Chapter 349 Sins Don't Lead to Death?
No matter how many bigwigs in the court think about it, they can't figure out what happened to this snow disaster.
First, the heavy snow continued for several days, until the imperial guards and the wing army began to enter the city to clear the snow, and the heavy snow had no intention of stopping.
Logically speaking, such heavy snow can almost bury the entire Bianjing City in the snow. Bianjing City is the same as the capitals of all dynasties. Due to various constraints such as cities and population size, it does not have much food, and basically depends on external input.
What’s even more fucking is that even if there is enough food in the Changping Warehouse and the reserve warehouse, the government cannot deliver the food to the people immediately. If we look at the scale of this snow disaster, even if we can’t die of 10,000 or 20,000 people, we can still die of seven or eight thousand people.
Moreover, there are usually major epidemics after major disasters. Even if the snow disaster is not as good as summer, the impact should not be underestimated. If you are not careful, it will be a big chaos.
However, strangely, the snow disaster was calmed down silently. Not only did it not cause any disaster, but the people of Bianjing City believed in the officials and the imperial guards more. Even the ministers in the court also made a wave of presence in this snow disaster operation.
Just like Shiyong, the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture.
Although Wang Shiyong also likes to sing, dance and stroll around brothels in daily life, during this disaster relief operation, Wang Shiyong once again led the yamen runners from Kaifeng Prefecture to the front line. He did impeccable things in distributing materials and arranging the people. The public's reputation among the people is very good.
If it weren't for some of the food in Changping's warehouse missing, it would have been even more perfect. Wang Shiyong had already seen a big wave of presence in this disaster relief event. It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the promotion and salary increase in the next year were a matter of fact, but such a thing happened...
Wang Shiyong was very upset, and Wang Shiyong was very angry.
Kaifeng Prefecture had a lot of trouble, but a large number of officials under his command were captured by the Imperial City Office. He might have to follow him. If Wang Shiyong's mood was good, he would have seen a ghost.
But it is not only Wang Shiyong who is in a bad mood.
In fact, the big guys in the court, and the emperor Zhao Huan, were far more upset than Wang Shiyong.
Where did the food go?
The Censorate, the Imperial City Department and the Dongji Industry Factory jointly investigated. It was not difficult to find out where the grain was going. Soon, they found out how the grain disappeared and where it flew to.
But it was because I could check it clearly, so I was upset.
If you can unknowingly let tens of thousands of stones of food disappear, no matter who is outside, you must collude with officials who often keep the warehouses and reserve warehouses, so that the minor officials can do it.
Starting from these officials and minor officials, you can quickly find out who they are colluding with. Then follow this line and follow the line step by step, and finally the truth of the matter is the truth.
Some people contribute money, some people contribute efforts, some people are responsible for advice, and some people are responsible for specific actions. With the collusion between several groups, 30,000 stones of grain in Changping warehouse in Bianjing City flew out of Changping warehouse.
The reason why these people chose to attack Changping Cang in Bianjing was because these people thought that Bianjing was at the feet of the emperor and there was almost no possibility of disaster. Even if they disappeared, no one would notice it.
Even if the government has to take stock of the food twice a year, it is not a big problem. As long as you let the Changping warehouse have these tens of thousands of stones of grain before inventory, isn’t it safe? Buy some old grain and mix it with sand, which is a slight idea.
But what these people did not expect was that such a blizzard would suddenly come in Bianjing City, and the official Zhao Huan, the official, would use Changping to close the warehouse as soon as possible, so that the big guy had not had time to buy old grain, nor did he have time to mix sand.
Therefore, this time, it can only be said that it was God's will.
"Thirty thousand stones of food are related to the safety of the capital and the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people in the capital. If I tolerate them, I will still have the face to say that I am the emperor who was ordered by heaven?"
Zhao Huan looked at the officials of all sizes in front of him and sneered, "I told the Empress Dowager that someone must be shaking the foundation of my Song Dynasty, so God will bring snow disasters to warn me. Now it seems that it is true."
"You guys don't think about persuading me."
"The people all know that the prince breaks the law and commits the same crime as the common people. Don't you understand?"
Gu Kecheng, the Minister of Justice, looked at each other with Li Gang and other bigwigs, but in desperation, he bowed and said, "I heard from the officials that these people should be punished by lingchi, but according to the law of the "Eight Discussions", these people..."
Zhao Huan laughed, tapped his fingers and said, "Zhu Jun, the queen's cousin, and also has a title. According to the relatives and nobles, he will not die if he is guilty."
"Luo Cheng followed me to fight south and north to win titles for military merits. According to the discussion, if you discuss merits and nobles, you will not die if you commit crimes."
"There is also Kong Fanzheng, who will not die by discussing the wise and discussing the guests."
After saying that, Zhao Huan simply stood up, walked around the table, and then spoke after he arrived in front of Gu Kecheng, "But I just want to ask."
"Do people... deserve to die?"
"Even if I am the emperor, I dare not say that the ancestors of all generations are rich and noble. The ancestors of you and others are all noble and noble. No one has ever had civilians?"
As soon as this sentence was said, both Gu Kecheng and the other bigwigs in the court immediately felt very annoying.
This is like a dimensionality reduction strike, and it doesn’t give people the opportunity to speak. Who dares to say that their ancestors of all generations are expensive? Besides, even if their ancestors of all generations are expensive, this kind of thing is not suitable to be discussed now.
It's very painful.
However, the Eight Discussions are also in the "Law of the Great Song Dynasty".
That's right, when the big guys revised the "Law of the Great Song Dynasty", they once again perfectly performed their lazy mentality of not delaying everyone singing, drinking, and visiting brothels. In addition to some of the content of the law that Zhao Huan had specifically emphasized before, the rest simply copied the "Tang Law Commentary" again.
In other words, without Zhao Huan remembering that everyone was perfectly ignored, the "Eight Discussions" were also perfectly inherited into the "Dharma of Song Dynasty".
More importantly, even if there is no content in the "Eight Discussions" that does not inherit the content of the "Eight Discussions" in "The Great Song Dynasty", the empty warehouse case is not so easy to deal with. This case involves not only Luo Cheng, a lord, but also involves another key figure who is also a lord, but also involves another difficult-to-handle key.
The one who takes the lead is the one who discusses the wise and discusses the crime and does not die.
Chapter completed!