After rebirth, I joined forces with my mortal enemy to seek revenge.

Raising his hand to gently rub his forehead, Pei Jiaoran felt tired on his face. Suddenly he reached out and hugged Li Xiujing.

"Qingjia?" Li Xiujing asked, looking down at her.

"Tired." Pei Jiaoran closed his eyes and said in a lazy tone, "Let me rest for a while."

After saying this, Li Xiujing nodded, picked her up and went straight to her residence on the second floor.

The room was in chaos, with papers from various counties covering the entire desk. You don't need to think about it to know that Pei Jiaoran didn't have a good rest last night. Instead, he was calculating his hand. Once I got through it, I only slept for an hour at most.

"It's time to have a good rest tonight, right?" Li Xiujing put her down, gathered her clothes and sat on the bed beside her, "How could you be so desperate?"

Pei Jiaoran turned over as if he found Li Xiujing's voice annoying. Pulling down the curtain smoothly, the whole person shrank into the quilt.

"Qingjia."

The sound fell and the curtains moved slightly. A pillow was thrown out and hit him squarely.

Bending down to pick up the pillow on the floor, Li Xiujing sighed. Putting it aside, he extinguished the candles in the room and walked out slowly.

The skylight broke through the window screen and fell on him, Pei Jiaoran raised his eyes and stood up. Putting on a fourth-grade deep crimson robe, he looked at the silverbait bag at his waist and pushed out the door.

He Liang was already waiting outside the house, with expectation in his eyes.

Catching the expectation in He Liang's eyes, Pei Jiaoran handed him a tips bag, "I'm afraid I've wronged you in the past few days and have to keep an eye on it near the porridge shed. You can open this tip bag in three days. What else do you want to use? Any means will do, don’t worry.”

"Here!" He Liang said loudly.

Pei Jiaoran nodded and looked downstairs. At this time, Wu Lingjia and Zhou Mancao were already eating their food, while Li Xiujing looked up at her. Meeting his gaze, she smiled.

After the four people had eaten, they mounted their horses and ran towards the county house.

The gate of the county house was opened, and a group of Tongzhou soldiers stood at the door with swords and swords in hand, all with solemn expressions on their faces.

Pei Jiaoran turned over and dismounted as his eyes passed over the soldiers. Holding the book high in his left hand, he stepped inside. From the moment she entered the county gate, the notification order gradually spread.

Quan Dehui, county magistrates and officials in the hall all turned to look at the door.

"Servant Pei, General Li." Quan Dehui called out first when he saw them entering.

After greeting each other, everyone sat down according to their rank. Although Li Xiujing and Quan Dehui were both from the third rank, she still had the imperial destiny. Even if you are below the fourth rank, you can still be at the top.

"Since everyone is here, let's get started." Pei Jiaoran looked at Quan Dehui with a smile, "How did you think about what Governor Quan was thinking about last night?"

"After careful consideration, I feel that we should do as you say, Mr. Pei." Quan Dehui said in a deep voice.

After listening to Quan Dehui's words, Pei Jiaoran raised his lips and said, "That's good. I have ordered the Shence Army to borrow food from the gentry of the same state in the name of the state capital to help the victims. What does Quan Governor think?"

"This..." Quan Dehui's words were all stuck in his throat.

Obviously what she did surprised him.

Before Quan Dehui could speak, Pei Jiaoran sighed, "I didn't mean to do this. It's just that in the current disaster, it's expedient and borrowing food from the local gentry is the best choice."

"But what if the gentry refuses to borrow grain?" asked the Baishui County Magistrate.

"I heard that the gentry in Tongzhou have always been charitable and charitable, so I think they will be able to understand the difficulties faced by the court. How can there be any harm to them in giving generously to help the victims?" Pei Jiaoran raised his eyebrows.

The expressions of everyone present changed. Charitable? If those gentry were good people, how could they take advantage of the chaos to drive up the price of food, or even force the people to sell their fields for food.

Quan Dehui was silent. He really couldn't imagine what Pei Jiaoran sent people to do, but he didn't believe her idea that she could really get food from those gentry.

"More than half of this year has passed, but unfortunately we encountered floods. If your results for this year's exams are determined, it still depends on the effectiveness of this disaster relief." Pei Jiaoran's voice was gentle and his eyes were sharp, "I don't care what the memorial written by Quan Governor is like before. From today on, the allocation of disaster relief food must be based on the list I verified, and every bucket must be recorded truthfully. Anyone who misses a bucket by mistake will be punished as a crime of dereliction of duty."

"The minister said it lightly. You don't know that those refugees have been hungry for many days and have become very domineering. Some people not only impersonate their names, but even organize people to loot. Once this situation is not controlled, and the corn flows down, But not a sound was heard. By then, the gentry will have no more food left in their homes, and what will the common people do if they are still hungry?" Xia Yang County Magistrate looked confused.

The rest of the people also agreed.

"After the heavy rain, don't the counties need to rebuild fortifications?" Wu Lingjia glanced at Pei Jiaoran, saw her nodding, and continued: "Since there are fortifications, manpower is needed. Instead of racking your brains to recruit people, why not Work-for-relief? Isn’t this a solution to a dilemma?”

Although Wu Lingjia's voice was soft, it was extremely powerful. Everyone was looking for someone to go over, and Magistrate Fengxian took the lead and said, "Madam, please speak."

"Since you think the people are untamable, and the court provides free relief, some people will cause trouble. Then why not try another way?" Wu Lingjia smiled, and his tone was like a spring breeze, "I looked over the map of Tongzhou, and there are many fortifications in Tongzhou. It has been raining heavily for days now. It seems that there are many bridges and embankments that have been washed away. Instead of letting the officials build troops to repair the fortifications of the state, it is better to hire people to work with them and work hard. This not only saves material and manpower, but also allows the people to settle down. Tongzhou will be in Tongzhou next year. Taxation can continue as before."

Xia Yang County Magistrate took the lead in applauding and echoing. Quan Dehui glared at him, and when he saw this, he quickly shut up and lowered his head, not daring to say anything more.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Quan Dehui about to speak, but Pei Jiaoran immediately took over Wu Lingjia's words and continued with the specific implementation details of the work-for-relief program.

Although since Yanzi implemented the work-for-relief method for disaster relief, all dynasties would use work-for-relief when faced with disasters. However, the degree of famine experienced by each court was different, so the work-for-relief plan was naturally different. Therefore, the previous generation's plan only has reference value and has no implementation significance.

As for the disaster memorial written by the state government, she never opened it at all. On the contrary, based on the actual situation of each county that she had control of, she required all counties to strictly control prices and resolutely prevent the local gentry from taking the opportunity to annex the land of the victims.

Any gentry found to have annexed the land of disaster victims will be punished accordingly.

Obviously he doesn't intend to be easy on this matter.

Listening to her words, Quan Dehui frowned.

Pei Jiaoran spoke in detail, and everyone was willing to listen attentively.

After taking a sip of tea, Pei Jiaoran looked at the crowd. She knew that although they were listening, they might not be willing to do it. After all, offending the local gentry will not be beneficial to their career.

So for some things, she still has to be the leader.

"Epidemics are easy to occur after a major disaster. After I entered Tongzhou, I encountered many corpses lying on the roadside." Pei Jiaoran looked at everyone and said leisurely: "You must arrange for people to bury the ownerless bones on the roadside. , so as not to cause a catastrophe.”