On the wedding night, the substitute princess cured the war king's poison

"The Regent is here. What do you want to complain about?" the guard stepped forward and asked.

"It turns out that it is the Regent himself. I bow to the Regent. May the Regent live a thousand years."

The people knelt down and kowtowed, saying with tears in their eyes, "Please, King Regent, give us justice. We are almost dead."

"Who oppressed you?" Li Yi raised his hand to signal the guards to withdraw and interrogate them personally. "If there is any injustice, I will do justice for you."

"We are suing the former prefect Jia Xu. This year we had a drought here, but he didn't use the relief money from the court to build water conservancy projects, but embezzled it all. As a result, we had a locust plague here and our crops were completely destroyed."

"Not only that, Jia Xu also condoned mountain bandits to rob houses, causing countless of our people to starve to death, their families torn apart, and most of them to beg for a living in other places..."

"Why didn't you leave here?"

"Our family members were captured by bandits. We want to wait for the imperial court to send people to govern this place and rescue our family members."

"Are the people captured able-bodied men?"

"There are able-bodied men, but more are unmarried girls who were forcibly married by mountain bandits."

Li Yi was furious, "Where are the bandits now?"

The people cried, “They took the people and left, and we don’t know where they went.”

"A few days ago, everyone from the prefect to the yamen runners in the prefecture were afraid of being punished by the court, so they all became bandits and fled with the mountain bandits."

"We were so hungry that we could hardly hold on any longer. We ate leaves from the mountains and insects from the fields to fill our stomachs."

"How long have they been gone?"

"It's been seven or eight days."

"Have any other women gone missing recently?"

“People are still going missing.”

Li Yi suspected that those people might have gone into hiding, with plenty of food and clothing, and would come back to rob again when the court sent people to deliver food.

Otherwise, so many bandits would have no way to escape and would not be able to flee to other places in groups.

The officials and yamen runners who colluded with them could not adapt to the life of losing their official positions and becoming bandits. Their hideouts might be underground or in caves.

"Don't worry, I will definitely find the bandits and corrupt officials and bring justice to you. Go back to the government office and queue up to receive the relief food."

When the people heard that the Regent was going to give them relief food, they burst into tears of gratitude and kowtowed repeatedly. Then they left the court and lined up at the gate of the government office.

Others ran around looking for relatives and neighbors to get relief food.

Li Yi realized that the spiritual power in his body had increased a lot.

With a slight smile, it seems that the people's gratitude will become his merit.

Li Yi stood up and took out a treasure bag, which was given to him by Ning Luo. It had space enough to hold countless supplies.

They opened the bag and dumped it on the ground. All the relief food and clothing that had been transported appeared in the lobby, piled up like a mountain.

These supplies were originally transported by horse-drawn carriages, but in order to prevent them from being looted by local residents and distributed unevenly in the disaster area, they were put into treasure bags for safekeeping.

This is also the reason why no one robbed them on the way here.

The guards had been accompanying him all the way and were already accustomed to Dr. Luo's magical powers and treasures.

Take the initiative to step forward and sort and arrange the grains.

Li Yi ordered the guards, "Distribute food and clothing to the people according to their number, and keep a record. Each person can only receive one portion per day."

"Yes!"

Xie Huai took the order and assigned tasks to the guards. Some of them were responsible for keeping accounts, some for distributing supplies, and some for maintaining order.

Li Yi changed into casual clothes, used the invisibility technique, and flashed out of the government office. He was going to walk on the streets to investigate the whereabouts of the bandits.

Sure enough, not long after he started walking, someone started following him.

When we got to a place where there was no one, the person behind us started to chat with us.

"Sir, please stay."

Li Yi turned around and saw a strong young man chasing after him.

"What's the matter?"

The man smiled and started a conversation, "Sir, judging from your clothes and demeanor, are you from Kyoto?"