Datang: I am so happy to marry a disfigured princess!

Chapter 111 There is only one plan to solve it!
Recently, Li Shimin's scalp has been numb due to disaster relief. Although he has the potatoes that Lin Heng brought out, it is difficult to relieve the fire that is far away. Now disaster relief is urgent.

Minister of the DPRK, I don’t have any useful suggestions.

Kill corrupt officials?Have all the corrupt officials been killed?Moreover, whoever makes such a suggestion in the court can guarantee that he has not corrupted a single penny during his decades as an official?
What he wants is a solution to the problem, not a way for officials in the DPRK and China to fight among themselves and eliminate dissidents!
He was looking forward to Lin Heng, thinking that from a businessman's perspective, he might be able to give him a different perspective, and Lin Heng could surprise him time and time again, so when Li Shimin heard Lin Heng's words, he immediately became energetic.

Lin Heng spoke slowly and said, "That day when my father came to my son's house, he mentioned that he had started to improve local officials, right?"

Li Shimin nodded, feeling helpless: "You also said that if you can't dig deeper, you can't really change the problem. This is indeed the case during this period."

"Heng'er, do you want to start with the administration of officials?"

Lin Heng shook his head: "The officials must take action here. After all, the corruption of local officials will greatly affect the distribution of disaster relief food."

He immediately began to give examples: "One hundred thousand shi of grain was sent from Chang'an and passed through the Ministry of Household Affairs. There were ministers, ministers, ministers, principals and others in the Ministry of Household Affairs. They were regarded as extremely honest and cruel officials. They also supervised their subordinates strictly and would never allow anyone to Corruption, then this hundred thousand shi of food can leave the household department safely."

"But after leaving the Ministry of Household Affairs, leaving the palace, and sending them to various transshipment departments in the north, whether by water or land, there will definitely be losses along the way, right? If officials leave the restrictions of their superiors at the Ministry of Household Affairs and engage in corruption, there will definitely be losses, right? "

"It's too much. The losses along the way, internal consumption, and official corruption along the way, minus [-] shi."

Li Shimin suddenly frowned: "Ten thousand stones? How dare they! If I find out, I will definitely kill all nine of his tribes!"

Lin Heng smiled: "How do you know, Your Majesty? At most, Your Majesty will send a trustworthy minister, but it is inevitable that they will not be assimilated by them on the way, even if you don't accept benefits."

"Of course, this ten thousand stone is just an exaggerated number. Three or four thousand stone is almost enough. We still have to calculate this matter with the worst plan."

"The corrupt officials escorted along the way will inevitably be discovered when they arrive at the local transportation department. At this time, they will either take part of the grain to block their mouths, or they will be accused of going to Chang'an and sentenced to death. What do you think these people will do?"

Li Shimin's face turned ugly: "Of course it's to save his life!"

Lin Heng continued: "The Transportation Department has transportation envoys, deputy envoys and lower officials, and the smaller Transportation Department under them will get more benefits. Let's jump directly to the officials responsible for distributing local disaster relief food. , the loss in this is almost [-] stone."

Li Shimin stood up after snapping the case and said: "This is only [-] dan! Then only [-] dan will be in the hands of the victims!"

Lin Heng said with a smile: "It's not over yet. The local bureaucrats have a very close relationship with the local wealthy households. Don't they want to take action on the disaster relief food? As long as they take part of the disaster relief food and transfer it to the rich households, they can get it. With ten or even twenty times more money than usual, such a huge benefit, does Your Majesty think they will take action?"

"And the premise of all this is that His Majesty has reorganized the officials and restrained the officials."

"Otherwise, when one hundred thousand stones are in the hands of the people, it would be a blessing to have twenty or thirty thousand."

After finishing speaking, Lin Heng saw Li Shimin's gloomy expression and added, "Of course, this is my personal guess. I don't know how many children there are."

In the feudal dynasty, being an official was not corrupt, so what was the point of being an official?
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was so ruthless in regulating officials and punishing corrupt officials, but weren't there still people who wanted to be corrupt?
Disaster relief food?That doesn't matter. I became an official and I can't starve to death. Anyway, there is a country behind me to support me. As for the ordinary people, they will die if they die.

This is a very cruel thing, but it cannot be denied because this is what happened in history.

After a long silence, Li Shimin shook his head: "Heng'er, what you said happens all the time, and it is even more serious than what you just said." Hearing what Li Shimin said, Lin Heng breathed a sigh of relief. , What he said just now was actually a bit treacherous. Didn't this make it clear that he, Li Shimin, was not supervising well?

"Perhaps it is for this reason that disaster relief is allowed to continue."

After speaking, Li Shimin sighed.

Lin Heng spoke slowly: "The relief food reaches the victims through this process, assuming it is [-] dan."

"Food prices have soared. In order to survive, local disaster victims in Shandong will sell their houses and work as slaves, just to get a bite to eat. These people need relief, but not much."

"The key point is that those who can't survive even if they sell their houses or buy land, just like the 50 victims who left Shandong to survive some time ago, are the ones who need this batch of relief food the most. The victims who moved southward died of starvation and exhaustion. On the way, we set the number at 40, maybe less."

"A pot of porridge made from three kilograms of rice can prevent ten people from starving to death for at least one day. Then these 40 disaster victims will have to eat a thousand kilograms of rice every day."

"That is to say, this hypothetical [-] shi of rice can feed the place for a month and a half."

Li Shimin knew that the famine was serious and that without the government's food relief, the local area would face a huge disaster. However, when he heard that only half of the [-] shi of rice was left in the area, ten people would have to eat three kilograms of rice a day to avoid starving to death. At that time, Li Shimin could not conceal his sadness and anger.

These cold figures from a businessman like Lin Heng, thousands of miles away in Shandong, Shanxi and Henan, there are countless victims in dire straits.

Li Shimin stood up, his eyes red: "It's me. It's me who neglected my duty!"

Chen Zheng on the side was so frightened that he was trembling all over when he heard this. He hurriedly knelt on the ground without even daring to breathe.

He then looked at Lin Heng and asked in a dry voice: "Heng'er, can you do anything about this?"

Lin Heng knelt down and said in a deep voice: "Father, the court's disaster relief cannot solve the problem!"

"As soon as the disaster relief food is released, local corruption will inevitably flourish. The original [-] shi of food may even be reduced because of this. Not only Shandong, but Henan and Shanxi also need food. We cannot bear such a huge loss."

Li Shimin said angrily: "Is it possible that I just watch my people starve to death, or even rebel because of it?"

"My son has no such intention. What we want to solve is the local food price problem."

"Rich households, landowners, etc. in Henan, Shanxi, and even Shandong must have grain in stock, but they want to profit from the increase in grain prices, so they looted most of the grain on the market to stock up!"

"Unless food prices are brought down, local disaster relief officials may risk their heads to make a profit, not to mention those families who are backed by huge forces?"

"For today's plan, there is only one way to solve this problem!"

(End of this chapter)