Thinking so, He Shen felt that he should go down again, take a look with his own eyes, and then decide what to do.

The other side.

When Liu An, the prefect of Taiyuan Prefecture, saw He Shen, he kept silent, never spoke, and his heart moved, and he couldn't help but open his mouth again to try it.

"By the way, I have caught all the people who attacked you last time, my lord, what do you think should be done?"

When He Shen heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then he remembered that the people who attacked him were still in prison.

“………”

After hesitating for a moment, He Shen waved his hand and said, "En...... Those people, let's just lock them up for the time being..."

"However, don't abuse them, the Japanese officials will interrogate them in person in a few days."

"The people's original surname is simple, and if they rashly attack their own officials, they may be bewitched by others, and the things behind this are probably not as simple as imagined."

When Liu An heard He Shen's words, he was slightly stunned at first, and then nodded thoughtfully.

Liu An, who noticed He Shen's attitude, paused, and changed his words to turn Xi Min into a common person.

I only heard that Liu An said: "My lord is wise, what he said is extremely true, but it is the negligence of the lower officials, those people, the lower officials will definitely arrange it." ”

“…………”

Seeing Liu An, who was so knowledgeable, He Shen smiled with satisfaction and said, "It's good that you understand, speaking of which, the next batch of disaster relief grain and grass from the imperial court is estimated to be coming in the next two days." ”

"This official is ordered by the Holy Authority to sovereignly preside over disaster relief, but he still doesn't know about the current disaster situation in Taiyuan Mansion."

"A few days ago, I had the intention to inspect and visit, but I was attacked by the people, but the disaster was like fire, and there could be no delay."

"If the prefect is okay today, let's accompany the official to continue to inspect the disaster in Taiyuan, after all, we are the officials who eat well."

“…………”

"My lord is for the country and the people, and he is really a model for the hundred officials of the imperial court, and the lower officials are really admired by the five-body cast..."

The prefect Liu An's sycophants, one after another.

After patting the sycophants, Liu An patted his chest again and assured.

"Your Excellency is inspecting the disaster area today, and the lower officials will naturally be well prepared, like a few days ago, there were people attacking the adults, and it will never happen again, and the lower officials guarantee with my neck and head."

“……”

When He Shen heard this, he waved his hand and said: "The prefect is serious, today's inspection is different from a few days ago, you and I take some followers, wearing ordinary people's clothes, and you can pay a private visit in micro-clothes." “

"This time, there is no need to make a big fanfare, and there is no need to alarm officials elsewhere."

Hearing He Shen say this, Liu An was stunned at first, then hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded...

Immediately after, he said goodbye to He Shen and changed his clothes.

Looking at the back of Liu An's departure, He Shen suddenly found an advantage in this person.

One of the advantages that he can become a prefect.

That is, there is no principle, whatever He Shen says is what it is, Liu An will never oppose or question it.

People with such a personality can mix very well in officialdom.

“………”

What kind of person his immediate boss is, he will become a person similar to his immediate boss unprincipledly.

His immediate boss is a corrupt official, and he is a corrupt official.

His immediate boss is a clean official, he is a clean official, his immediate boss is a cool official, he is a cool official...

He does what his boss tells him to do, he doesn't care, who is the boss, and he doesn't care about the boss's orders, whether it's right or wrong...

It doesn't matter if he hurts heaven and reason, or cares about people's lives, he will just be loyal and do things for his boss.

Therefore, every one of his superiors is willing to reuse him and promote him.

Even if it is, the winner of the partisan attack on officialdom tends to retain such people.

Compared with Liu An, and the two are much worse at this point.

Sure enough, Liu An's side, as soon as he left, He Er impatiently persuaded He Shen.

"Master, you were attacked by those Diao people just a few days ago, why do you have to pay a private visit today, it's too dangerous..."

"If you want to be small, I said, even if we want to buy people's hearts, we don't have to do it so hands-on..."

When He Shen heard He Er's words, he shook his head slightly and said, "Don't worry, after the farce a few days ago, Liu An's heart has already sounded the alarm. ”

"This time, on a private visit to Weifu, he will inevitably arrange a large number of officials to accompany him secretly."

"What's more, once I take off my official uniform and hat, and without those Qincha salute teams that show my status and honor guards, no one will recognize me."

"Something like the other day won't happen, it won't be dangerous, you can rest assured."

"Moreover, my purpose this time is to help the people and win the hearts of the people in the world..."

"If you don't know the whole picture of the disaster area, how can you do it if you don't know the real situation?"

Seeing that He Shen's mind had been decided, as a servant and Er, he could only helplessly express his obedience.

He went to find an ordinary dress that was not very conspicuous, and waited for He Shen to put it on.

Here, while getting dressed, He Shen said to Heer: "By the way, Heer, you have to remember that the silver that the officials will give us in the future cannot be accepted casually." ”

"Although silver is very good, everyone likes it, but some silver is very hot."

"For example, this time, the reason why these officials in Taiyuan Mansion gave us so much silver is entirely because they are afraid that their ugly things will be turned out by us."

"That's why they chose to vomit blood and send money to drag me into the water."

"You accepted this money on my behalf, which means that you have dragged me onto the thief ship."

After a pause, He Shen continued: "In just these two days, I will have a banquet for the officials of Taiyuan Mansion, and you can't accept their money anymore, do you know?" ”

When He Er heard this, he nodded dejectedly, and said in a muffled voice: "Small, I know." ”

He Shen sighed and said: "Taking people's money and eliminating disasters for others, these things, we must pay attention to in the future, no one will give benefits to others in vain." ”

"Stuffed pies, sometimes not meat, but poison, eat it will kill people..."

……

After coming to Taiyuan Mansion, Liu An vacated his own house for He Shen to live temporarily...

And he himself took the family to live in another house.

Liu An was not a Qing official, and the Taiyuan Mansion he was in charge of was also an oil and water yamen, and he embezzled a lot of disaster relief materials.

In terms of family resources, Liu An can be said to be among the best in the list of five-grade civil and military officials.

Therefore, Liu's Mansion is also a luxurious and magnificent mansion, especially the back garden of Liu's Mansion, which is a well-known sight of Taiyuan Mansion.

Liu's Mansion covers an area of nearly 30 acres, shaded by lush ancient trees, full of exotic flowers and rare grasses, and dotted with pavilions and water pavilions.

Rockery, jade building, carved gallery layer upon layer, the structure is ingenious, simple and atmospheric, can be described as incomparably heroic.

Because of this, when He Shen cleaned up here, Liu An had already changed into a long shirt and was waiting outside the door.

He Shen, He Er, and Liu An, with a few officials who were also dressed as ordinary people, rode out of the city in a carriage.

Along the way, He Shen learned a lot about the "real" situation of Taiyuan from Liu An.

As the saying goes, locusts are in extreme drought, not to mention that this time in Taiyuan, it is still a major drought that has lasted for several years.

In the past few years, there have not been a few rains in the entire Taiyuan Prefecture, and the lives of the people are not very good, and they are about to be unable to live.

I thought it would get better this year, but it didn't take long for locusts to appear.

At the beginning, it was only four or five, dotted with stars, and no one took it seriously.

However, within a few days, the locusts had grown to tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions.

For a time, the mountains were full of locusts.

The people of Taiyuan Mansion, under the condition of drought and no water, worked hard for a year, and finally fought with the sky for their lives, and fought for the little food...

In a few days, they have been eaten by locusts, and the people of Taiyuan have reached the most dangerous point at this moment.

In fact, after the locusts were just discovered in Taiyuan Mansion, Liu An had already asked the imperial court for relief of grain and grass, and even so, it was too late.

Because of such a thing, it was sent from the local government to the province, and then from the province to the imperial court, and half a month has passed.

By that time, it was already too late for anything, and the cucumber dish had already cooled.

Now, when the imperial court sent Heshen to relieve the disaster, the situation in Taiyuan Mansion was even more serious.

The locust plague intensified, not only ravaging Taiyuan Province, but also beginning to spread to the entire province.

Perhaps, after a while, the whole of Shaanxi will become a white land.

After hearing Liu An's introduction, I recalled that I personally went to the disaster area in the important town a few days ago and saw the tragic scenes in the world...

He Shen's face instantly became serious.

He didn't expect that this locust plague would be much more serious than he imagined...

I thought it was just a disaster in Taiyuan Prefecture, but I didn't expect the locust plague to spread to the entire Shaanxi Province.

After pondering for a while, He Shen asked Liu An: "The drought is a natural disaster, which cannot be remedied and recovered, and it is impossible for us to shoot the sun up." ”

"However, we can still do our best to extinguish the locust plague..."

"If the government posts notices and gathers the people to participate, and the people of the land of the government go all out to kill the locusts, the locust plague will be suppressed by us, even if it will not be extinguished..."

"At least, it won't spread to other places and cause more damage."

After hearing He Shen's words, not only Liu An, but even He Er was also shocked, looking at He Shen...

It seems that He Shen said something, as if he was earth-shattering.

However, the next words of the two of them and their explanations made He Shen's whole person stand directly in place.

“………”

In fact, what He Shen said just now was just a casual remark to show his understanding of the management of the locust plague.

After all, He Shen didn't want to be treated by Liu An as a layman who didn't know anything.