Longevity begins with a dog

Chapter 131: Natural Disaster Autonomy!
"Since April Wangri, locusts have spread all over Yongzhou, and until June [-]rd, the disaster began to subside."

"In this locust plague, more than [-] miles of land was covered by locusts. The land was barren and there was no harvest.

"As of today, more than [-] people have been lost, and the tragedy is shocking."

"I would like to ask Your Majesty to declare the province, so that the governments of all regions will speed up disaster relief, use the treasury and granaries in various regions, and provide food, clothing, medicine and other materials for the victims of the disaster, so as to save the people in urgent need."

"In addition, Chen Jiang Zhihong, please be the envoy of locust disaster relief in Yongzhou, and take charge of relief matters."

"I implore Your Majesty to consider carefully and serve the people wholeheartedly, heck! heck!"

"On June 19th of the [-]th year of Yongtai, Chen Jiang Zhihong played it."

This is how a memorial is written.

Jiang Zhihong waved his hand: "Come here, hurry up with the first postman, and send it to Kyoto as soon as possible!"

"Yes."

The stern-looking yamen servant ran in, picked up the memorial and left.

"Hey……"

Jiang Zhihong sighed faintly and sat down.

"Why is Mr. Jiang sighing?"

Xu Chong came to the door.

"...Xu Chong? It's actually you! Hahaha."

Jiang Zhihong stood up suddenly, laughed and walked over, pulling Xu Chong up to go in.

But Xu Chong didn't move, staring at Jiang Zhihong's face, "Your appearance..."

He clearly remembered that the last time when he was in the capital, Jiang Zhihong had not long since become a Taoist, he was energetic and his face was flushed.

But within a year, Jiang Zhihong turned into this!

Her hair was thin and white, and deep wrinkles covered her entire face, making her look like she was going to die of old age at any moment.

"Hey, you said this."

Jiang Zhihong twitched his drooping cheeks and said with a nonchalant smile: "The older you get, the faster you age, it's normal."

"..."

Xu Chong was silent.

If it was before, he might really believe it.

But now he is the same way, how could he be deceived by such a clumsy lie?

After planting the Dao, all Dao seeds are used. Under normal circumstances, no one would use physical strength.

And even if the strength of the physical body is exhausted, and it remains exhausted for a long time, it will not make the physical body age like this.

Jiang Zhihong suddenly aged 20 years, there is only one possibility.

"The collapse of the Dao species?"

Xu Chong asked.

The Dao species collapsed and devoured his own body.

Only in this case will Jiang Zhihong be deprived of his life span of 20 years.

"Uh, you can see that..."

Jiang Zhihong hesitated for a moment, and then he was stunned: "How do you know the Dao Seed?"

Ever since he came to Fenggu County as the county magistrate, he has been focusing on dealing with local affairs, ignoring the turmoil in the outside world, so he doesn't know what happened to Xu Chong.

"I'm a nobleman now."

Xu Chong replied casually, "You are the Taoist who actively collapsed for the sake of the people outside the city, right?"

There are too many victims, and everyone has to use their strength to wash them away. Even if they cultivate the Tao, the strength of the physical body is definitely not enough.

Naturally, only Taoist ones can be used.

And the power of dao seed is not the same concept as strength.

For example, Xu Chong's yin god can only be used to predict good and bad luck and control misfortune and fortune.

And Huang Ting's Dao Jiedan can only be used to manipulate the sky.

These two do not have the function of repairing and protecting the physical body like strength.

If you want to have more strength, you can only collapse the Dao Seed and let the Dao Seed become strength again.

"You boy, why are you still the same as before... you know everything."

Jiang Zhihong was a little depressed, so he walked back to the main seat and sat down.

"with all due respect."

Xu Chong followed and walked in: "Many of the people outside the city should not be infected with the disease. If you do this, you will only let those people who pretend to be fakes be allowed to run wild."

"no way."

Jiang Zhihong shrugged, "It's not the same as mixing sand with bran. Strength cannot be mixed with sand, and there are too few doctors in the county, so there is no way to effectively identify whether it is infected or not."

"Can……"

Xu Chong hesitated to speak.

Jiang Zhihong interrupted with a wave of his hand, "The collapse has collapsed, what are you talking about?"

"Ok."

Xu Chong sighed, "When I came in, Mr. Jiang seemed very worried?"

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhihong's expression became serious: "Because, a bigger disaster is yet to come."

Xu Chong thought of the red light that Yinshen saw, and also became serious: "How to say?"

"A month ago, I manipulated the celestial phenomena and walked around Yongzhou. In this locust plague, none of the thirteen prefectures of Yongzhou was spared."

Jiang Zhihong's tone was extremely low, "Almost everything, the food in the fields, the wild vegetables in the mountains, and everything that can be used to feed the hunger, most of them were destroyed at once."

"In the past two months, the people's surplus food has been exhausted, but now they can still rely on things that locusts can't eat, or don't look down on."

"Wait another two months, I'm afraid I won't even have the bark to eat."

In two months...

Xu Chong narrowed his eyes: "The imperial court refuses to give food?"

In two full months, no matter how slow the news was, the imperial court should send someone down to help.

"As early as a month ago, I played every day, imploring the imperial court to provide timely relief..."

Jiang Zhihong shook his head, with a gloomy expression on his face, "And until now, I haven't received any response."

"..."

Xu Chong's complexion was ugly.

"But there's no need to worry too much."

Jiang Zhihong smiled relaxedly, "I suspect that Lou traitor is deliberately embarrassing me."

"Heh, don't you just want me to experience having to exchange corn for bran and mix soil into the bran?"

"I have already asked myself to be a relief envoy in the memorial. I don't think it will take long before the appointment documents and limited food will be delivered."

As he said that, Jiang Zhihong's face became cold and severe, "But this traitor really deserves to die, just to embarrass the old man, he dared to treat so many human lives as a trifle... One day, I will expose his ugly face!"

"..."

Xu Chong remained silent, his mood dropped again and again.

If what he guessed about natural disasters, 'ensure that the number of deaths is sufficient', is the truth...

He could conclude that this was definitely not what Lou knew.

Even, the so-called 'limited food' may not be delivered in time!

Even if it is delivered in time, it may not be the 'limited' as imagined.

why?
Because, I have already experienced the relief of bran mixed with sand.

If you want to ensure enough deaths, how can you ignore this kind of card bug behavior?
Thinking of this, Xu Chong asked, "Who made your appointment in Fenggu County?"

"You want to ask, who can predict the location of natural disasters, right?"

Jiang Zhihong waved his hand and said, "I came to Fenggu County at my own request."

Xu Chong was stunned for a moment.

Jiang Zhihong, can he predict natural disasters? !
He thought about many possibilities, but he didn't think about this one.

"You've become a nobleman now, so it's okay to tell you something."

Jiang Zhihong stroked his beard, and said sadly, "You know, I worked for the Metropolitan Procuratorate before."

"To put it bluntly, the job of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is to stare at people and find fault. Naturally, they have more information than ordinary people."

"After the drought in Bingzhou, I want to consult the records of natural disasters in the past."

"But...you may not believe it."

Having said that, Jiang Zhihong paused, and his tone became solemn: "The majestic Zuodu Censor is at the level of the second rank, but he is not qualified to read 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 the Qin Tianjian."

"You know, Yuan Shouyi had already been transferred to the accompanying capital at that time, and the new supervisor in the capital didn't have as deep a background as Yuan Shouyi."

"However, it is such a fifth-rank supervisor who rejects me face-to-face, Zuodu Yushi, who is a second-rank official, and speaks fiercely. If I am dissatisfied, I will write a letter to impeach me."

Jiang Zhihong took a deep look at Xu Chong, "You should know what this means."

"So confident..."

Xu Chong exhaled slowly, "It can only be explained by that person."

"I think so too."

Jiang Zhihong nodded, and said, "So, I didn't really file a letter of impeachment, but changed my method."

"What way?"

Xu Chong was curious.

"That supervisor has an affair with a granddaughter of Lord An, if Lord An finds out..."

Jiang Zhihong smiled slyly, "So, without anyone knowing, I obtained detailed records about natural disasters."

Xu Chong looked at Jiang Zhihong wonderingly: "I always thought you were a good official..."

"Ahem, I dare not say if a good official is a bad one."

Jiang Zhihong was a little embarrassed, "But I have investigated the matter between the prisoner and the granddaughter of An Guogong. Although there is a big age difference between them, there is no doubt that they are in love with each other. Reported... I was planning to expose this matter at all."

"But you still blackmailed him."

Xu Chong looked contemptuous.

"This is called flexibility, don't you understand flexibility?"

Jiang Zhihong was depressed, and said in a bad mood, "Let's get down to business."

"In short, I don't see any clues in the records of those natural disasters."

"It's nothing more than the interval between natural disasters, which is shortening bit by bit."

"It wasn't until later that I presided over a major Beijing inspection project. That year, a disaster happened to happen."

"Because of Beijing's grand plan, I saw more things."

Jiang Zhihong's face became solemn, "That natural disaster was like a sea of ​​boiling, and the place where it erupted was Binzhou Province."

"Binzhou..."

Xu Chong raised his eyebrows.

"From the drought in Bingzhou to the sea boiling in Binzhou, there was an interval of 18 years."

Jiang Zhihong continued, "In the past 18 years, Binzhou officials have had the most vacancies, disappearances, and deaths."

"What does this have to do with natural disasters?"

Xu Chong frowned.

"I suspect……"

Jiang Zhihong said slowly, "This is the most fundamental reason why Binzhou was selected by the natural disaster."

"Chosen by the natural disaster?!"

Xu Chong was terrified.

"That's right, natural disasters will independently choose the place to fall."

Jiang Zhihong's tone was low again, "After I had this suspicion, I went to check the files of the Ministry of Officials... Without exception, after every natural disaster, the place where the next natural disaster will come is during this period Within, the place with the most official vacancies and the longest vacancy period!"

"how is this possible……"

Xu Chong's heart dropped again and again.

"I can't judge whether His Majesty knows this, or rather, I don't dare to guess at all."

Jiang Zhihong smiled lightly, his smile was full of bitterness, "So, this time, I relied on my feeling and went to the Ministry of Officials to check the files after Binzhou Haibo, and then came to Fenggu County, and then..."

"And then, the plague of locusts also came..."

Xu Chong's body was a little stiff.

If Jiang Zhihong's judgment is correct.

Then the plague of locusts in Yongzhou... Is there a part of the credit?

"Uh...why do I feel remorse 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-clothed guard, there will always be several officials who will die because of you."

Jiang Zhihong waved his hand, "But this matter really has nothing to do with you."

"In the past ten years or so, there have been many conflicts between the Taiping Dao and the imperial court in Yongzhou, and a large number of officials have been killed or injured."

"Especially in the first few years, Taipingdao killed many prefects one after another, and even killed a chief envoy."

"Do the math, how many officials are there in a province?"

"Thirteen magistrates, two chief envoys on the left and right, plus the commissioner of the procuratorate and the commander of the capital."

"If you kill one or two county magistrates at most, you'll be invincible. It really has nothing to do with this matter."

so...

Xu Chong sighed quietly.

"In fact, I can confront His Majesty face to face and ask him if he really knows about this."

Jiang Zhihong closed his eyes, his voice trembling, "But I dare not... I am afraid that he will deny it, and even more afraid that he will admit it."

If you deny it, why should the natural disaster file be sealed and no one is allowed to read it?

And if you admit it...

Why didn't the court take precautions?
After so many years, who should be blamed for those souls who died under natural disasters?
(End of this chapter)