Chapter 467 The future is long
Zhu Deyu was carried back home. Guo Xiuying was shocked when she saw this. He was fine when he left home in the morning, so how come he became like this after entering the camp?

After the confidant who was accompanying her told her what had happened, Guo Xiuying hurriedly invited a pediatrician to come and diagnose and treat the patient. After the doctor examined her, he said that they were all superficial injuries, and she was relieved.

Guo Xiuying personally applied medicine to him and said, "You too, why did you really hit me? You didn't know how to control your strength."

Old Zhu was actually fully awake, grimacing in pain, "Ouch."

"This is a situation that can't be resolved. If I don't come out and take this beating, then Old Tang will probably let His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi peel off his skin. Besides, it's really outrageous to be such a bastard. No wonder the higher-ups asked me to come over. They've made me lose face."

Guo Xiuying complained, "You can't be so aggressive. Look at your butt. Don't even think about riding a horse or sitting for ten days or half a month."

Lao Zhu said: "Okay, we know. Ouch."

As the couple was talking, a servant from the mansion came to report that Li Pushe had arrived.

Old Zhu hurriedly asked someone to come in. Li Baishi came in and looked at Zhu Deyu lying on the couch, and sighed: "Brother Zhu, how come you are so badly injured? Was it really a fight?"

Zhu Deyu said, "Brother Li, I am really unable to move around. I am sorry for the inconvenience."

Li Baishi smiled and said, "Why are you saying these things? We have been friends for many years."

Guo Xiuying knew that the two had something to say, so she just said hello to Li Baishi and left.

After she left, Zhu Deyu said a little embarrassedly: "Brother Li, this time, it was us and Tang He who dragged you down. We just suffered a little, and you..."

Li Baishi smiled upon hearing this, then shook his head: "What does it have to do with you? I failed the king's trust. This is a very clear case. Tang He came to me, and I wanted to show him a way out of consideration for him. But then again, if this happened in Huainan, it would have been over, but it's not possible now, this is in Luoyang."

Zhu Deyu said: "Your Majesty is very angry when he hears about this, but I think it is not a bad thing. Otherwise, these bastards would have made a huge mess. It is only because they have implicated you, Brother Li. Your Majesty, this..."

Li Baishi said, "Since I joined the King's army, I have been entrusted with important tasks. With so much power, it is inevitable that I will be careless in my work. This is a lesson for me. If my prediction is correct, I will probably be sent out next."

Zhu Deyu was a little surprised, "Not really?"

Li Baishi is currently the number one civil official under the power of the King of Qi. He is the Chief Clerk of the Tiance Palace, the Left Prime Minister of the Xingtai, and the Acting Director of Henan Prefecture.

Even Li Qinglian, who had followed Li Yuanhui the longest, was not as high-ranking as him. Only Dugu Ying, as the Chief Clerk of the Prince of Qi's Palace and the Right Prime Minister of the Executive Yuan, could be compared with him.

However, Li Baishi was given an additional position to act as the governor of Henan Prefecture, which meant that he was exercising the powers of the governor of Henan on behalf of Li Yuanhui. Both symbolic and actual power were there.

But it was this authority that taught Li Baishi a lesson.

"It has come to this point, there is no need to think about it anymore. We have followed the Lord for the longest time, and the Lord trusts us the most, but the Lord is looking at the whole world, and we still have to know how to advance and retreat. Otherwise, if we only know how to fight, we will suffer."

Li Baishi said a few words and left, but Zhu Deyu thought about it for a long time until Guo Xiuying came over with dinner.

At this point, things turned out just as Li Baishi had expected.

At the end of June, Li Baishi, the acting left servant, went out to serve as the governor of Runan, Guo Fenghe, the governor of Southern Yuzhou, was appointed as the acting left servant, and Xie Xun, the governor of Runan, was appointed as the governor of Southern Yuzhou.

Guo Fenghe's qualifications were much more impressive than Li Baishi's. He was also the father-in-law of General Zhu Deyu of the Left Guard. He had raised Madam Cao and had a brother-sister relationship with her. He could be considered a relative of the Prince of Qi's Mansion. In those days, he had brought up tens of thousands of households from Tianzhu Mountain to seek refuge with him.

He has been stationed in the local area for so many years. As a frontier official, he has protected the country and the people. There have been bumper harvests year after year under his rule, and the people live in peace. The population and taxes have almost recovered to 70% of the level when Dayan was at its peak. He has long been qualified for promotion.

There was naturally no objection to his promotion to the position of Zuo Pushe, but some people were puzzled by Li Baishi's departure.

Because Li Baishi actually made a mistake, and it was true, but it was not a big deal. But it was because of this small matter that he, a senior official of the Qi Wangfu who had power comparable to that of a prime minister and was one of the leading figures of the Jianghuai faction, was directly exiled from Luoyang.

Could it be that the King of Qi wanted to suppress the Jianghuai faction? But Guo Fenghe was a senior official of the Jianghuai faction with more experience than Li Baishi. Transferring him to Luoyang could not possibly mean suppressing him.

Therefore, it can only be said that His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi attaches great importance to the law and murder cases, and does not tolerate any injustice.

As for Li Yuanhui's real plan, in addition to beating him, he also wanted to suppress Li Baishi. It is not a good thing to improve too fast. He also wanted to suppress the arrogance of his important ministers and generals, so that they would know that I rely on Li Baishi so much. It is necessary to deal with him, and you should not jump. You can't raise a bunch of arrogant soldiers and generals.

The reins can't be too loose, otherwise the horse will not obey.

Li Yuanhui gave the power to manage Henan Prefecture to Dugu Ying. Dugu Ying was a native of Luoyang, so he should be governed by people from Luoyang.

After this incident, the left and right guards will definitely be much more obedient.

Next, if the Xianbei nobles and Central Plains gentry in Luoyang committed any illegal acts in Luoyang, and if Dugu Ying dared to show favoritism, Li Yuanhui would definitely deal with him in the same way, and he would not be able to escape.

By July, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and drought occurred in many places, especially in Guanzhong. There was a severe drought and locusts were everywhere. At least a dozen counties were facing the problem of harvest failure.

There was also drought in Guandong, especially in Yuzhou, which was also very serious. The ground was cracked and there had been no rain for a long time.

Although Li Baishi, who was demoted when he arrived in Runan to serve as the prefect, was not slack at all. Runan was one of the largest counties in the country, governing more than a dozen counties. The situation in some of these counties was very serious. Li Baishi personally led the people to dredge ditches and divert water from the Yingshui River, Rushui River and other rivers for irrigation.

The drought in Yuzhou might be alleviated through human efforts, but there would be no natural disasters in Guanzhong at all. In this era, human efforts cannot solve the problem.

Therefore, everyone from the crown prince in power to the common people prayed to the gods and Buddhas to resolve the disaster, otherwise countless people would starve to death in this drought.

Because of the drought, Li Er became increasingly worried and lost his appetite. He even stopped his favorite activity, hunting. His health became worse and worse.

Several prime ministers, including Pei Hongde and Sima Xiuye, were also extremely worried about the drought and many other issues. Prime Minister Wen Daya even went to Shuzhong and Hanzhong specifically to check the roads and grain reserves to see if they could provide support for the impending famine in Guanzhong.

Some people suggested that some people could be relocated to Hanzhong and Shuzhong to reduce the pressure on Guanzhong, but this was obviously regarded as nonsense and refuted.

The final solution is still the traditional method, and the food gap in Guanzhong still has to be solved by Guandong.

Crown Prince Li Er wrote a handwritten letter to King of Qi Li Si in Luoyang, asking whether the food shortage problem in Guanzhong could be solved by water transportation from Luoyang.

But before this letter arrived in Luoyang, an important news came from Hebei.

Ten days later, in August, Emperor Murong Ju of Northern Yan abdicated the throne to King of Han Liu Xuanji in Xindu.

The once prosperous dynasty of Dayan fell apart in less than ten years after Murong Ying's death, and now even the last symbol of it is almost disappearing.

In Changchun Hall, Li Yuanhui, who had just returned to the palace after visiting Zhu Deyu at Zhu's house, was lying on a recliner in the pavilion. Looking at the news, a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He recalled the afternoon on the top of Jinyang City in the 13th year of Tiansheng, when a man over eight feet tall and with a sturdy appearance was looking at the Fen River and Longshan Mountain.

I want to spread justice to the world.

Both wanted to change the world, but in the end they went their separate ways. Li Yuanhui had already walked a long way down that path.

Now, Liu Xuanji seems to be catching up. But what does it matter? There is still a long way to go.

(End of this chapter)