Chapter 179 Who does His Highness choose?
Filling the burrowing hole does not mean that the flood will end like this.
Luo Shixin found that he was not aware of water control than half-baked wei Zhang Yun. He was not happy and found that the water level was slowly rising.
The Yellow River lacks a catastrophic outlet, which directly leads to a 10,000 tons of floods and a catastrophic place. The result is that the water level rises and there is a danger of overflowing the river embankment. If the water level rises sharply and floods the river embankment, they will do useless efforts.
After drinking the joyful people, they acted in three batches, one group consolidated the dam's mouth, one group started to stack sandbags on the dam, and the other group continued to transport sandbags with horses: This is a powerful tool for flood control and disaster relief.
As expected, the river water gradually rose and flooded the embankment. Fortunately, Luo Shixin made preparations in advance and piled up the embankment, which did not cause any accidents.
Dali Temple.
Zheng Shanguo, the minister of Dali Temple, frowned in one place as he heard his subordinates’ report.
"So, is it really the Prince of Yan who leaked the information?" Zheng Shanguo was uneasy and walked back and forth in the main hall of the Dali Temple government. Luo Shixin's "unintentional words" attracted the attention of Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, and Pingyang. Zheng Shanguo, the Minister of Justice of Dali Temple, Qu Tutong, were all ambitious and capable people who realized that there might be detailed works that leaked military information, and successively started to investigate the matter.
Pingyang is upright and has a heroic spirit that is not allowed to be a beloved man. He is most disgusted with villains who leaked secrets and colluded with foreign countries. What's more, Luo Shixin, and he also got involved. This prompted Li Yuan to angrily issue an oral order: to launch a thorough investigation into the matter.
Zheng Shanguo sent people to investigate everywhere, judging from the vague news revealed by Luo Shixin, Li Yi, the general of the Prince of Yan County, was the most suspicious: he knew in his heart that if this matter was true, it would be a rare political storm.
In addition to being a minister of Dali Temple, Zheng Shanguo also has another identity, the princeling.
As the first person in the Crown Prince's military, if this matter is true, it will be a major blow to Li Jiancheng.
After finding this, Zheng Shanguo calmly suppressed the matter and did not tell anyone. Si Zhishi, who was sent to the north to investigate, returned to Chang'an today, bringing the latest news.
Si Zhishi used the words of later generations to describe it as a special investigation officer. It tasted like a special agent team. Si Zhishi, who was in charge of the investigation, was called Li Chong, and his name was unknown, but his ancestors served as Dali Temple Si Zhishi for all generations and had rich experience and knowledge of this area. On the first day he entered the Turkic Khan Court, he sent back the news, and 100% sure that someone revealed the news to Jie Li.
After a series of investigations, Li Chong discovered that Princess Yicheng, a strange force, existed. The married princess who married the Turks. Yicheng was not a decoration, but had great power. He found out that Jie Li was hunting the White Wolf King to show off, but soon after he returned to the tent, he immediately dispatched troops to rescue Yuyang. During this period, he did not meet anyone. It was only possible that Princess Yicheng got the news and told Jie Li.
Following the line of Princess Yicheng, Li Chong found Li Yi's body with a cocoon. Li Yi's younger brother Luo Shou appeared in Dingxiang at the same time and had a secret contact with his old minister who fled to the grassland.
It is impossible for such a confidential matter to have 100% evidence. The news was leaked, and Li Yi had a grudge against Luo Shixin, and Li Yi was one of the few insiders. Luo Shou happened to be in contact with the ministers of the Sui Dynasty when he met him at Dingxiang.
These signs are enough to show everything. The leaker is Li Yi, the prince of Li Tang.
Therefore, facing Zheng Shanguo's suspicion, Li Chong said without hesitation: "You can't be wrong. At that time, there were only more than 20 people in the court, and Li Yi was the only possibility."
Zheng Shanguo hesitated for a while and said, "This matter is of great importance. Fortunately, Si Zhishi is suffering. You go down and rest first. Please think carefully when I think about it, and see how to deal with it."
Li Chong also knew that the relationship was of great importance and took the order.
Zheng Shanguo thought about it for a long time but couldn't think of a solution. He called his confidant and personally wrote a book, ordering his confidant to send it to Henan and handed it to Li Jiancheng.
Before Li Jiancheng received the news from Li Chong, he was enthusiastically pulling Wei Zheng to say that he was in a happy mood.
In ancient times, natural disasters and man-made disasters were not as frequent as later generations, but because of backward technology and backward conditions, the only thing the court could do when a natural disaster occurred was post-disaster comfort and reconstruction. There was no such thing as a disaster relief. If the disaster was serious and a plague was caused, in order to avoid more people being hurt, it was more likely to completely block the affected area until the plague was eliminated.
But because of Luo Shixin's proposal, this time the Tang Dynasty dispatched troops to rescue the victims.
Agile and well-equipped soldiers have a far better ability to rescue the people than to save themselves.
Especially after Luo Shixin controlled the dam to break the dam, their rescue was very smooth. The Tang Dynasty crown prince Li Jiancheng personally led the crowd to rescue him, and also received extremely high praise. Now, he can trigger shouts wherever he goes, and is sincerely loved by the affected people in Henan.
That feeling is so good!
Li Jiancheng said with emotion: "If I ascend the throne to the throne in the future, I will work diligently and love the people, so that thousands of people in the world will respect and love the people from the bottom of my heart, just like these victims."
Wei Zheng was a stubborn person, but he was not pedantic. He joined the princelings not because of the Confucian eldest son inheritance law, but because he felt that Li Jiancheng was more suitable to be the emperor of Li Tang than Li Shimin. He once carefully analyzed the current situation in detail: he felt that the stalls left by the Sui Dynasty were too bad.
He read relevant records: In the fifth year of Daye, the population of the Sui Dynasty was 8.97,546 households, and the total number of people recorded was 4.6 million entrusted 19.956. During the Wude period, after the Tang Dynasty unified the world, it was investigated and found that the total population of the world was only more than two million households in just thirteen years. In the thirteen years, the population of the world dropped sharply by three quarters, and the amount of more than 30 million was lost.
The Tang Dynasty had not yet had industry emerged, and all development was only human power, and manpower was priceless. Wei Zheng felt that what the Tang Dynasty needed was Li Jiancheng who could work diligently and love the people, put the people first, similar to emperors like Emperor Wen of Han, Emperor Jing of Han, so that the world could bring stability to the people and bring a prosperous life to the people, and restore human and people's livelihood to the greatest extent. Instead of Li Shimin who was warlike and fierce, similar to Hanwu.
Therefore, Wei Zheng did not hesitate to join Li Jiancheng's position, and was determined to help Li Jiancheng defeat Li Shimin.
Wei Zheng said happily about Li Jiancheng's words with ambition and a little ruthlessness: "Your Highness the Crown Prince has such ambition, Zheng will devote himself to his entire life until his death."
Li Jiancheng also felt a little disobedient and said nothing. Even in front of his confidant, it would be better to say less of some words, and changed the topic: "It's a bit too far. Mr. Wei, tell me how should I deal with this matter next?"
"Continue to run around the disaster-stricken areas, and leave the full power to General Luo for the dam." Wei Zheng answered this question without hesitation.
Li Jiancheng nodded and exclaimed: "Sir is so calculating. In this way, he can express his respect and trust in him to the general, and he can win the hearts of the local people, kill two birds with one stone, kill two birds with one stone. Gu will write a book to praise the general and continue to let him be fully responsible for the dam."
At this moment, Li Jiancheng received a letter from Zheng Shanguo.
The originally smiling face instantly became ferocious.
"It's outrageous!"
Li Jiancheng slapped the table and stood up suddenly.
"Your Highness?" Wei Zheng shouted, with a little confused expression. Then he thought that the letter was from Zheng Shanguo. He moved his heart and asked, "But about General Li Yi?"
Seeing that Wei Zheng guessed it, Li Jiancheng handed the letter to him and said, "This is unforgivable! For personal grudges, he ignores the interests of our Tang Dynasty. If General Luo had not been in danger, Yuyang was in danger and Youzhou was in danger, and 50,000 troops followed him. Li Yi was simply confused and very damn."
Wei Zheng's face was also ashen, and even Li Yi's behavior was unacceptable to his own people in the same party.
"Come, go and call Prince You to me!" Li Jiancheng, who has always been gentle, was also really angry at this moment.
"Slow down!" Wei Zheng shouted: "What is your Highness going to deal with this matter?"
Li Jiancheng gritted his teeth and said, "What else can I do? Li Yi has helped Gu so much. If he can't even protect him, who will still be able to support Gu in the future? Fortunately, Zheng Qing is Gu's confidant, and it will not be difficult to suppress this matter." As he said that, he felt extremely glad.
Zheng Shanguo became famous when he was young. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, he was appointed as the prefect of Lu County at the age of fourteen. During the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, he was ranked first in the official assessment with Fan Zigai, the prefect of Wuwei. Emperor Yang Guang of Sui gave him 100 taels of gold and a thousand pieces of items and was moved to the Dali Temple Minister. Later, Yu Wenhe killed Yang Guang, appointed him as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, followed Yu Wenhe to Liaocheng, and was captured by Dou Jiande. Because he despised Dou Jiande's identity as a rampant, he came to Chang'an with Li Shentong.
Li Yuan did not like Zheng Shanguo, but Li Jiancheng knew his ability well and arranged him as the crown prince's left slander and Duke of Xingyang County.
After Li Jiancheng was confirmed to be loyal to Zheng Shanguo, he arranged for him to return to his old career and become the Minister of the Dali Temple and serve as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Zheng Shanguo was promoted by Li Jiancheng. His loyalty can be guaranteed, so he can ignore this matter.
Wei Zheng shook his head and said, "Your Highness, it is not just the matter taken over by Dali Temple, but the Ministry of Justice has also granted the same appointment. There is no reason why the Ministry of Justice can find out what can be found in Dali Temple. It is just a matter of time. Don't forget that the Minister of Justice Qu Tutong followed His Highness to fight south and north... It was his man."
Li Jiancheng's expression became solemn, and he had ignored this before. His second brother, Li Shimin, was the Shangshu Ling, who commanded the six ministries, and the crucial position of the Minister of Justice, he arranged his confidant Qu Tutong: "What do you think, sir?"
Wei Zheng said: "It is not difficult to protect the Prince of Yan. The difficulty lies in Prince You and General Luo. Who will His Highness choose between the two?"
Chapter completed!