Super sweet! After rebirth, Zuo Xiang was teased by me until his legs went weak

Chapter 104 Natural and Man-made Disasters
Chu Qinglan and his party continued to walk down.

Because the disaster was serious before, and it rained for more than an hour just now, the floods in Fucheng flooded the city, which not only washed away the crops, but also drowned several farmers, and the mourning was everywhere , Wherever it passes are floating corpses and hungry people.

Mo Beiyu was afraid that Chu Qinglan would feel sad when he saw it, so he proposed to find an inn to stay in first, and let him go to the Yamen to handle things by himself.

Chu Qinglan wholeheartedly wanted to do her bit for the common people in Fucheng, so how could she be willing to hide in the inn and do nothing at this moment.

So when she heard his suggestion, she didn't even think about it, and insisted on pulling him to the direction of the yamen.

Mo Beiyu had no choice but to let her go.

After arriving at the yamen, Mo Beiyu directly stated his identity and purpose of coming.

When the magistrate and the government servants learned that one of them was the eldest princess of the dynasty and the other was the prime minister, they immediately became very excited.

But the excitement only lasted for a quarter of an hour, and the time was up. As they thought of the seriousness of the disaster, everyone would soon become worried.

After all, this is a natural disaster, as long as a good countermeasure cannot be thought of for a day, let alone the eldest princess and the prime minister, even if the emperor comes here personally, it will not help.

After hearing everyone's worries, Chu Qinglan decisively put forward the suggestion of diverting the flood water in Fucheng to other dry areas.

In this way, not only the waterlogging disaster in Fucheng can be solved, but also the water shortage problem in other dry surface areas can be solved.

This proposal can be said to be once and for all as long as it is achieved, but the drainage project is very huge.

Therefore, as soon as she made this proposal, she was immediately opposed by several other adults.

"Forgive me for the offense, the princess's proposal sounds easy, but if it is actually implemented, the manpower and material resources involved will be huge, and it will not work at all."

"That's right, Fucheng is facing not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters. To put it bluntly, it is short of money and food."

"Even people can't get enough to eat, how can there be extra money for so-called drainage projects?"

"That is, unless the eldest princess is willing to write a letter to the emperor, asking the emperor to send enough money to relieve the disaster, otherwise it is just a waste of words..."

Everyone said something to me, and all of them expressed their opposition.

Chu Qinglan was not in a hurry when she heard the words, and said, "I remember that last month, my father asked the Ministry of Households to distribute a full 10 taels of silver. Can't do it?"

"It was true that the imperial court issued 10 taels of silver before. That was all before, and it has already been used up now. How can there be any extra silver for these things?"

"That's right, you can't do anything without money..."

Everyone was talking and yelling again and again.

Both Chu Qinglan and Mo Beiyu were surprised when they heard this, and thought to themselves, that is a full 10 taels of silver, not ten or two hundred taels. How could such a large amount of silver be used up all at once.

The prefect Chen Xiong probably saw the suspicion in the hearts of the two of them, so he hurriedly explained: "The money was all used to buy food and medicine, and it was used up. You know, Fucheng has a large population, and all the crops in the territory have been destroyed. It’s gone, just buying food and medicine from Liangzhou next door has already cost a lot of money, not to mention spending it on other places.”

"Buy food and medicine?" Chu Qinglan frowned.

Naturally, she doesn't believe this kind of excuse. If the money is really used to buy food and medicine to help ordinary people survive, then she won't encounter so many floating corpses and starve to death along the way, and the people in the city will also He would not have to leave Fucheng with his family in desperation.

However, none of these corrupt officials are willing to tell the truth, they only know to use various excuses to prevaricate.

Mo Beiyu knew that these people were old foxes who had become smart, and it was impossible for them to spit out their money directly.

Then he teased Chu Qinglan secretly, signaling that she doesn't need to waste her words with these people anymore.

Then he said calmly: "The drainage project can be temporarily suppressed, after all, the most important thing now is to properly deal with the victims."

In the face of a disaster, it is necessary to calm the emotions of the victims. Otherwise, once the conflicts intensify, the original natural disaster is likely to lead to a man-made disaster, which will cause the victims to riot.

And by then, the situation will become more troublesome.

Naturally, Chu Qinglan was also familiar with this, so under his hint, she stopped talking about the original topic, but asked about the current situation of the disaster victims in the city in detail.

After finding out the situation of the disaster, he hurried to the gate of the city to cook porridge and distribute it to the victims.

Since she has done similar work before, it is quite handy to do it this time.

It's just that the food that can be provided in the yamen is too limited. At most, they can only cook two big pots of porridge to help a hundred victims, and the rest will be lost.

Chu Qinglan had no choice but to quickly take out her own money and let Shi Yi hurry up to buy more food and come back.

Not long after Eleven took the money and left, those victims who got Zhou were thankful, while those who did not get relief were disappointed. Some extremes even started to yell in front of porridge, saying that the court was nothing but It's just doing superficial work, and it doesn't care about the lives of the people like them.

As a result, the scene immediately became very chaotic, and even those people who were originally grateful to Dade were driven to become dissatisfied with the court.

Seeing this, Chu Qinglan had no choice but to quickly speak out: "Everyone, calm down, listen to me, the imperial court has absolutely no intention of caring about everyone's life or death, otherwise, the current emperor would not have specially ordered this princess and the prime minister to come here all the way. Disaster relief..."

Before she could finish her sentence, the crowd started to yell again: "Why did you send us to help the disaster? In my opinion, you are just putting on a show. If you really want to save us people from the fire and water, why don't you send more people?" Bring us some food? With such a small amount of porridge, don’t let your stomach be full, and it’s not even too much, okay?”

"That's right, why are you pretending to be a good person? Don't think that we are just ordinary people and don't know that you officials are secretly eating and drinking."

"I heard that the imperial court indeed issued 10 taels of silver to rescue the emergency, so in my opinion, it's not that the imperial court ignored us, but was swallowed up by the so-called princess and prime minister, so we people have nothing .”

"That's right, it must be you corrupt officials who took the winnings awarded by the court into your own stomachs, that's why we ordinary people can't even drink porridge."

"Yes, it must be so."

"What kind of princess, what kind of prime minister, if you want me to see it, it's not as good as bullshit!"

Everyone cursed and cursed, and even poured dirty water on Chu Qinglan and Mo Beiyu.

The possibility that the 10 taels of silver issued by the imperial court was swallowed up by corrupt officials is indeed not small, but it has nothing to do with her and Mo Beiyu at all.

In addition, the imperial court only issued a disaster relief notice before, but did not clearly state how much money was issued.

Now the other party can accurately say the amount of 10 taels of silver, which shows that they are definitely not ordinary disaster victims.

Chu Qinglan knew immediately.

These troublemakers were not real victims at all, but villains who deliberately created riots and slandered her and Mo Beiyu's reputation.

Since it is a group of villains, she naturally has no reason to let the other party continue to jump on the beam again, standing on a high place, and then shouted: "Come on, arrest all these guys who wantonly slander the princess and the prime minister! "

With this order, the left and right attendants immediately went forward and arrested all the troublemakers.

When the troublemaker saw this, he immediately panicked, and said stiffly, "Why do you arrest us? We're just telling the truth."

"That's right, is it wrong to be honest? Let us go quickly! We didn't commit a crime, and you have no right to arrest us!"

"It's obvious that you are corrupt and broke the law, so why can't people say it?"

"I see. You must have a guilty conscience. You are afraid that all the people will know what you have done. That's why you don't allow us to speak and arrest us all."

The rioters continued to yell endlessly.

(End of this chapter)