Ma Zhou left Chang'an, took office, and went to Fengyi County with a captain, leading a guard composed of 300 armor soldiers to escort the line, in addition to protecting the safety of Qincha, there is also the arrest of criminals, maintain order, and when the time comes, the guards must not take action, otherwise, just with one mouth, in the chaos, self-protection is a problem, impeachment and governance.

With a small force of military power, they also have the confidence to do things, and they can mobilize manpower at any time, and they are all done by their own people, and the efficiency will be high.

The accompanying Du Wei Shuhuan, a native of Jingzhao Duling, the son of Wei Zhan, an official of the Sui Dynasty, is currently serving as the commander of Fengche in the Right Guard Mansion, and was appointed by His Majesty today, as Ma Zhou's deputy, to go to Fengyi County, receive the military power of the county guard, cooperate with Ma Zhou to rectify corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and provide relief to the victims.

The Wei family has a general power in the capital, and it is considered a noble family that is close to decline, and in the previous generation of the Wei family, Wei Yunqi is a capable person, born in the East Lang Gongfang, and is the cousin of Wei Zhengju, the princess of Xincheng. In Emperor Kai of the Sui Dynasty, Wei Yunqi supplemented the seal with the Ming Scripture. Alone went to the Turks to borrow 20,000 troops and used stratagem to defeat the Khitans, which can be called brave and strategic.

However, in the later period of the Sui Dynasty, Wei Yunqi had been stationed in the pass, and even went to Shu to protect the land of Bashu, so there were no major achievements, and there was not much ink left in the history books. Therefore, in the turbulent times of Sui and Tang Dynasty communication, Wei Yunqi did not have any sense of existence.

Li Tang entered Chang'an, Wei Yunqi was given the three divisions of the Kaifu Yitong, served as the farm supervisor, and was soon sent to the northwest to prevent Li Rail and the Turks from entering the bureau, so he sent Wei Yunqi to garrison Li Rail's soldiers and horses in the northwest direction. When Luo Zhaoyun attacked Li Rail, Wei Yunqi stood still, and later fought with Li Tang, Wei Yunqi was only responsible for one branch of the people, and did not exert his strength in the main battlefield.

Therefore, Wei Yunqi's sense of existence is low, and now Luo Zhaoyun has also promoted him, serving as the general of Zuo Wuwei, leading a forbidden army of the Beijing Division, which can be regarded as having a certain prestige, but after all, there is no expatriate, and the military merits are weak, and the rest of the Wei family's backs are all military attaches of the fifth or sixth grade, and they are weak in their careers in the imperial court.

This time, Wei Shuhuan followed Ma Zhou to Fengyi County for disaster relief, although he was not transferred to the front line, but he also paid enough attention to it, because he heard that this Ma Zhou was deeply valued by His Majesty, and all kinds of signs showed that once this matter was handled properly and the disaster relief was meritorious, it was likely that Ma Zhou would be exceptionally promoted to the center, enter the Hanlin Academy as a bachelor, or serve as a servant of the Imperial History Observatory, and then transfer to the Political Affairs Hall as the prime minister, it is also a matter of time.

As the deputy of flood relief and corruption control, Wei Shuhuan felt that as long as Ma Zhou could do things beautifully and win the favor of His Majesty, he, the deputy minister, would also achieve a certain amount of merit and appreciation, and perhaps he could also be promoted by two or three levels, so he was very attentive and was very polite to Ma Zhou on the way, and would not treat him arrogantly because the other party was a poor scholar.

"Brother Ma, seeing that you are not old, I don't know if you have ever been married?"

Ma Zhou turned his horse around, looked at Uncle Wei who was riding side by side, and asked, and said with a smile: "I haven't started a family yet, I used to have a poor family and an unruly personality, so I was inevitably teased by my neighbors. ”

Uncle Wei's heart lit up when he heard this, he has a little sister, named Wei Liying, sixteen years old, waiting for the word boudoir, although there have been people in advance recently, but most of them are some declining nobles, and the Wei family naturally does not let go.

In terms of the current situation of the Dahua court, His Majesty obviously values talent and character more, ignores the conditions of the noble background, and promotes many scholars from poor families to important positions in the center, quite trusting, and will inevitably be members of the court in the future.

Therefore, Wei Shuhuan's father, Wei Zhan, had plans to marry his daughter to a more outstanding and promising scholar in the poor family, which can be regarded as a kind of bet. Now that he meets Ma Zhou, Uncle Wei's harmonious mind is active.

"Haha, Brother Ma is a talent, a humble person, like a gentleman and a jade, and there will be a good marriage in the future." Uncle Wei snorted haha, although he had the idea of recommending his sister-in-law in his heart, but he was not familiar with Ma Zhou, so he rashly proposed marriage, which was a little abrupt; Second, it is not known to what extent the disaster relief mission will be completed.

If it is done well, Ma Zhou's future is bright, and when he returns to Beijing, he will definitely mention this matter again and match his little sister with him. But if he doesn't do it well, or if he sees that he is not capable in the process of working together, he will naturally not have this idea, and it is still an observation period.

Ma Zhou shook his head and sighed: "I don't have this thought yet, Feng Yijun is flooding, Huayin County is probably already a country, the people are displaced, and the courtiers share the worries of the monarch and solve problems for the people. ”

Thinking that before leaving, His Majesty personally summoned and told him that he was very important, and if the errand was messed up, Ma Zhou felt that he would have no face to return to the capital.

"That's, that's!" Uncle Wei nodded in agreement, admiring Ma Zhou's temperament and perseverance from the bottom of his heart.

At this moment, a spy reported that he was approaching the border of Feng Yijun.

Ma Zhou groaned for a while, and immediately ordered that it was time to take the trail, to follow the front line of the road along the Weishui riverbed, and not to take the official road, so as to avoid Feng Yijun and county officials to greet him, and engage in some face-saving projects to catch the wind and wash the dust, and whitewash the stability.

The next day, when I came to a disaster area outside the township, countless people were groaning and crying.

The heavy ox cart wheeled, and on the ox cart, the corpses of the eight victims were stacked on top of each other like a small hill.

This is a hill area with higher terrain, some shantytowns prop up, and the submerged villagers of the nearby ten miles and eight villages have rushed here to gather and receive some gruel to make ends meet, but the environment is bad, coupled with the continuous rain, the wind and cold invade, and many people who died of hunger and disease were transported down the mountain by ox carts to be buried alive.

When Ma Zhou saw this scene, his nose was sour, and he got off the horse and went over to check it out in person and ask about the disaster......