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Chapter 242 Disaster Relief Team

Li Daiwen was indeed extraordinary. He created his own management system outside of the court. Although he did not have any conflicts with the local government, the people invisibly no longer recognized the government, but only recognized the disaster relief organizations established by Li Daiwen.

In order to provide disaster relief, the disaster relief organizations established by Li Weiwen did not even have a name. The people just named them the Qingtian Yamen Disaster Relief Group. Later, these people simply called themselves the disaster relief group.

What can be called the blue sky shows how respect Li Weiwen received in the disaster area. But after all, Li Weiwen's disaster relief organization only has disaster relief functions, such as civil disputes and complaints, and still needs the local government.

Even so, the disaster relief organizations that Li Tiewen were still subject to various boycotts. For example, Diao Geng from Taiyuan Prefecture.

Because the disaster relief money and food reached the hands of the people and directly bypassed the government, Diao Geng and his team from Taiyuan Prefecture did not get any bad oil and water, so they naturally complained.

Originally, the judge Pang Xinghuai was in charge of food transportation, homeland, water conservancy and litigation matters. As a result, when the person Li Tiewen came, he had nothing to do with him.

At the banquet, several officials from Taiyuan Prefecture complained. Diao Geng saw that the fan was almost done, so he struck while the iron was hot: "I'll tell you, my colleagues, the disaster relief money and food are not passed by us. Could it be that we just watched them and just treat our Taiyuan Prefecture as if nothing had happened?"

The deputy general Yao Bin sneered: "That may not be the case. No matter how capable he is, Li Dawen is. But the residents and households of Taiyuan Prefecture are all in our hands. Without these civilians, even if he wants to provide disaster relief, he will not be able to provide relief."

One sentence awakened everyone, that's right. Although you, Li Daiwen, can bypass the disaster relief money and grains in the prefecture government office, the information that controls household registration and civil registration is archived in the yamen. If you don't have these household registration information, how can you go to various places to provide disaster relief? Who should you send the disaster relief money and grain to?

If it is distributed from house to house, and village to village, there will be many false winners. I’m afraid that before you can finish the distribution, the victims will starve to death.

The magistrate Pang Xinghuai slapped his thigh and said to several clerks in the household house: "Shen Shang, Wang Lou, you two are in charge of the nationality of our Taiyuan Prefecture. Remember, if the person Li Tiewen comes to the yamen to ask for nationality information, you know what to do."

Shen Shang and Wang Lou are the clerks in charge of household housing in Taiyuan Prefecture. Their household housing has the nationality information of the entire Taiyuan Prefecture. The number of household registrations in each village, town and county is stored in household housing. If the person Li Waiwen wants to provide disaster relief, he will definitely come to obtain these household registration information.

What I mean today is that they do not intend to show these household registration information to the person Li Waiwen.

However, Li Tiewen was the governor of two provinces after all, and he could not afford to offend two small officials. He could not bear the blame.

The two of them looked at each other, then stood up and bowed, "The villain is subject to the arrangements of the prefect."

Shen Shang and Wang Lou are not stupid and do not allow Li Waiwen to obtain household registration information. If they are blamed in the future, Diao Geng will be the boss and let them take the blame.

If Diao Geng agrees, it will be the order of the prefect Diao. Even if it is investigated in the future, Diao Geng will take it.

Diao Geng secretly scolded the two of them for being despicable, but with a smile on his face: "This, what does this mansion mean? We are not not giving household registration information. It's just that in recent years, the government offices are short of people and the household registration information is not yet complete. In addition, many new people have died of illness and the household registration information is incomplete. If Lord Li's people come to pick it up, you will say that."

Since he had the intention of the prefect, Chen Shang and Wang Lou hurriedly agreed. However, what Diao Geng didn't expect was that Li Tiewen's disaster relief team soon arrived at Taiyuan Prefecture.

Because of Li Daiwen's decisive behavior, several severely affected areas in Shanxi and Henan were the first to receive the relief money and food allocated by the court. This allowed the local disaster victims to be resettled immediately. Along the way, Liu Dewang urgently transferred food from various places around him, and organized the disaster victims to save themselves.

Especially in Shanxi where the drought is severe, people in many disaster areas dug deep water wells and built canals, which temporarily alleviated the drought.

After resettlement of the severely affected area, Li Zhiwen began to head north. The destination of this time was Taiyuan Prefecture, which was relatively smaller in disaster.

Soon, a few scholars and some soldiers wearing headscarves came to Taiyuan Prefecture. This made the soldiers at the entrance of the Taiyuan Prefecture government face a great enemy. These soldiers who did not have military uniforms and dressed in inappropriate clothes all looked like bandits no matter how they looked like bandits.

"Who is trespassing the government office? Report it!" Several soldiers from the government office instantly pointed the spear in their hands at these people of unknown origin.

A middle-aged scholar took out a letter: "We are the disaster relief team sent by Governor Li, Lord Li, this is Lord Li's handwritten manuscript. There is also the stamp of Governor General. We have important matters and ask to meet with Lord Diao, the governor of Taiyuan."

These scholars belong to the Li Weiwen disaster relief group. These people are all righteous men from the disaster area and were recruited by Li Weiwen. Also, these soldiers without military status were temporarily recruited by Li Weiwen from the victims and responsible for maintaining disaster relief public order.

To put it bluntly, these soldiers and brave men will not be recognized by the court without military status and are affiliated with Li Huiwen's private armed forces. This is also one of the reasons why Emperor Chongzhen was afraid and local officials took turns to impeach.

A governor dared to invest in private soldiers. This is not a rebellion, but what is it?

Fortunately, Li Dawen is already old. As he said, he is all dying. If he wants to rebel, where will he rebel? Li Dawen's family and old are still in the capital. How can he rebel against him?

When he heard that it was Governor Li from the disaster relief group, several soldiers did not dare to neglect and hurried back to the mansion to report.

The prefect Diao Geng was startled at first, and then he snorted disdainfully: "Tell them that I am busy with my own disaster relief team, I have never heard of it. These days, there are many people who cheat, and I will be lucky if I didn't arrest them, so I will be driven away quickly."

The soldiers responded and soon arrived at the government office and said arrogantly: "My Lord Diao said that he doesn't know any disaster relief group. The court has never heard of any disaster relief group. You can leave quickly, otherwise don't blame us for being polite!"

Obviously, it seems that this is not the first time these people have encountered this situation. The middle-aged scholar was not angry and took the letter and said, "Look clearly, this is Lord Li's handwritten letter, and there is also the seal of the Governor."

The soldier sneered: "So what, there are so many people who cheat these days. It is not surprising that there are fake documents. Those who know each other, get out of here!"
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