Since the flooding in this area last month, Gaofeng City, less than 100 miles from Wujia Village, has long been flooded.

Now that the flood waters have receded, Gaofeng City is in shambles, and there are no people. No one dared to come.

The people in the court, in order to collect more taxes. Order the governors and governors of the provincial capitals, including the lords of Futai, to make a good count of the affected areas.

Soon, the newly sent county commander set off from the provincial capital with a pole of cronies, sat in a boat and rode a horse, and came to Gaofeng City.

After the flood receded, the land was relatively low-lying Gaofeng City, which had long been submerged by more than one meter of silt.

Anyone who arrives here feels that Gaofeng City lives up to the prosperity of the past.

Due to last month's flooding, it was extremely severe. Therefore, when the flood rushed over, the southern wall of Gaofeng City was washed away.

A lot of people didn't survive.

The new county magistrate who came this time is a scholar who has been taking the imperial examination for many years, but still has not been admitted to the juren.

Since the treasury now has silver, it is simply not enough. Therefore, the imperial court allowed it, and some departments below could buy official titles.

In other words, some people from families can spend a lot of money to donate to officials.

A small county order, they have to buy it with 4,000 taels of silver!

This is the internal price of officialdom!

But it must not be less than one, two, two, two. Because this money must go to the treasury of the imperial court.

As long as anyone who has done business knows that donating an official to oneself is a glorious and decent thing, and it can return the money you invested at some critical times. Perhaps, after they really become county magistrates, they can make a lot of money!

Under such thoughts, many people are willing to spend a lot of money to buy an official.

The person who came to Gaofeng City to be the county magistrate this time is such a businessman who donates officials.

He really can't read.

I don't really recognize a few words.

He used to be a businessman. Since he made a fortune selling silk last year, everyone in his family has been excited.

Moreover, their family surnamed Wang is actually a very large family. More than 1,000 families donated money to him. I bought him an official.

He has been an official for less than 5 years, and this year his luck is good, and the official title of county order has been directly implemented.

He found all kinds of relationships, and was personally appointed by the governor to be the county commander of Gaofeng City, and he became the county commander in the real sense.

Thinking of his current good luck, Wang Xinren was very happy in his heart.

He can be regarded as winning glory for the family now, and he can be regarded as really raising his eyebrows and getting out of the way.

He originally thought that as soon as he arrived in Gaofeng City, he would quickly collect taxes, quickly requisition the people's power, gather all those ordinary people, and hurry up to build dams, bridges and roads.

There are also those who have money, and quickly stand up to donate money and materials.

As long as he makes such an arrangement, he can get a lot of oil and water out of his hands.

However, Wang Xinren, who is nearly half a hundred years old, never imagined in his life that when he arrived at Gaofeng City, the legendary county seat, with one or two hundred followers, the scene he saw would be so bleak.

Gaofeng City is no longer called a city, she can only be called a dirt pit!

The streets here are full of silt and more than a meter deep.

In some places, I can't pull out my legs and feet.

Moreover, there are corpses everywhere here.

The kind of corpse soaked in water, soaked purple and swollen, particularly ugly, smelly.

As soon as he entered the city, he saw so many unfortunate things, and Wang Xinren, the newly released Gaofengcheng County Order, had an extremely bad face.

Wang Xinren was in a bad mood.

His eldest brother-in-law, second brother-in-law, as well as his wife, his little wives, and those relatives and friends who have not yet come out of the five suits, are also complaining at this time.

There is too much silt in Gaofeng City.

Whether they are porters carrying luggage or sedan chairmen with children, they are all walking in the mud.

Moreover, they are all gritting their teeth and chattering. It was not easy to walk from the east gate, and after entering the county office, they were wet with beads of sweat all over their bodies.

Because the sky outside is getting stranger and stranger. The sun was shining overhead, and the sun was dizzy.

In the county office of Gaofeng City, there is a pond in the back house. There's a lot of water in there, and there's a lot of fish.

After Wang Xinren entered, he instructed the minions under his command to quickly clean up the county government that was full of silt.

Those who are slaves know that they must be well-behaved, their own lords.

Because only by serving the county magistrates well, they can have a good life!

When adults eat meat, they can drink soup.

So, the entourage of nearly 200 people went to clean the three-entry mansion.

Even though they worked 12 hours a day, it took them 7 days to clean the place.

As for the street outside, the one-meter-thick silt, they don't have time to clean it up now.

They can only urge the surviving people to hurry up.

It took about a month for Gao Fengcheng to slowly reveal his original appearance.

The main thing is that it's getting hotter.

The mud on the streets, under the sun, dried up.

Moreover, the big fish in the corn, blind crabs, loach eels and so on, were all caught by the surviving people.

Wang Xinren is the county magistrate, and now he can only eat fish every day.

After Wang Xinren finally settled down, he hurriedly went to Gaofeng City to find those people who used to be on errands in the county government in his eldest brother-in-law and second brother-in-law.

For example, those masters who can read and hyphenate words, Xu officials or something.

However, Wang Xinren now brings more people. He is still equipped with Master Xingming, Master Qiangu.

The reason why he wanted to find the original team of the county government was mainly to understand the local situation clearly.

However, after more than 100 people under his command ran in Gaofeng City for more than 10 days, they found that the number of survivors in Gaofeng City was less than 2,000.

Thinking that there were only so few people left in the area under his rule, Wang Xinren was in the county government at that time and lost his temper.

How many oil and water can there be at this point of population?

Thinking that it was really a mess here, and everything good had been washed away, Wang Xinren wanted to cry without tears.

In order to be such a county magistrate, he spent more than 4,000 taels!

In order to get such a real shortage, he asked for connections everywhere, and he spent almost 12,000 taels of silver!

He borrowed the money through a variety of sources. Like that HSBC bank, he borrowed 5,000 taels of silver from his family!