In the days when Ling Xia was in dire straits, the team always maintained a rapid progress, even in the event of a snowstorm, Ling Xia also led the team forward, without delaying the trip at all, twenty-three days later, Ling Xia, Xia Ning'er, Situ Chenfeng and five thousand light cavalry entered the territory of Ziyan Territory.

Ling Xia and they entered the boundary of Dingqi Province, and when they looked, they saw that there were displaced victims everywhere, and the originally prosperous and neat buildings were now in ruins, and the victims were squatting in those garbage heaps to pick up garbage, and some people started to snatch food and clothes from other people's hands because they couldn't pick up garbage.

At this time, it was a severe winter, but there were no cotton clothes on the victims, people were only wearing thin clothes, everyone stepped on the cold ground with bare feet, all of them were shivering from the cold, and some of the victims were even severely frostbitten, their bodies and faces were covered with frostbite, and the arms and feet of the seriously injured were frozen.

After traveling more than ten miles along the road, Ling Xia stopped his horse in front of a ruin, which was originally a county seat, but at this moment it was razed to the ground by the earthquake, broken bricks and tiles were scattered all over the place, the road was full of construction waste, and there were even two corpses in some hidden corners, and at a glance it was clear that this place had not been cleaned up.

Since entering Dingqi Province, Ling Xia's expression has always been solemn, but after seeing the scene in the disaster area along the way, his expression is no longer solemn, and at this moment Ling Xia's face is full of anger: "Didn't Feige pass a book to Li Xiquan, the governor of Dingqi Province, before?" Let him open a warehouse to build a porridge and rice shop, build a camp tent, and help the victims, why is it not implemented? ”

"The last general doesn't know." Situ Chenfeng also had a gloomy expression, and after seeing the tragic situation of the victims around him, he snorted coldly with hatred: "In the previous biography that Li Xiquan replied to the post station, he said that he had opened a warehouse from the province to release grain, and the porridge and rice snacks and cold camp tents had also been built.

According to Li Xiquan, he has mobilized 10 government offices and 100 county government offices in the province, and all the victims have been properly resettled, with an average of one soup kitchen and a tent settlement area every kilometer, so that the disaster victims can shelter from the cold and eat nearby. ”

After listening to Situ Chenfeng's words, Ling Xia fell into silence, and glanced at the nearby victims, Ling Xia asked the cavalry behind him to leave food and extra cotton clothes, and after sending these things to those victims, Ling Xia said in a deep voice: "Let's go, see what is the situation in other places?" ”

"Thank you, sir, thank you, thank you."

When Ling Xia and the soldiers distributed food and cotton clothes, the surrounding victims frantically hugged over, and everyone rushed to grab food and clothing.

The victims who grabbed food and clothes kept bowing and thanking them, but in fact, the requirements of the victims were very simple, a bite of food, a cotton coat, could meet their needs, but even such a simple thirst, but still could not get it.

After a while, Ling Xia and the soldiers were all robbed of food and clothing, but there were still a large number of victims who did not receive food and clothing.

In the gratitude of the victims, Ling Xia and the soldiers embarked on the road of advancement, they did not enter the nearby yamen to repair, but kept surveying along the disaster area, for two days and one night, Ling Xia made an unannounced visit to all the six provinces affected by the disaster.

After surveying the last province affected by the disaster, Ling Xia was about to explode, not only Ling Xia, but Situ Chenfeng and the cavalry who followed Ling Xia's investigation, after seeing the tragic situation in the disaster area, the soldiers were also full of depression and anger on their faces.

Six provinces in Ziyanjiang have been hit by the earthquake, and tens of millions of people have been affected, and all the homes of those victims have been lost in the earthquake, and everyone has been displaced and has nowhere to return, so they have to pin their hopes on the government.

However, it has been almost a month since the earthquake, and no one in the six affected provinces has come forward to provide disaster relief, from the governor and political envoy to the county commander and warehouse officials, and no one has come forward to help the victims, but has left the victims to fend for themselves.

The government turned a blind eye, but the major grain stores took advantage of the year of natural disasters to make ill-gotten gains, and the grain merchants hoarded and joined forces to make the price of grain merchants more than 100 times too high, and it was originally possible to buy a bag of rice with a copper coin, but now the price of a bag of rice has been raised to a silver coin.

At this price, the victims could not afford to buy rice and noodles, so they went to the yamen to inform them, but the grain merchants had already colluded with the government, and in the face of the lawsuits of the victims, the yamen at all levels refused to accept them under the pretext of freedom of sale.

After seeing the huge profits here, it was originally just the grain merchants who colluded with the government, but later the rice and flour merchants, cloth merchants, cotton clothing merchants, and even the tailors who made shoes all colluded with the government, and they at the same time raised prices with the support of the government.

Before Ling Xia came, in the name of the princess, he issued an order to the ten governors to provide disaster relief and comfort the people, so that they could resettle the victims and properly deal with the disaster.

After that, Ling Xia released several letters one after another, with only one content, that is, disaster relief and relief for the people, and those governors replied to the letters one by one, saying how many victims had been resettled, how much food had been distributed, and some saying that the cotton clothes had all been in place.

After receiving the replies from those governors, Ling Xia thought that the disaster area had been properly resettled, and the victims had been well resettled, but he didn't expect that after an unannounced visit, none of the victims in the six provinces were relieved.

The rice porridge shops and cold shelters in the mouths of those governors have not been seen, let alone an average of one relief point per kilometer, and Ling Xia in the entire province has not seen the so-called relief and resettlement sites for disaster victims, and what those governors said is all deceptive and false.

After the earthquake, the number of victims in the six provinces reported by Ziyanjiang was more than 3.2 million, almost more than 500,000 in each province, but a month after the earthquake, the number of victims has risen to 5 million due to the inaction of the government at all levels, and a large number of them were starved to death or froze to death.

Forced by life, there have been riots in the territory of Dinh Lu Province, the victims gathered together to smash shops, loot food and clothing, at first only a few counties riots, but due to the improper handling of the government, the riots have spread to four prefectures.

In addition to the riots, because the bodies of the dead have not been disposed of in time, there have been cases of infection in various places, if the government does not deal with it in time, the epidemic will break out on a large scale, once it evolves into a plague, the entire Ziyan Xinjiang will be affected.