"I didn't expect Princess Lu Yuan to be so affectionate to Marquis of Heicheng, I will remember it in the future, and I won't trouble Princess Lu Yuan again." Mrs. Shen still needs to cooperate with Liu Le now, and she is still very polite when she speaks.

"You have to remember this well, if you dare to pull him into the water again in the future, I will definitely be unkind to you." Liu Le glanced at her, didn't have anything to say, and left the place directly.

Mrs. Shen looked at her back and rolled her eyes fiercely: "It's just a down-and-out princess, the emperor is in the way of the reputation of his sister and brother, and he is worried that he will not deal with you because he is worried about being gossiped about by the world, and he dares to pose in front of me, which is really self-conscious." When I don't need you, it's your time of death. ”

And Liu Le was on the other side, and he also sneered at Mrs. Shen. Although these two people don't like each other, it is really not easy to cooperate.

Liu Le walked out of the palace gate, and Gu Wenzhou was sitting in the carriage waiting for her, which made her a little flattered. Ever since she forced Gu Wenzhou to marry her, he has always been very cold to her, and even avoided meeting each other, let alone riding in the same carriage.

"What's wrong with my husband today?" Liu Le grabbed Gu Wenzhou's arm with great interest, but was pushed aside by him.

"You did it on purpose in the Jiaofang Hall just now?"

"What on purpose? What is the husband talking about? Liu Le pretended to be innocent.

"You deliberately let me be in the same room as An Su today, and deliberately brought the emperor up to see you, right?" Gu Wenzhou's face was full of forbearant anger.

"I see that my husband has been thinking about An Su all these years, so I will be a good person and let you talk well, is there anything wrong?" Liu Le smiled distortedly, "The emperor was led by Geng Shushen, what does it have to do with me?" ”

"Mrs. Shen was arranged by you." Gu Wenzhou was very sure.

"My husband thinks too highly of me, I'm just a down-and-out princess, how can I have the ability to make a favorite concubine?" Liu Le stirred the patterns on his clothes with his fingers, "This pattern is still a fashionable style last year, it's time to change it." Husband, let's make some new clothes! ”

Gu Wenzhou frowned dissatisfiedly: "I have said many times a long time ago, now that the general Empress Dowager Lu is here, you can use the best everything, and the princess's mansion has no money." ”

As soon as she said this, Liu Le was angry, obviously she was also a princess, and Liu Concubine was infinitely beautiful, and she, the eldest princess, had to consider whether she had enough money to make a new dress, which was really aggrieved. During the reign of Empress Dowager Lu, Liu Le had already developed the habit of spending lavishly, and in the past few years, he has almost dug up the family of the princess's mansion, and now there is not much left.

Liu Le was not in a good mood when she thought of this, she pulled the curtain and looked outside. It just so happened that the carriage walked to the door of Shezi Restaurant at this time, and looking at the crowds here, Liu Le suddenly felt that opening a restaurant like this would definitely have a steady stream of money.

Unlike the bustle on the street, there was a quiet place in Weiyang Palace, and several ministers stood in front of Liu Heng, all with sad faces, but they couldn't say a word.

There was a drought in Xitan County, not far from Chang'an, and the people had no harvest in the fields this year, and many people were already so hungry that they couldn't stand it, so they had to steal and rob them. As a result, a large number of people poured into Chang'an City, and even the security in Chang'an City began to be chaotic.

Liu Heng allocated a lot of money to go to the disaster relief a few days ago, but it didn't take long for another chaos to break out in the west, which was also caused by homeless people. The money that had been allocated seemed to be gone, and all of it was gone, or after using the money, things did not achieve the result he wanted.

But it stands to reason that such a large amount of money can always calm down this disaster, at least so that the majority of the people will no longer go hungry and reduce the occurrence of chaos, but things are not as expected.

"Where is all this money going?" Liu Heng slapped the table violently, startling the ministers.

Some of them really don't know, and some of them know that there is something greasy underneath, but they can't say it to Liu Heng no matter what. In this way, everyone couldn't say anything, so they could only stand here quietly.

"Your Majesty, Lord Ouyang is here."

Ziqian came over at this time, presumably because there was some news about the disaster relief. Liu Heng had already sent him out to investigate in advance to see what was wrong with this matter.

"Hurry up and let him in."

After Ziqian walked in, he simply saluted, and then hurriedly got down to business: "Your Majesty, according to the investigation of the ministers, the latest amount of money allocated may have fallen into the hands of the righteous rangers. ”

"What? Righteous Ranger? Liu Heng turned around and held his forehead, "It's these people again!" ”

"The minister found out that when the latest batch of money was allocated, the righteous rangers took advantage of the night to intercept all of them. Our officials in charge of this batch of money are also at a loss, and they want to recover the money but can't find it. Those righteous rangers came and went without a trace, and they could not find a place to stay. ”

"I don't just allocate this batch of money for disaster relief, have the previous batches also been robbed by them?" Liu Heng had this suspicion.

"Yes! Their goal is this batch of money, and it is certainly impossible to rob only the latest batch, and the previous ones must have been taken by the righteous rangers. Several other ministers also quickly chimed in. They were worried that Liu Heng would deal with them because of this matter, and now that they happened to have someone at the top, they hurriedly pushed the matter on the righteous rangers.

But Ouyang Ziqian shook his head: "This minister didn't find out, maybe it may not be them, after all, this batch of money is huge, and it should be more than just the righteous rangers who covet it." ”

"Whoever did it, the money must be recovered. Those people who have been deeply affected by the disaster are still waiting for the help of the imperial court, and if there is no movement for a long time, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the people, and then it will not be as simple as local chaos. Liu Heng's face was worried.

Ziqian was also worried: "Your Majesty, it's easy to find out the news, but it's even more difficult to recover the money." Moreover, the affected places are very serious, and few officials are willing to set foot in them, and even if they have enough money, the people who send them to provide disaster relief are some ignorant hairy boys. ”

Ziqian's words didn't give face to the ministers here, and he slapped these people in the face by saying this, but the words were really true. After all, Ziqian directly obeyed Liu Heng's orders, and he didn't have to worry about the faces of the ministers, so he said anything directly to his face.

"If the people can stay there, why can't these officials stay, I want to go and see what the situation is." Liu Heng slapped the table hard, looking at his appearance, he planned to go to the affected place to take a look.

"Your Majesty, this must not be! That place is really miserable, and the emperor's body is really unbearable! The ministers immediately spoke out to stop them, but the more they were like this, the more Liu Heng felt that there was something in them, and he wanted to see it in person.

"You don't need to say more, since I am sitting in this position, the people have to take care of them when they are in trouble." Liu Heng waved his hand at Ziqian, "You go down and make arrangements, I want to go and see for myself, what kind of life are these people living now?" ”

Ziqian didn't persuade him, he had been by Liu Heng's side for so many years, and he understood Liu Heng's temper. Whatever happens, once he has made a decision, he will not change it.

The stricken place is not far from Chang'an City, and it won't take long to reach it. Ziqian's movements were very fast, and Liu Heng only brought some eunuchs and guards, and it only took half a day to arrive in Xitan County.

According to the news brought back by Ziqian, the entire Xitan County was the hardest hit area, and as soon as Liu Heng arrived there, he got out of the carriage directly. He was going to walk all the way there to see what was going on.

But before he had walked a few steps, several carriages came galloping behind him, and among them were the ministers. Although they didn't want to come here, Liu Heng had no choice but to come, if they didn't follow, they didn't know how many tongues would fall.

"The ministers have no way to manage, they are really guilty, and they followed the emperor here today, hoping to compensate for the mistakes of the ministers and other unfavorable errands."

Liu Heng didn't say much, just nodded slightly, and took these ministers to Xitan County together.

The situation here is really not optimistic, people are displaced, there are cracks in the fields due to lack of water, and no crops are growing. Liu Hengguang was standing here, and he felt the heat coming from the ground, and it hadn't rained here for a long time.

He really felt sorry for the people here, and he couldn't bear to look at it any longer, so he continued to walk forward. But as he walked, he found that many people were rushing in the same direction, Liu Heng was a little curious, and he also walked there with the crowd.

"Let's all line up, come one by one, we have enough food, everyone will have it." Hearing such a shout, Liu Heng squeezed in front and saw a circle of porridge sheds there. As they say, the porridge and vegetables there do seem to be plentiful.

Liu Heng found a shady place and waited, and after a while, he finally waited until the people had all been distributed. It was only then that he stepped forward to talk to the soup givers.

"You came at the right time, we only have the last two bowls of porridge left today, if you come later, you won't have it today." The man lowered his head and said to Liu Heng, but as soon as he raised his eyes and saw what he was wearing, he knew that he was not one of the people who had been affected by the disaster, so he put the porridge bowl back again.

"This strong man, I want to ask, where did you get all this porridge from?" Liu Heng asked with a pleasant face.

But that person seemed to have great hostility towards Liu Heng, probably because he was dressed in a way that was either rich or expensive, so he felt that he was not the same kind of person as these people.

"Don't get me wrong, I see that these people are displaced, and they are also pitiful, and I want to take out some money to help them, and also open some porridge shacks like you." Liu Heng saw that the man's face softened slightly, and then continued, "It's just that I don't know what to do, so I want to ask you first." ”

"I really didn't expect that there are such warm-hearted people as you in the rich and noble families, and having this heart is a hundred times better than those corrupt officials and corrupt officials." When people talk about corrupt officials and corrupt officials, they smack hard, and they hate those people from the bottom of their hearts.

Liu Heng frowned, but asked, "You said corrupt officials?" But I heard that the imperial court has allocated a lot of money to help the victims, isn't it enough for the people to eat and drink temporarily? ”

"You don't know! Regardless of whether the court allocates money or not, the people will not get a penny. If it is allocated, the money will definitely go into the pockets of corrupt officials, and we ordinary people will have to carry a reputation for eating and using the court, but also causing trouble. The man patted his chest, "But now it's okay, we have the Rangers to help." ”

"Righteous rangers? I've heard of that. Liu Heng followed his words so that he could get more information.

The man opened the conversation, he lowered his voice, and said mysteriously, "The righteous rangers are really good people! They knew that those corrupt officials would not take out the money for disaster relief, so they robbed all the money halfway and handed it over to us to open a porridge shack directly. The righteous ranger comes and goes without a trace, and his ability is great! Those corrupt officials can't catch them, so they can only suffer this dumb loss, which is really happy! ”

"I see." Liu Heng nodded seriously, it seems that these corrupt officials are indeed a cancer, with them in the middle, the people have never been able to be rescued.

"Thank you for this strong man, I will have people send you money directly after I go back, and I have to trouble you to spend some energy and open more porridge sheds." Liu Heng thought about it, and when he went back, he would hand over the matter to officials who could be trusted, and directly send the money to these people, at least he could solve the problem of food and clothing for these people first.

"Okay, it doesn't matter if we bother, as long as everyone can live well." The man scratched his head embarrassedly, "Thank you for this son's generosity, all of us people will be grateful to you." ”

Liu Heng said a few polite words to him, and he had already thought of a candidate in his heart, so he went home and quickly completed the matter.

As soon as he returned to the palace, Liu Heng summoned Yuan An. Although he confined Yifang to the Jiaofang Palace, he still fully trusted the people she recommended. After all, the two have cooperated in political affairs for so many years, and they already know each other's temperament, and he knows that if Yifang doesn't know the details of this person, he will never rush him to the court.

"I have something to hand over to you now, if you do it well, you can rise to the top, if you don't do it, you will be punished, are you willing to take on this matter?"

"The minister is willing to share the emperor's worries." Yuan Ang did not hesitate at all, he had been waiting for an opportunity, and now that the opportunity has come, he naturally has to seize it.

"That's very good, then I will send you to Xitan County, while providing disaster relief, while thoroughly investigating the corruption of disaster relief money by officials, we must find out these people who are fish and flesh."

"Obey." Yuan An's eyes were very firm, and Liu Heng felt that it was right to use this person. Well