Falling Blossoms and Storms Ancient Poetry[Transmigration Book]

Along the way, seeing the tragic situation along the way, Wan Yanxu had mixed feelings in his heart.There are dilapidated houses destroyed by the flood everywhere, and there are displaced victims everywhere, ragged and skinny, supporting the old and the young, fleeing in all directions, the cries of the old and the young rang together, let alone Wan Yanxu, who has always been kind-hearted. Now, even Wanyan Chuo, who considers himself a heartless and carefree person, feels a bit unbearable.

Entering the most severely affected county by the Yellow River flood, the situation is even more tragic. There are displaced and homeless victims everywhere outside the city. Looking around, there are densely packed crowds of refugees, gathered in twos and threes outside the city gate. , waiting to take refuge in the city, or the officials in the city came out to relieve the disaster. Due to the large number of victims, young children and old people begging can be seen everywhere, and the voices of human traffickers shouting for prices can be heard everywhere. Ironically, in this At the most critical moment of disaster relief, the most prosperous business turned out to be the business of these human traffickers.

Human life is really worthless sometimes.

Most of these trafficked children are children of a few years old. They should be innocent and carefree at an age, but each of them is hungry, yellow and muscular, skinny, and they are all dirty when they are taken out. , curled up timidly, his eyes were dull, and his spirit was not good. At first glance, he knew that it was caused by long-term malnutrition.Even though he was about the same age, Wanyan Chuo was very moved and ashamed when compared with his current favorable living conditions.

The love of parents is the same. If it is not true that life is difficult, which parents are willing to sell their children?The desperate people are forced to sell their own flesh and blood, and sometimes they have to make painful choices even if they know that they are pushing their children into the fire pit with their own hands. This kind of human tragedy has happened many times in history, and this is not the first time. It won't be the last time either.

Compared to Wanyan Chuo who couldn't bear to look at him, Wanyan Xu was even more angry. He was taught by sages since he was a child, and he was familiar with the poems and books of sages. , as well as the old, the young, the young, and the young.” The sage taught Wanyan Xu that he has never forgotten it. Now that he has seen so many tragedies in the world where flesh and blood are separated, he can only watch helplessly, but there is nothing he can do. He was heartbroken.

"Hunger and death are everywhere outside the city. The people affected by the disaster have nowhere to live and have nothing to eat. Under the hunger and cold, they are dying and sick. The disaster is already so serious. What are the officials in the city doing? On the temple grounds, the people who were affected by the disaster were ignored, and the corpses were eaten without food, it is simply unacceptable." Wanyan Xu was indignant, and before entering the city, he made up his mind to rectify all officials big and small in the city. Not to mention, just looking at the tragic situation of the victims outside the city, it is also appropriate to punish these officials for a crime of dereliction of duty.

Wan Yanxu ordered Xiaodao and Xiaogu to spend some money to bribe the guards in charge of guarding the city, conceal their identities, and sneaked into the city.

Compared with the situation outside the city, the situation inside the city is completely a heaven and an underground. If the outside of the city is a purgatory on earth, the current inside the city can at least be regarded as a world on earth, with empty streets and a deserted atmosphere. The disaster victims, restaurants and shops are still operating as usual, but it is obvious that the business is not very good. The sparse pedestrians look tired and walk in a hurry. The outlook is fraught with worry.

Seeing the completely different scene outside the city and inside the city with his own eyes, Wanyan Xu suddenly became angry in his heart, and the evil turned to gallbladder. I really don't know what these officials and rulers think. Can the disaster be effectively suppressed by not hearing what is going on outside the window?How stupid, how stupid!

"Go and meet the magistrate of the city first." Wanyan Xu could hardly restrain the anger in his heart, he thought about killing a chicken to show the monkeys, establish prestige, and then make great efforts to rectify the affairs of the city, so that these corpses can no longer be left as vegetarians In his position, he has no plans for politics.

Wanyan Chuo nodded, indicating that he had no objection.

The magistrate learned that His Royal Highness, the emperor's eldest grandson, who was ordered by the emperor to raise funds for disaster relief, had arrived in the city, but he himself failed to get the news, so he made arrangements earlier and broke out in a cold sweat.

Fearing that His Royal Highness, the eldest grandson, would blame him, the magistrate personally led the whole family out to greet him.

"My ministers saw His Royal Highness, the Emperor's eldest grandson, and met with disappointment, begging for forgiveness." The magistrate's family lined up in a neat row, kneeling all over the courtyard, and at a glance, they were all black heads.

Wanyan Xu's face was livid, and he didn't respond.

The magistrate of this city is a big fat man with a fat head and a fat face. His body is round like a ball. When he walks, his whole body is trembling. Wan Yan Chuo couldn't help laughing.At this time, the fat magistrate was leading the way and kneeling on the ground, his expression flustered, his small eyes narrowed into slits, he didn't know what he was planning, but the whole family was honest, if Wanyan Xu didn't open his mouth, they just knelt down obediently. There was no one to get up on the ground, not even one to look up and look around.

"Let's get up and talk." Dismounting the majesty also stood up, it's not appropriate to let other people's families kneel on the ground and talk, even though he was very upset, Wanyan Xu still let go of other irrelevant people, and directly called the magistrate , went to the study one after the other, and scolded her head and face.

While Wanyan Xu was teaching the magistrate, Wanyan Chuo had nothing to do, he was bored outside the study door, looking thoughtfully at the newly sprung trees in the yard.

Indistinctly, one could still hear Wanyan Xu's heartbroken reprimand in the study.

"What happened to the disaster-stricken people outside the city?"

There was a moment of silence, and the fat magistrate obviously couldn't answer.

Wanyan Xu was so angry that he slapped the table hard, his tone of voice rose several times in anger, and he asked through gritted teeth, "Is this how you govern the people? The disaster is so serious that the people affected are so naked , do not have enough to eat, do you think that just closing the city gates, pretending not to see anything, hear nothing, know nothing, the disaster can be effectively suppressed?"

After a moment of silence, the magistrate replied in a low voice with grievances: "Your Majesty the emperor's grandson clearly learned that it's not that I don't want to open a warehouse to release food and provide timely relief, but that the flooding of the Yellow River is really serious. At the beginning, we The granary was also opened in the city to distribute porridge on a regular basis every day, but there are too many people affected by the disaster. Since the city began to give porridge, the victims got the news and came from all directions. There are more and more people. Can't care less..."

After hearing this so-called explanation, Wanyan Xu snorted coldly, and said coldly: "Can't you take care of it? Then just watch the people affected by the disaster starve to death?"

The fat magistrate stopped talking again because he didn't know how to argue.

After a long time, Wan Yanxu gave a cold order: "Send someone to open the warehouse immediately! Starting tomorrow, we will immediately set up five porridge farms outside the city! Two meals a day, morning and evening, will be given regularly and quantitatively to the affected people. Porridge, no matter whether you are a citizen of the city or not, as long as you are a disaster victim who comes to receive the porridge, you must not push back and forth, let alone turn a blind eye to the disaster victims who come to beg for food, do you hear me!"

"His Royal Highness..." Hearing the voice, the big fat magistrate was really anxious, and stopped him with a startled voice: "No! Your Royal Highness, if there is too much porridge in this city, the victims of the disaster in nearby counties will be moved by the news. They're all coming, and within three days, these starving victims will eat up the city's grain storage, and when the time comes, the city will be overwhelmed and unable to cope with such a large number of victims, so what should we do?"

what to do?As the local parental official who governs this land, he actually has the nerve to ask himself what should he do?Is it because they don't know what to do, so they simply do nothing, let the affected people fend for themselves, and watch them starve to death?Wanyan Xu laughed angrily.

Amidst a strange silence, Wanyan Chuo, who was staying in the yard listening to the excitement through the study door, also smiled unkindly, because he knew very well in his heart that this was a sign before Wanyan Xu got completely angry. If there is an accident, the big fat magistrate will be in bad luck.

"I don't need you to teach me what to do!" As the eldest grandson of Emperor Wanyan Xu, he was already very rude, and he almost pointed at someone's nose and scolded: "Listen carefully, I According to the order of the current Holy Majesty, I have full power to deal with the matter of fundraising and disaster relief. If you are dissatisfied with my actions, you can write a note and submit it to the Holy Majesty to punish me. But before the Holy Majesty's order comes down, all matters related to disaster relief and fundraising I'm in charge, let you open the warehouse to release the grain, you just open the warehouse to release the grain obediently, don't talk nonsense with me!"

Seeing that His Royal Highness the emperor's eldest grandson got angry, the fat magistrate was so frightened that he didn't dare to show his breath, so he stood up straight and obediently listened to the training.

"In addition, immediately go back to the county and city under your jurisdiction. Within ten days, raise a thousand shi and send it to the treasury warehouse. Otherwise, don't blame me for not doing enough to relieve the disaster."

"A thousand stones for food?" The fat magistrate was almost dumbfounded, with a fat face in mourning, his facial features squeezed together and wrinkled into a ball, looking pitiful.

Wanyan Xu didn't show any sympathy at all. The people affected by the disaster had nowhere to live, starved to death in large areas without enough food and clothing, but this big fat prefect was fat for nothing, his brain was full of fat intestines, let Wan Yanxu became angry when he saw him: "Don't tell me that you can't even raise a thousand shi of grain? As a local parental official who governs the people in one place, I can't handle such small things well, so I resigned from this official and went home to raise food. Go, don't waste the court salary in vain."

It's hard to get fame and fame, and those who enter the court as officials, how can they say that they don't do it and don't do it!Of course the fat magistrate was unwilling, facing His Royal Highness the eldest grandson's pressing every step of the way, he could only bite the bullet and nod in agreement.

A thousand stones is worth a thousand stones, if you find a way to get them together, there shouldn't be any problem.

Wan Yanxu was very satisfied with the big fat magistrate's knowledge of current affairs, and continued to order: "The porridge served must not be poured with chopsticks, wrapped in a towel so that it does not seep, and the cold rice balls can be eaten with your hands, and you are not allowed to give them to me. Doped with those messy sand and gravel particles, if I find out that you secretly add something to the porridge, and I will let you eat it all in one bite! Serve the porridge properly, don’t think about getting away with it! I I will send people to every porridge market to watch, and starve to death one of the people affected by the disaster, I only ask you!"

When Wan Yanxu said the latter, it could almost be regarded as a blatant threat.

"His Royal Highness, please don't worry, I know what to do." The big fat magistrate left the study with a mournful face and a look of fear. I couldn't help laughing out loud.