Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 235 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey

Wang Chengen felt depressed, but Li Jing was actually more depressed than him.

Because of the unauthorized departure, Li Jing exposed a lot of his strength this time.

Li Jing had no choice but to drag the ministers of the court into the water, and they would speak for him, otherwise he would be imprisoned for questioning.

If you don't want to stand still, you can only rebel.

But now is not the time to rebel,
If Li Jing rebelled, the victims in Henan would not be able to take care of them. There were millions of people, how could Li Jing watch so many people die.

And within two years, Li Jing will have to deal with another even bigger disaster, the plague.

If they rebel, the area around Pingyang Mansion will become a battlefield. At that time, not only will they not have the energy to stop the plague, but it will intensify the spread of the plague.

Looking at the information Ma Wu sent, Li Jing shook his head.

Zhu Youjian promised that Yuncheng's salt administration would be fully up to him, and at the same time transferred all the salt administration officials away, which shows that Zhu Youjian really has no money at all now, otherwise, Zhu Youjian would never Give him the monopoly on the salt.

But Zhu Youjian had no choice but to sell the monopoly rights of salt, so he would definitely hate him even more, and as soon as the time was right, he would do something to him.

Sighing slightly, Li Jing still admired Zhu Youjian's forbearance. Li Jing asked himself that he didn't have Zhu Youjian's skill.

Li Jing may know Zhu Youjian better than Zhu Youjian himself.Zhu Youjian has many advantages: perseverance, hard work, love for the people, etc., but there are also many fatal flaws in him: suspicious, conceited, lack of opinion, and lack of understanding of people.

In Li Jing's view, Zhu Youjian is not suitable to be a decision maker, but Zhu Youjian is more suitable to be an executor.

Because Zhu Youjian's personality determines that he can't be a decision maker. As a decision maker, he must know people and make good decisions. Even if his own ability is not good, as long as he can find and use talents, he can make up for his own lack of ability. .

At the same time, decision makers need to have the ability to make decisions. Talents may have different ways of thinking about problems and may approach them differently. This requires decision makers to make up their own minds and choose the best solution from them.Feeling this good for a while, feeling that good for a while, hesitating, and doing that also won't get things done.

Liu Bang and Liu Bei are such people. They don't have much ability, but they use capable people.

At the same time, they can make the right choice at a critical time, and then execute it decisively.

Like the two of them, Zhu Youjian lacked his own abilities, but he didn't have the talent to know people and employ people like Liu Bang and Liu Bei.

The Ming Dynasty was full of talents. In the military, there were strategic strategists like Sun Chengzong, in the military, there were outstanding tactics executors like Cao Wenzhao, in civil servants, there were wise politicians like Yuan Keli, in science, there were genius scientists like Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua, but he actually abandoned them all. It is not used, or it is not used at all.

Moreover, Zhu Youjian has a suspicious personality. He always doubts other people's opinions first, and then he is very conceited. He always feels that he is right, even if he is wrong, he will not admit it.

In the end, he will not make a decision at a critical time.

Therefore, Liu Bang and Liu Bei can finally become a generation of heroes, and Zhu Youjian can only end in tragedy in the end.

But Zhu Youjian, as an executor, will not have these problems.

Zhu Youjian is persevering and hardworking, as long as you tell him how to do it, he will do it well conscientiously.

It's a pity that Zhu Youjian is the emperor, no one will teach him how to do it, let alone dare to teach him how to do it.

Li Jing shook his head, Zhu Youjian's character determined that his tragedy was doomed.

Even if all the people of Daming are all kites, if they are caught by him with nets like this, it's just nonsense.

Putting down the letter from Ma Wu, Li Jing picked up the account book for the grain and calculated it carefully.

The area affected by the disaster and the number of victims in Henan this time were far higher than his original estimate. Zhang Chu then transported [-] shi of grain, and the first batch of grain transportation team went back to bring [-] shi of grain, but the grain was still not enough.

According to reports, in some remote places, due to the inability to deliver food in time, a large number of victims have died of starvation, and many people have organized and started looting.

In this regard, Li Jing was also quite helpless, because the transportation capacity of Pingyang Mansion had reached its limit, and there was no longer any horses and vehicles to transport food.

If the transportation is solely by the people, the people will have to consume half of the food that is transported.

This time, Li Jing mobilized more than 3 peasants and more than 1 carts to transport grain to Henan for disaster relief. Almost all the mules and horses in Pingyang Prefecture were mobilized to pull the carts, and nearly [-] carts were mobilized.So far, more than [-] shi of grain have been consumed by the peasants and the animals pulling the grain alone, not counting the consumption of the soldiers escorting the grain.

After calculating the account for a while, Li Jing pushed the account book away and sighed inwardly, what will happen if this goes on like this!

Looking at the hourglass, Li Jing said to the soldiers outside the door: "Go and see, have all the officials from Henan arrived?"

The soldiers went away after receiving the order, and reported back after a while: "Report to the commander-in-chief, he has arrived."

Li Jingjing nodded, took the account book in his hand, and said to the soldiers: "Let's go."

Li Jing's current headquarters is located in Chenliu County, because Chenliu is the place most affected by the Henan flood.

Since the imperial court appointed Li Jing to take full charge of disaster relief in Henan, the magistrates under the jurisdiction of Henan Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion, even if they lived in Li Jing's Xingyuan, asked for food with their mouths open and closed mouths every day.

In this regard, Li Jing agreed to all of them, and gave as much as he wanted.

But not long after those local officials brought the food back, they realized that Li Jing's food was not easy to get, because Li Jing's food was used for disaster relief, and after these local officials asked for food, most of them were divided privately , and sold to local grain merchants for huge profits after private distribution.

Naturally, Li Jing would not be polite about this. All the officials who were greedy for grain and those grain merchants who colluded with the officials to drive up grain prices were all arrested by Li Jing.

There are a total of 45 counties in five prefectures in Henan Province and Kaifeng Prefecture. There are less than 200 officials above the seventh rank, but more than 100 people were arrested by Li Jing. In addition, a total of 26 people were arrested by grain merchants who drove up grain prices.

With so many people arrested at once, the local officials in the two prefectures were naturally not enough, so Li Jing was temporarily promoted.

Naturally, Li Jing's big move couldn't be hidden from the governor of Henan and the officials in charge of the frontier. These officials rushed to Chenliu to ask Li Jing how to deal with these officials.

In fact, although Li Jing was in charge of disaster relief, he had no power to deal with those officials, but Li Jing obviously ignored this.

Although the governor of Henan and the officials of the chief envoy knew this, they didn't point it out. They knew that Li Jing must not be offended at this time.

Because Li Jing has soldiers in his hands, these soldiers can not only suppress the victims of the disaster, but also attack them at any time.

Since Li Jing dared to cross the border to provide disaster relief, he was naturally more courageous than the sky, and it would be unwise to offend such a desperado.

The day before yesterday they suddenly received a military order from Li Jing, asking them to go to Chenliu to interrogate those corrupt officials.

After receiving Li Jing's military order, these frontier officials pondered for a long time but couldn't figure out what kind of military order was passed on by a patrol envoy in charge of disaster relief?

But seeing the murderous look of the guards who sent the letter, they knew that Li Jing's military orders could not be disobeyed, and this was a posture of killing people.

They guessed right, Li Jing was indeed going to kill someone.

After Li Jing came to the Ming Dynasty, apart from fighting, he had never killed so many people at once.

In fact, the Daming law severely punished money and food for embezzlement, but after Zhu Yuanzhang, people basically seldom killed people, because there was no such a powerful emperor, how could the officials below be cruel to their colleagues?

However, the law formulated by Li Jing clearly stipulates that corrupting ink for disaster relief money and food will undoubtedly lead to death, and covering up these officials is equal to the crime of favoritism.

Although Henan is not under Li Jing's rule, Li Jing's operation on the people here can just be a warning to his subordinates. I will kill all the local officials who are not under my control for committing crimes, so what about the places under my control?

Li Jing would not miss such an opportunity to kill other people's chickens and scare his own monkeys.

In addition, Li Jing really hates these officials. The people outside are waiting to be fed, but you take away their life-saving food. This is forcing them to rebel!
Henan is the base camp of Li Jingji Company, and the victims' rebellion will inevitably severely disrupt the normal operation of Jingji Company. Li Jing can never tolerate such a thing happening.

Entering the main hall of the county yamen, at this time the governor of Henan, the governor of Henan, the left and right political parties, the prefect of Henan, the prefect of Kaifeng, the prefect of Zhengzhou and other officials have all arrived.

Seeing Li Jing's arrival, all the magistrates bowed slightly, and some cupped their hands.

These people had already found out Li Jing's background. He was a businessman and brought a group of people to fight. Such an identity was naturally not worthy of respect in their eyes.

Li Jing didn't care about this, Li Jing didn't let them look down on him, what he wanted was for these people to obey his orders.

After bowing his hands to these officials, Li Jing found a place to sit down casually, and then said: "Since all your lords are here, let's start, come, and bring those corrupt officials and profiteers to me."

"Yes!" The soldiers outside the door responded.

Not long after, the guards escorted a group of people to the courtyard in front of the main hall.

Seeing this group of people all tied up, with name tags stuck on their necks, all the officials in the hall were shocked. How could this be a murderous posture?

"Master Li, what are you..." the governor said doubtfully, pointing to the people outside the hall.

Li Jing smiled, handed the account book in his hand to the soldiers behind him, and ordered him to give it to the governor.

Taking the governor to take over the account book, Li Jing said with a smile: "Master Wu, what these people have committed is recorded here. You have to read their confessions, and I will return them to you. The confessions are all signed and affixed by them." .”

(End of this chapter)