Lu Zhong rode a high-headed horse, and the purple robe on his body was light and soft, and it was very translucent, taking advantage of his sparse eyebrows and eyes, and his appearance was clear.

Zuo Huai's body was full of water and mud, and his face was tanned because of the hurry, and he was still a little red and swollen.

When the appearance of the two people is compared, it is really different, and people don't see it.

Lu Zhong was obviously very happy, and laughed: "It's rare to meet an old acquaintance in another country, let's go, please drink." ”

Zuo Huai: "......"

By the way, this product did come to Nan'an City early in the morning.

"Is it difficult for you to live in such a remote place?" Zuo Huai snorted a little unpleasantly.

I don't know why, he felt a little embarrassed in front of his friends today.

In the capital before, he Zuo Huai was a character on the scene, his status was higher than him, his knowledge was not as good as him, his knowledge was better than him, he was not young, he was not handsome, everything was not bad, and he did not please girls.

Let's just say that this road is heavy, in terms of identity, there is not much difference between the two people, Lu Zhong is His Majesty's mother's family, even if the identity is a little higher than him, but he doesn't like to read, so much so that he can draw two strokes, and some people praise him and say that he is a famous man.

But that's all the villain's statement, where can he compare to his own Tanhualang, who was born in the imperial examination!

If it is compared to the degree of popularity of girls, there are very few noble sons of the younger generation in the entire capital who can beat him, as for Lu Zhong, he has a crush on a girl for seven years, and he also let people fall into the arms of his eldest brother, cut!

Zuo Huai scolded all the way, and the corners of his mouth twitched to salute Lu Chong, and then he raised his eyes and looked into the distance, his expression was slightly dignified.

Nan'an City was built on the water's edge and was originally a very prosperous city.

It can be seen that the buildings are exquisite, and the flowers and trees are also luxuriant, but the number of victims has increased, showing a kind of decadence and chaos.

And because pirates are always intruding, there are traces of war everywhere, which makes people feel uneasy.

The beggars were gray and numb, and many victims of the disaster gathered together in groups of three or five, their eyes glazed.

He couldn't help but feel a little frightened, and couldn't help asking: "How many victims are there in Nan'an City?" ”

Lu Zhong shrugged: "I don't know this, you go to the county government and ask the county to go." ”

Zuo Huai was choked, he went to Nan'an City, and was ordered by the emperor to deal with all the affairs after the king of Nan'an County was arrested.

In fact, it was for the royal goodness.

If he can calm the chaos in Nan'an in the shortest possible time, then he will be a great achievement.

If he can't, he will only hide back in the capital, and His Majesty will be disappointed, so his future future is really difficult to say.

Zuo Huai remembered what his father had told him to call him to the study before he left the capital.

At that time, his father told him - "Your Majesty sent you to Nan'an City, not to let you arrest and kill, but to stabilize the word." ”

"To arrest people, to kill, to deter, to have His Majesty's cronies, the forbidden army to lead the money wind."

"When you arrive at the place, the biggest goal should be to restore order in Nan'an City as soon as possible, and to ease the relationship with the local Haoqiang, as for the degree of this, it depends on you."

Zuo Huai is not stupid, he knows what his father means.

As the magistrate of Nan'an City, as an outsider, he came out of the capital, and his background was strong, he was the dragon who crossed the river, and when facing the head snake on the ground, he could neither be too strong nor too soft.

If you are too strong, you will be attacked by the crowd, things can't be done, if you are too soft and being manipulated, he won't be able to give the situation that Your Majesty wants, and Your Majesty will not be happy.

His father would agree to him coming to Nan'an City at this time, in fact, he also saw that Qian Feng came to make a big fuss first, and the local heroes in Nan'an City were all frightened, and they all shrank their heads at this time, and normally speaking, they would not be willing to conflict with him.

If he pulls in one or two more allies among the locals, the work will be easy to carry out, stabilize the situation, and stabilize southern Xinjiang, which can be regarded as pulling out the cancer left by the king of Nan'an County and eliminating the influence of that prince in this city.

As long as he can do these things in general, he will serve for three years, and even if he has no merit, it is not impossible to be transferred back to the capital to be promoted to the third level.

Zuo Huai also thought a lot about the situation in Nan'an City along the way, and made several plans, but when he really set foot on this land, he raised his eyes and looked around, the people's livelihood was withering, and the victims were about to become disasters.

He immediately understood that the most important thing was to give relief to the victims, reassure the people, and not cause civil unrest.

If he really came to Nan'an not long after, there would be a civil unrest......

There is no need for His Majesty to dispose of it, his father killed him first.

But where can the imperial court mobilize food now?

Because of the disaster, the imperial court issued an order last year that Yunnan Ancheng would not pay grain taxes, but the silver money and grain have long been wasted now, and it is impossible for the imperial court to take out the silver money in a short time.

Disasters are frequent in various places, the situation is erosive, there are as many as many states and provinces in need of disaster relief, the silver in the imperial treasury has long been empty, and even the military salary will not be able to make up, His Majesty has been sad for several days, and has strictly ordered the palace to be thrifty, and is already thinking of a way.

However, in a short period of time, he was unable to take care of Nan'an City.

Even if the imperial court had silver, it had to be used on the blade, and there were so many places where silver needed to be used that it was obvious that they could not be put in the first place.

There were obviously a lot of things in his heart, as soon as Zuo Huai opened his mouth, the first thing he complained about was first: "In such a remote place in the Southern Barbarians, I'm afraid there is no soft and gentle little beauty, and there is no good wine to drink, bitter!" ”

Lu Zhong: "...... Scold! ”

Wait for the night to kill the turtle from the capital.

Lu Zhong sneered, but his face was soft: "Brother Zuo, you go to the county government to settle down first, hand over official business, and wait for a banquet for your brother in the evening to pick up the wind and wash the dust." ”

Zuo Huai was more polite than him: "Then there is Brother Lao Lu." ”

But in my heart, I sighed, socializing, socializing.

I'm afraid I'm going to have a hard time in this broken place, there are no delicacies, fine wines and delicacies, and there will be no moving songs and dances, there is nowhere to spend time, three years of hard life, when is it a head.

When Zuo Huai arrived at the yamen, the yamen was brightly lit, and the county man and the two scribes who came out to greet him were covered with dirt and sweat, and they were very embarrassed.

Several people burst into tears: "My lord is here!" ”

Hu Xiancheng sighed: "The affairs of the county government are complicated, and there are thousands of things, if the adults are not here, we people will really be worried about hitting the wall." ”

With that, they led Zuo Huai to the back office.

The doors of the two back wings were open, and there were a large pile of account books inside, as well as case files that should have been sealed in the storeroom.

There was also a mess of ledgers on the table.

The county man briefly said the situation: "What happened to our county office, Chang Ping was empty, the treasury was gone, most of the people in the county were in prison, and no one took care of all the affairs in the county for several months. ”

"These days, Lord Lian Ansun has helped him, but Lord Qincha is here for the Nan'an rebellion case, after all, he is not in his position and does not seek his own government, and the county and Taiwan adults are not in office, which is really difficult to do."

Zuo Huai: "......"

After a while, the scribe came up and turned out all kinds of files for Zuo Huai to see.

It lists the number of people in the city, the amount of food, the average income of the population, and the increase in the price of food.

There is also the number of people who have been affected by the influx of victims, the amount of food that is in existence, very detailed, and all kinds of tables are available.

Zuo Huai has never been very proficient in fine affairs, and when he was in the Hanlin Academy, he studied arithmetic as a subject, and he belonged to the kind that only knew a little bit of fur.

In his opinion, this is nothing, as an official in the future, as long as he controls the overall situation, he can bring a few masters when the time comes, and let the masters do what they are good at, and he doesn't need to be proficient in everything.

At this time, when I looked at these archives and account books, I saw that Nan'an City was currently facing a food crisis.

Zuo Huai's face was about to fall into a cold sweat, and he even thought about it, thinking of what would happen if these victims couldn't even eat the food they had to live in?

He was in the capital, and he didn't hear about the disaster below, the imperial court disaster relief was not timely, the victims rushed into the big households, looted, as long as one person climbed the heights and shouted, it was the result of erosion.

Immediately, Zuo Huai exhaled and said softly: "I remember that a lot of disaster relief food funds have been raised?" The Book of the People and the Umbrella of the People have entered the capital? Your Majesty also praised us for the benevolence and righteousness of Southern Amdo. ”

The scribe nodded: "Thanks to the benevolence and righteousness of our richest man in Nan'an City, Xu Yuanwai, when the former county magistrate Hong was there, the Xu family discussed with the adults about disaster relief, and the Xu family lent money to the county government, and worked hard to purchase grain." ”

"Now the first batch of grain has arrived, temporarily alleviating the crisis in my Nan'an."

"But with the strength of the Xu family, after all, it is still not enough, and the degree of food consumption is faster than we imagined."

After the scribe finished speaking, he paused slightly, and said quickly in a low voice, "It was barely usable, but it was difficult for the left and right states and provinces, and a group of them were emphasized, and some of them were paid for the army." ”

"If it weren't for the sixth grandmother of the Xu family who found out in time...... It's even worse. ”

Zuo Huai was stunned.

This is not unusual.

He knew a little about the Xu family, and before he came to Nan'an, he heard his father mention that the matter of the king of Nan'an County was more or less implicated in some powerful people in the south.

The Xu family is one of them.

It's not a very prominent family, but it's really rich, the richest man in Nan'an City.

The family has a boat and does the business of grain and salt works.

Zuo Huai looked at the background of the Xu family, and he understood why someone wanted to mix them up.

As long as the Xu family is planted, I don't know how many people can be fattened with enough oil and water.

In fact, the nobles and nobles of the imperial court have a kind of plot of fattening sheep until now, raising merchants to grow and develop, and then harvesting.

The merchants of the Great Zhou are indeed not easy to do.

But the Xu family has a smart person, not to mention turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands for rain, as soon as this trick comes out, the court will not be able to do it too ugly.

Sometimes it's not very important, but sometimes it's very important.

Now in Nan'an, the people's heart is obviously at its most important time.

Your Majesty is worried about the disaster relief, and now that a person has taken the initiative to share his worries and has reached the heavens, the people below will definitely have to obey the holy will.

It is estimated that it will not be long before the people of the Xu family will be acquitted.

However, the situation of the Xu family also seems to be a bit complicated, because the family has a very important interest in a large shipyard.

It seems that many people are unwilling to let their family sink like this, because their position in the shipyard is very important, and they can't play without them.

But I want to pull some more benefits from them.

I heard that it was a shipyard that was already on the right track, but there is a little bit of an obvious change at present.

Zuo Huai thoughtfully straightened things out, in the situation of the Xu family, it didn't seem to be flustered, the capable woman in their family was not in a hurry at all, as if she had done something, but made others impetuous.

Anyway, in recent days, there have been a lot more people who have interceded with the Xu family, and the means have come out frequently, so much so that they seem to want to sell them to the Xu family.

The scribe was still standing aside and chattering: "...... The food shortage in Nan'an City is increasing day by day, and now they dare not distribute it, and they also ask the county lord to show it. ”

What can he do without food?

Zuo Huai racked his brains and thought, he had known that the situation was so bad, he should have used his relationship to let the household department pay some food before he came.

I'm afraid it's too late to write a letter now.

For a while, I was so worried that my hair turned white, and in the afternoon, I heard that Zhao Yihan, a student of county school, and more than a dozen classmates, persuaded several large families in the county to donate food, and the total number of trees added up to more than 100 stones.

It's not a small amount.

Zuo Huai's spirits perked up, and he couldn't help but think that if it was a powerful family in the entire Nan'an City, every family would have such a kind heart......

However, that was pure dreaming.

After handing over official duties, Zuo Huai was worried for most of the day, and in the evening, Lu Zhong came to pick him up.

The two of them are actually not very familiar in the capital, the relationship is average, but they are also in a circle, and now when they come to Nan'an City, they are at a loss, but they are instinctively closer.

"What are you going to do?"

Zuo Huai straightened his clothes, raised his hand to blast away a few moths flying in his ears, yawned and asked.

Lu Zhong smiled: "Your favorite, drink and watch the scenery." ”

Zuo Huai: "...... Right here? ”

He really doesn't believe that the nightlife of Nan'an City can be richer than the capital, as long as he can chat and pass the time, he is lucky.

……

Duxiu Villa

Zuo Huai was in the midst of flowers and trees, a pot of warm wine, the aroma was strong, and he got drunk first if he didn't drink it.

The small lake is as clear as jade, and the jade bridge on the lake does not know when the rainbow will be erected.

A rainbow and countless bright lights lined the entire mountain villa not like a mortal world, to a fairy palace.

On the Rainbow Bridge, a woman dressed as a scribe with a difficult face, is telling a story, she is obviously a line between the lines when it comes to rapping, and when she speaks, the scattered guests can hear it clearly.

At this time, a public case story is being told.

Talking about a blue sky in the previous dynasty, he can judge the sun day and the yin at night, and there are countless chivalrous people around him to help him try unjust cases, make decisions for the common people, and return the world to a blue sky.

It's not that Zuo Huai hasn't heard others talk about books before, he has never liked to listen to this, he just thinks it's vulgar, and only poor people who can't read a few big characters will like it.

Sitting in Nan'an City at this time, he was fascinated by it, and he couldn't tell what was good, but he only felt the word 'true'.

The 'scribe' said the truth, and no matter how thrilling and bizarre the case came from her mouth and listened to people's ears, it seemed to have become a reality that happened right in front of her eyes and made people witness it with their own eyes.

In addition, the environment is so special, and the people waiting on the left and right are also good in words and deeds, Zuo Huai is sitting in danger, and he unconsciously eliminates the little contempt in his heart.