Li Xingchen opened it and looked at it, his face became colder and colder.

Jiangnan does not have enough food, and it takes an average of two to three days to give refugees a meal of gruel.

This is just grain, and not a single cent of the money allocated from the court has been used for the people.

When the commander of the dark guard returned, it was no longer raining in the Jiangnan area, and the houses could be repaired, but the local yamen delayed again and again, and there was no plan to repair it at all.

Not enough food? Li Xingchen coldly hooked the corners of his mouth.

All the relief supplies sent down were precisely dispatched, and now each refugee now has an average of one gruel every two days, and the food must have been swallowed by local officials.

As for why they swallowed grain, Li Xingchen thought of the situation where officials only saved wealthy families, and they connected back and forth, and suddenly realized.

Looking at the money, the officials who have no purpose are not fools and will not do it.

After they embezzled the grain, they relied on the grace of salvation to sell the grain at a high price to rich families.

After that, the rich families will also take a profit from it, and sell it to the refugees by raising the price of food again.

This is crushing in disguise.

Due to the floods, the grain of the people in the south of the Yangtze River was either washed away or soaked, and in order to survive, they could only use a small amount of money to buy sky-high grain.

Those who have no money can only queue up to receive the relief of the imperial court, and when the number of disaster relief is very small and there is not enough to eat, what should I do? I just want to make a living elsewhere.

So some people came to the capital.

After the first batch was sent back, a second batch came.

However, these two groups of refugees came for different reasons, and Jiangnan officials began to take action for fear of making a big fuss, not letting people come out, and distributing some gruel every day or two so that they would not starve to death.

After watching the recital, Li Xingchen's face turned green and his eyes were red.

Greedy, actually joking with human life, where did these people get the guts, do they have the heart, are they not afraid that the court will pursue it?

The heavens and the earth are big, and human life is the greatest. risking their lives to embezzle the life-saving money issued by the imperial court to the people, do they really think that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and I can't do anything about them?

"Your Majesty, there is a saying in the humble position that I don't know whether to say or not."

"Say." Li Xingchen said in life.

"Your Majesty, when the emperor was governing the government, there were incidents of corrupt officials, and he basically turned a blind eye.

If the greed is too great, the matter cannot be suppressed, and at most it will be dismissed, and the punishment will be too light, so that the officials below will be fearless, so they will develop a bad atmosphere.

This is not only true in the Gangnam area, but also in many other places.

The cost of corruption is too low, the corruption is big, and the matter is exposed, and it is a big deal to be dismissed. ”

The Secret Guard Commander has secretly protected Li Zhen for many years, so he is clear about many things in the imperial court.

"Why don't you kill?" Li Xingchen was puzzled.

I have the impression that Li Zhen is not a faint king, and his temper is also very short-tempered, how could he allow corrupt officials to embezzle the money of the court?

The commander of the dark guard said: "Your Majesty, at that time, the Emperor Taishang had just established the Great Wei, on the one hand, he urgently needed to recuperate, and he was very poor everywhere, and there was nothing to be greedy for.

On the other hand, the foundation of the new dynasty is unstable. Most of the officials in the world are hereditary from previous dynasties, and wealthy families and officials in various places have colluded with each other to a greater or lesser extent.

Trying to move them will inevitably arouse the dissatisfaction of the family and confront the imperial court.

There are many reasons for this, and they are complex. ”

Li Xingchen twisted his eyebrows, this time is different from the past, do they still think that I am the emperor?

Li Xingchen sneered, these mongrels want to use the same way to deal with Li Zhen to deal with themselves? Ridiculously ridiculous.

"Your Majesty, please be cautious." The secret guard lowered his head, "Local officials are different from the high-level officials of the central government, and they have a deep understanding when they lead people to investigate.

The ministers of the DPRK and China almost followed the previous dynasty, but many of the local government offices came from proud families.

Including an ordinary official and miscellaneous worker, it may be a child of a family, and the relationship is very complicated. ”

When he was in Jiangnan, he discovered this serious problem.

But anyone who has anything to do with the official, whether the official has or not, most of them are from the family.

No one believes it if it's not boring.

"I see." Li Xingchen did not express his opinion.

He now wants to know whether the officials will continue to stand in line with the officials in the Jiangnan area after they come back.

"Remember, don't tell anything about this."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Let's go down." Li Xingchen waved his hand and fell into deep thought.

After another ten days, the people from the interior and Dali Temple returned to Beijing.

They returned to their respective departments, and after reporting the situation to Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials and Dali Siqing, the two of them entered the palace to meet Li Xingchen.

"Your Majesty."

"No courtesy." Li Xingchen said indifferently, pretending to know nothing about the situation in the Jiangnan area.

"How's it going?"

The official department nodded, "Back to Your Majesty, I have found out." Officials in the Jiangnan region have done a very bad job in disaster relief.

There is not enough food, and the people are not fed every day.

In addition, the recovery from disasters in various places is also a mess.

So far, it has been a slogan and a planning stage, and no roads or houses have been built. ”

As he spoke, the Ministry of Shangshu and Dali Siqing took out the fold and respectfully handed it to Li Xingchen, which was the situation that the two parties investigated from Jiangnan.

Li Xingchen was expressionless, opened two copies of the fold, and browsed them quickly.

Seeing that the contents of the records were similar, he immediately threw the fold on the ground angrily.

"Let the officials who went to Jiangnan to investigate this time come over."

The officials were puzzled, they had all told the truth about the situation, and asked the officials who went to investigate to come over, what did they mean?

Li Xingchen ignored them and ordered the eunuch to report.

Soon, the left and right attendants of the officials, as well as the officials of Dali Temple, a total of ten people came to the imperial study.

Li Xingchen pointed to the two pieces on the ground and said in a deep voice: "Is it the result of your investigation?" ”

These officials were so frightened that they immediately knelt down and looked at the music on the ground, and their hearts were beating like drums.

Is something wrong? Was the emperor dissatisfied with the results of their investigation?

"Back to Your Majesty, these are indeed the results of an investigation."

A group of people truthfully admitted that the timid body trembled slightly, and his forehead was covered with beads of sweat.

"Then you explain to me why it is different from what I have investigated? As a result, officials in the Jiangnan area privately withheld relief grain and sold it to the rich at a high price, and the rich people raised the price again to squeeze the people in Jiangnan.

Even Jiangnan officials began to intervene to prevent the refugees from coming out.

One by one, why didn't you record it in the folds?

You told me, did you not investigate it, or did you maliciously conceal it? ”

No one could bear Li Xingchen's monstrous anger, and the officials hung their heads very low and did not say a word.

If it is not investigated, it proves that these people are waste, and the imperial court does not raise waste.

If the investigation comes out and it is not recorded, it proves that the officials are protecting each other and they intend to cover up.