After several days of sailing, the building ship Zhao Xun was on arrived in Hezhou.
Compared with the prosperity of Huangzhou, Hezhou seems a bit shabby and deserted.
But after all, it is a city along the Grand Canal, and its basic size is still there.
The building boat docked at the pier, and Zhao Xun and his party disembarked one by one and walked into the city.
Unlike the previous times when city officials went out to greet him, this time not a single official came to greet him.
This made Zhao Xun feel puzzled.
Good guy, what is important in officialdom is to please the superior.
Even if you are very reluctant, you must act according to these rules.
Otherwise, you will definitely be wearing small shoes everywhere, and you won't be able to survive for long.
Of course, Zhao Xun didn't care about this. He was just curious about why Hezhou officials were so different.
Are they all just a group of powerful orders like Hai Rui?
When the group of people entered the city, Zhao Xunfang suddenly realized.
It turns out that the buildings in the city have collapsed into a state of disrepair, and the Yamen is no exception.
After some inquiries, Zhao Xun learned that not long ago, Hezhou suffered a rare earthquake.
The major earthquake collapsed most of the buildings, and the government office was severely damaged to the point where it was no longer possible to operate.
Therefore, Hezhou officials temporarily moved to Qingshan County, which is affiliated with Hezhou, and will not move back until the state government is built.
Under such circumstances, after Zhao Xun and others arrived in Hezhou, Hezhou officials naturally could not know it immediately, and they could not go out of the city to greet them.
Zhao Xun's mood suddenly became a little heavy.
It's true that he is an imperial envoy, and what he can do is really limited.
Punishing and punishing corrupt officials, punishing demon sects and monsters to do justice for heaven, that's about it.
The only things Zhao Xun can change are man-made disasters, but he is really powerless against natural disasters.
I took a long breath to cover my tears, mourning the hardships of the people's lives.
The ancients never deceived me.
Hezhou officials were able to move to nearby counties when they encountered an earthquake.
But what about the people?
The people can only grit their teeth and continue to live in this ruins of ruins.
They have no financial resources or connections, so they can only choose the most miserable way to survive.
From this point of view, the official in charge of Hezhou is not a good person.
At this time, if you don't stay in Hezhou City to take charge of the overall situation, you can run around faster than anyone else.
If something big happens, the people won't even have a backbone.
Zhao Xun shook his head and said to Jia Xingwen: "Brother Jia, I think it's better to ask someone to move some of our food from the building and boat first and make porridge for the people to eat. It's spring and the weather is still a bit cold, and the people don't have it.
If you don’t have enough food in a stable place to live, you will easily get sick. If a major epidemic breaks out due to this, the consequences will be disastrous."
Jia Xingwen nodded slightly and said, "Okay, just follow what Ming Yun said."
"In addition, send someone to Qingshan County to call back the Hezhou officials and tell them that the imperial envoy has something to ask."
Zhao Xun really couldn't stand it anymore. He wanted to see how the Hezhou governor explained to him.
Along the way, Zhao Xun saw countless hidden dangers behind the prosperity.
When these hidden dangers accumulate together, they will cause very serious consequences.
It happened that Emperor Long was still completely unaware, intoxicated in his imagination of a peaceful and prosperous age.
This dog emperor who doesn’t want to be the son of a man doesn’t think he is the emperor of the ages, right?
He lives deep in the Daming Palace and hears the flattery of his courtiers every day. How can he understand the hardships of people's livelihood.
As long as this guy goes out of the palace in disguise and goes deep into the people to understand the sentiments of the people, he should understand how false the so-called prosperous age is.
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Qingshan County County Government.
Chu Fengnian, the governor of Hezhou, was copying a copybook.
His calligraphy was very good, and he won a lot of favor from the marking officers during the imperial examination because of his good calligraphy.
After becoming an official, Chu Fengnian still maintained the habit of practicing calligraphy every day.
No matter how busy he is with official duties, it will not hinder Chu Fengnian from practicing calligraphy.
Of course, I am not very busy with official duties.
After Chu Fengnian became an official, he sent three states in total, namely the upper, middle and lower states.
Hezhou is considered a central state, and official duties are very leisurely.
Even if you are in Shangzhou, you can only spend at most two or three hours a day dealing with official duties.
The rest of the time is at your disposal.
However, the past six months of the Chu Feng Year seemed to have been unlucky, with floods and earthquakes occurring one after another.
Not only that the grain reserves in Hezhou were wiped out, but the local security also became unstable.
This is the most terrible thing.
Chu Fengnian knew very well that if the people once caused trouble, he would be the first to suffer.
The court can allow him to be mediocre and inactive, but it must not allow him to cause public resentment to boil over and rise up.
Maintaining local stability is his bottom line responsibility as a parent official.
If he can't handle this, he will have to be removed sooner or later.
Just when Chu Fengnian was concentrating on copying, Song Liangpeng, the magistrate of Qingshan County, hurried to him, bowed to him and saluted: "Master Governor, something serious has happened."
Chu Fengnian hung his pen in the air, frowning and said: "County Magistrate Song, what do you mean by this?"
"Reporting to the Governor, this is the imperial envoy. The imperial envoy has arrived in Hezhou."
County Magistrate Song Liangpeng said with a bitter face.
Boom.
Chu Fengnian felt his head was pounding and he was dumbfounded.
Not long ago, he saw the Di Bao issued by the imperial court. The Di Bao said that the Imperial Envoy would go south to Jiangnan Road on errands in the near future.
Hezhou is an important hub along the Grand Canal, and the imperial envoy will inevitably pass through it if he travels by water.
Therefore, Chu Fengnian had already arranged for three groups of government officials to take turns watching the docks outside the city. As soon as there was news of the arrival of the imperial envoy's official ship, he would immediately send someone to inform him.
But now that the imperial envoys have entered the city, the government officials still haven't come to report.
This shows that these government officials turned a deaf ear to his words and did not take them seriously at all.
Chu Fengnian was furious and shouted: "Here's the catcher Shen Ziping, tell that bitch to get over here quickly."
County Magistrate Song Liangpeng said quickly: "Master Governor, now is not the time to blame Shen Baotou. Now we still have to think about how to explain to the Imperial Envoy."
"Yes, I was almost made mad by this guy."
Chu Fengnian put his hands behind his back and walked around the house.
But now he is so anxious that he can't come up with a good solution in such a state of mind.
In desperation, Chu Fengnian asked Song Liangpeng for advice: "Song County Magistrate, what do you think I should do for the current plan?"
"this..."
Song Liangpeng felt helpless in his heart. What good solution could there be at this time? He could only try to avoid the important and take the easy.
"Now it is impossible to completely clear out the relationship. As the governor of a state, it is not appropriate for you to leave Hezhou City. However, you can say that you are going to Qingshan County to find food to bring back to the city to help the people. As long as you do this Say, the Imperial Envoy will not be too harsh on you."
Chu Fengnian couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard it, wonderful. This seems to be the most reasonable explanation now.