"Is it corruption again?" Zhao Shi asked with a frown.
On the way from the capital to Huai'an, what he saw and heard along the way was completely opposite to what he had heard and heard in the capital and what he had been taught since childhood.
He then looked at the victims below the city and said, "The disaster is like this. There are hundreds of thousands of victims, but you still want to be corrupt? Even if it is corruption, it must be at this time?"
"Uncle Guo, you are still young. This is the right time to take action!" Deng Zhen and Deng Ping have completely different temperaments. They are both cold and hard-spoken in speech. "The more chaotic the world is, the fatter some people will be. They will
Like maggots in the toilet, the stinkier the toilet is, the happier they are. The cleaner the toilet is, the more they will lose weight to death!"
Zhao Shi frowned, thoughtfully.
"Tsk!" Li Jinglong said to himself, "This brother-in-law of mine should be a royal censor instead of a military attaché." Then he thought in his heart, "I don't have the temper to tolerate sand in my eyes. I won't be able to make arrangements for him in the future.
What a place!”
"These people!" Deng Zhen pointed to the bottom of the city wall.
At this time, the victims suddenly became commotion and began to crowd towards one place.
Dozens of prison cars pulling prisoners were parked under the execution platform of the temporary execution ground. In the sunlight, the cold light of the ghost-headed knife in the executioner's hand on the platform was dazzling.
"These officials are not big, but they have great power!" Deng Zhen continued, "Among them are those responsible for building shelters for the victims..."
"How greedy can a shack builder be?" Zhao Shi suddenly said, "This... I really don't understand, please give me some advice from Lord Deng!"
"Uncle Guo, you are still new to the world!" Li Jinglong said with a smile, "He made a 20% increase in the budget for the shacks for hundreds of thousands of victims, and deducted another 20% from the actual materials. Do you need people to build the shacks? Recruited civilian laborers.
Is it okay to recruit from the victims of the disaster and have enough food to eat? Then can these people also receive more food and get more remuneration?"
"This..." Zhao Shi was stunned with a look of disbelief on his face.
Deng Zhen said from the side, "That's not all. The people responsible for resettling the shanty towns of the victims assigned these shacks to the people below to build them. The result was one layer after another. In the end, the court had to pay ten times the price, and the victims
The shack above the head is just a layer of thatch on a few pillars!"
"And those government officials!" Deng Zhen suddenly became angry. "They were supposed to maintain order in the disaster-stricken areas and appease the people. But what happened? Hehe, they actually became human traffickers in private. They colluded with those people to pick out people.
A good-looking little girl is a kid. If her parents don't agree, then find some ruffians and take advantage of the chaos..."
"Deserves to be killed!" Zhao Shi cursed.
Then, he suddenly thought of a question and began to ponder it again.
After a long time, thunderous cheers suddenly rang out from the other side of the execution ground, and heads were flying high in the sky with blood, and he finally came back to his senses.
"Mr. Cao Guo, there is one thing I don't quite understand!" Zhao Shi said thoughtfully, "When I was studying that day, the teacher once said that the water was so clear that there were no fish. By the time we arrived in Huai'an, Mr.
Officials, if we continue to kill like this, who will do the work?"
"There are so many, hundreds of thousands of victims in Huai'an alone. It can't be managed by just three or five people."
"Uncle Guo, you are better than me. At your age, I would never have imagined that you could do so much!" Li Jinglong smiled, "Yes! If we don't kill, they will be greedy and kill, and no one will work! Ha!" As he said, he spoke again.
After a pause, "Actually, how can there be no fish if the water is clear? Look at the soups in the palace. You can drink them even if the water is clear. Are there any less fish in them?"
"To say that the water is clear and there are no fish is all excuse. If the water is clear, there will be more than just fish down there!" Li Jinglong continued, "As for you saying no one is doing anything, ha! There are three-legged toads in this world. It’s hard to find, there are plenty of people with two legs!”
As he spoke, he whispered, "Do you believe it or not, who is happiest now that these people are being killed?"
"Who?" Zhao Shi asked.
"The person who will replace them!" Li Jinglong smiled, "There will be at least three or five people fighting for the vacant seat, and maybe someone has already started looking for a way out with gifts and banknotes!"
"Just because of the word "quan" Zhao Shi gritted his teeth.
"Hey, that's the truth!" Li Jinglong laughed.
Zhao Shi said angrily, "Don't they understand what lessons have been learned from the past?"
Li Jinglong patted him on the shoulder, "Human nature is like this under power. The Emperor was so powerful in killing corrupt officials, has he stopped?"
"good!"
With a bang, it was like the sky collapsed and the earth collapsed. Another row of heads fell to the ground on the other side of the execution platform. The victims' screams were so loud that even the city walls trembled.
"Since Xin Yushi knew what these people were doing, why didn't he bring order to the chaos from the beginning? Why did he have to cause trouble until they were killed..."
Zhao Shi spoke again, and while he was talking, he suddenly met Li Jinglong's eyes, and he understood instantly.
As Cao Guogong Li Jinglong said, his python robe is the hope of the victims.
Xin Yande's killing of officials was to give these victims an emotional breakthrough and outlet.
The mentality of disaster victims is like this. If they are always at peace, they will think about things and become restless.
But if something happens and they are entrusted with the task, and there is an old man from Qingtian to eliminate harm for the people, then they will regard this official as a god.
kill!
Is it also a way to appease the victims?
"Uncle Guo, let me ask you something!" Li Jinglong hugged Zhao Shi's shoulders affectionately, "You said, for example, if the disaster in Huaibei is more severe, the whole country will be covered for thousands of miles. The imperial court's relief is first Should we save the officials or the people first?"
Zhao Shi thought for a moment, "Of course we should save the people first..." But as he said that, he suddenly felt something was wrong, "If we don't save the officials, where will the manpower be to resettle the victims..."
"Rescuing officials or rescuing people depends on the position!" Li Jinglong said softly, "In the position of an official, it is natural to save them first. Only by ensuring that they have food, clothing and safety, they will have enough energy to come to help the people!"
"But since..."
Zhao Shi interrupted Li Jinglong, "From the position of the common people, should we save the people first?"
"Wrong!" Li Jinglong said sternly, "It never matters what the people think, and no one wants to know what they think. They can think whatever they want! If you can figure it out, just think about it. If you can't figure it out, just endure it. You have to endure it if you can't help it, but if he can't bear it, the government has ten thousand ways to make him hold it back."
As he spoke, he sighed, "Actually, from our position, we must save the people first!"
Zhao Shi was confused, cupped his hands and said, "Please give me some advice, Your Excellency!"
"I am the hereditary duke of the state, the highest-ranking duke in the court, the minister of the south study room, the second-ranking cabinet minister, and the first-ranked official among the ministers. This is still a real job, and there are more idle positions, including those of the first-ranking rank!"
Li Jinglong smiled and continued, "Among these official positions, the most important to me is the Counselor and Minister of the South Study Room. He has no title but great authority, right?"
Zhao Shi nodded ignorantly, "Yes!"
"The world's decisions are made in our small circle of just a few people, right?" Li Jinglong asked again.
Zhao Shi seemed to understand, "Yes!"
"Your Majesty, I..." Li Jinglong drew a circle out of thin air with his finger, "People in our circle, from the Emperor to us, naturally hope that the country will always be peaceful and stable, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment, so we must save the people first.
!”
"Because we know that the government has always forced the people to rebel! If we don't save the people, the people will be worse than the flood. Throughout the dynasties, we only heard about the victims causing chaos and destroying the foundation of the country. When did we hear about the civil servants causing chaos and destroying half of the country?