I did evil in the feudal land, but I was called a virtuous king

Immediately, she kowtowed to Li An: "The little girl is willing to follow the young master as a slave and a handmaid!"

"Okay." Li An nodded, "I don't want you to be a slave, you will be my secretary from now on!"

"Secretary?" The girl looked at Li An puzzled, "What does a secretary do?"

"It's the secretary who has something to do, but nothing to do... Bah, what am I talking about?"

Li An spat and changed the subject: "What's your name?"

"Minister Liu Yiyi."

At this time, all the money in the gambling shop was gathered together, and a guard ran over happily: "My lord, a total of 5000 taels of stolen silver was seized!"

"My lord, my lord?" All the guys in the gambling shop turned pale with fright, this time they are doomed!

"This king said, all the money in your gambling house belongs to this king, not only your gambling house, but the whole southern border belongs to this king!" Li An had a sinister smile on his face, like the villain in the movie.

After that, Li An glanced at the gamblers on the ground, "I can't even beat them, do you think you can beat them? Idiots!"

Withdrawing his gaze, Li An looked at the white silver taels packed in the box, and his mouth almost couldn't close.

"Everyone queues up to get a tael of silver, and it's my king's reward for your wine money." Li An said generously.

"Thank you, my lord." The guards were ecstatic, money, who doesn't love it?

The guards lined up one by one to receive the reward, but Liu Qing didn't move. Li An picked up ten taels of silver and handed it to Liu Qing: "You have worked hard, so get more."

Liu Qing glanced at Li An, but did not accept the money.

"Hey!" Li An was angry: "Don't pull it down."

After finishing speaking, Li An handed over ten taels of silver to Liu Yiyi: "Yiyi, take it, buy some beautiful clothes when you go back, dress up nicely, you are my secretary, you have to show the card."

Looking at the ten taels of silver in her hand, Liu Yiyi smiled wryly.

For such a light ten taels of silver, Dad sold himself, so it turned out that he was only worth this little.

"Thank you, my lord, for the reward." Liu Yiyi saluted respectfully.

After dividing the loot...

Bah, after rewarding the guards, a group of people escorted the prisoners caught in the gambling house, several of them carried boxes containing silver taels, and Li An and others returned with a full load.

The team was so powerful that it caused many people to stop and watch.

Most of them are beggars with bowls and ragged clothes.

Years of natural disasters have caused no harvest in the fields. The poor people have no other livelihood except farming. There is no food in the fields, so they can only go to the streets to beg.

"Master, give us a bite of food." A beggar suddenly knelt down and begged.

Li An looked along.

Suddenly, more and more beggars knelt on the ground and kowtowed to beg.

Liu Qing looked at Li An.

Li An looked away: "Go back to the county government office."

"My lord." Liu Qing called to stop Li An, "My lord has money now, why don't you give them some silver taels, the people will definitely be grateful to my lord."

"The prince is the king of the southern border, and these people are all the prince's subjects!"

Liu Yiyi also looked at Li An pleadingly, she also came from a poor family, and she also worked as a beggar on the street.

Seeing these people, she felt the same way.

Li An walked straight away without stopping at all, only a word came slowly.

"Teaching a man to fish is worse than giving him a fish. Blindly donating money is not the key to solving the problem."

"Have you forgotten what happened last night?"

These people are crazy hungry and poor, and rewarding them with silver taels may not necessarily be helping them, but may even be harming them.

In today's Southern Xinjiang, even a tael of silver can make villains kill people and steal money!

Liu Qing's expression was complicated, Li An's words were not unreasonable, but if he had been the Ninth Prince, he would not be so heartless.

Last night was also the same, Li An has always turned a blind eye!

"Liu Qing, I have a task for you." Li An's voice came.

"My lord, please order." Although he was very disappointed with Li An's actions, as a courtier, he would not disobey Li Anyang just because of this.

"Do you remember those rich businessmen who went to Hongxingfang last night?"

Liu Qing nodded.

"Investigate their background carefully. Few of these people are clean. I want all the evidence of their bribery of officials and crimes over the years!"

"This subordinate will do it."

Chapter 5 Requesting Disaster Relief

The county government, those guards who didn't follow to catch the gambling, learned that each of the guards who went today received a tip of one tael of silver, and all of them went crazy with jealousy.

They are personal guards, they followed Li An to Qingshui County, and they are destined to settle down in Qingshui County in this life.

Settling down and starting a business, getting married and having children, what would you do without money?

Thinking of this, Wang Hu, a guard who had chatted with Li An on the way, came up: "My lord, next time you catch a bet, take me with you."

Li An glanced at him and said with a smile, "How do you know I have a next time?"

"Gambling harms people's hearts and disrupts the economy. As the prince's personal guard, I have nothing to do with gambling!" Wang Hu said loudly and righteously.

"Where's Huang?" Li An asked with a smile.

"What?" Wang Hu was taken aback for a moment, then stammered: "My lord, do you want to sweep the brothel too?"

In ancient times, there were not many entertainment items. If the gambling is swept away, and the brothel is swept away, then you can still play balls...

"Bah." Li An spat, "Look at you old-fashioned critic, can you learn from me and be upright and have a breeze in your sleeves!"

"My lord, you took Commander Liu to the brothel yesterday." Wang Hu muttered in a low voice.

"Hey, are you rebelling?" Li An raised his hand.

"My lord, the villain doesn't dare anymore." Wang Hu hugged his neck in fright and curled up into a ball.

After half a month of getting along, they all figured out Li An's temper, and knew that Li An was not really angry, so they made some harmless jokes.

"Okay, I don't treat my brothers badly. One of you counts as one, and each of you goes to Lao Liu to get five hundred Wen's wine money. You have worked hard along the way."

"No hard work, no hard work." Wang Hu rubbed his hands, and ran towards Liu Qing with a happy smile.

Li An smiled, "I just like the way you guys have never seen the world."

……

After lunch, Tian Qi brought a lot of customs-related materials and a map of Qingshui County to the desk.

"Magistrate Tian, ​​the money I lent you yesterday, I will pay you back two taels with interest." Li An took out two taels of silver.

Tian Qi also knew that Li An had copied a gambling house in the city. Although he felt that Li Anming's way of robbing was inappropriate, he still quite agreed with Li An's doing so.

Many gamblers lost their money in casinos and sold their sons and daughters. Their morals were ruined and their rituals and music collapsed. He had long wanted to punish them.

However, it is not against the law to open gambling houses in Dahua, and there are backgrounds behind these gambling houses.

He is a small county magistrate, so he can't move these people!

However, Li An obviously copied more than 1 taels of silver, so he gave himself two taels of silver, which is a bit too picky...

Those guards were all rewarded with a tael of silver...

Originally, Tian Qi shouldn't have accepted the two taels of silver, because Li An was his boss, and if he wanted to sit securely in this seat, he had to fawn over him.

However, his family has no money and has to live.

"Thank you, my lord." Tian Qi gratefully accepted the money.

"You're welcome, it's easy to borrow and repay, and it's not difficult to borrow again." Li An said casually.

Tian Qi froze in place, and wanted to borrow money from himself?

I knew I would not accept these two taels of silver!

"Alas~" Tian Qi sighed, whether it was a blessing or a disaster, it was a disaster that could not be avoided, who made the current King of Southern Border be such a superb product?

Tian Qi didn't leave immediately, but stood there and looked at Li An with some embarrassment.

"Just say anything." Li An asked.

"My lord has silver in his hands now, so please give me porridge to help the disaster."

Hearing this, Li An raised his head and glanced at Tian Qi.

Tian Qi became nervous again.

In his heart, he thought that Li An was greedy for money, and if he asked Li An to pay for disaster relief, would he anger Li An?

But for the sake of the suffering people, he went all out.

"Well, this proposal is good, you go prepare." Li An said indifferently.

Isn't he going to steal the casino just to get money for disaster relief?

The reason why he didn't take the initiative to propose it was just to test Tian Qi.

"The money?" Tian Qi looked at Li An nervously.

"As long as the money I got back from the gambling house is used for disaster relief, you can use as much as you want."

Li An waved his hands indifferently.

"Ah?" Tian Qi was stunned, he thought that judging from Li An's performance, he would have to spend more time talking and talking about a lot of good and bad.

Didn't expect Li An to agree so easily?I secretly organized so many persuasive words choked in my throat, I always feel a little aggrieved.

"Ah, what?" Li An glared at Tian Qi, "I'm the prince, why do I need to go to these trivial matters in person?"

"Don't dare, dare not." Tian Qi frantically shook his head.

Liu Yiyi has been standing behind Li An without saying a word.

As soon as Li An raised his head, he could see her pretty little face.

"Can you read?" Li An asked.

Liu Yiyi nodded, "There used to be a teacher in the village. He was a good man, and he also taught us poor children how to read."

"That's fine, Lao Tian, ​​give her a copy of Dahua's regulations."

Li An changed his name to Tian Qi, which meant that he let go of his guard against Tian Qi.

Not long after, Tian Qi brought up a thick book of Dahua laws and regulations.

"Hurry up and read the Dahua laws and regulations. Now the main thing to look at is the one related to tariffs. Do you understand?"

"En." Liu Yiyi nodded, and looked carefully while standing with the book in her arms.

"It's tiring to stand and watch, sit next to me." Li An said.

"My lord, my slaves don't dare." Liu Yiyi lowered her head.

"Why don't you dare, I won't eat you." Li An gave Liu Yiyi a white look, and pulled a bench beside him.

it goes without saying.

Liu Yiyi had no choice but to sit obediently beside Li An. Fortunately, Li An's attention was all on the file and he didn't touch Liu Yiyi, so she was relieved.

After reading the dossier, Li An took out another map of Qingshui County and studied it carefully.

In recent years, natural disasters have occurred frequently in Qingshui County, and there have been severe droughts throughout the year, and it has finally survived the dry season with heavy rains.

The seeds have just been sown, and when we look forward to a good harvest, the result is another flood.

The rainfall in Qingshui County is not heavy, and the reason why it causes floods is because there is a turbulent river above Qingshui County.

Once it comes to the rainy season, frequent rainfall in the upper reaches of the river will cause the water level to rise sharply, the river will burst its banks, and Qingshui County and other counties below will be swallowed by floods.

Where the flood passed, houses collapsed and no one was left behind.

After the flood, a series of plagues followed, and the population dropped sharply.