Chapter 563: Giving in
The governor of Hezhong County no longer cares about drought relief food.
Hezhong County is rich in water resources, and when faced with floods, its flood control tasks are much stronger than those of other states and counties.
If the embankment breaks, Flood will not recognize anyone, even if he is the governor, he will not be able to escape!
Therefore, the governor and general magistrate of Hezhong County concentrated all their efforts to protect the dam.
The two of them went east and west, left the city, and supervised it personally.
As for Hezhong Mansion, it was handed over to Li Mingde.
At this critical moment, Li Mingde no longer hid his selfishness. With the help of his brothers, he also urgently recruited Baida Express employees to work together to fight floods and provide disaster relief.
The more troubled the times, the more sinister the human heart becomes.
What's more, the prestige of the Hezhong County government is not enough to convince the public.
A rumor spread out of nowhere that the governor and tongpan lord ran away when they saw that the flood could not be stopped.
Stimulated by such rumors, Hezhong Mansion became more and more unrest.
"Sir, on the banks of the Wu River, the victims who were responsible for clearing the irrigation canals had their food deprived of them."
Li Mingde: "Arrest people, check accounts, remove all subordinate officials involved, collect stolen money and fine them grain."
"But the person in charge of this matter is Lao Si, who is the governor's brother-in-law."
He is not a direct brother-in-law, but the fourth child has a beautiful and beautiful sister who is deeply loved by the governor.
Li Mingde slapped the table: "My godmother is still the Duke of Yun! Do I show off? Am I proud? Arrest people when you are told. What are you afraid of? I will take care of you!"
With Li Mingde's words, the subordinate staff can work confidently and boldly.
Not long after, someone came to report: "Mr. Li, there are gangsters who are making trouble. They don't want to queue up to buy food, and they think that the food distributed every day is not enough, so they are inciting the people to rob the food shop."
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When Li Mingde led a group of people to the trouble spot, the grain store had already been robbed.
Many people squatted on the ground to pick up scattered rice grains.
The gangsters were like robbers, robbing the common people who had the most.
The whole scene was chaotic.
Li Mingde was a little hesitant, wondering whether he should also liquidate the common people. After all, these common people were also deceived, so they did wrong things.
"Senior brother, the mountain chief once said that in troubled times, heavy codes should be used." A student from Baichuan Academy whispered.
Li Mingde's eyes were clear. Yes, his godmother said so!
Li Mingde became cruel and surrounded the looting people and thugs.
Seeing that Li Mingde was serious, the ruffians wanted to run away with the food and encouraged the people to continue causing trouble.
Li Mingde drew his sword on the spot and killed five people, no matter rogues or common people, in a row, which shocked the scene.
Li Mingde glanced around coldly: "Find the troublemakers and beat them to death with sticks!"
"Obey!"
Li Mingde's decisive action made people with ulterior motives in Hezhong Mansion fearful and dare not act easily.
However, privately, everyone said Li Mingde's words were ugly.
"But a bully, do you really think you are Master Qingtian?" "When the governor comes back, he will definitely look good on you!"
"No wonder he is the adopted son of Duke Yun. He has the same moral character as Duke Yun and kills people like crazy."
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There are those like Li Mingde who are active in disaster relief, and there are also those like the Pingyang County Magistrate who are completely lying there.
"Sir, the squires in the county are unwilling to provide food or send people to maintain the dams. They say this is a matter that our county government should take care of, why should we ask them?"
The Pingyang County Magistrate came to the window. It was a gloomy day with continuous drizzle: "Is it raining in Wudu County?"
The subordinate didn't understand why the magistrate asked this question, but he still said obediently: "It rained a few times and made the ground wet. It's not like our place, like it washed away the Dragon King Temple."
The official scratched his head: "This thief is really interesting. If you stand at the intersection of the two worlds and look up, the sky will seem to be divided into two halves, one half is rainy, and the other half is sunny."
The official Xu laughed out loud and chewed on the words: "This is what the poem says, the sun rises in the east and rains in the west."
The magistrate of Pingyang County envied and said: "Gong Yun is really God's daughter. Other states and counties in the Zhou Dynasty were in such disaster, but Yunzhou and Shuozhou didn't have anything."
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The subordinate official disagreed: "The villain even thinks that this is heaven's good reincarnation, and Yun Guogong is finally rewarded after all the hardships. I think back then, she used the power of one state to resist hundreds of thousands of troops. Yunzhou's casualties were so heavy! If God would still allow it, Yunzhou Shuozhou suffered such a disaster, this is truly eye-opening! ”
"Does God have eyes?"
The subordinate thought of the houses crushed by heavy rains and the hungry people on the roadside along the way, and he said unconfidently: "They must have eyesight."
The Pingyang County Magistrate waved his hand and told the subordinate officials to retreat.
The subordinate official said unwillingly: "Sir, do you really not care? Our river embankment has not been repaired since the last county magistrate. If the heavy rain continues and the river breaks its embankment, our Pingyang County will be doomed!"
The Pingyang County Magistrate patted several documents on the table and smiled bitterly: "I want to take care of it, but how? I want money but no money, I want people but no one, I want food but no food."
The subordinate official said eagerly: "Then go to the governor and ask for it!"
The magistrate of Pingyang County threw the documents on the table into the arms of his subordinates: "The imperial court has limited capabilities and can only protect the south of the Yangtze River and the area around Kyoto. Our governor has limited capabilities and can only protect areas around Hezhong Prefecture. As for Pingyang County, we can only protect ourselves. Thank you very much.”
The subordinate official left with downcast eyebrows and eyes, feeling extremely regretful. Why didn't he follow the refugees and go to Shuozhou in the first place?
The Pingyang County Magistrate ate and slept as usual, but this night he did not sleep well and had nightmares.
When he woke up from the nightmare again, he suddenly heard a dull roar, which seemed to come from a very far away place, and the listener felt panicked.
Suddenly there were panicked footsteps outside the door and the panicked shouts of subordinate officials.
"Sir, it's bad, it's a flood! It's a flood!"
The Pingyang County Magistrate opened the door barefoot without even wearing clothes, his eyes full of shock and confusion: "Impossible! The rain stopped at sunset! There was nothing wrong with the dam at that time!"
The subordinate clerk burst into tears and said: "Sir, the embankment in the direction of Hezhongfu has burst and the flood has been released!"
The Pingyang County Magistrate seemed to have been struck by lightning. He thought that the river embankment would not be able to hold up and cause a flood. I also thought about the continuous heavy rains, which directly caused the river to overflow to both sides.
But he never thought that the governor would release floods and flood Pingyang County in order to protect Hezhongfu!
The key is that the governor did not notify Pingyang County before taking action!
The Pingyang County Magistrate said in a hoarse voice: "Where did it flood?"
"Xishan Village and the five nearby villages are all flooded! The flood is still spreading towards the county seat!"
If the flood hits the river embankment and causes the dam to break, the entire Pingyang County will become a vast ocean!
Pingyang County took a breath of air-conditioning, returned to the house, took out a pen and paper: "I am writing a letter, and you must hand it into the hands of Duke Yun!"