Driving in the middle of the night, the protective soldiers watched carefully from time to time. They could not walk thirty miles in one night. For a long time, layers of morning glow appeared in the vast sky, and there were also curls of smoke from the farmers' houses.
"It's dawn!" As the morning sun gradually rose and the morning light shone down, the soldiers driving the car also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although these people are well-trained and often eat meat, they can also see at night, but they have to be more careful when traveling to avoid bumping into adults, but it is always more reassuring to be able to travel during the day.
The group of drivers had changed. Since they had no intention of resting at night, they drove all night. As a result, in the early morning, the original driver went to catch up on some sleep in the car, while the rest of the group changed shifts and continued on their way.
Su Ziji was in good condition along the way. Seeing that Cen Rubai was sleepy, he deliberately made more space for him to curl up in the carriage and sleep. He leaned against the carriage, closed his eyes to rest, and silently recited the Dragon Palace chess records.
Reciting a chapter, the Panlong Mind Technique circulates in the body for a week, and the compulsive increase in experience is enough to dispel this short-distance fatigue. This was originally very stable, but when the car shook and Cen Rubai woke up, he saw that he should be better than himself
The tired young master was opening the car curtain and looking solemnly at the sky outside.
Cen Rubai also looked out, looking at the swarms of insects whizzing by in mid-air. He was startled at first, then the smile disappeared from his face, and a look of surprise flashed between his eyebrows: "Are these locusts?"
"They are locusts. Although there are not many of them, this is not a good sign."
It would take tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or tens of millions of locusts to create a locust plague. The impact now is very small, but after Su Ziji finished speaking, his eyes fell on the fields and his heart was heavy.
"Once the locust plague starts in May and June, or before the autumn harvest, there is often no way to prevent it. Now that the harvest is out of control, if the food is eaten up by these locusts, if you want to replant, you have to use the small rations.
Squeeze the seeds out of it.”
"There will be a famine this year."
The official road we were traveling on was surrounded by farmland on both sides. In this season, when it was originally full of life, it was cast a layer of haze because of these bugs in the air.
The sun is out now, but it's actually just dawn, but there are already some farmers in the fields bending down, swatting away locusts bit by bit.
Although farmers hold their waists and stand up, they often look at the locusts flying past in despair and pain, but they have no other choice but to continue this behavior of not knowing whether it will bring much harvest.
Cen Rubai continued: "Actually, there are not many locusts at the moment. If there are too many, there will really be no grass growing across the border."
"Floods have already caused great losses to the people of this province. If there is another locust plague, I am afraid that everyone in the mansion will have no hope and it will easily cause trouble."
This is actually said lightly. If there is really a flood followed by a locust plague, I'm afraid there will be trouble.
Su Ziji looked serious. He naturally knew that this locust plague was terrible and the despair it brought to people was devastating. He really had to find a way to do it.
"What do you think about the Shun'an Mansion?" Su Ziji asked Cen Rubai after lowering the car curtain.
Cen Rubai pointed out two current problems of Shun'an Mansion: "It was originally a problem of a deficit of 700,000 taels. Now the court has investigated the former official, but this investigation will not help the matter at hand, and it must be solved."
"Now it seems that prevention of locust plagues has to be added."
Seeing that Su Ziji looked unhappy, he comforted him: "However, this is all the trouble caused by the former official, and it is none of your business, sir."
"It would be great if we could solve this matter. If we can't solve it, I can't blame you, sir."
That's not to say. If someone encounters a disaster while in office, even if there is no big blame, there will still be minor blame. Especially for a new official, it will be a blow.
And with this idea in mind, if I just returned to Beijing in despair without making any achievements, I would no longer be myself.
Su Ziji just nodded and smiled, thinking about this matter in his heart.
When he finally walked through this road and saw a fork in the road ahead, Su Ziji changed his mind and ordered: "Don't go towards Fucheng yet, change the route to somewhere else."
Seeing that the soldiers were obeying the order, he said to Cen Rubai: "We took the imperial envoy's official boat and set off along the waterway. The journey was very fast. Now we are still half a month away from the date of taking office stipulated by the imperial decree."
"Now that I have gone to Shun'an Prefecture, there is no way to solve the problem immediately. I think there is no need to rush to take office. It is better for us to go to the counties first to see how the situation is."
"This is a great thing to say!" Cen Rubai agreed: "First understand the sentiments of the people, be aware of it, and wait for news from my friends in the world. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone!"
"In this way, no matter whether you advance or retreat, you will be calm and unhurried. You can be said to be an experienced master."
Su Ziji smiled and said nothing. Now, Zhang Sui should have returned to the imperial envoy's ship, right?
If it wasn't for the purpose of proving his strength, why would he want to recruit this person? Moreover, he is an eighth-grade official. Although he has been upgraded to Literary Heart and Diaolong, he doesn't know how much influence he can have?
How did the imperial envoy Luo Pei react when he heard about this?
Pier·Imperial Envoy Fleet
This wharf is only two miles away from the county seat. Although it is not the most prosperous place, it still forms a street with many merchants. Otherwise, it would be difficult to replenish the supplies on the fleet.
At this time, Zhang Sui took a shortcut and rushed to the dock. Just as the sun was rising, he squinted at the river gently lapping at the side of the ship. He saw the county magistrate at the reception pavilion bowing respectfully, and the imperial envoy on the ship among the flags.
There are many armors, but you know that after the farewell ceremony, it is time to set off.
Although he was ready to set off, he still hadn't left yet. Zhang Sui almost cried: "I finally caught up."
"Don't leave, let me get on the boat, I am Zhang Sui." Zhang Sui shouted, not only the imperial envoy on the ship was surprised, but also the county magistrate who stood upright.
Regardless of the county magistrate's surprise, Zhang Sui was in the eighth rank, and there was someone who knew him on the ship. The bridge planks were not drawn out in a moment, and the way was cleared. Zhang Sui, who was relieved to have caught up, finally jumped onto the imperial envoy deck:
"Please go quickly and report to the Imperial Envoy that I have something urgent to see you."
"This is easy, what's wrong with you, you're in such a mess and injured?" A familiar official sent someone to report, but when he saw that his shoulders were stained red and he was obviously injured, he couldn't help but ask
One sentence.
Zhang Sui felt as if a scar had been uncovered, and he suddenly felt sad: "Hey! Don't ask, I almost won't be able to see you!"
He thought that he would treat the few guards he met as friends. After all, these people are the children of pro-army generals, and they will definitely have an official career in the future. At this time, the gap between civil and military officials is not too big, so it is worthwhile to make friends.
He didn't expect these guards, who were usually brothers and sisters, to want to kill him in the blink of an eye. The small fire that was already in his chest sprang up and burned into a blazing rage.
Although he found an excuse to come back out of caution and reported the assassination to the imperial envoy, he did not want to get involved in such a mess and was worried that he would be burned.
But now, thinking that his life was almost casually killed, Zhang Sui felt an inexplicable flame rising, and immediately changed his mind.