The water towns in the south of the Yangtze River have a pleasant climate and have always been rich.
However, since the founding of Daliang, floods have continued to plague the people of the entire Jiangnan region, causing them great suffering.
When Emperor Gaozu was alive, he allocated millions of silver coins to control floods, but the results were minimal.
During the reign of Emperor Hui, the Empress Dowager allocated another one million taels of silver, but it was still wasted and even resulted in the killing of many people.
Later, a group of corrupt gangs were directly exposed, and the largest corruption scandal since the founding of Daliang was uncovered.
Just over 20 years had passed since the last flood control efforts, and floods struck Jiangnan again.
This time, the dam collapsed and the entire Jiangnan region was submerged in water.
Before the flood control officials set out, the victims had already arrived at the city gates of the capital.
It can be seen how long this flood has been on the desks of local officials!
The Empress Dowager was furious about this and ordered that when the flood control officials arrived at the local area, the first thing they should do was punish those officials who concealed the truth and did not report the disaster.
But the current problems of the disaster victims must be solved as soon as possible.
If things are delayed any further, it will probably lead to civil unrest, which will be even more difficult to resolve.
Xin Guoguo was not in a hurry.
She has asked Qingyan to take people out of the city to provide porridge and recruit workers.
At this moment, she was only in the Pepper Room, holding the little emperor's hand and teaching him how to write, while waiting for the imperial decree from the Empress Dowager.
Liu's style of doing things is as cruel as ever.
She would never allow the disaster victims to enter the city.
She would not put herself in danger, even though the epidemic might not occur and might not spread to the palace.
But even if the probability of infection was only one in a hundred thousand, Liu would never allow such a thing to happen.
She even sent imperial physicians to diagnose the victims.
If there are any possible symptoms of infection with the epidemic, the person will be sent directly to the quarantine area and left to fend for himself.
Xin Guoguo looked at the contents of the imperial edict and frowned slightly.
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