Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 241: Kill the clan and light the sky lantern!

Cen Wenben looked at Li Yuanji in confusion. Li Yuanji should be very clear about how to deal with and govern Japan.

After all, he had conquered so many fiefdoms, so he should have had plenty of experience in dealing with the new ones.

When Cen Wenben thought about this problem, he also realized that something was wrong with Li Yuanji. Looking at all the places he had conquered, it seemed that Li Yuanji had never asked about this except for the Japanese country.

Now that Li Yuanji asked this question so seriously, there must be some hidden story behind it.

Cen Wenben looked at Li Yuanji solemnly.

"I wonder how the king would like to deal with Japan? If the king has any request, please tell me and I will do my best."

Li Yuanji did not look at Cen Wenben again. He turned around and looked up. He closed his eyes for a short time and then suddenly opened them.

"The way of governing Japan will be very different. The way we will adopt is to obey or die. I didn't want to tell you this, but I still need you to coordinate the materials needed in the future, so I tell you.

You must prepare the population to be migrated, at least one million civilians, and at the same time select some capable officials, tough officials, and do not send some soft-hearted people.

Don't worry about this matter, just do what I say, and from now on, the land of Wa will be renamed Dongzhou Prefecture."

Cen Wenben was shocked when he heard this. Li Yuanji's words clearly showed that they were going to carry out a large-scale cleanup in Japan, no, Dongzhou Prefecture, especially the migration of population, as if in preparation for doing so.

Cen Wenben was silent for a moment. Li Yuanji had made it very clear that he could only cooperate in this matter.

As for being reluctant to clean up Japan, Cen Wenben did not have such an intention. He was just worried that if he did so, it would affect Li Yuanji's reputation, especially the subsequent expansion of his fiefdom.

In addition, Cen Wenben was just curious about how the Japanese country had offended Li Yuanji to make Li Yuanji do this. You know, even before, even with Linyi or Zhenla, Li Yuanji had never done this.

Cen Wenben couldn't figure it out after thinking for a while, so he stopped thinking about it.

“Your Majesty, I actually support you. The people of Dongzhou Prefecture were barbarians at that time, but now they have become your fiefdom. If they do not obey, they should be put to death.

This should be the case wherever you are, not just in Dongzhou Prefecture."

Although Cen Wenben did not know why Li Yuanji did this, since Li Yuanji had already made up his mind, as Li Yuanji's subject, he had to consider Li Yuanji.

Cen Wenben is not a sour Confucian. He does not have the idea that we should show the mind of a great country and treat foreign countries with tolerance.

Now that Dongzhou Prefecture has become Li Yuanji's fiefdom, what are the people inside waiting for if they don't obey or are not executed?

Li Yuanji suddenly turned around, looked at Cen Wenben, and smiled after a moment.

Li Yuanji understood what Cen Wenben said. He did this not to clean up, but to make Dongzhou Prefecture his fiefdom. The original people of Dongzhou Prefecture were the people of his fiefdom and should obey him as the protagonist.

This is the most basic thing. If anyone disobeys, being executed is the most normal thing.

Li Yuanji really laughed. He was indeed a man of letters. Doing the same thing but expressing it in a different way made the story sound completely different. If something like that really happened, he, Li Yuanji, would suddenly become the victim.

"Haha, Jingren, it's you who's right. You're right. Now, as my subjects, those who disobey me should be severely punished."

The two of them laughed immediately, and after a while, Cen Wenben spoke again.

"Your Majesty, are you planning to let Wei Ting be in charge of Dongzhou Prefecture's affairs?
My Lord, you promised me that Wei Ting would come back to help me with my affairs, you can’t go back on your word.”

Seeing Cen Wenben's alert expression, Li Yuanji smiled even more widely.

"Don't worry, the person in charge of Dongzhou Prefecture this time is not Wei Ting. I will not let him stay in Dongzhou Prefecture."

Having said that, Li Yuanji's expression immediately became serious.

"Let's draft a royal decree later, asking Su Dingfang to lead the army back, and all the troops to come back, but only 50,000 soldiers and 10,000 navy soldiers will be left behind.

In addition, the people who are preparing to migrate, you must prepare as soon as possible. How many people are left who have migrated from the Tang Dynasty?"

Cen Wenben thought for a moment and said solemnly, "There are still more than 1.4 million people who are still migrating. The rest have entered Guangzhou Prefecture one after another, and the majority are migrating to Leizhou Prefecture."

After hearing this, Li Yuanji's eyes suddenly lit up.

“The remaining 1.4 million people should be relocated directly to Dongzhou Prefecture, and there is no need to migrate back and forth anymore.

In addition, those who have already entered Guangzhou Prefecture will move some more to Luzhou Prefecture and Songzhou Prefecture after the navy returns. There are still too few people in Luzhou Prefecture and Songzhou Prefecture, and such a good grain land there must be developed as soon as possible.

That's it for now, go down and start dealing with it."

As for Japan, Li Yuanji was determined this time to completely turn Japan into Dongzhou Prefecture and incorporate it completely. Anyway, he had plenty of time and was not afraid of not being able to integrate successfully.

After Cen Wenben left, Li Yuanji immediately called Yang Jianhe.

"Send someone to find Yang Cheng right now and tell him to return as soon as possible. I have something important to discuss with him."

After arranging these matters, Li Yuanji breathed a sigh of relief. Now he just had to wait for these people to return before he could get started.

The peaceful days began like this, but within half a month, Li Yuanji, who was lying leisurely, saw Cen Wenben walking hurriedly towards him, and he knew that his good days were over.

"See you, Your Majesty."

Li Yuanji slowly stood up and brought Cen Wenben to the front hall.

"Jingren, what happened again?"

Every time Cen Wenben came to see him, Li Yuanji knew something had happened, and it was urgent, otherwise Cen Wenben would not have wasted time looking for him. Cen Wenben said solemnly, "Your Majesty, there is indeed something important. The flood in Aizhou has been investigated."

Li Yuanji suddenly became serious. He was very concerned about the flood in Aizhou. In his eyes, whether Wei Ye was involved in this matter was very important.

"Tell me in detail what happened."

Cen Wenben said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, after investigation, this matter has nothing to do with Wei Ye. It was Ning Mingrong, the governor of Aizhou, and the county magistrates of Jiuzhen, Chong'an, Wubian, Ning Changyuan, Chen Bing, Fan Zhiya and others who were the main conspirators, and another 27 people were involved.

These people, led by Ning Mingrong, embezzled the money and grain allocated to them, and did not pay the workers for land reclamation and road construction. Even the grain was deducted, resulting in the workers often having no physical strength.

However, in order to meet the targets, Ning Mingrong would whip the laborers and force them to work. To prevent too many deaths, food would only be distributed according to normal standards every five days.

At the same time, a lot of special funds allocated for building factories, developing fishermen, constructing ports and docks, and purchasing merchant ships were embezzled. Even for the factories that had already been established, Ning Mingrong and others privately manufactured goods and resold them to other businessmen for profit.

The money he earned did not go into public accounts, but went into his own pocket. At the same time, he developed family members and engaged in various trades, turning the palace's money into private money.

Most of the relief money and grain distributed by Wei Ye this time was appropriated by these people, making it impossible to resettle the people. "

Li Yuanji listened quietly. When he first heard it, his heart was filled with anger. Such a serious thing happened in Wubian. He knew that the situation there was not optimistic. Even though he had made preparations, he was still extremely frightened.

Under his rule, in Jiaozhou Prefecture, such a serious incident happened, and there was actually such a cruel person, and he just discovered it.

If someone hadn't told him to come here, he wouldn't have known that there was such a dark scene within his fiefdom.

Seeing Cen Wenben stop, Li Yuanji suppressed his anger. At this moment, he wanted to know what happened next.

"Go on, I can still bear it."

Cen Wenben did not look up at Li Yuanji. He could feel Li Yuanji's murderous intent at the moment without even looking at him. How could he not be angry when such a thing happened?

Cen Wenben continued, "Originally, Jiuzhen, Chong'an, and Wubian were all the same, but because of a sudden flood and the serious damage, Wei Ye decided to go down and inspect it in person.

However, the news of Wei Ye's departure was known to Ning Mingrong, who also learned the time when Wei Ye went there. Ning Mingrong then took out money and food and began to resettle the people in Jiuzhen and Chong'an, and at the same time gave the people compensation to keep their mouths shut.

Just in case, they even took away the wives and children of some people and threatened the people to prevent anyone from leaking the information. At the same time, they also prepared a large number of people who they had won over on a daily basis to deal with the situation.

After Wei Ye arrived at Jiuzhen, he saw Ning Mingrong personally presiding over the resettlement of the people. In order to prevent some people from being left out, Wei Ye walked around Jiuzhen and did not find any problems.

But Wei Ye was still worried, so he went to Chong'an to check it out. Not only did he personally comfort the people, he also organized people to carry out flood discharge during the heavy rain.

He was constantly busy in Jiuzhen and Chong'an, with almost no time to rest. He ignored himself and went out in person, often getting caught in the rain. After two days in Chong'an, he fell ill.

In the end, he was unable to go to Wubian and returned at Ning Mingrong's suggestion.

Wei Ye returned to Jiaozhou, dragging his exhausted body to deal with affairs. He prepared another batch of money and grain, personally supervised it, and allocated it to Aizhou so that post-disaster reconstruction could be carried out as soon as possible. "

Hearing this, Li Yuanji felt relieved. Even though the Yang and Wei people had done such a thing, both Yang Cheng and Wei Ye were very upright and did not get involved in those things.

Especially what Wei Ye did this time, Li Yuanji agreed with it very much. When a disaster occurred in Aizhou, as the top leader of Jiaozhou Prefecture, he went to the disaster-stricken area in person to check the situation as soon as possible. He disregarded his own work and personally organized various matters on the front line. It can be seen that it was not easy.

Although Wei Ye was very dedicated and responsible, he did not find any problems when he arrived at Jiuzhen and Chong'an. For a moment, Li Yuanji did not know whether Wei Ye was too stupid or Ning Mingrong was too smart and concealed the problem too well.

Although this thought flashed through his mind, Li Yuanji did not delve into it too deeply. Ning Mingrong was unaware of the matter and had made preparations in advance, so it was normal that he did not notice it. After all, his main focus was on disaster relief and resettlement of the people, so it was normal to neglect these things.

And without any rumors, who could have thought that such a thing would happen in Iowa?
Cen Wenben paused for a moment and continued, "After Wei Ye returned, Ning Mingrong cut down on the various expenses of Jiuzhen and Chong'an, but at least they are still making arrangements for their resettlement.

However, there was no resettlement for the undocumented people from beginning to end. This flood caused the death of more than 300 undocumented people. The exact number of people cannot be ascertained. Some people were directly washed away by the flood and cannot be confirmed.

All the people who committed the crime this time have been investigated. Here is the list. Please review it, Your Majesty."

Li Yuanji took it and started reading it expressionlessly. Before he finished reading it, Li Yuanji threw it aside.

Li Yuanji turned around and looked at Cen Wenben with murderous intent.

"Now that we have found out everything, let's get started. All the masterminds will be killed! They will be sentenced to death by slow slicing, and everyone will watch the execution!

All those who participated will be burned to death! Let their families watch them die with their own eyes!
All of his family members will be expelled from the household registration system, and all of his property will be confiscated."

Li Yuanji was filled with murderous intent. He really wanted to kill these people as soon as possible. He felt that killing them like this would be too easy for them.

At this moment, Li Yuanji suddenly understood why Zhu Yuanzhang killed people at every turn. These people were too hateful. If he didn't kill them, it would not be enough to appease the people's anger. If he didn't be ruthless, it would not be enough to shock the world!

Look at what these people have done. Is this something a human can do?
Being an official under him, one could say that one was already the wealthiest official. Even in the Tang Dynasty, the treatment was not as good as his, it was far worse. However, these people were still not satisfied.

Li Yuanji then continued, "Wei Ye, as the governor of Jiaozhou Prefecture, failed to discover the incident in Aizhou. He was negligent and should have been severely punished. However, considering that he paid attention to the disease and dealt with the disaster in time, and personally went to the front line to rescue the disaster, he is given a major offense, and he will not be promoted for five years, and his salary will be fined for half a year."

Li Yuanji had to punish Wei Ye. Wei Ye had an unavoidable responsibility for what happened in Aizhou. Fortunately, Wei Ye did a good job. If he had not done these things, Li Yuanji would have definitely punished Wei Ye this time.

It was also because Li Yuanji approved of what Wei Ye had done and only gave him a minor punishment and a severe warning.

Cen Wenben quietly wrote down what Li Yuanji said. Regarding Li Yuanji's murderous words, Cen Wenben had no intention of persuading him. In his opinion, such a person should be severely punished.

This is not only to give an explanation to the people, but also to warn others, let them know the consequences of greed, make them feel afraid and dare not follow suit.

“I will go down and make arrangements immediately. I will make sure that the people of the three places see the punishment these people receive!

As for the officials in the three places, I will also re-arrange them as soon as possible, and will certainly prepare for the follow-up matters and the subsequent resettlement and reconstruction. "

(End of this chapter)