"Did you find out clearly?" Yang A asked with concern when he saw Wang Jingyan coming back.

"They are two young talents, one of them is your relative!"

"Relative! Who is it?"

"Wang Mang of Dongping."

"Wang Mang?" Yang A frowned.

"He is the nephew of the Queen Mother, so he is not a relative of you." Wang Jingyan smiled. It seems that Yang A has too many "relatives" and she does not remember this cousin.

"Which Guannei Hou is he the son of?" Yang A seemed to have never heard of it.

"His father was Wang Man. He has passed away. He probably did not receive the title of Marquis." Wang Jingyan recalled Wang Mang's "resume."

"Oh! I remembered it. The Queen Mother seemed to have mentioned once that Dongping had an uncle." Yang A really couldn't remember so many "cousins" of his own.

"Well, it seems that my cousin is not a bad person, unlike his older brothers."

"Well, he seems to be a very stable person. Moreover, he seems to have an injury on his leg. It is indeed not easy to help the victims regardless of the pain." Wang Jingyan echoed a few words.

What Yang A said is consistent with historical records. When Wang Zhengjun became the Queen Mother, the first thing she did was to confer titles on her elder brothers. Not only did Wang Feng become a Grand Sima and a General, but her five younger brothers were also made marquises on the same day. This was one of the few things in history that happened.

There is a phenomenon of “five weathers in one day”.

However, these sons of the marquis were arrogant and extravagant, spending all their time fighting cocks and lackeys, and did not do their jobs properly. On the contrary, Wang Mang, who failed to "take advantage", was humble and polite, and was quite famous in his hometown.

............

Bi Zhong, the governor of Henan, lined up outside the city gate to greet the imperial envoy with a nervous mood.

He had heard about Princess Yang'a, who was said to be notoriously "unruly". He wondered if she would make things difficult for him.

He had also inquired about Chun Yuchang, but he was a "looper". He had already established connections and had already made a good greeting to this new dignitary. As long as he "curated" well this time, it shouldn't be a big problem.

After these days, Luoyang City has basically restored order. All those who deserved to die have died, those who deserve to escape have fled, and the rest of the city has been appeased.

Although many people died of starvation or illness, it was a natural disaster and no one could do anything about it. At worst, they could just say that those who died of starvation were crushed to death.

At the gate of the city, Chunyu Chang read out Emperor Cheng's disaster relief edict, and went straight into the city without stopping.

Wang Jingyan was very concerned about the disaster, and she observed the situation outside through the car window from time to time.

Although the ruins had been cleared, she could still imagine the tragedy of the earthquake.

"That carriage is so beautiful!" A clear and melodious female voice came to her ears, catching her attention.

There were many young children crowded into a simple carriage on the roadside. A handsome young woman seemed to be lying on her husband's back, looking enviously at the carriage she and Yang A were riding in.

Although the young woman is beautiful, it is her husband who makes Wang Jingyan's heart beat! Judging from his figure, he looks exactly like brother Xiaofan!

Could it be him? Wang Jingyan turned to look carefully, but the carriage jolted into the city and she didn't see it clearly!

"What's wrong?" Yang A saw Wang Jingyan's strange behavior.

"It's okay, it seems to be an old acquaintance." Wang Jingyan was not sure and answered vaguely.

Arriving at the prefect's mansion, everyone greeted the imperial envoy respectfully.

"Master Bi, how serious is the disaster this time?" Yang A asked "routinely".

"Reporting to the Imperial Envoy, the disaster was too serious this time. Nearly 100,000 people were killed and injured, and the losses were countless." Bi Zhong reported carefully and secretly glanced at Yang A and Chun Yuchang.

"One hundred thousand! How come there are so many!" Yang A was shocked by Bi Zhong's number.

"Reporting to the Imperial Envoy, the earthquake was so strong that almost all the houses in the city collapsed. Moreover, the disaster occurred late at night, and many people were unable to escape."

"I think your Prefect's Mansion didn't suffer much damage!" Yang A had already noticed that there were indeed many collapsed houses on the way into the city, but the Prefect's Mansion was almost intact.

"Thanks to the emperor and the imperial envoy, this prefect's mansion was newly built last year and is slightly stronger, so the loss is not big." Bi Zhong felt like sweating. In order to repair this prefect's mansion, he spent a lot of money on people's wealth.

Yang A is still inexperienced and has never experienced this kind of situation, so he doesn't know how to ask.

Wang Jingyan whispered a few words in her ear.

"Master Bi, let me ask you, during this earthquake, how many houses collapsed in the city, how many people were killed, how many were injured, how many people starved to death, how many people moved out, and how many victims are there in the city now?"

Yang A asked in a stern tone, but secretly admired Wang Jingyan beside him. What has this girl done? How can she think so clearly!

"Um..." Bi Zhong was stunned by the question, thought for a long time, and answered carefully, "The total number of casualties was one hundred thousand. Some victims did flee, but no one died of starvation."

"No one has starved to death? Since you haven't starved to death, you still have food. Why let the court spend so much time raising money and food?" Yang A seized on the loopholes in Bi Zhong's words and became unruly.

"Although I haven't starved to death, the city has run out of food. If there is no relief food from the court, people may really starve to death." Bi Zhong began to quibble.

"Then how many victims do you have now? How are you going to distribute this relief food?" Yang A actually didn't want to meddle in "nosey". She didn't go into details anymore and just wanted to distribute the food as soon as possible.

"After the disaster, there was a shortage of food and medicine in the city. I borrowed a lot from grain merchants, drug dealers and some good people. Many people also donated money for free. The money and food for the disaster relief must be returned to them."

Bi Zhong told his plan. This time he did not take away the benefits from these people and distributed the food to them in the name of disaster relief. Do they really dare to take it all for themselves?

"Give it to whom?" Yang A was a little confused at first, but now it became clear. After a long time of fussing, the food and medicinal materials he brought were not for the victims, but for the grain merchants and pharmacists!

"Give it back..." Bi Zhong noticed that Princess Yang's tone seemed a little dissatisfied, and hesitantly raised his head to look at Chun Yuchang.

"Master Bi is being reckless! These money and grains are from the imperial court's favor to the people, how can they be given to those businessmen? Besides, how many people are still hungry now, can't Master Bi see that? Even if you borrowed the grain in an emergency and have to pay it back,

At this time, we can't let some people store food in their homes while the victims are hungry!" Chun Yuchang interrupted Bi Zhong.

"This..." Bi Zhong hesitated.

"What the heck! The key now is to make the people full and rebuild their homes as soon as possible. As for the merchants who donated food, are they short of food? Moreover, they have lived in Luoyang for a long time, eating Luoyang rice and drinking Luoyang water. In this disaster,

Shouldn't we make some contributions to the people of Luoyang?" Chunyu Chang put on airs and spoke righteously.

"I believe that most of the merchants have good intentions. On the way here, we saw someone opening a porridge shack. Please screen these people carefully, and submit the list to the imperial envoy, report to the imperial court, and apply for awards." Chunyu Chang finally agreed.

"Comfort" Bi Zhong said.
Chapter completed!