Men's Petite Wife: Lord, Madam ran away again

Chapter 817 What you say makes sense

Xie Jingliang said: "This official's name is Lu Xilin. As for the reason why this account book fell into my hands, it is related to another major event that affects thousands of lives!"

"Is there something bigger than this?" Upon hearing this, the prince couldn't sit still again.

"Jing Liang, how many surprises are you going to bring to Gu today?!"

Xie Jingliang shook his head and said: "Your Highness, what I'm going to say next, even now, every time I think about it, I still feel very angry, so I don't feel that the next thing is a surprise at all. "

"What's the matter?" The prince changed his posture and sat down.

"This matter is related to flood control and flood discharge in the Jiangling area! Before Lu Xilin got this account book, he had discovered that the Jiangling prefect had brought local officials, big and small, to embezzle the money for building dams from the Mo court. Now the so-called dams they built, It’s just an empty shell with a strong outside, and you don’t even have to wait until the flood season comes, as long as there is a little bit of rain from God, the dam may be washed away!”

"There is such a thing?!" At this moment, the prince also became angry.

Although the crown prince's aptitude is much worse than Ji Xuanyu's, it cannot be denied that he is also a pretty good prince.

The prince has always been fair and equal to the common people.

Now that he heard that local officials in Jiangling were greedy for money and money, making the dam vulnerable, the first thing he thought of was the local people.

After all, the flood season is coming soon!
"What should I do... No, I must report this matter to my father immediately, and try to strengthen the protection of the embankment before the flood season!"

Xie Jingliang saw that the prince really cared about the common people, so he finally felt relieved.

So Xie Jingliang said: "Your Highness! Please rest assured, Your Highness, there is no need to send another person to repair this embankment!"

Saying such things in front of a person who really cares about the common people made the prince very dissatisfied. The prince asked: "Xie Jingliang, what are you talking about? There are so many people in Jiangling, you want to make Jiangling's innocent Do the common people die with them?"

"Your Highness, calm down. The reason why I said this is because someone has secretly rebuilt the dam upstream. By then, even if the flood season arrives, nothing will happen."

"Someone repaired it?!" The prince was shocked, "Who is it?"

The prince did not miss the word "secretly" that Xie Jingliang said.

That is to say, some people are slowing down the local people in Jiangling, to be precise, they should be slowing down the local corrupt officials!

But at the same time, this also means that those who sit on this matter in private must pay a large sum of money out of their own pockets!
To build dams, this is not a small sum!Without a few million taels, it is absolutely impossible to handle!
And this person, knowing that it will cost a lot, is still willing to contribute, and silently contributes money and efforts for the common people. This is definitely a virtuous person!
Such a person, as the crown prince, he must definitely win over and reuse him!
Xie Jingliang said: "It's Lu Xilin!"

"Lu Xilin?" The crown prince frowned, "He is just a petty official in Jiangling, how could he get so much money? Are you an idiot for the crown prince?"

Xie Jingliang said: "Your Highness, Lu Xilin is not an ordinary small official. His family, his natal family and Yue's family are all local gentry families. Lu Xilin persuaded his family to contribute money and efforts, while he himself Only by mediating and covering among those officials in Jiangling, his relatives have the opportunity to take people and money to secretly build dams upstream!"

It is true that ordinary officials do not have much money, but if, as Xie Jingliang said, it is not impossible that the main family, the foreign family, and the Yue family are all from noble gentry.

It's just... the prince thought in his heart that even a person from a wealthy family would be very meritorious if he spent so much money all at once to build dams without asking for anything in return.

Moreover, presumably after this incident, the pockets of the three of them will also shrink greatly!

"This is ironic enough," the prince said with a smile, "for their own benefit, some people can covet the money distributed by the imperial court and collect money from various channels, while some people can clean themselves up and even do it for their own sake. Dayi, for the sake of the common people, persuaded his whole family to contribute money and efforts to nip a disaster in its cradle!"

Xie Jingliang followed and nodded in agreement: "Yes, Lord Lu is indeed a good official for the country and the people! If our Yongsheng Dynasty can have more such people as officials, why not worry about not being able to live and work in peace and contentment? "

After finishing speaking, Xie Jingliang finally explained to the prince the reason why he was able to get this account book: "Lu Xilin knows that he is a soft-spoken person, and it will only be counterproductive to challenge the corrupt officials in the Jiangling area rashly, and fold himself into it, so Only then did he quietly persuade his family to raise funds to build the dam, and later he accidentally found this account book and was very angry, so he decided to sneak into the capital. It was by chance that I got to know Lord Lu."

"Your Majesty Lu trusts me, that's why I hand over such an important account book to you, and let me hand it over to Your Highness on your behalf!"

Speaking of this, Xie Jingliang's tone became more solemn: "Your Highness, Lu Xilin thinks that Your Highness is a wise prince, so he is willing to hand over this account book to you, including his own wealth and life. Punish corrupt officials and seek justice for Lu Xilin and the local people in Jiangling!"

The prince said: "You can rest assured, since this matter has come before Gu, then Gu will not sit idly by! Gu will definitely give Lu Xilin and the people of Jiangling an explanation."

Xie Jingliang's main purpose of coming here today has been achieved, so he brought up the matter of the Seventh Prince again.

"Your Highness, I feel that since the people of Jiangling are protected by the dam built by the Lu family and will not be affected by the flood, why don't we take this opportunity and let the seventh prince and another prince go to Jiangling together?"

"Two birds with one stone?" The prince's tone became cheerful again.

Xie Jingliang nodded: "Exactly."

"Since Lu Xilin contributed to your highness, your highness, then his credit is naturally your highness's. At that time, the seventh prince and another prince went to Jiangling without knowing it. Isn't credit or something a good reason?"

"What you said makes sense..." the prince pondered.

As Xie Jingliang said, the reason why the father has been protecting Lao Qi is because Lao Qi is a useless prince who has no influence on the imperial power.

(End of this chapter)