When everyone's eyes came over, Li Ke continued: "Actually, what I want to say for them is very simple, that is, it is not easy for them, grassroots officials. They all say that if the superiors open their mouths, the subordinates will break their legs. ."
"It's just like me, although I have formulated many good policies for everyone, in fact I just have a mouth. It is them officials who actually implement them, and these officials are dispatched to the bottom one level at a time. It was these low-level officials who carried out the execution.”
"And many of them are officials for the first time, so here, I hope that fellow villagers will give our lower-level officials more tolerance. I know that sometimes they may do wrong things, or even do bad things with good intentions, and At that time, there was no way to satisfy some of everyone’s demands immediately.”
"Please give them some time, give them some confidence, and let them make progress together with you fellow villagers! Of course, the tolerance I am talking about means that they are working hard, and they do not have to tolerate everything. For example, corruption, and so on. When it comes to issues such as collusion between government and business, let’s ask everyone to monitor it together. Okay?!”
"Okay!" The surrounding crowd cheered loudly again.
"Then I would like to thank you all on behalf of the many low-level officials." Li Ke smiled and cupped his hands around him.
"In addition, there is one last thing I want to ask you, that is, if you encounter difficulties, or encounter something that is difficult to solve, you must believe in the court and the government, and we will definitely work hard to solve it for you!"
"Finally, everyone must live your life well. I know everyone believes in me, but I am neither a god nor omnipotent. Your Highness, King Qin, is also a human being, so if you have anything to do, you must go to the local Officials solve problems.”
"Everyone must not engage in blind worship. It's useless to worship me alone. I can't make everyone live a good life by myself. If it weren't for the concerted efforts of everyone in the Tang Dynasty, and if it weren't for the support of my father and brother, I wouldn't be able to live a good life." It has brought so many good policies to everyone, don’t you think so?”
"So, in the future, everyone can live with peace of mind. The Tang Dynasty Court will definitely work hard to make everyone's life better! This is not only the responsibility of the Tang Dynasty royal family, it is the responsibility of all officials in the entire Datang Court."
"If you don't make decisions for the people as an official, you might as well go home and sell these potatoes. Do you remember this?"
"Remember." Everyone agreed happily.
After chatting with the people in Baicaowan Village, Li Ke continued on the road.
Like other people, after the people of Baicaowan watched Li Ke and the others leave, the people of other villages who gathered in the village also gradually returned to their own villages.
Only the people of Baicao Village still gathered together.
"Everyone, everyone just heard what His Highness said. His Highness said that we have to trust the court and not engage in blind worship, so we have to build our village ancestral hall to enshrine His Highness's longevity tablet." Zhao Lin took advantage of everyone's presence and hurriedly said. .
"Zhao Lin, Village Chief Zhao, don't forget. Now the village chiefs of Datang are all elected. You were elected by us, so don't be ridiculous. His Highness said not to engage in blind worship, but look at us. Are the people in the village blind? We are all sober. This ancestral hall must be built." A man in his forties spoke loudly without saying a word.
"Yes, that's right. Tian Zhu is right. His Highness said not to worship blindly. We are not blind. Besides, everyone in this ancestral hall pays for it together. If you don't want to pay, we will give you the money." Another person also spoke.
"No, I am also a member of our village. How could I not come out? Am I not responding to His Highness's call?" Zhao Lin said helplessly.
"Shit, I think you, the village chief, are not good at academics. Have you not paid attention to the lectures recently?" Tian Zhu asked loudly.
"Why didn't I pay attention to the lecture?" Zhao Lin's face turned dark.
"Lao Qiao, a member of the security force of our township's security department, came to give us a lecture. He also said that our people have faith, the country has strength, and the nation has hope! Lao Qiao said, what is faith? Faith is not God, it is expensive. , but believe in our Datang, believe in our Datang court! Believe that we in Datang can do anything! This is faith!"
"Is His Highness a prince? Does His Highness represent the Tang Dynasty? We believe in His Highness. Is there any problem? Or maybe you didn't pay attention to the lecture." Tian Zhu said loudly.
Zhao Lin: "..." Are you sure that's what Old Qiao meant?
But seeing that everyone obviously disagreed with canceling the construction of the ancestral hall, Zhao Lin naturally knew that opposition was ineffective, so he stopped objecting. In fact, he doesn't really want to cancel. Doesn't it mean that he thinks His Highness has said it himself, and His Highness has just left, so we are not allowed to respond to His Highness's call?
"Yes, that's right, Zhao Lin, don't worry about that. Let me tell you, His Highness Xin is not much better than those bald donkeys in Faith? Before I moved to Qinghai, there was a businessman in the village next to us, and that family was considered Every wealthy family from all over the country believes in a monk."
"The Buddha's golden body was not spared, and the temples were also repaired. In the end, guess what? When his son and his family went out to visit relatives, they were robbed by the bandits. Everyone was chopped down, and the daughter-in-law was raped by the bandits. , and finally committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.”
"The businessman couldn't figure it out and asked the monk why he believed in Buddha so much and why Buddha allowed him to suffer such a disaster."
"What do you think the monk said? The monk said that he was destined to have such a calamity because his fate with Buddha was not enough. Damn, that group of bandits were finally killed by soldiers of the Tang Dynasty during the nationwide campaign to suppress bandits in the past two years. Eliminated.”
"So, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are the ones doing the work, and the monks and Buddha are the ones enjoying the worship. I heard that the businessman directly donated all his wealth to the court. The court didn't want it, and he finally used it to build roads in the countryside. ”
"You said, we might as well believe His Highness." Another man in the village said loudly.
"Okay, okay, aren't I asking for everyone's opinions? Everyone agrees to repair it, so of course I have no objection, so let's repair it and start tomorrow! Try to start repairing it before winter this year!" Zhao Lin He spoke loudly.
"That's right! His Highness came to see us today. What does this mean? It means that His Highness takes us to heart and does what he promised us back then. If we don't worship His Highness like this, who should we worship? Let me tell you, This is not just about repairing, we also have to repair better!"
"Yes, I agree. We should cultivate better. Anyway, from now on, we little bastards will have to offer incense to His Highness, and we can't forget it."
The villagers all started shouting, but Zhao Lin didn't have any objections, so he just repaired it, which at most was just a handful of extra effort.
