Ancient natural disasters: The whole family traveled through time and was almost wiped out

Chapter 79

County Magistrate Chen stood on the steps of the county government office. The water on the steps had already reached his calves. He stood there for a while, then returned to the house and asked the county magistrate beside him, "Have all the people in the villages along the river moved to the mountains?"

"Yes." The county magistrate nodded. "Wang Ya'er reported that the worst-hit villages were flooded up to the waist of their houses. Many elderly people still refused to leave. Finally, they tied up a few of the most violent ones and they were willing to leave."

“Is there enough food?”

"It should be enough. All their food has been taken up the mountain. Let them build their own shelters to live in until the water recedes."

"Yeah." County Magistrate Chen looked at the rain curtain in silence.

He had long known that the villages along the river would inevitably be flooded, so he had already ordered their migration to the mountains. There was naturally no reason for the food to be left behind.

However, some elderly people, for some unknown reason, refused to move despite repeated persuasion. Even though they watched the river water rise higher day by day, they would rather sit on the roof and die with the house.

When the water level rises, the house may collapse, but as long as the dam upstream does not collapse, the probability of collapse will be smaller and delivery will be slower.

I just don’t know how long the newly built dam can hold up.

County Magistrate Chen sighed.

We have done our best and left the rest to fate. Now we can only take one step at a time.

"Sir..." County Magistrate Zhang heard Magistrate Chen sighing and became worried, "Is Governor Wen asking for the autumn tax again?"

"Hmm." County Magistrate Chen sighed again.

County Magistrate Zhang was furious and said, "He knew that the whole county was rushing to harvest, but he didn't learn anything. He just sent someone to ask him about it. He told him that it was an old farmer's experience that it would rain, but he didn't believe it. He also scolded the adults for believing everything they heard. Be careful that the autumn harvest will affect the people's livelihood too early! How can it affect the people's livelihood in just ten days? It's worth issuing an official document to scold him!"

County Magistrate Zhang was very angry. With the governor's action, County Magistrate Chen had basically no hope of promotion today. He had already been the county magistrate of Luoshui County for six years. If he continued for another three years, it would be nine years, and he might spend the rest of his life as a county magistrate.

"The magistrate of Chunzhou County is the same. He only got anxious when it started to rain. What was he doing before? It's raining so hard that the rice can't be dried even after it's harvested! He knows that his county's autumn harvest is unscrupulous, so he teamed up with the governor to increase taxes on our county. We have to pay double taxes, no, triple taxes. Their county has half as many people as ours, and if it's shared among the adults in our county, it's at least two and a half times!"

"The rain came suddenly. Not every county was able to harvest the crops in time like ours. We don't know the extent of the disaster yet. If the disaster is widespread, food will be even more expensive. The rainy season is in March. If we pay taxes..."

"Then... not paying it?" County Magistrate Zhang was eager to try: "Even if the taxes are paid, Governor Wen may not hand them over to the court."

Chunzhou was flooded, how could the grain be transported out?

Fatten him?

He's so beautiful!

County Magistrate Zhang is the confidant of County Magistrate Chen. Over the past four years, he has personally experienced the suppression of his own county magistrate by the petty-minded and narrow-minded Governor Wen.

However, as a civil servant, this was the first time that County Magistrate Zhang thought of bending the law for personal gain.

"If we don't hand it over, the governor's troops will probably go to Luoshui County." County Magistrate Chen was worried. Nothing could work!

"The horses' heads were all drowned by him, and the best they can do is row a boat."

County Magistrate Chen: “…”

Chunzhou is a lower-level state with only two counties, one is Chunzhou County and the other is Luoshui County.

The seat of Chunzhou was Chunzhou County, a small and remote place. Originally, the governor also served as the county magistrate of Chunzhou County, but four years ago, a new governor came and appointed a new county magistrate.

From then on, they became a nefarious couple and did whatever they wanted in this faraway place.