[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, the thirteenth day of March, the time of the year, the autumn water plain of Chang'an City, and the gate of the Shenwang Pavilion]

This morning, Li Yi presided over the case analysis meeting, and he originally had no expectations for the participants, and he did not want to, and the officials who participated in the investigation and trial of this strange case in the capital not only had no useful words, but instead insisted on their own opinions and argued strongly in the Tsing Yi Wei Assembly Hall.

These people took care of their own statements, but their opinions could not be unanimous, and in the end, there was a big dispute over how to solve the case and pursue the culprit. These high-ranking officials of the third rank sat upright in the hall, but for their own thoughts, they argued endlessly in the hall......

According to Shen Huan, the governor of Tsing Yi, all the homeless and beggars who wandered the streets of Chang'an should be arrested and imprisoned, or they should be expelled. Shen Huan made it very clear that those who have no guarantee, are homeless, and unemployed, are the displaced people of Chang'an City, and these "three nos" displaced people do not need to be pitied, but should be "dealt with" as soon as possible. If these homeless people are allowed to roam around in the streets and alleys of Chang'an, firstly, it will damage the public security of the capital, and secondly, it will provide a large number of "prey" for the culprits who committed the crime. In the long run, there will be more and more displaced people who die on the streets of Chang'an for no reason, and once the news spreads, the people of Chang'an will be even more panicked!

As soon as Shen Huan's words came out, he was immediately opposed by Shangshu Cheng Kezhong of the Criminal Department. In Cheng Kezhong's eyes, even if these displaced people have no guarantee, are homeless, and unemployed, and belong to the "three nos", they are also the people of Chang'an and the people of Daqian. At the feet of the Son of Heaven, all living beings are equal, how can we hastily deal with those living human lives and expel them all? Now that Chang'an City is plagued by monsters, the first thing the imperial court should think of is how to protect those homeless people, and how can they be arrested at will? If the officials are so indiscriminately punished, wouldn't they be no different from demons?!

Shen Huan immediately sneered at each other, now that most of the men in Chang'an are under the curfew, they don't go out at night, and the targets of the demon's attack have become those homeless people scattered in all corners. If the displaced people are not eliminated for a day, more and more dead bodies will appear on the streets of Chang'an. According to the meaning of Chengda, what should be done with these displaced people?

Cheng Kezhong immediately said without thinking, for the sake of the future, he should first try his best to protect those displaced people, and at the same time, he should not give the culprit in this case an opportunity to kill. As for how to deal with the displaced people in Chang'an, Lord Yin Zhong of Jingzhao Mansion should know better than anyone else. He just said a few words, and threw this thorny question to Jingzhao Yin Zhong Xingming.

Zhong Xingming's heart had already cursed Cheng Kezhong secretly countless times, and he had to reply at this time, there were no less than 1,000 homeless beggars in Chang'an City. For these homeless people, Jingzhao Mansion has been tightening control. Helplessly, after the government expelled them, they would still want to mix back into the city, because for many years, Jingzhao Mansion tried its best, but it still couldn't control those homeless people from wandering around in Chang'an Street. He suddenly changed his words, and said, I heard that Dali Temple is recently studying the method of controlling the homeless, and Zhong wanted to ask Master Dai for the policy of restraining the homeless.

Hearing Zhong Xingming throw the question to himself again, Dai Zhou did not panic at all, so he replied loudly, the homeless beggars who are currently mixed in Chang'an City, according to the Dali Temple commissioner's visit, there are about 1,620 people. Most of them were men, ranging in age from 14 to 70. Just because the people of Chang'an are kind and charitable, it is because this group of people do not do anything, do not want to work, and wander the streets of Chang'an all the year round, begging and picking up for a living, and occasionally stealing and robbing. At night, this group of people often lay a random seat in the corner of the street, the diversion hole at the bottom of the bridge, and the dilapidated ancestral hall, and sleep on the spot. Now that there are demons in Chang'an City, in order to protect these displaced people, Jingzhao Mansion should lead the various county officials under its jurisdiction to contain all these displaced people and properly resettle them, so as to prevent them from dying under the clutches of demons one by one......

Zhong Xingming didn't wait for Dai Zhou to finish speaking, he jumped up and said, Dai Daren's words were quite nice, "Jingzhao Mansion will take in all these displaced people and properly resettle them!"

Zhong Xingming crossed his fingers again and calculated a detailed account for everyone. According to the daily ration of one pound of brown rice for each homeless person, it is equivalent to half a penny of silver taels. The daily expenses of 1,600 people are 80 taels of silver, 2,400 taels a month, and 28,800 taels a year. If you add the clothes, bedding, drinking water, eating utensils, and so on of these people, it will cost at least 50,000 taels of silver. In addition, the government also needs to send a large number of government officials to supervise and manage, and the cost of these miscellaneous servants is more than 20,000 taels. Even if the Jingzhao Mansion and the county government can make room to accommodate these displaced people, may I ask which of the 70,000 or 80,000 taels of silver will be willing to pay? Is it from your Dali Temple or the household department?

Once it came to silver, Dai Zhou and Cheng Ke bowed their heads and stopped talking. Most of the officials in the hall knew in their hearts that the entire cadre household department had almost reached the point of running out of food and silver. Most of the original hundreds of thousands of taels of silver have been used to help the victims. At this time, the sky will rain, although the drought is removed, but after all, the drought has been delayed for too long, and more than half of the silver for the imperial court disaster relief is still raised by Li Jin, the king of Wei, who went south to the south of the Yangtze River, and now where is the money and grain to settle the displaced people in Chang'an City?

Emperor Li Chongsheng was sympathetic to the hardships of the victims, and although he saw that the drought had been eliminated, he still distributed all the more than 2 million taels of silver raised by Li Zhen to the disaster areas to help the victims survive the famine and resume spring plowing at an early date. It is because there is very little silver in the treasury today, and Qiu Mingli, the head of the household, is almost living with his fingers crossed. At this time, if anyone dares to write to the Son of Heaven and ask the court to release money to accommodate those useless Chang'an refugees, they can know without thinking about it, they are simply looking for death!

If the silver withheld from the officials' salaries was used to feed the idle homeless people, how would the officials feel if this was known?

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At this time, it was Shen Huan, the governor of Tsing Yi, who stood up to break the silence, only to hear him snort coldly, these more than 1,000 homeless people, staying will only add chaos, and adding a lot of "prey" to the demons in the dark, they should all be arrested in prison and dealt with them with endless hard labor, as for the life and death of these people, it is better to leave it to God. In Shen Huan's opinion, it is better to let them die under the demon skills, it is better to die in forced labor, at least they can play a little bit of use for these people.

However, Cheng Kezhong and Dai Zhou objected to the arbitrary arrest of these displaced people. Although the two of them did not agree with the release of silver from the treasury to help the displaced people, they also firmly disagreed with the random arrest and torture of these displaced people like pigs and dogs. Later, Cheng Kezhong and Shen Huan had their own opinions, and they even quarreled openly in the council hall...... Central Plains Book Bar

Li Yi was upset when he heard this, and immediately waved his hand to stop the quarrel between the two. He saw that these people had been arguing for a long time, but they were of no help to solve the case, so he simply waved his hand, said a few words hastily, and hurriedly ended the morning meeting. He did not wait for the people to ask him to leave, but took care of himself, strode out first, and left the council hall......

After Li Yi got out of Tsing Yiwei, he headed south, and the place he was going to was the Shenwang Pavilion located in the Qiushui Plain in the south of Chang'an City. At this time, his mind was full of thoughts, so he had to go to his master Bai Wuming for help.

Li Yi thought all the way along the way: No wonder my father told me yesterday to "gather the strength of everyone and solve the case as soon as possible!" Because of my father's words, I summoned all these officials to the Tsing Yi guard early this morning to listen to their opinions. However, what kind of "power" does this group of people have, which I can gather? Most of them are just perfunctory people who use their responsibilities and use strong words! However, it seems that the strategy of "sheltering the displaced people in Chang'an" that they are talking about today is really difficult to implement!

Li Yiwu thought to himself, now that the treasury of my Daqian is empty, and the salaries of the hundred officials cannot be fully distributed, if some silver taels are squeezed out of the treasury at this time to settle those homeless beggars, this move will inevitably attract the opposition of the hundred officials, and my father will not approve of it. However, when I proposed to my father last night that Jingzhao Mansion should take in the displaced people in Chang'an, my father did not object on the spot, but just asked me to "visit the virtuous and seek ability, spread the good way, gather the strength of everyone, and eliminate the demon and solve the case as soon as possible...... It seems that the meaning of the father has been exhausted in this sentence.

Thinking of this, Li Yi couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. As the father of Emperor Daqian, he obviously disagreed with what he said, but he did not say it on the spot, but let himself think about it after he went back, and he was really "flattered" by this "painstaking effort", or he felt ashamed of this "art of words".

Thinking about it, not to mention that the big cadres and the household department at the moment can't come up with so much silver, even if the household department is willing to release the silver, where can Zhong Xingming find so many places to settle these more than 1,600 displaced people? If the government mishandles it and provokes a rebellion among the homeless, how should the imperial court deal with it? If these homeless people are scattered and allowed to starve to death and freeze to death, or even die under the clutches of demons, the people will not blame the court, and once a homeless person dies in the shelter of the government, what will the people think?......

At this time, Li Yi had to admit that he was a little too hasty in his actions, and there were many problems that he had not yet considered. The strategy of "taking in the displaced people of Chang'an by the government" that I just thought about last night may not work!

However, such a large number of displaced people scattered in all corners of Chang'an, if they were not sheltered and resettled by the government, wouldn't they all be poisoned by the demons? Now that the cat demon is in the dark, and it will not be able to be found for a while.

At this moment, Li Yi also fell into a dilemma in his heart. For these homeless beggars whose lives are like ants, even if they live uselessly, they are still living human lives after all. Li Yi has no power to contain and resettle all of them, and he can't send troops to keep an eye on each of them all the time, so can he just listen to what Shen Huan said, arrest them in prison first, and wait until the cat demon is caught, and then release them?

Of course, Li Yi would not agree with what Shen Huan said anyway, perhaps, for these homeless people, they would rather die under the cat demon's "Harmony Technique" than be arrested in the Tsing Yi Wei prison and live like pigs and dogs!

The cat demon's "art of harmony", although it will make you die in Huangquan, but the process is extremely happy, and the prison of Tsing Yi Wei, although it will make you survive in the world, but in the middle of it will have to endure endless torture...... I believe that anyone will make the former choice.

"Ahem! Since the sudden outbreak of the strange case in the capital, twelve people have died one after another, although these dead are all inconsequential people, but if this continues, when will it be? Next, how should I, Li Yi, solve the case and eliminate the demons?" Li Yi thought of this, and couldn't help but sigh secretly. At this time, he raised his head, and unconsciously walked in front of the gate of the Divine King Pavilion.

It was an unremarkable house, and at first glance, it looked like an ordinary house. I saw a dilapidated wooden door surrounded by a mottled low wall, which seemed to be in disrepair for a long time, and it was really dilapidated when you looked at it......

Li Yi walked to the door, raised his hand and was about to knock, but the dilapidated wooden door suddenly opened without knocking, and a white-haired old man came out of it. Although that person was born a little old, his hair was white and fluttering in the wind, but he looked like he had a few fairy wind bones, and he was the gatekeeper of the God King Pavilion.

"Old man, I'm looking for a master!" Li Yi bowed to the white-haired old man. He didn't know who the old man's name was, but he knew that the other party was the gatekeeper of the Divine King Pavilion, and for hundreds of years, he had only been guarding this inconspicuous gate.

"Oh! Old Pavilion Master Bai is not in Haoyuan today......" the gatekeeper shook his head and said.

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