My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 858 I will shoulder all the blame! Use red to attract the eyes of the victims, and use long-term peace to calm their hearts!
Qiu Liao really wanted to say that he was not just performing a false ceremony, but was truly grateful to Ying Chengjiao.

But facing Ying Chengjiao's serious expression, Qiu Liao quickly suppressed his gratitude and spoke faster, "To be honest with Lord Chang'an, the current situation is extremely corrupt."

"I have already ordered all the guards to remind all the people in Zheng County every month that if they encounter an earthquake, they should immediately go to Zheng County and wait for relief."

"There are a total of 9,561 Chinese households in Zheng County, but only 11,615 Chinese have fled here so far."

"There are a total of 16,806 households of barbarians in Zheng County, but only 6,318 of them have fled here so far."

As Qiu Liao spoke, Ying Chengjiao's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

The Qin Dynasty collected taxes and conscripted labor based on households, so the Qin people would only divide their households when they had no choice.

It is true that years of war and harsh laws have caused mourning in every household in the Qin Dynasty, but on average each household still has three to four adults - and this does not include minors under six feet five inches in height!
Therefore, there are at least 30,000 people living in Zheng County, and at least 50,000 people living in the villages under the jurisdiction of Zheng County!

But now, there are only less than 18,000 people gathered here.

Where are the others?

Qiu Liao's eyes were red again, and he said in a trembling voice: "Just now, the earth dragon turned over again, and it actually broke the ground veins where the victims gathered, causing many victims to fall into the underworld!"

"Your humble servant, your humble servant, your humble servant does not know how many victims are still alive!"

Ying Chengjiao continued to ask in an almost cold voice: "How many villages have wild people arrived here? How many villages have no wild people arrived here?"

"Have you found out the current situation of each village from the people of the countryside?"

Qiu Liao's sorrow was interrupted, and he quickly replied: "Zheng County has four townships and eleven li in total."

"Houfang Township and its subordinate Xixiaoli, Nanxiaoli, as well as Junchaoli and Wayaoli, all four villages in this township have been filled with people from the countryside."

"No one has arrived in the rest of the country!"

Ying Chengjiao took a deep breath to regain his clarity of mind, and asked again, "Do you have any other important information you would like to report to me?"

Qiu Liao hurriedly said, "It's thanks to Lord Chang'an that he had anticipated this turn of events, it's thanks to the king's wisdom, and it's thanks to the officials in the court who have been dispatching grain and grass to Guanzhong this year. Our Zheng County is adjacent to the Wei River, and it is the main route for transporting grain and grass to the cities on the south bank of the Wei River."

"The grain stored in Zheng County's granary alone is enough for all the people in Zheng County to eat for more than two months!"

"If the court can come to our Zheng County to help, please first allocate tools and medicinal materials to save the people!"

The grain stored in Zheng County’s granary alone is enough to keep everyone in Zheng County alive until the roads are clear.

Not to mention, there are probably not that many people in Zheng County anymore!

Ying Chengjiao nodded slightly, then looked directly at Qiu Liao and asked solemnly, "Can I trust County Magistrate Liao?"

Qiu Liao was slightly startled, and then he bowed his hands loudly: "I am willing to die for Lord Chang'an!"

Not to mention that Qiu Liao has the people of Zheng County in his heart, even if Qiu Liao doesn't care about them, he wouldn't dare to stab Ying Chengjiao in the back!
Ying Chengjiao looked at Qiu Liao steadily and said in a deep voice: "If the disaster relief is done properly, the credit will go to County Magistrate Liao. If there is a fault in the disaster relief, the fault will be on me."

Seeing Qiu Liao's eyes widened in astonishment, Ying Chengjiao pressed Qiu Liao's shoulder with his right hand, and his voice became more serious: "You don't need to worry about all the responsibilities and pressures in the court during this disaster relief process. I will shoulder them all!"

"I command you now!"

"Immediately hand over all the household registration records of Zheng County to me, and immediately inform me of the names of the officials available in Zheng County. Then stay here and guard the grain distribution area and Zheng County granary with your life."

"After sunset, I will personally lead the trusted men to carry the grain stored in the granary here under the cover of darkness and pile it together with the baggage transported in from outside the mountain until the road in and out of the mountain is completely opened."

"I will leave fifty of my soldiers to assist you."

"County Magistrate Liao, do you dare to obey my order?!"

Qiu Liao immediately realized the purpose of Ying Chengjiao's move.

The mountain road is difficult to travel on, and Ying Chengjiao needs to make greater use of the limited transportation capacity.

Since the grain stored in Zheng County’s granary is enough to feed everyone in Zheng County for two months, the top priority now is to transport more tools and medicinal materials.

But for the victims, all external things are not important, only food is the top priority!

Instead of spending a lot of time making the victims believe that Zheng County’s grain reserves were enough for them to eat for two months, it would be better to let them mistakenly believe that the outside world was always transporting food to them and that they had an endless supply of food.

This one point alone is enough to eliminate most signs of unrest!

As for all the blame, is it that Ying Chengjiao alone bears the blame?
Qiu Liao was very clear that if the handling of the Zheng County earthquake was still unsatisfactory even with Ying Chengjiao's help, even if Ying Chengjiao withstood the subsequent accountability, Qiu Liao would be dismissed from his position due to incompetence.

The real meaning of Ying Chengjiao's words is that he gave Qiu Liao a sword!

Anyone who dares to covet food and grass, regardless of status or title, can be killed without following the law, and Ying Chengjiao will be responsible for all consequences afterwards!

Qiu Liao immediately drew his sword and shouted solemnly: "As long as I am still alive, there will be no loss of food and fodder!"

Ying Chengyu nodded happily: "Very good!"

"Get the map of Kun!"

"Looking for Chibu!"

Looking at the Kunyu map in front of him, Ying Chengjiao said solemnly: "Order!"

"Minister Wang Bo led four ministers, fifty guards, and five hundred able-bodied men along the valley on the north side of Baishili to Nanmali in Liuzhi Township!"

"Minister Dong Yi led the ministers..."

"Minister Su Jiao led four ministers, 200 guards, and 500 able-bodied men to the eastern village of Houfang Township!" "Cut the red cloth into the size of a general's flag, and grind the ink!"

After assigning the tasks one by one, Ying Chengjiao picked up the brush and personally wrote two words on the twenty scarlet flags one by one:

Chang'an!

After blowing the ink dry, Ying Chengjiao handed the flags to the twenty leading ministers with both hands and said solemnly: "None of you have received the king's order, so you cannot raise the flags to summon the people."

"I will now bestow this flag upon you all."

"Use red to attract the victims' attention, and use long-term peace to calm their hearts!"

"I hope you all will have a great start!"

Holding the flag personally bestowed by Ying Chengjiao in both hands, Su Jiao, Wang Bo and other ministers were filled with excitement and shouted: "We will live up to the commander's trust!"

Without any instructions from Ying Chengjiao, each of the ministers took their men with them, carried hoes, food and torches on their backs, found a straighter tree trunk, held up the general's flag high, and ran in the direction specified by Ying Chengjiao.

Meng Yi, who suddenly became a commander without troops, was somewhat at a loss: "Lord Chang'an, we are here to protect Lord Chang'an under the order of the king!"

"Chang'an Jun has sent all his ministers away. How can I explain this to the king?"

Ying Chengjiao asked in return: "With me in charge, who dares to cause trouble?"

Meng Yi was speechless!

Ying Chengjiao asked again: "If even I, with a thousand soldiers, cannot stop the rebellion, do you think you can stop it with those two thousand guards?"

Meng Yi blushed!

Ying Chengjiao's voice became a little gentler: "My elder brother asked the General of the Central Army to come here because my elder brother knew that I was lacking talented people, and you all are talented people!"

"Right now, the resettlement of disaster victims outside Zheng County is in chaos. General Meng has a profound knowledge of family and must know how to set up camp."

"I beg the General to dispatch the people to find cloth, and then we can set up camp according to the marching plan and resettle all the victims."

"General Meng, can you lend me a helping hand?"

What else can Meng Yi say?
He could only bow loudly: "Yes!"

Ying Chengjiao smiled and nodded, then looked at Zhuang Chou and the others and said in a deep voice: "Those who are above Grade C in the Military Medical Department, step out!"

Zhuang Chou and most of the disciples immediately stepped forward.

Ying Chengjiao pointed at Zhuang Chou and the others and said, "These are the second-term students of the military academy who are above the C grade in the military medical department."

"Please, Doctor Meng, set up a military medical tent next to the disaster victims' tents and transport the wounded to the military medical tents according to the severity of their injuries. They will be treated by my disciples."

"The rest are the second-term students of the military academy who are below the C grade in the military medical department. Although their military medical skills are still not up to standard, they are all talented people who can help General Meng manage the disaster victims. General Meng can rest assured to employ them."

Military medicine is not a subject included in the graduation examination, but exists like an elective course.

After all, the purpose of the Daqin Military Academy is to train a group of middle and senior-level officials, not to train a group of field military doctors.

This also directly led to the fact that the battlefield first aid skills of the Qin Military Academy students were far inferior to those of the military judges.

But now is the time to try every possible means, and the more people we can save, the better!
Meng Yi quickly bowed to all the second-term students of the military academy and said, "Thank you all!"

After all the tasks were properly assigned, Ying Chengjiao raised an iron hoe and shouted, "My soldiers, listen to my orders!"

"Raise the hoe!"

"Follow me to save people!"

Amid the shouting, Ying Chengjiao took the lead as usual and ran towards Zheng County.

Nine hundred and fifty family soldiers picked up the hoes without hesitation and followed Ying Chengjiao towards the ruins.

And the general flag that brought hope and peace of mind to all the victims also followed closely behind Ying Chengjiao under the gaze of the victims, moving forward together!
Chao Fu, who was directing the rescue outside the west gate, turned around and cried out in surprise, "Commander-in-chief!"

"This place is dangerous, the commander cannot go there!"

Ying Chengjiao pushed away Chao Fu who was blocking his way and shouted in a deep voice: "Since you are my soldiers, you should know that I will never let my soldiers face danger alone."

"Human life is at stake. We cannot afford to delay. Please stop trying to persuade us."

"Rescue!"

As he was speaking, Ying Chengjiao had already passed Chao Fu.

Seeing several strong men not far away struggling to carry a wooden beam, Ying Chengjiao handed the iron hoe to the fortune teller, stood beside the strong men, and shouted: "Get up!!!"

Looking at Ying Chengjiao, who was carrying the wooden beam with his arms bulging, Chao Fu shouted in a trembling voice: "Fathers!"

"The commander is not from Zheng County, but he took the risk to rescue the people of Zheng County."

"Can we fall behind the commander?"

"Help!!!"

(End of this chapter)