Chapter 807: [Victims riot]
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Li Chengqian stood up and expressed his opinions.
His statement of disaster relief, and his previous invention of the curved plow, water wheel, planting three-season rice, and establishing agricultural colleges, are all for the benefit of the people, considering the people, considering the farmers and the people, and forming a consistent style.
So his words did not surprise him, but instead sublimate his personality and style in the hearts of the ministers!
Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining, Wei Zheng, and Yang Wei, who had just become a solid fan of Li Chengqian, all jumped out to praise Li Chengqian, believing that Li Chengqian is kind and righteous, and asked His Majesty to accept the prince's request.
With their lead, other ministers also stood up to support Li Chengqian. Old Master Fang Xuanling also stood up to agree with Li Chengqian's opinion.
Although there was Old Man Cheng next to him staring at Li Chengqian with his big eyes as if he was like a copper bell.
But Li Chengqian unswervingly took his eyes away and did not compare his eyesight with Mr. Cheng, so he also had a side effect, which was to stick to his own opinions.
"The prince is right. Fang Aiqing, please write a few decrees. Xuzhou, Chenzhou and Tangzhou are ordered to organize officers and soldiers to rescue the people who are still trapped in the flood." Lao Li agreed and said with his orders.
However, he did not have the only arrangements in this regard. He glanced at Cheng Lao Huo and said, "I ordered Cheng Chuliang to go to Xuzhou to prevent any serious changes in preparation for things and plans!"
Both civil and military affairs were captured!
This arrangement is very comprehensive.
But after going to court, Li Chengqian was summoned by the queen before noon.
When she saw the queen, she was always calm and composed, she was walking around anxiously in the hall.
"My mother, what's wrong?" Li Chengqian asked strangely.
Seeing Li Chengqian coming, the queen sighed heavily, then forced herself to suppress the restlessness in her heart and sat down. Although the sitting posture was as elegant as usual, her beautiful lips that she pursed from time to time deeply betrayed her heart.
She said at this time: "The riot occurred in Xuzhou. Just now, news came from the mob. The royal family and aristocratic merchants were shouting that the people were loading good things onto the ships in Luoyang, but the people could only suffer in the flood. The more people shouted these words, the more people knew. The more they made the mob's mood more and more angry."
Hearing this, Li Chengqian showed an unexpected look on his face. Only then did he know why the queen was so anxious. It turned out that the riot conflict pointed at her.
"But these words are a bit ridiculous, right?" Li Chengqian said in confusion.
The queen sighed, her voice was a little hoarse, and she picked up a cup of tea to drink. But halfway through, she sighed and put it back. Her face was full of helplessness.
She said, "It's ridiculous. But these words are very useful in the mob. When they hear these words, they become excited as if they have taken medicine!"
She took out a letter and said, "This is just sent. Many shops in Xuzhou were rushed in and smashed, robbed, and destroyed by mobs. The caravans on the road were also beaten by mobs and all the things were snatched. Now the more the troubles there are, it is getting more and more chaos. I heard that these mobs are going to Luoyang and pull down the ship's things and divide them!"
Li Chengqian frowned and understood her words in his heart.
Some time ago, the Luoyang ship was so popular that many people regarded it as a topic of conversation. This kind of psychology is an envy of the rich people of the upper class. Like later generations, everyone always pays attention to rich people like Li Ka-shing. There are also a large number of people who marry into the Huo family. After Guo Jingjing married into the Huo family, there have been a lot of people paying attention to it. After giving birth, a large number of people and the media paying attention. This is the same mentality.
Now that there is a flood, the original envy has become a hatred for the rich.
The anti-rich mentality makes the mob full of destructiveness.
It was just a riot before, but now it was specifically about damaging the business, which further deteriorated the nature. Li Chengqian couldn't help but worry.
The queen's concern was that the Luoyang ship she organized had such a bad impact now. This responsibility would be very heavy, so heavy that even the queen might not be able to bear it.
"My mother, don't worry first. What you have to do now is to ask my father to quickly let someone quell the riot, otherwise the riot will last for one day and will have an additional impact on us. In addition..." Li Chengqian gave the Queen an idea.
But halfway through his speech, he suddenly heard a running sound outside, and then someone shouted: "Your Highness, I have something to come to you!"
This is the voice of the old dragon.
Only in urgent matters can we find the queen.
Li Chengqian glanced at the queen, the queen nodded, and asked someone to call the outsider in.
The one who came in was No. 5, which seemed to be the matter with the Spy Academy.
"Your Highness, Li Xuejian asked you to come over. Something has come from Xuzhou." No. 5 said calmly.
Xuzhou? Or is it related to the riots.
Li Chengqian nodded: "Okay, I'll go there now."
No. 5 retreated, Li Chengqian looked at the queen and said, "My mother, I'll go there first. In addition, I think the big ship is a contradiction in the impact of this matter. Now we can't park the big ship in Luoyang. I don't know how the big ship's cargo is ready. Can we set sail?"
Hearing the news of Li Chengqian, the queen narrowed her eyes slightly, hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, I will think about it carefully, you go over."
There must be something urgent about the Spy Academy. Could it be that there is a hidden story in Xuzhou?
After Li Chengqian came out of Lizheng Hall, he rode a prepared horse and ran to the spy institute.
When he arrived at the spy house, he threw the sign to the guard, and shouted at the two bearded bodyguards and asked them to wait outside, and he ran inside.
The two bearded men were not enlightened and wanted to go in, but they were pointed at the tips of more than ten military crossbows at their noses, so they did not forcefully break in.
Li Chengqian entered and arrived at Li Xiaogong's office. Li Xiaogong didn't talk much nonsense. He took out a letter that had been removed with red paint and handed it to Li Chengqian, saying, "Your Highness, there are traces of the Yang Party in Xuzhou."
The Yang Party was the residual force of the Sui Dynasty. The last time Li Chengqian led his men to destroy the nest.
"What do you mean?" Li Chengqian asked calmly.
"Our people have learned from the previous story that at the beginning, only a few thousand farmers fled together to hide from the flood, and suddenly someone said they wanted to go to the city to ask for something to eat. This statement immediately received a response from all the hungry people. After the impact of the city without success, several people died, and someone immediately carried it out, which aroused more people's anger in front of everyone, and thus more people rushed to the city to cause trouble."
…(To be continued…)
Chapter completed!