If you ignore it, you won't know. If you ignore it, you will be shocked.
Pingcheng, known as a poor city, turned out to be so wealthy.
It's too much burden.
Only a small part of the area around Pingcheng grows grain, mainly mulberry trees, which are used to raise silkworms and are rich in silk.
Silk is a thing worth every inch.
The taxes are naturally high.
Therefore, if we talk about Pingcheng alone, it is not exhaustive.
But there is no way, the counties in Pingcheng are all lagging behind.
Especially Pingbei County and Pingnan County, one is short of water and the other is located downstream of the canal. Judging from the accounts, Pingcheng has to support them every year.
Qi Bao'er tapped her fingertips on the table with a puzzled look on her face. To be honest, she didn't understand the people here's insistence on the fact that it's hard to leave their homeland. Considering the situation in Pingbei and Pingnan counties, wouldn't it be better to move to another county?
Do you have a choice? Why do you still insist on staying in a place that is prone to disasters after hundreds of years?
Putting down the old accounts of Pingcheng, Qi Baoer picked up the account books of disaster relief money and food.
This time, the amount of silver and grain allocated to Pingcheng for disaster relief was one million taels of silver, one million dan of grain, and 20,000 dan of grain seeds.
Not all of these will go to Pingcheng, Pingcheng will have to be allocated according to the disaster situation in each county.
But now, this task falls on Qi Baoer and the others.
This was one of the reasons why she asked the magistrates from each county to come to Pingcheng. At least she wanted to hear the magistrates' personal reports on the local disaster situation first.
The boss is big, hey, the coolies are here, King Li Jun walked in leisurely.
Qi Baoer's eyes lit up and she waved excitedly before he could speak, "Come here, Prince Li, I have something to do with you."
"What's the matter?" With that look in his eyes, why did he have a bad premonition?
Qi Baoer directly dragged the person to the table and slapped the account book in front of him, "I'll leave this to you."
Then get out of the way.
"Hey~"
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The next two people, Qi Jiajun and the survivors in Pingcheng, were all exhausted and kept spinning with almost no time to rest.
Fortunately, the next day, magistrates from other counties got the order and took people to Pingcheng, which relieved everyone's burden.
The first person to arrive was the magistrate of Pingbei County. He did not come with an order from a scout, but met a scout on the way to Pingbei County.
Magistrate Yang, who was dusty and dusty, burst into tears when he saw Qi Bao'er kneeling down, "Princess Anle, please save the people of Pingbei County."
Father and daughter Qi Baoer and Qi Kangan were squatting on the roadside eating, and they were startled by his sudden move.
Qi Baoer looked at Twelve who led him up the mountain, and asked with his eyes: What is going on?
Twelve wanted to say something, but the one crying on the ground spoke faster.
"Princess Anle, there was a sudden earthquake in Pingbei County. Several towns were cracked. The most serious one was Songxiang Town. No one could live in the town. There were several surrounding villages that fell into the cracks.
Inside, it was buried by rocks.
After the earthquake, there were no two people left, and landslides occurred on many mountains, burying many more people."
Qi Kang'an: "Is it so serious?"
The person who responded this time was Twelve, who said in a serious tone: "Yes, Magistrate Yang did not lie. The earthquake in Pingbei County was very serious, especially in Songxiang Town. My subordinates saw cracks in the ground cutting across the town.
A crack was opened that was more than five meters wide. There were also large and small cracks in other places. All the houses collapsed, including the city walls. This shows the seriousness of the earthquake.
My subordinates also visited several villages near Songxiang Town, and two villages close to the mountains were buried."
I didn't see it with my own eyes, so I don't know how terrible it is.
Although Qi Kang'an and Qi Bao'er haven't seen it with their own eyes, they can already imagine it.
At this time, very few people could build houses with bricks, and most of them used homemade mud bricks to build their houses.
Not to mention the ground shaking, a strong person could make a hole with just one kick.
There was a huge earthquake that cracked the ground several meters wide. Qibao'er thought for a moment, it must be level 6 or 7, how could a mud brick house withstand it?
Magistrate Yang County fell to the ground and burst into tears when he thought of the tragic conditions he had witnessed with his own eyes.
Qi Kang'an and Qi Bao'er were both silent. Nothing they could say at this time could comfort the person in front of them.
It wasn't until he was done crying that Qi Bao'er said, "Pingbei County is about to be abandoned. I think I have informed you of the situation in Pingcheng on the 12th Road. Please move the people from Pingbei County to Pingcheng."
It was no surprise that Magistrate Yang of County ordered the Anle Princess Association to abandon Pingbei County. As long as he knew the current situation of Pingbei County, he knew that it was no longer suitable for people to live there, and only a small number of people survived, so relocation would be the easiest thing.
It is also the most cost-effective option.
What surprised him was that Princess Anle actually decided to let people from Pingbei County move to Pingcheng.
However, this was a good thing for the people of Pingbei County. He was stunned for a moment and quickly thanked him.
"On behalf of the people of Pingbei County, I would like to express my gratitude to Princess Anle for her great kindness."
From the people of a poor county to the people of a prosperous city in a blink of an eye, this is their great blessing.
At this time, Qi Bao'er said again: "Everything in Pingcheng is existing. Not only can you move in directly after moving in, the surrounding land is fertile and it will not be affected by disasters. But in this world, how can there be something for nothing?"
When he said this, Qi Baoer's eyes were fixed on Magistrate Yang's face, and whenever there was a strange color on his face...
Fortunately, Magistrate Yang is a good person. After hearing this, he answered the question in a matter-of-fact manner: "Don't worry, Princess Anle, I know this. I will make a regulation when I get back."
"Okay, let's go." Qi Bao'er smiled, this one is a smart one.
She is not afraid of smart people. On the contrary, she likes smart people as long as their minds are not crooked.
After Magistrate Yang resigned and followed Twelve down the mountain, Qi Kangan asked in a low voice: "My dear daughter, are you planning to reuse him?"
Otherwise, he should be asked to draw up the regulations for a major matter like how to relocate the people?!
"Yes, he is diligent and honest, and his merits are even brighter than those of Magistrate Sha. We don't know when Magistrate Sha will wake up. Now Pingcheng is short of an official, and I happen to have this right."
Qi Kang'an: "..."
By saying it in such a grand way, aren't you just making excuses for being too lazy to take care of those trivial matters?!
However, Qi Kang'an himself is too lazy to take care of it, so let's not say half a pound.
The father and daughter continued to eat.
In order to prevent the plague, corpses must be handled carefully, and they cannot just be buried anywhere.
So father and daughter both went up the mountain to watch in person.
Although a lot of lime was found in the city, Qi Baoer finally decided to transport the bodies up the mountain and burn them.
One is that the number of corpses is too large, nearly 100,000. Even if one is buried and sprinkled with lime, there is still a risk of a plague outbreak.
Secondly, because there were too many, they did not have time to bury them slowly. If they buried the front, the back would be ruined.
Thirdly, there had just been a major earthquake in Pingbei County, and Qi Baoer did not dare to go and bet on whether there would be another earthquake in Pingbei City.
All we can do is dig a few big holes, pour oil on them, and burn them.
Qi Baoer knew that this move would arouse criticism, but for the long term, she could only be cruel.