Chapter 519: People are moving under natural disasters

Li Bai and Wang Wei, who were following behind him, had breakfast slowly and stayed under the shed that shelter that sheltered with rain. They watched bubbles hit by heavy raindrops on the ground outside, felt the dampness and coolness brought by the wind and water mist, and remained silent for a long time.

"It probably really happened. The rain in the second half of the month was raining, natural disasters resisted, and the sky was nine feet high, and it swept thousands of miles away. The Dragon King Water of the East China Sea, alas!" Li Bai read a few words, and suddenly lost the interest in writing poetry, and sighed with sorrow.

Wang Wei stumbled his mouth twice, feeling boring, and suddenly remembered an important thing and said, "It should be that there is half a house in the city, so why is there no water accumulation?"

As he spoke, his eyes looked along the rain that fell to the ground and gathered into a river. After a look, he showed a look of relief and said, "It turned out that the drainage ditches have been dug out. Look there, there are wooden stakes nailed, for fear that people will fall down and be washed away accidentally."

Li Bai followed and saw that it was not the case. The gathering of small rivers entered the artificially widened drainage ditch and tumbling out into the distance.

"In this way, the local officials are still a group of capable officials. What is the intention of the court sending me to come?"

For a moment, Li Bai felt that the court was a bit stupid.

Wang Weizheng was about to nod and agreed. Many figures suddenly appeared in the rain, some of them were wearing straw raincoats, and some let the heavy rain fall on their bodies, wet their clothes and stick to them when the wind blows.

"Dad, dad, here is here, Chengdong bun shop, dad, go quickly, mom, I have some buns to eat." A seven or eight-year-old boy shouted excitedly in the rain, pointing his little finger at the breakfast shop sign, and pulling a woman's clothes with his other hand.

When Wang Wei saw the person who suddenly appeared, he was stunned. From the clothes on the people, he could see that the living conditions of this group of people should be good at home. They had fine cotton clothes and shoes with a thousand-layer sole shoes. Although the faces were a bit of the vicissitudes of work, it only showed that they were hardworking.

It is normal for children to read. They have school teaching and look like baby fat on their faces. You can tell at a glance that the nutritional content of what they usually eat can keep up with.

The problem is that a group of people are not staying at home, so what are they walking out in the rain? And there are children, why don’t they go to school?

As he was puzzled, a crowd rushed in. Someone went to the shop owner. It was far away. It was raining and thundering outside. Wang Wei and Li Bai didn't hear clearly what the visitor said to the shop owner.

After a while, the newcomers found a seat to sit down regardless of the humidity. Another woman brought food to everyone. One of them had a large bowl of millet porridge, but they did not see any other fried dough sticks, buns, or pancakes.

Only that child had a peeled boiled egg in front of him, and rice in the porridge.

Before Li Bai, Wang Wei and the others asked curiously. The woman spoke to the people who came later: "The county only pays twenty cents a day to be responsible for the relief, but it is still waiting for the heavy rain to give it before winter. They are all on credit, and they really can't take out anything else. He is the head of the family and get fried dough sticks for the child."

The owner came out and pinched a fried dough stick in his hand and placed it in front of the child. The child stood up very obediently and bowed, "Thank you uncle."

The owner was happy and hurried into the house. When he came out, he had an extra goose egg in his hand. He knew it was salty at a glance and put it in front of the child.

The child thanked again, peeled the goose eggs quickly, used chopsticks to pick out the oily yellow and put them into the mother's bowl, and then tear over half of the fried dough sticks into the father's bowl. The eggs were delivered to the old man, preventing others from returning the things, and saying, "I can read at home, listen to me."

As for the other adults, it seems that they are not from the family, so he doesn't care.

Li Bai and Wang Wei saw it and looked at each other for a moment. Li Bai said, "Each person adds two steamed buns, and we are all."

Seeing that someone paid for the money, the owner of the shop naturally would not stop him, so he took out steamed buns and gave them one by one. Everyone quickly stood up to thank Li Bai and Wang Wei.

Li Bai and the other two were not in a hurry to leave, and sat down and asked the owner to send some cold meat dishes with a small wine. They also used this as an excuse to sell two bowls of wine, eating and drinking while listening to others chatting.

As they listened, the two of them became serious. Li Bai, who had previously praised the county officials as capable officials, did not continue to praise them.

It turned out that except for the county town, all other places in Hongnong County were washed away. In order not to allow the county town of Hongnong County to be washed away, the Honglu River had already dug a dam.

This is nothing for Wang Wei and Li Bai, it is normal. Zhang Xiaobao's method of fighting against disasters mentioned that if things cannot be done, we should first rush to the countryside to protect the city.

It does not mean that the countryside is not important. This rush means resettlement of rural people, only rural land and houses, not people, because if the city is washed away, the money spent on rebuilding is several times, or even dozens or hundreds of times that of rural people.

The problem didn't lie here, it was when a lot of people were talking about property.

As a place between Chang'an and Luoyang, Hongnong's breeding industry is very large, close to the river, with ponds for raising ducks and geese, groups of pigs, cattle and sheep, countless chickens, not to mention fish and shrimp. Those who cannot be sold are just taking advantage of the convenience of the Yellow River to put the salt transported from Jilizhou together with the fish and shrimps, and put them in a jar for braised sauce.

From the clothes on these people and the tutoring of their children, we can see that Hongnong's people's lives are not bad.

Since it is not bad, what about the money? What about the things? Do you not bring other animals or family money when you are hiding from floods?

The surprised Li Bai and Wang Wei continued to listen, and after listening for about half a quarter of an hour, they got to know each other.

Except for the county town, all the people in Hongnong were sent to the county town by the county officials. When the Hongluo water and tributaries were not at the forefront, they thought they had been dug up in advance because the materials were good during construction, and they were all solid stones and cement, so it was quite difficult to dig.

The river opened and the heavy rain kept falling, and the county officials made many guarantees, so the people followed. As for the various things raised, the household items and money, they made booklets, saying that they would give them to them after the disaster was over.

Any people who disagree will either enforce it or throw it in the local area and leave it alone and let the flood rush it.

Therefore, after several inspections, the searchers had no money on their bodies and had to wait for the help of the county government.

The county does not distribute grain, and often closes the warehouse and says nothing is open. They only distribute the people they receive to various restaurants and shops for dinner, and do not give cash to the restaurants and shops, and they owe money on credit.

A few things are combined together, giving people a very awkward feeling.

Wang Wei belongs to the Ministry of Works, but he has done things in the local area before. He is in charge of the warehouse, and is not far from here. He has also received guidance from Xu Si. He saw that something was wrong and asked Li Bai, "Brother Taibai, what do you have to say?"

Li Bai belongs to the Ministry of Revenue. Even if he is unwilling to take the initiative to learn, he has to do the form he should make and listen to what he should listen to. Under the influence of his eyes, he has a little understanding of money and matters.

After hearing Wang Wei's question, he felt that his mouth was a little dry, so he took a big sip of wine, took a deep breath, and said, "This shows that someone urgently needs money, and he dared to go to a natural disaster, and he or they used it. He was smart, but he didn't use it in the right place, and his heart was punished, so we..."

"So we were sent here. The emperor seemed to know it. He could no longer trust the local officials. He asked the two court officials to deal with them." Wang Wei was a little angry, and there was a hint of pride. He thought that he and Li Bai came to show the court's importance to matters and put the burden on them.

Li Bai nodded his head twice, his eyes full of firm expression, solemn and solemn.

Of course, they would never have thought that Li Longji sent them to examine them. One was ability and the other was integrity or not. What Li Longji really trusted was the nine kids who were about to get off the train. If they were done well, then the nine kids would just come over to play. If they couldn't do it well, no matter how difficult the things they encountered, or whether they would be in conjunction with each other, Xiao Bei and the others took action and settled it directly.

The train stopped at Hongnong Station with a harsh braking sound. Hundreds of people rushed out of the carriage. As soon as they arrived at the platform, they dispersed in all directions and quickly disappeared into the rain.

Five people who stayed on the platform for three days went down in confusion and glanced around for a few days. One of them spoke: "There are so many people coming today, they are in a hurry and don't look like officials. Do you think any officials will go directly to the city to investigate without any entourage?"

The person next to him seemed quite confused, and thought about it carefully, and said with confidence: "What are you afraid of? There are really officials who go in alone, so you can't do anything. You can't go in or out of the city. Look, what is that?"

As the man spoke, he pointed to the few cars hanging behind the bus that had just passed. The bus in front left, but someone dragged the car into another track in the back and dragged it with a group of mules. The speed was very slow, and it was obvious that the carriage was heavy.

"Go and take a look." The people who spoke before rushed over first, because of the supremacy of the railway system, they could not know the news from the inside of the railway at all.

The five people leaned over and waited for a while. After all the carriages came in, the canvas covered at the top opened and a tart cloth appeared inside. The canvas brought some things down. After a closer look, it was rice.

"Food." The first person who spoke out said two words, looking very nervous, and the other four people also changed their expressions.

The second person who spoke just now looked around and said, "Hurry up, go back and report the news. The food has been shipped. Who is so powerful? I know that the grain prices in Hongnong County are rising?"

At that moment, a man ran away and rode away outside the platform.
Chapter completed!