"Xuan!" Zhao Heng immediately beamed with joy, clapped his hands on the table and ordered loudly.
Immediately, he turned his head to the pale Yin Fang, and discussed with a smile, "Qing, please go with Dou Douzhi to mobilize military rations and let the victims have a full meal first. As for how to resettle them in the future, I will see you later."
I will discuss this with Wang Qinruo in detail."
The emperor has spoken so politely. As a minister, if Yin Fang still insists that he must act according to his own opinions, he will lose his duty.
Therefore, he bowed and accepted the order, and left slowly with Dou Shenbao. Before going out, he tripped on the threshold that he had stepped on countless times, and almost fell on his head and staggered to the ground.
"Prefect Yin, be careful!" Although Dou Shenbao was old, his reaction was extremely quick. He reached out decisively to help Yin Fang, preventing Yin Fang from rolling down the steps and breaking his head and bleeding.
"Thank you!" Yin Fang thanked Dou Shenbao in despair, and then followed him to collect military rations.
The general in charge of the granary had long been anxious because he saw a large number of people freezing to death inside and outside the city. Seeing that Yin Fang and Dou Shenbao had brought orders from the officials, he immediately took the initiative to lead his brothers to help and transport the truckloads of grain.
I went to the porridge shed run by the government.
That morning, the victims who had been half-frozen to death finally had their first full meal in months. They all knelt down and worshiped around Yin Fang and Dou Shenbao, almost treating them as holy Buddhas of all families.
However, Yin Fang, the governor of Huazhou, could not see the slightest trace of relaxation on his face. After handing over the task of giving out rice and porridge to his officials, he staggered back to his residence in the city and fell into a trap.
When I got to bed, I stared at the ceiling, making no movement for a long time and refusing to make any more noise.
"Master, what's going on? But the officials are looking down on you?" Yin Fang's wife had been with him for many years and couldn't bear to see him so lost. She quickly walked forward holding his granddaughter Yin Wan'er and comforted her softly, "
Don't take it personally. The worst case scenario is that you resign from your official post and we can go back to Huainan countryside together to entertain our grandchildren."
"Grandpa, don't be angry, grandpa hugs you." Yin Wan'er was only two years old, but she knew how to care for others, so she helped her with a sweet voice.
"Grandpa is not angry, he is just a little tired!" Yin Fang felt more and more sad when he saw it. He struggled to sit up, held his granddaughter in his arms, patted her, and then handed her over to the nanny Hong who came over.
Aunt, "Wan'er, follow Aunt Hong to play in the backyard. Grandpa has something to say to your grandma."
The nanny Honggu heard this and quickly took Wan'er away. When her footsteps disappeared outside the door, Yin Fang sighed and said quietly: "I'm afraid I won't be able to return to Huainan. Wait until Xueqing, you take it with you
Wan'er and Ah Liang, please go to Guangnan to join my brother. By the way, you can buy some land there and move A Ding's family there in the future."
A Liang and A Ding are his two sons. They are currently studying in a government school and are preparing to pursue official careers through the imperial examination.
In this era, Guangnan was a land of barren mountains and harsh waters, and it was four to five thousand miles away from Bianliang.
As a fifth-grade prefect, Yin Fang finally met Zhao Heng, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. He did not try hard to show off and paved the way for his two brothers and sons in front of Zhao Heng, but instead moved his family to a remote rural area thousands of miles away.
What was the reason for being burned and confused?
Immediately, Mrs. Yin raised her hand to touch his forehead. Yin Fang closed his eyes in pain and added intermittently, "Today I went to see the official and asked him to order resettlement in several surrounding cities.
Disaster victims. But the officials keep saying that they want to move the victims to Suzhou."
"Going to Suzhou? It's so far and the weather is so cold. How many people have frozen to death on the road!" Although Mrs. Yin is a female, she is not lacking in knowledge. She immediately stopped and asked with a frown.
"That's what I told the officials. But the officials said that we can wait until the snow stops before leaving. Then, before I could argue my case, Wang Qinruo brought Liu Yuan, the prefect of Shengzhou, to see the officials." Yin Fang said dumbly.
He added in his voice, his eyes full of anxiety and anger.
"Prefect of Shengzhou, why is he here? Isn't Shengzhou in the south of the Yangtze River?" Mrs. Yin also vaguely sensed that something was wrong and continued to ask in a low voice.
"Said he personally escorted the military rations here!" Yin Fang sighed and lay down again, his teeth clenching.
"Isn't that great? It happens that disaster relief also requires food." Mrs. Yin was confused, frowning and talking in a low voice. "I just asked him to tell the officials whether this kind of weather is suitable for large-scale migration of people.
…”
"The officials want to escape!" Yin Fang finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted out the most painful conclusion in his heart, "Wang Qinruo, a weakling, proposed to move the capital to Jiangnan as early as two or three months ago. The officials clearly
He was moved, so he insisted on resettling the victims to the Suzhou area. Liu Yuan specially sent food from Shengzhou (Nanjing) to tell the officials that the road from Huazhou to Shengzhou was smooth, and the local government in Shengzhou had also done a good job.
We are ready to welcome you. As long as the officials want to leave, they can flee southward at any time!"
"Ah——" She didn't expect that a simple thing would have so many twists and turns behind it, and Mrs. Yin was immediately shocked and stunned.
After a long time, she asked her husband with a face full of reluctance, "The officials, have they not considered the morale of the military? Nearly 200,000 soldiers are still fighting bloody battles in Chanzhou. In Huazhou, there are nearly 40,000
The soldiers are always ready to cross the Yellow River to support Chanzhou. If he leaves suddenly, I am afraid that not only Chanzhou cannot be defended, but Huazhou and even Bianliang will fall into the hands of the Khitans."
"Not just Bianliang, I'm afraid the entire north of the Yangtze River will be abandoned by the officials to the Liao dogs!" Yin Fang opened his mouth, tears streaming down the corners of his eyes, "I couldn't figure it out before, the officials didn't understand it at all.
Knowing military affairs, why did Kou Laoxi'er drag the official to the Yellow River to cause trouble? Today, I finally understand. Kou Laoxi'er had long known that the official was timid, so he tried every means to drag him to Huazhou.
Come here, just in case you don’t catch it at first glance, the officials will grease the soles of your feet!”
Probably because she was so disappointed with Zhao Heng in her heart, his words were full of disrespect. After hearing this, his wife stood up in fright and walked around the window and door. When there was no third pair of ears nearby, she resented
He scolded, "You don't even have the courage to be an official. If you had known this, you might as well have let King Yong get it!"
After scolding him, he also knew that it was useless to be angry. He wiped away his husband's tears with his hands and comforted her in a low voice, "You don't have to be too sad. Our whole family will go to Guangnan to join my second uncle. The official family is willing to ruin everyone."
Just waste Song Jiangshan. Our surname is not Zhao, so how can we manage so much?"
"You go, take A Liang, his wife and Wan'er with you, and leave as soon as the snow stops!" Prefect Yin Fang shook his head, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably, "A Ding and his wife don't have children to drag them down, so it's OK
Let’s go to my hometown in Huainan first. I’ll sell my house and land in exchange for some money so that I can settle down in Guangnan in the future.”
"Master, what about you?" Sensing a hint of ominousness, Mrs. Yin asked cautiously, "You will definitely come to join us, right?"
"I am the governor of Huazhou!" Grandmaster Yin Fang wiped two handfuls on his face, struggled to sit up, and declared through gritted teeth, "I am not very good at being an official, and I have no articles to pass down. The only thing I am proud of is this one
My bones are still strong enough. Officials can escape, but I can’t be laughed at. In the entire officialdom of the Song Dynasty, there is not even a shameless man!"
