How is this possible with such a severe drought?

The ground is so dry that the cracks are bottomless, and there is still dry loess under the cracks, and there is no trace of water at all.

No, the Weihe River in the south of the Yangtze River is only more than a few dozen miles away from here, is it difficult to dig a diversion canal more than ten miles long?

At the same time, Chu Mo at this time had also slowly come to Li Chengwen's side.

"Do you think the severity of the drought in Pingzhou is far greater than we estimated?"

Li Chengwen nodded.

"What I don't understand is that this place doesn't seem to be far from the Wei River, but why these officials in Pingzhou didn't think of digging a canal from the Wei River to bring water here."

Hearing this, Chu Mo said lightly: "I don't want to dig a canal tens of kilometers away, which will cost a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and this can't be done overnight." ”

"Now that Pingzhou has become like this, everyone is in danger, how can these officials think of this way."

"Don't the people in the Ministry of Industry know about these things?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Chengwen instantly understood that the drought in Pingzhou was only reported to the imperial court a few months later, and if the imperial court could pay attention to this matter at all, the people of Pingzhou would not have fallen to this point.

"Let's go, there is Sucheng in front, I want to see what Pingzhou has become like this now, what these officials have done."

After Chu Mo finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the carriage, Li Chengwen stood on the spot and frowned and pondered for a while, and finally returned to the carriage, and then headed towards Sucheng.

When the group came to a place less than a few kilometers away from Sucheng, the scenery in front of them finally changed a little, and the number of displaced people on the official road gradually decreased.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! ”

At this moment, a strong man in ragged clothes came running from a distance, and strangely enough, the arrival of the strong man was not hindered in any way, and soon came to the carriage.

And this strong man was Li Chengyi's personal guard who ordered him to go to Sucheng to investigate the situation first.

"Your Highness, Sucheng...... ...... Sucheng "

"Say it well."

Li Chengwen lifted the curtain and frowned when he looked at the strong man who was out of breath and spoke in a slurred manner.

"Your Highness, tens of thousands of disaster victims have gathered around the city!"

What!

Tens of thousands of victims!

Rao is Chu Mo couldn't help but show a surprised expression when he heard the news. You know, in today's situation, these victims are a time bomb, in order to survive, forced to a dead end, they can do anything.

In particular, at this moment, there is still so much food and disaster silver in their ranks, if these people know about it, the consequences are unimaginable.

"Tens of thousands of victims, but they are the people of Sucheng?"

Li Chengwen hurriedly asked.

"It shouldn't be, now Susu City is already surrounded by these victims."

The guard replied cautiously.

"Did they go too far?"

"Not really. However, the subordinates seem to have seen someone giving porridge outside the city. ”

Hearing this, Li Chengwen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if someone gave porridge and gathered so many victims, it would be said in the past.

But for the sake of safety, Li Chengwen and Chu Mo decided to stand by after some discussion, and only let two or three guards follow them to Sucheng to see what was going on.

The carriage, under the protection of several guards, continued for two or three kilometers, and sure enough! When they were about to arrive in Sucheng, Chu Mo and Li Chengwen walked out of the carriage, and when they looked around, there was a black figure in front of them.

And these figures are naturally the victims of the disaster in the mouth of the guard.

However, although there were many of them, they did not make any trouble among them, and even this place was surprisingly orderly from so many victims.

When the carriage came to the south gate, several porridge sheds appeared on each side. At the gate of the city, some people who seemed to be officials were guarding, and many victims of the disaster also consciously lined up in several long lines.

"Chu Mo, look! Are the people in the porridge shed familiar? ”

When Li Chengwen looked at one of the porridge sheds, a figure in an official uniform inside caught his attention.

When Chu Mo heard this, he immediately looked into the distance, and when his gaze fell on the person Li Chengwen said, the corners of Chu Mo's mouth couldn't help but rise, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Do you remember when we traveled in Pingzhou, the man who did not hesitate to offend the powerful for the sake of a beggar?"

Chu Mo said with a smile.

"Yan Xiang! It's him! ”

Hearing Chu Mo's reminder, a figure instantly appeared in Li Chengwen's mind, and he couldn't help but speak out immediately.

It's a bit of a coincidence, but it's not surprising.

When they met Yan Xiang back then, they saw Yan Xiang's temperament as an official, but they didn't expect that this Yan Xiang would be the prefect of Sucheng.

This is easy to do with acquaintances, Chu Mo immediately greeted him, got out of the carriage, and then walked with Li Chengwen to the porridge shed where Yan Xiang was.

At this moment, Yan Xiang was directing the subordinates in the mansion to boil porridge, as if someone had noticed the two Chu Mo who were coming from a distance, and one of the subordinates hurriedly said to Yan Xiang: "Master, someone is here." ”

When Yan Xiang heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but look ahead, perhaps because he hadn't seen each other for some years, Yan Xiang didn't recognize Chu Mo and the two of them for the first time.

And just when Yan Xiang was curious, Chu Mo and the others had already come to him, only to hear Chu Mo say with a smile: "Lord Yan, I haven't seen you for many years, it's always good?" ”

This is......

Yan Xiang's deep eyes looked at Chu Mo and the two for a while, and after Shaoqing, he seemed to recognize Chu Mo and the two, Yan Xiang's face couldn't help but show a look of surprise, and said, "Shizi, little brother Li, it turned out to be you!" ”

"Why did you come to Pingzhou?"

Yan Xiang asked with some curiosity.

Suddenly, Yan Xiang suddenly remembered something and looked at Li Chengwen, with a wry smile on his face: "It's that the lower officials forgot, Little Brother Li is the prince of the royal family, and the two of them came this time, compared to the Pingzhou disaster." ”

"Xiaguan Yan Xiang, I have seen His Royal Highness the Eighth Highness, and I have seen the Prince."

As he spoke, Yan Xiang saluted the two.

When the people around saw Yan Xiang treating the two people in front of him so respectfully, they naturally understood that the identities of these two people were a little not simple.

Seeing Yan Xiang like this, Chu Mo and the others just smiled, but did not stop his big gift.

Subsequently, Li Chengwen talked with Yan Xiang, after all, Yan Xiang is the prefect of Pingzhou City, and he should have a lot of suggestions for this drought.

While the two were talking, Chu Mo slowly walked to the cauldron where the porridge was boiling, but when Chu Mo's eyes looked into the pot, his face suddenly darkened......