There were a total of four people who came, and the two stunned introduced the four of them into the living room and introduced them to Xia Xun, who immediately took off their robes, revealing a military attache robe with a brocade bullfighting over-the-shoulder pattern, and the leader saluted Xia Xun with a fist: "The humble guard is wounded by the general Mingjia of the direct army, and I have seen the grandfather of the country!" ”

As soon as Xia Xun saw his bullfighting suit, he knew that it must be someone from the palace, and when he heard him report his identity, he was indeed a palace guard, and he couldn't help but be moved: "The generals came in the rain, what happened in the capital?" ”

Although the four Tianwei generals were dressed in robes, they came all the way in the rain and walked such a long way, and their bodies were still soaked, and the rain was dripping down from the copper swallow of the saber on their waists. Wu Wound wiped the rain on his face, leaned on the knife, and said respectfully: "Since this spring, it has rained rain, Suzhou, Songzhou, Jiading, and Huzhou have become a vast ocean, the people are scattered, and the mourning is everywhere, the emperor is worried, and he is anxious to return to Beijing and preside over the disaster relief!" ”

Xia Xun was shocked: "In the Susong area, is the flood so serious? ”

Wu Sheng smiled bitterly: "The humble post is just a decree, and the details are not clear, but looking at the appearance of the emperor and the scholars, I am afraid that Su Song's flood is better than what the humble post said!" ”

Listening to the general's words, he had read the book for a few days, Xia Xun did not hesitate when he heard it, and immediately said: "I will go back to Beijing with you immediately!" ”

Wu was stunned for a moment, and asked: "Isn't Guogong waiting for today's rain to stop, this kind of rainstorm, Guogong ......?"

Xia Xun said: "I, the prince of the country, am not a delicate and expensive gentleman, I am stunned, immediately prepare horses and clothes!" ”

"Yes!"

The second stunned promised, and rushed into the rain with an umbrella.

Xia Xun turned around and thanked him: "The matter is urgent, I won't say goodbye to everyone one by one, you tell everyone in a while, there is no need to worry." The children are having a good time here, and I think you are also more casual, just stay here for a while, and I will not be in Beijing for a while. ”

Thank you for enduring hardships since childhood, and naturally understand that the continuous rainstorm is just an increase in the interest of children in people like her now, but what a heavy impact on the poor people who are digging in the fields, and immediately promised, and gently instructed: "Master pay attention to your own body, don't overwork." ”

Xia Xun promised, and after a while, the two stunned people hurriedly came, reporting that they had prepared their mounts, and at the same time brought rain gear, Xia Xun was dressed neatly at the entrance of the hall, and walked quickly with the four palace guards who also put on their robes again.

Siyu stood under the tree and could see clearly, and asked in a childish voice, "Daddy, where are you going?" ”

Xia Xun paused slightly, and smiled at her: "Daddy is going to catch loaches for you!" ”

Siqi immediately licked his lips and said in a milky voice: "Huang Python is delicious!" ”

Xia Xun laughed: "You gluttonous kitten, Cheng!" Daddy is going to catch a big yellow cockroach for you! As he spoke, he left in a hurry.

Xia Xun is very anxious, he has spent more than a year at the lowest level of society, and he even rushed from Huzhou to Qingzhou all the way to beg for food, and he knows very well about the poor life of the lowest level of society. He was even in the city of Jinan, watching countless people starve to death. He is not hard-hearted, and his nerves are not as tough as a tightrope, and everything like hell is deeply engraved in his heart, and he has been awakened by nightmares several times.

He knows very well that in April and May, when there is no harvest, if there is a big flood, what does it mean, there is not much surplus food at home, once it is washed away by the flood, there are no grains, it is going to die, and every day the city dies, go a moment early, he can save a lot of lives, this has nothing to do with the national fortune, has nothing to do with the court, has nothing to do with the future, is it for the sake of the poor people who are suffering at the moment, the hardship of braving the rain is unbearable?

This is a person's most simple feelings!

What's more, there is also Huzhou in this disaster-stricken area, for so many years, although his father-in-law has long since died, and he has long left the small village in Nanxun, Huzhou, but he has never forgotten where it is, but he is afraid of being recognized, he did not appear there in person. When his family became rich, he had already instructed his family to make all kinds of charities and donations to the villagers there, and these things have always been done by thanks.

Now that his "hometown" has been devastated by the disaster, he is naturally more anxious.

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It's raining! It's raining again!

It's raining! It's raining again!

The river was full, the river was full, the pools and lakes were full, and even the well water rose three feet out of thin air.

It was only the middle of April, several heavy rains in succession had turned Huzhou Mansion into a swamp, the fields were washed away, the seedlings were drowned, and the low-lying areas had become an ocean.

In the high-lying place, the lowest flood is also a foot, and the peasants use the car to save the field, but the water is inexhaustible, and the car to save the water is just a useless move, how can it be saved? In the end, the people who were pushing the water cart fell to the ground exhausted, and could only watch the hope of the whole family soaked in the ocean, looking up to the sky and crying bitterly.

Outside Huzhou, countless refugees rushed to the city to escape the famine. Chang Yinglin, the prefect of Huzhou, made a decisive decision, and immediately ordered the city gate to be sealed, not to let a single refugee enter the city, and then escorted by officers and soldiers, and sent people to put grain outside the four cities for disaster relief, and the gruel that was slightly thicker than water and brighter than the mirror was only given for half a day, and then announced that the Huzhou government had done its best, and there was no food in the city, and then the people outside the city no longer cared about the lost arm.

The refugees, the young and strong, can barely trek and struggle to other places to beg for a living from the well-wishers, but what about the old and infirm and the woman holding the child in her arms? There are some unscrupulous rich gentry in the city, who quietly found the Chang Governor's Mansion and asked him to send troops to escort them, go out of the city to pick among the refugees, select the young and beautiful girl, sign the deed of sale on the spot, and enter the house as a slave, which can be regarded as doing some "good deeds" for the refugees.

Such a house slave is cheap, good in quality, and if you are lucky, you may be able to buy a talented and beautiful lady, and after going back, she will be instructed to do this and that during the day, and drink two sips of wine at night, and do this and that to her, isn't it happy? Chang Zhifu admired the minds of these merchants very much, so he asked his housekeeper to go out with him, and really collected a few girls and ladies who were originally gentry's families, and bought them back to be his own girls.

Of course, these things had to be carried out in secret, but there were still many officials and gentry in the city, who protested all day long against his practice of closing the door of the palace and asking to go out of the city for disaster relief, and some of them voluntarily donated rice and grain.

As for the donated grain...... he swept away the kugan in the treasury, and used the little old grain mixed with sand to cook porridge outside the city gate for half a day, even if he gave an account to the gentry, the new grain donated by the gentry was certainly sent to his own treasury.

Those who were bought back by the rich gentry were obviously maids, but in fact the girls who were girls in the room were already considered good luck, most people did not have such blessings, some people saw the opportunity early, as soon as they saw the closure of the city and forbidden, they immediately fled to beg elsewhere, and they did not die for the time being, but the old, weak, sick and disabled, many women, including some people who did not give up, still relied on the city, and as a result, the city gate could not be opened, and there was no grain of rice to help, and when they wanted to leave, they were unable to escape.

In desperation, many people covered their faces with their sleeves and jumped the moat under the watchful eyes of the defenders at the head of the city. And the woman, with a baby in her hand and a baby on her back, pointed to the city and cursed in pain, and then jumped into the river together, and formed a family of floating corpses that were hugged to death......

The prefect is in a hurry, he is really in a hurry! After a while, a mouth full of blisters appeared.

In this big flood, Suzhou, Songzhou, Jiading, and Huzhou were all flooded, and the situation was very serious, but the most serious one was him. His Huzhou Mansion is actually not the ground with the most rivers around, nor is it the lowest-lying place, and there is only one reason why the disaster is so serious, that is, the money allocated by the Ministry of Industry to repair the river and water conservancy has been put into his personal pocket.

Chang Zhifu is in a hurry, he is really in a hurry! After a while, Kung Fu's eyes were red.

The grain paid by the people of Huzhou Mansion was greedy for a lot by him, and he pointed to the harvest this autumn, and then take a good look at it to plug the loopholes, but as a result of this big flood, if the imperial court issued an order to exempt the grain from the disaster-stricken areas, how would he live? What is he going to do to plug this shortfall?

Afraid of something, there was news from above, the imperial court was going to send ministers to inspect the disaster area, release grain for disaster relief, and at the same time check the situation of disaster collection in various places, so that the imperial court could reduce the grain in the affected areas accordingly. In a hurry, he remembered his good sister-in-law Ji Gang.

If you want to talk about this sister-in-law, it can be regarded as him putting gold on his face. Because his uncle's family suffered from the plague a few years ago, there was only such a cousin left in the family, and he defected to him, for the sake of so many family properties brought by his cousin, plus he couldn't afford the notoriety of refusing to save his relatives, so Chang Yinglin took in his cousin. In the autumn of last year, Lord Ji went to Huzhou on business, Chang Yinglin was hospitable, and then a glass of medicinal wine sent his cousin into Lord Ji's bedroom.

Lord Ji liked it very much, and turned her into a concubine, although his cousin had a grudge, but he was already in the person, and he had to marry a dog with a dog, just like that, Chang Yinglin was a relative with Lord Ji, and he didn't care about him at this cheap relative, but most of the gold and silver he exploited honored Ji Gang, can Ji Gang not care?

So, the prefect of Chang hurriedly repaired a book and sent it to Beijing like a burning buttock......