Chapter 122: Huizhou
"Doctor Fang is not going to talk nonsense, His Royal Highness is a notoriously unapproachable woman in Xijing City, how can he be the kind of filthy person you think!" A skinny medical officer sitting at the back of the car snorted angrily.
Hearing this, Doctor Fang looked at her, and immediately showed a sarcastic smile. "What is Dr. Xiao Lu anxious about, don't you also want to go to treat the royal king?"
"You, if you humiliate the king again, I will go and tell His Royal Highness to punish you!"
When Doctor Fang heard her say this, he immediately smiled. "I'm just casually talking, why should Doctor Xiao Lu be serious." Just kidding, although the king's legs are useless, it is still easy to take the life of her little medical officer!
"Okay, don't make a fuss, you have some strength left, and you're going to cry about back pain in a while."
Someone persuaded him to make peace, but Dr. Xiao Lu only snorted and looked out of the car window, but his thoughts drifted away.
As the team got closer and closer to Huizhou City, the sky became gloomy and rainy.
Lin Mumu could see through the curtain of the car that a large number of homeless people were walking in the direction they had come, and when the team passed by them, they would stop and look at them.
"I don't know how many innocent people have been displaced by this natural disaster." Lin Mumu lowered the curtain of the car, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Zhao Xuanling looking at the map in his hand with a calm face.
The team arrived in Huizhou City before dark.
Huizhou City Governor Zhou Yangqing waited outside the city gate early after he got his life.
"Greetings to the royal king, the third prince, the mansion that the lower officials have prepared, please ask the royal king and the third prince to go and rest first."
"Go directly to the government to discuss matters."
Zhou Yangqing didn't dare to refute, so he welcomed people into the mansion and began to discuss the current disaster.
The size of the government was limited, and Lin Mumu and a group of less important officials were placed in a house relatively close to the government office.
"When I came all the way just now, I saw a lot of rotting corpses on the road, and it was really scary to look at."
"No, it's not like I've never seen anything in our business, but it's the first time I've seen it so scary."
Lin Mumu listened to their discussions, turned around and entered his room.
Now that the rain is still falling, the disaster must be worse than what they learned in Xijing.
On the other side, Zhao Xuanling and the others went directly to the study to discuss matters after they arrived at the mansion.
"What's going on in Ziyang County?"
"Back to the prince, there is a hole in the embankment in Ziyang County, and now the lower officials are still asking people to repair it urgently, but the rain has not stopped, and the water in the embankment is accumulating more and more, and the people who repair it are really powerless."
"What happens if the levee collapses completely?" Zhao Hanjun took a sip of tea.
Zhou Yangqing's face was tense, not to mention her black gauze hat, even this life could not be guaranteed. "The twelve counties of Huizhou will be completely submerged, and even Huizhou will not be spared." The levees are going to collapse, and everyone is going to die!
"Continue to send more people to repair the embankment, we must not let the gap continue to increase, pass on the order of the main hall to immediately evacuate all the people under the jurisdiction of the state capital, and let Lincheng do a good job of receiving help."
"Yes."
"The Third Highness wants Lincheng to accept all the displaced people?" Zhao Xuanling furrowed his eyebrows.
"In case the dam bursts." Zhao Hanjun nodded, judging from the topography of Huizhou, if the dam collapses, these twelve counties will be submerged.
"Do as the temple tells you."
"Yes, the lower official will arrange it."
"Expand the open space outside the city, set up tents, and settle the displaced people outside the city." Zhao Xuanling said in a deep voice.
"Uncle Wang doesn't let the homeless people into the city? Where did so many exiles come from so many big tents? ”
"A large number of displaced people entering the city can easily cause riots, and there will be a division of troops at that time
force suppression. ”
"As long as the court gives porridge, they won't be in chaos." Zhao Hanjun looked disapproving.
Zhou Yangqing saw that the two bigwigs disagreed, and silently shrunk his neck, pretending that he didn't exist......
"Lord Zhou, do what this king says." Zhao Xuanling didn't want to waste his tongue.
Zhao Hanjun's face sank, and his face was very ugly.
The king is the General Department of Supervision, and Zhou Yangqing can only respond. "Yes."
Zhou Yangqing saw that the matter was almost over, so he invited the two to the front hall for dinner.
I don't know if it was because of Zhao Xuanling's arrival, Huizhou, which had been raining continuously for nearly a year, slowly cleared up on the second day of their arrival, and the dark clouds that had been hovering over Huizhou gradually faded.
Lin Mumu couldn't follow Zhao Xuanling all the time as a female medical officer last night, and now his legs are only left in the final stage of treatment, as long as he gets an injection every three days, and the whole treatment process is over if he gets two shots again.
"Lord Lin, it's early." Wang Ru walked outside Lin Mumu's house with a food box.
"Morning."
"Lord Lin hasn't had breakfast yet, this is what Xia Guan brought from the big kitchen at the back, my lord, let's eat it."
Wang Ru opened the food box, and inside were two steamed buns and a bowl of meat porridge.
"Thank you."
After Lin Mumu ate breakfast, he planned to go to the street with Wang Ru to have a look.
The flood did not flood the city of Huizhou, and the city did not look sluggish, but walking on the streets, you can see some homeless people everywhere, who should have escaped from nearby villages and towns.
"Mother, I'm so hungry......"
"Don't be afraid, children, the relief food from the imperial court will come soon, and we will have something to eat for a long time......"
Groups of displaced people sit in the streets and alleys.
"My lord, they are pitiful." Wang Ruo looked at the homeless people with a look of unbearability.
Lin Mumu felt uncomfortable when she saw it. "I'll go to the pharmacy and have a look." When she walked into the pharmacy, she didn't notice that Wang Ru didn't follow up, she was thinking that she would make more medicines while there was still time.
"This girl, do you want to buy medicine?" Man, I saw someone come in and greet him.
"Well, I've written the list, and I'll catch it according to the above."
"Oh, okay."
"Ahh Don't rob it, no, I don't have it anymore! ”
"She's so well dressed, there must be silver on her body, and if you snatch the silver from her, we'll have money to buy food!"
Lin Mumu was checking the quality of the medicinal materials, when she heard a shout from the street, she looked back and threw the medicinal materials back into the oiled paper bag and rushed out.
"Stop what you're doing! You are not afraid of being thrown out of the city by officers and soldiers! ”
Lin Mumu quickly squeezed into the circle surrounded by the homeless people, and pushed away the homeless people who pulled the cart.
"We can't help it, my child has been hungry for many days, and if he doesn't have anything to eat, he will starve to death!" A yellow-faced and thin-skinned man had red eyes, and the helplessness in his eyes had turned hideous.
"Yes, we're going to starve to death if we don't have anything to eat!"
"I know you're all uncomfortable!" Lin Mumu approached Wang Ru and whispered, "Take out all the silver on your body." ”
Where had Wang Ru seen such a scene, and when she heard her say this, she obediently took out her purse.
Lin Mumu took the purse and threw it into the sky.
"Silver, silver, that's my silver!"
"Grab the silver!"
Seeing this, the homeless people went to the ground to pick up silver, and Lin Mumu took the opportunity to pull Wang Ru into the pharmacy.
Just the thing medicine
The guys in the shop all saw it really well, and they were a little apprehensive when they saw the two of them come in. "The two aunts are fine, although these homeless people are pitiful, you can't save them."
Wang Ru shook his head with a white face. "I, I just saw that they were so pitiful, I didn't expect ...... They will repay their grievances with virtue. ”
The guy shook his head. "My life is almost gone, what do you say about virtue and what kind of complaints."
Lin Mumu was silent, what the guy said was right, Wang Ru was very dangerous to do this, and he would only be targeted by the homeless people, and his own safety would not even be guaranteed.
The guy picked up the medicine, and Lin Mumu took Wang Ru back.
"Don't be afraid, although you lost some money, it's okay."
Back at the house, Lin Mumu saw that she still had palpitations and was softly relieved.
Wang Ru smiled a little helplessly. "Xia Guan didn't expect that good intentions could do bad things."
The rain slowly stopped, the repair of the embankment was able to proceed more quickly, and most of the people in the following twelve counties were evacuated, many of whom crowded into Huizhou City.
"My lord, please let us in, we have nowhere to go......"
"Yes, my lord, please let us in......"
At the gate of Huizhou, a row of officers and soldiers were tightly guarding outside the city gate, and after Zhao Xuanling gave the order, the city gate could only go out and not enter, and the outside was almost full of displaced people.
"There is an order from above, the homeless are not allowed to enter the city!"
"Doesn't the denial of us entering the city make us wait here for nothing?"
"That's right, we are also the people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, why don't you let us in?"
"That's right, we're going to live, we're going to go into the city!"
The more the homeless people talked, the more excited they became, and they rushed towards the city gate.
"Let's go into town!"
"We're going into town!"
"Stop them! Hurry up and stop them! ”
Soon, the closed city gate was pushed to the ground, and the faces of the officers and soldiers inside the city gate became ugly.
"Stop it!"
At this moment, a horse-drawn carriage slowly drove from outside the city gate.
Zhao Hanjun came out of the carriage and frowned at the chaotic situation in front of him. "What's going on?"
His shouts put the chaos to a halt for a moment.
"Don't be afraid, this is the third prince of our Eastern Jin Kingdom, if you have any demands, just tell the three princes."
"Three princes, please let the grass people enter the city, if we don't enter the city, we will starve to death."
"Yes, Third Prince, please let us go into the city, we have no way out......"
The homeless people knelt down in front of Zhao Hanjun's carriage and kowtowed to him.
Zhao Hanjun looked at the officers and soldiers guarding the door. "Why don't you let everyone into town?"
The squad leader of the officers and soldiers stepped forward and said, "Back to Your Highness, the king has ordered not to let any homeless people enter the city." ”
"Doesn't the king care about the lives of these people?" Zhao Hanjun's eyebrows sank, and he was dyed with a thick anger.
"That's it, the king is so ruthless, he doesn't care about our life or death!"
"In the past, I heard that the king killed people like hemp, and he didn't take his fate seriously at all, but now I see that this is indeed the case!"
Listening to the people's slander of Zhao Xuanling, Zhao Hanjun showed a sneer in his eyes. "Open the city gate, let everyone enter the city, the yamen will give porridge and will not let any people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty be starved to death!"
The officers and men of the "this ......" harvest were a little embarrassed.
"The main hall asked you to open the gates, didn't you hear?"
The officers and soldiers had no choice but to open the city gates.
"Thank you to the Third Prince, thank you to His Royal Highness the Third Prince."