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Yuan Huan turned around and shouted: "Your Majesty has an order to announce Zhang Tiandu's audience!"

A middle-aged minister walked over quickly, bowed down and shouted: "The guilty minister Zhang Tiandu kowtows to His Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng slowly turned around and faced Zhang Tiandu: "Criminal minister? Why are you guilty?"

Zhang Tiandu knelt on the ground and said: "For this disaster relief, the imperial court has allocated 500 million guan, 200 million shi of grain, and countless other relief supplies. As the minister of disaster relief appointed by the imperial court, the officials in the disaster area have united and restrained them and are helpless. , They secretly embezzled the relief supplies and obstructed the minister's arrangement for the implementation of the disaster relief, which caused the minister's progress in the disaster relief matter to be slow, the minister is guilty, he really owed the grace of God, he failed the trust of His Majesty and the court, and he is willing to be punished!"

After Zhao Junsheng listened quietly, he looked at this piece of Tiandu, no matter whether this piece of Tiandu was selling miserably, or he was retreating, or he really blamed himself for failing to make significant progress and results in disaster relief. , one thing is undeniable, Zhang Tiandu is not effective in disaster relief!

The progress of disaster relief is slow and the effect is too poor. This is due to the inaction of the officials in the disaster area, or even deliberately obstructing and embezzling relief funds and supplies. It may also be due to the fact that Zhang Tiandu's official position is not high enough to control the situation and lack of ability.

But all these are not reasons for Zhao Junsheng, the emperor. Since he took over this job, he must have the consciousness of success or success, and any reason cannot be a reason to shirk responsibility.

Zhao Junsheng walked down the boulder and came to Zhang Tiandu's side, "Zhang Tiandu, I have heard about what you did in the disaster area. The slow progress of the disaster relief and the ineffectiveness cannot be entirely blamed on you, but you are the one who did the disaster relief. Ambassador, if the disaster relief work is successful and the people rebuild their homes with the fastest speed and the most energetic state, this is your credit and achievement; otherwise, this is inaction and a crime! Therefore, you must take responsibility Part of the responsibility, this minister of the Ministry of Industry, you can't continue to work, you can become a county magistrate, the county magistrate of Jing County is currently vacant, and Jing County is also a disaster-stricken area. I hope you can let go of the burden in your heart, and come from wherever you fall. Where is the courage to get up, to continue the disaster relief work in Jing County, so that the people can live in new houses before the cold winter comes, and the family has enough stock for the winter and the New Year, so that they have enough seeds for spring plowing and planting until harvesting!"

Being demoted from the Ministry of Industry to the magistrate of a county, this blow is not a big blow to Zhang Tiandu, but he knows that such a result is due to the extrajudicial grace of the emperor, otherwise, if it is really investigated, he will be imprisoned and beheaded If there is any possibility, someone must take the blame. Judging from Zhao Junsheng's treatment of him, Zhao Junsheng did not let him take all the blame, but only slightly punished him.

"The emperor's kindness is so great, I am so grateful! Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will be brave after realizing my shame, and do a good job in disaster relief in Jing County!"

Zhao Junsheng sent Zhang Tiandu away and walked towards the palace, when he passed by Wang Tanzhi he asked: "Do you think this is one of the backers of Zhang Tiandu and those people in the court?"

Wang Tanzhi bowed and replied: "Your Majesty, I have checked Zhang Tiandu's resume. Before he was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he had never served in the Ministry of Industry, nor had he served in other ministries of the imperial court, nor had he worked on the bank of the Yellow River. Each county serves, so he should have nothing to do with these people!"

Zhao Junsheng was noncommittal, pondered for a while, and ordered Yuan Huan: "Send someone to announce Yang Baonian and Zhao An to see him!"

Yang Baonian was previously the magistrate of Xingyang County. When the former prefect Cui Yanze and others wantonly embezzled disaster relief funds and did not do anything about disaster relief, it was Yang Baonian and Mixian county magistrate Zhao An who tried their best to raise food and other materials for the victims. They are trying their best to appease the emotions of the victims and maintain the stability of the victims.

Zhao An is the crown prince Zhao Dong. At the beginning, Zhao Junsheng arranged for him to go to Suiyang to work under a false identity, so he used a pseudonym Zhao An. Zhao Dong has been able to grow from a small official to a county magistrate in recent years. His promotion efforts are not small, but it is obvious that Yang Baonian does not know Zhao Dong's true identity.

Soon, Yang Baonian and Zhao Dong came to the palace together.

"Your Majesty, Yang Baonian, the Prime Minister of Xingyang County (Zhao An, Magistrate of Mixian County), kowtows to His Majesty!" The two of them knelt down with a loud cry.

Zhao Junsheng looked at the two of them, raised his hand and said, "Pingshen!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

When the two got up, Zhao Junsheng said: "It can be seen that you have a high reputation among the victims because you have done a lot for the victims. After this incident, your official voice in Xingyang County has risen. I have decided to promote you to serve as prefects and prefects respectively. I hope that you can continue to maintain a sincere heart of pleading for the people, so that the people of Xingyang County can come out of the shadow of the disaster as soon as possible, and organize them to rebuild their homes, resume production, and take the shortest possible time. It takes more time to restore the previous standard of living and even make the people live better!"

Yang Baonian and Zhao Dong immediately bowed down: "The ministers will not fail His Majesty's trust, nor the people of Xingyang County!"

Zhao Junsheng said: "One more thing, you are now the No. [-] and No. [-] people in Xingyang County. The officials in the whole county are watching you. I hope you will set an example for them. You must be honest, perform your duties, and always Keep the people under your rule in mind, and strengthen the supervision and education of subordinate officials on weekdays, and do not eat vegetarian meals, do not fish and meat the people, do not let things pass by, and do not violate the law, rebellion and treason!"

The two agreed: "Your Majesty's instruction will be remembered!"

"In the past two days, the soldiers have transported 12 shi of grain from Xingyang City, which is enough to feed [-] victims for more than half a month! Starting tomorrow, the two of you will organize officials to distribute half a month's worth of grain to the victims. After receiving the food, they hurried home!"

"I will obey your orders!"

When Yang Baonian and Zhao Dong left, Zhao Junsheng told Yuan Huan: "Go and tell the prince to come and see me at dinner!"

"promise!"

At dusk, Zhao Dong came to the palace, and he was led into the palace by Yuan Huan.

"I pay my respects to my father!" Zhao Dong saluted when he saw Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng pointed to the short couple opposite and said, "Get up, sit there!"

"No!" Zhao Dong got up and walked to the low table and knelt down, and found that there was a lot of food on the low table.

Zhao Junsheng said: "Grandpa knows that you haven't eaten well or slept well in the past few months. This is specially prepared by Grandpa for you. You can drink a few cups with Grandpa. When you are full, you will be in the house." Sleep here and get up early tomorrow morning to cooperate with Yang Baonian in distributing food to the victims!"

Zhao Dong got up and saluted and said: "My son thank you, but the victims are not full enough to eat, but my son is here to eat and eat, I feel really sorry; the victims have not been persuaded to go home for a day, and my heart is always in my heart. Don't worry, I'm afraid I won't be able to fall asleep here, my son can eat whatever he wants, and go back to the camp first after eating!"

Zhao Junsheng looked at Zhao Dong and found that he had made great progress in the past few years as an official outside. After experiencing the hardships of the people, he knew that the survival of the common people was not easy.

Zhao Junsheng pondered for a while, and said to Zhao Dong: "My son, you have the common people in your heart and have compassion for the suffering of the people. Grandpa is very happy; you are meticulous in your official duties and never slack off. Grandpa is also very happy and satisfied with your past two years. progress. But you have to know that things are endless, and you should pay attention to the combination of work and rest in doing things, so that the efficiency can be the highest; you also need to know that the body is the capital of everything. If you want to do things and want to do great things, you must have With a good body, if your body is exhausted, no matter how great your ambitions and ambitions are, even if you have amazing talents, you will never have the chance to display them, wouldn’t it be a pity?”

Zhao Junsheng's words were very useful to Zhao Dong, he listened to it, thought it was very reasonable, so he agreed: "My son will remember Grandpa's teachings and obey Grandpa's arrangement!"

Chapter 936

Zhao Junsheng was busy with allocating supplies for disaster relief. Zhao Ping, who was in charge of investigating the case, was still in Hanoi at this time. The former Xingyang prefect Cui Yanze and other officials who were imprisoned were still in panic all day long. They didn't know that their home had been destroyed. Zhao Junsheng ordered a clean sweep, and all the property they had obtained over the years was wiped clean.

Cui Yanze curled up in a corner of the cell. The musty and rotten smell in the cell kept hitting his sense of smell. He felt better in the past two days. He smelled the rotten smell when he was imprisoned just now. I just vomited, vomited three times in one day, and almost vomited my stomach out.

In just a few days, Cui Yanze has lost more than a dozen catties, his hair has also turned gray, and his skin has lost its luster, as if he has aged ten years all of a sudden.

He never thought that one day he would be locked up in a cell. When he was outside, he held great power and had a great reputation. On this three-acre land in Xingyang County, who would dare not look at him except for a few generals of the garrison army? face?

But now, he has become a prisoner. He really doesn't know what the end will be when he faces himself.

The county lieutenant Hui Chengdong was locked up in the cell next to him. At this time, Hui Chengdong's voice came: "Old Cui, old Cui!"

When Cui Yanze heard that he was angry, he sat up with a bang and said in a cold voice: "Hui Chengdong, now that you have grown up, you have started calling me Old Cui directly. It seems that you believe that I will never get out again, don't you?" ?”

Hui Chengdong leaned against the wall and said: "Old Cui, don't imagine that you can go out, don't say that you, as a county magistrate, did nothing in the matter of disaster relief, which caused millions of people to die due to waterlogging after the flood. Affected by the disaster, after the outbreak of the plague, you failed to mobilize manpower to isolate the sick people in time, did not organize medical officers in time, and mobilized medicinal materials for treatment, so that the plague spread on a large scale and caused more than 20 deaths. You also tried every means to spend a lot of disaster relief Disaster relief funds and supplies, even if you have been greedy for a large amount of money for river management projects and other greedy acts over the years, you are unforgivable, even if you are not quartered by five horses, skinned and cramped, you will be sentenced to beheading!"

Cui Yanze, who was exposed by Hui Chengdong, jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on and yelled: "Hui Chengdong, you bastard still has the face to say this. If you didn't drag me into the water, why would I?" As for where you are today? Even if I am sentenced to death, you don’t even think you can survive. Your crime is more serious than this officer! I know that someone above you must be instigating you, otherwise you have not You can hide these dirty things for so many years without being discovered!"

Hui Chengdong was silent for a moment, then changed his tone and said, "Old Cui, why bother? What will happen at home if both of us die? It must be a broken family, but if one of us survives and can get away with it , then both of us can continue! With the current situation of the two of us, you will never be able to escape, because you are the chief officer, and I am only the second officer. If you can carry everything down, I will be able to escape. Sin, if I get rid of the crime, I can find a way to find another job after I go out, and I can assure you that as long as I, Hui Chengdong, can eat, your wife and children will eat!"

Cui Yanze didn't make a sound, Hui Chengdong poked him at the thing that he couldn't let go of, and his mind was in a mess.

At this time, footsteps sounded in the corridor outside the cell. The footsteps were not too fast, and the force of each step was very even.

Both Cui Yanze and Hui Chengdong closed their mouths vigilantly. A man in black seemed to be walking from the end of the prison corridor. He passed by the door of Cui Yanze's cell and stopped in front of Hui Chengdong's cell.

Hui Chengdong was very vigilant when he saw the man in black outside the iron fence: "Who are you?"

The man in black took out his dagger to pry the iron lock, and said calmly, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you!"

Hui Chengdong was overjoyed, "So that's the case, I said Zou Shilang won't ignore me!"

The man in black easily picked the iron lock, removed the chain, pushed open the iron gate and walked in.

Hui Chengdong took the initiative to meet him, stretched out his hands and said, "Remove the chain from my hand first, otherwise it will be inconvenient to escape with it!"

"No need!" The black-clothed guard said, took two steps forward and raised his arms, the dagger slashed across Hui Chengdong's neck, only to hear a sound of "Zi", and a bloody arrow shot out from Hui Chengdong's neck, A wound like a thin thread slowly appeared.

Hui Chengdong covered the part where the bloody arrow was shot, with a terrified expression on his face, "You...

With a "plop", Hui Chengdong fell to the ground, and a strong smell of blood radiated out.

Cui Yanze, who was in the cell next door, sniffled. The sound of hooting and plopping just now reminded him of something. Before he could recover, the man in black was already standing outside his cell, with hands in his hands. He held a bloody dagger in his hand.