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Due to the large number of people, Su Jijing and his group traveled very slowly. When the people sent by Zhao Liangchen were about to arrive, they had just set foot on the land of Chanzhou.

The entire Chanzhou was like a tragic battlefield, with ruins everywhere. Some houses were like strong warriors, standing firm despite the impact of the flood and only needed a little repair to continue living; others were like fragile flowers, completely withering under the ravages of the flood.

Su Jijing did not let the Xiang soldiers who had escorted the disaster victims back leave, but instead asked them to help the victims rebuild their houses as quickly as possible. Otherwise, when the snow fell, many people would be killed by the severe cold.

At this point, the size and number of rooms in the house were no longer a concern; every family built a three-room structure. Regardless of the number of people in the family, they all temporarily lived in these three rooms. Families with excessive numbers could share space with smaller families. While it might be a bit crowded, it was better than living in tents. As long as they weren't suffering from the cold, the victims could rebuild their own structures next spring.

Some villages had few people left, so Su Jijing merged the villages with few people together.

The Chanzhou prefect had long been dismissed for his poor flood control performance, and no new prefect had yet taken office.

Su Jijing was only sent to provide disaster relief and was not considered an official of Chanzhou. However, precisely because he was in charge of disaster relief, he was able to mobilize all the officials of Chanzhou, just like a prefect.

I am quite familiar with Su Jijing of Chanzhou.

The entire Chanzhou is surrounded by continuous mountain ranges in the north, northwest and west, and there are plains in the middle and the entire southeast and south. This plain connects several states in the south and is the largest grain-producing plain in the country, so its geographical location is very important.

The reason why the flood in Chanzhou was so severe this time was that the heavy rains in recent days caused mountain torrents, which poured down along the mountains and flooded the entire Chanzhou plain.

The village where the Su family lived was close to the mountains, and the flood swept in like a ferocious beast. If Su Qin had not been well prepared, she would probably not have been able to escape.

A few days after Su Jijing returned, he hurried to his village to look for him, but the entire village had been buried in mud and there was no trace of the houses.

Su Jijing searched for his ancestors' graves but to no avail. Filled with grief, he buried Old Madam Su on the mountain according to the approximate location.

He ordered that all newly built villages for the disaster victims be built away from the mountains to prevent the people from being unable to escape in time when the next flash flood occurred.

The victims not only had food to eat, but also received silver, and had people to help them build houses. For a time, they all devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the enthusiasm of rebuilding their homes.

The people sent by Zhao Liangchen arrived in Chanzhou on the sixth day after their arrival. Wu Qian had originally planned to return after settling the Su family, but when he was helping to distribute porridge outside the city that day, he suddenly saw his father in the crowd. His pupils shrank, thinking that something had happened that made his father find him here, and he immediately wanted to step forward, but as soon as he moved, his father shook his head at him.

He was stunned for a moment, then when he saw the familiar faces behind him, he seemed to understand something and stood back calmly.

Wu Qian's father followed the crowd and came with a bowl to receive porridge. When he arrived at the porridge stall, Wu Qian whispered behind Su Jijing, who was distributing the porridge himself, "Sir, this is my father."

Su Jijing looked up in confusion and his pupils shrank when he saw Wu Qian's father. However, he reacted faster than Wu Qian. After seeing that behind his father were people who had been in the Ministry of Justice prison with him, he lowered his head again and naturally served porridge to Wu Qian's father.

He casually asked, "This brother looks unfamiliar, but is he one of the disaster victims who came back with us?"

Wu Qian's father shook his head. "We didn't go to the capital. We went to a nearby prefecture to beg. We only came back a few days ago after hearing that the court had sent people to provide disaster relief. We just arrived today."

Su Jijing nodded and said to Wu Qian behind him: "Take them to the throne, find out which village they are from, and then take them back to their own village."

Wu Qian nodded and left with his father and others.

Because Su Jijing was temporarily taking over the position of Chanzhou prefect, he did not have to wait for the resettlement housing for disaster victims to be built. They lived in the government office in the prefectural city.

The Xu family had no house to live in. The weather was getting colder and Xu Feng was not in good health to live in a tent anymore. So Su Jijing used the excuse of hiring Xu Chunshan and Xu Feng as his staff to let the Xu family live with him in the government office.

Wang Er could have chosen to build three rooms, but he chose not to. Instead, he chose to help the Xu family build a house. He wanted to follow Su Jijing, so of course he would live wherever the Su family lived.

Xu Chunshan is now in charge of the registration of disaster victims. Wu Qian brought his father and others to Xu Chunshan to register. Xu Chunshan did not know Wu Qian's father and others, but he saw that Wu Qian's father looked a bit like Wu Qian, and saw Wu Qian winking at him, so he registered them calmly, and then put their household registration in the village that had been completely buried and there were no survivors.

After ascending the throne, Xu Chunshan pointed them in the direction of Wang Er and asked them to go find Wang Er.

Wang Er was helping the Xu family build a house. After finding Wang Er, Wu Qian pulled him aside and whispered a few words to him. Wang Er then arranged for them to help build the house.

Later, Wang Er returned to the government office and brought Wu Qian's father and his men some unused tents, beddings and other items.

Only after the builders had left their work in the evening did Wu Qian have the opportunity to ask his father what he was doing there.

Wu Qian's father first gave him the letter written by Zhao Liangchen, telling him that the emperor had a secret decree for Su Jijing. After reading the letter, Wu Qian returned to the government office with the secret decree and the letter written by Su Qin.

After Su Jijing finished reading the secret decree and the letter written by Su Qin, he was filled with emotion. He had not expected that his daughter was so capable that she was involved with the emperor and was also making money for him. This was something that even a grown man could hardly do.

While feeling emotional, he was also proud to have such an outstanding daughter.

After thinking for a moment, he called Wu Qian, Wang Er, Xu Chunshan and Xu Feng and began to discuss how to deal with this matter.

The Xu family followed the disaster victims all the way to the capital and back, and they had a better understanding of the victims' situation. Moreover, Xu Chunshan became the leader of the disaster victims in their township and had more prestige. He and Wang Er were more convincing in doing this matter, and Wu Qian and his father and others assisted them in selecting people.

When Wu Qian's father came, he not only brought people, but also brought some silver bills. These silver bills were advanced by Zhao Liangchen and Wu'an Hou as initial start-up funds. No one would follow them for nothing without seeing the silver.

They carefully discussed the specific details and the training location. Su Jijing wrote a detailed plan. The next day, Xu Chunshan took the plan and began to secretly select people from the victims with Wu Qian and others.

Wang Er was the happiest to be able to participate in this matter. He had long wanted to do something famous. Being able to work for the emperor, he felt that he had brought honor to his family.

Su Jijing chose the place for training troops near the Su family's ancestral tomb. The entire mountain range surrounding Chanzhou is called the Dama Mountains. This mountain range stretches for hundreds of miles and is dozens of miles deep. The peaks stand in an interlaced manner, forming a magnificent mountain range.

If you keep a private army here, no one will find out.

When everyone gathers together, Su Jijing will let them enter the mountain openly under the pretext of rebuilding the Su family's ancestral tomb.

The selection process went very smoothly. There was no need to ask openly, but to ask secretly after choosing the right person. They said that who doesn't want to make money by paying young and strong people to do the work, especially since the salary is not low, so basically everyone who was selected was willing to go.

The selection process went smoothly here, and Su Qin's process was also going very smoothly. Qi Lusheng received a message saying that his mother had gone to inspect the shop, so Su Qin also went to the jewelry shop on time.