Li Zhang followed Wang Dujian into the camp camp, only to see that the camp was full of wounded and hungry people, even the innocent and lovely children were only numb faces at this time, and some dragged their injured hands and feet to Li Zhang to beg, and a pair of dry eyes were full of hunger.

Li Zhang is also a father, and of course he is very distressed when he looks at these poor children, but they traveled lightly this time, and they didn't bring food at all, and the supplies are still blocked behind, so even if they want to help at this time, they are powerless, and in the end they can only stride through this area with a ruthless heart.

Wang Dujian and Li Zhang soon came to a shed supported by wooden planks, rags, and thatch, and saw an old man with gray hair lying on a simple bunk, and an old woman next to him taking care of him.

"Zu Zhizhou, Your Majesty has sent Dingbeihou here!" Wang Dujian shouted very excitedly after coming in, but the old man who was lying on the bed also sat up all of a sudden, and the old woman next to him glared at Wang Dujian with some disgust, but when she saw Li Zhang, she also saluted slightly, and then the enemy plane retreated, although the old woman looked haggard and her clothes were very torn, but the material was not bad, and it looked like it should be Zu Zhizhou's family.

"Xiaguan see Dingbei Hou!" The old man on the floor also bent his body at this time and wanted to salute Li Zhang, although he had never seen Li Zhang, but he had already heard of Li Zhang's name, and he had sent people everywhere to ask for help before, and the people who calculated the time to rescue him should have arrived, but he didn't expect the imperial court to send Li Zhang, an important minister.

"Zu Zhizhou doesn't have to be polite, lie down quickly!" Li Zhang saw Zu Zhizhou's appearance and immediately stepped forward to support him, and at this time, he also found that Zu Zhizhou's right leg was sandwiched between the planks, and there were many scars on his face, and the whole person was even more haggard.

"Zu knows your leg is okay, right?" Li Zhang helped the other party to lie down, and then asked again.

"Don't mention it, the house collapsed during the earthquake, and my leg was broken by the girder, and I don't know if I can recover in the future?" Zu Zhizhou also showed a bleak smile at this time and said, in fact, his injuries are secondary, the key is that one of his sons and two daughters, as well as some other relatives died in the earthquake, which made his spirit a big blow, coupled with the lack of medical treatment here, so that his injuries also recovered very slowly.

Li Zhang also sighed secretly again when he heard this, he had heard Wang Dujian talk about the situation at Zu Zhizhou's house on the road just now, but at this time, state affairs were important, so he also asked again: "Zu Zhizhou, the materials rescued by the imperial court are outside, but the official road is blocked, and you need to clean it up before you can come in, as long as the materials from the imperial court arrive, you will definitely be fine!" ”

Zu Zhizhou was also shocked when he heard Li Zhang's words, they were also suffering during this time, in addition to the external conditions of hunger, the most important thing is that they cut off contact with the outside world, and they don't know if the imperial court will send people to rescue, as time goes by, this mental torment is also more serious, and now there is finally definite news, which makes them feel hopeful, and hope is the most precious thing under this kind of catastrophe.

At that moment, Zu Zhizhou cheered up, and also gave Li Zhang a detailed description of the current situation in Xinzhou, needless to say about Xinzhou City, the entire city was completely destroyed, and half of it was flooded, and if you want to rebuild it in the future, you can only find another place, so the most important thing is the people who survived.

According to Zuzhizhou's statistics, there are now more than 9,000 people in this settlement, but there is no way to count the specific number, because every day people die from injury, illness, accident or hunger, and some people flee without permission because there is no hope, so only an approximate number can be counted.

Moreover, these more than 9,000 people have no food and no medicine, so they can only send people to rummage through the ruins in the city every day to find food and medicine, but this material is simply not enough for 9,000 people to consume, which also leads to the turmoil of the people's hearts.

"What's the situation in the city, there should still be people alive under the ruins, right?" Li Zhang was silent for a moment after listening to Zu Zhizhou's words, and finally asked a very sensitive question.

"There must be someone still alive, yesterday Wang Dujian they also rescued a mother and daughter, but the situation in the city is too complicated, half of the city has been flooded, but most of the granaries in Xinzhou City are built on the flooded side, and the rest of us often send people here, mainly to find food and medicine, if someone asks for help, they will try to rescue people out, but almost everyone in the disaster is injured, and the manpower that can be used every day is only more than 1,000 people, these people need to take care of the wounded and protect the camp, so that fewer people can be sent out, There is no way to rescue the whole city. Zu Zhizhou said again with a sad face at this time.

Li Zhang also frowned when he heard this, pondered for a moment and immediately said: "I heard from Wang Dujian that some of the victims ran to the nearby mountains to occupy the mountains as kings, and from time to time they would run to rob the victims, how many of them were there, and the threat was not great?" ”

This time, there was no need for Zu Zhizhou to answer, and the Wang Dujian next to him rushed to speak: "There are about three or four hundred people in those disaster victims, and most of them are young and strong men, they robbed a lot of women and ran to the mountains before, although there are many people in our disaster camp, but there are too few people who can be used, and the settlement is too big to prevent it at all, so their threat is also great." ”

Hearing that there were only three or four hundred of those people, Li Zhang's heart was also relieved, because there were two hundred guards of the forbidden army he brought, and there were wild dogs, and it should not be a problem to eliminate these people, after all, although they were relatively numerous, they were all a group of unorganized victims, and the soldiers of the forbidden army were fully armed, if they couldn't even deal with these victims, it would be ridiculous.

Thinking of this, Li Zhang immediately said to Wang Dujian: "Wang Dujian, I want to organize people to go into the city to search and rescue the people who may still be alive, but before that, we must clean up those disaster victims who occupy the mountain as the king, you have also seen the two hundred soldiers I brought just now, do you think you can use these soldiers to eliminate the other party?" ”

"There must be no problem, those victims have no weapons at all, at most they only have some waist knives, and the leader is just a butcher who has practiced martial arts, and the last general is willing to personally lead the way and take the lead for the Marquis of Dingbei!" Wang Dujian heard Li Zhang's words and immediately shouted excitedly, he had long wanted to exterminate the gang of disaster victims who had become bandits, but unfortunately there were no soldiers in his hands, and now he could finally taste what he wanted.

After inquiring about the situation in Xinzhou, Li Zhang asked about the situation of the local officials again, after all, if you want to manage these disaster victims well, Li Zhang alone can't do it, you must rely on the strength of local officials, but the results obtained are not optimistic, although there are some surviving officials in the entire Xinzhou officialdom, but most of them are injured like Zu Zhizhou, and there are very few people who can move freely like Wang Dujian, let alone stand up to help Li Zhang manage the victims.

"Dingbei Hou, since you have brought people here, do you want to summon the victims to announce the news, so that the victims have hope in their hearts, and people's hearts will definitely be able to settle down?" In the end, Zu Zhizhou suddenly proposed.

Li Zhang thought about it for a while but shook his head and said: "This matter is not in a hurry, and after the gang of bandits is exterminated tomorrow, it is not too late to announce this news, which can better stabilize the people's hearts, and then I will organize a group of people to go into the city to search and rescue the people!" ”

Hearing Li Zhang's words, Zu Zhizhou also felt reasonable, that night, Li Zhang rested in this camp of the victims, but at dinner, he found that most of the victims ate wild vegetables, and there were not a few grains of grain in the rice bowl, even if the officials of Wang Dujian ate the same, only Zu Zhizhou could still see a little real food in the bowl of the wounded.

Although Li Zhang and the others brought some dry food, even if they were all divided, it would not be enough for each of these victims to eat a mouthful, not to mention that the forbidden army would suppress the bandits tomorrow, so Li Zhang could only order the forbidden army to divide the dry food, but he took out all his dry food, part of it was given to Zu Zhizhou, after all, he was old and had to recuperate from his injuries, and the other part was distributed to a few children who had been following him.