Great Ye Empress

Chapter 427 Official Documents
The flickering candlelight on the high table reflected the slightly worried face of the prefect.

The heavy rain did not stop, and the floods hit, Xie Yunchu thought that there were three things to do in front of him, one to save people!Second, resettle the victims!Three... Prepare for the disaster relief after the flood recedes, but the Zhifu and Zhizhou are worried and blamed.

"Saving people is the most important thing. Now even the magistrate is going to save people in person. Don't delay sending the guards... How many people can be saved!" Xie Yunchu said calmly, "The guards in my house also followed. Call on the young and middle-aged people in the city who know water to save people together, one more person and more strength."

Originally, the prefect wanted to say something, but after listening to Xie Yunchu, even the guards in Xie's house followed, and finally pursed his lips.

"Lord Xiao Xie doesn't know, this flood... It's good for those who can swim to protect themselves, but saving people is easy to be swept away!" The prefect spoke to Xie Yunchu in a very polite tone.

"Tie the rescuers one by one with ropes, and find someone who can save...not one can fall!" Xie Yunchu turned to look at Yechen, who was still dripping at the door, "Let our guards go with us and teach us them!"

In the sound of the rainstorm hitting the tiles, Xie Yunchu's voice was particularly clear.

"Yes!" Ye Chen responded.

Hearing this, the prefect did not dare to offend Xie Yunchu, so he could only nod his head and let the guards go outside the city to save people.

However, the rain was more than expected...

However, in just half an hour, the flood flooded into the city, and the river in the city began to swell. The water has submerged the yamen steps, and the water is still rising.

Xie Yunchu went up to the tower wearing a mink robe, but the rain was so heavy that he could see a little more clearly in front of the city, but he couldn't see it in the distance.

Dark clouds, gloomy sky, water-like rain.

The outside of the city is flooded, and the water inside the city is rising...

Many people's wooden basins, stools and bamboo baskets, as well as gadgets for children to play with, float on the turbid water surface, and those hit by the rain rise and fall on the water surface.

Outside the city, the water in the moat is also rising.

But for an hour, the water has already filled one's chest, and it is still rising...

The city was filled with the cries of women and children. Xie Yunchu told the prefect, let the prefect order people to go from house to house and shout for the people to go up to the roof to escape.

"Let the guards with kung fu walk around the roof in case someone calls for help!"

In the heavy rain, Xie Yunchu's voice was annihilated by the voice, and the prefect could not hear Xie Yunchu's words, and shouted loudly: "What?!"

Xie Yunchu put his hands, eyes and lips, and shouted again in the ear of the prefect: "The defender in the city, if you have the skills, walk on the roof to prevent people from calling for help! If the water level is higher... let the people climb the city tower to escape!"

"Okay!" The prefect nodded.

The prefect first asked people to pick up his family members and hide on the tower. When they climbed the tower, the burden was scratched, and the gold and silver jewelry fell all over the floor.

God is willing to leave a way for the people of Maozhou to live. That night, the pouring rain finally stopped, and the floodwater in the city almost did not cover the roof. In the voice of the people crying and begging for the blessing of God and Buddha, they retreated.

Despite this, nearly a hundred people died in the city, and some slipped off the roof without being rescued.

Some houses collapsed and fell into the stagnant water together with no trace.

Early the next morning, when the people came down from the roof, the stagnant water in the city had retreated to the waist of the people and was still descending.

It wasn't until that afternoon that it dropped to ankle height.

Maozhou city and the houses of the people were ruined. The candles lit in the city... reflected the thick mud on the ground, the walls were also muddy, the furniture, the courtyard...nowhere could be seen.

Some people felt that the flood had receded, and as soon as they returned to the house, the house collapsed and was crushed under the ground.

There are also many drowned corpses of livestock scattered all over the street.

Xie Yunchu, who had not slept all day and night, sent people to check the casualties.

The clerk quickly went out of the city to check the situation of the granary outside the city...

Xie Yunchu was full of worries. At first, for the convenience of transportation, the granary in Maozhou City was built not far from the wharf, and the granary in Maozhou did not have a granary like the large granary in Taiyuan Prefecture, and the stored grain itself was limited. It is very easy to take food away.

Now that the flood is receding, what will the people eat if there is no food in Maozhou?
I only hope that the granary can keep some, enough to support the delivery of food to the court.

This is already the situation in Maozhou City, and it is still unknown outside Maozhou City.

Soon, the officers who inspected the granary came back and said that the flood had not receded. Once the flood had receded, the officials would count the granary. However, the situation was not optimistic. How much food can be left behind.

The officers who went to check the casualties also came back. The high terrain of Maozhou City and the flood have receded. However, the situation in other places outside the city is also very bad. .

At this time, after following the orders of the government, the people who entered the city were terrified after embracing their family, only to feel that they were fortunate to have entered the city.

Xie Yunchu took the time to write and asked for food directly from the court, saying that the granary in Maozhou had been washed away, the fertile fields of the people were flooded, and the houses were destroyed. It was urgent for the court to exempt taxes and allocate grain for disaster relief, otherwise once the flood passed... The people would have no food to eat. , starved to death everywhere, and then feared that there would be a plague.

Xie Yunchu asked the prefect to hand over the official document with her, and then wrote to Mrs. Xie and Zhou Fubai to write separate letters, asking Mrs. Xie to ask the uncle to think of a way, and also asked Zhou Fubai to urge him at the Ministry of Household, and life was at stake. .

"Tell the person who sent the official document and letter to be fast! It's a matter of human life!" Xie Yunchu handed the letter to Yechen.

The official documents and letters were sent out, and Xie Yunchu brought his own guards to rescue the disaster in the city.

The prefect who had just rested heard that Xie Yunchu personally took people to the city for disaster relief and dredged the mud, and got up again, complaining that Xie Yunchu did not know he was tired, and did not let others rest, while wearing clothes and taking his family guards to find Xie Yunchu.

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When the official document about the sudden flood in Maozhou was just delivered to Bianjing, Uncle Xie also saw Xie Yunchu's letter.

But the next morning, no one mentioned it.

Mr. Xie raised his brows, and in the morning, he asked Mr. Xie to send someone to send Xie Yunchu's letter to Xie Yunwang, who was working at the Censor's Desk.

Since Xie Yunchu went to Maozhou and Yu Qianchao temporarily acted as the imperial censor Zhongcheng, the third prince has been too comfortable.

The people of the third prince were even more daring and suppressed Maozhou's official documents.

The censor station was worried that he couldn't grasp the handle, so such a big handle was brought up.

Early on the third day, Yu Qianchao dared to reveal the matter, the emperor was furious, and even brought several officials into trouble.

(End of this chapter)