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Two or three days passed in a flash, and the prefectural government was very peaceful.

However, the entire city of Hangzhou is gradually recovering.

All this was thanks to Xia Yun’s measure of releasing grain for disaster relief.

This is different from other officials who were stingy when providing disaster relief.

Xia Yun set up eight porridge stalls in Hangzhou City, and every meal was served with thick porridge, so thick that chopsticks could stand upright without falling and bags could be put without leaking.

And almost every meal has a side dish, either fried potato chips or pickles.

You know, even in a year of bumper harvest, the people in Hangzhou city might not be able to eat vegetables for every meal.

What’s more, this is a year of great disaster.

At the same time, because of Xia Yun's action of using potatoes as disaster relief food, the rumor that "potatoes are poisonous" that had been circulating in the outside world was also refuted.

It’s noon on this day.

Xia Yun, wearing casual clothes, appeared at the South Gate of the city.

Accompanying them were Xu Wan'er, Jiang Wenzhong, and several guards.

Looking at the line of disaster victims lined up at the city gate, Xia Yun's eyes revealed a rare look of satisfaction.

He recalled the day when he first arrived in Hangzhou. Almost all of the refugees he saw in the city were skinny and dying.

Nowadays, the disaster victims in Hangzhou City have basically recovered.

"How is the registration of disaster victims going?"

Suddenly, Xia Yun asked out of the blue.

Xu Wan'er, who stood up, had already prepared herself to be questioned and responded immediately.

"In reply to your Excellency's words, in the past few days, the victims in Hangzhou have basically been registered, and the total number of victims is more than 167,000."

"Among them, there are more than 34,000 young and middle-aged disaster victims who have been incorporated into the construction team."

"There are more than 23,000 women employed in the laundry and weaving workshops."

Xu Wan'er spoke up one after another, reporting on the work progress over the past few days.

Hearing this, Xia Yun nodded.

"Pass on this prefectural order. Starting today, the Hangzhou Construction Bureau will be established. Xu Wan'er will be the director of the Hangzhou Construction Bureau. She will also be the director of the Hangzhou Washing Clothes Weaving Bureau. The office will be located in the prefectural government office."

Xia Yun announced the first order.

The reason why Xu Wan'er was appointed as the director of two bureaus at the same time was because Xu Wan'er had already gained experience working with Xia Yun in Dai County.

“Should we start by repairing the road?”

Xu Wan'er asked.

"Of course. The first project after the establishment of the Construction Bureau was to rebuild the city's roads and build a city sewage system."

Xia Yun nodded without hesitation.

To get rich, build roads first.

In this era, even in a wealthy city like Hangzhou, the roads in the city are mostly bumpy and uneven.

“What about the construction materials needed to build the road?”

Xu Wan'er continued to ask.

"All the construction materials needed for the road construction will be supplied by Dai County. I will write a letter and order Qin Tianye to be in charge of this matter."

Xia Yun responded.

Previously, when building Dai County, Xia Yun had already established a cement plant and an asphalt plant, so there was no shortage of raw materials.

"Hangzhou City has eight main roads and thirty-six branch roads, plus the city's underground sewage system. According to calculations, it will require about 13,000 construction workers. How will the Construction Bureau arrange the remaining labor force?"

In just a few breaths, Xu Wan'er had completed a round of calculations in her mind.

Hearing this, Xia Yun fell into thought for a moment.

“The Construction Bureau is also building twelve salt warehouses and twelve grain warehouses, and the rest of the workforce is on standby in case of emergency.”

Xia Yun gave the answer.

The more people there are, the faster the reconstruction of the entire Hangzhou will be. He is not worried at all about the potential dangers of spreading his business too large.

"How should the laundry and weaving farm be arranged?"

After noting down the arrangements regarding the Construction Bureau, Xu Wan'er raised another question.

She had no experience in this area before in Dai County.

"The primary mission of the Washing and Weaving Bureau is to provide logistical support for the Construction Bureau. As for future tasks, I will allow this government to arrange them slowly."

Xia Yun's voice was neither hurried nor slow, and he looked as if he had everything planned out.

Regarding the arrangement of the laundry and weaving factory, he already had a more daring industrial arrangement in his mind.

But it’s not the right time yet. We have to wait until Hangzhou’s infrastructure is basically completed before we can implement the plan.

"Your Excellency is wise."

A series of questions were answered, and Xu Wan'er's admiration for Xia Yun increased a lot without her realizing it.

That afternoon, the prefectural government posted another notice.

It was announced that the Hangzhou Construction Bureau and the Washing and Weaving Bureau were established at the same time, with Xu Wan'er serving as the director of both bureaus.

However, this arrangement soon caused a lot of discussion in Hangzhou.

The main reason, of course, is because of Xu Wan'er's identity as a daughter.

After all, this is an era that favors boys over girls.

To outsiders, it seems somewhat inappropriate to let a woman lead tens of thousands of men.

Fortunately, no one in the prefectural government was affected by the outside world's discussions.

At the same time, two letters were sent directly to Dai County.

The content of one letter was to ask Dai County to transport construction materials.

The content of another letter was to urge Dai County to transport grain again.

Because the number of disaster victims in Hangzhou was too large, most of the first batch of food that Xia Yun brought had been consumed.

......

One morning, Kyoto.

All officials gathered in the court.

After a series of formalities, the chief minister of the cabinet, Xu Jinsong, came out holding a hu tablet.

"Your Majesty, the cabinet has received an urgent letter from Hangzhou. The new governor of Hangzhou, Xia Yun, requested to allocate 100,000 dan of grain to relieve the urgent needs of the people in Hangzhou. This is a serious matter. Please make a decision, Your Majesty."

Xu Jinsong spoke slowly.

Hearing this, the empress frowned on the throne.

That bastard Xia Yun actually has the nerve to ask me for food?

The empress couldn't help but feel dissatisfied.

When she was in Dai County that day, she saw with her own eyes the prosperity of the Dai County granary.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if she did not give a single grain of food, the grain stored in Dai County alone would be enough for the people of Hangzhou to survive the famine.

But it happened that Xia Yun was sent to Hangzhou by her personally.

If she rejected Xia Yun's memorial, she was afraid that people with ulterior motives would speculate on the emperor's intentions, which would make it difficult for Xia Yun to survive in Hangzhou City.

This would also destroy her plan to rectify the officialdom in Jiangnan.

"Accurate."

After thinking it over again and again, even though the empress wanted to confiscate Xia Yun's property, she still agreed to Xia Yun's memorial.

"According to the order."

Xu Jinsong responded and returned to the train.

"Mr. Cai, how is the investigation going into the case of former Hangzhou prefect Chen Denglin?"

At this time, the empress suddenly looked at a minister in the front of the hall.

It was none other than the Minister of Justice Cai Jing.

Cai Jing asked and stepped out of the line, and quickly responded, "Your Majesty, the case of the former Hangzhou prefect Chen Denglin has not made any progress because Chen Denglin was killed by horse bandits on his way back to Beijing."

After Cai Jing finished speaking, he glanced at the empress's expression cautiously.