Chapter Eighty-Eight: Making Trouble and Seizing Power

After entering Huainan Road, you can feel the heat of the weather, the land is dry and the river is dry. The road was full of victims heading south, and rotting bones could be seen everywhere. Zhu Biao and others passed carefully and did not harass the people. When they arrived in Luzhou, they encountered the chaotic people, and Zhu Biao and the sergeants took three days to quell the chaos. Emperor Taizu was angry and directly beheaded 23 local officials, and 45 were dismissed from their posts waiting for the imperial court's decree to condemn them.

Emperor Taizu promised the refugees in the name of inspecting the imperial history that the imperial court would send people over for relief as soon as possible.

After investigation, they found that the leaders of the rebellion were people sent by the barbarian tribes, who killed the officials who came to relieve the people, embezzled the food and wages for disaster relief, and instigated the refugees to revolt. Twenty-three local officials were implicated, most of whom compromised because they were threatened; There are also some people who believe that the officials at the top and bottom are corrupt and are too timid to report it.

Emperor Taizu directly ordered the beheading of the twenty-three officials involved, and the other forty-five officials were convicted of their unfavorable supervision and affairs, and waited for the imperial court's decree in the same place.

Zhu Biao followed the vine and arrested several main culprits. After being tortured, their leader took people to Lin'an County, Xuzhou Prefecture. Lin'an County has relieved at least half of the victims in Henan Province, and there are too many deaths here in Huainan Province to make a fuss.

Emperor Taizu asked Zhu Biao to take people to Xuzhou Mansion first, but Zhu Biao was unwilling to leave Emperor Taizu. said that Lin'an County has his apprentice, and it will definitely be fine, and his apprentice is not an ordinary person. Emperor Taizu believed it to be true, so he took Zhu Biao and others to Lin'an County together.

In fact, Zhu Biao also had no bottom in his heart, he really didn't worry about letting his master leave him. Everyone thinks that with him, the master's life will not be in danger, and after a long time, he thinks so. What if he leaves his master and something happens to his master. He prayed in his heart that the little apprentice must be powerful. Don't let anything happen.

Several civil officials felt that Zhu Biao was talking big, and the refugee rebellion was a big deal. Although they suppressed a few incidents along the way, they were no one. No matter how powerful Zhu Biao's apprentice is, he is only a half-old child, if the victims really rebel, let alone a child, even the county order of Lin'an County may not be able to handle it well. However, Zhu Biao's dead duck has a hard mouth, and he insists that there will be no accident in Lin'an County, and Emperor Taizu has complete trust in Zhu Biao. The crowd had no choice but to keep their mouths shut.

Emperor Taizu sent a few more people straight to Jingshi to inform him of what was happening here, and asked the emperor to send people to Huainan Province to deal with those officials and relieve the people.

When you arrive at Henan Road, you can see a large number of refugees walking in the direction of Xuzhou Mansion. Let people inquire to find out that all the people know that only when they go to Xuzhou Mansion can they have food, so people are flocking there. They don't know if this is deliberately spread by someone with a heart. The group was worried, but there were so many refugees that their trip was slowed down.

In Huainan Province alone, more than 500,000 refugees have died, and they don't know what the situation is like in the hardest-hit area of Henan Province.

After Li Qing entered the mountain, the situation outside was fine, but there were more and more refugees. A meeting was held and a vote was taken to continue helping the refugees. Li Sanwang, on behalf of Li Qingdi, told the victims not to worry, and to go to the government to register as required, and they would arrange for everyone's food and lodging. Li Qing will continue to provide food to everyone, so that everyone can maintain order, rest and sleep during the day, and go to the county government to receive relief porridge and grain at night.

The superintendent of the imperial history saw that someone from Li Qing's realm was talking, thinking that Sanwang was Li Qing, so he said that he wanted to see him. Li Sanwang and Wang Wensheng met with the superintendent of the imperial history, Sanwang explained his identity, and also said that there were some arrangements within Li Qing's territory, he was just the one who spoke on behalf of Li Qing, and all decisions were negotiated by others. It is a pity that the superintendent did not see Li Qing in person, but he still has to return to Beijing to resume his life, so he can only leave first.

Patriarch Li was very satisfied with Sanwang's performance, and felt that the Li Qing realm should be the Li family's decision. So I privately found the people in the big house and the second room of Li Shan's family to talk about it. Mrs. Li felt that Sanwang was a capable person, and said that if Li Qing was not there, Sanwang should be in charge. Xiulan disagreed, and Li Qing just went out to do errands. Since the Li family is Li Qing's family, they should do what Li Qing said.

Sanniang is very dissatisfied with Li Qing's indifference to Sixi during this period of time, Sixi has not been arranged for major events since he came back from collecting grain, and he has done trivial things. Sixi understands why, he almost killed everyone, and he feels guilty in his heart, knowing that this is the punishment he deserves. So this time Sixi didn't express any opinions, or what should be done.

Sanwang said that he would not go against Li Qing's will and would not do anything to be sorry for Li Qing. Xiulan was very relieved to hear this, and nodded at Sanwang. Wufu trained the young militia in the mountains and did not return to the Li family at all. Sanniang went to find Wufu, and Wufu asked Sanniang to tell him that he was busy and had no time to take care of the Li family's affairs.

Sanniang simply asked Wang Wensheng for the key to Li Qing's warehouse. Wang Wensheng said that he was Li Qing's designated housekeeper, and no one could remove him. The money and grain of Li Qing's family and Li Qing's realm can only be in his hands. Sanniang touched her nose and could only go to Patriarch Li to discuss.

Patriarch Li gave Sanniang an idea, they wanted Li Gui to lead someone to tie up Wang Wensheng, and then take the key. Li Gui is a descendant of the Li family, and he is in charge of 200 households. As long as they have someone in their hands and a key, Li Qing's realm will be theirs. Patriarch Li promised Sanniang that in the future, part of the affairs of the Li family's territory would be managed by them.

The result was that Sanniang and Patriarch Li couldn't find Li Gui at all. Li Gui went up the mountain, but they didn't even go up the mountain before they were stopped by the young militia. The young militia in the mountains didn't care who they were, and they didn't say anything to find them people.

Li Gui usually lives in Li Qing's mansion, and I heard that the second old lady went to Wang Daguan to ask for the key. He was a little worried about himself, he had two hundred families in his hands, he was just a subordinate, why did the master give him so much power. He was so frightened that he hid directly in the mountains, but fortunately he had the right to a vote in his hand and could enter and leave the cottage at any time.

As soon as Li Gui hid, Sanniang and Patriarch Li wanted to hold Wang Wensheng hostage, and the plan to grab the key could only be stillborn.

Patriarch Li made a big fuss, Li Ren and Li Geng knew that the two of them were not good, but they couldn't say anything about grandpa, so they went home and told the old patriarch about it. The old patriarch called Patriarch Li over and scolded him. Patriarch Li could only agree on the surface not to care about the affairs of the Li Shan family, but privately contacted other clan elders.

The people who used to be able to speak in the clan in Lijia Village, because of Li Qing's existence, their prestige has been lost in the past two years, and now that they have the opportunity, most of them are willing to support Patriarch Li.