I thought that rescuing the people and annihilating the bandits along the way would definitely delay the progress, but who knew that Shangyu Chen had already made a decision.
It turned out that the emperor only allocated five thousand soldiers to Shang Yuchen, and the rest were from the Xiao family army under Xiao Chuhong.
Three days ago, Li Jiu sent someone to deliver the Xiao family's military order, saying that he was on Xiao Chuhong's order to help with the disaster.
Tao Yongji, the county magistrate of Liting Town, was waiting outside the town gate early, followed by his master and a group of government officials.
When the prince and others approached on horseback, they immediately bent down and wanted to kneel down to salute.
"Your Majesty, Tao Yongji, is here to see His Highness the Crown Prince!"
"Okay, okay! No need to be polite, no need to be too polite."
Shangyu Chen frowned and stopped them from saluting. The water on the ground had reached up to his ankles. It had not been cleaned up for several days, and it already gave off a foul smell.
Even though everyone was wearing wooden clogs, their trousers were still soaked with sewage.
Shang Yuchen and others had taken the medicine copied by the young master before they came. In addition, they were also wrapped extremely tightly, and their faces could not be seen clearly, and their voices sounded a bit muffled.
Shangyu Chen pointed to the people around him and introduced them one by one, "Master Tao, the person next to me is Pei Lixin, the imperial doctor of the imperial hospital at that time. He is a superb doctor. These people next to him...this is the cabinet minister.
Master Gu Jianggu, the bachelor, this is Master Wenlu, the Minister of Household Affairs, and this is Jin Lian, Jin Baihu of the Siwei Mansion."
Tao Yongji and everyone bowed their hands again, "See Imperial Physician Pei, Master Gu, Master Wen, and Jin Baihu. I would like to thank you all for not being afraid of the plague and coming to save thousands of people in Jiangdu. I have already arranged for His Highness and the adults outside the town."
Now that we have settled in a house, there will definitely be no plague..."
Shangyu Chen waved his hand to stop him from talking any more, and swept towards the densely packed fence in front of the town gate, "Open it, we want to enter the city."
"Ah? Entering the city? No!"
Seeing his panicked look, Shang Yuchen didn't feel much in his heart. In the face of death, it is instinct to be greedy for life and afraid of death.
Along the way, he has become accustomed to strange things.
"Open the city gate!"
"Your Highness, the plague in our town has become more and more serious in the past two days. If something happens to you if you go in rashly, even if the official and others have a hundred heads, it won't be enough to chop off the emperor!"
"..."
Tao Yongji saw Shang Yuchen frowning and said nothing, and wanted to persuade him a few more words, but Jin Lian had already understood the prince's eyes, drew out the sword from his waist, and flew up from the horse. He flew over the heads of many government servants, raised his sword and used his sword energy to fight.
As they passed by the wooden fence, they heard several crackling, banging, and banging sounds, and the obstacle blocking their path immediately flew into pieces and shattered into pieces.
In the sky full of sawdust, Jin Lian stepped on the shoulders of the government servants and flew back to his horse, "Don't you understand what His Highness the Crown Prince said?"
Everyone received Jin Lian's murderous eyes, and their legs suddenly became weak. Tao Yongji gritted his teeth, waved, and quickly took a few steps back to make way for them. The soldiers guarding the city behind the city gate looked at each other and quickly pulled out their weapons.
Wood bolts, wide open the city gate.
Shang Yuchen, who was dressed in black clothes, glanced sideways at Tao Yongji, clamped his legs around the horse's belly, and held the reins to steer the horse into the city.
Others walked all the way, rarely resting, and were already exhausted physically and mentally.
Carriages entered Liting Town one after another. In addition to supplies from the imperial treasury, the relief items included were also donated by the ministers of the DPRK and those merchants and nobles.
In addition, many Jianghu forces and individual travelers also extended a helping hand to the people.
Although they didn't like the imperial court, they still understood the importance of the flood and the plague at the same time.
Before Shangyu Chen and others arrived, a large amount of relief materials had been sent to various towns under Jiangdu by various sects.
Shangyu Chen had heard about this a long time ago, but according to Kuai Ma Lai, all the donations from the imperial court and Jianghu people seemed to have disappeared into the sea.
Now he was in Liting Town, located on the outskirts of Jiangdu, but their gates were closed, which aroused his suspicion.
Liting Town is neither small nor big. Horses' hooves tramped and horse-drawn carriages drove slowly by. Shangyu Chen entered the city with only a few hundred people and relief items.
Because the carriage was too heavy, it always got stuck in the water from time to time and was full of mud.
The sewage splashed into the cattail grass on the roadside. Tao Yongji watched them move forward and waved his hand. His master immediately stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Sir, what are your orders?"
"Keep an eye on the prince, don't let him discover anything."
"Yes, don't worry, sir, everything is in order. Just those of them, don't even think about leaving Jiangdu."
"It's best to take it easy. They came all the way in a high profile and never thought about restraining themselves. Countless people tried to get disaster relief funds, but no one could survive."
"My lord, just take it easy, just relax."
"Um!"
Tao Yongji nodded and led the master and government servants to follow the prince.
Tang Yinchen and Yang Huanzhi, who were sneaky along the way and even changed into officer and soldier clothes to hide their identities, suffered a lot.
The two of them mingled among the officers and soldiers, watching the county magistrate and the master sneaking around, muttering together as if they were plotting something.
Tang Yinchen walked quietly on the mud and approached Yang Huanzhi. He covered his face with a saber and glanced around, "Old Yang, look at the county magistrate. He looks like a bad guy. Could he have been killed by King Qin?"
You bought it, and you want to do harm to His Highness, right?"
"How could I know?" Yang Huanzhi's tone was calm and slightly disgusting.
"How about we follow up and take a look?"
"Not going."
"Let's go! Let's go!"
"You're annoying."
"..." Tang Yinchen rolled his eyes at him and continued to murmur in a low voice, "Lao Yang, Lao Yang, we haven't even had a round with Zhenzi yet. Don't you want to beat him once?"
"I won't go, I don't want to, it's boring."
Tang Yinchen may be rebellious by nature. The colder Yang Huanzhi is to him, the more enthusiastic he becomes. "You are too boring. With your appearance, which beautiful girl, as beautiful as jade, is willing to marry you?"
"You are so talkative, no girl will look down on you."
"That's just right. We two brothers can make do with each other for the rest of our lives."
Yang Huanzhi took the first step and took off the arm he wanted to put on his shoulder. "It's boring."
While the two of them were arguing with each other, they finally entered the city gate.
The streets and alleys in the city are made of bluestone. Although there is still water accumulation, it is much better than having feet full of mud outside the city.
The rows of houses are well-proportioned, with raised eaves and corners, and the simple materials give a sense of vicissitudes of life.
Under the stone bridge that has existed for hundreds of years, the originally green water has now become extremely filthy, with more than twice as much water as before. Dirty clothes and dead branches float across the water from time to time, and occasionally a few can be seen.
Chickens and ducks that have been soaked until they rot.
The shop fronts on the street have long been closed, and the people who occasionally pass by are also in a hurry. They don't even pay much attention to the prince and others, and just want to return home as soon as possible. This chapter has been completed!