Chapter 24 Disaster Relief and Returning to the Army

The damage to the Huaiyang Palace is no weaker than that of other places. Except for a few outside the palace, all of them collapsed. The king of Huaiyang lived in a wealthy courtyard near the northeast corner of the city, and this was the only place in the entire Huaiyang city that was not affected. When he saw Ouyang Xuan's army, the fourteen-year-old King of Huaiyang was crying. In the face of natural disasters, there is no such thing as rich and poor, and this is not to deceive me. Ouyang Xuan bowed his hand. "It is really a sin to let His Highness suffer when it is too late." "Hu Hou, what a crime, this time can come, this king is grateful, all the soldiers and horses, only Hu Hou comes. This king, this king, this king, will repay the reward of the father." Liu Yu's stuttering is still very serious.

More than a month has passed since the natural fire disaster, looking at this situation, it seems that there is no relief, and many people are still sleeping on the streets, probably Liu Yu did it for the soldiers and horses to see. "Your Highness, the city is filthy, please move to the army." "So and so and so and so and so and

Ouyang Xuan ordered someone to assist King Huainan to move, but in fact, there was nothing to move, and most of the materials were destroyed under the meteorite disaster. There were not even a few attendants left, and the princess survived three people, which shows the ferocity of the meteorite rain at that time. The entire Huaiyang City was destroyed, and the group crossed the collapsed houses and courtyards, all of which were full of compassion. When he arrived at the barracks, Ouyang Xuan ordered someone to set up a marching tent for the king of Huaiyang according to the marching etiquette system. He also ordered all the soldiers of the whole army, except for the guards, to be thrown into the city for disaster relief. He wrote a letter detailing the natural fire disaster suffered by Huaiyang City, and asked the DPRK to send people and materials to help the disaster. After writing the stamped letter and handing it over to the main book, he sent 800 urgent reports to the imperial court. Through the king of Huaiyang, he learned that there were 12,000 households in the entire Huaiyang City, with a population of more than 100,000, and less than 56 out of 10 people were alive. Liu Yu also went to the disaster relief, but all of them fell into the sea, no wonder Liu Qi asked Ouyang Xuan to make a special trip to Huaiyang, just to confirm the disaster.

The next morning, all the soldiers once again went into the relief effort, mainly digging up collapsed houses, removing corpses, and preventing the outbreak of epidemics. Huaiyang did have an outbreak of plague in the fourth year of Emperor Jing's reign, almost making it a dead city. Residents were arranged to live next to the military camp in the south of the city, and those with fever were isolated in separate tents. At the end of this day, Ouyang Xuan was also exhausted from his work, and at night, when he was transcribing books, Zhao Zhou reported that he had not found any fluorescent meteorites, they were all ordinary red meteorites, and he found a few Ouyang Xuan and smashed them, all of which were magnets with strong magnetic force. He also ordered people to collect a large number of such stones, and bought 10,000 catties for three consecutive days. Among them, there is a stone weighing 1,000 catties that has just been found in the big pit in the north of the city, the fluorescence is very strong, and the core inside is also a spherical golden stone weighing 100 catties. After collecting it, he ordered people to look for meteorites in the big pit around Huaiyang City, and never found similar stones, all of them were some magnets or iron meteorites, and hundreds of four-wheeled carriages were made. loaded the stones, hired nearly a thousand people, bought some horses, and led by Zhao Zhou to transport them directly back to the Chang'an Mansion. And it was stated that this matter was beneficial to Qi Huang, which was still the advice of the master book, and that the loot or things that fell from heaven must be handed over, and if you need to use it for personal use, you must seek your Majesty's consent.

For half a month, he was in the disaster relief and saving people, and Nie Ping also sent people to send the newly produced oral and external penicillin to the front of the army, which was hundreds of catties, and at the same time sent a car of copper coins. Liu Qi's disaster relief money and officials finally arrived, and when he saw the disaster, he was also stunned on the spot. Liu Qi's will also followed, and ordered Ouyang Xuan to take the King of Huaiyang back to Chang'an, and the disaster relief matters were handed over to the officials.

As the weather warmed up, the amount of peach blossom water increased, and the crater outside the city was finally eroded by the river water, poured into it, and formed a large lake after a few days, surrounded Huaiyang City on three sides, forming the beautiful scenery of the city in the lake, and the governance office had to move south.

When the army set off, tens of thousands of people saw them off, and the road was blocked and they could not move forward. Ouyang Xuan's head was a bit big for this kind of thing, so he hurriedly asked King Huaiyang to come forward and accept the blessings of the people, and he was still low-key. But the eyes of the common people are still bright, and they don't buy Liu Yu's account at all. Ouyang Xuan had no choice but to beat his horse and come to the front of the team and said loudly: "This time I was supposed to quell the rebellion, and I went back to Chang'an Road, but when I encountered the Huaiyang disaster, I couldn't bear the suffering of the people, and the special garrison did good unintentionally." Recently, Shangguan made a special trip here to relieve the disaster, and he will also return to Chang'an to resume his life. If you want to thank you, you still want to thank King Huaiyang. I hope that the neighbors will not delay the march." Ouyang Xuan said so, these neighbors got out of the way, knelt on the ground to thank him, until the team disappeared from sight, did not disperse, after that, the people here to commemorate Ouyang Xuan's merits, set up statues to commemorate, and worshiped as the god of the lake.

Ouyang Xuan did not return to Chang'an according to the original route of the march, but went directly north, to Chaoge County (today's Qi County) in Hanoi County. Shang Shu said to go to Yunmeng Mountain to worship the ancestor of the priest. A few days later, when I traveled to Chenliu County, I met Luan Bu and Li Ji, who also returned to Chang'an. Unlike Ouyang Xuan, they only brought a few hundred men back to Chang'an, and the army was brought back by the county lieutenants after the battle. Ouyang Xuan's Yulin Army belongs to the standing army and is now stationed in Ouyang Xuan's Hu Country.

Liu Qi's will also followed, reprimanding Ouyang Xuan's absurd behavior of going to Yunmeng Mountain, and ordering him to return to Chang'an as soon as possible with Liu Bi's father and son and the king of Huaiyang. After the messenger finished reading the will, Ouyang Xuan had a bad stool expression on his face. Luan Bu saw Ouyang Xuan's appearance, stepped forward and said: "Don't be angry, you will be outside, there is no war, and it is taboo to lead the troops without permission." "I just wanted to see it, but I didn't think about it." Li Ji also stepped forward and said: "Hu Hou is young, and he doesn't know the danger of leading the troops, what General Luan said is extremely true, you must not move around, so as not to suffer the disaster of tongue." "Xie Qu Zhou waits for a mention, alas, I will go back in the future." Luan Bu is already an old man in his sixties, and Li Ji is also in his 40s, and the words of these two people still have to be listened to, and they are both outspoken and righteous people.

Since he couldn't go to Yunmeng Mountain, Ouyang Xuan had no choice but to set up a banquet in Chenliu to entertain Luan Bu and Liji, let the cook purchase some ingredients, cook in person, fry and fry, and make more than ten dishes that he is good at. Now I see that the two of them are two huskies, and after spending a long time with humans, the sharp eyes have disappeared, replaced by that kind of charity and cuteness. If it weren't for the fangs of wolves that tell the world that they are still wolves, no one would think of them as beasts. "These two mythical beasts are very cute, if you have cubs, don't forget to give one or two to the old man, people still like these cute pets when they are old", Luan Bu said as he touched the fur on the white wolf's neck.

"Haha, what General Luan asked, he should have complied with. This time he entered Beijing, and he will definitely be a marquis with the merit of the general. Come on, drink this cup together for General Luan", Ouyang Xuan raised his glass and said. "It doesn't matter if you are a marquis or not, and you don't have the heart to be famous when you are old. That is, to get a set of Fuguier for the babies." "Old General Luan, if you follow this, you will not be worthy of death," Li Ji said after drinking the wine in the cup. After eating a few bites of food, he continued: "This siege of Handan, if it weren't for Hu Hou's advice for General Dou, surround but not fight, flood but not destroy the city, I don't know how many people will be killed and injured this time." Come, a certain salute and wait for a cup" After speaking, he poured a full bottle of wine and got up to salute Ouyang Xuan. "Qu Zhouhou is too modest, this flood plan is just a strategy made at that time, the old general Luan and Qu Zhouhou used it just right, only destroying the wall and not flooding the city is the best policy, a certain admiration." "Come and drink this cup together", Luan Bu also stood up and drank the cup directly, and he looked like a bold person. Liu Yu is not good at drinking, and has been replacing it with tea, but because he did not stutter, he didn't say a word during the banquet.

The feast ended at midnight, and each went back to his tent to rest. Early the next morning, the three of them rode side by horse, ran to Xingyang to meet Dou Ying, got out of the tiger prison, entered the Han Valley, and ran to Chang'an along the Yellow River. Along the way, everyone was also talking and laughing easily. Dou Ying is not good at riding horses, so Ouyang Xuan prepared a frame for him. Since only Ouyang Xuan led the troops back to Beijing, Yulin was responsible for the safety guards along the way, and in order to prevent Liu Bi from committing suicide, Ouyang Xuan had to check his diet every day. Deal with any abnormalities in a timely manner. There were refusals to eat and drink on the road, and Ouyang Xuan's method was to forcibly pour porridge and directly gavage it with the copper tube made by Chen Liu. After traveling all the way for more than ten days, he finally passed the Tong Pass, and Liu Qi sent Lang Zhong to order Zhou Ren to come to deliver the decree and take over the head of the army. The supervising army marched westward, this is the rule, and the heavy troops entering Beijing must be supervised by the emperor's favored ministers. This time, he took over Liu Bi and his son and the king of Huaiyang. The speed of the march after Tongguan was significantly accelerated, from the original 50 miles per day to 70 miles per day.

Three days later, when the army arrived at the temple outside Anmen on the south side of Chang'an, Liu Qi personally led the ministers to greet him. This time it was presided over by Fengchang Yuan An, and the table was burned and sacrificed to three animals. Liu Bi and his son knelt down to worship the ancestors, Ouyang Xuan, Dou Ying and Zhou Yafu, who came back first, to return the scepter. Because Ouyang Xuan made the greatest contribution this time, he was able to enter the temple to worship. The final ceremony was that Yu Linjun was inspected by Liu Qi and the ministers in front of the Sheji platform. The neat cavalry is the lead, followed by the spear and shield arrays of the infantry, which advance according to the wartime battle formation under the command, giving a strong sense of oppression. Liu Qizi was very happy, and said to Ouyang Xuan, who was standing next to him: "I, the most correct thing I have done since I ascended the throne is to make the Marquis of Ru and hand over the army to you." "Your Majesty, the power of the ministers depends on the lives of the Yulin soldiers, and the soldiers from the army obey the orders, so that the whole division can return. When the war is over and spring is approaching, the ministers want to plough the fields to atone for the sin of abandoning the ploughing." "It's okay, this time I don't know how to reward you, so I will add some fiefdoms to reward you, and tomorrow the court will discuss the merits."