Fuzhou is surrounded by six towns and eighteen counties, and there are big rivers passing through, in recent years, it has been divided into the official road of Caoyun by the imperial court, and began to build embankments at various bayonets, and the treasury allocates money to the maintenance of river dams around Fuzhou every year has one-tenth of the total expenditure of the household department, which is an extremely huge number, but there are no officials and no greed, and the exploitation goes on layer by layer, and finally falls into the hands of county officials and has to be stuck in a layer of microwave oil and water. Therefore, he will directly fill his own pocket with all the silver.

Now that Zhao Yuanzhi has temporarily replaced the position of Zhizhou in Fuzhou, many bright blindfolds do not dare to embezzle public funds, Zhao Yuanzhi is also a veteran of officialdom, and naturally understands the truth that when the water is clear, there is no fish, and he turns a blind eye to some places where he can be greedy for oil and water, and the smaller the official is actually very low, as long as the amount is only a certain amount, he will not pursue it.

Officialdom, today you give me convenience, tomorrow I will give you convenience.

However, Zhao Yuanzhi's acceptance of the Fuzhou embankment is known to the surrounding jurisdictions, and the discerning people dare not make a dead decision on the money of the embankment, and the floods in the upper and lower reaches of Fuzhou in the past three years are quite severe, and Zhao Yuanzhi came to strictly investigate it completely according to the will of the imperial court.

Zhao Yuanzhi was in the nearest county at noon a day later, the weather was already very bad, the wind, lightning and thunder did not stop, on horseback Zhao Yuanzhi pinched the calf whip and looked at the county official who came to pick him up, and threw a whip directly on him, the county official didn't know why the embankment suddenly collapsed, he also knew that something was wrong, and immediately knelt down: "Ge Lao, this thing is really a natural disaster, and the embankment in our Baishui County is the most problem-free ······"

The county magistrate said a lot of words to shirk responsibility, and even said that he was a new official last year, and then said: "There are not many deaths, the lower officials have already sent someone to make arrangements, and now that the rain is quite heavy, the two adults will go to the county government to stay first." ”

How could it be okay! Zhao Yuanzhi said directly to Luo Xuanxue: "If you take half of the people to another county, you must settle the victims." ”

Luo Xuanxue nodded, raised his hand and ordered half of the people to stay, followed by galloping away, Zhao Yuanzhi said directly: "Lead the way, go to the collapsed embankment, how many heavens and earth have been flooded, how many homes have been washed away, what is the number of dead and injured, and where are the displaced victims settled now?" Can it be medicine? ”

The county official couldn't answer anything, looking at Zhao Yuanzhi's cold gaze, he was frightened, and the official next to him immediately helped him get on the horse and followed Zhao Yuanzhi.

When he arrived at the place where the embankment was washed out, Zhao Yuanzhi's eyes were extremely deep, and half of it was washed away, and now this is the rain at least in the next seven or eight days before it can stop, and then the county embankment upstream has also collapsed, and the surrounding people's residences have been completely washed away, many people are wailing, and some people are lying on the water's edge shouting the names of their families

Zhao Yuanzhi glanced at the county official coldly, and instructed Li Tong next to him: "Let the soldiers go with sandbags to plug the opening, see if there are strong people among the people who can help, resettle all the disaster victims, register the injuries and the loss of family property, take the people to the county office, and the post station will be settled immediately, and gather all the doctors in the county seat, so that no other people will die." ”

Zhao Yuanzhi thought about it while talking, and then added a few more, and asked Li Tong to take the soldiers to do it, the county official was so frightened that he didn't open his mouth when he walked over, Zhao Yuanzhi kicked him to the ground and sat down, and the rain poured in front of his eyes: "I'll keep this head of yours for the time being, if you don't want your whole family to die, give me a clear aftermath, this year, Baishui County allocated money to maintain the embankment, you'd better straighten out every copper plate for me this year!" ”

Soon set up a shelter from the rain next to it, Zhao Yuanzhi looked at the people who looked at the map very much, how big the opening here is, it must be that the upstream embankment is more seriously washed out, this is towards Fuzhou, the embankment in Fuzhou has been personally strengthened by him this year, and there will definitely be no problem.

With Zhao Yuanzhi as a testimony and command, it took a day to finally talk about the gap in the embankment to be completely blocked, he sent people to guard here in case there is a change, personally saw the situation of the victims, and was quite glad that Mu Changping was called, he ordered someone to go to Fuzhou to deliver a letter, so that Mu Changping would also come to see it at that time, he stayed in Baishui County for two days, and then he took three people to Shanqiao County to find Luo Xuan to learn,

The flood in Shanqiao County was extremely powerful, and the entire embankment was said to have been washed away, Luo Xuanxue spent a day slowly blocking it with sandbags and human walls, Zhao Yuanzhi rushed over, looking at the situation everywhere, his eyes were about to pop out, and he immediately turned over and yelled: "You are crazy!" Come back to Lao Tzu! You figure out what you do! ”

The dignified Governor actually went down to carry sandbags with the soldiers!

The county officials next to him burst into tears: "Elder Ge hurry up and let the governor come back, if there is one or two, it will be a loss for the imperial court!" "County Officer Li came two months ago to take over the mess, and Luo Xuanxue, who had just watched him jump, knelt down with weak legs.

Zhao Yuanzhi sighed, and suddenly looked at the rapid water waves hitting the human wall, and the human wall was knocked open in an instant, and he immediately didn't even think about jumping into the water, and County Officer Li almost didn't faint now.

The situation in the water was very bad, Luo Xuanxue threw the two soldiers around him, and he was directly swept down by the waves, Zhao Yuanzhi directly pulled his arm, at this time, a very bad wave came with a big wave splitting his head and covering his face, and the people on the shore directly watched the two people disappear into the water, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to come out.

Zhao Yuanzhi's wateriness is extremely good, pulling Luo Xuexuan, who was dazed by the waves, desperately went to the shore, Li Tong took a few soldiers to drag the two of them hand in hand with adult ropes, Zhao Yuanzhi knelt on the ground panting, and looked at Luo Xuanxue: "Your life is very valuable, don't mess around, I have already arranged it downstream, now I can only wait for the flood to pass." "The levee has been destroyed, and now the most important thing is to resettle the victims in the later stage.

In the past eight days, Yang Baodai looked at the finally clear sky and became more and more sad, and came in with food: "In the past few days, many disaster victims have come to Fuzhou, and there is a mess outside, and the Chamber of Commerce is unwilling to contribute when it comes out with money, I heard that it was enough to be knocked out of 300,000 taels of silver by adults to come out for disaster relief, and the victims are all placed in the city, by the way, Imperial Doctor Mu also came, now I will go over to see the situation of the victims, and I will come to see you later." ”

Yang Baodai nodded: "In general, you should pay attention-"

"You promised the young master not to worry about these things, now your body is the most important, the chamber of commerce was really guessed by the young master, there are really a few people who handed the post to visit, but they were all explained by the young master Yuan, these few yen The young master is also very busy, the slave maid heard that several people have been secretly disposed of, what is the collusion between officials and businessmen, and now many people in the chamber of commerce are trembling."

The official and businessman family, how can there be no one, as long as there is no chance to turn against Zhao Yuanzhi, he will not ask too much.

Yang Baodai touched her bulging belly and said, "Let's go, let's go see Gui'er." ”

Zhang Gui'er had a cold, did she have to go to the Taoist temple to play the day before yesterday when she saw that it was not raining, but she was infected with a cold on the road, and she didn't get better for several days, when Yang Baodai passed, she looked at Yan Ci stumbling over: "Madam, our young lady has a high fever, and she vomited blood!" ”

Yang Baodai's eyes immediately turned to the side: "Go, go and call Mu Changping." ”

Mu Changping came soon, his expression was very bad, and he could already be described as difficult, he directly stepped forward and explained to Yang Baodai: "I'm afraid there is an epidemic, just now I went to the place where the victims are concentrated, and there are more than ten signs of high fever for a few days and then vomiting blood, but Gui'er has been in contact with the victims?" His voice was not loud, but the words he said knocked directly on Yang Baodai's body: "Can you give it to people?" ”

"I don't know yet, but there are only more than a dozen patients who have been found, but looking at the course of the disease, ······" After carrying, it is often accompanied by the outbreak of epidemics, but it has not appeared in the past two years, how can this good end fall in Fuzhou, Mu Changping felt that it was better to be safe, so he told Yang Baodai: "Isolate this place, all the people who have been in contact with Gui'er are concentrated in one place, so that I can easily observe whether it will be contagious, don't you get close to understand?" Also, don't spread the word about it, lest it cause panic. ”

"What is it if it's not a disease?"

"Maybe they all ate something slightly poisonous." Mu Changping casually said a possibility, and hurriedly followed Yan to resign.

It has been three days since Zhao Yuanzhi got the news and came back, and the matter was very pressed, and those who fell ill were moved to other places for treatment, and there was no increase in cases, Mu Changping just said that the symptoms in the early stage were similar to those of wind and cold, so he was not sure if he would be contagious.

"How's Gui'er?" Zhao Yuanzhi didn't even look at Yang Baodai, and went directly to Zhang Guier's courtyard, where Yang Baoyuan was already guarding, and Mu Changping said: "Which one do you listen to, good news or bad news?" ”

"I only listen to your son!"

Mu Changping said: "The people who have been in contact with Gui'er have no symptoms, just follow the ordinary prescription, the bad news is that Gui'er is still very unstable, and there has been contact with the dozen or so victims, so now you have to observe and observe, you don't go in, you can't have an accident, it's best for you to pass the fold to the court in secret, it's better to say it in advance." ”

As he spoke, Yan Ci shouted.

"Imperial Doctor Mu, come and take a look, it's not good! Girl, girl, something is wrong! She's convulsing all over her body and vomiting blood, come and see! ”