Mixing ancient times with Taobao

Chapter 189 Going to the Countryside
The snow has been cleared little by little. With the efforts of the whole city, the snow on the main roads in Wujin County has been cleared.

Due to Zuofu's proper organization in this snowstorm, the city suffered little loss.But in the countryside, due to inconvenient transportation, lack of manpower and other reasons, the disaster was more serious.In order to ensure the precious population, Zuo Fu had to respond by organizing the Yamen, Chaojingmen, Xiaoyingqian and all the active forces in the city to go to the countryside to check the disaster situation and do condolence work.

Bags of rice, salt, thermal underwear, military overcoats, milk powder and other materials were loaded into carts, and the merchants and gentry's carriages and horses were dispatched urgently to transport these materials to various villages and small towns.

Wujin County is very large, and the farthest place is an hour's drive from later generations.In order for the victims to receive supplies as soon as possible, Zuo Fu had to choose to go to the most remote place.

She has her own space and can hold a lot of things. Places such as Benniu and Hengshan Bridge are relatively good towns in Changzhou, and their prosperity is no less than that of small counties in other places.These places are densely populated and the hardest hit.

And these places are far away from the city.Originally, there were canals, and it was not a troublesome thing to transport things.However, due to extreme weather, the canal is frozen, so it can only be walked by land.

The long convoy is like a long dragon, winding on the official road, and at a glance, it seems to have no end.

Victims from Wuxi rotate carts.There is no way, the Ming Dynasty has always had few horses, now half of the country is gone, and there are even fewer cattle and horses.

Zuo Fu also thought about getting out with a tricycle, but the roads outside the city have not been repaired, and even the official roads are only compacted dirt roads.After the snow melted, it seeped into the soil, and the temperature was low. Once it froze, the tricycle could not walk at all, it was too slippery.

Zuo Fu, who was sitting in the carriage, looked at the official road and thought to himself: "When the weather gets warmer, these roads must be well repaired, otherwise it will affect the efficiency too much."

Without talking all the way, the convoy finally arrived at Hengshanqiao Town after more than six hours of hard trek.

Huangshanqiao Town is located in the northeast of Wujin, bordering Wuxi City in the east, Qishuyan in the west, Henglin Town in the south, and Zhenglu Town in the north.

Many wealthy people in Changzhou came from this town, and it is the wealthiest town in Changzhou.Zuo Fu had a classmate in his previous life who was from here.According to that guy, she is a descendant of Zhao Kuangyin's second son Yan Wang Dezhao in the Song Dynasty, and she belongs to the Zhao family in Ronghu, Changzhou.

At that time, I was still joking about that classmate, saying that he was a down and out little princess.However, Zuo Fu shut up after someone took out the photo of his family's ancestral hall.

There is really a inheritance. If the Song Dynasty had not been destroyed, others would at least be a county lord, a county lord or something!

Now, after hundreds of years of time and space, Zuo Fu came to the old den of his classmates.After looking around, she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

All he could see was a look of defeat.Many houses that had been in disrepair for a long time were crushed due to this snow disaster, and the streets also looked like they had not been repaired for a long time.

The continuous occurrence of natural and man-made disasters caused this prosperous town in the south of the Yangtze River to lose its former glory.

When the group arrived at Hengshan Bridge, the local Jiachang and the general banner of the town came out to greet them.The imperial power does not go down to the county, but when it reaches the township, it basically belongs to self-government.The highest-ranking officer in the guard station in the town is no more than a general banner.

As for civil matters, each village is in charge, and each township chief is in charge.

I heard that the county magistrate personally brought people over to appease the victims, and these people did not dare to be careless.They had already known the name of the female butcher county magistrate through the Zhao family's cursing.

The daughter of the Zhao family will be strangled if she says so, and none of the three sons will be left behind. If these cruel and ruthless people don't deal with it well, maybe they will be the next one to destroy their family.

However, to the surprise of these armor chiefs, Zongqi: this county magistrate is not as vicious as in the legend.Not only is it not vicious, but it is very kind.

When they arrived at the place, they also participated in the reception banquet.Although he only ate a few mouthfuls, the current situation really does not allow the magistrate to relax here.

The Hengshan Bridge was severely damaged this time.Although everyone organized manpower to clear the roads, many people's houses were crushed and many people were homeless. Now they are placed in the ancestral halls of various families.

But how many people can the ancestral hall hold?Although many houses did not collapse, they were also uninhabitable.If these people are not settled in time, it will be a word of "death".They are also very anxious about this.

There are different suburban landlords here.A village is a family, and although the clan exploits the clan members a lot, there are still things to do on the face of it.If you shut out the clansmen, you will be stabbed in the back.

So seeing the magistrate brought so many supplies, they were also sincerely happy.

After Zuo Fu finished his meal and took a sip of hot tea, he said, "I brought a lot of ginger tea. Please set up a few stoves. The weather is cold, and the victims can no longer suffer from the cold."

"My lord is sympathetic to the victims, it is really a blessing for the residents of Hengshan Bridge."

Zhu Ke, the armor chief of the Zhu family in Shatian, Hengshan Bridge, cupped his hands and said, "I heard that the magistrate of the county came to relieve the disaster in person, and all the villagers are very grateful. It's just that the winter is cold and there is snowstorm, and the annual goods are not abundant, and the villagers really can't afford it." Something to pay homage to the old parents."

"Zhu Jiachang's words are heartbreaking."

Zuo Fudao: "I guard one side for the Son of Heaven. It is my duty to protect the people. How can there be any devotion? When I first came to Changzhou, I canceled all ice and charcoal tributes. Don't talk about it in the future. Don't talk about it." Don’t do anything, so as not to encourage the atmosphere of greed.”

Zhu Ke said yes, but said in his heart: "I heard that you didn't take one or two taels of money donated by the squire, but now you say you don't take any money? Believe you, I'm a pig!"

"I have brought a lot of things this time, but to resettle these victims in a short period of time, we are not enough. So I have to trouble you, Chief Jia, to go back and call the villagers to help work."

"It should be."

"In addition, I heard that there are many gentlemen in the local gentry. Now that the disaster is serious, I have done my best to relieve the disaster. Therefore, I have to ask the gentlemen to contribute more to the disaster relief."

Sure enough, I still need money!
As soon as this remark came out, many squires looked sideways, with a hint of contempt flashing in their eyes.

It is really convincing that you can talk so lightly about asking people for money!

Zuo Fu got up, and didn't care what the squires thought, he just said slowly: "It's also thanks to His Majesty's kindness, the Li family in Wujin County allowed me to keep part of the proceeds from the confiscation of the house for the construction of Changzhou. How are you going to spend it?"

This is a threat!

If you don’t mind, huh, huh, there are you guys to look at!

A group of squires looked coldly.

The Ronghu Zhao family was right about her, she is a sinister, cunning and greedy female devil!
But the disdain in my heart was disdainful, but I didn't dare to respond.After all, that's where Li Xuan's fate lies. The Zhao family is still a descendant of Song Taizu. It's been a family for hundreds of years. Didn't they dare to say anything?

(End of this chapter)