Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 410 Such disaster relief
  "Don't you dare? I think you dare to do anything."

"It's okay if we don't provide disaster relief, but we force the people to build these fields."

"People outside the city have been displaced and many villages have been flooded. You are indifferent and do not take any rescue measures."

"Where's Ren Deqiu?"

Zhu Xuan asked coldly.

After listening to Zhu Xuan's words, Shi Li'an understood that Zhu Xuan must have known a lot about them. He couldn't help but feel shocked and panicked. After a while, he said, "The magistrate is providing disaster relief in the city?"

"Disaster relief?"

Zhu Xuan said: "Leave a hundred people to rescue the people here, and then send an order to Li Niu and others to complete the task as soon as possible and rush back to the city together. I want to see how Ren Deqiu can provide relief."

Shi Li'an said quickly: "I...I will lead the way."

Zhu Xuan kicked him and said coldly: "I know how to go and disperse all the people who have gathered. Otherwise, I will treat them as rebels and kill them all."

Shi Li'an was kicked and rolled on the ground, covered in mud and water, but he did not dare to complain and said quickly: "Go quickly, you all leave, don't stay."

The evil slaves who followed quickly dispersed, but as soon as they left, they would naturally bring back the news of Zhu Xuan's arrival.

Zhu Xuan didn't care about this.

Ren Deqiu was casually preparing in the city, but he would continue to kill those who should be killed anyway, without mercy.

Not long after waiting, Li Niu and Wang Er came back. They also left some people in the villages outside the city to appease the people, and then walked to the county seat of Shunde.

Although Zhu Xuan said he knew the way, Shi Li'an still led the way.

He was very respectful, fearing that Zhu Xuan would not let him go, and was very humble.

After walking for a while, Shunde County finally appeared in front of us.

There was no flood near the city wall, and they had tried every means to drain it away. After all, the city was flooded, and Ren Deqiu and the Zhao family were uncomfortable.

There are many groups of victims outside the city, lined up in front of each porridge shed, holding a bowl in their hands ready to receive porridge.

"Resigned to official position..."

When the county magistrate Ren Deqiu saw Zhu Xuan, he strode over and was about to salute.

"Go away!"

Zhu Xuan pushed him aside and walked to the porridge shed first.

Pick up a chopstick and insert it into the porridge in the pot. If the chopstick does not fall down, it means that the pie's porridge meets the standard.

But it only applies to today. If Zhu Xuan leaves, it will immediately turn into crystal clear porridge. This is their basic operation, a face-saving project to cope with inspections.

"Your Highness, we have always been very diligent in providing disaster relief."

Ren Deqiu came over shamelessly and said: "The porridge we distribute to the people is also in accordance with the highest requirements. If there is not enough food, we will also distribute rice."

"Not enough food?"

Zhu Xuan then took a look at Ren Deqiu.

I saw that this man had a big belly, and he must have been greedy for a lot of oil and water.

Looking at his skin again, it was shiny, and he looked like a pampered person, which fit well with Zhu Xuan's stereotype of corrupt officials. He said, "I sent food to Shunde early in the morning, and you told me that I was short of food?"

"Is such that."

Ren Deqiu explained: "We did not take good care of it. The food sent by His Highness was washed away by the flood. Now the food is donated by the Zhao family to relieve the people."

"Yeah yeah!"

Next to Ren Deqiu, there was a young man dressed in noble clothes and wearing gold and silver.

At first glance, he was not Ren Deqiu's follower.

"who are you?"

Zhu Xuan asked.

Ren Deqiu introduced: "He is the eldest son of Mr. Zhao, Mr. Zhao Chen, our great philanthropist in Shunde." Zhu Xuan said coldly: "I heard that your Zhao family is the largest clan in the area. There are thousands of people in your family. Just now I also asked that Dian Shi to bring thousands of people to besiege me. Are the Zhao family going to rebel?"

"Misunderstanding, Your Highness is all a misunderstanding."

Shi Li'an had just wiped off the muddy water on his body, and when he heard Zhu Xuan mentioning him again, he quickly ran over and knelt down to explain: "We are here to fight the bandits."

Zhu Xuan said: "We, the Ming Guard, are responsible for suppressing bandits and fighting mountain bandits, and your Zhao family has gathered thousands of people to raise private soldiers, right?"

"No...no!"

How could Zhao Chen afford to be labeled as a rebel? He was so frightened that his face turned pale.

However, the Zhao family does have a large group of such people.

If you want to get to the bottom of it, the case of house confiscation is a relatively minor one.

"Those are the people in our city who spontaneously gathered together to fight the bandits."

Ren Deqiu said with an apologetic smile: "The bandits are hateful. They robbed our food. The affected people suffered terribly. They hate the bandits very much."

"is it?"

Zhu Xuan glanced around the outside of the city and saw that the people were not very enthusiastic. Even when they were queuing up to receive porridge, their faces were gloomy. There was no trace of joy and no gratitude to Ren Deqiu and other local officials. This was not As if receiving relief after a disaster, he asked again: "I heard that it was you who embezzled the relief food and made the people hungry, so some people killed officials and grabbed food and rebelled. Don't you, the county magistrate, know that?"

Ren Deqiu trembled all over, and the fat on his face trembled for a long time, and then said loudly: "Your Highness, slander! Someone must be spreading rumors and slandering us. We are unjustly accused!"

"Injustice?"

Zhu Xuan hummed softly: "I don't think so! I allocated funds to build the river embankment, and I used reinforced concrete. Why is the river embankment still lacking? Yan Guan!"

Of course Yan Guan knew what His Highness meant, so he took out a cement block he picked up from the edge of the river embankment, squeezed it hard, and it fell into pieces.

"The river embankment I built in Panyu is very strong. Those cement blocks cannot be broken by a hammer, but they can be crushed by hand in Shunde. Ren Deqiu, how can you explain to me?" Zhu Xuan looked at the other party. .

Ren Deqiu is also confused now.

It seems that His Highness knows a lot of things.

Dense beads of sweat appeared on his face, and there was sweat all over his forehead and near the tip of his nose.

His fat appearance is very unsightly.

It's even worse now.

Zhao Chen from the Zhao family noticed something was wrong and turned around to run away.

But the two Jinyi guards immediately captured him.

"Your Highness!"

Ren Deqiu finally knelt down and said in a trembling voice: "Actually, it's all a misunderstanding. Your Highness, you have misunderstood us!"

He was so scared that the fat on his body continued to tremble.

This time they are dead, what else can they do?
  From the moment he was greedy, he had expected this day, but he kept covering it up, hoping to prolong the arrival of today, and it was best that the authorities would never find out.

But the appearance of Zhu Xuan and the typhoon extinguished all their dreams.

They even dared to embezzle disaster relief materials, which led to the severity of the disaster and exposed all the ugliness here, which they could not have imagined.

If they were not so greedy, they might be able to hide it for a long time and not be exposed until Zhu Xuan leaves.

People are not enough to swallow elephants.

"Misunderstanding?"

Zhu Xuan said loudly: "All the people outside the city, do you think I have not misunderstood Ren Deqiu? Is he a corrupt official?"

The people queuing up to receive porridge turned their attention at this moment.

Ren Deqiu almost fainted from fright. The people who were affected by the disaster must hate him deeply and wish him to die.

(End of this chapter)