Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Originally, it was not Xiao Xuexing's job to deal with floods and resettle refugees. After all, he was just a regent who came here on behalf of the emperor and didn't want to leave. These were the jobs of local officials.

However, the governor of Southern Yanzhou, surnamed Wang, was born in the Wang family of Langya. He had no special achievements. He liked to recite poems all his life and was barely able to keep the state capital running smoothly.

Governor Wang didn't have much experience in water control. After seeing the refugees, he even had a headache, and even ordered the city gates to be closed and not to accept refugees.

In fact, he also did this in the past. Anyway, as long as no one reported it, no one would know about it. However, the regime in Qi State was in turmoil in the past few years, and the people above were busy fighting for power. How could they have time to care about people's livelihood?

In the past, this kind of situation would happen every year during the flood season, and Governor Wang was quite familiar with it, and even the little officials under him had learned how to drive these refugees away.

He forgot, however, that things were different this year—the Prince Regent was still here.

This is not to blame for his negligence, the main reason is that since Xiao Xuexing moved into that relatively simple palace, he has lived in seclusion, rarely appeared in front of people, and even shirked all banquets, and did not spend time with the governor and the others during Zhengdan.

Wang Cishi and the others were cautious at first, but after a long time, they gradually didn't notice any difference, so they just did what they should do, and even forgot about such a great god.

Xiao Xuexing was very concerned about floods and refugees, but found that Governor Wang didn't care about floods and refugees, and Xiao Xuexing, who had become calmer recently, just exploded.

Carrying his sword all the way to the state capital, Wang Cishi felt a little weak in his legs when he saw him barging in fiercely with people.

However, Wang Cishi insists that his family background is exceptional, and the Langya Wang family is not something that ordinary people can offend, let alone Xiao Xuexing is not a serious Xiao family member, so he only looked pale, and even said with some dissatisfaction: "Your Highness, what is the meaning of this?" ?”

Without saying a word, Xiao Xuexing took off his hat and said coldly, "Since you can't do it well, don't be the governor."

At that time, Governor Wang was so frightened that his legs went limp, and when he heard Xiao Xuexing's words, he immediately said harshly, "How dare you!"

Xiao Xuexing sneered and said slowly: "Why don't I dare? Even if I kill you here today, your royal family will not stand up for you, do you believe it?"

Governor Wang was stunned for a moment, of course he didn't believe it, the children of the aristocratic family have been indoctrinated how powerful their family is since they were young, and even a rich family like Wang Xie has the idea that their family and the royal family share the world, how could they believe Xiao Xuexing's words?

However, Xiao Xuexing didn't want to talk nonsense with him, there were so many things waiting to be done, and someone directly gagged Wang Cishi's mouth, and then dragged him into the prison, planning to deal with him when he was free.

Xiao Xuexing sneered when he saw Wang Cishi's struggling figure, did the aristocratic family still think it was more than a hundred years ago?Today's aristocratic family is no longer as good as before, and it is a joke to want to bully the king with power.

Not only Wang Cishi, but even the officials under Wang Cishi's cadavers who had a vegetarian meal were all dealt with.

It’s just that he was really happy when he dealt with this group of people, and the follow-up also came—he had to take over the government affairs here temporarily, at least until the court sent a new governor.

Xiao Xuexing didn't care either, he had already thought of this when he moved the governor of the king, and he had already written a memorial to Xiao Xuan before coming here, that is to say, Xiao Xuexing had already thought about what he was going to do.

After Xiao Xue dealt with those incompetent officials, he promoted a few more capable people. Anyway, during his stay in Nanyanzhou, everyone thought he was recovering from his illness. In fact, he had already figured out the entire state capital. .

The fundamental reason is still to find Xiao Zirong. He thinks that it must be difficult to deal with someone who is comparable to him. Such a person will not be unknown, at least he has some status in Nanyanzhou.

As a result, no one was found, but a bunch of black history of these officials was harvested.

Xiao Xuexing didn't want to touch these people before, so he turned a blind eye to it, and there was no big trouble anyway.

Now that he is going to do it, these are ready-made evidence.

The first is to control the water. Now there is no good way to control the water. We can only try to strengthen the dam. It is impossible to directly block the places where the dykes have broken. We can only keep filling them with sand, but the sand is loose and the water is strong. Once you go down, it will be easily washed away and the surrounding area will become muddy. You can only put sand in a sack and throw it down. Use the sack to circle most of the sand together, and put some stones in it.

This requires a lot of labor. When refugees came over, Xiao Xuexing immediately asked these refugees to do these jobs. They had three meals a day, and the rest... couldn't do much. There was definitely no salary, and even Xiao Xuexing paid part of the money for the meals - there is not much food in the treasury of the state capital, and there is not much money.

What's more, even if you are rich, it is now the flood season, and the price of food is rising, almost one price a day, and the money can't buy much food.

At this time, it is necessary to raise donations. In the past, the squires took the lead in donating money when Wang Cishi raised money, and then the common people would follow suit. point.

Now it's Xiao Xuexing's place, it doesn't matter whether the people donate or not, the gentry must donate money, don't they?He didn't do anything, but sent his soldiers back and forth to patrol the gates of those squires. At the gate of the city, all the goods in these squires' homes would be carefully inspected.

Many squires do things that are a bit shady. In the past, they colluded with Wang Cishi and gave him some filial piety. Wang Cishi just closed his eyes and didn't care.

Now it's Xiao Xuexing who checks and finds out, and then he has an upright reason to deal with these people.

After copying the homes of the three squires, no matter the smart ones or the stupid ones, they all came to their senses, donated money honestly, and said what it was, and only hoped that the court would send a new governor over as soon as possible to replace this evil spirit. let's go.

It's a pity that even if the imperial court wants to get a new governor, there must be someone.

Speaking of which, there are indeed candidates, but Xiao Xuan wants to promote his own people, and this person must be from a poor family.

But the aristocratic families in the court must want to push their own people up, so there was a stalemate there.

This can be regarded as a struggle between the new monarch and the old family. Of course, everyone is still very harmonious on the surface.

Xiao Xuan said kindly: "Nanyanzhou is currently experiencing frequent disasters, and I really can't bear to let Hao Erlang go there to suffer."

The official below who wanted to push his family said with a moved face: "Your Majesty's benevolence is a blessing for the children, but they are all good children. Even if they encounter difficulties, they don't want to shrink back. They want to share and solve problems for Your Majesty."

It looks really peaceful, and the monarch and his ministers get along well.

However, after waiting for the court, Xiao Xuan limped out while cursing: "Old thief!"

And those officials who seemed to be particularly loyal also changed their faces when they turned around: "Dead lame!"

Neither of the two parties could do anything to each other, and in the end Xiao Xuan had no choice but to write to Xiao Xuexing: You can stand there first, and wait until I slowly find a way to clean up those people.

At this time, Xiao Xuan was very happy.

After receiving the letter, Xiao Xuexing was very helpless, turned his head and said to Ling Fu: "The things that were found before were sent to His Majesty, and he should be able to use them now."

After hearing this, Ling Fu immediately took the order and left without saying a word, while Xiao Xuexing continued to bury his head in writing. Anyway, he had already had a premonition about this situation, and there was nothing unexpected about it.

And because of the flood and the refugees, although Xiao Xuexing sent people to continue looking for Xiao Zirong and the others, he didn't send people to patrol the mountain as he thought before.

After all, most of the people were sent to control the water. Between the homes and lives of thousands of people and Xiao Zirong, even Xiao Xuexing had to make a choice. Zirong now has much less anxiety before her life is worry-free, the only thing is that she has some suspicions that the other party is holding Xiao Zirong like this, and she still refuses to negotiate with the court, and she doesn't know why.

Xiao Zirong, who was missed by him, was also worried at this time. Originally, in his idea, the moat should be almost cleaned up when the flood season came, and the bridge could be replaced with a soft bridge for the time being. When there is time later Or get out some tools and then finish the bridge. As a result, the flood season directly disrupted his plan in advance. The moat that has not been dug has already stored water, and it will be very troublesome to do it next.

The second is that their granaries have average moisture-proof ability. Last year, they left a lot of grain. This year, only the rice fields were affected by the disaster. In other places, because of the branch lines of the canals that went deep into the fields, everyone put them away when there was too much water in the fields. The small dikes next to the cultivated fields were opened directly, allowing the water in the fields to flow into the canals, and followed them all the way to the sea.

This also led to their wave of grains being prone to mold in the warehouse, and the rainy weather could not even be dried. Xiao Zirong finally gritted his teeth and asked people to see the situation in the state capital. This batch of food was sold.

He didn't sell too much, he sold half at most, and kept the remaining half just in case.

What I didn't expect was that the people who went to the state capital didn't even enter the city gate.

Xiao Zirong was a little surprised and asked: "The city gate is closed? Why? It can't be done?"

Liu Cainiang sighed and said, "It is said that too many refugees came over and brought the disease. The regent temporarily closed the city gate in desperation, and planned to send people to resettle these refugees in other places first."

No matter how much Xiao Xuexing valued the refugees, he couldn't ignore the life and death of the people in the city. The epidemic is too dangerous these days, and if he is not careful, the city will die. Even Xiao Xuexing has to be careful.

Xiao Zirong couldn't sit still after hearing this: "Why is it the regent? Why hasn't he returned yet? Where is the governor of Nanyanzhou?"

This time, Xiao Zirong was not worried that Xiao Xuexing's people would find him, but purely because of worry.

This is an epidemic. In ancient times, there was almost no cure for it. What if Xiao Xuexing got infected?

Liu Cainiang said: "It is said that because of the inaction of the governor, he and his subordinates were all taken over by the regent. Now that the new governor has not been selected by the court, the regent will temporarily take charge of the government affairs here."

Xiao Zirong: ...

Yes, this is very Xiao Xuexing.

Xiao Zirong asked, "Are there many refugees now?"

Liu Cainiang nodded: "It seems that there are quite a lot of them. Hey, although we have encountered danger here, but fortunately, there is no danger. I thought it would be better outside, but I didn't expect... However, it is said that there are also some refugees who heard that Those who can work here come here to eat, and the regent asked those refugees to block the embankment and take care of three meals a day."

It's no wonder, don't displaced refugees just go wherever there is food?

I just don't know what's going on with Xiao Xuexing. Xiao Zirong thought for a while and said, "There must be some capable refugees among these refugees. You should observe it. It's best to find out if there are any suitable ones to bring over on the way."