Allure of a Country Maiden

Many officials couldn't help but feel ashamed because of Jingrui's move: "The prefect is really a good official! His heart is full of victory. I must learn from the prefect in the future!"

"The sentiments of the prefect are so noble that we can't compare with them. I wrongly blamed the prefect. It's really a villain's heart that judges a gentleman's heart!"

"From now on, I will only follow the prefect's lead! The prefect is someone who does important things! Whatever he says, I will definitely do it as he says without saying a word!"

In fact, there is no reason for those county magistrates to feel ashamed and help the poor Yum to strengthen their houses. This is a good deed for Yum. This is also a great political achievement. It can be said that they directly relied on Jingrui to achieve this political achievement! They didn't take even the slightest risk!

Originally, they were unwilling to do this. After all, the money in the yamen was usually used for disaster relief. Except for the excess, which was used to build roads and water conservancy projects, other than paying wages, it was kept in the warehouse to wait. When a natural or man-made disaster occurs that day, use it to solve the problem.

When they are small officials like them, they all seek not to have merit but to have no faults! In times of peace, how many officials can make political achievements?

As long as they make no mistakes and survive a few years, they can be promoted! Therefore, many of these parent officials are stable and conservative in their work. As long as they are not greedy or bullying, they feel that they are a good official!

As for how to make Yum live a good life, they have never seriously considered it!

What Jingrui did was to interrupt the stability they had been pursuing, so everyone was unhappy at first!

However, they still knew that they were ashamed of themselves, so they were not hopeless. Many of them also followed Jingrui's example and used their own money to come to Yum to do some work, and strictly urged their officers and soldiers to complete their tasks according to the requirements of the prefect.

Jingrui naturally didn't know the psychological changes of these officials, but even if he knew, he wouldn't think there was anything wrong with them. Most human nature is like this. It would be good if they were not greedy and did not harm others! What's more, now they can take the initiative to help Yum out of their own pockets!

Shangguan Xuanyi sent people to transport materials including wood, green bricks, mud bricks, cement, tiles and grain.

It was agreed that grain would be used to replace wages, and these were not ordinary grains, they were rice that could be used as grain seeds! The imperial court distributes rice seeds in a rationed amount every year, but now they actually use the grain seeds for wages. After many Yum learned about this, they rushed to tell each other, and then everyone rushed to do the job.

Grain seeds with a yield of nearly 1,000 kilograms per mu are provided by the imperial court. Many people want to buy them but can't find a place to buy them. Now with a little effort, they can get grain seeds. This is a great opportunity and no one is willing to miss it.

Grain seeds, to Yum, this is something more attractive than silver! Because money can still be earned by doing hard work, but grain cannot.

Moreover, it happens to be the slack time for farming, and everyone has free time at home, so almost all the villagers have gone out to help the poor families in their own villages to strengthen their houses. Some people's houses are so dilapidated that they even directly tore them down and rebuilt a new one. Main house.

When people unite, Mount Tai will move!

There are only a few houses in each village that really need to be reinforced, and only one or two that need to be rebuilt. Reinforcement can be done in just two or three days, while rebuilding houses, although it sounds like a big project, is not practical in grain production. Under the temptation of planting, with the help of so many villagers, it is not to build a mansion, but to build one or two main houses, so ten days are enough!

This matter was completed without any supervision from the government. Some people even took the opportunity to reinforce their houses!

Jingrui arranged the main manpower in the Yum Houses in the counties and towns on the east coast of Nanyue Prefecture, because the east area is closer to the sea, which means it is closer to the earthquake source of Wanli Shitang!

Shangguan Xuanyi also sent some soldiers to help, but after all, this place is not the most important, so he only sent a hundred people, and the rest went to the coastal areas of southern Xinjiang to wait for orders!

Xiaoer and Shangguan Xuanyi also came to the border area of ​​southern Xinjiang, and the day of the crustal movement was getting closer and closer. They went out for a walk as usual that day, and finally saw something abnormal.

When they passed a certain place, they found many people surrounding the pond shouting: "What's wrong with these catfish, like crazy!"

"I don't care if they are crazy or not. This is a rare opportunity. Let's catch a few fish first and we will have steamed catfish at home tonight!"

"Yes, this opportunity is rare, wait until you seize it!"

So many men carefully went down to the fish pond to catch fish.

Xiaoer and Shangguan Xuanyi looked at each other, then walked over. They stood at the edge of the fish pond and saw many catfish swimming crazily.

Xiaoer knew that the opportunity to remind the people had come, so she deliberately said in surprise: "Brother Shangguan, what's wrong with these fish? Why do they seem so scared and want to run away like crazy?"

Xiaoer's voice was deliberately amplified just so that the Yums could hear her.

Shangguan Xuanyi cooperated very well with Xiaoer's performance. He frowned and said solemnly: "I once read in an ancient book that every time a major earthquake comes, many animals will behave abnormally, and catfish will go crazy. Animals such as weasels, snakes and rats will run away from their caves, the clouds in the sky will sometimes change color, and the well water will also undergo some changes. These phenomena are all signs that a major earthquake is coming."

Yum by the pond, the people who were catching fish in the pond were frightened after hearing the conversation between the two!

They stopped catching fish and hurriedly climbed ashore, gathered around Shangguan Xuanyi and Xiaoer and asked, "Master, is what you just said true?"

"I just read about it in ancient books. I can't confirm whether it is true. But I heard that before the earthquake in Qinghe County, someone also found that the well water in his house suddenly changed color after it had not rained for a few days. I think it should be It’s not fake!”

"No, sometimes it's going to rain heavily, and the fish will swim out of the water crazily!" An old man shook his head and denied.

Regarding this, Xiaoer will not deny it, because it is also a fact. There are still more than three days before the earthquake, and there may be other phenomena, so she said: "Whether it is true or not, everyone can just let it go." Believe me, when you go to bed at night, try not to sleep too deeply. When you feel an earthquake, remember to run out of the house as soon as possible and stay in an open place! That’ll be fine!”

There are some things that you would rather believe than not. Many people took Xiaoer's words to heart, and then went back to the village and told the people in the village about it. Then Yum Sheng unconsciously followed Shangguan Xuanyi's words and began to pay attention to whether there were any other visions.