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At this time, Shi Liuxun, the governor of Xiangyang, and Chen Zuo, the magistrate of Xiangyang County, both arrived.

Li Ye ignored them and took out ten taels of silver and stuffed them into the old man. The two old men were so excited that they knelt down and kowtowed. Li Ye quickly supported them.

From now on, there will be porridge relief in the city every day, so you will have food to eat. It's cold, so the old man should go back first!

Thank you, envoy. You are the master of Xiangyang. It is a blessing for us, the people!

Li Ye felt ashamed and said, It's my fault. I just discovered it just now. Hey, you go back!

The two old men hobbled away, supporting each other.

Li Ye watched the two old men walking away, and then said coldly: Do you know what I want to say?

The two of them looked ashamed, bowed and said, It's a humble job and you know your fault!

I don't want to say anything more. Old people are like old people, young people are like young people. Every official in your county government office should copy these two sentences a hundred times. Tomorrow morning, if I haven't seen the three If you don’t get enough rice relief from the office, just resign!”

Follow the order!

Liu Xun and Chen Zuo were so anxious that they hurried away.

Li Ye was not being hypocritical. He certainly knew that in the prefectures and counties occupied by An Lushan, there were many old people who froze to death and starved to death.

But this is Xiangyang, Li Ye's territory, right under his nose. On a snowy day, a pair of helpless old people were begging for food on the roadside. How could Li Ye not be angry.

Li Ye had no intention of patrolling anymore, so he got on the carriage and returned to the government office.

Li Ye was sitting by the brazier warming himself by the fire, feeling gloomy. At this time, Li Mi walked in with a smile, I heard that His Highness was in a bad mood, so I came here to check on you!

Commander, please sit down!

Li Mi sat down and said, I heard about it just now. I am also responsible for this matter. After all, I am the governor of Xiangzhou!

Military advisor, don't take the responsibility on yourself. I know it well. You are just in name and have never interfered with state affairs.

But I do know about it and what the problem is?

Tell me, military advisor!

Li Mi pondered for a moment and said, Don't you think it's strange, Your Highness? The government doesn't provide porridge, nor the temples, nor the wealthy families. This is not like a normal state or county!

Li Ye nodded, It's a bit strange. What's the reason?

The problem lies with Chang Shi Liu Xun. He doesn't allow the government to provide relief, and he doesn't allow others to do good deeds!

Why? Li Ye was really confused.

Li Bi said slowly: Although this Liu Xun is a classmate of His Highness, I still have to tell the truth. He is too bookish and has no practical experience. He is completely out of touch with the lower class people and does not understand reality or people's livelihood. He took it for granted that providing porridge was feeding lazy people, and many people stopped working hard and relied on the government and others' charity to support them, which ultimately harmed them. Once the government stopped providing relief, they would be unable to survive.

Li Ye frowned, What about the county magistrate Chen Zuo? Why doesn't he do it?

Li Mi shook his head, County Magistrate Chen did it. He used the excuse of relieving refugees to provide porridge at the city gate. As a result, almost all the people queuing up were the old and weak of the city. When Liu Xun found out, he became furious and forced Chen The county magistrate canceled the porridge relief point, and then magistrate Chen wanted to provide some subsidies to the elderly and orphans in the county, but Liu Xun refused to approve it.

Why?

He said that the government has already allocated money to the Salesian Hospital and Shanfu Hall, so it should not allocate additional charity money. However, the Charity Home can only accommodate 100 orphans. There are at least a thousand orphans in the city, and the Shanfu Hall can only accommodate 80 elderly people. , but there are more than 80 orphans in need of support, but Liu Xun believes that additional subsidies will only allow those responsible for supporting them to take advantage. His characteristic is that he is always afraid of others taking advantage.

Li Mi was already very dissatisfied with Liu Xun, the governor, and finally found this opportunity and made a remonstrance to Li Ye, Forgive me for being blunt, but it is completely wrong for me to appoint Liu Xun as the governor of Xiangzhou. He has no ability at all. The camp was in a mess, and Xiangzhou was also in a mess. The practical things that should be done were not done. A group of literati were convened for poetry meetings five times in a row, almost once a month. They said they wanted to revitalize Xiangyang literature. Each poetry meeting cost hundreds of dollars. Guan Qian, His Highness is nepotistic and has lost the support of the people regarding Liu Xun.

Li Ye said for a long time: Wang Changling suggested that Snow Queen go to inspect the people's situation. You must have discussed it in advance!

Exactly!

Li Mi admitted unabashedly, Actually, it was Beizhi's idea. Instead of us trying to persuade him, it would be better for His Highness to go and find out for himself. Beizhi went to the Old City God's Temple today, where more than a hundred orphans gathered, and they also relied on begging to make a living. Students, if the government doesn't care, they will become thieves and thieves in the future. There is already this trend. They will steal other people's firewood to keep warm.

Beizhi believes that a special school should be opened so that they can read and write, so that they have a place to sleep and a place to eat. However, Your Highness, Liu Xun will not do it. He will think that these children will take advantage. Unless His Highness forces him to run a school just like he forces him to provide rice relief.

Li Ye took a few steps with his hands behind his back and sighed: You can tell the autumn in a leaf. I thought it was the local officials' responsibility, but I didn't expect it was my responsibility in the end. I have a reputation for nepotism.

Your Highness, Liu Xun must be replaced. Xiangzhou is our basic base. We cannot allow a mediocre person to preside over Xiangzhou's government affairs, as this will ruin major events!

Li Changshi is right!

Wang Changling walked in, bowed and said to Li Ye: Liu Xun is indeed mediocre and incompetent. He has no experience and can't do anything well. He is keen on vanity things like poetry meetings all day long. If your highness can't find a suitable person, I will recommend myself. I am appointed as the governor of Xiangyang, and I can resign from other positions!

Li Ye nodded, Sima doesn't have to consider resigning. I'm considering using Hanyang County Magistrate Huang Yougong as the governor of Xiangyang. What do you think?

Li Ye was extremely impressed by Hanyang County's tradition of caring for the elderly and helping children.

I totally agree!

Li Mi immediately expressed his position: I have been in Hanyang County for more than ten days and inspected Hanyang County carefully. Hanyang County is indeed well-governed and the public security is very good. Everyone has something to do, including all the elderly people over sixty years old. , all orphans under the age of 16 are subsidized by the government, so that the elderly can truly be taken care of, and the young can have someone to rely on. The special school that refers to low-level jobs is the reference to the Child Support School in Hanyang.

Wang Changling asked: Will Liu Xun change his position?

It might be more suitable for him to go to a state school and become a scholar.

Li Ye immediately issued an order from King Lu to remove Liu Xun from the post of governor of Xiangzhou and promote Huang Yougong to the post of magistrate of Hanyang County as governor of Xiang.

Liu Xun was appointed as Xuezheng of Zhouxue.

But what Li Ye didn't expect was that Liu Xun came crying and complained, saying that he was a foreigner and he didn't bother to visit the local wealthy families. As a result, he offended them and was retaliated by them. His decree was not at all true. Can't go to the state government.

On the matter of providing relief to the elderly and the weak, he did not oppose relief, but only advocated encouraging private relief, rather than letting the government take over everything.

But none of these wealthy families bought it, and none of them responded to his appeal, so he had no choice but to give up.

As for the idea of ​​raising lazy people, it was because he saw many people bringing buckets to make porridge, and thought that some unscrupulous people were greedy and just wanted to take advantage, so he ordered the county government to stop providing relief in a rage.

Li Ye was speechless, Liu Xun cried, he saw a scholar who claimed to be noble but useless, an incompetent person who was stingy and stingy, even reluctant to spend money on staff.

He used the staff money that was earmarked for him, which was fifteen thousand dollars a month, to raise a concubine, leaving him with no staff around him.

He doesn't understand the world, doesn't understand the sufferings of the people, and doesn't care about his subordinates. He is just an angry young man full of extremes in his heart, and he doesn't even know how to provide basic relief.

People bring porridge in buckets, can he take a bucket of porridge away with him? This is porridge, not a buffet. The ration for each person is two spoons, even if you bring a bowl, it's still two spoons. He doesn't want to think about whether the poor people don't have suitable containers at home.

Just because of this trivial matter, he stopped the county government's porridge relief. Such a person was actually appointed by him as the most important governor of Xiangzhou. Li Ye wanted to give himself a few slaps. He was really blind.