The imperial court could only provide some grain to families whose houses collapsed, suffered casualties, and damaged crops, and then reduced taxes by 50%.
There is no soup kitchen, house reconstruction, or free medical care.
There is no way, the national treasury is not sufficient.
Moreover, snow disasters are much less harmful than floods. The autumn grains have just been harvested, and there is no food in the snow disaster. As long as the food is not damaged, the affected people can survive with make do.
Li Qiao couldn't fault Sheng Hong's measures.
As the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he really knows that the national treasury is really not rich.
As for the third prince's disaster relief measures, according to current concepts, they are very complete.
It was impossible for Li Qiao to ask the third prince for his values from his previous life.
The third prince passed Sheng Hong's test. Sheng Hong praised the third prince a lot in the morning.
After the morning court, Li Qiao followed Sheng Hong to the Hall of Seeking Xian.
Sheng Hong did not summon the ministers to discuss matters. He was not in a good mood today, and apart from this snowstorm, there had been no major events in Sheng recently.
After holding the tea cup and tasting it slowly for a quarter of an hour, he put down the tea cup in his hand, rested his arms on the imperial desk, and leaned forward to look at Li Qiao, who was looking at the book carefully.
"Li Aiqing." He spoke.
"Wei Chen is here." Li Qiao hurriedly put down the memorial in his hand and responded respectfully.
"Are you satisfied with Yan'er's performance this time?"
Li Qiao: "?"
He hurriedly stood up and said with sincerity and fear: "Your Majesty, this question should be answered by the people affected by the disaster."
"Then it seems you are not satisfied."
Sheng Hong raised his eyebrows.
"I am very satisfied!"
Li Qiao's face showed even more panic.
"No, no, no, you said a few days ago that you wanted to provide a poor father and son with a part-time job to make a living, but Yan'er didn't take this into consideration. How can you be satisfied?"
"...Weichen only saw the conditions of those few streets at that time, and did not know the situation of the entire Shengjing, so he made the suggestion that the sky is high and the sky is high. Your Majesty, please forget, it is Weichen who overestimates his own capabilities. "
Li Qiao looked ashamed.
"Don't you know the heights of the sky and the earth?"
Sheng Hong leaned forward, put his arms on the armrests of the chair, and said with a smile as if he was chatting away: "No matter what you say today, I will pardon you."
"Tell me, what would you do if you were in charge of this disaster relief?"
Seeing that Li Qiao was about to open his mouth, he immediately said: "I order you to speak."
He wanted to know how kind and generous this Li Aiqing was.
Li Qiao: "..."
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Chapter 164 Sheng Hong is in trouble because his ministers pick on his son
Li Qiao took a deep breath and said with a grimace: "Your Majesty, I am extremely satisfied with the third prince's disaster relief work."
Really, he can swear that his words are true to heaven and earth.
As long as he doesn't take the disaster relief measures implemented by the whole society and the government in his previous life, then he really can't fault the third prince.
In a feudal society, there was nothing wrong with the Third Prince's measures.
But Sheng Hong raised his eyebrows: "Lying."
He turned to Qian San and said, "Li Aiqing is disobeying the Holy Order and deceiving the emperor. How do you think we should deal with it?"
Hearing this, Qian San looked at the shocked Li Qiao and said with a smile: "Both crimes are punishable at the same time. How about leaving Mr. Xiao Li in the Qiuxian Hall and criticizing people day and night for a month?"
"This is a good idea." Sheng Hong immediately looked at Li Qiao: "When we come out, we won't delay the Chinese New Year."
Li Qiao: "..."
He stood up with a wry smile and bowed to Sheng Hong: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen is talking nonsense. Wei Chen himself is afraid. You must not blame Wei Chen."
"You are not joking. I just said it. No matter what you say today, I will not blame you."
As Sheng Hong spoke, he nodded his chin towards the tea cup on the imperial desk. Qian San understood and stepped forward to change a cup of hot tea for him.
In this short period of time, Li Qiao has organized the language.
He maintained his bowing posture, lowered his eyes and said, "I am young, I have seen too few people, traveled too few roads, my horizons are too narrow, and my thinking is always limited to a village."
"Although Weichen and the victims were strangers to each other, Weichen had been in the village for a long time. Looking at the poor victims, he vaguely felt that he was seeing the villagers. Therefore, if Weichen is allowed to take charge of this disaster relief, then Weichen will I will wave my hand in confusion and squander it wantonly."
"If the breadwinner of the family dies due to this snow disaster, then five taels of silver will be distributed to comfort the relatives who are still alive, and we will try our best to find a stable livelihood for these relatives."
"The injured will receive free treatment. The disabled will also find a job that can support their families."
“Those whose houses have collapsed, give them money to rebuild them.”
“Those who lack food and clothing will be given food and clothing.”
"We are all fellow villagers, and Wei Chen has a small amount of savings. Therefore, if Wei Chen is asked to come to provide disaster relief, Wei Chen will treat the huge Shengjing City like Sanliu Village..."
At this point, Li Qiao raised his eyelids to look at Sheng Hong who was behind the case. His handsome face was full of shame and caution.
Sheng Hong: "..."
He couldn't taste the hot tea he brought to his mouth. Li Aiqing really knew how to use metaphors.
"Then?"
"...Then Weichen learned that the snow disaster actually affected three provinces. Weichen finally realized that Shengjing City was not Sanliu Village. Weichen's savings were not enough for Weichen to squander. Weichen understood the difficulties of the third prince. , so Wei Chen is really satisfied with the third prince’s disaster relief measures this time.”
"Before, it was true that the humble minister did not know the heights of the world. Your Majesty, please just think that the humble minister is suffering from hysteria."
There was even more shame on Li Qiao's face.
"...Li Aiqing."
Sheng Hong sighed slightly, put down the tea cup in his hand, then stood up and walked slowly to Li Qiao.
He understood that Li Qiao deliberately brought Sanliu Village and Shengjing together to make this somewhat dangerous issue light and funny.
But Li Qiao also answered his question.
He raised his hand to indicate that Li Qiao didn't need to salute: "If you have enough money, do you really plan to give out money and food and clothing? And also allow the victims to support their families?"
"Weichen is helping the victims with the same attitude towards fellow villagers, just like the last flood in the four southern prefectures. If there is plenty of money, Weichen will definitely want the victims to be properly resettled."
Li Qiao straightened up and answered without hesitation.
"You have never forgotten your roots and lived up to Sanliu Village."
Sheng Hong smiled, but then sighed slightly.
The sentence "treating the victims like fellow villagers" perfectly expresses the position of Li Aiqing.
But fellow villagers are fellow villagers, and disaster victims are disaster victims. Li Aiqing directly equates the two. Is this the kindness of having great love in the heart, or is it pure stupidity of people who are stupid and have too much money?
Once upon a time, Li Aiqing was a white person, so there is nothing wrong with her being so good.
Now that Li Aiqing is a third-rank official, he still has this thought. This...
Being an official is to govern the people, not to treat the people as ancestors and relatives.
He has never seen such an official who is so friendly to the people!
Since ancient times, the people at the top have been weak, ignorant, tired, poor, and humiliating in order to stabilize the country.
But he and his father were not.
The father and son have never really practiced these five skills of controlling the people.
It is even said that their father and son's attitude towards the people is contrary to these five skills.
He has always emphasized that only when the people are prosperous can the country be secure.
He asked all kinds of strange questions to force students from all over the world to be good officials who can serve the people.
He is not afraid to force out talented people who can overturn the prosperity of the country.
It doesn't matter, if Dasheng Jiangshan is really finished, it can only show that his descendants are incompetent.
Since you are incompetent, don't worry about the people, don't embarrass the Sheng family, and give up the throne.
He is the first person in history to have this kind of mentality, right?
Dasheng has been established for decades. Although he and his father look down on all living beings from a high position, they always treat the people as human beings.
They and their son did not treat the common people as cattle and horses.
How valuable this attitude is!
Enough to be recorded in the annals of history and shine forever in the history books!
But they never expected that Li Aiqing in front of them was even worse than them.
This Li Aiqing was already a high official in the court, but he not only treated the people as human beings, but also treated them as fellow villagers.
As an official, Li Aiqing did not come to govern the people, he came to serve the people as their ancestors.
Unheard of.
Even a little appalling.
You could say that Li Aiqing was just pretending, but his usual behavior showed that this was true.
Li Aiqing didn't mind spending all her wealth to help the victims.
He is lucky to have such ministers.
