Disaster relief is a complex and huge project, and post-disaster reconstruction is even more difficult, not to mention the tens of thousands of people, officers and soldiers who need to be buried and their families need to be compensated.
For a time, every family in Taiyang City wore mourning and mourned in every door. The cries were endless and filled the whole city.
With the arrival of Ning Tongyi, the guards guarding the prince and other accompanying officials also arrived one after another. In a small Taiyang City, three second-rank officials, five second-rank officials, and ten were gathered in the small Taiyang City. A third-grade official, with deputies from three provinces and six ministries almost gathered here, it can be called a small court.
The officials of Taiyang City were frightened. They were in a corner. Usually when they saw a fifth-rank official from the capital, they were like seeing an angel coming to the mountain. Now, all the talents from the prince family in the imperial court gathered together. They Everyone was so scared that they didn't dare to take a breath.
For fear of offending the prince, he ordered them to be dismissed on the spot and all replaced.
It is precisely because of this that with the prince in charge, other places did not dare to prevaricate. Resources from various places were sent to Taiyang for free. Those officials who were afraid of losing their hats also worked hard regardless of fatigue. In just two days and two nights, In just one day, the funeral problem of tens of thousands of people was solved.
But what has to be said is that with the death of Absolute Disease, the ferocious plague has become milder. It is no longer a terrifying situation where death occurs almost within a day. The onset period is greatly extended, but even if In this way, no one dares to be careless.
Especially the last wave of corpse attacks that caused no disease, completely destroyed the isolation zone, and the patients and uninfected people were mixed together, causing almost all the people in Taiyang City to fall into investigation and isolation, and all the people in the city were They have all become quarantine zones.
Prince Zhao Hanqing stayed up all night for two days and nights, visiting a large number of families of the victims non-stop. He softly comforted these people who had lost their loved ones.
The figure of the prince greatly inspired these people, and also strengthened their previous belief: to save the prince is to save yourself, and to help the prince is to help yourself!
But... what shocked them was that... the prefect Li Tian was actually released, and... he was reinstated!
The prince's statement was: Let Li Tian face the consequences of all this, let him take the blame and relieve the disaster, and then settle his accounts after everything is settled.
The prince's prestige was unparalleled for a while. Although the people were dissatisfied, they suppressed it. They all stared at the prefect Li Tian with resentment and suspicion, which seemed to accept the prince's statement.
But only those who really understand truly understand what the prince's approach means.
"He actually released the prefect?" When Li Chengfeng saw the prefect Li Tian come out to provide disaster relief again, his outlook was completely ruined and he couldn't believe his eyes.
After the battle in Taiyang City, Li Chengfeng had fully recognized the character of Prince Zhao Hanqing, and sincerely admired this man who cared about the people at heart. However, what he did not expect was that the prince would reinstate the prefect Li Tianguan to his post!
This operation is simply incredible!
But Zhao Feiyue was like a mirror in her heart. She followed Li Chengfeng inseparably and watched from a distance in the corner of the square as the prefect Li Tianzheng put a smile on every citizen's face and distributed relief food and medicine.
Although some people who had received the medicine spat at the prefect Li Tian viciously when they passed by him, Li Tian did not dare to wipe it off at all and just spat on him with a smile on his face.
Zhao Feiyue always felt that there was deep resentment in the eyes of the prefect, but she could not persuade him.
"Because now the fourth brother is attacking the prefect Li Tian in the court because of the Taiyang incident, trying to bring him down!" Zhao Feiyue explained to Li Chengfeng in a low voice.
Li Chengfeng was even more puzzled and said: "Then wouldn't it be better to let the fourth prince bring him down and severely punish this derelict and insane bastard!"
Zhao Feiyue smiled bitterly and said: "No, there is nothing trivial in officialdom! Since Third Brother protects him, it means that he must be Third Brother's man. If he is brought down, then we can follow the clues to find out the backer of the prefect Li Tian, and then we can continue all the way. Touch the third brother! The third brother will definitely be implicated, and then suffer attacks and deeper influences."
Li Chengfeng is also an understanding person. When Zhao Feiyue said this, he immediately understood. He looked at Li Tian bitterly and said, "Are we going to let this guy get away with it like this?"
Zhao Feiyue shook his head and said: "The third brother is a person who hates evil and hates evil. He will definitely not let this guy go, but he must protect him now, because protecting him means protecting himself!"
Li Chengfeng let out a long sigh and said: "In order to protect an upright prince, you have to protect a crazy bastard first! How ironic this is!"
Zhao Feiyue was silent for a while and said: "There is no good or evil in the court! Only the one who survives in the end is qualified to write victory."
Li Chengfeng remained silent and sighed.
Just as Zhao Feiyue said, at this time in the distant Shenjing, a fierce political battle was breaking out in the court.
The day after the Battle of Taiyang broke out, the Fourth Prince and his party took the lead in launching an attack. Yu Shi Gao Tai fired the first shot at the Xiaochao meeting. The muzzle of the gun was directly aimed at the prefect Li Tian, accusing Li Tian of neglecting his duties and being insane. He harmed the people, causing Taiyang to suffer, and all life to be ruined!
Immediately afterwards, Yuan Lang, the director of the Imperial College, stepped forward and began to bombard Li Tian for his negligence in his duties, and wanted to strictly investigate the duties of the officials who recommended him to be the prefect.
At this time, the intentions of the Fourth Prince and his party were clearly revealed, and the target was directed at Pei Yuangui, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel.
As for the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, who doesn't know that Pei Yuangui, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, is one of the five-person party of the prince's line
Although Pei Yuangui was only Zuo Shilang, he had great power. He could intervene in the promotion and transfer of officials in various ministries across the country. He even had the support of the prince. Even if the appointment was made after the official decision was made, he could go back and grind with the opponent. In the past six months, this matter has been grinding out into nightmares.
Therefore, as long as Pei Yuangui is killed, the prince's hand on the staff is equivalent to being cut off.
For a prince, the army is not the most important thing, because the prince cannot touch that thing, and there is a high chance that something big will happen if he does. Once the emperor Zhao Bairen is jealous, "something unspeakable" will happen.
Therefore, for the prince, the most important things are the "power of the purse" and the "power of the position."
The money bag is in the hands of the Ministry of Finance. The Minister of the Ministry of Finance and the Right Minister of the Ministry of Finance are also members of the prince. The Minister of the Ministry of Affairs is a neutral party and has not shown any tendency so far. Therefore, he has always turned a blind eye to the strong performance of the left minister Pei Yuangui. With one eye closed, it can be said that the official department is also in the hands of the prince.
Once Pei Yuangui is killed because of the affairs of the prefect Li Tian, the officialdom will be out of control, the prince will lose one of his two major powers and responsibilities, and he will become a cripple!
Once he loses the key department of the Ministry of Personnel, the prince will no longer be able to control the officials of the world and maintain pressure on them.
Because the Ministry of Personnel is directly in charge of the promotion and future of officials all over the world, once the prince loses this position, with his strong and cold attitude of crazily rectifying the official administration, it is absolutely impossible for the officials in the world to still turn to him. It's a big question mark.
This battle in the court is a battle that Zhao Hanqing must not lose, and this battle has just begun.