Chapter 131 The theory of natural disaster autonomy!
Author: My heart is still the same
Chapter 131 The theory of natural disaster autonomy!
"Since April, locusts have spread all over Yongzhou, and by June 23, the locusts have stopped."
"In this locust plague, more than 3,000 miles of land were covered by locusts. The land was barren and the crops were not harvested. The affected people were devastated and displaced, and mourned everywhere."
"As of today, more than 600,000 people have been lost. The tragedy is shocking."
"I would like to request your Majesty to declare a province-wide order to order local governments to quickly carry out disaster relief, use the national treasury and local granaries to provide food, clothing, medicine and other materials to the victims to save the people in urgent need."
"In addition, I, Jiang Zhihong, have invited me to be the Yongzhou locust disaster relief envoy to take charge of relief matters."
"I sincerely ask your Majesty to consider carefully and serve the people wholeheartedly, now! now!"
"On the 29th day of the sixth lunar month in the nineteenth year of Yongtai, Chen Jiang Zhihong memorialized."
This is how a memorial was written.
Jiang Zhihong waved his hand: "If you are coming, please hurry up with the postman and send him to Kyoto as soon as possible!"
"yes."
The official with a serious expression ran in, picked up the memorial and left.
"Why……"
Jiang Zhihong sighed quietly and sat down.
"Why is Mr. Jiang sighing?"
Xu Chong came to the entrance.
"...Xu Chong? He's actually your boy! Hahaha."
Jiang Zhihong stood up suddenly, walked over with a big smile, pulled Xu Chong up and started to go inside.
But Xu Chong remained motionless, staring at Jiang Zhihong's face, "Your appearance..."
He clearly remembered that the last time they were together in the capital, Jiang Zhihong had just started practicing Taoism, and he was in good spirits and his face was glowing.
And only a year apart, Jiang Zhihong has turned into this!
His hair is sparse and white, and his face is covered with deep wrinkles. He looks like he will die of old age at any moment.
"Hey, you said this."
Jiang Zhihong pulled at his drooping face and smiled nonchalantly: "The older you get, the faster you age. It's normal."
"..."
Xu Chong was silent.
If it had been before, he might have actually believed it.
But now that he is also a Taoist, how could he be deceived by such a clumsy lie?
After planting the Tao, all the Tao seeds are used. Under normal circumstances, no one will use physical strength.
And even if the physical body's strength is exhausted and remains exhausted for a long time, the physical body will not age like this.
Jiang Zhihong suddenly aged twenty years, there was only one possibility.
"Tao Zhong collapse?"
Xu Chong asked.
The Tao seed collapses and comes back to bite one's body.
Only in this case would Jiang Zhihong be deprived of twenty years of life.
"Well, you can see..."
Jiang Zhihong hesitated for a moment, then was stunned: "How do you know the Tao seed?"
Since he came to Fenggu County as the county magistrate, he has been busy dealing with local affairs and ignored the external turmoil, so he did not know what happened to Xu Chong.
"I am a noble now."
Xu Chong replied casually, "You are a Taoist who took the initiative to collapse for the sake of the people outside the city, right?"
There were too many victims, and every one of them had to be cleaned up with all his strength. Even if he cultivated the Tao, his physical strength would never be enough.
Naturally, only Tao seeds can be used.
The power of Taoism is not the same concept as strength.
For example, Xu Chong's Yin Shen can only be used to predict good and bad luck and control misfortune.
The elixir formed by Huangting Zhongdao can only be used to control celestial phenomena.
These two do not have the function of repairing and protecting the physical body like Jinli.
If you want to have more strength, you can only collapse the Tao Seed and let the Tao Seed turn into strength again.
"You kid, why are you still the same as before...knowing everything?"
Jiang Zhihong was a little depressed and walked back to the main seat and sat down.
"IMHO."
Xu Chong followed and walked in: "Many of the people outside the city should not be infected with the epidemic. If you do this, you will only allow those people to become more rampant."
"no way."
Jiang Zhihong shrugged, "This is different from bran mixed with sand and soil. Jinli cannot mix sand and soil, and there are too few doctors in the county, so there is no way to effectively screen whether he is infected with the epidemic."
"Can……"
Xu Chong wanted to speak but stopped.
Jiang Zhihong waved his hand to interrupt, "Bengdu has collapsed, why are you talking about this?"
"All right."
Xu Chong sighed, "When I came in, Mr. Jiang seemed very worried?"
Speaking of this, Jiang Zhihong's expression became solemn: "Because, a greater disaster is yet to come."
Xu Chong thought of the red light Yin Shen saw and became solemn: "What should I say?"
"A month ago, I controlled the celestial phenomena and walked around Yongzhou. This locust plague affected all the thirteen prefectures in Yongzhou."
Jiang Zhihong's tone was extremely low, "Almost everything, the food in the fields, the wild vegetables in the mountains, most of the things that could normally be used to satisfy the hunger were destroyed."
"In the past two months, the people's food surplus has been exhausted, but now they can still rely on things that the locusts can't eat or don't like."
"In another two months, I'm afraid we won't even be able to eat the bark."
In two months...
Xu Chong narrowed his eyes: "The imperial court refuses to provide food?"
In two full months, no matter how slow the news was delivered, it was time for the court to send people down to provide relief.
"As early as a month ago, I played every day, begging the court to provide timely relief..."
Jiang Zhihong shook his head, looking gloomy, "And until now, I haven't received any response."
"..."
Xu Chong's face looked ugly.
"But there's no need to worry too much."
Jiang Zhihong smiled easily, "I suspect that this is the traitor who is deliberately trying to embarrass me."
"Oh, don't you just want me to experience having to exchange corn for bran and add soil to the bran?"
"I have already asked myself to be the relief envoy in the memorial. I think it won't be long before the appointment documents and limited food supplies will be delivered."
As he said that, Jiang Zhihong's expression turned cold and stern, "But this traitor really deserves to die. Just to embarrass me, he dares to treat so many human lives as child's play... One day, I will expose his ugly face!"
"..."
Xu Chong remained silent, his mood falling again and again.
If what he guessed about the natural disaster, "guaranteeing enough deaths", is the truth...
He could conclude that this was definitely not Lou Youzhi’s doing.
Even the so-called ‘limited food’ may not be delivered in time!
Even if it is delivered in time, it may not be as 'limited' as imagined.
Why?
Because I have already experienced the relief of bran mixed with sand and soil.
If you want to ensure enough deaths, how can you ignore this buggy behavior?
Thinking of this, Xu Chong asked: "Who made the appointment when you came to Fenggu County?"
"You want to ask, who can predict the location of a natural disaster, right?"
Jiang Zhihong waved his hand and said: "I came to Fenggu County at my own request."
Xu Chong was stunned immediately.
Jiang Zhihong, can he predict natural disasters?!
He had thought about many possibilities, but never thought of this one.
"You have become a noble now, so it doesn't hurt to tell you some things."
Jiang Zhihong stroked his beard and said sadly: "You also know that I used to work for the Metropolitan Procuratorate."
"To put it bluntly, the job of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is to keep an eye on people and find trouble. Naturally, they have more information than the average person."
"After the drought in Bingzhou, I wanted to read the records of natural disasters in the past."
"But... you may not believe it."
Having said this, Jiang Zhihong paused and his tone became solemn: "The dignified Censor of Zuodu, after all, is at the level of the second grade, but he is not qualified to access these things at all."
"What?!"
Xu Chong's face trembled wildly.
"real."
Jiang Zhihong nodded seriously, "Records about natural disasters, celestial phenomena, and astronomy have always been kept in Qintian Prison."
"You know, at that time Yuan Shouyi had been transferred to the capital, and the new supervisor in the capital did not have as deep a background as Yuan Shouyi."
"However, such a fifth-grade supervisor rejected me, a second-grade Zuodu censor, in person without saying anything. He also spoke fiercely and bluntly said that if I am dissatisfied, I will write a letter of impeachment at will."
Jiang Zhihong looked at Xu Chong deeply, "You should know what this means."
"So confident..."
Xu Chong slowly exhaled a breath, "It can only be explained by that person."
"I think so too."
Jiang Zhihong nodded and said: "So, I didn't really write a letter of impeachment, but I changed my approach."
"What method?"
Xu Chong was curious.
"That supervisor is having an affair with one of An Guogong's granddaughters. If An Guogong finds out..."
Jiang Zhihong smiled slyly, "So, I got the detailed records about the natural disaster without anyone knowing."
Xu Chong looked at Jiang Zhihong in confusion: "I always thought you were a good official..."
"Ahem, I dare not say whether you are a good official or not."
Jiang Zhihong was a little embarrassed, "But I have already investigated the matter between that prisoner and An Guo Gong's granddaughter. Although they are quite different in age, they are indeed in love, otherwise I would not keep suppressing them.
Reported it... I had no intention of exposing this matter."
"But you still blackmailed him."
Xu Chong looked contemptuous.
"This is called flexibility. Don't you understand flexibility?"
Jiang Zhihong was depressed and said angrily, "Let's get down to business."
"In short, I don't see any clues in the records of natural disasters."
"It's just that the intervals between natural disasters are shortening little by little."
"It wasn't until later that I presided over a large-scale investigation of the capital. That year, a disaster happened."
"Because of Jingcha's plan, I saw more things."
Jiang Zhihong's expression became solemn, "The natural disaster was a sea boiling, and the location of the outbreak was Binzhou Province."
"Binzhou..."
Xu Chong raised his eyebrows.
"From the drought in Bingzhou to the sea boil in Binzhou, there was an interval of eighteen years."
Jiang Zhihong continued, "In the past eighteen years, Binzhou officials have been vacant, disappeared and died the most."
"What does this have to do with natural disasters?"
Xu Chong frowned.
"I doubt……"
Jiang Zhihong spoke slowly, "This is the most fundamental reason why Binzhou was selected by the natural disaster."
"Chosen by a natural disaster?!"
Xu Chong was horrified and shocked.
"That's right, natural disasters will choose their own place to strike."
Jiang Zhihong's tone was low again, "After I had this suspicion, I went to check the files of the Ministry of Personnel... Without exception, after every natural disaster, the next natural disaster will occur during this period.
Within the city, it is the place with the most official vacancies and the longest vacancies!"
"How can it be……"
Xu Chong's heart fell again and again.
"I can't tell whether His Majesty knows this, or I don't dare to guess at all."
Jiang Zhihong smiled faintly, his smile full of bitterness, "So, this time I relied on my feeling and went to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to check the files after the Binzhou sea boil, and then came to Fenggu County, and then..."
"And then, the locust plague came..."
Xu Chong's body was a little stiff.
If Jiang Zhihong's judgment is correct.
Then the locust plague in Yongzhou...does he have some credit for it?
"Uh...why do I feel self-blame from you?"
Jiang Zhihong looked at Xu Chong suspiciously, "This matter has nothing to do with you."
"I……"
Xu Chong opened his mouth.
"I know, you are a blood-clad guard, and there will always be a few officials who die because of you."
Jiang Zhihong waved his hand, "But this matter really has nothing to do with you."
"In the past ten years, there have been many conflicts between Taiping Dao and the imperial court in Yongzhou, resulting in the death and injury of a large number of officials."
"Especially in the first few years, Taipingdao killed many prefects one after another, and even killed a chief envoy."
"Calculate, how many officials are there in one province?"
"Thirteen magistrates, two chief envoys on the left and right, plus the Department of Prosecution and Prosecution, and the Department of Capital Command and Envoys."
"You can at most kill one or two county magistrates and you will be in trouble. It really has nothing to do with this matter."
Is this so...
Xu Chong sighed quietly.
"In fact, I can question His Majesty face to face and ask him if he really knows about this."
Jiang Zhihong closed his eyes and his voice trembled, "But I don't dare...I'm afraid that he will deny it, and even more afraid that he will admit it."
If you deny it, why should the natural disaster files be sealed and no one is allowed to access them?
And if you admit it...
Why didn’t the court take precautions?
After so many years, who should be blamed for the souls of those who suffered natural disasters?