System, help me be an empress

Chapter 78 What to do!
About half a quarter of an hour or so, the magistrate of Pingshun Prefecture hurried to the ruins with dozens of government officials and nearly a hundred guards.

This majestic posture attracted a group of local refugees to approach.

The cold moon was in stark contrast to the torches in the hands of the soldiers. Every movement made the atmosphere tense.

Seeing His Majesty coming, Ren Hai, a hundred households of the imperial guards, knelt down in fright. Before he could say anything, Xu Youxi took out an imperial decree from the bag behind him, and said plausibly: "Minister Li Si, by order of Your Majesty Governor Pingshun Mansion."

Although the magistrate of Pingshun Prefecture knelt down with Ren Hai, a hundred households of the imperial guards, he actually asked suspiciously in his heart: "Well, when did the imperial court have a female official? Lord Ren, do I want to check this edict!"

Ren Baihu looked anxious: "Don't talk, how can you fake it!"

The saints stand before you in person!
Do you still care about whether the imperial decree is true or not?
"There are a lot of mosquitoes outdoors in summer, so why don't you sit inside with your lord?" Ren Hai asked with concern.

"No need." Xu Youxi interrupted Ren Hai's words, and said bluntly, "Since Ren Baihu arrived in Pingshun Mansion for five days, what have you done?"

"My lord, I organize the refugees to work in exchange for food, lead them to repair their houses during the day, and let them go home to rest at night."

Ren Hai honestly listed what he had done in the past few days.

When Xu Youxi went to Beijing, he said that the refugees should have jobs and everyone should be able to work in exchange for remuneration.

Therefore, the prefect of Binh Thuan Prefecture organized the refugees to rush to repair the local yamen first, and used the disaster relief food as the repair compensation, and the daily food distribution was only enough for the refugees to fill their stomachs.

At night, the homeless refugees were driven back, and they were asked to sleep in dilapidated houses, or to find an open space to lie down for the night.

Dirty clothes are worn repeatedly, dry wet, wet dry, and finally there is a rancid smell everywhere.

"So, after these five days, you took the refugees and only repaired the Yamen of Pingshun Prefecture, right?"

"...Yes, my lord."

Ren Hai lowered his head, his expression restless.

"It's a practical thing to do." Xu Youxi snorted coldly, and turned to look at the miserable refugees around, "Did you hear that? The yamen in Pingshun Mansion has been repaired, let's all go in and live there."

Xu Youxi said what she said, but these refugees all looked at her anxiously, and no one dared to move first.

Before Xu Youxi could speak again, the county magistrate of Pingshun Prefecture couldn't hold back any longer, and said anxiously: "My lord, this, this, where do the yamen take in so many refugees, and the yamen is the place of the government. There are already so many guards here Army, it is really impossible to accommodate more..."

Xu Youxi raised his voice, "Is the yamen built by the magistrate, or was it repaired by the magistrate?"

"This……"

"Since it's not, whoever lives in the yamen is none of your business! All the homeless victims can live in the yamen of Pingshun Prefecture to rest. Even if the sky falls, I will support them!"

"But there's no room left in the yamen!"

Xu Youxi looked at Ren Hai threateningly: "Ren Baihu, tell me, is there room for refugees in the yamen of Pingshun Prefecture?"

"Able to take them in." Ren Hai nodded and bowed, "The imperial guards can squeeze ten people into a room, and all the vacated spaces can take in refugees!"

The victims watched the scene quietly, and finally someone whispered: "I am in good health. Is there any place to stay? It's just that there are too many snakes and insects outside now. I can make room for my daughter-in-law and baby."

"Me too, just let my parents have a place to rest."

"I can't live anymore, let someone else live in need."

……

How kind the victims are, the more they set off the inaction of the local prefect and the imperial guards.

Xu Youxi didn't speak, and looked coldly at Ren Baihu who was kneeling, and asked him to hear the voices of these disaster victims himself.

Ren Hai was ashamed: "Minister, lead the imperial guards out of the government office, and organize the elderly, women, children and children to live in the government office in turn."

"That's gone? What about the rest of the people! Just ignore it! The disaster victims are responsible for being kind, and you Imperial Guards are responsible for being stupid, right?" Xu Youxi was furious, and scolded directly, "When marching and fighting, there is no one in the wild. Houses, did all the soldiers sleep in the open air on the ground!"

"I don't have a place to live and don't know how to set up a tent for emergency? It's more than two hours away from Shangjing, and it's closer to the nearby cities, towns and counties. I don't have long hands, do I have brains! I don't know how to borrow it, will I buy it? The disaster relief money you brought is just a decoration, I plan to take it back in the future so that I can get more salary for myself!"

"What are you looking at, go!"

"I'm still waiting for my shopping. I'll set up a tent. Do you want me to welcome you in to rest after I'm done?"

Ren Hai didn't dare to lift his head when he was scolded, and lowered his head, he could only repeat in a humble tone: "Don't dare, don't dare, yes... yes."

The magistrate of Pingshun Prefecture didn't know who the governor was, but seeing Ren Hai's nodding and bowing posture of the Imperial Guard, he vaguely understood in his heart that the other party's status was definitely not ordinary, so he could only keep his head down and not talk much.

Ren Hai, a hundred households of the imperial guards, divided half of the soldiers and immediately began to clear the ground, and began to try to build camps with the remaining materials.

The other half were divided evenly, and some soldiers arranged for some victims to live in the Pingshun government office in an orderly manner; the other half went with him to the nearby city to buy materials for making camp tents, and brought back quilts and clean clothes by the way.

Today, there are not a few clean clothes left in the government office of Binh Thun Mansion, so Xu Youxi took them out and distributed them to the victims, and asked the Imperial Guards to heat the hot water, and let these women, children and children take a bath in batches and change into clean clothes.

In summer, the temperature itself is high during the daytime. After staying in a dirty environment for a long time, groups with poor resistance are easily infected with the plague.

It continued like this until noon the next day, and the rest of the men in Pingshun Mansion who hadn't lived in the mansion could also live in the tents to rest. Everyone had a bath and looked a bit human.

Xu Youxi didn't go to bed until late at night, and woke up at dawn, followed by dozens of Imperial Guards to accompany her around the entire Binh Shun Mansion.

[Empress System] According to where Xu Youxi walked, a map will be automatically generated.

"These houses are uninhabitable. The foundations were not laid properly when they were built. As long as there is a strong wind, the whole house will shake." Xu Youxi frowned and said as he walked, "The fields and houses are all in a mess. , the land used for farming can become bigger.”

"Xu Ling, go to the magistrate of Pingshun Prefecture and ask for the yellow books of the local people."

The yellow book is a collection of household registrations of people in various places, which includes population changes, property increases and decreases, and so on in each region within ten years.

"The minister obeys the order."

"When I'm outside, I'll call you my lord, and I use Li Si as my alias." Xu Youxi asked.

"Yes, my lord."

After half a stick of incense, Xu Youxi got the yellow book of Pingshun Mansion, looked through it roughly, and found that there were no particularly rich landlords in the area, and most of the land belonged to the people of Pingshun Mansion themselves, that is, they had to pay some money to the government office every year. grain.

"Tonight, call all the people in the entire Pingshun Prefecture to the vicinity of the government office, and tell them that the imperial court has the latest decree to be promulgated." Xu Youxi quickly arranged.

(End of this chapter)