travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 137

Zhao Fei was quite satisfied with the attitude of the officials. As an emperor, he should say what he said, and the officials bowed their heads and obeyed orders.

Now that the thinking has been unified, the next step is action, discussing what to do and how to do it.

As a witness of the Hebei incident, Sha Huwei was recommended by the ministers to speak for the first time.

After Sha Huwei declined for a while, he opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, according to my ministers, the cruel behavior of the officials of the Hebei Province is heinous. They do not show the imperial court or His Majesty in the eyes of these arrogant and rebellious people. People, I think, they should all be sent to death row and executed in a hurry."

Sha Huwei's suggestion was approved by Wang Qinian. As Minister of the Ministry of War, Wang Qinian has never lacked blood and iron blood. Regarding the large-scale corruption in Hebei Province, the old man who has no eyes for sand should even express his support for Sha Huwei's suggestion. Hebei Taoist officials should indeed be killed.

For such a radical suggestion, Zhao Fei himself agrees. If people who shake the foundation of the country like Hebei officials are not killed, it is not enough to cause the people to be angry, and not to kill people is not enough to rectify the country's laws.

However, adhering to the principles of democracy and freedom, Zhao Fei still looked at other people and asked, "Do you have any other opinions?"

It's not that Zhao Fei asked this intentionally, but it's different from the past. Except for Wang Qinian who seconded Sha Huwei's suggestion, everyone else had different expressions, neither nodding nor shaking their heads.

Looking at the appearance of the officials, Zhao Fei guessed that these people might not agree with this radical approach.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Fei opened his mouth, Qin Hui looked at each other with the others, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I also think that the officials of Hebei Province should be killed, but in view of the special situation in Hebei Province, I don't think it is appropriate to go to war. "

"Oh?" Zhao Fei raised his eyebrows and said, "Tell me carefully."

"Your Majesty also knows that Hebei Road is located at the junction of our Song Dynasty and Daqing. If the imperial court makes a big move, it may lead to instability in Hebei Road, which may hinder our war with Daqing." Qin Hui's eyes flashed. , pondered: "And I don't know whether to say or not to say some things."

"Say." Zhao Fei said.

"Yes." Qin Hui nodded and continued: "According to the materials collected by Mr. Sha, the corruption in Hebei Province is not one county or two counties, nor is it one person or two people, but Hebei Road. Hundreds of officials, thousands of officials are collectively corrupt, once the imperial court makes efforts to rectify them, these people are likely to..."

"What could it be?" Zhao Fei frowned.

"Go to the enemy's country." Qin Hui said with a serious face.

"How is it possible, these people have received the emperor's favor, and with His Majesty's imperial decree, they naturally have to bow their heads and wait for the court to deal with them. How could they defect to the enemy's country?"

Immediately, someone yelled, expressing their disapproval of Qin Hui's reaction.

On the contrary, Liu Yong said with the same serious expression at this time: "Since they know the court's attitude towards them, how could they not do such a thing as defecting to the enemy's country in order to survive, not to mention that they are in the frontier, and they are born with the conditions to defect to the enemy's country. "

When Liu Yong said this, everyone, including Zhao Fei, fell into deep thought.

What Qin Hui and Liu Yong said was that if the imperial court really made a big move against the officials of the Hebei Province, there was no guarantee that these people would not jump the wall in a hurry and flee to Daqing for refuge.

Daqing has been coveting Hebei Province for a long time. Facing these officials who have a clear understanding of the situation in Hebei Province from top to bottom, I believe that as long as the Daqing court is not stupid, they will definitely accept them all. At that time, the entire Hebei Province In Daqing's eyes, there will be no more secrets.

Thinking of this possibility, everyone shuddered for a moment.

At this time, Sha Huwei said hesitantly, "Could it be that the rumor is true?"

"What rumors?"

At this moment, the room was completely silent, although Sha Huwei's voice was not loud, but the people in the room could hear well, even if they asked Sha Huwei one after another, Zhao Fei also looked at Sha Huwei with interest.

Sha Huwei turned his face to look at Zhao Fei, took a long breath and said, "Your Majesty knows that the reason why I went to Hebei Road to watch the wind this time was because I found out that the relief supplies from the imperial court had not been distributed to the victims, so I started to investigate Hebei. The idea of ​​knowing the situation, and investigating all the way, found these things."

"En." Zhao Fei nodded, signaling Sha Huwei to continue.

Sha Huwei continued: "Your Majesty, my lords, don't you wonder where all the embezzled relief supplies have gone?"

Hearing Sha Huwei mention this, Zhao Fei and the others suddenly remembered one thing, that is, none of the dozens of documents Sha Huwei provided to Zhao Fei mentioned the whereabouts of the materials.

You must know that most of the relief supplies are real objects, such as food and clothes, not silver, and they can be buried in any place without anyone knowing.

These materials are things that occupy a relatively large area, and some of them must be used up as soon as possible.

Then these disaster relief supplies must not be piled up in some unknown warehouse, they can only be sold.

Who to sell to is the question.

Now everyone suddenly thought that the supplies had been sold, but to whom, all eyes were on Sha Huwei.

Facing everyone's eyes, Sha Huwei said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, my lords, I also really want to know where these materials have gone, but unfortunately, I have spent all my efforts to find these things. Where did it all go?"

"Didn't notice anything?" Zhao Fei said.

"Yes." Sha Huwei nodded and said: "I only know that all the supplies have entered the warehouse of the Dudu Mansion, and then never came out again."

"Does that mean that everything is still in the warehouse?" Zhao Fei asked.

"Impossible," Sha Huwei said with certainty, "Your Majesty doesn't know something. The warehouse area of ​​the Dudu Mansion is limited. It is possible to store some materials in it for a few days, but it is okay to put all the materials in there. A warehouse is not realistic at all, because the warehouse area is simply not enough."

"In that case, wouldn't it be true that all the supplies disappeared?" Zhao Fei laughed.

Sha Huwei shook his head and said: "This is naturally impossible. Although I don't know where the supplies have gone, I know that there are not many supplies in that warehouse. It can be seen that all the supplies have been taken by the Dudu Mansion in some way. It was quietly transported away by an unknown method."

"In your opinion, how is this done?" Zhao Fei asked.

"I don't know." Sha Huwei said: "But when I was in Hebei Road, I heard a rumor. I didn't take this rumor seriously at the time, but now that I think about it, it is very possible."

"What rumor?" Zhao Fei and the officials looked at each other, and then everyone's eyes fell on Sha Huwei.

Being stared at by so many people, Sha Huwei didn't feel any pressure, and said directly: "There are rumors in Hebei Province that there are people in Hebei Province colluding with Daqing State to smuggle all kinds of supplies that Qing State is in short supply from Hebei Province to Daqing State."

"Really?" Zhao Fei frowned.

"This rumor has spread in a small area in Hebei Province, and many people don't believe it." Sha Huwei said: "But according to the situation I have, this matter is not impossible."

A great philosopher of later generations once said that if there is a [-]% profit, then businessmen will definitely flock to it, take risks, and regard national laws as nothing.

So Zhao Fei was not surprised to know that there were people in Song State who smuggled supplies to Qing State. For some people, making money is always the first priority, who cares whether he will join the enemy or not.

But Sha Huwei mentioned this at this time, so Zhao Fei and the officials had to think about the meaning behind it.

The government's disaster relief supplies did not appear in the hands of the victims, nor were they sold wantonly in the disaster area, but disappeared inexplicably without a trace.

Combined with the news that there are people in Hebei Province doing business with Daqing.

Then the answer and the truth behind it are almost ready to come out.

The Governor's Mansion of Hebei Province does business with Daqing State!
Thinking of this, Zhao Fei and the officials couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing what to do for a while.

After a while, Zhao Fei said dryly: "They are high court officials after all, so they shouldn't act like this!"

At this time, the ministers also put away the expression of being a joke, or having nothing to do with the matter, and asked Sha Huwei for some relevant details with serious faces.

These are all human beings, each of them is someone who can tell from your expression today whether your intercourse last night was harmonious.

When these people exerted their energy, various clues were quickly revealed.

After some discussion, Qin Hui finally looked at Zhao Fei with a wry smile and said, "Your Majesty, the matter of officials in the Hebei Province is probably not just a matter of corruption."

Hearing the conclusions of Qin Hui and others, Zhao Fei didn't know what to do for a moment.

"Your Majesty, what should we do now?" Qin Hui asked.

Zhao Fei regained his composure, frowned, then looked at the officials and asked, "What do you think?"

"We must act resolutely and wipe out all the traitors in Hebei Road within the shortest possible time." Qin Hui said firmly.

Zhao Fei couldn't help looking sideways at Qin Hui. Since Zhao Fei first met Qin Hui, this was the first time Zhao Fei saw Qin Hui's iron-blooded side.

In fact, think about it, how can a person who can be the top of the hundred officials be a good old man, a good gentleman.

Zhao Fei naturally agreed with Qin Hui's suggestion, but just as he had thought before, once the news leaked out, the court would not be able to bear the consequences.

Zhao Fei's concerns, Zhao Fei didn't say anything, Qin Hui was also clear, but for a while, Qin Hui couldn't think of any way to get the best of both worlds, to solve the mess in Hebei Road.

Fortunately, as the so-called three cobblers are like Zhuge Liang, leaders hold meetings not only to convey opinions, but also to brainstorm.

Sha Huwei stood up and said, "I have an idea, I wonder if Your Majesty would like to hear it."

(End of this chapter)