Besides, during the locust plague a while ago, if Li Mengyue hadn't led the duck army to kill the locusts, the entire Wuning County would have been devastated by the locusts.
County government study.
Yang Zhijin looked at the person sitting above him. He didn't expect his friend to find this place.
Come to think of it, they haven't seen each other for a long time.
It had been a long time since they last met, so they should have caught up and reminisced about the past. However, after hearing the news brought by his friend, he knew that he would be busy in the future.
It was not easy for him to completely eliminate the locusts, and before he had time to rest, he had to resettle the victims. He didn't even have time to catch his breath.
But he didn't object. The reason he chose to come to Wuning County and serve as a small county magistrate was that he wanted to do something practical for the people.
"Ruiyuan, are there really over 400,000 refugees from Guangdong heading north?"
Xie Ruiyuan nodded and said, "Zhi Jin, I believe you also know that there are quite a few refugees from the locust plague in Yongkang. Preliminary estimates show that the refugees from the two prefectures combined number at least one million people."
Even though Yang Zhijin was mentally prepared, he was still shocked when he heard this number.
Millions of refugees heading north is no small matter.
If it is not handled properly, public resentment will arise. If someone takes advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, the common people will suffer.
It’s just that it’s definitely not easy to settle all of these refugees.
Apart from anything else, food consumption is not a small amount.
Although there is grain in the government warehouses, the amount is too little. If the warehouses are opened to release the grain, it will not last for many days.
"Ruiyuan, all the memorials I submitted were intercepted."
"Don't worry, the Emperor has issued an order, giving me full responsibility for disaster relief."
Hearing this, Yang Zhijin immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
“Huh~”
But in an instant, his brows furrowed again.
He didn't know it before, but since he became the county magistrate of Wuning County, he has specially studied the national conditions of the entire Great Zhou and found that it is not optimistic.
He didn't know what the taxes were in each place, but he was sure they weren't too much.
In addition, the country had fought many wars, big and small, in the recent period, which consumed a lot of national strength, and the treasury was definitely not full.
Under such circumstances, the emperor handed over the task of disaster relief to his friend, and he really couldn't help but cast a "sympathetic" look at his friend.
Facing Yang Zhijin's burning gaze, Xie Ruiyuan couldn't ignore it even if he wanted to.
"If you don't want your eyes, I can dig them out for you."
Yang Zhijin had just taken a sip of tea when he heard this and spat it out, choking and coughing.
“Cough cough cough!”
He didn't dare to take his friend's words as a joke, because his friend would kill people in the capital if they disagreed with him.
There was a beautiful lady who wanted to meet her boyfriend by chance, but before she could meet her boyfriend, she was kicked away.
He showed no mercy to the delicate young lady, so he couldn't expect his friends to be polite to him.
"Ruiyuan, honestly, you know the situation back home. How can we provide disaster relief without food or money?"
Xie Ruiyuan knew that Yang Zhijin was telling the truth, and he was also a little troubled by the emperor's decision.
Although he had been favored by the Emperor since he was a child, it also brought him countless dangers.
Even so, he did not think that the Emperor did it on purpose, or was using him as a whetstone for the First and Fourth Princes.
After all, he could clearly feel the emperor's love for him, and the eldest and fourth brothers were extremely envious every time they saw it.
Even if he was in power, he was not afraid of being favored, as it would bring him danger.
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