Early the next morning, Zhao Dong rushed to Hanoi with his entourage to take up his post and preside over Hanoi's large and small government affairs and disaster relief affairs.

Zhao Junsheng still needs to walk around Xingyang to continue to understand the local people's livelihood, and will go north to Hanoi to comfort the victims in a few days.

In the next few days, Zhao Junsheng visited Mi County, Jing County, Juan County, Yangwu County, Yuanling, Zhongmu and other counties under the jurisdiction of Xingyang County, and he stayed in each county for at least one day, giving instructions to officials, encouraging the victims, and encouraging them to rebuild their families and develop production.

The instructions he issued in various parts of Xingyang were carried out by the officials with all their hearts, and the words he spoke to the victims in various counties made the victims have full confidence, and they were full of enthusiasm, and the victims were very shocked that he was able to go to the disaster area in person to provide disaster relief to the commanders and officials who were not afraid of hardships and dangers, and they were very shocked to face the disaster situation together.

On this day, Zhao Junsheng's royal driver traveled north from Yangwu to Juan County, accompanied by local officials, to inspect the scene of the disaster victims rebuilding their homes.

The victims and soldiers were in full swing, and truckloads of wood and bricks were pulled by horse-drawn carts to the construction site.

After Zhao Junsheng saw it, he said: "It's done well, it's very fast!" ”

"Thank you Your Majesty for your praise, this is the result of the hard work and joint efforts of the victims and officers and soldiers!" The county magistrate hurriedly said.

Zhao Junsheng said: "Although the speed is fast, you can also ensure the quality of the house, such a house must be able to live for decades, hundreds of years before it is qualified!" ”

The county order bowed down and said: "What Your Majesty said is very true, housing is a major matter related to the lives and safety of the people, and it must withstand a long period of wind and rain and natural weathering, and a hundred years is not the minimum requirement!" ”

At this time, the eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the King of Shu has come down, saying that he is here to report the corruption case, presumably there has been significant progress in the investigation and interrogation!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded when he heard this: "Let him come!" ”

It didn't take long for Zhao Ping to walk over quickly and salute: "Son, see your father!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Why did you come to see me this time?" ”

"Back to my father, the case of suspected corruption in Xingyang County has now been investigated, but the ministers behind them are still being investigated, and this is the relevant file on this case compiled by the sons!"

After a quarter of a quarter of time reviewing the file, Zhao Junsheng determined that Zhao Ping's investigation was basically consistent with the investigation of the pending lawsuit, and the waiting lawsuit could secretly conduct an investigation by unscrupulous means, and did not care whether there was evidence, so the speed of the investigation was much faster than that of the Imperial City Division, and all the cases investigated by the Imperial City Division were conclusive evidence.

After Zhao Junsheng finished reading it, he was furious, and almost overturned the imperial case, and the generals and ministers and officials serving on the side were so frightened that they all knelt on the ground and trembled.

"It's lawless and daring! This kind of crime deserves death, and not killing is not enough to deter the small, and not killing is not enough to anger the people! ”

Zhao Junsheng lost his temper and instructed Zhao Ping: "You come to draw up a decree, clearly state the names of each of these scum and the crimes they have committed, and escort them to the place where they serve to be publicly executed, so as to boost discipline and anger of the people!" ”

"No!" Zhao Ping agreed, asked for a blank edict and pen and ink from the eunuch, and soon wrote an edict.

After Zhao Junsheng saw it, he used the seal, handed it to Zhao Ping and said: "The implementation will be done by the Shenwu Army, and you will supervise it!" ”

"Sons obey orders!"

The next day, Zhao Junsheng crossed the river to Hanoi under the escort of the Shenwu Army and the Dragon Guard.

Zhao Ping stayed in Xingyang County to supervise the execution of the prisoners, and one by one the prisoners were taken to the places where they had previously served.

As the official proclamations were posted at the gates of the cities, the people knew that the imperial court was going to execute these heinous criminals, and they all applauded.

In just a few days, the crowd was full of murderous spirits, and unscrupulous officials in various places were greatly shocked.

Zhao Junsheng also knows that it is not enough to only kill people, it is impossible to prevent officials from enforcing the law and breaking the law, and the more criminals are killed, many people do not understand why the officials who commit crimes kill more and more, are these officials not afraid of death, are they not afraid of the end of their official careers?

No, of course they're afraid, but more of them are lucky.

Therefore, Zhao Junsheng knew that it was necessary to strengthen the education of officials in loyalty, honesty, and hard work, and only by reforming them from the ideology could this kind of thing happen.

Zhao Junsheng set up a typical example, this person is Yang Baonian, the former county of Xingyang County! When Cui Yanze, the former Taishou and a cadre of officials, abused their power for personal gain, embezzled money for river treatment projects, disaster relief funds and materials, and various funds, fish and meat people, he insisted on the disaster relief site like a clear stream, tried his best to get food and herbs, and saved the lives of many victims.

Yang Baonian was also promoted to Taishou because of his outstanding performance in disaster relief, it is not an ordinary difficulty to be promoted from the county to the Taishou, if you want to be the Taishou, you must first serve in the imperial court yamen for a period of time, and there may not be a chance if there is a vacancy, Yang Baonian can be promoted on the spot as the Taishou, this situation is extremely rare, and it is also like when the army fights, in order to strengthen the control of the army and gather the hearts of the army, the meritorious soldiers are often promoted in the line of fire.

This time, in order to provide disaster relief, Xingyang County was arrested because of a large number of officials, resulting in no one to deal with government affairs and a slow disaster relief.

Zhao Junsheng killed and promoted a group of people with a quick knife and decisive and ruthless means, set up a number of good and bad examples, greatly deterred some officials who had a fluke mentality, and at the same time made the established role models famous all over the world, and played a great role in propaganda and education for other officials.

On the second day after Zhao Junsheng led the team into Hanoi County, Bai Jinguang, who was dealing with the aftermath, led people to catch up with the big team.

That night, Bai Jinguang reported to Zhao Junsheng the results of the seizure of the property of those criminals.

"Your Majesty, the ministers raided the property of those convicted officials in Xingyang County, and found a total of 32,452 gold coins, 12,543,689 copper coins, and 1,635 other gold and silver utensils, jewels and jade!

In addition, according to His Majesty's instructions, the house, land, shops, chariots and horses were all handed over to the local government for sale, and the proceeds were also received by the local government and used to help the victims rebuild their homes and resume production. ”

Zhao Junsheng took the list of confiscated property, opened it and looked at it, and snorted coldly: "Good guy, these moths are really good at looting, and the total number of them is almost about to catch up with half of the total annual taxes of my entire Daqian, it seems that they are not unjust!" ”

Xingyang County and Hanoi County are two rich counties, which can pay a lot of taxes to the imperial court every year, and it is no wonder that these prisoners can loot so much.

Yuan Jian came over and presented a recital and said, "Your Majesty, this is the new Xingyang Taishou Yang Baonian sent someone to present the recital!" ”

Zhao Junsheng took the notebook and looked at it, and said: "Yang Baonian said in the notebook that he asked me to reduce or exempt the taxes of Xingyang County in the next two years, so that the people affected by the disaster can recuperate!" After speaking, he picked up the pen and agreed to it on the notebook.

After completing the instructions, he handed it to Yuan Jian and instructed: "Send someone to send it back, so that the people will be happy to know the news!" ”

"No!"

Soon, Zhao Ping's affairs in Xingyang County were also dealt with, and he chased Zhao Junsheng's team with the catchers of the Imperial City Division.

When Zhao Junsheng heard about it, he sent someone to announce that he was going to see him.

When Zhao Junsheng saw him coming, he asked: "The Shenwu Army has confiscated the family property of the convicts in Xingyang County, and obtained a total of more than 32,000 gold and copper coins, as well as many gold, silver, jewelry, and utensils. Where to put it? ”

Zhao Ping replied: "When I returned to my father's father, when I investigated the property of the criminal officials in Hanoi County, I obtained a total of more than 43,000 gold, 15 million copper coins, and more than 2,000 gold, silver, jewelry, and utensils. ”

Zhao Jun was so angry that he didn't want to confiscate more property in Hanoi than in Xingyang County, but it is also understandable that Hanoi County has always been much richer than Xingyang, and it is normal to find out so much stolen money.

Zhao Junsheng rubbed his eyebrows, "I didn't expect that this natural disaster occurred, and the imperial court's disaster relief not only did not lose money, but also made a lot of money, don't you think it's ridiculous?" Is it my incompetence, or is it that these things that should be cut through a thousand knives are too rampant? ”

Officials and generals knelt down one after another and shouted in unison: "Your Majesty is angry!" ”

Zhao Ping knelt on the ground and said: "Father and Emperor are angry, after all, these people are only a very small number of my officials, and it is thanks to the natural disaster that this time that they have shown their original form, and the imperial court can rescue them in time to correct the law of the country!" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "Get up, I don't blame you, you are you, they are them!" I'm not so confused as to implicate the innocent! By the way, how far is this place from Huai County? ”

Zhao Ping replied: "There are still more than forty miles, and we should be able to arrive in Huai County at noon tomorrow!" ”

An official said: "Your Majesty's royal car has arrived here, and the officials of the Hanoi County Taishou Mansion did not send someone to greet and do the contact, it is really unreasonable!" ”

This person must not know that the newly appointed Taishou is the crown prince Zhao Dong, otherwise of course he would not dare to say so, and when people who know the truth hear it, they will think that he is suspected of provoking the father-son relationship between the emperor and the prince.

Zhao Junsheng didn't care, waved his hand and said: "At this time, the disaster relief is bigger than the sky, as long as the disaster victims in Hanoi County can live in new houses and have enough food and clothing for the winter, I will not blame them!" Pass the order down and speed up to Huaixian! ”