Chapter 24 The Plague Begins
When Quan Xiaoyun was at the moment when the defense line was lost, she suddenly realized that she used all her strength to push Zhu Youxiao away, then raised her hand and thrust hard towards Zhu Youxiao's face.
With a crisp sound of "bang!", Zhu Youxiao did not dodge, but just looked at Quan Xiaoyun directly, and felt mixed feelings for a while. Is this what Quan Xiaoyun really thought? In the past, those who flattered him and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty? Too much power and money will blind your eyes, and your eyes may have been blinded long ago!
Maybe the emperor shouldn't have feelings! Zhu Youxiao stood up in a daze, staring at Quan Xiaoyun, and saw Quan Xiaoyun sitting on the floor with her eyes closed, her hands covering her chest, and sobbing in a messy manner. Zhu Youxiao called out softly: "Xiaoyun!"
Quan Xiaoyun's face showed a hint of hesitation, but she did not respond, and then sobbed. Zhu Youxiao shook his head helplessly, sighed, and looked at the door of the house. Dong Wan'er looked at her stupidly, with a hint of jealousy in her eyes. Zhu Youxiao picked up Quan Xiaoyun's fox fur cloak from the chair she turned over, gently criticized it on Quan Xiaoyun, then wiped the tears under Quan Xiaoyun's closed eyes, and then turned around and walked out the door.
The shopkeepers of Jufu Building were shocked when they saw Zhu Youxiao walking out with a nasty face and murderous intent. They were all hiding far away. Zhu Youxiao ignored Wei Chao and other servants all the way and went straight out of Jufu Building, ran to the carriage that was already waiting outside Jufu Building, and shouted loudly: "Go back to the palace!"
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Zhu Youxiao returned to the palace and found Zhang Yuting temporarily, went to the martial arts field to vent his strength, and then ran to Zuoshunmen to work.
There were no memorials reviewed for a few days, and the memorials waiting to be reviewed were like small hills. Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to pick up one of them. When he opened it, he was talking about the Jiangxi governor who purchased private stocks of bad grain to fill the vassal treasury with the intention of disaster relief. Zhu Youxiao was angry. It just happened that the Jiangxi governor was unlucky. If this kind of thing was usually suspended, it would be just a suspension. Unexpectedly, Zhu Youxiao vented all his resentment on the memorial today, picked up the red pen on the table, and wrote it strictly on the bottom, and the word "stricken" was still the boss who wrote it!
After writing, he threw the memorial in his hand aside, and then picked up a book about the officials' embezzlement of silver. Zhu Youxiao strictly investigated and wrote a few big characters. As a result, Zhu Youxiao reviewed the thick memorials in a few seconds. Of course, this made these poor people suffer.
Zhu Youxiao looked at the pile of memorials on the table and had almost finished reading it. He picked up the book pressed on the last one and looked at it in a hurry. The content was probably about the strange deaths of a large number of refugees gathered in the capital. Zhu Youxiao was accustomed to being the emperor. The memorials he reviewed every day were all about landslides in a certain place, and the dam broke in a certain place. He read too many of them and did not have any special feelings for the deaths of those who died. Therefore, he felt that the death of these refugees was not important. He added four blood-red characters, "Finding and Procedure" behind him, and then put the memorials into the pile of good memorials next to him, sighed a long sigh, and sat on the dragon throne to meditate.
After thinking for a while, he said to Wei Chao who stood aside and was a little scared, "Why haven't seen Wang An recently? I haven't come to see me for a long time. Have you fallen ill? It seems that the burden I have carried for Wang An recently is too heavy. Wang An is in poor health. Wei Chao! You go to the Imperial Medicine Deposit to find some tribute ginseng or other supplements to send to Wang An. It is logical that the imperial doctor will not treat you. Then go to the Imperial Hospital to find a medical official to Wang An. Wang An is the inner supervisor trusted by the late emperor, and I trust it. I can't let Wang An's heart be cold! Do you understand?"
When Wei Chao heard Zhu Youxiao's words, he wanted to interrupt. Wang An was sick and bedridden, but Zhu Youxiao kept saying that. Thinking of Zhu Youxiao's tragic experience today, Wei Chao dared to stroke Zhu Youxiao's tiger beard. He honestly waited until Zhu Youxiao finished speaking before replying depressedly: "Go back to the emperor, is the health of the prince now? The emperor is busy recently, and the prince is also very busy, so the prince has never had the opportunity to meet with the prince."
When Zhu Youxiao heard that he was wrong, he was a little depressed, so he asked casually: "What have Wang An been busy with recently? Have the reforms in the palace been prepared according to my wishes?"
Wei Chao felt depressed. Zhu Youxiao said it was easy. He wanted to complete the messy affairs in the palace with just one word. It was so easy. He helped Wang An to work hard for a lot of time these days, and it was only after he got to know the truth. If he wanted to achieve it, it was still an unattainable goal.
He had to reply timidly: "Back to the emperor, it will take some time for those reforms to be done, but the emperor mentioned that the scarf and hat bureau, the needle office, the inner weaving and dyeing bureau, and the inner weaving and dyeing bureau, has already been done with some clues!"
"Oh!" Zhu Youxiao was accomplished and suddenly became energetic, and then asked, "How is it? Tell me!"
"The emperor, with the efforts of the slave and the prince, the matter that should be delivered has been completed. The slave found an empty house in the capital to hang the sign of the imperial clothing company. The shopkeeper of the company, Oh, no, it should be that the general manager is the king and the prince appointed by the emperor, and the employees are mainly eunuchs and palace maids who were cut in the palace last time. "The operating funds of this company are independently calculated. In the future, all kinds of clothing and other wearables used in the palace must be paid to the company. Of course, the various raw materials of the company are also required to be extracted from various warehouses in the capital. In addition, there is..."
"Okay, I understand. I have the chance. I want to go and see it. Just hearing what you say is good. I don't understand. You servants are just sweet-mouthed. You and Wang An do these things. I won't believe them. I know your abilities clearly. You can't do these things. You can take all the credits of the king and the king on yourself!" Zhu Youxiao said with a smile. But this shocked Wei Chao to sweat.
"Wei Dynasty, I don't blame you. Think about how many officials in the Ming Dynasty are not like this. Are you not trusted by me? What's the use of taking these credits? If you can really recommend a few talents to me, I will definitely be happier! Let's not say these words, you shouldn't tell you the inner supervisors. If you call Wang An, I have something to ask?"
Wei Chao just wanted to find some to walk away. Now that he heard the opportunity, he immediately ran out. Wang An's office location was very close to Zuoshun Gate. Wei Chao walked a few quick steps and arrived at the Silijian Yamen. Wei Chao was a celebrity of the emperor and Wang An's confidant, so naturally there was no need to inform him. He ran straight to Wang An's house. As soon as he entered, he found that there was no one, so he turned around and went out to ask other eunuchs in Silijian. Only then did he know that several eunuchs suddenly died in the palace yesterday, and several eunuchs were also dying. Wang An is now dealing with this problem!
"Your Majesty, several eunuchs in the palace suddenly died last night, and several eunuchs were dying and were about to die. Now Eunuch Wang is dealing with it there, and it still can't come for a while. Eunuch Wang asked the slave to apologize to the emperor!" Wei Chao did not find Wang An, so he had to come back by himself and said to Zhu Youxiao who was lying on the dragon case in a daze.
"Yeah! I understand!"
"Suddenly died!" Zhu Youxiao said silently, a light flashed in his mind. He suddenly remembered the memorial of the sudden death of a refugee he had just reviewed, and hurriedly asked Wei Chao: "How did he die suddenly? Tell me quickly!"
"I didn't go to see it? I heard that my neck was swollen and I died suddenly within one day. Now it is rumored that it was the enemies of these eunuchs who took revenge and poisoned..." Wei Chao recalled the conversation he had just had with the eunuch of Sili.
However, Zhu Youxiao did not listen to what Wei Chao said and hurriedly said: "I have just sent the reviewed memorials to the cabinet. You should hurry up and recover those memorials. I have something urgent to do!"
Wei Chao was talking about the same thing. Suddenly, he heard Zhu Youxiao being nervous about chasing the memorials by himself, so he had to stop his topic, turn around and run out.
After a while, Wei Chao brought in a eunuch holding the memorial and brought it all to the Dragon Case. Zhu Youxiao immediately started to flip through a pile of memorials.
"Not this!" A memorial was thrown away by Zhu Youxiao.
"It's not this!" Another memorial flew out!
"That's not it!"
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After tinkering with the clever memorials, Zhu Youxiao found a memorial from them, and immediately opened them and read them carefully.
"At the gathering site of the first-class residents outside the capital, a large number of refugees suddenly died on February 19th, all of which were swollen necks, suspected of being poisoned. On the 20th, a large number of refugees died suddenly. The medical officer of Shuntian Prefecture went to the clinic, but it was fruitless. On the 21st, another refugee died suddenly!..."
Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Chao, "What day is today?"
"Return to the emperor, twenty-three days!"
Zhu Youxiao felt a headache, "plague". Oh my God, why did you encounter it yourself? Now even someone in the palace has been infected. This is really troublesome! No, if the plague continues to spread, the entire capital will probably be over. What should I do?
What else can I do? Although the methods in later generations are very effective in dealing with plagues, they are based on very advanced medicine. The medical level of the Ming Dynasty dare not conclude, but there is absolutely no way to deal with plagues. In this way, I have to use the most rustic and simplest method to isolate!
So Zhu Youxiao immediately said to Wei Chao: "Hurry and recruit me all the envoys of the Imperial Hospital and the officials of the cabinet. The faster the better. By the way, let someone notify Wang An to come over quickly! Okay, go quickly!"
Chapter completed!