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Chapter 312 Chapter 322: Sure enough, there is a problem

"Why?" Li Zhi turned his head to look at Li Hao in surprise, pointed to the group of victims outside, and said excitedly, "Look at them, they walk so slowly, it seems that they are not full, and they don't even have the strength to walk .”

Li Hao said slowly: "Your Highness, the disaster relief is to keep the victims alive, not to feed them."

"Aren't you full?" Li Zhi looked at Li Hao in a daze. In his impression, it was such a simple thing to be full, but for the victims, it was as difficult as heaven. The goal of the victims was to live. Going down, he felt more and more sad.

Li Hao nodded and said: "If you want to feed the refugees, it will be difficult to use up the food stored by the court. In this way, many people will starve to death, and the refugees you see in front of you, Your Highness, are all suffering from disasters. The most important thing is that they have prepared their own food, so they will not starve to death, and they will encounter many refugees later on. If they need to loose food when encountering refugees, we will delay the trip because of insufficient food, and if the trip is delayed, the treatment will be delayed. Disaster."

"What if...if..." Li Zhi was a little angry, his face flushed, and said, "What if the refugees are about to starve to death? Why don't you help them?"

Li Hao closed his eyes slowly when he heard the words, and said in a heavy tone: "I still can't help. If it is a refugee who is about to starve to death, helping will cause riots. Refugees can starve to death, but they cannot riot. Once there is chaos, more people will die. .”

"How could this happen! How could this be happening!" Li Zhi felt that his three views were about to collapse. He obviously had food, but he couldn't use it to save others. He was so depressed and angry, and he didn't know who to be angry with. Hao, no, Li Hao did nothing wrong.

Li Hao continued: "Your Highness, it is not easy to run a country well so that the people can eat and wear warm clothes. Your father has done a good job in this regard. Your father is a rare wise king. He I have been working hard all the time, in order to let the people of the Tang Dynasty have surplus food, so that even if they encounter natural disasters, they will not be afraid."

"Every household has surplus food." Li Zhi was fascinated by hearing this, and said, "You said that if every household had surplus food, no one would starve to death anymore."

"You can put it this way." Li Hao nodded slowly and said, "But right now, Your Highness, you can't loose food. To deal with disasters, first, you can't have greed, and second, you can't be soft-hearted. You have to harden your heart and not be infected by the victims. Only then can we make the most correct judgment and save more people.” Li Hao’s expression was a little serious, and he could understand Li Zhi’s mood at the moment, because when he was in Tingzhou, he had personally experienced this feeling of powerlessness. The heartache of watching the people die of hunger lingered in his heart from time to time.

Li Zhi still had a good view of the big picture. After thinking about it for a long time, he seemed to understand Li Hao's meaning, and solemnly bowed to Li Hao: "Thank you for your teaching, sir, Zhi has been taught."

Li Hao also cupped his hands, and said, "Your Highness is smart, you will understand what I mean gradually."

The journey continued. In order not to let the refugees affect his mood, Li Zhi didn't dare to open the window all the way, so he sat quietly in the carriage and thought about the words Li Hao taught him. Some of them kept turning over and over in his mind. It is the sentence that every household has surplus food.

According to Li Hao, as long as the people of the Tang Dynasty are so rich that every household has surplus food, even if there is a natural disaster, no one will starve to death. When he grows up, the elder brother of the crown prince has become the emperor, so he must strongly recommend Li Hao to the elder brother of the prince, let Li Hao be a high-ranking official, an official as old as Fang Xuanling, because he thinks that Li Hao is omnipotent, and Li Hao must Can help the prince's elder brother to govern the country well, and reach the state where every household has surplus food.

Seven days later, they entered the border of Hebei, which suffered the most disasters. They often encountered migrating refugees along the way, and the refugees here were different from those in Hedong. Many people's houses were crushed and they couldn't take anything with them. The clothes of the refugees were thin, their faces were blue from the cold, and many people had already fainted by the roadside, which really deserved the word mourning.

Along the way, Li Hao's face gradually became ugly. He didn't expect the snowstorm in Hebei to be so severe. He only entered Hebei for a day, and he saw thousands of refugees. According to this posture, the number of refugees in Hebei must reach more than 30. This is What a frightening number, snowstorms have never been regarded as major disasters, but this time the snowstorm was so big, it was really unimaginable.

Changed the route to the northeast and traveled another ten days, and finally arrived in Hengzhou. A large number of homeless people gathered outside the city of Hengzhou, as many as [-]. Looking around, it was dark and dense, like dark clouds, which made people's hearts sink.

When King Li Zhi arrived outside the city of Hengzhou, Li Hao sent people to inquire about the situation of the refugees. After asking, he found out that the governor of Hengzhou would not let them enter the city, but sent people to set up many refuge tents for them outside the city. Serving porridge twice a day, although it cannot guarantee food and clothing, can barely survive.

After a while, the gate of the city opened slowly, and Lu Dong, governor of Hengzhou, led all the city officials to welcome the king. Li Hao is Li Zhi's spokesperson at this moment, and asked Lu Dong to welcome them into the city quickly, without any formalities, without any delay Disaster management matters.

After entering the city, King Li Zhi temporarily stopped at the Governor's Mansion, and Li Hao went to Lu Dong in Li Zhi's name to learn more about the disaster in Hengzhou.

Lu Dong was an honest man at first glance, and immediately told Li Hao about the situation in Hengzhou.

It is true that Hengzhou was hit hard by the disaster, but the treasury of Hengzhou is still full. There are more than 2000 shi of surplus food, which can barely last for a while, but the number of victims outside the city is increasing by thousands every day. First, Lu Dong is also very worried. As for why the refugees are not allowed to enter the city, Lu Dong is also afraid that the refugees will disturb the law and order in the city. After all, the credibility of the vagrants is not high. It's not good, tens of thousands of homeless people, that's no joke.

Li Hao expressed his understanding of Lu Dong's cautious approach. The riots of the vagrants can easily cause panic, but now that King Jin is here, things should change. Li Hao asked Lu Dong to clear the open space in the city, set up refuge tents for the vagrants, and then open the city to release the refugees When entering the city, the amount of porridge is increased every day, and cotton-padded clothes and quilts are distributed, because the disaster relief funds will arrive soon. The most important thing is to announce the news to the refugees that the King of Jin will hunt on behalf of the sky, so that those refugees can calm down. Don't make troubles, whoever makes troubles will be directly questioned and imprisoned, and they will not be spared lightly.

Lu Dong immediately followed Li Hao's instructions and began to send people to clear out three large open spaces in the city, and set up tents. Early the next morning, Lu Dong sent people to open the city gate, and Li Hao announced loudly at the top of the city that the prince, King Jin, had arrived. Hunting on behalf of the sky, sympathizing with the people, letting them into the city, giving out porridge once a day, and distributing cotton clothes and quilts to each household...

All the refugees heard the words of gratitude, and shouted "Long live the emperor" from the bottom of the city. Some old people were so excited that they burst into tears, and they followed each other with the support of their relatives.

The Zhechong guards and the Thousand Zuo Xiaowei brought by Li Hao helped to maintain order. The three refugee settlements were all sealed off, and the refugees were not allowed to go out to prevent people with bad morals from harassing the people in the city.

Fortunately, the people of Tang Dynasty are more moral, and the refugees are also people, but they just suffered. As long as they can have a bite to eat, they will not make trouble. After a day, the refugees behaved very well.

There was another fast horse from the rear to report that the food payment team was still three days away from Hengzhou. Li Hao felt more at ease and decided to go to Dingzhou tomorrow.

Early the next morning, King Jin's cavalry set off for Dingzhou. Since the road was cleared, they traveled quickly and arrived at Dingzhou at noon the next day.

To Li Hao's surprise, outside the city of Dingzhou, there was a lot of crying, and countless refugees were wailing and kowtowing. Li Hao didn't dare to let Li Zhi's king approach him, in case there was a civil uprising. Tens of thousands of refugees couldn't beat them. Fight, in case of a civil uprising, the consequences will be disastrous.

Li Hao, Lu Yun and Chen Song changed into old clothes, walked seven or eight miles to the city, mixed with the refugees, and asked the refugees about the situation. After asking, they found out that Dingzhou was the last county in Hebei Province to be affected by the disaster. These refugees came from Villages and towns near Dingzhou City also had people from nearby counties. However, they have been here for nearly ten days. Qin Miao, the governor of Dingzhou, gave porridge for three days symbolically, pitched more than [-] tents outside the city, and then He said that the warehouses in the city were empty and there was no food to send, so he was asked to go elsewhere. The refugees came here after a hard journey, so how could they have the strength to go elsewhere? If they went elsewhere, they would starve to death on the way. Weeping and begging outside the city.

Li Hao frowned immediately after hearing these words. According to Lu Dong, the governor of Hengzhou, the crops in Hengzhou, Dingzhou, and Yizhou have been good in recent years. Silver, why is there an empty warehouse in Dingzhou? This is a bit abnormal. Li Hao pondered for a long time, and began to spread the news among the refugees. His Royal Highness, Prince Jin of the Tang Dynasty, is on behalf of the sky to patrol the sky, to cure disasters and rescue the people. The moment is coming, so let them not panic All the refugees were very excited when they heard the news, the prince, the emperor's own son, the emperor actually sent his own son here, they are saved, no matter how big the governor is, is he as big as the prince, although many people don't believe it, But at this moment, they have no other choice, they can only hope that this rumor is true, because this is their last straw.

Seeing the reaction of the refugees, Li Hao immediately felt a little relieved, and returned to King Jin's king's car, then raised the banner of King Jin's guard of honor, and led the army slowly to Dingzhou City.

When the refugees saw that the King of Jin had really come, they knelt down and kowtowed, shouting for the greatness of the emperor. Li Hao was overwhelmed by the integrity of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and many people had starved to death. Tang people can do it.

As soon as Qin Miao, the governor of Dingzhou, heard that King Jin was coming, he hurried out of the city with officials of all sizes to meet him. At the gate of the city, Li Zhi followed Li Hao's instructions and stepped out of the carriage to announce publicly that they brought a thousand shi of grain. Porridge was served twice a day, and the refugees rejoiced when they heard the news, and once again knelt down and shouted for the mighty grace of the emperor.

This time Li Zhi didn't live in the governor's mansion, but in the post station. This was proposed by Li Hao, because when he saw Qin Miao at the gate of the city, he felt that Qin Miao was flattering and cunning, and liked to flatter the court officials. It is normal to flatter once in a while, after all, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, but as a feudal official, there is a problem with flattering so slipperyly.

In the evening, Qin Miao sent someone to send invitations to Li Hao, saying that there was a small banquet in the Governor's Mansion, and he hoped that Li Hao could go to the banquet and clean up the dust for Li Hao.

When Li Hao read the invitation, Li Zhi was also present, because they were discussing the disaster situation in Dingzhou, Li Zhi hurriedly asked: "What is the invitation to the governor of Qin?"

Li Hao smiled meaningfully, handed the invitation to Li Zhi, and let Li Zhi read it by himself.

After reading it, Li Zhi looked confused, looked up at Li Hao, and asked, "The governor of Qin...why didn't you invite me? But you?"

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said with a sneer, "This Qin Miao really has a problem."

(End of this chapter)