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    Kings seize the direct descendants¡¿Chapter 4: Hometown for Thoughts

    In any case, Zhu Ci, who was named Queen of Chu, had more opportunities to contact the society outside the palace than other brothers. He asked Dong Ping to spend money to buy three sets of ordinary people's clothes, dress up as a disaster victim, and left Fuzhou City to visit Fujian.  View upstream of the river.

    Dong Ping and others guarded the safety of Emperor Hongguang every day, and rarely left Nanjing. Seeing Zhu Ci's behavior, Dong Ping winked at Xue Ba, meaning that our eldest son, Long Live Lord, His Highness the King of Chu is really not bad, he can do  At this point, he is a hundred times stronger than any emperor except the emperor since the founding of the country.

    Xue Ba nodded and said in his heart that His Highness the King of Chu is very likely to inherit the throne in the future. The current emperor is pragmatic enough, but he did not expect His Highness the King of Chu to be even worse. What a blessing for the people!

    About twenty miles out of Fuzhou City, what Zhu Cixi saw was not the same scene he saw in the city. It is no exaggeration to describe what he saw as mourners everywhere. Due to the raging typhoon, sea water poured in, and the coast of the Min River was torn apart by violent storms.  It was so shattered that not even a decent house could be seen.

    Dong Ping and Xue Ba were shocked when they saw the scene that was a hundred times more miserable than in the city. If the King of Chu hadn't brought it up outside the city, they would have thought that everything they saw was like that in the city!

    Zhu Ci came to a village where a typhoon must have raged a month ago. A month later, it was still so miserable. The unpleasant smell of a rotting corpse made his face immediately sink.  I remember that the governor of Fujian was Wu Dayou, a veteran who had only been in office for less than a year. He had rich political experience. How could he handle it like this?  Could it be that what you see in the city is just a show?

    Zhu Ci walked to three relatively large villages and towns in a row, and did not return to the inn in the city until dark.  Liu Xi and Li Guilouqing found that the returning prince looked gloomy.  There was no smile at all, and they were all a little surprised.

    Dong Ping and Xue Bachong waved their hands gently, signaling not to disturb His Highness.  No wonder Zhu Ci was unhappy. There was a porridge shop outside the city, but the porridge shop was incomparable to the ones in the city. You could count the grains of rice in it when you took a spoonful of it.  The number of victims was beyond imagination. According to reports, more than two million people were affected in Fujian and Guangdong.  However, there were no more than 500,000 people in urgent need of treatment, but what was seen outside the city was seriously inconsistent with what was reported.

    Liu Xi brought hot water to Zhu Ci's bedroom, "Master, please warm your feet! You must be exhausted after walking for a day." After hearing Xue Ba say that the prince had been gone for a day, Liu Xi quickly ordered the shopkeeper to boil hot water.  .

    Zhu Ci? He was just thinking about what he should do when he meets Wu Dayou tomorrow!  It now seems obvious that disaster relief was inadequate.  Although natural disasters cannot be resisted, some of them cannot be avoided. While scalding his feet, he asked Liu Xi, "You haven't been in the inn all the time, have you?" Zhu Ci knew that Liu Xi was a restless person, so in Nanjing  It was better when I was there, but when I left the house, I was even more active.

    Liu Xin hummed, "Because there are two guards in the inn. The seals and other items will not be lost, so the younger one just walked around the street."

    Zhu Ci said oh, "What's going on on the street?" Zhu Ci just walked around the porridge shop and didn't really have time to look at other places.

    As soon as Liu Xi heard the prince's question, he told what he saw and heard, looking at it from Liu Xi's perspective.  The city of Fuzhou has recovered relatively well, and the merchants are back to normal, and the price of rice has not fluctuated much. Liu Xi specifically asked about the aspects that he thought Zhu Ci was more concerned about, but it saved Zhu Ci a lot of worry.  .

    After a good night's sleep, Zhu Cixi was relieved from the fatigue of the day. He, Liu Xi and four guards arrived at the Fujian Governor's Yamen. Dong Ping stepped forward to greet him, and the Yamen officials informed Zhu Cixi and others.  Enter the Yazhong.

    Zhu Ci? I thought about it for a long time before going to bed last night, after my father reformed the officialdom.  The administrative aspects have been greatly streamlined.  The county magistrate is directly responsible to the governor of a province, and the nine-rank official system that has been followed for thousands of years has become a five-rank official system.  The other yamen perform their own duties and have little to do with direct administration. If disaster relief is ineffective, then the problem lies either with the governor or with the county magistrate. It will never involve the local court, port affairs yamen and other bureaucracies.

    To Zhu Ci¡¯s surprise, Wu Dayou, the governor of Fujian, was injured in the typhoon and his legs are still difficult to move. He had to go to the inner house to visit the provincial official.

    Wuhan University's luck also came home. On the day of the typhoon, he was returning to his own office after doing business at the port office. He was attacked by the typhoon on the way and was hit by a wooden pole as thick as a bowl that fell from the sky. The sedan was smashed.  Injured legs.

    Wu Dayou had met Zhu Ci a few times. When he saw Zhu Ci coming in, he smiled bitterly, "I am injured and cannot pay my respects to the prince. I hope the prince will forgive me!"

    Zhu Ci said it was okay. He first asked about Wu Dayou's condition. Knowing that he was gradually recovering, he felt relieved, "Master Wu, you have been injured. I wonder who has been appointed to take charge of disaster relief?"  I originally thought that the inability to provide disaster relief was a problem at Wuhan University., now Wu Dayou can't get out of the Yamen at all, and things are going wrong.

    Wu Dayou was stunned for a moment, "The prince also saw it. I was injured and couldn't even get out of the yamen gate, so I entrusted the disaster relief work to Wang Zhengzhong, the governor of Fuzhou Port." The governor is the local chief executive, but he  It has no control over port affairs. Port affairs in various places are directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. In terms of grade, they are at the same level as the governor, but each is in charge of one area. Wuhan University has limited mobility, so it entrusts disaster relief matters to Wang Zhengzhong, the equal-level port governor.  Make no mistakes.

    Zhu Ci knew about Wu Dayou's relationship with Wang Duo, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. Although he didn't know Wu Dayou well, he also knew that he would never smear Wang Duo's face, so he took advantage of what he saw outside Fuzhou.  Wen told the story again, "Master Wu, originally I thought it was because you failed to provide disaster relief, but now it seems that I wrongly blamed you."

    When Wu Da heard this, he didn't care about the injury on his legs and sat up from the bed, "Damn it, Wang Zhengzhong, this guy is fucking with me!" Wu Da You was originally a military general, and when he heard Zhu Ci's words, he became anxious.  The vulgar side of Izukuto.

    Zhu Ci waited for Wu Dayou's mood to calm down, "Master Wu, I have just arrived here and I don't know much about things in Fujian. The emperor only asked me to assist in disaster relief. Everything depends on the place. Now Master Wu is inconvenient.  This is really embarrassing for me."

    There is someone in Wuhan University who is not stupid. He lost his temper and then calmed down. He stroked his beard and said, "Your Majesty, you have learned some tricks for such a low-ranking official. Your Highness also knows that I have just taken office not long ago. I am not afraid of Your Majesty's jokes. I am here."  Being an official in this place is not so much about being an official as it is about being angry!"

    Zhu Ci was also a little confused by Wu Dayou's words, "Why do you say this, sir? You are the head of a province in Fujian. Who dares to offend you?"

    Wu Dayou sighed and said after a long time, "The prince must have also heard that Jiangnan has always been dominated by literati, and it is relatively exclusive. I am not only a martial artist, but to put it nicely, I am a little bit more than a general, and to put it badly,  It's a small talent that makes a big difference. The emperor transferred Wang Deren to Western Xinjiang and served as the general manager of the Western Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. This place is really difficult to arrange, so he put me here. If we dig into the root cause, the emperor still has plans for the prince!"

    When Zhu Ci heard what Wu Dayou said, he vaguely guessed that it was related to the inheritance of the throne by their brothers. "Can your Excellency make it clear?" Zhu Ci also wanted to hear the views on these matters from outsiders.

    "The prince knows that the fourth prince once served as a prisoner of the country. The driving force behind it was officials from Jiangnan, mainly civil servants from Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi. These people have always been good at talking about their hometown. It can be said that the fourth prince's  Firm supporters, especially Concubine Chen¡¯s natal family, play an important role in Shilin, Jiangnan. Although the Chinese Academy opened by the emperor broke this bad habit, the inextricable relationship cannot be eliminated by simply eliminating it." Wu Dayou  After thinking about the wording, he said, "Wang Deren, the Marquis of Yuxing, has been transferred away. The suitable replacements are basically people related to the Fourth Prince. In order to contain these people, the Emperor had no choice but to transfer me here. Not only am I a military general,  , you are not from Jiangnan, the hard work of this official job is beyond your comprehension!"

    What Wu Dayou said is absolutely true. Emperor Hongguang opened a military academy and a Chinese Academy of Sciences, which indeed strengthened the centripetal force of civil and military forces on the imperial power and the court. However, due to historical reasons, Emperor Hongguang focused more on the military academy. After all, it was necessary at the time.  What we have is an army that can fight and win, while the management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is slightly weaker. Over time, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which could have played a better role, failed to play its due role due to historical reasons. Although party disputes and other shortcomings were eliminated,  But it did not eliminate the old thinking among officials about their hometown. This can not but be said to be a failure.

    The magistrate of a province in Fujian, on the surface, has a good opinion of Wu Dayou. After all, he is his immediate boss, but secretly he does not take Wu Dayou seriously at all. Except for the orders of Emperor Hongguang, the cabinet and the six ministries, Wu Dayou can be taken to heart.  It can be said that they can't be fooled. The main reason for the ineffective disaster relief this time is the lack of coordination among officials and the inconsistency of the decrees.  How can we treat and provide relief to the victims of disasters if they are all doing their own thing?

    Zhu Ci thought about the seriousness of the matter, but he did not expect it to be so serious. He knew that his mother had no natal family, that is, no help from relatives. He had not felt anything like it before, because Emperor Hongguang had always suppressed the power of relatives.  , even Pingding Hou Gao Di did not dare to get too close to Ci Jiong.  But when it really happened, Zhu Ci found out that it was different whether they kissed a family member or not, whether they had a relationship or not!

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