Chapter 294: Evil Officials Harm People (Two in One) The team soon came to Wuzhuang Temple, Li Shimin personally checked all the dead and living carefully, found that there were no impersonated people, and then personally checked the seizure of the rampant number, but unfortunately because the number was too small, like Qin Qiong, he did not draw any conclusions, as for the tattoos on the corpse, it was also very strange and could not be interpreted, and in the end it was also proved that it was only a single case, and it could not prove anything - at least in Li Shimin's impression, there was no mark of an old opponent like this.
I didn't see anything, and the result was naturally nothing - my fleet was attacked, and I couldn't find the enemy, but I didn't even know who the enemy was, which made people even more depressed, and the appearance of the blood-drinking spear seemed to give Li Shimin some kind of bad hint, so his mood was very unbeautiful.
If the emperor is in a bad mood, he will be angry with the ministers, then the ministers' mood will naturally not be good, the ministers are in a bad mood, they will have to find trouble with the petty officials below, the petty officials are reprimanded for no reason, and the mood will not be good, their anger can only be borne by the officials below, the officials are the intermediary who connects the people and the court, they are angry, and they dare not retaliate against the chief officials, so they can only vent to the people, and it doesn't matter if they vent too much, anyway, the people are the lowest level of the Tang Dynasty, even if they bear the anger, There is no way to vent, let alone a way to denounce, so I can only endure it silently in my heart, so the atmosphere of the entire Yuezhou City has become weird, and slowly this weirdness has become depressing......
This is the main reason why the atmosphere in Yuezhou City is so depressing......
Of course Li Zhen knew that something big had happened to the Salen fleet, and even he had already guessed, and in terms of depression in his heart, he was even more unhappy than Li Shimin, Li Shimin was unhappy because there was another mysterious and strong enemy in the Tang Dynasty.
And Li Zhen is unhappy that the Salen fleet is his fleet, and the whole fleet from the captain to the sailors is his people, if something happens to this entire fleet, then the pension of the deceased alone will make Li Zhen pay for the pain, not to mention his own losses - the loss of the fleet is a big number, and what is even worse is that according to Mo Wuwei, that enemy is entrenched near the route from Yuezhou to the Spice Islands, that is, before the enemy is destroyed, The route between Lingnan and the Spice Islands is unsafe, and you can face enemy attacks at any time, which is very fucked up.
As for the annihilation of that enemy?
It's easy to say, but how easy is it to actually do?
And the most important thing is that the imperial court knows too little about the enemy, and until now it has not been able to figure out who the other party is, whether they still have contact with the mainland, and what is the purpose of their entrenchment there?
Did Salen stumble upon their den, or did they just come specifically to trouble the fleet?
If it's the former, it's a little better, but if it's the latter, it's terrible......
If they are specifically against Li Zhen or sabotage the Nanyang policy of the Tang Dynasty, then even if Li Zhen really sends troops over at this time, I am afraid that it will be too late - the enemy is not stupid, after attacking the fleet of the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible for them to just entrench themselves on that island and not leave, the principle of guerrilla warfare is too simple, as long as anyone with a little battlefield experience will use it.
Therefore, if they were really looking for trouble with Li Zhen, then even if Li Zhen sent a fleet to encircle and suppress according to the coordinates provided by Mo Wuwei, I was afraid that at this time, there would already be people there.
The sea is vast, and if the enemy leaves the place, even if Li Zhen sends out all the warships under his command, trying to find the other party is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.
But if the other party is not killed, then the route from Lingnan to the Spice Islands will be in a state of absolute insecurity or even completely cut off, even if Li Zhen gives a big reward, I am afraid that no one will dare to take this route.
As for sending warships to escort the ship?
This may seem like a good idea, but it doesn't actually work.
After all, there were three warships in the previous Salen fleet, and there was also a third-class battleship, which was full of more than ninety artillery pieces and more than six hundred sailors, plus two fourth-class battleships, and more than seven hundred people (three hundred and fifty people each) and more than one hundred guns, which was already a large sea force, but it was such a force that was easily killed by the enemy, even if the enemy took the initiative and the three warships took the initiative to break it, but this is already very terrifying.
What's more, until the end, Mo Wuwei didn't know how many enemies there were, did they do their best in this attack?
Is there a greater power hidden on that island?
Before figuring this out, if you just send a few warships to escort the escort, you can only find death, but if you let a whole fleet go out to escort a route, not to mention whether it will frighten the enemy, this formation alone is inevitably a little too extravagant, right?
Moreover, every time the warship sails, the consumption is huge, and if it comes like this a few times, Li Zhen will not be able to bear it.
But if the fleet is not sent to encircle and suppress, Li Zhen has a worry - if the enemy does not harvest for a long time, will he attack the Spice Islands?
After all, the coordinates of the Spice Islands are not difficult to obtain, and the wealth is moving, as long as the price is high, some crew members are willing to make this money.
This is Li Zhen's lifeline, but at this time, there are not many defenders on the Spice Islands, there are only more than 1,000 people in total, since the enemy dares to attack the fleet, there is no reason why they dare not attack the islands with only 1,000 people.
But once they really do this, then they will really hit Li Zhen's seven inches......
So it doesn't work if you don't send troops......
Li Zhen fell into a tangle, and finally thought about it for a long time, and he finally made up his mind - the fleet must be sent, otherwise he would not be able to explain to the crew of the Salen fleet and the families of the deceased.
However, it is not just such an unclear faction, and it is necessary to at least find out the identity of the other party before sending the fleet, and even if it can't be figured out, it must be said until the Salen fleet returns and brings back more news......
"Why is the atmosphere in the city so strange lately?"
Feeling the oppressive atmosphere around her, Li Zhen asked very curiously.
After recuperating in bed for more than a month, Li Zhen's injury on her buttocks was finally healed, and she couldn't wait to walk out of Wuzhuang Guan after hurriedly handling official duties, traveled lightly, and entered Yuezhou City with two entourages and a few guards - these days he has been lying on the bed, but he has been suffocated, and he no longer has the freedom he had at the beginning, and he almost got sick, and now that his body is finally better, he naturally can't wait to let go of himself and breathe well outside.
But as soon as he entered the city, he found that something was wrong in the city, although Yuezhou City was still as lively as ever, and hundreds of people came and went, but he clearly felt that the people who came and went did not have a smile on their faces.
"It's not the officials who did it."
Xiao Anzi next to him snorted: "Because of the matter of the Salen fleet, Your Majesty is very angry, so he transferred his anger to the hundred officials, and the hundred officials transferred their anger to the hands of his subordinates, and the officials naturally did not want to eat this sullenness, so they transferred their anger to the people, but the officials did too much - there have been several cases of Xu officials hurting people in the past few days, and even several people have died in the hands of Xu officials." ” "Damn, why didn't anyone tell me?"
Li Zhen said coldly with a gloomy face: "Didn't I explain to them?"
No matter how big or small, as long as it is a fatal thing, they have to report it to me, what do they mean by that?
” "Your Highness, now the whole court is stimulated by the affairs of the Salen fleet, from His Majesty down to the Jiupin Sesame Official, whose face is more stinky than the other, which of them dares to touch the moldy heads of you big people at this time?"
Xiao Anzi smiled bitterly: "You don't want to think about it, you're in a bad mood, if you tell this kind of thing again, won't you be even worse?"
Once you're not feeling well, who knows what will happen?
In case you're so angry that you want another purge......
The officials below are not clean, and who knows if this fire will burn on their heads?
So I can only put this matter down for the time being, and I will report it to you when the Salen incident has passed or when your mood improves......"
"So, is this still our mistake?"
Li Zhen's face was even more unsightly.
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"Shut up, you can't talk?"
Xiao Mozi next to him kicked Xiao Anzi, and said to Li Zhen with a smile: "Of course it has nothing to do with Your Highness, in fact, even if Your Highness doesn't get angry, these moths are no better."
Your Highness, you don't know how hateful the people below are, and it doesn't matter if the other slaves and maids didn't see it with their own eyes, let's just say that the day before yesterday, the slaves and maids came out to buy fruits, and they saw a group of servants beat a small trader selling sugarcane juice to death, but the reason was because the group of servants drank his sugarcane juice, but they had to say that the sugarcane juice was sour, and the hawker was angry and reasoned with them, but the group of bastards asked someone to smash his stall, and also robbed him of all his money, and beat the vendor to a serious injury, if no one treated him, They should all be dead by now. ” "This should just be a normal dispute."
Li Zhen asked rhetorically: "Even if the methods of the officials are a little more intense, wouldn't it be over if they compensate a little money and punish the mastermind, with money in hand, how can there be no one to treat him?"
” "Where is the compensation?"
Xiao Anzi shouted: "The group of officials themselves didn't give money for drinking sugarcane juice, and they came to find trouble because they said that the sugarcane juice was too sour afterwards." ” "What?
How could there be such an evil thing in this Yuezhou?
Li Zhen couldn't believe it, if this kind of thing happened somewhere else, Li Zhen came from the next generation, he had seen more strange things than this, although this thing was wonderful, but it was not very common, but this kind of thing also happened in Yuezhou, which made Li Zhen feel unbelievable.
You must know that Li Zhen knows that the lower the officials, the more evil they actually are, on the contrary, the harm of those high-ranking officials to the ordinary people will not be so obvious-although the level of their scourge is at the level of the state.
It is very terrible for Xu officials to harm people, and they can make people bankrupt at every turn - the family is ruined, the county order of the family is raided, and the prefect who destroys the door is not said.
Therefore, after the last purge, Li Zhen paid special attention to the appointment of Xu officials to ensure that the character of these people can be passed, and only in this way can the situation of Xu officials harming people be prevented to the greatest extent.
However, he didn't expect that even with such a means, such a problem still appeared, is this a change in people's hearts, or is it that he has no eyes?
Xiao Mozi realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly corrected: "Your Highness, don't be depressed, this official has harmed people since ancient times, and this matter cannot be stopped, and didn't you also say it?"
To govern the country is to govern the officials, the etiquette is honest, the four dimensions of the country, the four dimensions are not open, and the country is not a country.
The officials at the bottom were born poor, and once they were in power, they naturally had no scruples, but they were at the bottom of the country, and there were a large number of them, covering each other, even if the upper class had the intention to govern, it was like a dog biting a hedgehog - there was no way to put their mouths. ” It's rare for Xiao Mozi to say such a big truth, but it's a pity that this time he is tantamount to doing useless work, seeing the lifeless appearance of the people in the city, Li Zhen knows how ruthless Yuezhou City is tossed by that group of bastards, if such a person doesn't clean up and doesn't give the people a channel to vent, then once this atmosphere is suppressed to the extreme, when the people can't bear it anymore, maybe something will happen.
"Huh, it's hard to govern?
This palace doesn't believe in this evil.
Of course Li Zhen knows this truth, let alone now, even in the later generations when information is extremely developed, all kinds of problems in lower-level management units emerge in an endless stream, and even if the country wants to govern, it often pulls a large piece of land and does not dare to move at all.
"This palace can't govern the whole world, can't it govern a Lingnan?"
Li Zhen said coldly, compared with the whole world, Lingnan is much more convenient to govern - aren't you afraid of the Great Purge?
Then the palace will let you taste the taste of the head falling to the ground again. "......"
Xiao Mozi and Xiao Anzi were speechless, but they obviously smelled a strong smell of blood from Li Zhen's bland words, and for a while, they could only mourn in silence for the officials who were about to usher in bloody horror again, and at the same time they also breathed a long sigh of relief in their hearts - finally someone can cure them, and it is best if these bastards who plague the people are dead.
"What's going on over there?
Why did the people run over there?
Just when Li Zhen was thinking about how to carry out another big purge, she suddenly felt that the people on the street suddenly began to run in one direction, and she couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Your Highness, wait a moment, wait for your subordinates to take care of people and ask."
A guard who followed Li Zhen casually grabbed a running citizen and asked, "This big brother, what's going on over there?"
Why is everyone running over there?
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