The quota has been changed, and it is a difficult problem to give it to whom. Because the family is all in business.

Although all the men in the family are literate, they are all used for business and bookkeeping, and they are not interested in reading, and naturally no one has participated in scientific examinations.

In the end, this quota fell to Wu Zhao, who was relatively good academically, because Wu Zhao was a donor official, he was cautious and did not dare to do anything after becoming the county commander.

He didn't dare to embezzle silver taels, for fear that his family's lives would be unsafeguarded.

If you have merits, you don't dare to report them, so you give them all to your boss and officials, but you win the favor of your superiors. Ping'an stayed in the position of the county magistrate for more than ten years.

A few years ago, a new house came to Gwangju, and within a few years of coming to Gwangju, the new house was greedy for a lot of money. The local people dared not speak out, because everyone heard that the background of Xinfutai was very hard.

In recent years, there have been many natural disasters in Henan, starting with last year's drought, which reduced grain production.

Xinfutai has increased the land tax, the production in the land has been reduced, and the land tax has been increased, and the life of the people is miserable, and there are many people who sell their children and daughters.

I finally survived last year, but I didn't expect that this year's drought was more severe and more extensive than last year.

Seeing that the people were really suffering, the criminal ministers distributed the grain stored by the county government according to the population, hoping to let the people survive this hurdle.

I finally waited until it rained, but I thought that the rain would be more than a month, and there was no sign of stopping.

The crops in the field finally waited for the harvest to be harvested, and they were drowned by the torrential rain for several days.

Lingbei County, which was under the jurisdiction of the criminals, died hundreds of people due to heavy rain, and 10,000 or 20,000 victims gathered outside the city. They are all people from the villages where the disaster is severe.

The criminal took the people of the county government to inspect the river embankment to prevent it from bursting, and to reassure the people to move to a safe area. On the other hand, he sent people to give porridge outside the city to ensure that the living were not starved to death.

Recently, the criminal officials heard the official of the soup kitchen report that there are more and more victims outside the city, and the grain in the granary is only 30% of the grain in previous years.

If this continues, all the people of the city will starve to death, and they will beg the guilty ministers to find a way.

The criminal couldn't think of a way, so he had to report to Lord Zhizhou and ask for disaster relief money to go to the counties for disaster relief. The government asked the criminal ministers and several surrounding counties with serious disasters to go back first and wait for news.

The criminal minister waited for three days, but there was no news from the state city. There are more and more victims outside the city, and the granary of the county government has bottomed out, and there is no food to help the victims.

The criminal had to go to Lord Zhizhou again and ask when the relief food would be distributed, or ask the criminal to bring some food back from the capital city to deal with the emergency. The people of Futai replied, "Wait."

Most of the wealthy families in the county secretly left with their families at the beginning of the disaster, leaving behind some grain merchants, hoping to raise the price of grain at this time and make a lot of money.

The sinner can wait, but the disaster can't. There was no grain in the granary, so the sinner had to buy some grain from the rich men in the city at a high price.

The number of victims outside the city has increased by more than 2,000 in the past few days, and the officials have heard that these victims have come from neighboring counties.

A dam in a neighboring county burst and many people died, but the county commander fled, and no one came to the rescue. These people who had no way out had no choice but to flee to other counties and provinces.

When the criminal minister was about to enter the state city again, Lord Zhizhou finally sent someone to bring us food. Although it was only some old grain, the people were still grateful to the emperor.

But this grain is only enough for tens of thousands of victims to eat for three days, which is still a gruel to boil. The sinner wanted to ask Lord Zhizhou to send someone to bring some more food, but the lord refused.

The criminal minister also reported the situation to the higher level of the prefecture, and after the credible document was sent, it sank into the sea, and there was no news of Ren He.

Seeing that tens of thousands of victims were about to starve to death, the criminal ministers really had no choice but to write this petition of 10,000 people, ask someone to send it to the capital, and beg the former Shangguan to find a way to send it to the capital.

Kangxi glanced at the fold with a private message, this is Chen Xian, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, who was only promoted to the fourth rank two years ago.

Kangxi thought about it for a while, this Chen Xian didn't seem to have taken office in Henan? Could it be that there were other reasons? Or was it ......

Kangxi, who calmed down, began to be suspicious again. Kangxi ordered someone to call Chen Xian over.

The nervous Chen Xian followed his father-in-law to the imperial study, knelt on his knees and bowed to Kangxi, but he didn't wait for the word flat, so he could only kneel all the time.

Kangxi looked at Chen Xian for a long time before he got up, picked up the letter on the table and asked, "You are not small, you dare to put a private message in the fold?

Chen Xian was so frightened that he knelt on the ground again, and said again and again: "The emperor spares his life! Wechen is forced to do so. ”

"Say!" Kangxi shouted with a cold face.

Chen Xian knelt on the ground and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve before he spoke: "Weichen didn't think about including a private message in the fold at first, but just wanted to write the content of this letter as a fold and submit it to the emperor.

But Weichen's mentor asked Weichen to secretly hand over this letter to the emperor, and he couldn't present it to the emperor in a folded way, saying that this would leak the news from Henan.

The teacher also said: Only in this way can the letter be sent, and the emperor will think of him, and then let Weichen hand over the letter to the emperor again.

Weichen couldn't refute his teacher, so he had to put the letter in this way. ”

The more Chen Xian spoke, the lower his head became, wishing that the emperor would not see him. But he had to take out the letter that his teacher had given him and hold it above his head.

Kangxi knew that Chen Xian's teacher was a learned Confucian, but he was a bit old-fashioned. often offended people, so he was removed from his official position.

This person is still one of his enlightened masters, surnamed Shen, named Chang, and the word Shi'an.

mentioned him, Kangxi remembered that he was most afraid of taking his class, and every time he couldn't answer a question, he would be punished, although it wasn't him.

Kangxi was silent after listening to Chen Xian's words, it seemed that something happened here that he didn't know.

The personal eunuch took the letter from Chen Xian's hand and handed it to Kangxi, who opened it and knew what was going on.

It turned out that the reason why Shen Shi'an wanted to help Wu Zhao was because Wu Zhao's father had begged for his life.

In addition, he himself is an upright, rigid and jealous person, so Shen Shi'an will spare no effort to help Wu Zhao.

After reading the letter, Kangxi also knew the seriousness of the matter, so he temporarily suppressed the matter, and then dealt with the two of them when the disaster in Henan was resolved.

Who can be sent to Henan? This is a difficult problem. The disaster is so serious, but the capital has not received any news.

Apparently, someone put up a barrier there. Moreover, this person is extremely powerful.

There is another possibility. It is impossible for a single person to cause such a serious disaster in Henan, and officials from the entire province of Henan should be involved.

Thinking of this possibility, Kangxi was extremely angry in his heart. However, now is not the time to get angry, and it is necessary to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people first.

In the end, Kangxi ordered Shen Shi'an to be appointed as the disaster relief money and grain officer, and went to Henan with 500,000 taels of silver for disaster relief.

When the decree was issued, it caused an uproar in the DPRK and China. Most of the officials in the DPRK and China wondered in their hearts: When will there be a disaster in Henan?

How did the news get to the capital? Why didn't there be any news before?