Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1856 Du Zhenglun's Trouble
The situation in Chang'an City has improved.

At this time, on the side of Henan Road, it was another situation.

Du Zhenglun came to the border of Henan Province in a mighty way with the relief food.

However, when they first arrived at the boundary of Henan Road, when they were walking to Yunmeng Mountain, they were suddenly stopped by a group of bandits.

The number of living bandits is not many, only a hundred or so, compared to Du Zhenglun's thousand or so, it can be said to be very few.

However, these people were very familiar with the terrain of Yunmeng Mountain, and after blocking the road, they did not launch a direct charge with Du Zhenglun.

Instead, they circled back and forth on Yunmeng Mountain with them, which resulted in Du Zhenglun having a big head, and the last one was not so good, and those robbers took away half of the food and grass.

A small amount of food and grass is not too little for Du Zhenglun.

Originally, the food and grass he brought could support the hungry people in Henan Province for a month, but after that less than half, they could only support them for twenty days. After twenty days, their follow-up relief food might not come for a while. Bar?
After Du Zhenglun came to Henan Province, at the beginning, there was no problem in disaster relief, after all, there was food, but later on, disaster relief became a little difficult.

Faced with this situation, although Du Zhenglun also tried to find a way to solve it, he was obviously not particularly active.

"My lord, nowadays many hungry people have reduced from the previous two meals a day to the current one meal a day. If this continues, the Henan Road may be in chaos. Should we find a way to get some food and grass?"

"That's right, my lord, those hungry people are complaining a lot now, if they don't let them have enough to eat, they're afraid they'll make a fuss."

"........."

The hungry people are bound to make trouble if they don't have enough to eat. Some of Du Zhenglun's adjutants were very anxious, but Du Zhenglun himself looked calm and said, "Don't worry, these refugees can't make any trouble. They only eat one meal a day." People are still hungry. If we let them eat two meals now, our food and grass will soon run out. The price of grain is ridiculously high, where is it easy to get grain?"

The matter was difficult. Of course, it was not ruled out that Du Zhenglun didn't want to be too active in solving this problem. After all, when he came, Changsun Wuji had already told him to be as busy as possible, so as to cause some trouble for Prince Li Chengqian.

After Du Zhenglun said this, those officials had nothing to do. Du Zhenglun was the imperial envoy. What could they do?
Du Zhenglun was not very active in disaster relief in Henan Province, and Li Tai had already learned the corresponding news in Chang'an City.

Of course, he sent someone to find those bandits, in order to cause some troubles for Du Zhenglun. If Du Zhenglun could not provide disaster relief and caused a rebellion in Henan Province, that would be something he wanted to see.

Because in his opinion, rebellion is not terrible, but it is terrible to let Jin Wang Li Zhi control more power.

Now that his plan has been somewhat completed, it is time for him to impeach Du Zhenglun.

Li Tai quickly found a few people and gave them some orders. After the orders were finished, he couldn't help but smile slightly. Then, he just had to wait.
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The next day, early morning.

Li Shimin was discussing matters with the ministers, and when these matters were almost discussed, an official stood up.

"My lord, I want to impeach Du Zhenglun."

Hearing that someone wanted to impeach Du Zhenglun, Changsun Wuji's eyes froze for a moment, Li Shimin was also taken aback here, Du Zhenglun was doing disaster relief in Henan Province, and someone impeached him at this time, what's the situation?
Could it be that something went wrong with the disaster relief?

"Oh, Aiqing, why do you want to impeach Du Zhenglun?"

"Your Majesty, after Du Zhenglun went to Henan Province, he did not actively provide disaster relief. Now the victims have only one meal a day, and they are not full at all. Those victims are just in a state of starvation. Du Zhenglun, as an imperial envoy for disaster relief, let the victims This kind of suffering is simply dereliction of duty, and it is simply disregarding the life and death of hungry people, shouldn't such an official be impeached?"

After the official told the situation, the whole court was shocked.

"What, there is such a thing. This Du Zhenglun is really brave. He is so hypocritical. My court bought so much food and grass, and he only feeds those hungry people one meal a day?"

"It's really shameless. Who can eat enough for a meal? I'm afraid many people won't be able to make it. Maybe there are many people who have died on the Henan Road."

"This Du Zhenglun is really abominable. Such reckless disregard of human life is a waste of His Majesty's trust in him and entrusting this matter to him."

"........."

There are many people who don't like Du Zhenglun, Li Tai, Li Chengqian and even Li Ke don't like it. If it weren't for Du Zhenglun, they might have gone to Henan Province to provide disaster relief. In this way, Du Zhenglun's work in Henan Province is not good, and they must be the same. Will not pass up this opportunity.

All of a sudden, voices of impeachment against Du Zhenglun came and went in the hall.

Everyone may not be aware of Du Zhenglun's situation in Henan Province, but if the opportunity is seized, the impeachment should still be impeached.

After Li Shimin saw this situation, his face became a little ugly. He chose Du Zhenglun to go, on the one hand because of his trust in Du Zhenglun, and on the other hand because of Du Zhenglun's identity.

However, what he didn't expect was that Du Zhenglun actually betrayed his trust by passively helping the disaster in Henan Province. If this is the case, the life of those victims might be difficult, right?
It is also right for the courtiers to impeach him.

Many people wanted to punish Du Zhenglun severely and remove him from his current position.

However, if Du Zhenglun was removed and other people were sent to go there, a lot of time would be wasted. Time wasted, and many refugees might die.

After thinking about it, Li Shimin could only suppress the anger in his heart.

"Okay, my loves, be quiet. I already know about this matter, but I still trust Du Zhenglun very much. I believe that with his ability, he should be able to quickly solve the problem of the victims of the disaster in Henan Province. I will give him a month. We must solve the disaster in Henan Province within a short period of time, if he fails to resolve the matter in Henan Province after a month, I want his head, and all the descendants of his Du family will not be allowed to serve as officials in the court."

To take Du Zhenglun's head is already a very severe punishment, and all the Du family members are not allowed to be officials, so it will be even more serious. Hearing this, everyone was a little stunned. They thought that Li Shimin would speak for Du Zhenglun, but they didn't think about it. Du Zhenglun increased the pressure.

(End of this chapter)