"Really? Then I wish you all the best! And if it's convenient, please bring a letter to Lou Gongzi, I think Shiyun has a lot to say to him, and he also set off a few days ago, if you want to go alone now, you may be able to catch up with him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoWhen you get to Yongzhou, you have to pay attention to your own safety, although you have the identity of the regent, but when you get there, I think no matter what kind of identity you are, it will not be very useful. Because at this time, for the common people, as long as someone keeps them from going hungry, it is enough, and maybe they will hate those officials who are brightly dressed and do not worry about food and clothing, so you have to pay attention to how to provide disaster relief! ”

The next morning, Yan Qihao arrived at the villa at one o'clock, he knew that Zhan Xiaoyan usually went out to the store at three o'clock, so he came at this time, in addition to telling Zhan Xiaoyan that he was going to Yongzhou today, he could also have breakfast with them.

"Well, I know, so I changed into a gray robe, and I carried black or dark blue clothes in my bag, which looked no different from ordinary clothes made of fabric. Mrs. Lou, it's okay for you to write a letter after breakfast, I'm not in a hurry to go out in such a moment, so I will definitely bring this letter to you. Yan Qihao said, and grabbed a bun to eat, because he woke up in the morning, lay down in bed for a while, and rode to the villa, and naturally breakfast was not eaten yet.

"Okay, I'll pay attention, when I arrive in Yongzhou, I'll send a message, so that you and the master can know my news at any time, and how the drought in Yongzhou is." Okay, that's it, I'm gone! Yan Qihao took the burden and said, he knew that this was Zhan Xiaoyan's concern for himself, although it was not the kind of emotion he wanted the most, but he would be worried about people who were away from home, and before going out, he repeatedly told and prepared some necessities, which was the feeling that only the family family would have, and it was enough for the time being.

As Zhan Xiaoyan knew, Lou Qingyang and Yan Qihao didn't come back so quickly, in a blink of an eye, Liang Shiyun had lived in the villa for more than half a month, and the clear sky flew back a few times, and the bamboo tube called was naturally filled with letters written by Lou Qingyang and Yan Qihao. Because the clear sky had been following Yan Qihao on the day he set off, it was now the one who came to deliver the message, which was naturally much faster than the pigeon.

According to the letter sent back by Yan Qihao, in more than half a month, the silver ticket of one million taels he brought was divided into several times to buy rice, and then cooked porridge in the morning and evening, and cooked rice at noon for the people to eat, but this is only a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, after all, no matter how much silver there is, the rice that can be bought is limited, if it doesn't rain and moisten this land, the seeds will not grow, and if it continues, there will definitely be a worse situation, but God wants it to be sunny or it will rain, but no one can control it.

Zhan smiled carefully and thought about a solution or a temporary relief, maybe find one or a few places with lush flowers and plants, or mountains and woods with many trees, make sure that this place has a water source, and stay there for a while. So even though it still doesn't rain, and you can't work and plough the land, at least you don't have to worry about the water source, and there are always wild fruits and prey on the mountains, plus the rice you bought, you don't have to worry about starvation.

But since it's a drought, it's hard to find such a mountain range, and even if there is, the nearby mountains must not be able to be stayed, so the mountains with water sources must be quite far apart, but this is the only way she can think of at the moment, so she wrote it in the letter, and asked Clear Sky to take it out, hoping that he could think about it.

"Lord Wang, the clear sky has flown back, and I think it's sending a letter again." Holding the clear sky in his hand, he said as he walked in. And the clear sky flew to Yongzhou in the afternoon of the second day after Zhan Xiaoyan wrote a good letter, and the eagle's flight speed is very fast, so use it to deliver letters, and you don't have to worry about being bullied by other birds, which is really good!

"Lyne, how are the people? The rice should be enough for the time being, and there is no restlessness, right? At this time, Yan Qihao was looking at the files since the drought and the records of what the local government had done. The county magistrate of Yongzhou is a rare good official, not corrupt or confused, everything is based on the people, so this drought is also very dedicated to the hungry people, but no matter what, he doesn't have too much money to settle so many hungry people, so he can only do something that can help them as much as possible.

And now I have been here for six days, and I bought 50,000 taels of rice in the first three days of Yongzhou, and there are more than 1,000 people in Yongzhou, including 83 people who have little money or more money, so on average, this 50,000 taels of rice can only be enough to eat for about ten days.

That is to say, if all the 1 million taels are used to buy rice, it will be enough to eat for about half a year, but the drought has also spread to other places, and some villages and towns next to Yongzhou have also been affected, so this million taels is actually not too much, what can be done to solve it? Even if the use of silver can temporarily appease the people, it is not a complete solution. If the drought continues, no amount of silver will be of any use! Because the problem that needs to be solved is not just for everyone not to go hungry.

"The people are very peaceful, because what they want is very simple, as long as they have something to eat, they will not go hungry. However, they are also very uncomfortable, because they can't farm, so they can't sow seeds, fertilize, and then remove insects and harvest as in previous years, but they can only be hungry before, and now they can only wait to eat, and they can't harvest a few baskets of grain after hard work as in previous years, and most of them don't like to eat ready-made. Jiang Lien told the real situation, and he was also embarrassed in his heart.

Because since the disaster, they have been led by the county commander, eating and living with the people, and in close contact, they know best the difficulties in the lives of the people, as well as some of their ideas, so at this time, Yan Qihao asked, and he could answer immediately.

After all, although Yan Qihao came at this time, they still followed the people in shifts, seeing that they had someone to cook porridge and deliver it, so that they didn't have to worry about filling their stomachs, and it was a pity that they couldn't farm anymore and harvest crops such as grain or vegetables. Because it is clear that their life at this time is not absolutely normal and regular, so they are very eager to pass the drought as soon as possible and let everything return to normal.

"Really? All right, Lien, go down, it's time for supper! Clear sky, come here, give you something to eat. "Yan Qihao has always been very good to the clear sky, not only because it is smiling, but more importantly, it can send letters, and especially at this special time, it can reflect its speed. And on the other hand, it is precisely because they are separated from each other at this time that they need to communicate constantly, so that they can know each other's news.

After Yan Qihao read what Zhan Xiaoyan wrote, he naturally saw the method she said, looking for a mountain range with a water source? However, in such a season, although there is no shortage of mountain treasures, wild fruits and prey on the mountain, fierce animals do not hibernate, so if they are really found, before the people are moved up, they must also make sure that there are no more beasts on the mountain that can endanger human lives.

And this is something she hasn't thought of yet, but she's already figured out a solution, no matter what, at least she has to make sure of it, and if it can really be determined, it will be very good. So it seems that now we have to let people explore the mountains that are far away from Yongzhou, whether it is really possible to achieve this method!

"Move the people to the mountains? Lord, although this is a good idea, the mountains with water sources are not so easy to find. What's more, it is still a drought at this time, and the beasts on the mountain are not easy to provoke at night, and the people are not necessarily willing to leave their homes, so it will definitely be difficult to implement this! So Lord Wang, do you want to think of another way, after all, leaving does not mean that everything is solved! Yan Qihao called Lou Qingyang and the county magistrate over, and then told them this method, wanting to hear their opinions, but the first one to object was Lou Qingyang.

"If there was another way, I wouldn't have come up with it. And no one knows when it will be afternoon, and how long the drought will last, so go find mountains with water sources and let everyone stay there for the time being, and there will be no more water shortages. As for the beasts, of course, they will be chased away before everyone goes up, so that they will not have a chance to hurt people. Yan Qihao could probably guess what they might say, so at this time he was persuading them, after all, no one could predict how long this drought would last.

"It seems that the prince has already thought about it, so I don't know if he has also thought about the mountain range where he is going? The only places in the vicinity that have not been affected by the drought are outside Xiangjun, which is a five-day journey away. If we want to go there, then we have to investigate first, and then determine if there are wild beasts on the mountain, and how many people can accommodate it. Yongzhou County Commander Chen Yunxiao said.

Because he has been staying in Yongzhou, he has always been the one who knows how much the people have suffered because of this drought, and he has always been thinking of solutions. Now that Yan Qihao has proposed one, although it is a little inappropriate, they can also find a way to make it proper, so there is not much time to think about it, but to implement it directly relatively quickly, so that they can quickly determine whether this method is really possible.

"I've sent my secret guard to investigate, and at the earliest, I'll know the results in three days. And the reason why the people live directly on the mountain is not only because there will be water sources on the mountain, but also because there are local people living in Xiang County. ”

Hearing Chen Yunxiao say this, Yan Qihao told him what he was already doing, after all, he also hoped that the people could get rid of this status quo as soon as possible and no longer be so panicked. After all, man-made disasters can be prevented and avoided, but for natural disasters, it is not possible, and once natural disasters come, people have to accept all they do, and then they will do their best to obey the destiny of heaven. At this time, only those with money and power should have more abilities and conditions to be less passive, and naturally they should help those poor people.

"Lord Wang, I think even if it is really possible, it will be difficult to persuade the people to leave Yongzhou. If they wanted to leave, they would have left when the drought had just happened, when they were almost finished, instead of selling their sons and daughters, and they would have stayed in Yongzhou. Therefore, when the prince's secret guard sends back positive news, we also need to persuade the people to temporarily leave Yongzhou and go to Xiangjun or other places where there is a water source before the rain and before the drought is over.

After all, there are more than 900 people, and they can only move by walking, and not everyone can ride a horse, and if you ride a carriage, there are not so many cars for a while. Lou Qingyang thought about it and put forward another problem that needed to be solved, after all, the thoughts of the people were also the ones that needed to be taken into account the most. It's not what they say here, things can go so smoothly!

"Of course, everything has to be done step by step before it can be implemented perfectly. As for persuading the people, I think we can tell them that if they change places for a while, they can farm and work, even if they can't do the same as when they are usually in the fields, but in the mountains, even if the place is not so big, they can find slightly softer apprentices, and then plant some seeds that are easy to survive, and there will be a harvest in the future. And it won't last forever, it's just temporary, and when the drought passes, everything will go back to normal, whether it's life or everything. ”

Yan Qihao naturally knew that all this was a temporary solution, and it would not be good for a long time, but at least he could live in the mountains for half a year, and if it didn't rain during this period, he would think of other solutions. After all, whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it will always be the people who will be affected and harmed, and what they want has always been very simple, just to live every day in peace and happiness, to be well fed and clothed. (To be continued.) )