The political strife between Zhou Yangyou, the governor of Hedong County, and Shentu, the county captain, lasted for more than ten years in Liu De's previous life.
The two of them tried to undermine each other and got into trouble.
Moreover, Zhou Yangyou is absolutely capable of doing such a bottomless thing!
Later, the historical records written by Sima Qian recorded that Zhou Yangyou's code of conduct as an official was: Those whom you love should bend the law to live; those whom you hate, bend the law to destroy them; the county where you live must destroy its lords, and guard them.
As ordered, the Duwei will be the Duwei, the prefect must be mausoleum, and the ruler will be seized.
Zhou Yangyou has a very strong desire for control.
In Liu De's previous life, Zhou Yangyou and Shentu eventually died together. Shentu committed suicide in prison, and Zhou Yangyou was subsequently found guilty and had his waist cut off.
Liu De finally controlled himself and did not let his anger go to his head. He rashly ordered Zhidu to open root warehouses and wet warehouses to provide relief to the victims.
A sneer escaped from the corner of his mouth, and his face was filled with murderous intent.
"Zhou Yangyou and Shen Tu should all die!" Liu De snorted coldly.
In the Han system, the prefect is in charge of civil affairs and the captain is in charge of military affairs.
Usually in the local area, the county governor and the captain check each other, and each has its own territory.
Zhou Yang was so cruel that he was not allowed to open a warehouse to help the people of Dayang.
Is Shentu just a good bird?
At the very least, Liu De felt that if Shentu had any conscience, he could have ordered military rations to be used for disaster relief. But that was not possible. As a county lieutenant, he had the power to directly report to the emperor and sue Zhou Yang for killing the people.
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It's a pity that he didn't, he was indifferent!
why?
Because he didn't open a warehouse to provide relief. Zhou Yangyou's crime was just a small crime. He wanted to bring down a county governor. It was useless to rely on such a trivial crime. The court could fine him copper at most.
A meal.
But if there is a tragedy in the territory where people starve to death or even exchange children for cannibalism, the nature will completely change.
Therefore, Shentu just sat back and did nothing, eating the human blood steamed buns felt very comfortable.
As for nostalgia, folks?
For bureaucrats, what does the life and death of ordinary people have to do with them?
Do you really think that bureaucrats will treat ordinary people as human beings?
childish!
Even in the Northern Song Dynasty more than a thousand years later, Song Shenzong used Wang Anshi's reforms in an attempt to strengthen the country. However, he encountered a counterattack from the conservative bureaucrats and nobles. Shenzong naively ran to persuade the leaders of the old party. He thought he could persuade these people who were full of poems and books.
The benevolent and moral "gentlemen" hope that they will consider the people of the world, make some concessions, and support the reform.
As a result, Liu De forgot that Han Yi was still Wen Yanbo and said, "Your Majesty does not rule the world with the people, but with the scholar-bureaucrats!" He immediately made Shenzong speechless.
Even among the bureaucrats of the Celestial Dynasty who claim to serve the people two thousand years later, how many of them really have the people at heart?
Aren't most of them far away from the people? Above the people? Above the people?
Therefore, Liu De never had high expectations for officials, so he readily accepted such a notorious guy as his father, Yan Ning.
However, because of their personal grudge, Zhou Yangyou and Shentu even kidnapped people in a county and watched the people starve, even happily eating steamed buns with human blood. Liu De couldn't bear it.
This is too bottomless!
It was also beyond Liu De’s tolerance!
Unless these two guys are killed, Liu De feels that his thoughts will not be clear.
"Is there any garrison in Dayang County?" Liu De asked.
"Your Highness, please calm down. Before leaving, Your Majesty repeatedly told me and other ministers not to interfere in local affairs easily!" Ji An was startled and quickly dissuaded him: "When we return to Chang'an, we will report to the emperor again and conduct a thorough investigation up and down the river east of the river.
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Ji An comes from a family of officials, so it is indeed difficult for him to empathize with the sufferings of the lower class people.
He could lament the hardships of the people's livelihood, shed a few tears at the plight of the people, and donate food and property to the victims. He was already one of the few conscientious people among the officials' children.
Liu De sneered a few times and returned to Chang'an? When he returns to Chang'an, the court will send people again, and the people in Dayang County will starve to death!
Moreover, Liu De's intuition told him that there must be more than one hungry place like Dayang County!
The memorial reported by Hedong County to the Emperor clearly stated that two counties in Hedong County had no harvest, and many other counties and districts were also affected by disasters.
Since Zhou Yang is stuck in Dayang, no relief will be given to the victims of Dayang.
Then, Liu De felt that Shentu would definitely retaliate in kind and block the food relief supplies from other counties and towns.
If nothing else, it would be enough for the county soldiers who were ordered to guard the granary to use various excuses to delay the grain transfer in the granary.
Of course, directly mobilizing the military to interfere in local government affairs is a coercive act.
Even if he takes advantage of his father's strict orders, Liu De will not use the army to interfere in local government affairs.
No matter what the intention is when it comes to the military intervening in politics, once you start it, you won't be able to stop it later.
As the saying goes, the one who created the figurines has no descendants?
Liu De would not do such stupid things as the army interfering in politics!
"Of course I understand!" Liu De said with a cold face: "Please be patient, I won't be so reckless!"
Liu De turned his head and looked at the hungry and hungry people outside the carriage curtain.
There must be food in Dayang County!
Last year's autumn harvest was a bumper harvest in Hedong!
Even if there was a locust plague this year, we would not be in the current situation. Apart from anything else, if the food could circulate freely, things like this would never happen!
Liu De could think with his buttocks what happened after the locust plague.
In order to fight for power and gain, the governor of Hedong County and the county lieutenant did not release food for disaster relief, which was just an inducement.
The real reason is that the bureaucrats in Dayang County colluded with the landlords and hoarded the grain, hoping to sell it at a high price!
Especially now that it is June, ordinary people will have to choose to sell the grain they harvested last year in exchange for money in order to raise money for seeds, cattle and corvees during spring plowing.
During the four months of May 67**, I lived by buying grain.
The occurrence of the locust plague caused people to panic, causing food prices to rise.
However, the government was indifferent and did not open warehouses to provide disaster relief.
This kind of thing is simply a God-given opportunity for powerful landlords and big businessmen!
If we don’t quickly hoard food, how can we wait until we are reluctant to sell it?
In his three lifetimes, Liu De has seen noble gentlemen, despicable villains, and even beasts who let thousands of people wail in hunger and cold for their own selfish interests.
"Go to the military camp first!" Liu De ordered without question: "We'll talk about the next step when we get there!"
Liu De knew very well that since he appeared here, there was no guarantee that he would not be seen and suspected by interested people.
As long as Zhou Yangyou and Shentu are not stupid, they will definitely investigate the details of Liu De and his group. Once they know Liu De's identity, in order to protect themselves, these two bureaucrats have no moral integrity and do not know what the lower limit is.
There’s no guarantee that you won’t take risks!
Liu De went to the army just to take precautions. In short, if he took the gun barrel in his hand first, he would be invincible.
No matter how bold Zhou Yangyou and Shentu were, they would not dare to surround and attack the military camp. Moreover, when they arrived at the military camp, with the protection of the army, even if these two guys were really stupid, Liu De could still be protected by the army.
Get down and retreat safely.
Moreover, Liu De's intuition told him that people in the army, especially middle- and low-level officers, must know more inside information! (To be continued...)
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