travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 135
Seeing Sha Huwei again, Zhao Fei was slightly taken aback.

Although it didn't take long, Sha Huwei's whole person has changed a lot. This is not a change in appearance, but a change in his overall temperament.

The original Shahuwei just had the demeanor of a mighty general, but now Shahuwei looks like a refugee who has just escaped from the brink of starvation.

The little eunuch rewarded him really well, and Sha Huwei really looked like a traveler.

Zhao Fei looked at Sha Huwei for a long time, until Anping reminded Sha Huwei that he had been kneeling for a long time, Zhao Fei finally came back to his senses, and said with a smile: "Sha Aiqing has worked hard, please hurry up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Sha Huwei said loudly, then stood up, walked to the side in a proper manner, first bowed to Wang Qinian, then moved two steps, and stood behind Wang Qinian.

This guy is quite disciplined!

Zhao Fei smiled secretly in his heart, and then asked with a puzzled face, "When did Ai Qing come back?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I just returned to Chang'an today. As soon as I came back, I came to see Your Majesty. Please forgive me for not changing my clothes." Sha Huwei said.

"Well, it's okay." Zhao Fei nodded. According to the rules, before court ministers had an audience with Zhao Fei, they had to change their clothes and take a bath, and change into clean clothes to see Zhao Fei to show respect.

But Zhao Fei didn't pay much attention to this point, he didn't have a cleanliness obsession, and he didn't think that the ministers who met with him every day would not do a good job of his personal hygiene.

After pondering for a while, Zhao Fei asked again: "Sha Aiqing, I don't understand something."

"Please speak, Your Majesty." Sha Huwei bowed.

"According to the procedures, you should still be patrolling Hebei Road now, but why did you show up in Chang'an?" Zhao Fei continued: "Of course, the general's orders are not accepted. I'm not surprised that you came back, it's just why you Didn't you inform the court about your decision to come back?"

"Your Majesty." Sha Huwei knelt on the ground with a thud, and said loudly, "The minister returned to Chang'an without asking for instructions. I beg your majesty to come down."

"Get up," Zhao Fei said with a frown, "I have already said that the general will not accept the fate of the king. I can understand your behavior, but I am just curious about why you did this."

"Your Majesty." Sha Huwei stood up, took off his shirt, and then took out a bag on his back.

Seeing that Sha Huwei had hidden something in his clothes, Anping immediately stood in front of Zhao Fei and looked at Sha Huwei warily.

According to the rules of the palace, courtiers are not allowed to bring anything without permission when they go to the palace to face the emperor. Every minister will go through a security check before entering the palace, and will not be allowed until it is confirmed that he will not bring any equipment to cause harm to the emperor. enter the palace.

Today, maybe the guards on duty were slack, and Sha Huwei entered the palace with such a burden on his body.

At that moment, Anping cursed at the guards on duty in his heart.

But what made Anping even more angry was that Sha Huwei was so unruly that he brought such a big burden into the palace privately without notifying him in advance.

Sha Huwei noticed Anping's vigilant eyes, had to smile wryly and put down the baggage in his hand, looked at Anping and said, "Don't be upset, Eunuch An, this official didn't mean not to inform Eunuch, but the things in this baggage are really too important, That's why I have to do this."

"Anping, stand on one side, Sha Aiqing is a loyal minister." Zhao Fei waved Anping to step aside, looked at Sha Huwei's burden strangely and said, "What is this?"

"Your Majesty." Sha Huwei said with a wry smile: "This time, I was ordered to inspect the Hebei Road. I really didn't know if I didn't see it. I was shocked when I saw it."

"What's wrong?" Zhao Fei asked.

"The entire Hebei Road is completely rotten up and down." Sha Huwei said: "Only a small part of the relief supplies allocated by the imperial court has been allocated to the victims, and most of them have disappeared."

"Missing?" Zhao Fei was stunned.

"Yes," Sha Huwei nodded and said, "Although I'm here to make an inspection tour this time, I didn't take the usual route. As early as halfway, I loaded a light car into Hebei Road."

"En." Zhao Fei nodded.

"Then I found out that the situation in Hebei Dao's report was the same. The whole Hebei Province was starving and dying everywhere, even more serious than the report." Sha Huwei said: "Then I went to the place where the victims received supplies to see the situation. Look, this look revealed the problem."

"What's the problem?" Zhao Fei asked.

"According to the regulations of the imperial court, there are requirements for disaster relief, such as setting up porridge sheds for distributing porridge. According to the regulations of the imperial court, a porridge shed must be opened for every 500 people. The counties that I acquired on that day had about 10 people. Most of them are disaster victims, but there are only two porridge sheds in the entire county." Sha Huwei continued with a sad face:

"It's nothing to say that the number of porridge sheds is not enough, but according to the regulations, when the court distributes porridge, the porridge must not fall down when you insert chopsticks into the porridge. A bowl of porridge, then what is porridge, it is clearly water!"

"These are all true?" Zhao Fei frowned and said, "Could it be that the relief supplies allocated by the imperial court are too little?"

"Your Majesty, I also thought so at the beginning, but after careful investigation, I then talked with some local victims." Sha Huwei paused and said: "It was only then that I discovered that the imperial court's disaster relief supplies are too few, and most of them are The supplies never reached the hands of the victims.”

"Where did the supplies go?" Zhao Fei's face gradually revealed an angry look. It's not that Zhao Fei felt angry at being fooled by someone because he thought he was the emperor. It was purely an instinctive anger as a person.

Although Zhao Fei was asking Sha Huwei, Zhao Fei already vaguely understood where the materials went. Apart from being embezzled by local officials, where else could they go?
When the water is clear, there will be no fish. Although Zhao Fei does not encourage officials to be corrupt, he understands that officials are corrupt. After all, the salary given by the court is so small.

However, if the victims are tampered with, this is not corruption, but murder.

Sha Huwei also said that the porridge served in the porridge shed opened by the imperial court is completely clear water. According to Sha Huwei, this kind of porridge can't save lives, it will only starve to death.

Sha Huwei heard Zhao Fei's question, and said angrily: "After investigation, the materials allocated by the imperial court have not been allocated in place at all."

"What do you mean?" Zhao Fei raised his eyebrows.

"At first, I only thought that there was a problem with the county I went to, but after visiting, I found that it was not just one or two counties, but all eighteen counties in Hebei Province." Sha Huwei said: " The minister found that all the materials were intercepted at the Hebei Province Governor's Mansion."

Governor of Hebei Province?
Zhao Fei was stunned for a moment, looked at Sha Huwei and said, "I remember that you and Wang Lin, the governor of Hebei Province, are the same Jinshi?"

Zhao Fei knew that it was definitely not because Zhao Fei was full and had nothing to do, and had nothing to do to study the list of Jinshi in the past, but Zhao Fei had a good memory. He remembered that someone mentioned the relationship between Sha Huwei and Wang Lin during the last court meeting.

When Zhao Fei asked about this, Sha Huwei looked angry and said: "Your Majesty, I am indeed a Jinshi of the same discipline as Wang Lin, and we were friends back then, but I didn't expect that Wang Lin has become like this after so many years."

"You mean that Wang Lin has a problem?" Zhao Fei looked at Sha Huwei inquiringly.

Wang Lin is the governor of Hebei Province, a first-rank official of the frontier, if he has a problem, there will be another good show in the court.

"Yes, and it's a very deep question." Sha Huwei did not avoid Zhao Fei's question, but was very positive, and answered Zhao Fei's question without avoiding relatives.

"What's the problem?" Zhao Fei asked.

"All the materials allocated by the imperial court were transferred to the local counties through the Governor's Mansion of Hebei Province, but now the counties have not received the materials at all. It can be seen that there must be something wrong in the middle." Sha Huwei said: "The materials allocated by the Ministry of Households , The whole world is staring at it, this is countless, it can’t be wrong, even if it’s wrong, it can’t be wrong too much, so I can be sure that this material entered the Dudu’s Mansion, and never went out again.”

"But according to what you said, the supplies never left the Dudu's Mansion, but the supplies allocated by the imperial court are disclosed to all places, and the counties are also aware of the situation. Don't they know this?" Zhao Fei casually picked up a bag from the table. The memorial said: "If they found something tricky here, why didn't they submit a memorial to talk about this matter, but a paper that these materials are not enough and they ask the court for money and goods?"

"So, I want to say it." Sha Huwei sighed deeply, and said: "The entire Hebei Road is rotten from top to bottom. This is not just a matter of the Dudu Mansion, nor is it just a matter of individual counties. , but the whole Hebei Road."

After listening to Sha Huwei's words, Zhao Fei was stunned.

According to Sha Huwei, all officials and gentry from top to bottom in the entire Hebei Province, all spoke in unison and concealed the specific situation from the court.

This is a big problem!

This is no longer a matter of corruption, but an act of separatism. If your imperial court's order cannot come out of the Hebei Province Governor's Mansion, is this Hebei Province still the territory of the Song Dynasty?
So I was stunned, and was speechless for a while.

"Do you have evidence?" Wang Qinian suddenly said at this time, the old man looked very serious, staring at Sha Huwei sternly.

Yup!

Where is the evidence?
Hearing what Wang Qinian said, Zhao Fei remembered this matter, then looked at Sha Huwei and said, "What Wang Aiqing said is that I can't just listen to your one-sided words, I need evidence?"

"I naturally know that evidence is necessary for everything." Sha Huwei said: "Actually, I didn't believe what I found at the beginning, so I have been collecting evidence in Hebei Road these days, and now I have a little income. Without asking for instructions, I rushed back to Chang'an and reported to His Majesty."

"Where's the evidence?" Zhao Fei asked, but his eyes were already on the burden in Sha Huwei's hand.

"That's it." Sha Huwei followed Zhao Fei's gaze, pointing to the baggage in his hand and nodded.

"Present it." Zhao Fei looked impatient.

"Yes."

Sha Huwei held the bundle between his hands, handed it to Anping who came over, and said at the same time: "Your Majesty, these are what I have obtained these days, and all the behaviors in it are simply appalling. It's really heartbreaking that it will become what it is today."

"En." Zhao Fei nodded noncommittally, and then ignored the dark appearance of the bag, directly opened the bag, and took out one of the documents to look through it.

(End of this chapter)