After rescuing these villagers, Qin Huaidao was full of disappointment. After telling everyone not to do harm to others again, he left some food for them. Everyone was grateful and bowed, but Qin Huaidao could see that Tian Laosan's matter was already weighing on them.
On my mind, I can't get rid of it.
Seeing that everyone had such a mentality, he felt relieved. These villagers harmed two people because of their words. If he didn't even reflect on this, then he would have saved these people in vain.
With this in mind, Qin Huaidao and others once again set foot on the road to Sanshan Gorge.
Along the way, he saw many people's furniture and materials floating on the water that had been hit by the flood. There were also many victims fishing along the water, trying to salvage some useful things, but Qin Huaidao did not stop them.
Make the best use of everything. It is difficult to find the owners of these lost things anyway. Why not let these things help one more disaster victim? Just help one disaster victim.
Soon, Qin Huaidao led Luo Wu, Li Chunfeng, Jin Yiwei and the garrison to the vicinity of Puzhou City.
After walking for another hour, Li Chunfeng suddenly stopped on the top of the mountain.
On top of the flood peak, there were scattered roofs of several buildings exposed. Li Chunfeng opened the map and pointed at those roofs and said: "Your Majesty, please look, that's Puzhou."
Qin Huaidao looked in the direction of Li Chunfeng's finger. It was full of floods. Where could there be Puzhou?
Even Luo Wu looked at Li Chunfeng hesitantly: "There is nothing there, are you sure?"
Li Chunfeng nodded and said: "Based on the map location and the mountain appearance, this place is undoubtedly Puzhou. The reason why you can't see the whole city of Puzhou is because most of the entire Puzhou has been completely submerged by floods."
Well, it's normal for floods to submerge Puzhou. The buildings built in the current city are not very high. If you build a two or three-story building, it can reach the sky. If you can build it to six or seven stories, it can be considered a miraculous workmanship. With this kind of building
In terms of technology, except for a few craftsmen, the Han Dynasty can hardly find such capable people.
Now that Puzhou has been flooded has become an established fact, all we can do is try our best to remedy the situation.
"Let's see if there are any people in need of help nearby. Under the raging floods, save every one you can." Qin Huaidao ordered.
"promise."
Along the way, they met many people who were trapped in the flood. With the convenience of the water wheel, they rescued many people again. At this time, everyone also set off to the vicinity of Sanmenxia.
Within Chang'an.
Xue Rengui, who was in charge of Chang'an's defense, discovered that more and more victims were pouring into Chang'an while patrolling the city. He had to allocate manpower to find the Ministry of Civil Affairs to resettle these victims. Fang Xuanling asked people to make temporary shelters overnight to accommodate these victims.
They were gathered together in Chang'an City to facilitate unified treatment.
During the treatment, he was thankful that His Majesty had the foresight to collect a large amount of grain at a high price in advance, otherwise Chang'an would be full of people scrambling for grain.
Another group of disaster victims poured into Chang'an City.
It was approaching lunch time, and the recent victims were worried that they would have no food. Seeing that many victims did not have such worries, and not knowing what to do, they saw two big shots arriving at the residential area of the victims with people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
The visitors were none other than Fang Xuanling and Xue Rengui.
"Everyone has had a hard time escaping. On the orders of His Majesty Qin Huaidao, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, the Minister of State and the official Xuanling of the Ministry of Civil Affairs came to express condolences to everyone. Before the flood recedes, all rations will be provided by the imperial court. Please rest assured."
Is there such a good thing? These new victims are all looking forward to it. They don't expect anything else to eat. They are satisfied with just a mouthful of hot porridge.
When they saw the food, it still exceeded their expectations.
What this court official brought was actually hot rice!
Even at home, they may not be able to eat rice every day, but in Chang'an, the court not only gave them rice, but also provided it for free.
This is unprecedented treatment!
The place where the No. 1 grain merchant in Chang'an made a big deal.
His subordinates hurriedly came to report.
"Mr. Zhang, another group of victims has entered Chang'an. Judging from the number of victims who have arrived before, there have been more than 20,000. The imperial court not only sent the Ministry of Civil Affairs to resettle these victims, but also provided free food and medicine for rescue. Although these victims
I suffered some hardships when I came here, but now I am stable."
After hearing the report from his subordinates, Zhang Daozhi had a smile on his face.
It seems that he did not listen to Jiang Shengwei's nonsense and led the grain merchants to donate grain to the court for free, which was the right choice.
"I know, let's go down."
Since the imperial court cares about the people so much, Zhang Daozi must do something more.
In the afternoon of that day, he summoned many grain merchants. When many grain merchants heard Zhang Daozi's summons, they thought something big was about to happen, and they were filled with fear.
There was no way. Ever since the case of the grain merchant's murder, everyone they saw thought it was a killer who would kill them at any time. The Jin Yiwei protected them for a period of time and then withdrew when there was no danger. But how could they rest assured?
After seeing Zhang Daozi, they asked worriedly.
"Dr. Zhang's family, did something big happen again?" a grain merchant asked.
Zhang Daozi smiled and said: "There will definitely be big things, but don't worry, everyone, this time is not about our lives and property. Before that, I would like to ask you, has any of you cared about the situation of the victims?"
These grain merchants all frowned and were very puzzled.
They are just grain merchants, not officials, so what is the use of caring about these victims?
Besides, isn’t there a court?
Seeing the confusion of these grain merchants, Zhang Daozi knew that these people must not care much, otherwise why would they have such expressions?
He told one by one what the imperial court had done to the victims in Chang'an: "Everyone, since the floods raged, the imperial court has set up two large camps in the east and west of Chang'an to specifically accommodate the victims who have fled from various places. There are currently more than 20,000 of them. You know
How do these 20,000 disaster victims live? They rely on free food provided by the imperial court, and I also heard that the imperial court provides rice instead of ordinary porridge and water!"
Many grain merchants took a breath of cold air. According to the disaster relief policies of past dynasties, the victims can only be given porridge and water. Otherwise, it will seriously increase the financial burden of the imperial court. Without money and grain, how can the entire imperial court pay salaries and govern the people below?
Various state roads?
For example, in the case of the decline of a great dynasty, although most of the reasons were due to the corruption of the imperial court, it was also related to the fear that the national treasury was in short supply. If the imperial court was excessively depleted, the new dynasty that had just been established would probably fall after the flood.
Amidst the storm.
"Does Mr. Zhang really mean what he said? Does the court really need to provide free white rice to these victims?"
Zhang Daozhi said: "If you see it with your own eyes, how can it be false?"