Chapter 51: Seeking Justice
Nangong Keqing did not go back to the hospital, but went to the queen's palace by the way, greeted the queen at the queen's place, and left a lot of tonic for the queen.
Before leaving, the queen specially told her to be careful of Lord Rui and deal with it carefully.
Before Nangong Keqing had time to find Xiaoyue, he rushed to Songzhou for disaster relief, and checked the local officials as an inspector, which took a while, so before he left, he sent several right-hand men around him to Nangong Keqing to assist her in settling the displaced people and organizing the homeless people to build a project.
Nangong Keqing made a good plan, she selected the site in the north and organized craftsmen to start building houses, these houses are imitation of modern factories, each with bunk beds, spacious and applicable.
On the one hand, the entire hill behind the factory was cultivated, one-third of the land was planted with medicinal herbs, the rest was planted with fruits and vegetables, and a piece of land was also circled for animal husbandry.
Nangong Keqing asked Yuling to select a few experienced and management people among these displaced people to be in charge, by working here, they can get a certain salary, and they have food and shelter, everyone has happy tears on their faces, and their floating hearts finally have a stable home.
In this series of projects, a large amount of silver taels is needed, Emperor Yuwen allocated a million taels of silver, and the third prince also donated hundreds of thousands of taels, plus Nangong Keqing's reward and donation, the budget is just right.
Nangong Keqing's performance in this proposal is particularly prominent, which makes the emperor happy, although she is not a greedy person, but she is also a good businessman, how can she let herself suffer, after all, she has paid a lot! Why don't you take the opportunity to "blackmail" the old emperor!
Therefore, this Nangong Keqing talked about the conditions with the emperor, the entire cultivated land, planting and animal husbandry must be divided into her name, and she is responsible for management, and the profit is three or seven points, the emperor is three points, and she herself is seven points.
Emperor Yuwen raised his eyebrows after hearing this, this girl is not the one who suffers, Nangong Keqing waited for Emperor Yuwen's answer, and suddenly he laughed, "You girl ......" startled her.
Subsequently, Emperor Yuwen generously gave a promise, "Good! It's up to you, girl. You manage well, I believe in you. ”
This major project made those who had different intentions very red, especially Zhu Zhizhou, who didn't look down on Nangong Keqing at all, that is, naked jealousy and hatred.
And when the third prince Yu Wenyue arrived in Songzhou, everything was quiet, and there was no sign at all.
Staying at the post station, the local officials did not know about his arrival, this time he did not make a noise, but acted secretly, wanting to find out what extent this Songzhou has reached, what are the suspected officials, visiting the public and difficult and serious cases, if notified in advance, it is conceivable that everything will become false.
Despite his low profile, he received unusual attention from the day he arrived at the inn.
In the streets and alleys of Songzhou, the inspection of the imperial history is an exciting topic, people speculate about the reason behind the inspection of the imperial history to come to Songzhou, hoping that the arrival of the inspection of the imperial history can give those officials who buy and sell officials, corrupt officials a deterrent and punishment.
Yu Wenyue went down the castle tower and walked around, Songzhou is divided into six counties, and unlike the prosperity of Kyoto, this Songzhou is extremely poor.
He looked at it while walking, secretly cold, and after walking about two miles, he saw dozens of people surrounded in front of a ruined temple, and Yu Wenyue stepped forward.
He fixed his eyes on three corpses, and the people around him sighed.
Yu Wenyue frowned coldly, and asked a sixty-year-old man, "Uncle, what's going on?" ”
The old man looked back at him, sighed, and said, "This is the twenty-ninth person who has starved to death since the beginning of winter, and in the long run, I am afraid that we poor people will die here!" ”
There were bursts of crying from the children around them.
A five-year-old child came to Yu Wenyue and cried, "Big brother, do you have anything to eat?" I'm hungry. ”
Yu Wenyue was sad for a while, stroked the child's little head, took out a silver ingot from his arms, and said, "Take him to buy food!" ”
The boy took the silver, looked at him innocently, pouted, and said, "This can't be eaten, the big brother is a liar." After speaking, he handed it back into Yu Wenyue's hands and hid in the crowd.
Yu Wenyue should have laughed, but she couldn't laugh, she looked up at everyone again, one by one she frowned, and sighed for a long time.
The old man smiled bitterly and said, "Here, you can't buy food even if you have silver. ”
Yu Wenyue was surprised: "Why is this? ”
The old man said: "The county official here is named Xue Fugui, he deducts the grain of our people every year, in order to invite the governor of Songzhou, and to our people to invite taxes, their own family is full of fertile land, and the grain is sold at a high price on the market, the grain is higher and higher, the people can't afford to eat, and all the grain we grow ourselves is handed over, and in the winter there is no food, some people who don't want to boil here have moved their families to the south, I don't know how many people died along the way." ”
Yu Wenyue suppressed her anger and asked, "Haven't the food and money for disaster relief from the imperial court reached the people every year?" ”
The old man said: "We haven't seen the food payment for disaster relief at all!" Even if there were, could there be corrupt officials who could still give it to us? ”
Yu Wenyue beckoned to the general behind him, and the general followed.
Yu Wenyue said: "Escort Xue Fugui, the county official here, to me and wait for me to deal with it." ”
The subordinate general replied: "Yes." ”
When everyone saw that the general in armor obeyed this person's order, they all cast surprised eyes.
Yu Wenyue said loudly: "Please come with me all the villagers who are not clothed and do not have enough food, and I will take you to seek justice." ”
Everyone looked at each other and did not dare to move.
Yu Wenyue said: "I am tired of everyone communicating to each other, if you want to eat and dress, please come with me!" ”
After speaking, Yu Wenyue and his subordinates walked towards the Pingnan County Ya in Songzhou.
Everyone looked at the old man, wanting the old man to make an idea, the old man patted his thigh and said, "Staying here is also waiting for death, let's go with him to take a look, bolt, you go to the village and call all the big guys, just say that there is something to eat." ”
A man with a swarthy face answered and ran towards the village.
The old man rushed to the county government with dozens of people, and after meeting hungry people on the way, he told each other, and then went with the brigade, running along the way to tell each other, and there were more than 2,000 people rushing to the county office.
Yu Wenyue sat at the top of the county government, and the general stood aside, kneeling down to worship one person, it was Xue Fugui, the county commander of Pingnan County.
Yu Wenyue said coldly: "Xue Fugui, are you guilty?" ”
Xue Fugui panicked: "The villain doesn't know, the villain doesn't know." ”
Yu Wenyue said: "The people of Pingnan County can't even eat, and they starve to death every day. ”
Xue Fugui said with a smile: "Xia Guan Wen inspected the imperial history and stationed in Songzhou last month, and he will pay a visit in the future, this is a little collection of villains over the years, please smile." He stepped forward with a boxy box.
The ministry will open the box and present it to Yu Wenyue.
Yu Wenyue swung the mouth of the box outward, and said to the general: "Open it, let these people who can't eat or wear clothes see what this is!" ”
The ministry will be opened, the box is dazzling, emitting dazzling brilliance, only to see the gold, silver, jewelry, jade and agate, everything, the small box can hold so many things, just like a treasure chest, it is breathtaking.
The people outside were dumbfounded, when had they seen so much gold, silver and jewelry, the scene was silent, so quiet that almost the sound of heartbeats could be heard.
And Xue Fugui's ashamed sweat rained down.
Suddenly, Yu Wenyue snorted coldly and said: "Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road, which is talking about a moth like you!" ”
The people outside the door came to their senses and scolded Xue Fugui angrily.
Yu Wenyue waved his right hand and said, "Pull out of the yamen and behead the public." ”
The soldiers on the left and right set up Xue Fugui's body and dragged him out!
Xue Fugui shouted: "Adults can't kill me, adults can't kill me......"
There was a burst of boos from the crowd.
Yu Wenyue said: "Wait a minute, let him talk in front of so many ordinary people to see why I can't kill you." ”
Xue Fugui seemed to grasp a life-saving straw and asked, "If I can tell the reason, you won't kill me?" ”
Yu Wenyue nodded and said, "Not bad." ”
Xue Fugui broke away from the hands of the soldiers on the left and right, tidied up his clothes, and said proudly: "I am a disciple of Xue Qian, a member of the first rank of the dynasty, and today only he has the right to condemn me to life and death." ”
Xue Qian is a fellow party of Lord Rui, Xue Qian has no way of knowing, now that Xue Qian is suppressing Yu Wenyue, it is difficult not to die! This time, the emperor sent him as an inspection envoy to clean up the portal and kill the Rui Wangye faction.
Yu Wenyue's cold eyes burst out with a sharp cold light, holding the holy decree, and said coldly: "What about the emperor? Today, who else has this right besides the emperor? Could it be that Lord Xue still wants to act as a substitute? This prince doesn't believe it, a small county order, and the prince can't be killed if he is corrupt? ”
Xue Fugui was shocked, trembling and pointing at Yu Wenyue and saying, "You...... You ......"
For a while, he hurriedly knelt down and said: "The lord spares his life, the prince spares his life, and the villain will never dare to do it again in the future." ”
Yu Wenyue waved his hand to the soldiers on the left and right, and said, "Hmph, there is no future, pull it out and cut it." ”
"My lord, give me a chance, I'll report it, all this was told by Zhizhou to do it, it's wrong!"
"Don't worry, he'll be down with you soon." Yu Wenyue's eyes shone brightly and shot towards Xue Fugui.
With a scream, the evil official was already in a different place.
Although the people were scared after seeing it, they all applauded.
Yu Wenyue got up, walked outside the county yamen, and said to the people: "Wait a minute, I will send someone to empty the mansion of the county order and give it all to everyone." ”
The common people cheered.
Yu Wenyue was not excited at all, he was worried that there were six counties in Songzhou, and this Pingnan County was only one of them, he had to step up his efforts to investigate the situation in other counties and counties, and if there were corrupt officials like Xue Fugui, they would all be punished on the spot.
This governor of Songzhou had better wash his neck for me and wait for this prince to come.