Chapter 35

Sigh! This Zhao Gao, it was in vain that he had followed him for so many years, yet he still didn't understand his thoughts!

Ying Zheng shook his head, but still took the silk to watch.

At this moment, he just wanted to see how the people of Dang Commandery were cursing this rebellious son, Ying Su!

He smiled.

However... when he only looked at the first few words of this silk, his face changed.

When he saw the middle part, Ying Zheng's eyebrows were twisted into a knot!

When he finished reading the whole silk, Ying Zheng was furious. He directly smashed the silk onto the ground, grabbed Zhao Gao by the collar, his anger soaring to the heavens:

"You... how dare you deceive me?"

He was immensely furious!

Zhao Gao was scared out of his wits and kowtowed to Ying Zheng: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I would never dare. These... these are the most authentic conditions collected by the Net spies in Dang Commandery!"

"I can immediately summon Zhen Gang and Duan Shui to tell Your Majesty the real situation in Dang Commandery!"

Zhao Gao shouted again and again, kowtowing again and again!

Ying Zheng inhaled again and again, suppressing the anger in his chest again and again!

For a long time... he finally calmed down!

At that moment, his gaze was like lightning, staring fixedly at Zhao Gao, and he asked: "This report says that the people are overjoyed and cheering because... the disaster relief grain was distributed in full?"

"What does this mean? Could it be... that over the years, the disaster relief grain sent by our Great Qin to the localities was never distributed in full?"

Ying Zheng asked angrily.

Yes, this was the reason his face looked so ugly!

Originally, he wanted to see the scene of the people of Dang Commandery cursing Ying Su.

But... the first thing he saw when he opened the report was praise!

Not just the first sentence of praise!

But... this report was almost entirely praise!

Praising the new Emperor for his extraordinary wisdom in thinking of mixing sand into the disaster relief grain to ensure the full distribution of the disaster relief grain.

Of course, this level of praise, although it made Ying Zheng uncomfortable, was far from enough to make him angry!

What truly made him angry was the people's later evaluation: "The new Emperor, far surpasses the First Emperor!"

"The new Emperor far surpasses the First Emperor?"

Just this one sentence made Ying Zheng explode!

What did it mean that the new Emperor far surpassed the First Emperor?

This made him angry, but at the same time, he was deeply confused. What was so great about just distributing the disaster relief grain in full that they were cheering?

Why would the people say the new Emperor far surpassed the First Emperor just because of the disaster relief grain being distributed in full?

He was angry, but at the same time, he couldn't help but feel suspicious!

Zhao Gao knelt and kowtowed: "Reporting to Your Majesty, according to the news gathered by the Net, since the First Emperor unified the world, Dang Commandery has suffered disasters three times, but every time, the imperial court's disaster relief grain was never distributed in full!"

"The first time, the imperial court provided 200,000 shi of grain for disaster relief, but when the disaster relief grain arrived, there was only 150,000 shi!"

"The second time, the imperial court provided 350,000 shi of grain for disaster relief, but when the disaster relief grain arrived, there was only 280,000 shi!"

"The third time was the most outrageous; the imperial court provided 400,000 shi of grain for disaster relief, but when the disaster relief grain arrived, there was only 150,000 shi of grain!"

"This... why is this?"

Ying Zheng was shocked. He hadn't known about this situation at all before!

Zhao Gao knelt and kowtowed: "Dang Commandery was the former Wei territory, far from our Qin State, and on the road from Xianyang to Dang Commandery, there are many mountains and rivers, and these places have many mountain bandits and robbers. Every time the disaster relief grain passed through these places, they would plunder it!"

"But because this was the imperial court's disaster relief grain, they didn't dare to plunder it all. Each batch of robbers only dared to plunder some, and so, by the time it reached Dang Commandery, the disaster relief grain had become less!"

"At first, it was just robbers, but later, some nobles, merchants, and officials saw the profit in it, and so, they also began to join in!"

"They either pretended to be robbers or used their official positions to deduct it!"

"Thus, the disaster relief grain became even less!"

"And every time the disaster relief grain issued by the imperial court went through this layer-by-layer exploitation, by the time it reached the hands of the disaster victims, there was very little left!"

"Thus, it caused the disaster victims to wail in misery!"

At that moment, Zhao Gao bowed and explained!

And Ying Zheng was horrified!

Because, he didn't know about any of what Zhao Gao said!

Let alone knowing, he hadn't even heard of it!

At this moment, he couldn't help but suspect that Zhao Gao was lying to him!

But... looking at Zhao Gao in front of him, how could he believe that Zhao Gao was lying to him?

Zhao Gao, he had followed him since he was thirteen and had just become the King of Qin.

Later, suppressing Lao Ai, toppling Lu Buwei, when was Zhao Gao not by his side?

This was the eunuch he trusted the most!

Moreover, regarding these things, he wasn't completely without wind of it!

He remembered many years ago, the Governor of Dang Commandery had submitted a memorial to him, saying that the disaster relief grain in Dang Commandery was severely lacking, but because he didn't say specifically how much was lacking, and the disaster had passed for a long time, he didn't take it to heart.

Now it seemed, there was something fishy here!

It must be that someone had withheld this memorial, and waited until the disaster was completely over, seeing that he was no longer concerned about this matter, before daring to put this memorial in front of him!

"Good!"

"Good indeed!"

At this moment, Ying Zheng was furious!

He was so angry that his whole body was trembling!

He didn't expect that there were still people in Great Qin who dared to deceive him like this!

Ying Zheng was immensely furious.

But at the same time, he couldn't help but be curious, why could mixing sand into the disaster relief grain ensure full distribution?

Did those bandits, officials, nobles, and corrupt merchants let the disaster relief grain go just because sand was mixed into it?

How could that be!

They were all greedy villains; how could they let the disaster relief grain go just because of sand?

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At this moment, Ying Zheng pondered; he couldn't quite understand why this was.

He asked Zhao Gao, but Zhao Gao couldn't explain it clearly either, but he suggested that they could find Li Si to ask, and if that didn't work, they could also summon Ying Su directly!

"Find who?"

As soon as the words were spoken, Ying Zheng exploded on the spot, his eyes glaring at Zhao Gao!

Zhao Gao was scared out of his wits, but still suggested that if it didn't work, they should find Li Si!

However, Ying Zheng didn't speak.

At this moment, he only had anger!

Likewise, his brain was constantly thinking about why all this was.

Yes!

As the First Emperor, he had his own pride and dignity!

Ying Su could think of this idea and use it, yet he couldn't see through why this was. Could it be... that the new Emperor really far surpassed the First Emperor?

Impossible!

This matter... he must think it through clearly!

Ying Zheng was angry, and after closing his eyes and thinking for a while, he smiled and said to Zhao Gao:

"Whether it's merchants, bandits, or corrupt merchants, they intercept the disaster relief grain not because they need it, but to obtain profit!"

"And what if the effort to obtain the disaster relief grain exceeds the profit brought by obtaining the disaster relief grain?"

"Mixing sand into the disaster relief grain, wanting to pick the sand out of 300,000 shi of grain, this requires a huge labor cost. In this way, the time and energy costs paid are far higher than the profit brought by obtaining the disaster relief grain!"

"In this way, no one will covet the disaster relief grain anymore!"

"And as for those disaster victims, they won't care. They are starving crazy; don't say it's mixed with sand, even if it's mixed with some other things, they will pick it out and then eat the grain!"