Reborn Tang Emperor Li Chengqian

Chapter 357 Cooperation
On the official road to Lishan Hot Spring Palace, a group of horse-drawn carriages were escorted by a well-equipped army towards Lishan Hot Spring.

In addition to the soldiers guarding the convoy, there were also a large number of eunuchs and court ladies, as well as imperial cooks and doctors.

This large-scale convoy is the emperor's honor guard departing from Chang'an to the destination Lishan Hot Spring Palace.

Li Chengqian handed over the important affairs of the court to the prime ministers of the three provinces, while he took a carriage to Lishan Hot Spring Palace for vacation to relax.

The weather is turning cold, which is a good time to go to Lishan Hot Spring Palace to soak in hot springs.

On the carriage, Li Chengqian also looked through the reports on the disaster relief situation and serious disaster situation sent from various places.

"Send this back to Chang'an. I want to pardon the prisoners of Xinfeng. Those who have committed minor crimes and repented, and who have changed their minds, will be pardoned." Li Chengqian called the guards and ordered him to send the written approval to the prime ministers of Chang'an. hands.

"No!" The guard took the order, took the approval document, turned around and galloped away.

A large group of people entered the Lishan Hot Spring Palace, the carriage stopped, and Li Chengqian walked down from above. He will live here for a while.

After getting off the carriage, Li Chengqian went straight to the hot springs. He wanted to take a good soak in the hot springs, which was one of the purposes of his visit here this time.

Li Chengqian soaked his body in the hot spring, the warm spring water dispelled the chill from his body, it was really comfortable.

"Everyone! There is a new report!" Wang Quan, who was serving at the hot spring, said to Li Chengqian. He had just received a report from an eunuch.

"Look for me, what did you say? If it's an unimportant report, you don't need to tell me, don't disturb my pleasure of soaking in the imperial soup." Li Chengqian said.

I was enjoying the hot spring comfortably, and suddenly heard that there was a playbook, and I felt a little displeased, so I went out to play well, could it be that the prime minister couldn't handle the government affairs well, and insisted on sending it to him.

"Promise!" Wang Quan took the order, and opened the report to read the contents inside.

"Everyone! It's a report from His Royal Highness King Wu from Qingxi." Wang Quan said.

"Oh! Li Ke has made it clear what's going on with Qingxi now. Has he dealt with Qingxi's problem?" Li Chengqian hurriedly asked.

The most troublesome thing for him right now is the problem of Qingxi, if it is not handled properly, it will cause riots, and Qingxi is currently the most serious of all the disaster-stricken areas.

"His Royal Highness King Wu said that the situation in Qingxi is far more serious than imagined. Not only did the local officials not open warehouses for disaster relief, but even the rich local households took the opportunity to hoard food."

"So much so that the local people have no food to satisfy their hunger, and robbery and other phenomena have occurred in many places in Qingxi County."

"Everything that can be eaten has been eaten up by the victims, and the situation of selling children and daughters is very serious, and there are even cases of eating corpses. His Royal Highness is worried that if this time goes on, there will be riots." Wang Quan said.

Li Chengqian didn't expect that Qingxi's situation was even more serious than he imagined. He thought that no matter how serious it was, it wouldn't be the point where people would be devastated, but now it actually happened to be eating dead bodies.

This made Li Chengqian very angry. This gang of corrupt officials who took the imperial court's salary but did not share their worries for the imperial court, and the wealthy households who cannibalized people but did not spit out their bones, they actually worked in collusion. It was really abhorrent.

"How did King Wu Li Ke handle this matter?" Li Chengqian said.

"King Wu has dispatched food from all over the country to rescue Qingxi. He has resettled the people in Qingxi properly, cooking porridge every day, and organizing young and middle-aged people to rebuild their homes. I believe that after a while, production will resume." Wang Quan said.

After Li Ke arrived in Qingxi, he had to deal with the current situation in Qingxi to expand the matter.

As an imperial envoy, Li Ke ordered the opening of warehouses for disaster relief, appeased the people, and actively participated in the reconstruction of Qingxi.

"Is there no grain in the official warehouse in Qingxi? Why do you need to transfer grain from other places?" Li Chengqian asked. He listened for a long time, but he didn't hear about Qingxi's opening of the warehouse to release grain.

How could such a rich place not store food, even if there is not enough food, how can it withstand for a while, but there is no mention of it in Li Ke's memorandum.

This is very strange!

"His Royal Highness King Wu did not mention this matter in the report." Wang Quan said.

Li Chengqian frowned, why didn't Li Ke explain in the memorial book that the granary in Qingxi could not do without food.

The more Li Chengqian thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. Where did the grain in the granary go?

Li Chengqian felt that there must be something tricky behind this, but Li Ke didn't find out the whereabouts of the food. Li Ke still needs to find out why the food is missing before writing this report.

"Reply to Li Ke, saying that everything is up to him, and in addition, order the surrounding counties and prefectures to cooperate with Li Ke in dealing with Qingxi's situation." Li Chengqian said.

"No!" Wang Quan said in command.

"There is also a letter to Longzhi Feige, asking him to cooperate with Li Ke's actions as much as possible, and let him play by ear." Li Chengqian said.

He felt that relying on Li Ke alone might not be able to solve Qingxi's problem well, and deal with the problem fundamentally, once and for all.

If we want to completely solve the problem of corruption, it will inevitably lead to counterattacks from local corrupt officials. Who knows what inhumane or even insane things they will do.

If the problem of corruption is not thoroughly dealt with, even if the disaster relief is successfully opened and the disaster situation of the people is solved, they will still live in dire straits in the future.

Sooner or later, they will no longer be able to stand the oppression, and they will rise up.

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In Qingxi County, Jinyiwei's temporary secret stronghold, Jinyiwei's commander Long Zhi and two Jinyiwei captains were discussing matters.

"Report to Commander, Your Majesty Flying Pigeon to deliver the letter!" A Jin Yiwei came in and knelt down on one knee.

Long Zhi hurriedly stepped forward to take it, opened it and looked at it, and waved the Jin Yiwei back.

"Commander, what did your Majesty fly the pigeons to say? What's the purpose?" The one who spoke was the handsome captain standing on the right hand side, who spoke a little delicately.

"Your Majesty Flying Pigeon sent a letter saying, let us cooperate with His Royal Highness King Wu to deal with Qingxi's affairs, and some matters that His Royal Highness Wu is inconvenient to do, we Jin Yiwei will do." Long Zhi said.

"I have long been unhappy with these dog officials in Qingxi for a long time. I usually know the fish and meat people, but I don't know anything."

"I've wanted to deal with them a long time ago, and now Your Majesty has said so, I want them to look good, and make them regret what they have done." Said the burly man on the left with a scar on his face.

"Chen Duwei, please pay attention to your words and deeds, don't forget that you are also a dog official in your own mouth." The delicate captain said.

"You sissy, what are you talking about? You want to find it hard, don't you!" Chen Duwei said.

"Okay! Stop arguing, and send all the brothers under me to watch over them." Long Zhi said.

"No!" The two said in command.

(End of this chapter)