Three days later

Zhao Ling and his party had already arrived near Yuezhou.

Yueju is adjacent to Jeju, and this Jeju disaster caused countless victims to flood into Yueju for a while.

Fortunately, the Yuezhou Prefecture was still a benevolent person, seeing that a large number of victims had nowhere to settle and were in a miserable shape, they did not coax the victims out of the city like other officials; Instead, a large number of manpower was sent to resettle the victims, but unfortunately, even though the Yuezhou Prefecture Government had already devoted 120,000 energy to deal with this sudden disaster and the victims.

But after all, Yuezhou has not been rich in recent years, and the grain in the state government has been distributed in less than half a month, and seeing that the victims are still pouring in, it is extremely difficult for Yuezhou to support the current grim situation.

At this time, many of the victims of the disaster even started to make trouble, first ganged up to rob several merchants' grain stores, and later even dared to break into the homes of the honest people to do evil.

As soon as this matter reached the ears of the Yuezhou Prefecture, it attracted attention.

You know, people are forced to do everything in a hurry, although everyone is very sympathetic to these displaced victims and is willing to lend a friendly hand to help; However, it is not difficult to ensure that there will be no crooked melons and cracked dates among these people.

Every time a place suffers a disaster, there will always be some evildoers who entangle innocent people to make trouble together, and in serious cases, some large and small chaos will occur, and the imperial court has to be forced to send troops to suppress it in order to stop these.

At present, seeing that there are people with bad intentions who are trying to make trouble by taking advantage of this disaster, the Yuezhou Prefecture Government naturally learned the lessons of the past early and vigorously dispatched officials to arrest those who made trouble.

But those thieves are also very cunning, and they are running around like ruffians.

On the one hand, the Yuezhou Prefecture had to resettle the innocent victims, and on the other hand, it had to arrest the thieves who took advantage of the disaster to make trouble.

Seeing that Yuezhou was about to be leaderless, at this moment, Zhao Ling and his party arrived.

Zhao Ling and others were placed in the post house in Yuezhou, and met with Han Fang, the capital of Yuezhou, who dragged his sick body to greet him.

For Han Fang, Zhao Ling had already made his righteous deeds clear on the way here, so when he saw Han Fang kneeling on the ground with a haggard face, he hurriedly motioned to Yunxiao to help him up; The eyes that were always cold and solemn in the past are also a little gentle at the moment.

Han Fang didn't expect the disaster relief mission to come so soon, and this time the disaster relief mission was still the third prince of the dynasty, King Xuan; was excited on the spot, and thanked the emperor repeatedly.

Zhao Ling had a very good impression of Han Fang, so he didn't plan to use his identity as a prince to suppress him, but tried his best to be pleasant, and said: "This king heard that Yuezhou has taken in a large number of disaster victims, but I don't know where these disaster victims are located right now?" How can the local state government cope? ”

Although Han Fang is a civil official, he also knows some of the situation in Beijing, and knows that the three princes of the current dynasty are really from the army.

Therefore, in the face of Zhao Ling's question, he did not dare to be ambiguous, and tried his best to make his expression simple and understandable, detailed and accurate.

"Back to the prince's words, since the disaster in Jeju, a large number of victims have emerged in Yuezhou, at first about 1,000 people a day, but gradually with the severity of the disaster, there are also tens of thousands of victims in the city in one day."

"Although there have been no major disasters in Yuezhou in recent years, because the land in Yuezhou is barren, the people can only make a simple living, and the grain in the state government is not very much. The victims were placed in the north of the city by the lower officials, where porridge shacks were set up, and bedding was distributed to some of the frail victims. ”

"It's just that at the moment, none of that matters; The prince has just arrived, and he may not know that there are now a small number of Diao people wandering around in Yuezhou to commit crimes, and many merchants and people have suffered and suffered, and the most troublesome thing is that there are still a large number of disaster victims pouring into the city these days, and the city is saturated, and there is no way to settle them, and the lower officials can't bear to expel them outside the city and let them fend for themselves. ”

Speaking of this, Han Fang's sickly face showed a look of unbearability, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhao Ling and said, "The prince is a disaster relief messenger who came by order, and I also ask the prince to take pity on these disaster victims who have lost their homes and relatives, give them food and clothing, and let them have a place to live." ”

Looking at Han Fang, the capital of Yuezhou who was kneeling on the ground, Zhao Ling's expression was grim, and he fell into a delirium in silence.

Yunxiao walked up and helped Han Fang up again, and comforted him in a loud voice, "Lord Han, please rest assured, since my lord is a disaster relief minister, he will not watch the victims of the disaster leave and suffer again; When we went out of Beijing this time, we have already brought a large amount of grain and grain, which will definitely provide food and clothing for the victims of Yueju and Jeju. ”

Hearing Yunxiao say this, Han Fang cried with joy almost immediately.

Sure enough, the rumors he heard were really not false at all, many people said that these three princes were a person who killed on the battlefield, and he did not necessarily have a bit of mercy; However, he also heard some gossip from the capital, saying that although the third prince Zhao Ling was cold-faced, he was really good-hearted.

Today, seeing that the people who follow him are so polite, it can be seen that Yuezhou and Jeju will be saved this time.

Zhao Ling was silent at the moment, thinking about what Han Fang had just said.

As Han Fang said, the influx of a large number of victims in the city is not the most troublesome, the real headache is that some people actually want to make trouble by taking advantage of the disaster.

In previous years, when local disasters were affected, there were always some ill-intentioned people who entangled innocent people in head-on confrontation with the local government, and on several occasions even the imperial court was alarmed and directly sent heavy troops to suppress it.

Only later did I know that there were only a few people who really deserved to die, and a large number of victims were still innocent people who didn't know anything; At present, such signs have appeared in Yuezhou again, and it is not difficult to imagine that even Yuezhou is in chaos at this moment, and Jeju a hundred miles away should be in chaos.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ling couldn't help but stretch out his hand and press his bouncing temples, and asked Han Fang directly, "Those who took the lead in making trouble, have you caught some?" ”

As soon as Han Fang heard King Xuan ask about this matter directly, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately replied, "Xiaguan has caught a few, many of these people are idle ruffians and hooligans, their hometown has suffered a disaster, and now they have left their hometowns and have no food, and the inferior roots in their bones have emerged again, and they even have the naïve idea of wanting to make a windfall by taking advantage of this disaster, so they dare to rob merchants and harm innocent people." ”

Zhao Ling frowned and asked, "Where are those people detained?" ”

"The lower officials have locked them up in prison, and the prince wants to interrogate them personally?"

"No need, if it's convenient, please ask Lord Han to hand over these people to this king, and this king has his own way to deal with it."

Although Han Fang is said to be the capital of Yuezhou, it is still far from Zhao Ling's identity; At the moment, Zhao Ling personally opened his mouth to ask for someone, so he naturally didn't dare to stop him, and immediately opened his mouth to respond.

Zhao Ling glanced at Han Fang's tired and sickly face, his tone softened a little, and said: "Now, since this king has come, he will make decisions for Yuezhou and Jeju, the adults are in poor health, and they should recuperate well. ”

Han Fang heard that Zhao Ling cared about him, and he was so excited that he almost shed tears, and hurriedly said: "The lower officials dare not speak hard, the prince has been ordered to work hard for disaster relief, if the prince needs to be lowered, although he can open his mouth to the lower officials, before and after the saddle, the lower officials will definitely go all out." ”

Hearing Han Fang's answer, Zhao Ling nodded with satisfaction, and after saying a few words of concern to him, he asked Yunxiao to send him out.

As soon as Han Fang left with his front foot, Chu Xingyue's back foot walked out from behind the screen in the room.

Now that he is out of Beijing, it is not as good as the leisurely days in the palace of the capital, and Chu Xingyue will not spend a lot of time dressing up.

I saw that she was wearing a first-class Suhang Yunjin long dress, her long black hair was scattered, and she was vertically waisted, just a few buns were simply coiled, and pink ribbons were tied between her hair; The delicate eyebrows and eyes are not stained with the slightest green daisy, and the snow-like skin is not smeared with any rouge, so it is plain to the sky, but I didn't expect that it looks more aura and stunning nature.

Seeing Chu Xingyue walk out, Zhao Ling looked at her beautiful face and shook his head, quickly stepped forward, half-hugged her in his arms, and his tone swept away the coldness of the ancestors, all soft and soft, "Didn't you say that you were about to vomit when you ride in the carriage?" Why not get some rest in your room? ”

Chu Xingyue didn't hide Zhao Ling, and said directly, "As soon as we entered Yuezhou, I saw that although there were people on the street, most of them looked like they were yellow and thin, didn't it mean that only Jeju was affected?" Why is even the neighboring Yuezhou such a depressed scene? ”

Zhao Ling helped Chu Xingyue sit down and told her the news he had just received from Han Fang.

Chu Xingyue listened attentively, and finally said her opinion, "Although this Han Governor's Mansion is a rare good official, it is not difficult to see that he has a bit of a woman's kindness in it. ”

Zhao Ling looked at Chu Xingyue with a slight smile, staring at her sideways, and his expression clearly meant to listen to her continue.

Chu Xingyue was also not polite, and said, "Jeju and Yuezhou are adjacent to each other, and it is indeed appropriate to help each other, but when we help, we must also learn to do what we can." Yuezhou was already barren, even if the granary of the entire state government was opened, it could only feed 10,000 or 20,000 victims at most, but Han Fang didn't think about it so much, he only felt that the people were suffering and felt sad, so he blindly opened the city gate to let the affected people in; But they don't know what to do if the affected people enter the city without food. ”

"Yuezhou is calm and peaceful, and the people of Yuezhou are still living and working in peace and contentment, who they recruit to provoke whom, and suddenly there are so many victims in the city, and some of them even have ill intentions, and they rush to their homes and rob and snatch them, and even their lives are threatened, aren't they innocent?"

"That's why I said, Han Fang has some woman's kindness, and he drags his feet in things; I can understand his determination to save people, but now he has not resettled the victims, and even the security of Yuezhou has problems; Fortunately, he still has prestige in Yuezhou, and the people of Yuezhou have not made trouble with him, but in the long run, it is not difficult to ensure that the people of Yuezhou will be dissatisfied and have the idea of driving the victims out of Yuezhou. ”