The rise of the prince

Chapter 390 The Enemy Behind

Li Xingzhou had been thinking about Jiangzhou for several days.

Also think of some countermeasures, and then write them down slowly.Although it was just a moment of anger to compete with Wang Tong, he still cared about Jiangzhou. It was impossible to turn a blind eye to the business of the palace and the livelihood of many people.

It's just that he didn't expect the situation to reach such a point.The so-called crime is the loss of the moral bottom line, not only in ancient times, but also in modern times.

For example, cities such as Baltimore and Detroit in the United States, as well as countries such as the Philippines and Colombia.

To give a simple example, when Li Xingzhou went to Detroit in his previous life, the local McDonald's installed bulletproof glass, basically there were gun battles every day, and there were murders every day.

And more seriously, like Colombia, drug traffickers even regularly kill police officers and throw their bodies to pieces to warn the local ordinary people that they are the ones who really control this area.

Many children in their teens are controlled by drug dealers with drugs, engaged in work such as thugs and drug trafficking, on the condition that they can take drugs for free.

In such a social environment, gangs and bandits are rampant, and the government will soon lose control of the region, and the people will gradually adapt to this environment and survive in the cracks.

There are many such examples in ancient times, especially when the transportation was underdeveloped, the central government was unable to maintain local order, and local officials basically could not manage the local area if they did not rely on local power.

But most of the time, it is still to maintain a delicate balance. For example, Sun Banzhang in the capital has helped the palace several times, but he is an out-and-out local snake. Does He Zhao know that there is such a local snake in the capital?He naturally knew that it was just that the wildfire would not burn out. As long as not all the people were well-off and prosperous, if one Sun Banzhang was killed, there would be another Sun Banzhang. So as long as Sun Banzhang was not excessive, He Zhao would not touch him.

That's a normal situation, but once it gradually develops to Jiangzhou's situation, basically it can only be left alone, and a city has also declared that it has begun to decline.

It's just that Li Xingzhou didn't expect Jiangzhou to become like that in just half a year.

This should be inseparable from Wang Tong. Presumably, when the turmoil was first born, his methods were not harsh enough, he had illusions, and adopted a soft and appeasement policy, which led to the current chaos.

The appeasement of criminal actions is not only a simple violation of the rights and interests of ordinary people, but also a depraved trick at a deeper level, which is the greatest injustice.

Perhaps Wang Tong himself believed in Buddhism and had a benevolent heart. He couldn't bear to use harsh measures to deal with criminals, and wanted to use kindness to influence him.

But he never thought that if he is kind to criminals, ordinary people will think, criminals are not punished severely, but I am honest but live far worse than those criminals. This is simply unfair, so why should I work honestly? , I also followed to commit a crime.

Emotions are contagious. If the culprit cannot be dealt with immediately, and cannot be dealt with quickly, even if it is cleaned up later, those negative and depraved emotions have already spread.

This is like someone asking how to cure Detroit and bring order back?There is only one common method, which is to drive this generation to extinction, to isolate their influence on the next generation, and then the next generation will receive a good education from an early age, otherwise the negativity and chaos in the general environment will only continue to spread and contagious.

"My lord, Yan Cook has already been delivered." After a while, A-Jiao and Yue'er came up.

This afternoon, Tang Zhouwei invited him to see the harvest of the people in the suburbs of Beijing, and went hunting along the way. two rabbits.

After returning home in the afternoon, Qiaqie, an old couple who sells sweet baijiu to Yue'er every day, has new honey at home.They were all raised by themselves, and when they got it back today, they thought the little girl was petite and cute, and they often bought their sweet wine, so they gave her half a jar of new honey.

Li Xingzhou also came to his mind, honey roasted rabbit, that is a rare delicacy, so he asked Yan Zhuo to help him deal with the two rabbits, and then sent them over.

He heard that Yan Cook had packed up the rabbit, so he put away the pen and paper, then extinguished the candle, and went downstairs with the two little girls.

Qiu'er lit the lantern, and Gillian straightened his collar for him, and asked in a low voice, "What is the prince writing?"

"Some things about Jiangzhou." Li Xingzhou smiled: "I've been thinking about this recently. I might go to Jiangzhou if I have a chance. Then you can go with me."

"Okay!" Gillian nodded happily, smiling brightly, her home is in Jiangzhou.

The next day was very lively, because the autumn harvest was the most important time of the year.

If the weather is not good, there will be famine, and if it is not good, there will be turmoil. Therefore, every autumn harvest, the court is happy and worried, and it is the most tense moment from top to bottom.

Fortunately, this year Jingguo has good weather and no natural disasters.

Tang Zhou, the envoy of the Ministry of Household Affairs, came to report to the emperor one by one, all of which were good news, but it cannot be exempted from the suspicion that the fat man reported good news but not bad news.

Recently joined the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, Tang Zhouwei is also considered to be proud of the spring breeze. He reported the autumn harvest situation in various places, and specially reported that he went outside the city to see the field harvest yesterday, leaving a good image for the emperor.
Li Xingzhou was speechless. It turned out that this was why he asked himself to go hunting in the outskirts of the city yesterday. It can't be said that he didn't go, he did go, but he said that the outing and hunting seemed to be a business, and it was a big deal.

Worthy of an old slippery head.
The emperor was really happy when he heard this, praised him a few words, and then asked: "The Su and Lu areas have just experienced wars. How is the situation now? Is there a disaster of famine?"

"My Majesty, the people in Sulu and Lu are in good health! All this is due to King Pingnan. The large ships of Pingnan Wangfu transported a large amount of grain from the west of Beijing to the south during the autumn harvest, which just filled the food shortage in Sulu. The people of Lu are all grateful to the royal family, and they even joined forces with Guazhou to write a letter to thank the royal family for their kindness, and they are on the way now, and it is estimated that they will arrive in two days." Tang Zhou said with a smile.

The emperor was even happier when he heard that: "Oh, good good good good good good good! A ship from Xingzhou?" He said and looked at him.

Standing in the front row, Li Xingzhou cupped his hands: "My Majesty, it's just for business, sell out the food on Jingxi Road in the south, and then let the people in the south exchange cloth, brocade, leather, etc. for food. In this way, there will be food in the south and food in the north." There is cloth and leather that can be used to manufacture armor for military weapons, killing two birds with one stone, and the palace can also profit from it."

"Okay! As expected of the emperor's grandson, you have done a good job in this matter!" The emperor rarely smiled, after all, no one thought that this autumn, after the chaos in the south, would be able to survive smoothly.

If you know that the chaos in the two places is in spring, no matter how you make up for it, it will definitely delay farming.The head of the thieves has been removed, but in autumn and winter, there will still be insufficient food, and there will be chaos again. The emperor is even mentally prepared, as can be seen from his transfer of Wen Daoli back to Beijing.

He didn't expect that this crisis was easily resolved now, so he was naturally happy.

The officials also took the opportunity to say good things and show their kindness to him.

After the court was over, the rare crown prince actually smiled and praised him, and Yu Chengan also smiled and nodded when he saw him.

Li Xingzhou felt strange, he couldn't tell what kind of people he wanted to do to himself, but it was a fact that Yu Chengan and the crown prince didn't deal with him, why did he suddenly look good today.
On the contrary, Degong had a bad complexion, and he patted him on the shoulder as soon as he left the court after the court was over, and said in a low voice: "You come with the old man, I have something to tell you."

It was rare for Li Xingzhou to see Degong's face like this, so he hurriedly followed, and when he was out of the Meridian Gate, he resigned from all the officials and asked Ji Chunsheng to go back first, to go to the Xiangfu's carriage, and Degong talked to him one by one.

It turned out that after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Tong went home excitedly and waited for two days, but Zhang Rang did not see what Zhang Rang had said was good for Jurchen Musk at the banquet that day.

After thinking about it, I always felt that something was wrong, and I was absent-minded, so I came to visit in person when I had nothing to do, but the officials who were drinking together that night all closed the door.

Now Wang Tong finally realized that something was wrong.

The more he thought about it in private, the more he felt that it was a bureaucracy, and he didn't know who it was aimed at, but he didn't dare to delay, and hurried to explain the matter to his father.

Degong listened to him and asked him about his experience that night and what he said.

At first, Wang Tong was hiding something, but under Mr. De's strict questioning, he could only explain everything. Mr. De was not Wang Tong, he just understood the whole story as soon as he heard it.

"My son hasn't been in Beijing for a long time, so he doesn't know that people's hearts are sinister.

Where he is, he is always the leader of one party, and all the officials support him, follow him, and say something rebellious, that is the emperor of the land!He didn't know the dangers in the capital, he was simple-minded, and was being used by others. These people are obviously here for you kid. "De Gong reminded him seriously.

"And he wanted to get you involved in the Jiangzhou matter, but he said that he leaked the truth. There is a reason. Maybe he hasn't acted yet, but he may have already acted. It's just that you and I don't know, so we have to guard against it." Degong was worried.

Li Xingzhou asked excitedly, "Who were there?"

De Gong thought for a moment: "According to what my son-in-law said, there are Wei Guoan from Zhongshushe, Xue Fang, the Duzhi envoy, Yu Chengan and his son-in-law Yantiesi Tongzhi Cansheng, Zhang Rang, the judge of the Ministry of War, Guard infantry commander Tong Guan."

Hearing the names of these people, Li Xingzhou remembered them all in his heart, and he was happy instead.

Because he was never afraid of opponents, he was only afraid of invisible opponents. Now that these people accidentally show their faces, it will be easy to deal with, just clean up one by one!

After arriving at the Prime Minister's Mansion, as soon as De Gong entered the door, he ordered his servants to prepare wine and food. Everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion was familiar with him, knowing that he was Miss Gillian's uncle, and they were all very enthusiastic.

"Go to the inner hall and have a good talk with that unfilial son. Now that Yu Chengan and the others are catching on to this problem, they won't let it go. You'd better have a countermeasure, so that you will be safe!"

(End of this chapter)