Signing in to Datang: Rebellion at the beginning

Chapter 73 Finding Coal
These officers and soldiers stationed in the village who are responsible for rescuing the people and responding to special situations at any time, actually gathered here to drink, eat meat and have a good time.

Facing the dead bodies in the village, he was indifferent, and faced with the imminent danger of many villagers, he even ignored them.

Holding the salary of the imperial court, he was dispatched by the imperial court, but did not implement the imperial court's policies at all.

How does this make Li Ke not angry?
They drink and eat meat here, how many people will lose their lives in the cold?

The door is opened!

Those officers and soldiers all looked over.

Although Li Ke is wearing brocade clothes now, he is not a dragon robe.

So these soldiers didn't react much.

Just one of them asked, "Who are you? Close the door, isn't it cold?"

Li Ke's face was gloomy, and he said lightly:

"So, you know it's cold."

The officer and soldier scolded: "Nonsense, it's freezing cold, aren't you cold? Stop talking nonsense, get out and close the door quickly, and freeze me, sir, so be careful that you won't be able to eat and walk around."

Li Ke took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart and said:
"The imperial court gave you salaries, and the yamen sent you to this village to let you eat, drink and have fun, or to let you do things?"

"Is your purpose here to keep more people from freezing to death, or to keep yourself from blowing a little cold wind?"

Faced with Li Ke's doubts, the dozen or so officers and soldiers were also a little angry, and they probably understood that the young man in front of him was here to ask for trouble.

So they stood up one after another, holding the knife at their waist with their hands.

The leading officer sneered and said:
"Boy, it seems that you are here to cause trouble. Why, who do you think you are? Are you the county magistrate? Or are you the emperor, and you are so lenient?"

Li Ke sneered and said:
"You didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of your neglect of duty..."

Having said that, he raised his hand slightly:

"Since this is the case, then you are also guilty of murder!"

Then he began to write with his fingers in the air, and saw that the white writing was like ink.

Air is like paper.

With the sliding of his fingers, a few words formed in the air:

"Murderers, people will always kill them."

The seven characters appeared in the air, and then burst into murderous intent, quickly scattered, and in an instant, as if invisible, they turned into a dozen knives and flew out quickly.

Before the dozen or so officers and soldiers could react, they all screamed as if they were being stabbed by a big knife.

Then, in fear and dread, he fell to the ground.

The women in the room were terrified.

They all screamed and looked at Li Ke in fear.

Li Ke said with a blank expression on his face:
"Who are you?"

The women replied in fear:
"We are from this village, and these adults asked us to come and accompany them, otherwise, we would not be able to eat and walk around."

Hearing this, Li Ke looked at the corpse on the ground:
"It's really unjust to die..."

So he said to those girls: "Go back, if this happens again in the future, report directly to the yamen on the upper floor."

As he spoke, he turned around, then paused, and continued:
"By the way, if officers and soldiers come here to ask what happened, tell them directly and let them go back and tell their county magistrate that it is the emperor, kill these people. And let the county magistrate prepare to face the emperor's wrath .”

In the astonishment of those girls, Li Ke left and got into the carriage.

After that, he drove the carriage and continued to check the situation in some nearby villages.

Fortunately, some of the scenes he saw next were more or less acceptable to Li Ke, at least like the previous situations where the officers and soldiers did not act, they were rarely seen.

After such a night, the next day, when the sun rose, countless people survived another night.

Li Ke also drove the carriage back to the imperial capital.

The first thing Li Ke did when he returned to the palace was to order the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to cooperate with each other to fully supervise the yamen in various places, and must implement a series of policies facing the cold winter.

And ordered to deal with it, the yamen to which those officers and soldiers who did not act in that village last night belonged.

It is ordered that all localities must take this as a warning, and such incidents must never happen again.

With the strengthening of policies, Li Ke believes that these situations will definitely improve, although the focus is still on coal.

After three days of waiting.

The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households finally sent news that they searched in various mountains and found more than 20 different black ores.

And bring all these ores to Li Ke.

In the imperial study, Li Ke carefully identified these black ores, and picked five of them that were most similar to coal, and their smell was similar to coal.

So put these ores one by one in the fire to experiment.

As a result, after several pieces of ore were placed in the fire, they could not burn like charcoal at all.

Li Ke's mood will also become a little heavy. After putting the last few pieces in, there is finally a kind of ore inside which is ignited by the charcoal fire, and then burns slowly.

Li Ke smiled.

Take out this kind of ore, and say to the ministers of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households:
"That's it, give me a lot to mine some."

Once it is confirmed that this thing is correct, Li Ke will order it to be mined all over the country and given to the people at a low price.

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(End of this chapter)