Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1400 Not enough food
Amid the cheers of the people, the stagnant water in the valley flowed down.

Standing on the mountain, Li Chengqian and the others could see it most clearly.

I saw that the water below was flowing very fast, and a waterfall was formed directly on the other side of the cliff.

The water in the distance is still kept, which is equivalent to a dam opening, and the water flows very fast.

And it won't take long for the water to flow clean.

Looking at these situations, Li Chengqian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Give me a fulcrum, and I can pry up the whole earth. Mr. Qin's words really make sense."

Li Chengqian smiled, and Mr. Qin in his mouth naturally refers to Qin Tian, ​​and his trust in Qin Tian is stronger than others.

Because if it weren't for Qin Tian, ​​he would already be a dandy prince now, and he might not be able to sit in this position long ago.

What he didn't expect was that the solution to the flood in Bazhong was because of Qin Tian's words.

In his view, Mr. Qin is everywhere.

The water flowed non-stop, and Li Chengqian and the others didn't stay any longer after seeing the problem was solved, and soon went back down the mountain.

When we returned to Bazhong City, it was getting dark.

"His Royal Highness, our people will be able to bring back the food and grass the day after tomorrow."

After solving the landslide and clearing the road, their people can come naturally.

Hearing this, Li Chengqian nodded. The food they got from raiding the house could not last long. Now that their food and grass arrived, it was definitely a timely event for them.

But at this time, Ma Zhou showed a look of embarrassment, and said: "His Royal Highness, even if our food and grass arrive, I am afraid that it will not be able to support so many victims in this place. We have already counted the number of victims. Twice as much food and grass as we brought."

"Twice as much food and grass?" Li Chengqian was a little shocked, but thinking that there were a lot of refugees in this place, they would inevitably need a lot of food and grass to ensure that they would survive in the next period of time.

Moreover, the houses of the refugees need to be repaired, and these also need money.

There are still many difficulties.

Li Chengqian frowned.

"His Royal Highness, can we ask other dignitaries or rich merchants to bring us food and grass? They have seized so much land by accident. It is right to let them bleed. They have plenty of food and grass."

While Li Chengqian was thinking, an official gave an idea.

Since the dignitaries here have oppressed the common people, it doesn't seem to be a problem to ask them to take out some food now, right?

The official thought his method was very good, and Li Chengqian also thought it was good after listening to it.

"Yes, let those people bleed a little. How can we do it without teaching them a lesson? Send someone to send them news. Each family will send me five thousand shi of grain."

Li Chengqian has a sense of justice, and the so-called sense of justice is to eliminate the strong and help the weak.

He is now hoeing the strong and helping the weak.

However, after he finished speaking, he was immediately stopped by Ma Zhou.

"Your Highness, no."

Seeing Ma Zhou like this, Li Chengqian was a little puzzled, and said: "Lord Ma, can't you do this? Those powerful and powerful people oppressed the people, took advantage of them, and sooner or later they ruined my Tang Dynasty. Now the crown prince just let them bleed a little, as if there is nothing wrong with it." Bar?"

Everyone feels nothing.

Ma Zhou smiled wryly, and said: "His Royal Highness, indeed, psychologically, we all feel that it is okay to do so, but in terms of rules and laws, it is not acceptable. As His Royal Highness, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, you should abide by it all the more." If you don’t abide by the laws of my Tang Dynasty, the laws of the Tang Dynasty will be in vain. If the laws don’t exist, where is the country?”

"If His Highness the Crown Prince can plunder those dignitaries and their family's money like this, then officials in other places may follow suit. Those rich businessmen have no sense of security at all. Will they continue to do business? No one is doing business. My Tang Dynasty The economy will decline, the economy will decline, the wealth will be gone, and the prosperity will be gone, so to punish them, you can find other reasons, but you can’t plunder without grounds.”

Ma Zhou spoke earnestly, a little bluntly, but after he finished speaking, Li Chengqian was not angry.

Following Qin Tian, ​​he has already solved the problem of belly measurement.

After calmly analyzing what Ma Zhou said, he felt that what Ma Zhou said was very reasonable.

If the property and life safety of those businessmen and dignitaries cannot be guaranteed, the businessmen of the world will probably panic, right?
They own most of the wealth in this world, and they are fat meat in the eyes of many people, but fat meat can't be slaughtered by others casually?

The others were silent and turned their attention to Li Chengqian. After a while, Li Chengqian nodded: "Master Ma is very right. The prince is not thinking carefully. Since we can't let them contribute some money and food, then What should we do to achieve our goal?"

Ma Zhou raised his head a little arrogantly, and said, "It's business, act according to the law."

Li Chengqian was taken aback, he couldn't understand at first, but soon, he realized again.

Although he can't plunder the dignitaries of Bazhong City for no reason, if these dignitaries commit crimes, then it should be fine for him to punish them, right?

Just like that Zhang Dawang back then, didn't he find a reason to kill him?

These dignitaries and businessmen, relying on their wealth, are afraid that they will do bad things. As long as they find out their bad things, it will be easy to punish them.

Although the final result may be the same, but after such a change of thinking, it makes people feel that they are much taller, and, after punishing those people, they have achieved political achievements again.

"His Royal Highness, Mr. Ma's words are very reasonable."

"Yes, His Royal Highness, I think we can send people to investigate those dignitaries according to what Lord Ma said, and then deal with them one by one slowly."

"That is, even if there is no serious crime, they should be arrested and punished a little bit, and let them pay for food and money..."

The accompanying people all thought that Ma Zhou's method was very good, Li Chengqian showed a slight smile, and said: "Okay, since everyone agrees with this method, let's do it this way. Now that the flood problem is solved, the prince also wants to take care of this. The people of the city, get rid of those bullies."

This method kills two birds with one stone. It not only solves the problem of insufficient food and grass, but also wins him some good reputation when eliminating bullies.

The people praised him a lot, and the greater his influence among the people, the longer he would sit as the crown prince.

Of course, as the prince, Li Chengqian also wanted to do something for the common people.

Moreover, he can do this thing, so since he can do it, why not do it? For him, it is just a matter of effort.

(End of this chapter)