"His Royal Highness the Prince, what does this mean?"

The door behind Xu Ping was slammed shut, making his fat body tremble.

Xuan Wenheng put away his well-behaved and cheerful smile, and said with a serious face: "Lord Xu, you don't need to come to this palace one by one for those good things you do, right?" ”

Xu Ping still wanted to pretend to be confused, but saw Xuan Wenheng throw out a few account books and confessions.

Xu Ping glanced at the ground and the table, and when he saw those names and handprints, he broke out in a cold sweat: "This, this is ......"

During the time that Xuan Wenheng and his entourage came to Zhongzhou, they caught the handle of many ministers, and the advantage of acting secretly was that the other party was defenseless, and these people who had done bad things happened to hear that the prince was going to pay a private visit, and they were tense and wanted to transport these key evidence to a safer place, but they didn't expect to be cut off by them halfway.

Xu Ping's legs were weak, and he knelt on the ground and cried: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the old minister is really wronged, it is all done by those subordinates who don't know what to do, and the old minister really doesn't know......"

"Lord Xu, don't pretend to be with the palace, as long as you cooperate with the palace to build dams, dig flood ditches, set up transport ports, and dredge the river into the river...... This past can be punished lightly. ”

"If you don't want to, there are people who are willing to take your place. You also know how my father will punish you if this evidence is sent to my father......

Xu Ping's eyes rolled, and he immediately kowtowed and shouted loudly: "Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince orders, the old ministers must listen to His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Seeing his trembling appearance, Xuan Wenheng knew that he didn't have the courage to lie to himself, so he pulled him to sit down, opened the drawings he had drawn earlier, and talked to him in detail about building dams and digging flood ditches.

……

On this day, the rain gradually stopped, and Xu Ping took the officials and river workers of Zhongzhou to clean up the silt at the mouth of the river and speed up the drainage.

Xuan Wenheng discussed disaster relief with Yun Jingbai, Liang Xian and others.

Xuan Wenheng said: "In this disaster situation in Zhongzhou, we must not only control the floods, but also ensure that the people have food to eat. ”

"What is Your Highness going to do? The reserve granary of the opening government? ”

"The flood in Zhongzhou can be so serious, it can be seen that the government's inaction, let them open a granary, I am afraid that there are 10,000 excuses to refuse. Although Xu was more cooperative, he couldn't pin his hopes on him, an old and cunning traitor. It can only attract merchants to transport grain and stabilize the price of rice. ”

After the catastrophe, grain is the most precious and sought-after material, and some black-hearted and unscrupulous businessmen will take this opportunity to hoard grain, raise the price of rice, and even collude with the government to make a fortune in the country's ill-gotten wealth.

Xuan Wenheng sent a letter to the palace, and after obtaining Xuan Zheng's permission, he ordered the rice tax on the surrounding wharves to be exempted, and the merchants of Tongzhou, Zhangjiawan, and Lijiagang were moved to transport a large amount of grain to Zhongzhou, so that the people's lack of food and food was alleviated to a certain extent.

Seeing that the people were buying grain from foreign merchants, the local grain merchants in Zhongzhou also lowered the price of rice and began to sell it.

This move was quite effective, Xuan Wenheng was happy in his heart, and at the same time, Xuan Zheng said in his heart that he could make up his own mind for big and small things, and let him do it with his strengths.

"Ordered, donate more than 10 stone of grain, you can wear the big red flower issued by the government, donate more than 30 stone, the state and county officials send a plaque to hang, donate more than 50 stone, by the governor to hang the plaque. Those who donate more than 200 stone or 400 stone of grain can be given a nine-grade and seven-grade top belt respectively, and wear the official uniform of the county official to show off along the street! ”

The businessmen and officials in this central state are all good-looking, and when they heard about such good deeds, they all made great efforts to donate food and materials, and after receiving the reward, they publicized it in the streets with great fanfare, and swaggered through the market, so it was not lively.

Xuan Wenheng and others solved the problem of this large-scale famine, and they were also happy in their hearts.

……

On the other side, Song Qinglan arrived in Jiangnan, but it was not smooth here.

There are a lot of empty salaries in the sailors, most of the swords, guns, swords and halberds in the arsenal are embroidered, and a few spears are even broken as soon as they are picked up. The soldiers' lives were also very miserable, and their uniforms were in tatters, using rotten goods left over from a few years ago.

The food cooked by the gang was like pig food, the potatoes and radishes were not even peeled, mixed with cabbage and thrown into a cauldron of boiling water at random, and when cooked, they were divided without any oil or water.

The fire in Song Qinglan's heart came up, and she couldn't suppress it. A few generals in the army and local officials were arrested, and they were carefully interrogated from top to bottom, but these people actually passed the buck to each other, and they could not catch the responsible person for a while.

Song Qinglan had no choice but to arrest all the people who handled them, locked them up and tortured them severely, and they didn't let anyone out if they couldn't ask.

One of the officials who distributed the quartermaster house cried: "General, the place is so poor, even these military uniforms and quilts are still bought with the silver I squeezed out of my teeth......"

Song Qinglan slapped the table, glared at her eyes and said angrily: "You brainless!" Jiangnan is the richest, how much tax is collected every year? How much was the imperial court's appropriation? Whose pockets did the money go into, and where it was spent, you dogs know it in your hearts! ”

"Come on, drag these people down, and the military law will deal with them!"

"General, the general spares his life!"

Several generals cried wolf howls and kept glancing at the people of the ten thousand families.

Song Qinglan snorted coldly: "Lord Wan, what do you think?" ”

Wan Lin and Wan Shun's faces were very ugly, they were originally in charge here, but since they went to the capital to participate in the seizure of the heir, they let their subordinates go.

This matter in Jiangnan was personally watched by His Majesty, and Wan Lin had no choice but to strip his flesh and bleed, starting with a few cronies around him, and punishing him heavily to set an example.

Seeing Wan Lin's punishment for these generals and the dismissal of those who should be dismissed, the breath in his heart finally came out.

"Wan Daren is so courageous."

Wan Lin and Wan Shun blushed and nodded without words.

"After dealing with the affairs in the army, we should also think about how to clean up these water thieves."

The water thieves got the news from somewhere, and heard that the fierce and fierce Song family was coming, and they actually started to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and they lived for a long time. The Song family had no chance to compete with the water thieves, and the other party seemed to play hide and seek with them, hiding in the shadows but not showing up.

Now, after the rectification of the affairs in the army, there are no water thieves left and right, and several people are a little anxious, and after some discussion, they decided to lure the snake out of the hole.

"Father, tomorrow I will leave here with a group of men and horses, let the water thieves let their guard down, and wait until evening to come back from the path."

Song Qinglan asked Song Qi's opinion.