Chapter 487 The Great Fire in Kyoto
Whether brown rice costs five cents per catty or ten cents per catty, what does it have to do with high-ranking officials? What does it have to do with the emperor?
They will never be able to eat brown rice in their lives.
As for the price of mutton rising from forty to eighty cents, that does not prevent them from eating mutton every day.
The people complained endlessly, but they were still enjoying the rich clothes and eating delicacies from the mountains and the sea.
In the splendid palace, the young emperor dragged his cheeks and looked towards the north. In a few days, they should have received the letter.
In the spacious Qinzheng Hall, huge copper basins are placed in the four corners, filled with crystal clear ice, exuding bursts of cold air.
The inside of Qinzheng Hall, which was already much cooler than outside, is even cooler.
The young emperor stretched out his palm, looked at the palm, then turned it over and looked at the back of the hand.
As the master of a huge empire, he controls the joy, anger, sorrow and joy of the entire Kyoto people.
If he is happy, the world will be peaceful; if he is unhappy, dark clouds will fill the city.
Some people who want to challenge this must bear his wrath.
The Minister of Hubu had been kneeling outside Qinzheng Hall for half an hour before the young emperor let him in.
The Minister of the Ministry of Finance knelt on the ground, kowtowed heavily, and then took out a memorial from his arms.
The chamberlain took the memorial and handed it to the young emperor.
The young emperor lazily opened it.
The words of this memorial are extremely humble. First, he deeply reflected on his mistakes, and then said that the emperor's reason for building the Star Observation Tower was very legitimate. It was an honor for the whole world to use money from the treasury to build it!
The young emperor threw the memorial on the table casually, and said slowly: "I love you, you know your mistakes and can correct them, there is no great good. Leave the memorial, you go home first."
< br>Hube Shangshu bent over and stepped back step by step until he exited the palace, then he straightened up, with a trace of loneliness and regret in his eyes.
How absurd is it to threaten the salaries of all officials in the imperial court just to build a star observation tower? !
The Minister of Household Affairs sighed silently, it was Duke Yun who won this game again.
A "Journey to the West" revealed the true colors of the official family, without even pretending!
The officials were still complacent, thinking they had mastered all the civil and military officials, but little did they know that everyone regarded him as a stupid roe deer and watched him jump into the pit that Duke Yun had casually buried.
When people read Journey to the West, they see Duke Yun’s future plans.
When he read Journey to the West, he became a cultivator, and there was no one like him!
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The moon shadow is everywhere, the birch trees are whistling, and the city of Kyoto is quiet.
“The Dog Emperor won’t let us have an easy time, and we won’t let him have an easy time either!”
“That’s right, today we are going to make havoc in the Heavenly Palace, Sun Wukong! If anyone regrets it, quit now It’s still too late.”
“I don’t regret it! My land was taken away by him. I have no way to survive, so I might as well risk my life!”
"In order to cultivate immortality, he actually kidnapped all my wife and children, just to marry a drop of my heart's blood to refine elixirs!"
The bronze-skinned man gritted his teeth and marked the map of Kyoto with red eyes, each time he made a mark. Mark, the ferocious look on his face became even stronger.
This map came from Baihua Printing Factory. It was originally intended to be a convenience for merchants who first arrived in Kyoto, but now it has another use.
Fifty men stood outside the door, all wearing various clothes.
Some are like merchants, some are like farmers, and everyone is carrying a package on their back.
The package was full of things like sulfur, saltpeter, and kerosene.
This is something they spent several days working hard and saving money to buy. "Mr. Li said there will be strong winds tonight. After this is done, run away if you can, and pretend you don't recognize them if you encounter them on the road. If you are unfortunately caught, you must not reveal a word!"
“Don’t worry! If I am caught, I will bite my tongue and commit suicide immediately!”
Because all the money was used to buy saltpeter and kerosene, everyone used water to make wine and silently drank for themselves practice.
After leaving water stains on the ground, everyone takes a note.
It says it is a place, either a market or a government office. If their strength allowed, they would even want to burn down the entire palace.
However, they are just the lowest level of people. Even if they risk their lives, they will not be able to harm the Dog Emperor in the slightest.
Since you can’t hurt him, then go hurt those who are working for him!
Under the moonlight, Kyoto is like a sleeping tiger, seemingly ready to devour anyone at any time.
When the first firelight lit up, Kyoto City woke up!
Gongs and drums kept beating, water dragons kept passing by, fires broke out everywhere, and thick smoke billowed.
"It's on fire, come and put out the fire!" Someone smelled a burning smell in their sleep. They didn't even have time to put on their clothes. When they ran out, they saw flames shooting into the sky in the distance.
The flames rising into the sky were like monsters, trying to devour the entire Kyoto.
Li Zheng, who was woken up, was shirtless and ran out, shouting at everyone to put out the fire: "If you have a bucket, hurry up and carry the bucket, let's go put out the fire!"
The weather was dry and there were many wooden houses in Kyoto. The south wind happened to be blowing today, which caused the fire to spread very quickly.
If someone accidentally burns down his own shop, wouldn’t all the belongings he had finally saved be destroyed?
The young men picked up buckets and prepared to put out the fire.
The fire was a bit far away, and the women and children might not be able to walk that far carrying the buckets.
Someone squinted their eyes and looked at it: "Huh? It seems that the house on fire is the uncle's house!"
Everyone stopped and looked in that direction.
"It seems to be really the uncle's house."
Everyone looked at each other, should we save the fire or not?
Just at this moment, another fire ignited in another place. This time, Jin Wuwei is dispatched!
“It’s the Kyoto County Government! A few days ago, my tenants were arrested, and I even went there to visit them!”
The dispatched Jinwu Guards had no time to search for the thieves, so they first joined the fire-fighting team.
But obviously, the thieves were well prepared. When the Jinwu guards rushed to save the fire in the Kyoto County government office, another fire broke out in another square.
The fire broke out in this square, which shocked the county magistrate who was originally fighting the fire at the county government office.
There is food stored there for the royal family. Although it is not his turn to manage it, as a local official, he cannot get rid of it!
For a time, the entire Kyoto was in chaos. Jin Wuwei didn't know which fire to put out first, so he could only divide his troops into three groups and put out the fire one by one.
The people who originally planned to put out the fire put down the buckets in their hands. Even though Li Zheng was urging them hoarsely, their steps were still as slow as a snail.
"Li Zheng and the Jinwu Guards have been dispatched. They can definitely put out the fire. We shouldn't be needed."
"We are so far away from them, even if we rush over, it will be too late. "
Some people even went home directly: "What's the matter? The thief set the fire on fire? This is clearly a punishment from God! The uncle led people to arrest people everywhere just to refine the elixir, and many families were killed because of this!” Beat the drum and complain, but turn a blind eye.”
"Even God can't bear to look at this! Good and evil will be rewarded in the end. It's not that they are not repaid, but that the time has not come yet!"