Chapter 560, Sichuan and Shu disaster relief
Wei Peng soothed: "Mother, I am reluctant to leave her and the child behind, but what she said also makes sense, the nest is finished, and when the world is in chaos, we have to bear more, it is better to exert force early to stop these at the beginning." ”
King Xuan was immediately relieved that his son and daughter-in-law did not disappoint him.
In Emperor Huiwen's will, he praised Wei Hong for fundraising, and asked him to arrange people to do it himself, and the silver money raised in advance was also escorted to Zizhou Mansion by Wei Peng and household officials.
Wei Hong returned to the East Palace and let people start to prepare, write the book of words, set the plan of the plan, and after receiving the approval, began to work, the next day the streets and alleys of the capital spread the tragic situation of this ground movement, it was really sad to hear the news, the listener wept, and then, the gate of the yamen, the gate of the city posted a fundraising notice, saw the monument of merit, those businessmen moved their minds, this is a great opportunity to become famous, and then I heard that the Marquis of Dongping made a generous shot, directly out of 180,000 taels, these businessmen fought in their hearts, Not to mention whether the palace can take out the money, the dowry of Helan Xue's wedding is given by the people of the world, and the wheat that people sweep away casually is estimated to be enough for ordinary people to eat for a year, we can't!
Can't the limelight overshadow the palace? Obviously, these families are too stingy, more than the palace, and they don't seem to take the prince into account, and they are still hesitating, the head of the Cui family in the capital has already slapped 300,000 taels of silver tickets on the table in front of the door, and these heavy pieces of paper almost smashed the table for fundraising. Within a few days, more than 2 million taels were raised, and the household department sent the scattered silver donated by the people to be cast into small ingots of one or two taels, and then transported them to the disaster area in batches.
Two days later, Wei Peng, Su Qi, Mu Zige, and Chen Fengting took 20,000 horses and escorted the first batch of donations to Shu for disaster relief. Before leaving, Helan Xue quietly asked Li Changning to follow in the army, this person has good medical skills, this disaster area will definitely come in handy, and copied a few prescriptions left by the Heavenly Master in the past, in case of emergency.
At the same time, together with King Xuan, the three of them sorted out the details of the disaster relief affairs, including the registration of disaster victims, the distribution of money and food, post-disaster reconstruction, etc., these things have been detailed by the six departments before, and Helan Xue combined with what he knew in later generations, and came up with some ideas for him, so that King Xuan's father and son couldn't stop nodding, and this daughter-in-law gave people unexpected surprises everywhere.
After Wei Peng and others went out of Beijing, they went straight to Sichuan and Shu, and slept in the wind and food along the way, not daring to delay, they were one day late, and the victims over there were difficult for one day, halfway through, the garrisons from all over the country were mobilized to join, and when they arrived in Sichuan and Shu, the original 20,000 people had expanded to 50,000, because of the serious disaster, all over the country already knew, in Helan Xue's words, people's sympathy was overflowing, and everyone was a soldier in the army, all of them were bloody, and then Wei Peng mobilized his emotions, and traveled all the way, and arrived in Sichuan and Shu in less than ten days.
This time, Wei Peng came with his troops, but he was not blocked by Wei Jinchen and Wen Yuanjiu, Wei Peng breathed a sigh of relief, but then began to worry about the safety of the capital.
Mu Zige looked straight and pouted, is his rouge tiger something ordinary people dare to provoke?
Su Qi couldn't stop shaking his head, he really couldn't see that this prince still had such a gentle side.
The local officials in the disaster area have been tortured physically and mentally, and they have temporarily transferred food from the neighboring state capitals, and they have given porridge outside the city every day, and there are not many officials and officials alive, and they have recruited literate people from among the people to temporarily call in to register the household registration and the number of deaths, and the Langzhong of the various medical centers have also been gathered together to treat the people, and the materials of the imperial court have not yet arrived, and there is a shortage of doctors and medicines in the disaster areas, and there is a faint tendency of grain and medicine merchants from other places to raise prices, which has caused many times of chaos.
A few days later, I heard that the rebel king Wei Jinchen led people to rob the materials for the imperial court's disaster relief, and the people cried and begged God to accept the rebel king. A few days later, news came out in the capital, the crown prince Wei Hong called on everyone to raise donations for the disaster area, Xuanwangfu and Dongping Marquis Mansion took the lead in responding, and Xuan Shizi will personally lead troops to escort disaster relief materials to Sichuan and Shu in the near future. This gave hope to the victims.
Everyone knows that King Xuan is a virtuous prince, the prince has been killing enemies in northern Xinjiang since he was twelve years old, and has made many military exploits, and he defeated Beidi even more in the previous year, he is not an ordinary gentleman.
As soon as Wei Peng and others entered Sichuan and Shu, they made people go to the folk to investigate, he and Su Qi were too recognizable in terms of appearance and temperament, and they were not from ordinary people at first glance, so it was natural not to ask about something. Xi Yan and the others scattered out, sending back news from time to time, and Wei Peng and the others turned white.
Zizhou Mansion is the epicenter, the most severely affected, the prefect of Zizhou Mansion, garrison, and so on only five or six officials survived, this is still the city, the surrounding counties and towns are even more miserable, the head of the Shu Wangfu is smart, the King of Shu has been established as the prince, the palace has not been withdrawn, this time is the time to buy a reputation for the master, the head quickly took people to the disaster area, and the local officials together to rescue the victims, to Wei Hong earned a lot of good reputation.
However, the grain merchants in the Bazhou County took the opportunity to raise the price of grain, and the prince's mansion did not give much face. Not only that, the summer is hot, there are many deaths of people and animals in the disaster area, and there has been a plague epidemic, most of the doctors in the folk Langzhong have done everything to treat the victims, but they can't get the medicinal materials without thinking, and the news that they have come back from washing the inkstone, there are even officials colluding with these businessmen to make profits from it, and the angry Wei Peng smashed the bluestone table in the yard with one palm, and the broken stones splashed in all directions, and the people who hit him were in pain.
When I arrived at the boundary of Zizhou County, it was even more miserable, the corpses of people and animals had begun to decompose before they were cleaned up and buried, flies and insects were flying around, and the air was filled with the smell of corpses, which made people almost disgusting. The closer you get to the hardest-hit areas, the more such scenes become, some places have been cleaned up, others have been washed away by the river, and after the river has passed, countless corpses have been drowned in silt, broken bricks and tiles have piled up, and I don't know what was once there.
Even Wei Peng, a person who has experienced countless wars in Northern Xinjiang, was also shocked by this tragic situation, when he slaughtered the city in Northern Xinjiang, he fought for blood, in order to deter Beidi Xiaoxiao, but these people in front of him were the people of his Wei family, and they were dislocated under natural disasters, which was already a disaster from heaven, but there were man-made disasters, which made Wei Peng intolerable. While sending people to collect evidence of collusion between officials and businessmen, he ordered the army to be thrown into disaster relief.
Li Changning and others asked them to find as many tokens and other things as possible on these people, and collect and keep them in a unified manner, so that someone can claim them in the future, dig deep pits, sprinkle dry lime, and then bury the corpses to prevent the spread of the epidemic.