After the first assistant's wife is reborn

Chapter 131

For the first time, Xia Siwen faced the tragic scene in front of him, closed his eyes deeply, sighed a long time, and said to the other two accompanying officials: "You two go back to the city tomorrow morning, you must open the warehouse first, it is best Let me talk to the rich businessmen in the city, and I can pay for the construction of huts for the victims first. I will reward them in the future. Then I will recruit some doctors to provide free consultations for the victims to prevent the plague. When the assistance from the imperial court arrives, everything will be fine of."

One of them, a man in his 40s surnamed Ma, clasped his hands and said: "The next official will return to the city at dawn tomorrow, and he will definitely send food and materials for building a shed."

It's not that Experience Ma took a serious tone and agreed immediately.

Rather, he had been in the yamen for more than ten years, and when many rich businessmen gave gifts to the former prefect Li Wenyuan on New Year's Day, most of them were forwarded by him.

Come and go, he is very familiar with those wealthy businessmen.

Besides, he has dealt with a lot of people, so of course, he also got a lot of benefits.

Fortunately, he didn't want to get caught up in the case of making private coins, otherwise, he would already be in the prison car right now, and was escorted to the capital for trial with Li Wenyuan.

What awaits him is either to be cut off after autumn, or to be sent to a desolate and bitter cold place to die for his whole life.

In fact, I also want to thank the Prime Minister this time, for being discerning, not asking for indiscriminate reasons like other officials who tried the case, but just trying to finish the case quickly so that he can go back to Beijing and take down all of Li Wenyuan's cronies in the yamen.Instead, distinguish right from wrong, carefully examine, and only arrest officials involved in the case.

Although Ma Jingji is also Li Wenyuan's confidant, but, as Li Wenyuan is the magistrate, which official under him would dare not listen to him and not be used by him?
All of these are justifiable, as long as those subordinates have a conscience, don't touch the bottom line, don't get along with him, and meet a good official like Prime Minister Wei, their lives and official positions are still guaranteed.

At this time, Cheng Lin, the magistrate of Dinghe County, also found a ruined temple to hide from the rain.

The county magistrate of Cheng, who was nearly fifty years old, was drenched by the rain like a drenched chicken. He originally wanted to rush to the county government overnight, but on the way, he heard that the new magistrate still stayed in the village under Dinghe County.

Cheng County Magistrate also went down to the village below to inspect the disaster situation early in the morning, but he was not in the same village as Xia Siwen.

He thought that there was no place to hide from the rain except the ruined temple that had been abandoned for many years.Only then did the ruined temple be found.

When Cheng Lin saw Xia Siwen, he quickly greeted him: "I'm an official, Cheng Lin, I've met Lord Xia."

Xia Siwen quickly waved his hands: "Your Majesty, you are welcome, please." When he was about to say please sit down, he looked around, how could there be any chairs or stools for him to sit down?
"Master Xia, you are troubled. I feel guilty for not being able to treat you well." Cheng Lin said in a half-hearted and half-official tone.

"No problem." Xia Siwen shook his head and said, first helping his grandfather take the outer shirt that had been taken off by the fire and roasting it next to the fire.

Cheng Lin, who is nearly fifty years old, has stayed in the position of county magistrate for many years. Either his political achievements are mediocre, or he is as inflexible and has no background like Xia Siwen.

Otherwise, he must have been promoted to the state government office early, and then to the capital city.

Cheng Lin is really just a mediocre county magistrate with no ambitions.

When they saw the disaster coming, they panicked.

At this time, I saw the magistrate Xia, who was a Beijing official, visiting the disaster site in person to direct the disaster relief.

Suddenly, there is a backbone.

"The lower officials will send food early tomorrow morning, so that the common people will not go hungry."

"Well, Master Cheng's move is very good."

If you wait until Ma Experience returns to the city tomorrow morning, then deliver the food.After going back and forth, I am afraid that the victims will not be able to drink hot porridge until the afternoon.

The county seat is not far from here, only twenty or thirty miles away.

Cheng County magistrate led his entourage back in the rain to prepare. Needless to say, the victims will be able to have a mouthful of hot porridge tomorrow morning.

In this special period, nothing is more practical than being able to give the victims a bowl of steaming porridge.

Almost all the dry food that Old General Ding had brought with him was drenched by the rain.

Each of them only kept a small part, and took out the rest, sent them outside to the main hall, and distributed them to the hungry victims.

Although it is a car and a cup of salary, it is better than nothing.

The next day, early in the morning, the Dinghe county government sent people to deliver food.

Xia Siwen immediately opened a porridge shed. Due to the limited granaries, two places were set up in the east and west of the city, and they were kept day and night. Even so, people still starved to death every day.

Sometimes I see them coming to the front, and then they go straight.

Xia Siwen has seen it no less than two or three times. His heart feels like it has been fried in a frying pan. The pain is unbearable, especially for those children who are only a few years old. .

When Ding Dai saw it, it was impossible to go on like this. When the court allocated relief food, half of the people would starve to death.

Due to the drought in the nearby state city, the harvest was halved, not only the price of grain was high, but there was not much surplus grain in the grain shop.

He immediately thought of Dong Wanqing, governor of Xuzhou, he had no choice but to ask him for help first.

Dong Wanqing didn't refute Ding Dai's face, not only took out the surplus grain in the grain storehouse, but also went to the rich merchants who didn't donate money to donate rice and grain with his cronies to lobby them.

Originally, these wealthy businessmen were just waiting and watching, because the new prefect was only a temporary one.

Merchants are trying to make money, if the new magistrate pats his butt and leaves after a few days, wouldn't the food they sent be thrown into the water?
Even if it is thrown into the water, it still makes a few water bubbles.

Why is it humane: profiteers and profiteers, no profiteers, no business?That's the reason.

Only a few wealthy businessmen didn't have the nerve to refute the face of Ma's experience, and just sent some old food. How could it be enough for thousands of victims?
With Governor Dong coming forward, who would dare to refute his face?Almost all wealthy businessmen actively donated food and materials.

In this way, the situation will improve.

Anyway, Xia Siwen never saw any hungry victims fall down in front of him
Now that the rain is fading away, displaced people can be seen everywhere!
What's more, the increasingly surging water of the Yellow River, like a fully drawn bow, may burst its embankment on that day.

The collapsed houses, the submerged food and vegetables, and the withered trees, as well as the wet birds on the trees, were so hungry that they didn't even have the strength to take care of their feathers. They seemed to starve to death the next moment and fell from the branches.

Even if Xia Siwen hadn't experienced it, he knew that the first thing to do was to evacuate the people to higher places and arrange for people to dig ditches to drain water downstream.

Although he is a literati, his figure is not as weak as ordinary literati.The bones of the body are strong.It's just that you can't tell from his Zhilan Yushu's appearance.

Besides, he practiced martial arts diligently behind his grandfather, rain or shine.

It's just that, unlike his younger brother Xia Siwu, he is not a martial arts material, but his body has also laid a solid foundation.

Therefore, the body is stronger than ordinary literati.

Even so, his body has become thinner in the past few days.

　People in Xuzhou: God bless, send us a good official who does practical things for the people!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)