Chapter 832 House Arrest
How could it be such a coincidence?
Besides, the concubine who was seven months pregnant was supported by palace maids on both sides while walking. How could she slip and hit her belly?
What does Xia Zihan think? Why does he feel that this matter is not simple?
I'm afraid it's another conspiracy.
Xia Zihan rubbed his forehead and felt his forehead tightening, "The women in the palace are really getting bolder and bolder, and they are reaching out to the Queen Mother's palace."
Concubine Lu has been living in the Queen Mother's palace since she became pregnant. Now, if something happens to her, it also happens in the Queen Mother's palace.
"Why do you think it wasn't the queen's fault this time?" Chu Jingqi smiled, stretched out her hand and rubbed her temples.
Xia Zihan rolled her eyes at him, "The queen would like to, but she can't protect herself at the moment and still wants to attack Concubine Lu, unless she is stupid enough to be willing to cut off her head and use it as a stool for others to sit on."
Chu Jingqi just likes her little daughter-in-law to be smart and clever.
He moved the hand that was rubbing her temples to the top of her head and rubbed it with a curious look on his face, "Haha, the emperor is investigating this matter, and I believe the results will be available soon. However, although the child was born prematurely, He is the emperor's first son and the eldest prince of Dasheng. The emperor was very happy and gave Concubine Lu a lot of precious medicinal materials to replenish her body. "
"Where's the Queen? What does the Queen think?" Xia Zihan subconsciously wanted to know how the Queen would react when she found out that another concubine had given birth to a son for the Emperor.
Chu Jingqi's smile faded by three points, and there was a coldness in her eyes. "She was placed under house arrest in her own palace. I heard that after she learned the news, she almost burned down the entire palace. The emperor was so angry. He wanted to destroy her, but the Second Prince stopped her.”
"Burn the palace?" Xia Zihan said awkwardly, and Chu Jingqi gloated, "Maybe he realized that his status was about to be lost."
"Hmph, she deserves it." Xia Zihan had a bad impression of the queen at all, and even felt disgusted.
Chu Jingqi said, "The emperor is actually a very affectionate person. If the queen does not commit suicide and becomes her queen obediently, in this life, even if she does not give birth to a legitimate son for the emperor, the emperor will not easily abolish her."
"But in the past few years, the things the Queen has done have made the Emperor extremely chilled and extremely disappointed in the Queen. It is only a matter of time that the Queen will end up being deposed."
If the queen is deposed, except for the ministers who support the queen who will be disappointed, others will not sympathize with her at all.
Xia Zihan felt extremely happy.
She told Chu Jingqi, "I think the weather this year will rain more than last year. I'm afraid there will be another drought year next year. Tell the emperor to let the Qintian Supervisor check it carefully and let him make preparations in advance."
According to the memory of the previous life, next year will be a year of drought. In several large urban areas in the southwest, there has not been a drop of rain for four or five months. The sun is three times hotter than in previous years. There are dry and cracked holes in the fields that can be put into. A grown-up wrist.
The crops in the fields have failed to harvest, and the half-grown crops are as dry as straw and can be used for fire. The large and small ponds around the rice fields are dry and dry, and the water in rivers and lakes is becoming scarcer. In July, It's basically all dry, not a drop of water.
In July, the sun is as fierce as a fireball, and the people it shines on are as hot as frying on a hot pan. Many people die of thirst and starvation, and the corpses are piled up like mountains. The officials sent by the court were killed because of the violence of the people. |Everyone was beaten to death, and the food they had fainted was also looted by the people.
Without the management of the government, the corpses of those who died of starvation were left unprocessed after death, emitting a stench of corpses. Many people were infected with corpse poison, causing a plague, and more and more people died. Everyone in the court was frightened, and no one dared to go to the southwest to stabilize the victims.
In August, the plague spread, and countless people died in the southwest. Riots and plagues also occurred in several major cities near the southwest. Many wealthy families were broken into, burned, killed, and looted by mobs, and many people died. .
Many families were killed, their belongings were robbed, and their houses were burned down. It was a miserable place.
At that time, the entire south was in chaos.
At that time, the second prince was the emperor. Chu Xuanyu and his son had already died. The second prince and the Dou family all died when the second prince was trying to seize the throne. Only the people from Lu Guogong's Mansion, Yujun Prince's Mansion, and Anyang Hou's Mansion got it. The second prince’s important position.
With such a big disaster and plague happening in the south, no one in the court dared to go south. Finally, the second prince listened to Lu Guogong's advice and sent a hundred thousand troops to the southwest to suppress the victims. He also sent all the imperial doctors from the imperial hospital to the south. Stabilize the plague.
At the same time, people from the imperial court also brought a large amount of food and sent a hundred thousand troops to divert water from the Yangtze River in the southeast to the southwest. In September, the people in the southwest finally had water to drink, and the number of dead was gradually decreasing.
It wasn't until October, when the weather gradually turned colder, that the old Lord Long became furious and brought the long-awaited rain. The imperial doctors developed an anti-plague medicinal soup, and the drought stopped.
That time, not only the common people died, but also many officers and soldiers sent by the imperial court died of the plague.
There were also many imperial doctors and ministers who died.
In short, it was a human tragedy.
And Xia Zihan happened to be the one who witnessed that tragedy.
In this life, Xia Zihan didn't want to see that desolate tragedy again, at least it wouldn't have to be so tragic, so she would use Chu Jingqi to tactfully give the emperor a warning in advance so that he could be prepared.
The current emperor is not like the second prince. The second prince only cares about power and wealth. He doesn't care about the life or death of other people. That's why the disaster in the previous life was delayed until it could not be repaired and he sent a hundred thousand troops there.
As for the current emperor, he has Dasheng people and thousands of ministers in his eyes, and in his heart is the prosperity and wealth of Dasheng people for generations to come. Xia Zihan believes that the emperor will definitely handle the drought in the southwest well, absolutely. He would not be like the second prince, who would wait until there was a tragedy in the world before taking care of it.
In the past few years, Xia Zihan has also made a lot of preparations. She notified the head of the farm early and saved all the grain harvested in the fields under her name, without selling a single grain of rice, just waiting to meet next year's harvest. drought.
Not only that, she also ordered the farm head to collect a lot of grain from other people's farms. The grain from Ma's Manor has been sold to her in the past few years. A basement warehouse was built in the manor.
"Also, Aqi, I want some medicinal materials. You ask Ma Bao to go out and buy them in large quantities." Xia Zihan has not forgotten the plague.
(End of chapter)