Song Sanniang saw Xiao Jinze's rare fragile expression, coupled with his androgynous face.
It's truly the heartbreaking fragility of a beautiful woman.
The words got stuck in my throat.
Song Sanniang stood up and walked to Xiao Jinze, put her hands on his shoulders, and looked straight into his eyes.
"I'm sorry, I was too harsh. You must have your own considerations. Just proceed at your own pace."
Xiao Jinze was only fragile for a moment. Seeing Song Sanniang's inconsistent words, he knew that she was just comforting him and felt that his performance was so embarrassing.
Xiao Jinze quickly dealt with his emotions and behaved as calmly as he did in front of the commander of the Imperial Guard.
"No, you are right. I will hold the coronation ceremony as soon as possible to announce my identity to the world." Only then will he be more qualified to give orders.
The capital was in their control, and without any accidents, Xiao Jinze's ascension to the throne went very smoothly.
However, due to Ming Qichao's current situation, the ceremony was not grand, but more of a formality.
But there was a small incident in the middle.
When the person in charge was making the royal jade disc for Xiao Jinze, he actually found his jade disc.
After a thorough inspection, they discovered that it was prepared by the late Emperor Jing a long time ago and hidden in a secret compartment in the room where the jade discs were stored.
After becoming emperor, Xiao Jinze adapted unexpectedly. He was confused for a while at first, but soon he was immersed in the mountains of memorials.
That was the pile of things that had not been dealt with before Xiao Tingmo went to the Summer Resort.
Many of them are reports on the disaster caused by the drought in the south and memorials from local officials seeking help.
Xiao Jinze spent most of the day and finally cleaned it up with the help of Song Sanniang.
Then he stayed up late to carefully review the memorials.
The most urgent task at present is to control the drought in the south.
This would require a large sum of money, but he had just taken a close look at the treasury, which was cleaner than his pockets.
Song Sanniang reminded Xiao Jinze in time that he could open the granary and release the grain first.
There were ten granaries built by the government in the Ming Dynasty, distributed throughout the country.
The south has a hot and humid climate with frequent rainfall, and is known as the granary of the Ming Dynasty.
One-third of the official granaries are built in the south. Special circumstances can be handled specially, and local officials can open the granaries first to release grain to control the situation.
However, this brings us to another problem. This method is not difficult to think of, but why did these people still write memorials to the emperor?
Because there is no more food in the granary, or it has been embezzled.
So there was no food in the granary at all, and the group of people who had swallowed the food would not be willing to give it out to help the people.
So the question comes back to the issue of aristocratic families.
Song Sanniang glanced at Xiao Jinze, wanting to know what he was going to do.
Xiao Jinze paced back and forth in the imperial study, thinking seriously about what to do.
Although the aristocratic families are like termites in a building, if they are all eliminated, the Ming Dynasty will collapse.
Even though the people from those aristocratic families were hostile to each other, they were all very respectful to him, but he really wanted to take down one of the aristocratic families.
The remaining aristocratic families will unite to resist him, and the current Ming Qi Dynasty cannot withstand any greater storms.
To dismantle the power of the aristocratic families, we need to take a long-term view. It is best to boil the frog in warm water and cut the meat with a blunt knife, weakening their strength step by step. Then they will not be a threat to us.
After Xiao Jinze finished thinking, he had a vague idea in his mind.
He looked up at Song Sanniang, "Yuyi, I know what to do."
The next day, he sent word out that he was going to build a monument of merit in the disaster-stricken areas in the south, and anyone who donated supplies could leave their name on it.
Among them, the top five who donated the most materials will have their own monument and can also receive a golden medal of immunity from death from Emperor Wen.
When the news came out, the powerful people from the aristocratic families in the capital were holding a secret meeting to sound out the other old guys' opinions - their attitudes towards Emperor Wen.
It’s just that they have just established an open alliance. When the aristocratic families are in trouble, they stick together and advance and retreat together.
Then they heard the news from the palace. When the noble families heard the news, they sneered, and only a few people showed some surprise.
But when they heard the latter sentence, the old guys present who had experienced various situations also widened their eyes.
It was just a momentary gaffe, hiding his expression before others could react.
Everyone had their own ulterior motives and the alliance, which was already divided, immediately collapsed.
After all, the news said that only the first five would get in, and not counting the few who didn't show up, there were eight of them on the scene, so the competition was fierce.
They tested each other calmly, then dispersed with little interest.
But the movements of their feet still revealed their inner unrest.
After observing for a few days, they found that Emperor Wen was an emperor who wanted to get things done, and that conflicts between them would arise sooner or later.
But once they have the golden medal of immunity from death, they will have an extra life.
They are now in power, and although they are old, they are more afraid of death.
Therefore, they must obtain the golden medal of immunity from death!
Finally, after many rounds of competition, the five most powerful families received the golden medal of immunity from death. They were the Shi family, the Qin family, the Lan family, the Liu family, and the Zhang family.
They were all very satisfied.
Xiao Jinze and Song Sanniang came to the warehouse and were very satisfied to see that it was filled with supplies "donated" by the noble families.
Although Xiao Jinze anticipated that the golden medal of immunity from death would be attractive to these aristocratic families, he did not expect them to be so crazy.
It seems that when the time is right in the future, we can let these noble families spend more money, oh no, contribute more effort.
Now that the supplies are available, the only question left is who to assign to escort them to the south.
The people from the aristocratic families are eagerly waiting: choose him, choose him.
Xiao Jinze: Those from aristocratic families are not considered.
Soon, under Xiao Jinze's eyes of great hope, Song Sanniang led a team of soldiers to escort food to the south, and the disaster relief matters were fully handed over to her.
Xiao Jinze also wanted to go in person, but he couldn't because he had to be responsible for guarding the capital.
Before leaving, Song Sanniang gave him a direction to focus on in the future - to find a suitable teacher for him.
Originally, the Xie family had a suitable person, but Xiao Jinze felt guilty towards the Xie family and did not dare to face them.
Before Emperor Jing left, he made arrangements for the Xie family. Later, because of Xiao Tingmo, the Zhou family's investigation of the will diverted their attention.
By the time they reacted, the Xie family had already arrived safely in the north.
There was a backup plan arranged by Emperor Jing, so although the Xie family did not live as richly and prosperously as in the capital, they had no worries about food and clothing.
However, the situation of several girls who got married in the Xie family was not so good. One of them was abandoned by her husband's family on the pretext of something and was eventually forced to commit suicide.
Although her husband's family did not divorce her, they still treated her as a humiliating person and demoted her to a concubine.
The youngest daughter's husband's family was relatively good. They just asked her to reduce her appearances on the pretext of illness, but in fact she was well taken care of at home.
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