Speaking of this, Li Chengxiu couldn't help but sigh: "Alas, in fact, the official who reported to the emperor's eldest brother had a suggestion to the court as early as the year before last. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He said in the recital that since the beginning of autumn the year before last, the water level of the Yellow River has receded faster than in previous years, and there has not been a drop of rain in Henan since the beginning of autumn, and there may be a major drought in Henan in the coming year. In his recital, he also made it clear that at the end of October, many of the Yellow River's tributaries began to stop flowing. At that time, he suggested to the imperial court that he should take advantage of this excellent opportunity to overhaul the waterway of the Yellow River. Song Shu was also handed to Chang'an, but the court said that he used the people in the cold and frozen, sparing no effort from the people, because it was unkind, and did not adopt his opinion.

Sure enough, since the beginning of spring, only a few counties in the entire Henan Province have rained, and the rainfall is very small, and many places have not rained until the end of April, and the direction of the major drought has been determined.

At the end of May, it finally rained in Henan Province, but it was pouring down, and the Yellow River broke many embankments overnight, destroying countless houses and drowning tens of thousands of people. At the beginning of June, a civil uprising began in Henan.

Now we can imagine that if the imperial court had adopted his advice at that time and repaired the river first when the water level of the Yellow River was low, when the drought occurred in the spring, the drought would not have been aggravated by the impassability of the river, so that the entire Henan Province would have almost lost its harvest!

If the imperial court had adopted his opinion at that time, there would not have been a situation where the Yellow River burst its banks everywhere and countless people died when the torrential rain poured down!"

"The world is unpredictable, and no one can say that it has not happened yet. The queen snorted.

"Well, that's not counted. What happened later?" Li Chengxiu said: "Later, after the disaster occurred, there was a civil unrest! Why did the victims rebel? Because they had no food to eat, no shelter, and no treatment for their illnesses, they did not want to wait for death!"

"The court has actively dealt with it!" said the queen.

Li Chengxiu nodded and acknowledged what the queen said: "Yes, the imperial court has actively responded to the situation, and the imperial court has allocated money and grain to help the victims, but who has used the money? The grain has gone into whose mouth? The money has all gone into the pockets of corrupt officials, and the grain has also been sold to unscrupulous traders by those corrupt officials, and it has been divided among the money! I have heard that a teenage girl in the Wei family was only worth half a liter of corn at that time...... A living person, from birth to his teens, is only worth half a liter of corn! And he looks so good that he doesn't even look like half a liter of corn!"

There was silence in the room for a while, and everyone's hearts felt very heavy, even Wang Qingluan, who had always regarded civilians as mustards, felt heavy in his heart, thinking that the money he reached out for disaster relief this time couldn't help but feel that he was extremely guilty.

"You can't lie to us, right?" Wang Qingluan whispered.

"If I want to lie to you, I won't spin such a thing!" Li Chengxiu said, turning his head to look at Wu Dan: "Didn't you say that Erniu is a little weird?"

"Yes, I see that she always picks up something from the ground and eats it. Wu Dan said.

"That's because she's been hungry. Li Chengxiu said slowly: "Erniu is from Henan, and her parents sold her to traffickers in order to get the half-liter corn, and the traffickers took her to Yangzhou and sent her to the Qinglou. After the disaster, her parents regretted it and searched all the way, because they couldn't afford to pay the ransom money, so her parents disguised themselves as laundry mothers-in-law and turtle slaves and sneaked into the Qinglou, and when they found an opportunity, they secretly took her out of the Qinglou. Just when the people in Qinglou were about to arrest them and go back, they were met by Liu Yang, Liu Yang saved them, and later Liu Yang thought it was better for them to follow me, so he asked me to take them home. ”

"No one wants this to happen. The Emperor sighed, "Your words are not finished, so go on." ”

Getting back to business, Li Chengxiu continued: "The sky is big, the earth is big, God wants to send disasters, we can't do anything about it, so we have to go against the grain and accept it, this is a sin made by heaven." However, the imperial court did not accept good policies and good words, and when the disaster occurred, the officials engaged in corruption and corruption, which was self-inflicted. In other words, a serious illness is also. If it is a disease, it must be cured, otherwise it is waiting for death, even if it can be delayed for a while, it will not be delayed for a lifetime, and it will eventually die of illness. Now that the imperial court is in an eventful season, it is said to be a serious illness, and it should be treated with heavy medicine, and it must not be feared. To cure the disease, you have to drink medicine, you have to use a knife, the medicine is bitter, and the taste of the entrance is definitely not pleasant. Nowadays, corruption and blasphemy, just like the scabies on a person's body have reached the point where the skin is broken and the flesh is rotten, the rotten flesh must be removed with a knife, and then the wound is stitched up with a needle, and then the medicine is applied internally and externally.

This method of re-enforcing the law of great governance, the process is a little painful, and the movement is also a little bigger.

This is one of them. ”

"Is this just one of them?" the queen sighed, and said strangely, "What about yours and the other?"

Li Chengxiu replied: "The second of the sons is and!"

"And?" everyone looked at Li Chengxiu in confusion.

"That's right, yes and. Li Chengxiu glanced at Wu Dan with a smile: "This is what the prince thought of!" and then asked: "Do you still remember Your Majesty Li Tang Taizong, how he got the throne?"

How can you not remember? The famous "Xuanwumen Change" is a historical event related to whether there is a Great Zhou Dynasty!

"That's right, it's the Xuanwu Gate Change!" Li Chengxiu said: "What I want to talk about is not the Xuanwu Change, what I want to say is what happened after the Xuanwu Gate Change." The Xuanwu Gate Hidden Prince and Li Yuanji were killed, and their old subordinates should have been doomed. In fact, this did happen, the generals of the Qin Palace's mansion were ready to kill all their former ministers and cronies, and it was Wei Chigong who made a statement to His Majesty Taizong, saying: 'The sins are all committed by Prince Yin and Yuan Ji, since they have been ambushed, they should no longer implicate their henchmen, otherwise it will cause Prince Yin and Yuan Ji's old subordinates to hate His Majesty Taizong, and the world will be turbulent, which is not conducive to the future of the Tang Dynasty. His Majesty accepted Wei Chigong's suggestion and decided to 'reconcile' with Prince Yin and Li Yuanji's former subordinates, exempting them from all the sins they had committed at the behest of the Lord. Facts have proved that His Majesty Taizong's decision was correct, and in the later years, Prince Yin and their former ministers all made a lot of contributions to the later 'Zhenguan Shengshi'. ”

The emperor understood: "You mean, let's also 'reconcile' with those corrupt officials?"

"Exactly. Li Chengxiu said: "Father, you are right, now that the imperial court is in an eventful season, it is really not appropriate to make a big move, but the trend of corruption and dereliction of duty cannot but be curbed." Therefore, we can only take the path of 'reconciliation'. Of course, we can't just give in. The success of His Majesty Taizong's 'reconciliation' with Prince Yin's former ministers was also carried out on the basis of the success of the 'Xuanwumen Change', and we also need such an opportunity. ”