Yipin County Magistrate: Start with invincibility

Chapter 162 Where Are the Refugees?
If you haven't seen him, hear his voice first.

The tone of the imperial envoy's speech was obviously not very good, and there seemed to be a bit of blame in it: "How do you know that this official is coming?"

The magistrate had been prepared for a long time, he chuckled, and said respectfully: "The magistrate of Changzhi, Shanxi is a fellow of the lower officials. A few days ago, the imperial envoy went to Shanxi for disaster relief, and he was sympathetic to the people. He was deeply moved."

"Knowing that the imperial envoy is coming to Shandong, I wrote a letter to inform me in advance, saying that the imperial envoy has worked hard for the people and made great achievements. He has traveled to several disaster-stricken provinces without resting. He bluntly asked the officials to prepare in advance and clean up the imperial envoy. , I want you to take a good rest first, and then go to work."

Reach out and don't hit the smiling face, the magistrate's words are true, even if the imperial envoy has a little suspicion in his heart, it's hard to say bad words.

The curtain of the car was lifted, and the people around him helped him out of the car, and walked slowly to the magistrate: "Master Zhifu has a heart."

"Haha, you don't have to be polite, the Imperial Envoy, you can just call the official by his first and last name. The official's surname is Jia and Chong. The official has already prepared a banquet, and it's time for the Imperial Envoy to clean up the dust, please!"

"Well, okay, Lord A, please."

The magistrate's hospitality was beyond words, but the imperial envoy's reaction was extremely dull, and the smile on his face was clearly forced.

The magistrate ordered people to settle the brigade brought by the imperial envoy, dismissed the people who were performing at the gate, and invited the imperial envoy to enter the city. When passing by the bulletin board, the magistrate cast a casual glance, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

On the bulletin board, there was actually a notice telling refugees to go to Ninghai County.

"Master Imperial Envoy, you go ahead a few steps, the next official has some minor matters to deal with, and it will be fine in a moment."

"The guest is up to the owner, how can I go first? I will wait here. If there is anything, you can deal with it quickly."

The imperial envoy said lightly.

"Yes Yes Yes……"

The magistrate hurriedly walked a few steps, and when he reached the back, he glanced back at the imperial envoy, seeing that he and his people were not looking at this side, so he tore off the notice on the bulletin board, and pulled a yamen servant from the Dengzhou yamen Come and scold in a low voice.

"How do you do it! Didn't you tell you to clean this up a long time ago? Why are you still posting it here?"

"Eh? Little man... little man don't know...I obviously cleaned it up!"

"Fart! This is also called cleaning up. Don't you think this is the notice telling the refugees to go to Ninghai County? How can this thing be seen by the imperial envoy? Are you trying to harm me?"

The yamen servant looked wronged and wanted to explain, but the magistrate had no time to listen to him. He turned his head and looked at the imperial envoy. Seeing that the imperial envoy still didn't look back, he was slightly relieved, crumpled the notice in his hand into a ball of paper, and threw it on the The yamen servant glared at him in his arms: "I'll settle the score with you later!"

After finishing the work, he immediately returned to the imperial envoy: "The yamen servants under him are not careful, and they can't do a little thing well. The imperial envoy will laugh at him."

"It's okay. Are you done?"

"Okay, okay! Imperial envoy, please..."

"Um……"

The magistrate walked on the right side of the imperial envoy, and did not see the imperial envoy's left hand making a movement towards the people behind him.

Seeing the gesture, the servant behind the imperial envoy immediately slowed down, and when he reached the back of the line, he left the line quietly and headed towards the direction of the notice board.

It is said that the reprimanded yamen servant held the notice in his hand and frowned: "I clearly tore it up, this is really a hell, why did you paste it again? Eh? Why is this paper so new?"

The yamen servant touched the texture of the paper, and unfolded the notice curiously. From the beginning to the end, the meaning was almost the same as the previous one. Let the refugees go to Ninghai County, saying that Ninghai County has money, food and land, but the signature has changed. , the original signature was the magistrate's yamen, but now it is Qin Feng of Ninghai County.

This is nothing like the original one!
But the yamen servant was even more puzzled: "Could it be that this was written by the county magistrate of Ninghai County? Someone posted it here?"

"The famine is so severe, and he still took the initiative to recruit refugees to go to his place? It's crazy... I was scolded by the magistrate!"

"No, I have to keep this. Later, the adults will ask me to settle the score. This can be regarded as evidence."

The yamen servant carefully folded the notice a few times and tucked it back.

After stuffing it, a hand was suddenly stretched out from behind, and the notice was pulled away without a sound, the movement was extremely light, and there was no sound at all.

The owner of the hand was the servant next to the imperial envoy.

If you look closely, although his clothes are very loose, what is wrapped inside is a slender figure.

Perhaps because this person is thin and small, his footsteps are also extremely light, and he can walk on the sand without making a sound.

After getting the item, he turned away from the yamen servant as if nothing had happened, and he opened the distance in an instant, acting very naturally, as if he had never appeared behind the yamen servant and stole the notice.

With big strides, he quickly followed the team, quietly returned to the imperial envoy from the back, and whispered in his ear: "It's a notice."

His voice was so weak that no one could hear him except the imperial envoy.

The imperial envoy didn't even turn his head, he tapped lightly to show he understood, and the man straightened up and continued to follow the imperial envoy like a shadow.

"Your Dengzhou Prefecture is not bad, it seems that you haven't been affected by the locust plague..."

The imperial envoy suddenly spoke to the magistrate: "My official has traveled all the way, through Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong. The whole road is full of hunger and death, and the people are destitute...It is really miserable. The plague of locusts is really serious. Sigh..."

The prefect showed joy, and boasted modestly: "When I arrived in Dengzhou, the locust plague was really serious and overwhelming. Fortunately, I obeyed the imperial court's order and harvested in advance, so that the loss was avoided."

"This year, in all the counties of Dengzhou Prefecture, as long as I did it according to the imperial court's order, the losses will not be very heavy."

The imperial envoy's eyebrows twitched, but his expression remained calm, he just let out a doubt: "Oh? The reason for not being affected by the disaster is the early harvest?"

He is very strange.

Dengzhou is relatively east of Shandong, and belongs to the peninsula area. It is adjacent to the Bohai Sea in the north, and a little further to the east, there is the Yellow Sea across the state capital.

Before the imperial envoy went to Dengzhou, he also went to the state capital in the west, where the harvest was also ordered in advance.

However, it did not achieve much good results there.The crops harvested in advance will not produce much food. After the people pay their taxes and rents, the remaining food may not last until the spring of tomorrow.

Coupled with the fact that there were refugees fleeing here from neighboring provinces, almost everywhere the imperial envoys went was chaos.

Why did Dengzhou not suffer from it?

Yes, what about refugees?Why are there no refugees in this Terengganu capital?
"Master Zhifu, why don't you see refugees fleeing from other provinces in your Dengzhou Prefecture? On the way I came here, I saw a lot of people walking here sporadically."

"Why is there no one here?"

(End of this chapter)