"For those who made money from the national crisis, and who took advantage of the shortage of food, and even sold unstoppable businesses who were making money from the country, who were hoarding food prices maliciously, and even sold illegally mixed grains, they all sealed up shops and warehouses, confiscated their property, and were all exiled to Lingnan."

"All hamsters who dare to rob themselves or collude with foreign thieves to steal grain will be exiled and their property will be confiscated!"

"To those rogue villains who steal, rob, kidnap, and force people to become prostitutes, they will all confiscate their property and exile them!"

In each prison, more than 10,000 people were detained. Qin Lang asked these people to be sentenced quickly and dealt with strictly. However, in the end, he proposed to exile instead of many reports.

If you kill the person's head, you will be gone, your life will be gone, and you will have no chance to come.

The change to exile also left them with an opportunity to reform themselves. On the other hand, in this era, people are also valuable resources, killing waste.

In three days, tens of thousands of people from the Pacification Department worked overtime and stayed up late, and the sentences were quickly tried, and almost all the arrested people were tried.

After the trial, there was another round of house raids and confiscations, and this time hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and countless money and silk were collected.

The confiscated money, silk and grain of the Pacification Department piled up countless warehouses.

The recorded case files are even more piled up.

Qin Lang has been urging him to speed up. He didn't know how fast Baiqi was, nor how many days he could be a policing envoy, but he hoped that he could handle the case almost the same before he left his post.

These days, many people come to Qin Lang, princes and nobles, great merchants and merchants, and even royal relatives every day, but Qin Lang is not seen.

He knew that among the people he caught, many of them were lackeys, who were doing their jobs, and many of the food, materials, etc. he seized, also belonged to them.

But Qin Lang did not hesitate to offend others.

Chang'an is now a city on a volcano that is about to blast fire. It may lose food at any time and a great famine will occur. If it really comes to that point, I don't know how many people will starve to death.

At this time, you can't just think about making money.

You can't make money against your conscience.

He suggested that Li Shimin start evacuating the poor and those who had no food reserves to leave Beijing in advance. He even suggested to Li Shimin that some of the troops who entered the Beijing-style guards returned to their hometowns to reduce the population in Chang'an.

It is recommended that Li Shimin and the court go to Luoyang.

But so far, I haven't seen any movement.

Originally, he should have been busy leaving Guanzhong for food for a while, but the emperor was busy asking him to clean up the rebellion of the rebels and was busy adjusting the guards in Chang'an at this time.

Qin Lang didn't understand why Li Shimin made this choice, and he couldn't change him. He could only do something within his ability.

Take some food out of the tiger's mouth and take it as much as you can.

If you take it out, you will not return it.

He privately distributed food to his subordinates, one was self-deprecating, and the other was that these more than 30,000 people were the main guards in Chang'an City today. He hoped that these soldiers and generals who maintained the order of Chang'an at critical moments would not be threatened by famine, so that they could exert their strength.

Wei Chang, Liu Jiu, Wu Guang and others suggested that the thieves beheaded simply.

Not killing is not enough to shock people.

But Qin Lang still insisted on sentenceing them to exile.

Although more than 10,000 people were arrested, Qin Lang insisted on not killing any of them, exiled them all, exiled for three thousand miles, exiled to border areas such as Lingnan, Dunhuang, or western Liaoning.

On the other hand, although these people were not killed, they were very ruthless to their family members. The more serious prisoners were all confiscated. Even if they were just some less serious charges, Qin Lang issued a severe fine.

Qin Lang submitted a memorial to the emperor, requesting to recruit yamen servants or to send the prisoners to exile to the border.

Eastern Palace.

The atmosphere of court discussion today is a bit tense.

The emperor has always had a gloomy face, and the prime minister and the political participation all felt the emperor's anger.

"I can't imagine that the best place under the emperor's feet has now become a place where dirt and dirt is hidden, all of which are snakes, rats, insects and ants. The people of Chang'an shouted that there is a shortage of food every day, and the food is rising day by day, and there is still a price but no market for food. I try my best to transfer grain from various places to Beijing, but every time the food enters Beijing, it is like a mud cow entering the river."

"I only know now that there are so many rats stealing food, and so many black-hearted businessmen making disaster money. Qin Lang brought some rat nests and actually copied hundreds of thousands of stones of grain!"

“What an amazing number!”

The emperor was almost crazy.

The two kings investigated the case of rebellion and found tens of thousands of stones of grain. This incident was not enough to make Li Shimin crazy. After all, there were many princes and nobles who were seized, so it was understandable that they were copied out some stored grain.

But now Qin Lang takes advantage of the situation to make rapid progress, investigates the underground black market, checks hamsters and businessmen, and finds hundreds of thousands of stones of grain in a few days, which is too much.

Not to mention, so many traitors and rioters who committed crimes were found.

The whole Chang'an seems to be full of traitors and evil people.

"I have never seen such a shameless person!"

Secretary-General, counselor, and assistant to the political affairs officer Wei Zhengjue's hand.

"Your Majesty, I impeach the governor Qin Lang, and privately distributed more than 30,000 stones of national food. I was bold and guilty of being extremely evil!"

Li Shimin was angry and glared at Wei Zheng's impeachment, "I'm talking about those mice now, but are you here to impeach my royal cat?"

"Your Majesty, merit is merit, and fault is wrong. It is true that Qin Lang has made contributions to investigate the case, but he used his position to privately divide the country's food. This is fault. This is corruption and dereliction of duty!"

Ping Zhang served Qin Qiong, "I have no choice but to teach my son, I apologize for the crime!"

Li Shimin's tone eased a little, "Shubao, get up first, this has nothing to do with you."

Qin Lang's private seizure of food is nothing new. Even if he does not report himself to Baiqi anonymously, the grain distribution action involving more than 30,000 people will definitely not be concealed.

At this moment, food is extremely precious material, no one is watching it.

The tutoring department collected hundreds of thousands of stones of grain at a time, but no one was jealous and everyone was attracted by it. At this time, Qin Lang first privately distributed tens of thousands of stones of grain to his subordinates, and the others were both envious and jealous.

It’s just that although some people envy Qin Lang’s favor, they just didn’t impeach him immediately.

Baiqi reported to the emperor at the first time, but after Li Shimin learned about it, he just sent Baiqi to investigate secretly and did not make any statement. Only Wei Zheng, who criticized the king, ignored Qin Lang's help to him, directly attacked and impeached the palace.

Li Shimin doesn’t want to talk about Qin Lang’s corruption and dereliction of duty now. What he cares about now is why there doesn’t seem to be a good person in Chang’an City?

Previously, the generals of the royal family rebelled, but now Qin Lang has arrested tens of thousands of people from Chang'an.

But Wei Zheng refused to give in.

I'll have an explanation today.

He also said that at present, food is not just about food. It is an important material that is currently related to Chang'an and the people's support. Therefore, anything that concerns food is a major national event.

"I requested that Qin Lang be investigated and immediately strengthen the control of food in Chang'an. The grain in the grain merchant warehouse should be bought by the government and then sold to the people at a fair price to solve the current grain shortage problem. We should crack down on grain merchants who are closed and not bought, especially those who deliberately hoard goods......"

Qin Qiong begs again.

"I have no choice but to teach my son, and the dog son has failed His Majesty's trust. I requested to remove the position of Dog son from his position and to be punished by him. I also asked to resign from Pingzhang's title and return home to be punished by him!"

Li Shimin said with some dissatisfaction, "This matter is not as serious as Wei Zheng said. Huailiang is my son-in-law, and he is still a hero of Jingrun. He has a high status and a high title and a wealthy family. He is just a little younger. Although he is full of loyalty, he sometimes does not understand the method of doing things. This is also a lesson he has not read. What's more, I heard that Qin Lang only distributed two stones of grain to himself, but he did not give him more. Can two stones of grain be called corruption?"

"In the year of this year's disaster, Qin Lang not only took the initiative to waive the rent of one thousand of his enfeoffed households, but also handed over a lot of money to the court. Therefore, Wei Zheng impeached Qin Lang for corruption, which is unreasonable. As for dereliction of duty? Qin Lang seized Li Youliang and Li Xiaochang's rebellion in a short time. Can it be dereliction of duty? Now, so many rats, businessmen, scoundrels, etc. have been found. This is dereliction of duty? If this is also dereliction of duty, then the entire court will be dereliction of duty, and no one has found these before."

"I heard that in order to investigate the case, Qin Lang and the Pacification Department had more than 30,000 people, sleepless day and night. Everyone stayed up all night to investigate the case. Thank you very much. Now Qin Lang gave everyone some food, which is also a reward for everyone's hard work. Is this too much?"

After talking for a long time, Li Shimin tried every means to defend Qin Lang, believing that Qin Lang was not guilty, but was just a small flaw in his work, not subjective intentional corruption and dereliction of duty.

"I am now issuing an order to give the officials of the Pacification Department who are working hard to handle the case. Each officer of the fifth rank or above will be given 20 stones of grain, each of the fifth rank or above will be given 10 stones of grain, each of the seventh rank or above will be given 5 stones of grain, and each of the other people will be given 2 stones of grain. For Qin Lang, the governor of the tutor, I will reward him with 100 stones of grain and a thousand pieces of silk."

Wei Zheng retorted to the emperor in dissatisfaction.

"Whether Qin Lang was intentional or not, his behavior violated the legal system. His Majesty did not punish him according to the rules, but instead gave him rewards. Is this to indulge other ministers to dereliction of duty and law in the future?"

"All people are spiritual. I give Qin Lang these silk grains better than punishment for him. When he receives these grains, he will be ashamed and understand the mistakes he has made. In the future, he will know how to avoid making these mistakes."

"Your Majesty's words, I cannot agree with you!" Wei Zheng said.

Li Shimin glared at Wei Zheng, "Wei Zheng, I always believe that those loyal ministers who do things seriously should be encouraged and tolerant. Qin Lang is loyal and diligent, so he should treat it differently."

"But what if Qin Lang didn't think he was ashamed and was indulged instead?" Wei Zheng asked.

"If Qin Lang feels ashamed and does not know how to review it, then he is no different from a beast, and it is useless to kill him!"

Wei Zheng was so angry that he jumped at the emperor's intentional protection, but he had no choice but to do anything about it.
Chapter completed!