Shengdu also said.
"Oh well."
Zhao Zhen nodded.
"The third thing."
Seeing that the discussion on the first two matters had almost concluded, Lu Yijian said with a slight hesitation, "This matter is still of great importance."
"What is it?"
"Hanlong has uncovered the truth about the corruption in Huainan's disaster relief program."
"oh?"
Zhao Zhen frowned and asked, "Who are they?"
Lu Yijian explained the situation.
When the drought hit Huainan, the imperial court distributed millions of hu of grain from the Changping granary and the national treasury to relieve the victims of the crisis.
To be honest, this rice can only help the victims temporarily, it cannot save them forever.
But these things are only for emergency use. The correct approach is to fill the stomachs of the victims first, and then slowly build water conservancy projects, dig channels, and find ways to ensure grain production in the next quarter.
However, Yang Chongxun, Huang Wei, Guo Chengyou, Sun Mian and others were quite greedy and were not good people in the local area. They happened to be all near Huainan West Road and had similar bad habits.
After the disaster relief food arrived, these people saw so much food and, according to their usual practice, would have just taken a few hundred strings of cash as a token of their appreciation.
However, Yang Chongxun was not satisfied, so under his instigation, everyone made a lot of money and even dragged many officials into it. There were more than a dozen officials of the sixth rank and above in the Huainan West Road Transport Commissioner and Shipping Commissioner's Office alone.
The result was that after the emergency food originally provided to the victims was resold by them, many people starved to death in the other five counties, except Anfeng County, which was in a slightly better situation due to concealment and false reporting.
Tens of thousands of people died in the disaster and hundreds of thousands were displaced. For example, Fang Caixia, whom Zhao Jun met in Bozhou, was from Shouzhou. Because of the drought at that time, she was forced to flee Shouzhou with her family and head north to Yingtian Prefecture to make a living.
The culprit behind all this was a large group of corrupt officials headed by Yang Chongxun, Huang Wei, Guo Chengyou and Sun Mian.
Zhao Jun was furious. He arrested more than ten officials involved in the case in Huainan, and more than twenty others were transferred and scattered across the country. So Zhao Jun wrote to the court asking them to arrest them and deal with them.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhen's old habit suddenly came back. He hesitated and asked, "What does Grandson mean? What should we do with these people?"
In fact, there is no need to think about it, they were basically killed. After all, they harmed hundreds of thousands of people in Huainan.
really.
Lü Yijian smiled bitterly and said, "Of course they will be beheaded and their property confiscated."
"Kill them all?"
"Kill them all."
"hiss"
Zhao Zhen took a deep breath and his expression began to change.
If Zhao Jun were here, he probably wouldn't be so hesitant.
But his character was born like this, indecisive and too soft-hearted.
He still couldn't bear the thought of so many officials being killed again.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Zhen asked Lü Yijian and the others, "What do you gentlemen mean?"
Lu Yijian and the others stopped talking, and just looked at their noses and their hearts.
Yan Shu said, "Why should the emperor ask our opinion? He should ask Han Long's opinion. If we say he can't be killed, and Han Long comes back and attacks us, we won't be able to afford to offend him."
"Then let's do as our eldest grandson wishes."
Zhao Zhen also smiled bitterly.
Yes.
Zhao Jun is now a little bully.
If he really didn't do what he wanted, once he heard the news, he would probably immediately return to Bianliang, break into the palace, grab his collar and ask him why he didn't execute those corrupt officials who were harming the people.
(End of this chapter)
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