were more or less grateful to Prime Minister Qiu.    

After all, he did not say that sentence, "What did I say earlier?!"    

The locust plague was not sudden.    

There was an early warning.    

If they had followed the suggestion back then and directly destroyed those fields, how would the current situation have happened?    

Now, even in the capital, people could already feel the impact of the locust plague.    

All kinds of grain shops were robbed crazily, and all kinds of shops were closed. Everyone was waiting for a storm to arrive, praying that they could survive it.    

What about other places?    

Just these few days of memorials, which were like snowflakes, could make all the civil and military officials understand how terrifying it was!    

Especially those who had experienced these things before. They understood how many civilians would starve to death.    

They were so hungry that they did not even have the right to eat tree bark, because anything that could be stuffed into their stomachs had already been eaten up by the locusts!    

What about the rest?    

Dead people died on the road, and they became food for the children.    

These words only existed in books, a simple introduction.    

It was hard to imagine what exactly was going on.    

In fact.    

A starving child would be sent to someone else's house by his parents in the morning.    

He didn't know what was going to happen.    

It was just that he was muddle-headed, muddle-headed, and would be told. Soon, he would not be hungry anymore, and there would be food soon.    

Therefore, he sat in the kitchen, full of hope, waiting for a delicious meal. Or rather, he did not need a delicious meal. He only needed to fill his stomach so that his stomach, which was gurgling with anti-acid water, could be slightly more comfortable. He just needed to cheer up his weak body.    

However, what awaited him was just a woodcutter.    

His head was grabbed by the knife and his neck was suddenly cut. Blood would not be wasted and would flow into the pot in front of him.    

Then, he chopped off his head and buried it in the yard behind the house. The rest of his body was cut into small pieces by the knife and thrown into boiling water to be boiled.    

Some parents would not be able to bear to part with their children. They would have to give birth to one person. Most of them were women, or rather, mothers.    

He put on clothes that he had only worn once in his life, took a rare bath, and then went out the door.    

His expression was indifferent, and his eyes were filled with despair as he placed his head on the chopping board. Then, with a slash, he chopped it down and turned it into meat, filling the stomachs of the family members.    

Those who ate this included her children.    

Her child would never know that her mother would never come back. Similarly, they would not know that what they ate was exactly what they ate!    

Perhaps they knew.    

But in the face of hunger... they might choose to ignore this point.    

Hungry people can't be called humans.    

They could not even be considered as wild beasts.    

They were just a bunch of struggling insects who had gone crazy, crazy, and desperately trying to survive.    

This was the most tragic thing in the world!    

There weren't many influential people who knew about this kind of thing.    

After all, they had never come into contact with it or seen it with their own eyes. The only thing they knew was that the words on the book were so simple that it made one's hair stand on end.    

But Wu Xi knew!    

It was different from the greed and shamelessness that the world understood.    

He had seen such a tragic scene before.    

He had even experienced it!    

In his early years, his ancestral home was in the Southern Region. There had been a rebellion there. After the rebellion, it didn't matter if you were a noble or not, in the face of hunger, there was no distinction.    

Even the most precious treasure, the brightest pearl, couldn't be exchanged for a steamed bun filled with dust.    

The reason why he was greedy, and the reason why he used every means possible to accumulate wealth, perhaps it was because he had experienced all of this before.    

At least Xiao Yun thought that it was possible.    

Therefore, when Xiao Yun found out about the choice of His Majesty, he happily went to Wu Xi's mansion at the first possible moment.