When He Xiaoling saw Ouyang Tao and Li Kai, she frowned and said, "You guys are here to ask for porridge?"

Ouyang Tao nodded: "Sort of." ”

Yin Tianen next to him only looked over at this time and said in surprise: "Why are you? Why are you so down?"

He Xiaoling served each of them a bowl.

Ouyang Tao and Li Kai took it awkwardly, and then walked to Yang Fan's side, and let Yang Fan deal with the embarrassing matter.

When Yin Tianen saw Yang Fan, he immediately laughed: "Yang Fan, how does this porridge taste?"

Yang Fan nodded: "It's not bad, it's just a little thin, and I don't feel very full." ”

Yang Fan had already drunk most of the bowl, and handed the rest to Zhao Xiaoyu: "Come, you can drink a little too." ”

Zhao Xiaoyu held the bowl awkwardly, entangled in his heart, whether to drink it or not.

Yang Fan frowned and said, "Why don't you drink it, it tastes okay, oh, are you dirty?"

Zhao Xiaoyu shook his head, raised his neck and drank it in a big gulp.

As a result, I drank too quickly, choked, and coughed non-stop for a while.

Yang Fan gently patted Zhao Xiaoyu's back, helped her calm down, and said with a smile: "Is it so delicious? ”

Yin Tianen and He Xiaoling both walked over, they were curious, Yang Fan and their clothes were in tatters, could they really be in trouble?

Yin Tianen: "Yang Fan, what is the situation with you?"

Lin Zhiping hurriedly got up and said: "It turns out that you all know each other, Yang Gongzi scattered all the money on his body in order to rescue the refugees along the way. ”

Yang Fan smiled ashamedly: "It's better for Yin Shaoxia to do better, as long as there is porridge to drink, these people will not starve to death, and after this period of time, they will slowly get better." ”

Yin Tianen likes to listen to good words, and he couldn't say anything that he wanted to laugh at Yang Fan, so he said with a smile: "It's just a little bit of effort, the price of rice in the city is expensive, and my silver money can't support it for long." ”

Yang Fan frowned and said: "The disaster is so serious, it is impossible for the imperial court not to ask, won't the local officials report the disaster?"

Lin Zhiping said: "Lingnan County is probably the name that the emperor doesn't want to hear today. ”

He Xiaoling was puzzled: "Why is this?"

This small Lingnan County, how can it still be hooked with the emperor.

Ouyang Tao and Zhao Xiaoyu also pricked up their ears to listen.

Lin Zhiping: "About seventeen years ago, Queen Dugu went home to the province and passed through this place, but she was assassinated, Queen Dugu died, and His Royal Highness the Prince was nowhere to be found. ”

Yang Fan took a deep breath: "The world is so big, the emperor can't cover everything, even if the emperor doesn't care, what about the officials below? Are they all corpses and vegetarians? What does the imperial court raise them for? Isn't it just to govern the place?"

Lin Zhiping hurriedly booed: "Beware of being heard, criticizing officials is a big crime." ”

Yang Fan's eyes lit up: "Brother Ouyang, go and check if the DPRK and the Central Government know about the disaster in this place? Are there any relief measures? Brother Li, do you want to find a way to check those rice shops, how much grain is still in the city, and why is the price so high?"

Ouyang Tao and Li Kai clasped their fists at the same time and said, "Let's go." ”

Ouyang Tao and Li Kai immediately set off to go into the city to inquire about the news.

Yin Tianen was stunned, Yang Fan went to check what those were doing, and why were Ouyang Tao and Li Kai so obedient.

He Xiaoling was also very strange in her heart, what did Yang Fan want to do? Why did he suddenly seem to be a different person.

Yang Fan frowned and pondered, and after a while, he said, "Brother Yin, can you do me a favor?"

Yin Tianen was puzzled: "What are you going to do?"

Yang Fan: "How much money do you still have?"

Yin Tianen took two steps back vigilantly: "What do you want to do?"

Yang Fan: "I hope you can continue to give soup here until the famine problem is solved, I don't want to see a person starve to death again, how much silver taels you spend, I will pay you back in the future." ”

Lin Zhiping next to him was stunned, this Yang Gongzi is so big, is this to raise the victims of the whole city?

Yin Tianen: "Where will I have so much money, now that the price of rice has risen nearly tenfold, it is very good to be able to give porridge for a day or two, and there may be more and more victims in the future." ”

Yang Fan frowned, one or two days is definitely not enough, even if the grain is transported from nearby towns immediately, it will take at least ten days.

Once the victims gather, the number may be as high as tens of thousands, and one person will be counted as one or two meters a day, and it will cost thousands of catties of rice, according to the current price of rice, that is, hundreds of taels of silver.

For ordinary people, this is really a huge amount of money, and it takes more than ten days to give porridge, which is at least thousands of taels of silver, or even tens of thousands of taels.

Yang Fan still has to worry about something, it is possible that there is no such a lot of food in the rice store, otherwise the price should not have risen to such an extent.

Yang Fan looked at the rugged and difficult official road outside the city, and had a headache for a while, it was also very difficult to transport grain on the way, and he had to beware of being robbed on the road.

Yang Fan looked at Lin Zhiping and asked, "Is there any other road in this Lingnan County?"

Lin Zhiping guessed what Yang Fan was thinking, and said with a wry smile: "This road is already the best road, the nearby counties have suffered some disasters, large and small, and can only transport grain from other state capitals, in that case, it will take a month to say the least." ”

Yang Fan held his forehead with his hand, it was really a headache, and his father's task of quelling the chaos was not easy at all.

At this time, several fishermen came from a distance with fishing nets, all wet.

Yang Fan raised his head and asked, "Mr. Lin, is there a river canal in Lingnan County?"

Lin Zhiping nodded: "There is a Surabaya River, which has water all year round, but the river is narrow and the water is urgent, and it cannot be navigated by boat." ”

Yang Fan wondered: "Since there is a river, why don't you divert water for irrigation? The drought in the county will not be so serious." ”

Lin Zhiping shook his head and said: "The water level of the river is low, so it cannot be drained for irrigation, and this canal repair is also a big project, no one wants to do this." ”

Yang Fan: "Repairing the canal can avoid disasters due to drought, no matter how difficult it is, I have to do it, Mr. Lin will take me to see it?"

Lin Zhiping hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "I would like to listen to Yang Gongzi's dispatch." ”

Yang Fan looked at Yin Tianen and He Xiaoling: "Would you like to go and see it together?"

Yin Tianen was also a little curious, and responded: "Then let's go and have a look." ”

A few people came to the outside of the city, saw the barren fields, and a few kilometers further, it was the Surabaya River, Yang Fan observed that the water level of the Surabaya River was indeed far lower than the location of the fields.

Yang Fan took a few people along the Surabaya River all the way upstream, to cross a cliff, the water level in front of it can be higher than the fields in Lingnan, to build a canal to divert water for irrigation is indeed not easy, but it is not impossible.

Yang Fan sighed, if he was a county magistrate of Lingnan County, he would definitely do this.

He Xiaoling followed behind, very curious in her heart, what is this Yang Fan going to do?

Yang Fan thought for a long time and said: "No matter how difficult it is, I will repair this canal, which is a major event for the benefit of a county." ”